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Port supervisor's death accidental
Medical examiner's office rules 3 months after incident; delay laid to co-workers' false account
By Michael Dresser
sun reporter
Originally published September 29, 2006
After almost three months of investigation, the Maryland Transportation Authority Police said yesterday that a Maryland Port Administration maintenance supervisor who died under suspicious circumstances was fatally injured in an accidental fall.
The state medical examiner's office said the determination of the cause of death of Robert L. Benway Jr., 45, was delayed because two co-workers who were with him at the time of the June 26 incident initially gave a false account. Benway died of his injuries July 1.
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The medical examiner determined that the co-workers' revised explanation was consistent with the 21-year state employee's injuries.
According to transportation authority police, the death was ruled an accident on the basis of the autopsy, physical and forensic evidence and the revised eyewitness account.
"The important thing in these cases is not to get it done quickly, but to get it done right," said Chief Gary W. McLhinney.
The police said they are continuing to investigate "possible illegal activity on the part of co-workers of Mr. Benway."
Richard Scher, a spokesman for the port administration, said the two men who were with Benway at the time of his death are no longer employed by the agency. Scher said their departures were voluntary.
Benway died at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center five days after the accident at Clinton Street Marine Terminal, a largely vacant MPA-owned warehouse, of massive injuries to the back of his head.
The circumstances of Benway's death raised suspicions in the mind of his widow, Linda Benway, 49, a fellow MPA employee. Instead of calling 911, one of his co-workers rushed Robert Benway to Bayview in his truck.
Police were not notified of the accident when it occurred, and an investigation began only after he died. And neither the MPA nor the police notified the media of the death before Linda Benway brought her concerns to The Sun in August.
At the time, she expressed doubt that the incident took place at the Clinton Street terminal, as first reported. But the investigation concluded the accident did occur in that building, though not necessarily at the location police were first told.
Benway's injuries were inconsistent with the original account that he fell from a ladder about 12 feet high that was bolted to a wall, according to the medical examiner's office.
"The original story didn't add up to anybody because the guys who were with him lied," an official with the medical examiner's office said.
Under further questioning, officials said, the co-workers changed their account and said Benway fell from a much higher extension ladder after his feet became tangled while he was pulling out wiring that apparently came loose more abruptly than he expected.
Linda Benway said she was told by port officials that the ladder and copper wiring were disposed of before the investigation began. Neither Scher nor the police would comment, saying the investigation is continuing.
Investigators suspect the wire was being removed from the building to be sold illegally, Linda Benway said. Police would not comment.
Benway said she is not satisfied with the explanation she has been given.
"They would have to prove that to me that Rob was doing something he wasn't supposed to be doing," she said.
But the medical examiner said there is now no question that Benway's death was accidental. Toxicological tests showed that he was not intoxicated or impaired by drugs.
The medical examiner's office also concluded that Benway would not have lived if his co-workers had called 911.
"This gentleman had nonsurvivable injuries - period," said the official, who asked to not be identified because of office policies. "His brain was not going to recover."
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Abu Jihad al-Misri of the Egyptian Islamic Group Issues a Response to Comments Made by Pope Benedict XVI on Islam and the Prophet Muhammad
By SITE Institute
September 27, 2006
Muhammad Khalil al-Hukaymah AKA Abu Jihad al-Misri, a prominent member of the Egyptian Islamic Group [al-Gama’a al-Islamiya] who had spoken in an August 2006 as-Sahab video announcing a merger with al-Qaeda, recently issued to an affiliated website a statement regarding slanderous comments made by Pope Benedict XVI to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Abu Jihad calls the Pope a “spiteful Crusader,” and states that ever since Joseph Ratzinger chose the Benedict name, he knew that the Pontiff would join U.S. President Bush and his alleged Crusade against Islam. Ignoring to respond to support given by both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bush to Pope Benedict XVI, and disregarding apologies he offered, Abu Jihad states that a call went out to the Mujahideen in Europe in general and Italy in particular to execute acts of revenge.
The statement adds that the Muslim Nation does not fail to provide “heroes” that avenge the Prophet Muhammad and Islam. To this end Abu Jihad al-Misri cites Islamic history and recent history, including the murder of Meir Kahana, the founder of the Jewish Defense League, who was killed in November 1990 by Sayyid Nosair. Nosair was also convicted with Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh” and spiritual leader of al-Gama’a al-Islamiya, in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspiracy.
A translation of the statement is provided to our Intel Service members.
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Tape Tied to Al Qaeda Urges More Attacks in Iraq
By Christine Hauser
Published in: New York Times
September 29, 2006
An audiotape posted on a Web site today and attributed to the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq called for an escalation of attacks and the kidnapping of foreigners to try to force the release of a high-profile Muslim cleric imprisoned in the United States.
A man’s voice, said to be that of the leader of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, called in the tape for fighters to come to Iraq and join a “jihad,” or holy war, during the current Muslim month of Ramadan. It was the second time this month that Mr. Muhajir has called in an audio message for attacks since he was named successor to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the Qaeda leader who was killed by an American airstrike in June.
“It pleases me at the end of my speech to announce the beginning of a great militaristic campaign,” said an excerpt from the tape, as translated by the SITE Institute, which tracks jihadist messages. “By it, we will eradicate the limb of the infidel and the apostate.”
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/world/middleeast/29clericcnd.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1159502400&en=188eab0f25a0dc39&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin
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Taliban attacks double after Pakistan's deal with militants
By Declan Walsh
Published in: Guardian
September 29, 2006
Taliban attacks along Afghanistan's southeastern border have more than doubled in the three weeks since a controversial deal between Pakistan and pro-Taliban militants, the US military said yesterday.
Pakistan's military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, had promised the agreement with militants in North Waziristan would help to bring peace to Afghanistan. But early indications suggest the pact is having the opposite effect, creating a safe haven for the Taliban to regroup and launch fresh cross-border offensives against western and Afghan troops.
A US military spokesman, Colonel John Paradis, said US soldiers had reported a "twofold, in some cases threefold" increase in attacks along the border since the deal was signed on September 5, "especially in the south-east areas across from North Waziristan".
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,1883738,00.html
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Somali Islamists shoot to disperse protest in port
Published in: Middle East Times
September 28, 2006
KISMAYO, Somalia -- Islamist gunmen shot into the air Thursday to disperse a crowd protesting against a Ramadan ban on the popular stimulant qat in key Somali port Kismayo that they seized earlier this week, witnesses said.
In the latest protest against the new leadership of Kismayo since the Islamists rolled in overnight Sunday, angry qat dealers threw stones and demanded an end to the ban, in effect until the end of the Muslim holy month.
"They threw stones at the militiamen patrolling the main street in the town, who responded by firing warning shots," Kismayo resident Ahmed Mohamed Ambaar said.
There were no reports of casualties from the impromptu demonstration that was confined to the center of the business district in the port town, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Mogadishu.
Source: http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060928-075309-8971r
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Document: Pakistan Agency Backs al-Qaida
By DAVID STRINGER
Published in: Washington Post
September 28, 2006
LONDON -- A leaked document accuses Pakistan's intelligence agency of indirectly supporting terrorist groups including al-Qaida and calls on Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to disband the agency.
Musharraf, who is scheduled to meet British Prime Minister Tony Blair later Thursday, told the British Broadcasting Corp. that he rejected the assessment and would raise the matter with his counterpart.
"ISI is a disciplined force, breaking the back of al-Qaida," Musharraf told the broadcaster, claiming his intelligence service had secured the arrests of 680 suspected terrorists.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092800305.html
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A Video Speech from Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri: Bush, the Pope of the Vatican, Darfur, and the Crusader Wars, by as-Sahab Productions
By SITE Institute
September 29, 2006
As-Sahab, al-Qaeda’s multimedia production arm, issued today, Friday, September 29, 2006, a 17:51 minute video speech featuring Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri and titled: “Bush, the Pope of the Vatican, Darfur, and the Crusader Wars”. The video features two scenes: one, subtitled in English, with Zawahiri against an office-setup background of a lamp, flag bearing “No God, but Allah”, and a model cannon; the other is without a background, and depicts Zawahiri dressed entirely in white, without subtitles.
To U.S. President George W. Bush, Zawahiri brands him a "deceitful charlatan" and liar, and questions: “why don't you tell them how many million citizens of America and it's allies you intend to kill in search of the imaginary victory and in breathless pursuit of the mirage towards which you are driving your people’s sons in order to increase your profits?” He questions his motives for initating the War in Iraq, ridiculing the false prexets under which it was conducted. To this end he cites the purported links of Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda, and the presence of weapons of mass destruction. He also addresses the capture of Khalid Shaikh Muhammad and questions that if it helped in the "war on terror" then “why are your troops retreating in secrete from the south and east of Afghanistan?... Bush...be aware that the liberation of our captives is a debt on our shoulders which we must fulfill”. Other individuals who have been captured, such as Ramzi Yusef, Omar Abdul Rahman (the "Blind Sheikh") and Abu al-Faraj al-Libi are also cited.
In the Arabic portion, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri discusses the issue of the Pope Benedict XVI's slanderous comments to Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, by prefacing such attacks as beginning with the Satanic Verses of Salmon Rushdie, followed by desecration of the Qur'an at Guantanamo Bay, and banning of the hijab in French schools. He states that the current pope is reminiscent of Pope Urban II, who "provoked the people of Europe to fight the Muslims" in the Crusades. Zawahiri disregards Christianity due to its "supersitions" and alleged irrationality, but avers that Muslims are not enemies of Jesus as Pope Urban II claimed. On the pope's comments directly, Zawahiri adds: "if Benedict attacked us, we will respond to his insults with good things. We will call upon him, and all of the Christians to become Muslims who do not recognize the Trinity or the crucifixion, and say that Allah united with the human."
On the subject of Darfur, Zawahiri addresses the “Crusader plan” to send its armies to the region, rendering it a new battlefield for its war. He calls upon the Muslims in Darfur for defense, stating that the government in Khartoum is to weak to meet the task, and jihad is the only answer. He states: “O, people of Darfur, honorable and good, hold onto your religion: you can solve all of the disputes between you. Do not allow the government of Khartoum to interfere, nor the governments of the Western Crusaders to interfere in your business. Be ready to stop the Crusaders campaign against you”.
The speech concludes with five points, including the recognition of Muslims’ states and leaders respective weaknesses to the “Crusaders’ invasion” in their agreeing to the legality of the United Nations and accepting Western encroachment. Zawahiri urges that to reverse the trend, UN resolutions and accords declaring the sovereignty of Israel must be abandoned and the Muslim Nation must launch a “popular jihadi war” against the Crusader campaign. Finally, the Nation should recognize Afghanistan and Iraq as important fronts in the face of the “Crusader war,” and Muslims should support jihad and the Mujahideen as much as they can.
A one-minute clip is available here .
The full video and transcript are provided to our Intel Service members.
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A Speech by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir on the Occasion of Ramadan 1427, “Come to a Word that is Just Between Us and You”
By SITE Institute
September 28, 2006
An audio message from the Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, was issued to the Internet today, Thursday, September 28, 2006, by the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq. The speech, 20:31 in length, is titled: “Come to a Word that is Just Between Us and You,” which is taken from the Qur’an, Surah al-Imran, verse 64. Al-Muhajir bears three messages, each containing words encouraging support from Islamic scholars, Sunni tribal sheikhs, and foreign Mujahideen, and asking forgiveness. He notes sacrifices made by the Mujahideen for the defense of Islam, stating: “We made a ladder out of our bodies and we told you to come pick the fruits, so you can eat it and enjoy it;” however, an appearance of “evil… roaming with the valley” causes them to fear that their jihad will be for naught, as already 4,000 foreign fighters were killed, and more than double that number in supporters.
Abu Hamza al-Muhajir calls upon scholars to not slacken in supporting the Mujahideen and claims success can only come from their direction. He reminds of the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdul Rahman incarcerated in an American jail, and urges every “free Mujahid” in Iraq to work hard during the month of Ramadan and capture “Roman dogs” to secure the sheikh’s release. Seemingly responding to the Sunni tribal sheikhs who have revealed a dispute between the tribes and the Mujahideen Shura Council, and assured cooperated with the Iraqi government to capture the Mujahideen, al-Muhajir extends an offer of forgiveness for this month only. He states: “We guarantee your safety and security and we will not harm you provided that you declare your repentance among your tribes and in the middle of your own people and let us know that you have done that by any means”.
Concluding the message, the Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq, asks Muslims who have experience in physical sciences, electronics, media, and “deep specialties,” in particular nuclear science and explosive engineering, to come to the Iraqi jihad battlefield for they are in need. Al-Muhajir tells them that American camps may best serve as experimental fields for their knowledge. Further, he announces a military campaign called the “Clear Conquest” to eliminate the “infidels” and “apostates”, and destroy the strongholds of those who act against the Mujahideen.
The Arabic audio clip and transcript are provided to our Intel Service members.
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The Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq Announces the Beginning of a New Military Campaign Announced by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir
By SITE Institute
September 28, 2006
Immediately following the issuance of a speech by Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, the Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq, today, Thursday, September 28, 2006, the Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq announced in an Internet statement the cessation of the revenge attack for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Starting new, however, is the conquest called for by al-Muhajir in his message. The clear, or “great conquest,” will be fought until it “achieves it goals,” andtoday, the Mujahideen have gone to the streets of Baghdad to execute these operations.
The message states: “With Allah’s permission the blood and body parts of the Mujahideen and suiciders are the keystone that the Islamic nation will be built upon in the land of Iraq”.
The Mujahideen Shura Council is composed of eight insurgency groups in Iraq: al-Qaeda in Iraq, Victorious Army Group, the Army of al-Sunnah Wal Jama’a, Jama’a al-Murabiteen, Ansar al-Tawhid Brigades, Islamic Jihad Brigades, the Strangers Brigades, and the Horrors Brigades, collaborating to meet the “unbelievers gathering with different sides” and defend Islam.
A translation of the message is provided to our Intel Service members.
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Photographs from Ansar al-Sunnah Providing Evidence of Iranian Support to the Shi’ites in Iraq, and Description of Diyala Battle with al-Mahdi Army
By SITE Institute
September 28, 2006
Six photographs of Iran-branded equipment and weapons, and a statement describing the discovery of these materials and the circumstances in which they were found in Diyala, were issued today, Thursday, September 28, 2006, by Ansar al-Sunnah in Iraq. The group indicates that a few days ago in the village of Khan Sa’ad in Diyala, east of Baghdad, members of the “fake army,” Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi Army [Jeish al-Mahdi] attacked the Sunni people and bombed them with rockets and mortar shells. The Mujahideen were called upon by the villagers for help, and Ansar al-Sunnah claims that they engaged in battle with al-Mahdi Army and killed approximately twenty of its members, causing the remainder to flee.
At the battle’s end, Ansar al-Sunnah managed to capture one of the “assailants” and delayed his execution when they found a communication device on his person. The device and Katyusha rockets left on the field carried the name of the Iranian Department of Defense, and mortar shells were of a size used by Iranian forces. The group muses as to the reason for Iran’s support, questioning if it is “Persian greed in Iraq,” support to the “Crusader” forces, or suppression of the Mujahideen in a bordering area. They state: “There are many other questions which we leave for answering by every clever Muslim”.
A translation of the message is provided to our Intel Service members.
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Hussein bin Mahmoud and the Issue of Usama bin Laden as a Foreign Agent
By SITE Institute
September 27, 2006
Hussein bin Mahmoud, a Muslim scholar who supports the Mujahideen and whose publications are posted to al-Qaeda-affiliated websites, recently posted an article from the website of Asharq Alawsat, which reported a speech of Prince Naif Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Arabia Interior Ministry, calling Usama bin Laden an agent of foreign intelligence. Mahmoud accepts the claim only affirming that the Muslim Nation is foreign to Saudi Arabia and bin Laden, Emir of al-Qaeda, is its agent. However, he is more concerned with the effect of such a statement on the minds of Muslims who are either unaware or do not have confidence in the Mujahideen. A majority of his writing discusses American documentaries, like Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, which seek to expose conspiracies and question leadership and the direction of the U.S.-led War on Terror. These films, the Bush administration’s silence to their content, and their distribution in Muslim countries under the watch of leaders, causes in Mahmoud’s belief credulity in Muslim minds to the possibility of conspiracy.
According to Mahmoud, Naif’s statement is a “well-studied deceit” and “dangerous lie,” which if it is not stopped at an early stage, may flourish and corrupt the minds of many people. He states: “We are not talking about their belief in this idea, but it is enough the doubt of the Muslims to destroy much of what the Mujahideen had built with their body parts and skulls during three decades”. Scholars who speak the “truth,” give people confidence in “Islamic work,” and send sympathy to the family of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi are jailed or killed, and the more supporters of jihad who are removed, the greater the possibility that the Muslim Nation may be on par with America’s current, perceived placement. Mahmoud states:
“Now the military war is in favor of the Islamic nation in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the reason for the American’s defeat is that they don’t have any confidence in their leadership and they have no clear goals… but this war would turn against us also if we lose the war for the hearts and minds of the people. And then we will be equal with the enemy and he will defeat us with his weapons. Then we must deploy the media and the thinking armies to stop the enemy’s attack and invasion mentally and beat him psychologically, and that is what Sheikh Usama did seven years ago...”
Hussein bin Mahmoud concludes that symbols of jihad must be kept sacrosanct and safe from deception and doubt. As Usama bin Laden is human and will not live forever, it is the symbol of his ideology and religion that will carry on to future Mujahideen. Mahmoud accepts that the war with the West is not only a military war, but a war of “doctrine and ideas,” and thus, supporters must dispel such talk as uttered by Prince Naif Abdul Aziz.
A translation of the message is provided to our Intel Service members.
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Instructions for the Extraction and Preparation of Chloride Explosive from the Encyclopedia of the Holder of Burning Embers
By SITE Institute
September 27, 2006
The first chapter from a military instruction manual, the “Encyclopedia of the Holder of Burning Embers,” discussing the extraction and preparation of chloride for explosives, was distributed yesterday, Tuesday, September 27, 2006, to a password-protected jihadist forum. The posting contained the 5-page document, and includes photographs of the process for oxidizing sodium chloride and transferring a chloride resultant via electrolysis. Prayers and dedications for Usama bin Laden, Emir of al-Qaeda, and the Mujahideen everywhere, for whom the encyclopedia is intended to benefit, opens the document. The author provides an explanation of chloride as one of the most explosive substances, gives advice where it may be procured, and then delves into instruction.
A translation of the manual is provided to our Intel Service members.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0927/p14s01-ussc.html
Northern border: A long thin line
By Alfredo Sosa | Photo editor of The Christian Science Monitor
America's northern border is twice the length of its southern border,
but it
has only one-tenth the number of agents. If each of them were standing
guard
at the same time, they'd be spaced four miles apart.
The border is the responsibility of the International Boundary
Commission.
The US-Canadian commission uses 5,528 markers to define the line and
keeps
clear a strip of land called the "vista." In North Dakota, that means
dotting the expansive plains with small obelisks.
In Washington State,
it
means clearing a swath of forest 20 feet wide.
Despite the border's length, fewer than a third of the people crossing
into
the US by land come from Canada. In 2004, that turned out to be 191,000
a
day, on average, compared with 660,000 entering from Mexico. About the
same
number on each border came by bus. Mexico won hands down in pedestrian
traffic, even when restricted to legal crossings (132,000 vs. 2,300 a
day).
Blaine, in the northwest tip of Washington, is one of the busiest
northern
border crossings, at least in the western US. Hannah, N.D., is one of
the
least active, last year averaging just under 3.2 cars a day from 5 p.m.
to
10 p.m. That's why border agents next month will start closing it at 5
p.m.
daily.
Such lean security is not unusual for a sparsely populated frontier,
especially one known as the world's longest undefended border. But the
war
on terror and rising concerns about illegal immigration are challenging
that
tradition. Next year, Canada will begin arming its border guards, who
until
now have carried only pepper spray and batons. In 2008, US border
guards,
already armed, will begin demanding passports of all drivers crossing
into
the US.
The only terrorist known to be caught entering the US by car was
unmasked in
1999 because a border agent in Port Angeles, Wash., noted his nervous
behavior. Agents found explosives in his car, destined for Los Angeles
International Airport. He is now serving a 22-year prison term.
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THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
'Shadow' agency to issue N. American border passes
Mexico, Canada to join U.S. department, government documents show
Posted: September 27, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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The Department of Transportation, acting through a Security and Prosperity Partnership "working group," is preparing in 2007 to issue North American biometric border passes to Mexican, Canadian, and U.S. "trusted travelers" according to documents released to WND columnist and author Jerome R. Corsi under a Freedom of Information Act request.
"The FOIA documents show the organizational chart and the composition of a 'shadow Department of Transportation' which includes formal membership from Mexico and Canada's Departments of Transportation," asserts Corsi.
"SPP has in effect created a fully-functioning trilateral Department of Transportation which will dictate policy to Mary Peters as soon as she is confirmed to replace Norm Mineta as U.S. secretary of Transportation."
(Story continues below)
As WND reported yesterday, the government documents reveal the Bush administration is running a "shadow government" with Mexico and Canada in which the U.S. is crafting a broad range of policy in conjunction with its neighbors to the north and south.
The FOIA documents list the following three administrators from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada as the official contacts for the SPP Transportation Working Group:
Jeffrey N. Shane
Under Secretary for Policy
U.S. Department of Transportation
Phone: 202-366-1815
Jeffrey.Shane@sdit.gov
Kristine Burr
Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy
Transport Canada
Phone 613-998-1880
Aaron Dychter
Deputy Secretary for Transportation
Secretaria de Communicaciones y Transportes
Phone: (52 55) 55595165
adychter@sct.gob.mx
An SPP document entitled "Traveler Security: Develop and Implement Consistent Outcomes with Compatible Processes for Screening Prior to Departure from a Foreign Port and at the First Port of Entry to North America" says a "single, integrated, global enrollment program for North American trusted travelers" will be implemented "within 36 months." No date is indicated on the SPP document.
"Evidently SPP has decided to erase our internal borders with Mexico and Canada," Corsi told WND. "We have no trilateral treaty voted by two-thirds of the Senate that has authorized North American trusted traveler biometric cards to be issued to the citizens of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Yet this is exactly what the shadow administrative branch created within the Bush administration under the auspices of an SPP working group is doing."
The documents released to Corsi under the FOIA request reveal a pattern of e-mails that are regularly sent from within the Bush administration executive branch to a wide range of U.S. administrative-branch personnel with e-mail copies sent equally to administrative branch officers in the governments of Mexico and Canada.
"This would be like President Bush putting partitions in the Oval Office," Corsi argued to WND, "so desks could be set up for Canada's Prime Minister Harper and for Mexico's new President Calderon as soon as he takes office."
The SPP.gov website in the Department of Commerce has added a new "Myth vs. Facts" section which documents that the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is neither a treaty nor a law.
"Where is the constitutional authorization?" Corsi asks WND. "The Bush administration has just decided to restructure the executive branch to include Mexico and Canada without bothering to notify the voting public or the U.S. Congress."
Corsi said the approximately 1,000 pages of SPP documentation received under his FOIA request will be posted "as soon as possible" to the website of the Minuteman Project, of which he is a member.
Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist "and I plan to publish extensively from these documents," Corsi said, "and we want the readers to be able to see for themselves the original documents that evidence the conclusions we are drawing."
Corsi said the FOIA request has only been partially fulfilled.
"There are hundreds of trilateral meetings and agreements referenced in the documents we have, but most of the substantive documents appear to have been intentionally withheld," Corsi said. "In the next few days, our lawyers will be pressing for an honest FOIA document disclosure by the Bush administration."
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Nurse in WWI memorialized
Emily L. Simmonds, long dead, honored by marker in Pomona cemetery
Monica Rodriguez, Staff Writer
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
POMONA -- For years Emily L. Simmonds had been forgotten.
A group of 15 people came together Thursday at Pomona Valley Memorial Park to remember her and to unveil a marker that will serve to educate others about the Red Cross nurse who helped save thousands of lives in the Balkans during World War I.
Representatives of the San Gabriel Pomona Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross, historians, researchers and others attended the short ceremony.
"It's a step to putting a wrong right," said Louise Miller, a researcher from Edinburgh, Scotland, who traveled to the United States for the event and arranged for the placement of the marker.
Simmonds, who was a resident of Chino at the time of her death in 1966, is buried at the cemetery in an unmarked grave.
Miller first learned of Simmonds in the course of her research on a British woman who fought in World War I and who happened to be friends with Simmonds, she said. The more Miller learned about Simmonds the more her interest grew in the nurse.
Simmonds was a woman who wasn't afraid to go into the most difficult of situations in order to help people, Miller said. Cholera and typhoid epidemics in Serbia and the Balkans didn't deter her -- even when she knew the odds she'd die attempting to help where high against her.
"If there was a crisis to handle Emily would do it," Miller said. "She did anything that needed to be done."
In 1914 Simmonds was a 26-year-old nurse on vacation in Paris when World War I began. She joined the Red Cross as a volunteer, kicking off what would be a decade of relief work in a region that saw huge numbers of deaths due to war, epidemics and famine.
There is a shortage of information on Simmonds' life between the 1920s and the 1950s when she was found living with a friend in Pasadena.
In 1962 Simmonds moved to a home in Chino but so far no one knows what brought her to this area. In 1966 she died of pneumonia at what today is known as Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center.
Simmonds was not married and had no children.
Miller's interest in Simmonds eventually led her to connect with Daily Bulletin history columnist Joe Blackstock, who wrote a column about the nurse in April 2005.
Pasadena resident Patti French read the column and began long-distance communication with Miller. Soon the former teacher and college administrator was out collecting clues and other pieces of information.
While she found some details, "there still may be a little bit of a story left to unfold," French said.
She also became part of the collaborative effort to provide Simmonds with the marker that was placed a short distance from her grave.
During the ceremony on Thursday, the Rev. Petar Jovanovic of St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in San Gabriel burned incense, led a prayer and sprinkled a mixture of wine and oil in front of the marker.
"It's symbolizing Christ's blood and his suffering for humanity," Jovanovic said after the ceremony.
People don't chose family but people do chose what to do with their lives, Jovanovic said.
"When we serve our fellow human beings we serve God," he said.
Simmonds "served the people -- humanity -- and was born with a great heart and love for her fellow human beings," Jovanovic said.
Jovanovic was born in a small town named Ocecina near Valjevo in Serbia -- places where Simmonds is known to have worked so many years before, he said.
The visibly moved cleric thanked Simmonds for her efforts assisting the Serbian people.
"May your life be an example to us to build bridges" much the same way she did, Jovanovic said to the audience.
Miran Sivcovich, of La Verne, is of Serbian ancestry and was among those attending the ceremony. He said he was impressed to learn about her work and of a period in history with which few are familiar.
Jack French, interim executive director of the San Gabriel Pomona Valley chapter of the American Red Cross and Patti French's spouse, said Simmonds might have been alone for many decades in the past but her remains will be alone no more.
Monica Rodriguez can be reached by e-mail at m_rodriguez@dailybulletin.com or by phone at (909) 483-9336.
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Woman wounded in Pomona drive-by
Jannise Johnson, Staff Writer
POMONA -- A woman was hospitalized after being hit during a drive-by shooting Thursday afternoon.
Pomona police and Los Angeles Fire personnel responded to the 100 block of Fanshaw Avenue at 3:52 p.m., fire Capt. David K. Schwartz said.
On arrival, they found a 35-year-old woman suffering from a gunshot wound to her side. She was shot during a drive-by, but managed to get inside a residence until help could arrive, Schwartz said.
She was taken by helicopter to Los Angeles County USC Medical Center in serious condition.
No further information was available.
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Man shot, killed in front of home
Jannise Johnson, Staff Writer
GLEN AVON -- A man was found fatally shot Thursday afternoon in front of a house.
Riverside County Sheriff's deputies responded to a call of a man shot in the face at 2 p.m. in the 4100 block of Stanton Street, sheriff's Cpl. Dennis Gutierrez said.
On arrival, they found a man of undisclosed age lying dead in front of a home. It was not known if the victim lived at the house where he was found, Gutierrez said.
Investigators were questioning a man Thursday night about the incident. He is not considered a suspect, Gutierrez said.
Anyone with information on this crime is asked to call the Riverside County Sheriff's Department at (951) 955-2600.
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Friday, September 29, 2006
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
Mexicans have better claim to U.S. than 'Euro-Americans'
This from student who 'represented' immigration PAC at 'parliament'
Posted: September 29, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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One of the participants in this year's "model Parliament" in which university students pretended to run a new North American "union" took on a role as a lobbyist for Americans for Legal Immigration, then announced that Mexicans have a more legitimate claim to the land in the U.S. than those "Euro-Americans."
"America was created by Europeans who stole this land (or in some cases traded it for a few bottles of whisky and some shotguns) from its indigineous (sic) peoples whilst plundering, murdering and raping its inhabitants," said a student who identified himself as Tyson Sadler, on a forum at ALI-PAC.
"They set up borders, stole important artifacts and kidnapped people which (sic) were sent back to Europe," he added. "This land belongs to the indigineous (sic) peoples – the very ones you are trying to keep out. Mexicans have more claim to the territorial United States than Euro-Americans do. There are NO illegals.
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"I would love to see ALIPAC dismantled. This organization makes me sick," he said.
Wow, said William Gheen, the director for ALI-PAC.
"I'm flabbergasted," he told WND during an interview on the subject. "I'm blown away by this."
ALI-PAC is Americans for Legal Immigration, a group set up to "address the disparity between the public's desire for more control of illegal immigration and the actions of lawmakers," the group itself says.
The "model Parliament" was a recent event in which students from 10 universities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada participated This year they met in the Mexican Senate for five days in what was called "Triumvirate," with organizers declaring "A North American Parliament is born."
It's sponsored by the Canadian based North American Forum on Integration, and a similar staged event happened in the Canadian Senate in 2005.
Organizers make clear their intent:
"The creation of a North American parliament, such as the one being simulated by these young people, should be considered," explained Raymond Chretien, the president of the Triumvirate and the former Canadian ambassador to both Mexico and the U.S.
Participants discuss draft bills on trade corridors, immigration, provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and produce a daily newspaper called "The TrilatHerald."
American University Professor Robert Pastor
The board of directors of NAFI includes Robert A. Pastor, professor and director of the Center for North American Studies at American University and vice chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on North America. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the idea of merging the United States, Mexico and Canada in a North American union stretching from Prudhoe Bay to Guatemala.
The 10 universities taking part include Harvard, American University, Carlton University, Simon Fraser, Universite de Montreal, Ecole nationale d'administration publique, Monterrey TEC, CIDE, Monterrey University and Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud.
NAFI claims the event enjoys the support of the U.S. Embassy in Canada, the Canadian Embassy in Mexico and the North American Development Bank. It also has been supported by at least one U.S. news organization – the Houston Chronicle.
So what was a student doing describing himself as a representative from ALI-PAC when ALI-PAC didn't know anything about it, and the student clearly wasn't in the same philosophical book as ALI-PAC, much less on the same page?
A political move, probably, said Gheen.
"It must have been some sort of clinical observation, a human experiment," he said. "They were testing the political dynamics."
"It looks like they instructed these students to study us and try to replicate us and our message, and put it into the context of a legislative governing system," said Gheen,
He said he found out when the student's signature arrived on the ALI-PAC website forum, where he started out bragging that he'd won an award.
The posting listed the "Final Report 2006" from "The Tirumvirate in La Reforma" and said that Sadler, as "Lobbyist for the organization 'Americans for Legal Immigration'" and member of the delegation from Simon Fraser University, was being honored.
After the initial posting, Gheen simply asked Sadler to clarify.
"Please explain these reports for us. We would like to know why the name of our organization is being used in some Globalist exercise to practice the unlawful merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico," Gheen wrote.
Initially Sadler responded with a terse: "Please direct your questions to INFO@FINA-NAFI.ORG or visit http://www.fina-nafi.org."
But under some prodding from others on the forum, he returned, and unloaded.
"I don't wish to contribute to a thread of an organization I find to be extremely racist, elitist and exclusionary. ALIPAC hurts us all," he wrote.
"I represented your organization at the North American Forum on Integration (a model parliament) this past summer. I won the title of 'Distinguished Delegate' for lobbying on behalf of ALIPAC. I won the award because I represented 'Americans For Legal Immigration' well as I lobbied on their behalf. If you read the final report, you will see that I was successful in persuading legislators from Canada, the US, and Mexico to sympathize with ALIPAC's aims.
"Rest assured that your organization, no matter how dispicable (sic) it is, was represented by myself with the most amount of professionalism and accuracy.
"The name of your organization is not being used to practice the unlawful merger of the US, Canada, and Mexico. We are assuming that the merger has already taken place in a completely lawful and sustainable manner," he wrote.
"Mr. Sadler, I doubt very seriously that an Open Borders advocate like yourself could ever do ALIPAC the slightest justice," responded Gheen. He said Sadler didn't even understand the group's purpose.
"You cannot lawfully reconstruct the United States of America without changing the US Constitution and gaining ratification by the states."
"If you are correct and this is already the case to be prepared for and practiced, then your masters have just set the stage for massive unrest as the side you advocate for has deprived all American, Canadian, and Mexico citizens of their rights," he said.
"How does it feel to be a doll of the devil?"
One other participant in the forum was more direct:
"Tyson, Thank you for … admitting that you defamed and slandered ALIPAC. You showed your real intentions with your post. Guess what, there are 250 million Americans opposed to your ideals."
Pastor is the author of "Toward a North American Community," a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.
As vice chairman of the May 2005 CFR task force, he is an architect of the Building a North American Community" plan that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government.
The next Triumvirate model parliament conference will be in the United States – in either New York or Washington, according to a spokeswoman for the North American Forum.
Earlier this month, a high-level, top-secret meeting of the North American Forum took place in Banff, Canada – with topics ranging from "A Vision for North America," "Opportunities for Security Cooperation" and "Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration."
Pastor was listed as a confirmed participant in that meeting, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Central Intelligence Agency Director R. James Woolsey, former Immigration and Naturalization Services Director Doris Meissner, former Defense Secretary William Perry, former Energy Secretary and Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and top officials of both Mexico and Canada.
But there's also been significant opposition. One set of suggestions came from Lou Dobbs of CNN – a frequent critic of President Bush's immigration policies.
"What in the world are these people thinking about? You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value. And I hope, I pray that I'm right when I said yes. But this is – I mean, this is beyond belief," he said.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. and the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus as well as author of the new book, "In Mortal Danger," may be the only elected official to challenge openly the plans for the new superstate.
Responding to a WND report, Tancredo is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of the government office implementing the trilateral agreement that has no authorization from Congress.
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Friday, September 29, 2006
between the lines Joseph Farah Iranian Hitlers laughing at us
Posted: September 29, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2006
What makes today special?
It's the last business day in September.
Which means it's been a month since the expiration of the United Nations Security Council deadline for Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment. Needless to say, Iran did not stop preparing its nuclear weapons production.
So how do we handle such important matters in the world of international diplomacy?
Why, we set a new deadline, of course.
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That's what we did last week when the five permanent members of the Security Council – Britain, China, France, Russia and the U.S. – plus Italy and Germany agreed to give European negotiators more time to persuade Iran to give up its uranium enrichment program.
No sanctions. No threats. No action. Just set a new deadline.
What's the new deadline? Well, it's not really stated. It seems European Union foreign policy guru Javier Solana had more pressing matters to deal with than the end of the world as we know it. He could not meet with Iranian negotiators until at least next week. Maybe some time in October. Who knows?
A senior European diplomat told reporters the new deadline would stretch to early next month, in the hope that new talks between Solana and Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani would bear fruit.
Har-har-hardy-har-har!
I don't know how you spell that in Farsi, but the Aryan supremacists in Tehran must be yucking it up. They have not only learned the art of Jew-hating from the fuhrer, they have also mastered the art of selling the West a bill of goods. History has repeated itself. Neville Chamberlain lives, again. We're still certain we can achieve peace in our time through talk and scraps of paper.
Keep in mind, had sanctions been imposed after Iran missed its Aug. 31 deadline, the penalties would have been the most mild forms initially – slaps on the wrist from the U.N. Yet they were not imposed, despite the fact that Iran is flagrantly ignoring us – running out the clock as it inches closer to the production of nuclear weapons.
"I'm concerned that Iran is trying to stall, and to try to buy time, and therefore it seems like a smart policy is to push this issue along as hard as we can, and we are," Bush said.
We are?
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declined to confirm the new deadline but also warned diplomacy couldn't stretch on indefinitely.
It can't?
You could have fooled the Iranians. That is exactly the message they are getting from the fools in the U.N.
"Everyone wants to resolve this through negotiations, and everyone wants to solve this thing quickly," said Rice.
Does she really believe that? Does she really think the Iranians want to settle this matter through negotiations? Does she really think they want to solve it quickly?
Last week, Rice backed away from the long-standing U.S. position that Iran should face sanctions immediately for failing to meet the Aug. 31 U.N. deadline. With all due respect, the U.S. has become part of the problem. If deadlines are not taken seriously in matters of life and death, then they will never be respected again.
Rather, it seems Iran believes the status of negotiations is just where it wants them. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mattaki said talks (which are not even taking place) are right "on track."
"Iran really wants to negotiate, but they don't want to conclude negotiations," explained Jon Alterman, head of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "They want to negotiate negotiations."
Of course, he is exactly right. For those who believe that negotiations and diplomacy can solve every crisis, they are about to get yet another history lesson to the contrary. Don't expect them to learn this time, either.
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Thursday, September 28, 2006
FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Red Cross to help flood Golan Heights with Syrians?
Assad decree urges immigration to territory with help of international group
Posted: September 28, 2006
11:16 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
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(BBC)
JERUSALEM – Syrian President Bashar Assad yesterday issued a decree urging his citizens to move to the Golan Heights, claiming the International Committee of the Red Cross would help flood the Golan with Syrians.
Assad said the Golan Heights would soon be returned to Syria.
The decree follows reports, first detailed by WND, and later confirmed by Israel's military intelligence chief, Syria is seeking to create a Hezbollah-like guerrilla organization to launch attacks against the Jewish state in hopes of prompting an Israeli retreat from the Golan.
The Golan Heights is mountainous territory captured by the Jewish state after Syria used the terrain to attack Israel in 1967 and again in 1973. The Heights looks down on major Israeli and Syrian population centers. It borders Israel, Syria and Lebanon and is claimed by Damascus.
Military officials say returning the Golan Heights to Syria would grant Damascus the ability to mount an effective ground invasion of the Jewish state.
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Assad's decree urges Syrian officials, humanitarian workers, public service providers and their families to move to the Golan with the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC. His signed statement said Syrians who wish to move to the Golan will be granted approval by "all the relevant authorities."
The decree affirmed the "right of the Syrian people's resistance" aimed at ensuring the return of the Golan Heights.
Israel officially annexed the Golan in 1981 and controls the territory. A United Nations contingent monitors border zones. The ICRC has authority to operate in the area purportedly to facilitate civilian crossings into and out of Syria in humanitarian cases. Israel must approve all cases of Syrian residents moving to the Golan.
The Red Cross can petition for entry for Syrian aid workers assisting its programs. The organization reportedly is building a new medical facility in the Golan.
The Heights has a population of about 35,000 – approximately 18,000 Jewish residents and 17,000 Arabs, mostly Druze. The Arab residents retain their Syrian citizenship but under Israeli law can also sue for Israeli citizenship.
Dorothia Krimitsas, a spokeswoman for the ICRC, told WND her organization is "neutral" and only seeks to help Syrians in "humanitarian cases."
"We are aware of Assad's decree (for Syrians to move to the Golan via the Red Cross) but we are a nonpolitical organization. We help facilitate movement between Syria and the Golan in humanitarian cases, like weddings and important unions," said Krimitsas, speaking from Geneva.
Red Cross bias?
But officials here have long accused the ICRC of anti-Israel bias. The organization for nearly 60 years refused membership to Israel purportedly because the Jewish state wanted to use its own emblem – a star of David – instead of the traditional cross. Israel finally was admitted this past June after intensive lobbying efforts by the American Red Cross.
The ICRC treated Hezbollah militants on the battlefield during confrontations with Israel that ended last month.
Some Israeli military officials accused Red Cross ambulances of helping transport some Hezbollah fighters.
"The moment a Hezbollah fighter is injured, he is considered a non-combatant, so we must take care of him," said ICRC spokeswoman Carla Haddad.
During a major Israeli anti-terror raid in the northern Samaria city of Jenin in 2002, the ICRC along with the Palestinian Authority and the U.N. accused the Jewish state of attacking civilians and denying medical treatment for injured Palestinians for six days. The charges later were disproved.
The Palestinian Authority claimed 500 civilians were "massacred" in the Jenin battle but it was later determined 42 people, mostly combatants, were killed. The Israeli military lost 23 soldiers in the operation.
Syria to form its own Hezbollah
Assad's decree for Syrians to move to the Golan follows a recent WND report that top members of Assad's Baath Party were advised in a private briefing to purchase real estate in the Golan Heights because, they were told, the strategic territory will "very soon" be returned to Syria.
Previously, WND broke the story Syria is in the process of forming what a Baath Party official called the Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights, a new "resistance" group that models itself after Hezbollah.
The official told WND Syria learned from Hezbollah's military campaign against Israel that "fighting" is more effective than peace negotiations with regard to gaining territory.
Hezbollah claims its goal is to liberate the Shebaa Farms, a small, 125-square-mile bloc situated between Syria, Lebanon and Israel. The cease-fire resolution accepted by Israel to end its military campaign in Lebanon calls for negotiations leading to Israel's relinquishing of the Shebaa Farms.
The Baath official told WND the Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights was formed in June and that the group currently consists of Syrian volunteers, many from the Syrian border with Turkey and from Palestinian refugee camps near Damascus. He said Syria held registration for volunteers to join the Front in June.
One week after the WND story, state-run Al-Alam Iranian television featured an interview with a man who identified himself as the leader of the new Front for the Liberation of the Golan Heights.
The man, whose features were blocked out, said his new group consists of "hundreds" of fighters who are training for guerrilla-like raids against Israeli positions in and near the Golan. He claimed the Front has opened several training camps inside Syria.
Sept.12, Amos Yadlin, chief of military intelligence for the Israeli Defense Forces, announced the Jewish state has indications Syria is in the initial stages of forming a Hezbollah copycat group to attack Israeli positions in the Golan.