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How did Greenspan Know about the London Bombings Two Days before?
Mike Whitney
Two days before the London subway bombings, Fed-Master Alan Greenspan
flushed nearly $40 billion in liquidity into financial markets. The sudden
activity was an astonishing departure from the current policy of tightening
interest rates to stifle inflation. The Chairman has not explained his
erratic behavior, but there’s growing speculation that Greenspan may have
had information about the likelihood of terrorist attacks and decided to !
“preemptively” head-off a run on the markets. As it turns out, his actions
may have been a positive factor in stabilizing the market following the
incident, (... ) but that doesn’t address the larger issue of whether
Greenspan had inside information that an attack was imminent.

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THE AMERICAN PLANS TO EXHAUST IRAQ AND TO STEAL ITS RESOURCES
MOHAMMED AL-KAYSSI
So many are the investigations and debates that came up analyzing the aims
of the US administration war-on-Iraq campaign. Although the occupation of
Iraq is against the international law and all the Iraqi people ambitions
and targets, the US administration is insisting on completing its
occupation plans and projects in Iraq. What ever the justifications the
American media or its agents are declaring, we, Iraqis, are now very sure
tha! t the main motive for this administration’s war is to control the oil,
the best global source of power, which will enable America, following
long-term plans, to dominate the whole world as the only super power. The
following brief research is emphasizing the impact of the USA plans which
began since the early eighties and continued up to the current Iraq
occupation on the Iraqi economy...

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Special Report
Supreme Court nominee Roberts' lawyer wife facilitates global satellite
system projects and her firm is targeting Iraq reconstruction
Margie Burns, Online Journal Contributing Writer
Yet another first for our boundary-breaching White House: for the first
time in American history, we're going to have a justice on the high court
whose spouse facilitates financing and putting together global satellite
systems. Also, the firm in which she is a partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw
Pittman LLP, emp! hasizes among other things its expertise in facilitating
business in Iraq: "We offer one-stop service to clients pursuing projects
in Iraq, from solicitation and RFP counseling to working with key
government and multilateral agencies, and from initially penetrating the
Iraqi marketplace to final project implementation. Our attorneys are
recognized as leaders in their fields, and at the cutting-edge in a variety
of disciplines relevant to Iraq reconstruction...

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MEDIA ALERT: BIASED, BLINKERED, CULPABLE
John Pilger, Hans von Sponeck, Dahr Jamail and Others Respond to BBC
Statement Regarding The World Tribunal on Iraq
Media Lens
Media Lens recently issued a media alert about the lack of British media
coverage given to the World Tribunal on Iraq, held in Istanbul last month.
Our alert, The Mysterious Case of the Vanishing World Tribunal on Iraq, was
sent out on July 6, 2005. We suggested that readers ask senior BBC managers
and editors why the BBC, a publicly-fun! ded broadcaster, is failing to
cover the many reports of alleged US war crimes in Fallujah and elsewhere
in Iraq. Why, in particular, did the main BBC news programmes ignore the
Tribunal's damning findings against the invasion and occupation of Iraq?
And when has the BBC ever reported Bush and Blair's culpability for war
crimes? These are troubling questions for well-rewarded media professionals
to answer rationally, while preserving any semblance of self-respect...

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Urgent: Jameel Saad's Brain Tumor
Wafaa' Al-Natheema
I am writing with hope that you can help in any way you can by posting this
letter on your website/blog and emailing it to your lists, by sending
donations or by providing medical expertise. Jameel Saad was the youngest
maqam singer in the world of Arabic-maqam singing (...) A couple of months
ago, his family, who lives in IRAQ under this vicious war, was devastated
to learn that Jameel Saad was suffering from a brain tumor. They managed in
extreme panic to bri! ng him to the UAE for surgery. He is now being
treated at Twam Hospital in al-Ain. Unfortunately, the UAE authorities did
not issue his father a visa to accompany him to the surgery. So he will be
in the UAE with his older brother...

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The Wayward Media
Ernest Partridge, Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers
Its no secret: the former watchdogs of the American media have been
transformed into Bush’s lapdogs. Whenever a potential White House or GOP
scandal rears its ugly head, you can count on the news media to be
otherwise engaged. If you’ve paid any attention to the Tom Delay outrages,
Gannon/Guckert, the Downing Street Memos, the civilian casualties in Iraq,
The World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul, or what the rest of the world
thinks of us and our Pres! ident, you’ve kprobably learned about it from
somewhere else: perhaps the foreign press or, of course, the internet. As
for the mainstream media (MSM), it's all about Michael Jackson, the runaway
bride, or the love lives of assorted Hollywood celebs...

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The true measure of the US and British failure
The Independent
One of the many shameful aspects of the war in Iraq has been the failure of
US and British forces to register civilian casualties. Both the US and the
British authorities insist that they have no obligation to do so - and, if
this is correct, that should surely change. But the absence of any reliable
figures has had several malign effects...

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The Hand of Cheney
Did Dick Finger Valerie?
RAY McGOVERN, Former CIA analyst
By now it should be clear that the White House assault on former ambassador
Joseph Wilson and his wife had much less to do with personalities than with
the "particular lie" that Wilson exposed. I believe this helps to explain
the highly unusual role Vice President Dick Cheney played regarding the
forged "intelligence" about Iraq seeking to acquire uranium from Niger-the
source of that particular lie. Our Veteran Intelligence P! rofessionals for
Sanity (VIPS) writings provide contemporaneous insight into the major flap
that hit the White House two years ago, when it was discovered that the
"intelligence" was based on a forgery. It was clear at that time that the
first item on the White House list of talking points was: "It wasn't
Dick."...

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Was Bus Bomber Really Hasib Hussain?
Fintan Dunne, BreakForNews.com
Eyewitness accounts of a bomber aboard the London bus which was blasted on
7/7/'05 are strangely at variance with each other and with CCTV evidence.
First the question of the description of the man: BUS blast survivor
Richard Jones yesterday revealed how he came face-to-face with one of the
London bombers. The Scots IT expert got off the doomed double-decker just
seconds before it was torn apart in an explosion that killed 13 passengers.
He s! aid the bomber was around 6ft tall, in his mid-twenties, clean-shaven
and smartly dressed. The man was wearing hipster-style fawn checked
trousers, with exposed designer underwear, and a matching jersey-style top.
'The pants looked very expensive, they were white with a red band on top...

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IRAQ: FALLUJAH UNDER SIEGE AGAIN
AKI
US and Iraqi troops have launched another offensive on the city of Fallujah
in the volatile Anbar province in western Iraq. US military leaders believe
a group of guerrillas has established itself in the city once more, taking
advantage of the last few months of relative calm. News of the new
operation comes from aid workers from the Italian Solidarity Consortium
(ICS) in Iraq, who are carrying out monitoring and humanitarian assistance
programmes in the area to help the many ! citizens displaced by the last
military offensive on the city, which began in November last year...

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Rove-Plame Scandal Leading to Deeper White House Horrors?
Bernard Weiner, Co-Editor, The Crisis Papers
...What's being covered up in the Plame/Rove case seems to revolve around
the Bush Administration's orchestrated, and perhaps illegal, propaganda
campaign to justify its invasion of Iraq. Valerie Plame and her husband
Ambassador Joseph Wilson -- who wrote the op-ed in the New York Times that
got this whole thing going -- are just the tips of very large icebergs, and
one of those icebergs has a name: the White Ho! use Iraq Group (WHIG),
which we'll examine below...

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The Pakistani Connection: The London Bombers and "Al Qaeda's Webmaster"
Where are the Maps of the London Underground?
Michel Chossudovsky, GlobalResearch.ca
British investigators have uncovered that the "London bombers" had
connections to a mysterious Pakistani engineer named Mohammed Naeem Noor
Khan, also known as Abu Talha, who was allegedly behind last year's planned
terror attack on Wall Street, the World Bank and the IMF. Recent press
reports suggest that the attacks on the London subway w! ere part of a
coordinated plan, which also targeted financial buildings in the United
States...

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Sunnis Suspend Taking Part in Iraq Panel
Bassem Mrioue, The Associated Press
Sunni Muslim members on a committee drafting Iraq's new constitution
suspended their participation Wednesday in the wake of a colleague's
assassination, saying they need more security. A suicide bomber blew
himself up outside an army recruiting center in central Baghdad, killing at
least 10 people. The suicide attacker detonated his explosives belt at the
entrance to a recruiting center at Baghdad's defunct Muthanna airport,
according to! police and medical officials...

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Majority of Soldiers Say Iraq Morale Low
ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer
A majority of U.S. soldiers in Iraq say morale is low, according to an Army
report that finds psychological stress is weighing particularly heavily on
National Guard and Reserve troops. Still, soldiers' mental health has
improved from the early months of the insurgency, and suicides have
declined sharply, the report said. Also, substantially fewer soldiers had
to be evacuated from Iraq for mental health problems last year. The Army
sent a t! eam of mental health specialists to Iraq and Kuwait late last
summer to assess conditions and measure progress in implementing programs
designed to fix mental health problems discovered during a similar survey
of troops a year earlier...

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Seven Seven, Shades of Nine Eleven: Missing al-Qaedaite
Kurt Nimmo, Another day in the empire
...In other words, now that the Egyptians have discovered that Magdy
al-Nashar is an innocent chemist with no connection to al-Qaeda, and
Germaine Lindsay is a case of “mistaken identity,” the Brits are right back
to where they started from—that is to say they have no suspects, no leads,
nada. As for the Germaine Lindsay “mistake,” shades of nine eleven.
Remember when it was revealed seven of the alleged WTC hijackers t! urned
up alive? Oops. Prince Saud al-Faisal went so far as to tell the media some
of them were alive and well and had nothing to do with nine eleven. But
then, by the time this was established, it didn’t really matter because a
whole lot of people thought Saddam Hussein did it...

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Statement to the Great People of Iraq and the glorious Arab Nation
The Arab Baath Socialist Party
...The Resistance in its national formations and its combating regiments
and its popular scope composed of different ethnics, religions and
communities, is able to stop any situation of sectarian, ethnical, racist
civil strife and which the occupier and his collaborators try to sow in
amongst the Resistance and the People ranks. What is required from all the
national forces, tribal chiefs and honest religious leaders! is to confront
this strange state to our people and act together with the courageous
Resistance men to wipe out this abased plot. Also we call everybody to hold
on to the national unity in amongst our great people and which is the only
way with the armed resistance to free Iraq from the Occupation and its
dubious products...

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General Westmoreland's Death Wish and the War in Iraq
Norman Solomon, CommonDreams.org
After he died on Monday, front pages focused on the failures of William
Westmoreland as commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam. Overall, the coverage
faulted him for being a big loser, not a mass killer. The Washington Post
noted that Westmoreland "was called a war criminal." But the deaths of
thousands of Vietnamese people each week during his four years as the top
American general in Vietnam counted for little in the media calcu! lus. The
main problem, readers were encouraged to understand, was that Westmoreland
pursued a losing strategy...

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9 Dismissed From Tribunal Trying Saddam
SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer
Nine staff members of the Iraqi Special Tribunal preparing to try Saddam
Hussein have been dismissed because of links to the ousted dictator's Baath
Party, an official said Wednesday. The cases of 19 others, including the
chief investigative judge, are under review. The executive director of the
Supreme National Commission for de-Baathification, Ali al-Lami, said the
nine dismissed staffers held administrative jobs such as the witne! ss
security protection program and tribunal security. Al-Lami said that the
committee is preparing another list of 19 people, mostly judges, for
possible dismissal. They include chief judge Raid Juhi, he said...

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Sole Mates?
The US wants the oil and ‘al-Qu’eda’ wants your soul
William Bowles, I'n'I

The stories spill out thick and fast. You know what I’m talking about. All
manner of conjecture and theorising on who, what, how and when. Reactions
to our stories on the London bombings have brought a couple of corporate
responses (see the Daily Mirror and the Independent) but of course from the
indie press the various flavours/interpretations have been pouring out
thick and fast, some more coherent than others...


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Who provided the London warning?
Xymphora
Despite quite a lot of discussion on the issue, it seems clear now that the
Mossad office in London received six minutes warning from British
authorities of the London bomb attacks. This isn't surprising, as Netanyahu
was in town and would have been guarded with extreme caution by both
British and Israeli officials. Bibi is one of the most likely assassination
targets in the world, and is a pain in the ass to look after wherever he
goes...

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Don't Mourn, Memorialize
Add One More to Westmoreland's Body Count
DAVE LINDORFF, CounterPunch
News that General William Westmoreland, who oversaw the escalation of the
catastrophic Indochina War from 1964 through '68-a pointless and criminal
war that cost 58,000 American lives and millions of Vietnamese, Cambodian
and Laotian lives-died at the age of 91 with "no regrets" about the
conflict had me fantasizing about some special circle of hell reserved for
military leaders (...) There are plenty like Wes! ty in today's
Pentagon-men who are thinking plenty about their careers, but not much
about the men and women who are being destroyed on their orders in Iraq...

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