Die von der US-.Regierung verkündeten Terrordrohungen, die zu massiven Sicherheitsvorkehrungen und vor allem Schlagzeilen führten, sind mindestens drei Jahre alt - und wahrscheinlich bestenfalls eine "abstrakte" Bedrohung...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/co/18016/1.html

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/aug2004/terr-a03.shtml


Informant: Friends

Officials: Terror alert intel was old news

New York Times

08/03/04

Much of the information that led the authorities to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old, intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under way." [Registration
required, or use login "newsdigests/newsdigests"]...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Auch bei den neuen Terrorwarnungen der Bush-Regierung ist kaum zu unterscheiden, ob es sich um eine reale Bedrohung oder wieder einmal um eine Strategie der Angstpolitik handelt...

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/co/18007/1.html

Stop the War Press Release

For Immediate release

While Tony Blair suns himself on a beach in Barbados Iraq is in flames. Eighteen months after the end of the war hundreds of Iraqis are being killed every week.

Now the foreign affairs select committee reports that ‘Iraq has become a battleground for al-Qaida’.

The foreign affairs committee calls for other NATO countries to send more troops to Iraq - ignoring the fact that not only was the war illegal but that the occupation itself is the source of the continued instability in Iraq.

Stop the War convenor Lindsey German said ‘there can be no peace while British and American troops remain in Iraq and this report only confirms the warnings made by the anti-war movement.’

For comment
Andrew Burgin 07939 242229
Lindsey German 07810540584

Survey: Arabs Detest US Policy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe112.html

"The administration has fallen down on the job in budgeting for these wars, and its budget projections simply are not to be trusted," said Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2697005


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