Clipping FileRemember that article...Tracking Terrorist Bankrolls- April 6, 2004 As the world gropes to fight terrorism, it's hardly reassuring to discover that the White House spurned a request for 80 more investigators to track and disrupt the global financial networks of terrorist groups. Some of the most important breakthroughs against terrorism have been scored by financial sleuths, including those of the Treasury Department. The need to expand the present staff of 160 investigators was expressed in a budget request from the Internal Revenue Service, but cut from the...http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/04/opinion/04SUN2.html?pagewanted=print&position= Juan Cole:- April 6, 2004 There is increasing evidence that the brutal attack on the American security guards in Fallujah, and the desecration of their bodies, was the work of Islamists seeking vengeance for the Israeli murder of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Leaflets found at the scene said the operation was in the name of Yassin. al-Hayat reports in its Friday edition that responsibility for the attack has been taken by a group called Phalanges of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. The group said the deaths were a "gift to the..http://www.juancole.com/2004_04_01_juancole_archive.html#108088812260193265 Juan Cole: "Iraq Information or Party Propaganda"- April 6, 2004 Iraq Information or Party PropagandaThe Guardian has a story on Sunday about how the Iraq Information Office is not just a Coalition Provisional Authority way of getting the news out about their activities, but is essentially an arm of the Republican National Committee dedicated to reelecting George Bush. The goal is to keep the bad news from Iraq from hurting Bush in the presidential campaign.I have for some time been wondering why the US press reporting about Iraq was so much sunnier and...http://www.juancole.com/2004_04_01_juancole_archive.html#108110613675670830 Nation: "Let's Make Enemies"- April 4, 2004 "All the trouble in Iraq is because of Bremer," Khamis told me, flanked by a line-up of thirty Pepsi and 7-Up bottles. "He didn't listen to Iraqis. He doesn't know anything about Iraq. He destroyed the country and tried to rebuild it again, and now we are in chaos." These are words you would expect to hear from religious extremists or Saddam loyalists, but hardly from the likes of Khamis. It's not just that his Pepsi deal is the highest-profile investment by a US multinational in Iraq's new...http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040419&s=klein Bush-Blair Pact to Target Iraq Alleged- April 4, 2004 Both the Independent and the Guardian are reporting that President Bush asked Tony Blair to back him in removing Saddam from power just 9 days after 911. The Guardian article reports the two had a secret pact.Warblogshttp://talkleft.com/new_archives/005935.html MSNBC - 'The Wizard of Oz Letter'- April 4, 2004 A top Republican strategist dubbed the legal document striking the unusual deal agreeing to allow Bush and Cheney to testify together before the 911 Commission “the Wizard of Oz letter” because it strips away the myth that Bush is in charge. Until now, it’s been all speculation about Vice President Cheney’s influence. With the revelation of the tandem testimony, nobody with a straight face can deny Cheney is a co-president or worse, the puppeteer who pulls Bush’s...http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4653858/ Clarke on Meet the Press- April 1, 2004 MR. RUSSERT:&160; Why do you think the Iraq war has undermined the war on terrorism MR. CLARKE:&160; Well, I think it's obvious, but there are three major reasons. Who are we fighting in the war on terrorism&160; We're fighting Islamic radicals and they are drawing people from the youth of the Islamic world into hating us.&160; Now, after September 11, people in the Islamic world said, "Wait a minute.&160; Maybe we've gone too far here.&160; Maybe this Islamic movement, this radical movement,..http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4608698/ |