Iraqis who've helped Danish troops secretly evacuated to Denmark
The government of Denmark has quietly evacuated dozens of Iraqi civilians who've been helping Danish troops in southern Iraq. Altogether about 200 aids and family members have been flown to Copenhagen this week. The last of 3 flights arrived today. The Danish government kept the operation secret until the plane had left Basra for fear of an attack by militants. Denmark announced last winter that it planned to pull its 480-member battlegroup out of Iraq starting next month. The issue of what to do about civilian helpers was hotly debated until the government decided to offer entry visas, financial aid and jobs.
US Still Slow to Admit Iraqi Refugees
The State Department will fall far short of the 7,000 Iraqi refugees it had said it was prepared to accept by the end of September. A State Department official told McClatchy Newspapers this week that it plans to interview 4,000 potential Iraqi refugees by then. The State Department has said that helping Iraqi refugees — particularly those who work with Americans — remains a top priority. In April, the department approved one Iraqi refugee. It allowed one in May, as well.
[Well, no surprises there. That’s how those folks operate. It sickens me. – dancewater]
Iran's Jews have given the country a loyalty pledge in the face of cash offers aimed at encouraging them to move to Israel, the arch-enemy of its Islamic rulers. The incentives - ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families - were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora. However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as "immature political enticements" and said their national identity was not for sale.
[I guess they like living in Iran. I know if someone offered me that kind of money to move to New Zealand or Canada, I would sign up immediately. I would never go to Israel, however. – dancewater]
Hunting the Taliban in Southern Afghanistan
On this day, the battle is won by NATO and ANA forces. But Afghanistan's long history of resisting outside influence suggests that winning the war against the insurgents will be a much longer, more difficult task.
[Yeah, like along the lines of IMPOSSIBLE! They can win every battle, and they will still lose the war. Why are we still there? If we could not get a replacement government (that the US elites like) running in six years, what hope do we have that we ever WILL get such a replacement government running? – dancewater]
Nuke Secrets May Have Been Lifted From TN Plant
A contract worker has allegedly stolen nuclear secrets from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, WNBC reported Thursday. Officials say the worker, 67-year-old Richard Lockley, may have sought to sell the secrets to a foreign nation. Investigators say the breach is serious at one of the United States’ most important nuclear research sites. Officials are concerned the secrets could also have fallen into the hands of terrorist organizations or enemy nations. Lockley’s job was to escort visitors to and from offices, reports said. It was unclear how a low-level contract worker could have accessed some of the nation’s most highly guarded nuclear secrets.
[Now, don’t you feel better knowing THAT? I mean, it’s bad enough the US authorities sold nuke secrets to Iran and Pakistan, but for the underlings to do it is beyond belief – oh, I guess they are motivated by greed also. Never mind. This was found in a New Zealand news source. – dancewater]
Taliban/al Qaeda Merger Going Global
In a videotaped ceremony only two days after the interview on June, 9th, Shah Mansoor presides over 300 ‘suicide bomb volunteers’ who graduated from their militant training course. Justifying his global aims, Shah Mansoor said, "These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places, why shouldn't we go after them?" He then mentioned certain volunteers came from Western countries such as Germany, the UK and the US. A man identified as the leader of the cell intending to strike the UK spoke in English and said, "So let me say something about why we are going, along with my team, for a suicide attack in Britain. Whether my colleagues, companions and Muslim brothers die today or tonight, every drop of our blood will invigorate the Muslim (unintelligible)." 20 days later two car bombs which failed to explode were discovered in London and a third car bomb, more of a fire laden jeep, smashed into Glasgow, Scotland’s international airport and set it ablaze. Around the same time, Pakistani authorities arrested 3 German nationals believed to have links with ‘Islamist extremist groups.’ It is unclear if these suspects appeared in the June, 9th graduation ceremony with Shah Mansoor.
[I don’t know if this is accurate or not – although we all can be sure that the actions of the US government in the last six years have only encouraged them to do this. But, if it is true, or comes true, then the dumbass in Texas (no, not the president) who wrote a letter to the editor (remember – our president cannot write) saying that if our troops leave Iraq we will be fighting the Taliban in the USA, WILL BE CORRECT. And, most surely, still a dumbass. – dancewater]
Saudi prince sponsoring terrorist groups
The Baztab Internet site reported that Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan is supporting the so called Mujahedin Khalq Organization and also al-Qaeda and Fath al-Islam now operating in Lebanon. The site said that in an MKO congress held recently in the groups Ashraf military camp in Iraq, Prince Bandar donated $750,000 to the exiled group in the presence of former Iraqi Baath leaders, intelligence officers, several members of al-Qaeda and the armed group Ansar al-Sunna. Prince Bandar, who served for 20 years as Saudi ambassador to the US, maintains close ties with US President George W. Bush and is known affectionately within that family as "Bandar Bush".
[This, I suspect, is true. I remember last month visiting DC offices of my Representative, and they asked me to provide information to them that the bush/cheney regime was arming and funding Fatah in Palestine. That was on a Monday. I delivered it on Wednesday, but by then everyone knew that the bush/cheney regime was backing and supporting Fatah, and basically telling Hamas to go to hell. Sy Hersch and several Arab press sources have said that the bush/cheney regime is funding and arming Sunni extremist groups in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, and with this many reports, it does look credible. We do know at this point that the bush/cheney regime is arming the Sunni insurgents in Iraq at this point. I guess it would not be a sporting civil war if everyone didn’t have weapons, although it seemed the insurgents are doing a fine job anyway without our supplying them.
Also, the country of Saudi Arabia beheaded over 100 people last year. Now I think capital punishment IS BARBARIC NO MATTER HOW THEY DO IT, but I do find it hypocritical for our government officials to condemn al Qaeda for doing it while they walk around holding hands with Saudis who do it also. (Of course, bush has lots of blood on his hands too.) I also think that beheading is a more humane way to die than setting people on fire. Guess who did that?? Yep. By the way, most of these items never saw the light of day in the US press. What's up with that? Well, they want you to be STOOOPID.]
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