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US may seize Arab airports by force to attack Iraq: report -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xinhuanet 2002-08-13 00:09:19 ¡¡¡¡BEIRUT, Aug. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Lebanon received a report from diplomatic sources saying that the United States would seize by force several airports in Arab states when it launches a war against Iraq, the An Nahar newspaper reported on Monday. ¡¡¡¡The report said that US President George W. Bush would unleash the military offensive in January 2003 as he has to wait the outcome of the midterm elections of the Congress in November. ¡¡¡¡"Bush prefers to have Arab support for his war to remove Iraqi...

US Iraq Campaign Has Its First Engagement DEBKAfileSpecial Military Analysis 10 August: America’s offensive against Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq has begun as an exercise in gradualism rather than a D-Day drama. DEBKAfile ’s military sources report that tens of thousands of US, British, French, Netherlands, Australian troops may take part in the campaign, openly or covertly, but not in massive waves that fling themselves telegenically on Baghdad... Tuesday August 6, at 0800 hours Middle East time, US and British air bombers went into action and destroyed the Iraqi air command and control center at al-Nukhaib in the desert between...

President Bush is careful with his words, and his military might. Many Americans would just as well nuke the Taliban. Why is President Bush being so careful? There is good reason to suspect Osama has nukes in America, but will not use them right away. If he did, then he would get EVERYONE mad at him and no one to understand his cause. His strategy is to use them once he has a large following of Muslims united behind him. That is his ultimate goal. And President Bush is careful not to alienate the Muslims in his attacks lest he ...

Pakistan has returned two of the attack helicopters that it had seized from the Taliban, Jaswant Singh said today. With this, Pakistan has undone its first military action against the Taliban. Pakistan claimed to have withdrawn support to the militia after its refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden to the USA. The 'seizure' was made after US airborne surveillance platforms informed Pakistan of the landing of three Taliban helicopter gunships in NWFP. Observers say the attack choppers moved across the border to either save military assets from destruction in the US-led airstrikes or to transport families of Taliban leaders ...

Quote from article: When asked if there were no room left for diplomacy, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer replied: "That's correct."

By Paul Harvey - Conveniently Forgotten Facts Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow Black Panther named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of disloyalty. Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends tortured him for hours by, among other things, pourring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member, Warren Kimbo took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Connecticut. Perhaps at this ...

Taliban's Conditions for Bin Laden NewsMax.com Wires Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2001 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia has urged the United Nations to lift sanctions against the war-ravaged country if it wants Osama bin Laden, a prime suspect in last week's terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, reports said Tuesday. The conditions, set by Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar, were conveyed to a Pakistani delegation in Kabul seeking bin Laden's expulsion, a Pakistan daily newspaper, The Nation, reported. The other conditions include bin Laden's trial in a neutral country, stopping of military support to the anti-Taliban Northern ...