Terrorist Instructions, Al-Jazeera and Saddam Hussein, CBS, UNSCAM-U.N. Compensation Commission

Terrorist Instructions . . . "It is coming to a town near you. Be safe, stay vigilant."

Terrorists Instructions on Stinger Missiles on the Internet

12 January 2005: Most recent research of terrorist websites found that the terrorists have republished instructions on using shoulder fired missile systems on the Internet. The Northeast Intelligence Network has furnished the applicable documentation to US militarty and intelligence officials regarding these messages. Although the postings appear to be centered on the Iraq therater of operation, it is important to note, especially with the increase in incidents involving lasers in the US and elsewhere, that the FBI issued a warning about missiles in the US early in 2002:

"...given al Qaeda's demonstrated objective to target the U.S. airline industry, its access to U.S. and Russian-made MANPAD systems, and recent apparent targeting of U.S.-led military forces in Saudi Arabia, law enforcement agencies in the United States should remain alert to potential use of MANPADs against U.S. aircraft." [. . . . ]

I personally, as well as other analysts and researchers of Northeast Intelligence Network receive an enormous number of emails from idiots worldwide with their conspiracy theories and accusations on how the US really isn’t a target for terrorists and how the Bush administration simply uses the terrorist threat to further their agenda overseas as well as domestically.

[. . . .] There are also a number of incidents that have happened inside the United States that the general public really doesn’t know about, or all the facts concerning such incidents were not relayed to the public in a manner that would indicate the true motive of terrorism behind the incident. Research into the facts beyond the mainstream media reports often leaves no doubt whatsoever what the true nature and intent of the incident was. [. . . .]

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Al-Jazeera and Saddam Hussein

New Footage Links Al-Jazeera, Media Figures to Saddam's Regime Jan. 5, 05

New footage aired by Alhurra on Thursday shows that Saddam Hussein's corruption extended to the Arabic satellite network Al-Jazeera and certain Arab media figures. [. . . . ]

"This new footage is explosive,” says Phares. “It pulls back the curtain on the hidden relationship between the Saddam regime and its media beneficiaries and collaborators. The same media that opposed Iraq's liberation and continues to broadcast malicious reports about the situation there was, in fact, in Saddam's back pocket for years.”

The footage shows Saddam Hussein's son and designated successor Udai meeting in Baghdad with Al-Jazeera's former news director, Mohammed Jassim al Ali. Udai praises Al-Jazeera for several appointments to its editorial staff, including Ahmad Mansour, a prominent reporter who has since been criticized for providing greatly exaggerated reports of civilian deaths during U.S. counterinsurgency operations in Fallujah. Ali in return thanks Udai: "Without our collaboration with you personally, we wouldn't have succeeded." [. . . . ]

UNSCAM -- Another Trail to Follow; Did Saddam Hussein Loot a Fund to Compensate Victims of the 1990 Invasion? -- The deeper they dig . . . .

UNSCAM: Some of the funds were channeled to end-users via governments, including those of such terrorist-sponsoring states as Syria and Iran, as well as Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority.

Another Trail to Follow; Did Saddam Hussein Loot a Fund to Compensate Victims of the 1990 Invasion? Claudia Rosett, Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal and European Edition), January 12, 2005. Ms. Rosett is a journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

Let's be honest. Along with United Nations secrecy, Saddam Hussein's perfidy, and the general coyness of the bribed, one of the big obstacles to getting to the bottom of the Oil for Food scandal is the sheer horror of actually having to read the reams of U.N. documents tied to the program--on the occasions when documents do turn up. It's a step forward that on Sunday Paul Volcker's U.N.-approved inquiry finally released the program's 55 secret internal audits, which Congress and others had been requesting for months.

[. . . . ] Beyond the highlights already reported, including waste, abuse and maladministration costing hundreds of millions, maybe billions, in money that belonged to the people of Iraq, it may take a while before the ramifications have been fully explored.

Let us pluck from the stack, however, one item that deserves especially urgent attention, because it involves an $18.8 billion flow consisting largely of Oil for Food funding, which until now, in all its opaque complexity, has too much escaped notice. Among the audits just released by Mr. Volcker are 19 that shed some light on yet another troubling trail in the labyrinth that was the Oil for Food program.

That trail belongs to the U.N. Compensation Commission. [. . . . ]

The rotating panels of commissioners who awarded the $18.8 billion were chosen via in-house evaluation of their credentials by the U.N. Secretariat, nominated by the UNCC and approved by Mr. Annan; but little detail about them or their decisions was disclosed to the public. The records made publicly available by the UNCC do not in some cases disclose who the end-recipients were. Some of the funds were channeled to end-users via governments, including those of such terrorist-sponsoring states as Syria and Iran, as well as Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. [. . . . ]

Black eye at black rock -- CBS -- "independent panel"

Damage control at Black Rock Tony Blankley

Let's start with the title of the CBS Panel: "Report of the Independent Review Panel Dick Thornburgh and Lewis D. Boccardi; Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, Counsel to the Independent Review Panel." My first question is from whom is the review panel and its hired lawyers independent? Who paid the law firm for its hundreds, probably thousands of hours of research? I assume CBS paid them.

Keep in mind, it was the law firm which did the actual investigation. I have already communicated with one person who was contacted by a lawyer for the firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart who was told that they were carrying out the investigation's research. And, of course, Mr. Thornburgh is a senior member of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP.

So the lawyers hired to independently investigate CBS have a lawyer/client relationship with CBS. Presumably, as a senior member of that firm, Independent Review Panel Member Richard Thornburgh also has CBS as a fiduciary client. Thus, unlike similarly named government independent investigations — this one is paid for by, and carried out on behalf of, the target of the investigation. [. . . . ]