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| Matthew 26: 52 "Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword." | |
| September 11, 2001 Secretary
of State Colin L. Powell appeared grim-faced before the General Assembly
of the Organization of American States in Lima, Peru. ``Once again we see
terrorism - we see terrorists - people who don't believe in democracy;
people who believe that the destruction of buildings, with the murder of
people, they can somehow achieve a political purpose,'' he told the
assembled delegates.
``They can destroy buildings,'' he continued. ``They can kill people and we will be saddened.'' But he added, ``They will never be allowed to kill the spirit of democracy.'' Just five months before attack on New York, Talibans received $43 mil. from Bush, as pocket money. |
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| A pall of smoke rises from a burning building in New Belgrade after it was hit by NATO air-strikes early Wednesday April 21 1999. NATO jets struck the 18-story high-rise building housing offices of the ruling SPS-Socialist Party of Serbia and three local TV and radio stations. At least three missiles hit the building known as Business Center "Usce", located across the Sava river, foreground, from the heart of the capital. Local sources claim at least 20 people were believed to be inside. At right is monument "The Victor", a distinctive symbol of Belgrade, marking victory in WW I. (AP PHOTO / Srdjan Ilic) | Tue Sep 11, 9:51 AM ET
Plumes of smoke pour from the World Trade Center buildings in New York Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Planes crashed into the upper floors of both World Trade Center towers minutes apart Tuesday in a horrific scene of explosions and fires that left gaping holes in the 110-story buildings. The Empire State building is seen in the foreground. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) |
| NATO TO CARPET BOMB YUGO by Richard Sisk and William Goldschlag WASHINGTON Ten B-52s will conduct old-fashioned carpet bombing of Serb forces in Kosovo despite risks to civilians, Defense Secretary William Cohen said yesterday. The B-52 Stratofortresses--each hauling 70,000 pounds of "dumb" gravity bombs lacking modern guidance systems--will go after large staging areas for troops and concentrations of "artillery and other types of weapons," Cohen said. He acknowledged the risk of "collateral damage" to civilians, adding "WE WILL DO OUR BEST to make sure we minimize it."... The NATO air campaign has relied almost exclusively on precision-guided weapons in its first 37 days. But the Air Force is running short of air-launched cruise missiles, with fewer than 80 left in the inventory. |
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| SURDULICA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - Workers stand outside a retirement home that was hit by two NATO missiles during airstrikes over the town of Surdulica south of Belgrade Monday, May 31. Seventeen patients were killed and 38 were injured, hospital workers said. NATO warplanes roared into their 69th day of attacks against Yugoslavia despite reports President Slobodan Milosevic may be closer to accepting conditions for a cease-fire. Photo by Ivan Milutinovic | Firemen work around the World Trade Center after both towers collapsed in New York on September 11, 2001. Loss of life was expected to be catastrophic from the collapse of the giant towers, where roughly 40,000 people work. The two 110-story towers collapsed one at a time in a huge cloud of smoke and fire two hours after the initial impacts. (Peter Morgan/Reuters) |
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| Radenko, left, and Mileka Prtenyakovic, cry in what remains of their home in the city of Chachak, 170 kilometers (110 miles) from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Monday, April 5, 1999. Allied planes targeted transportation links and communication sites across Yugoslavia, and local officials said a NATO attack on a coal mining town in southern Serbia killed five civilians and injured at least 30 others. (AP Photo/ITAR-TASS) | People walk away from the World Trade Center tower in New York City early September 11, 2001. Both towers were hit by planes crashing into the building. Victims from the attack on the World Trade Center -- many suffering from extensive burns -- began arriving at hospitals in New York City about an hour after two planes slammed into the twin towers, witnesses said Tuesday. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton |
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| NOVI SAD, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - Smoke rises over the Danube river in the northern Serbian town of Novi Sad Tuesday, while an oil refinery burns after being repeatedly targeted by NATO air raids. Yugoslavia accused NATO of an ecology catastrophe over Serbia as the town lives under a black smoke umbrella for the past week. Clinton's "Bridge to the 21st Century" is seen in the foreground. Photo by Desmond Boylan | Spectators watch smoke billow from the Pentagon in Washington D.C. after a hijacked plane plunged into the building early September 11, 2001. Three hijacked planes crashed into U.S. landmarks today, destroying New York's mighty twin towers and hitting the Pentagon in an unprecedented assault on key symbols of U.S. military and financial power. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque |
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| BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - NATO aircraft leave jet trails in the sky (top left) as they bomb a thermal plant in the suburbs of Belgrade Thursday, May 27, during air raids over Yugoslavia. NATO stepped up the pace of its air campaign against Yugoslavia on Wednesday, and said its planes flew 741 sorties, the highest number of the campaign so far. Reuters Photo | A fireball erupts from Tower 2 (rear, obscured by Tower 1) of the World Trade Center in New York after a hijacked airliner crashed into it, September 11, 2001. The aircraft crashed into Tower 2 minutes after Tower 1, already burning, was hit by another hijacked airliner. (courtesy NBC via Reuters) |
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| Remains of the El-Shifa Pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, Sudan, following a U.S. military strike Thursday, Aug. 20, 1998. U.S. forces attacked alleged terrorist camps in Afghanistan and a chemical plant in Sudan on Thursday. | Firefighters and rescue workers are in a search and rescue mode at ground zero of Tuesday's terrorist attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001.(AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) |
| The NATO briefings, usually conducted by principal NATO spokesman Jamie Shea accompanied by a military spokesman from one of the NATO countries, downplayed so-called "collateral damage" -- civilian casualties -- and emphasised the efficacity of the strikes. | |
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| December 1989 US military invaded Panama in an attempt to seize leader Manuel Noriega under charges of drug trafficking and restoring democracy. Although US reports claimed that only a few hundred people died during the invasion, independent reports estimated that between 2,500 and 4,000 Panamanians lost their lives. The damage caused by the invasion was overwhelming. Eyewitnesses saw U.S. Marines going door to door and burning buildings in the residential neighbourhood of El Chorillo (see video). | Rubble from the World Trade Center covers an old cemetery next to the destroyed building as rescue operations continue in New York September 12, 2001. The World Trade Center collapsed September 11 after a terrorist attack on the structure. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton |
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| BELGRADE, Serbia (Reuters) - A woman feeds her baby in a bomb shelter with no electricity in central Belgrade after air raid sirens sounded May 8. Thousands of people have spent their nights in shelters since NATO air raids started over Yugoslavia 45 days ago. Photo by Reuters | Erin Jones, Bridget Opfer, and Kieran McCutcheon join thousands of people taking part in a candlelight vigil on the Mall in Washington D.C. September 12, 2001 in memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. yesterday. The United States vowed to strike back with a hammer of vengeance for the horrific attacks. (Win McNamee/Reuters) |
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A Canton, China newspaper: "Bill Clinton: Ordered the Bombing," reads the headline underneath the picture. |
TIME magazine is publishing a special memorial edition September 13, 2001 in regards to the terrorist attacks according to managing editor James Kelly. A photograph taken by Lyle Owerka/Gamma shows the World Trade Center engulfed in flames after a hijacked airliner crashed into the building September 11. For the first time since TIME began publishing in 1927, the magazine has a black border instead of the trademark red border. REUTERS/TIME Handout |
| That US troops from Powell’s
Americal Division
massacred more than 300 civilians in a single incident in the village of
My Lai during the Vietnam war, or that more than 300 Panamanian civilians
were killed by troops under Powell’s command as they swept through El
Chorrillo neighborhood in Panama City during “Operation Just Cause” in
1989, has in no way damaged his credibility with the Bush crew.
Powell’s willingness, as he writes in his autobiography to “use all the [military] force necessary” in Panama and Vietnam, “and...not to apologize for going in big if that’s what it takes,” is precisely the kind of thinking Bush wants to encourage within his Cabinet. The General will clearly play a big role, along with Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice, in Bush’s push for a National Missile Defense system as well as within his broader foreign policy efforts to replace Clinton's rhetoric of global humanitarianism with what Rice has described as the principles of “power politics.” |
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Abu Sayyaf members, Pimentel said, were initially recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency as mujahideens to fight the U.S. proxy war in Afghanistan in the ‘80s. Before their deployment, they were trained by AFP officers in Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Basilan and other remote areas in Mindanao. “The CIA orchestrated massive arms shipments via Pakistan, including state-of-the-art Stinger surface-to-air missiles,” Cooley said. Three American presidents – Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George Bush -- hailed the mujahideens as “freedom fighters,” he said. The Abu Sayyaf, Cooley said, was the last of the seven Afghan guerrilla groups to be organized late in the war – in 1986 or three years before the Soviets withdrew. It was founded by an Afghan professor named Abdul Rasul Abu Sayyaf. And like Osama bin Laden, the group was financed by Saudi Arabia’s wealthy elite and influenced by Wahabism, an ultra-conservative form of Islam that dates back to the mid-18th century and is espoused by the Saudi royal family. With the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, the CIA’s powerful Pakistani partner, the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI), lost control of the Afghan fighting groups. The Abu Sayyaf had established a training camp north of Peshawar, Pakistan, “to train terrorists in the methods taught by the CIA and ISI,” Cooley reported. Some 20,000 volunteers were trained in the “Peshawar university” to “look for other wars to fight” including in the Middle East, North Africa, New York and the Philippines. http://justpeace.net.ph/updates/statement/st2001_0709_01.htm |
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A lone man runs down Broadway as a smoke and dust cloud comes up the street from the collapsing World Trade Center buildings in New York September 11, 2001. Both World Trade Center towers collapsed after being attacked by hijacked commercial planes. (Kelly Price/Reuters ) | |
| In 1972, the world watched in horror as nine-year-old Kim Phuc ran naked and burned toward photographers after a napalm bomb exploded her South Vietnamese village. | ||
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| On June 1, seven people were
injured, three of them children, when four missiles hit the residential
area of Sovljak. Throughout May, Nato repeatedly targeted the town of Kraljevo, destroying its school and a hospital clinic. More than 20 civilians have been injured. A message on one of the bomb casings found at Kraljevo read, "Do You Still Want to Be a Serb Now?" On April 29, one person was killed and 8 injured when a missile struck a public bus on the Goadcica Road. |
Hate graffiti defaces the Islamic Center of Western Ontario in London, Ont., Canada, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001. The graffiti is an apparent backlash following the terrorist attacks on the United States Tuesday. (AP Photo/CP, The London Free Press - Derek Ruttan) | |
| Thursday,
April 29, 1999 Arming KLA a bad idea TIRANA, Albania - Arm the Kosovo Liberation Army! It's a slogan that's heard again and again in the Albanian capital and in the mountainous north, where Albania borders the disputed Serbian province of Kosovo. Whatever NATO decides to do to try and win its war against Serbia, arming the KLA could result in the replacement of one tyranny with another. |
CIA worked with Pakistan
to create Taliban "I warned them that we were creating a monster," Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said... 'The CIA made a historic mistake in encouraging Islamic groups from all over the world to come to Afghanistan.' The US provided $3 billion for building up these Islamic groups, and it accepted Pakistan's demand that they should decide how this money should be spent, analyst Selig Harrison said." |
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| The help given to the Mujahadin fighters may have been a political success at the time by President Reagan, but the failure to retrieve the remaining missiles by President Clinton may prove to be a major disaster now. http://www.devvy.com/twaup5.html |  |
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