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War On Democracy

12dec01
Bush vergelijkt de aanslag op Pearl Harbor met die van 11 september. Dat deed DaanSpeak ook, op 11 september.
'He connected the challenge the nation faced in 1941 with the struggle against terrorists who unleashed the devastating attacks on America on Sept. 11. “This war came, oh, so suddenly, but it has brought out the best in our nation,” Bush told the sailors.' ' “They celebrate death, making a mission of murder and a sacrament of suicide [...]', zegt Bush over Bin Laden en de Al-Quaidastrijders, maar de celebration of death is letterlijk de uitdrukking die werd gebruikt in de documentaire over Skull & Bones, om dit duistere geheime genootschap waarvan Bush lid is te omschrijven.

'Md. police had terrorist in custody
Baltimore mayor: He was freed because CIA didn’t alert cops
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 — One of the 19 suicide hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attacks was stopped by a Maryland state trooper before Sept. 11, but was released because the trooper had no way of knowing the man was on a CIA terrorist watch list, Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley said Tuesday.'

'Pakistan: Bin Laden briefed on nukes Two scientists introduced to terrorist leader by Mullah Omar
By Kamran Khan and Molly Moore THE WASHINGTON POST
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 11 — Two Pakistani nuclear scientists reportedly have told investigators they conducted long discussions about nuclear, chemical and biological weapons with suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden in August in the Afghan capital of Kabul, according to Pakistani officials familiar with the interrogations of the men.
[...] Mahmood and Majid said bin Laden indicated that he had obtained, or had access to, some type of radiological material that he said had been acquired for him by the radical Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.'

'Dec. 11 —  One of the ironies of the war in Afghanistan is that the more that U.S. forces succeed there, the more that Pentagon officials warn about difficulties ahead. [...] Such refrains [...] also may be directed at those inside as well as outside the administration eager to get on with widening U.S. military action to other countries and terrorist cells.'

'Spinning Israel’s war - WASHINGTON,  Three months ago, when President Bush declared war on terrorists who had struck the United States, he framed the conflict to his advantage in three ways. He broadened the definition of the American side, narrowed the definition of the enemy, and asserted a tough standard of culpability that gave regimes an incentive to police terrorists within their borders. Yesterday, after Hamas bombers killed two dozen Israeli civilians and wounded hundreds more, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon adopted Bush’s strategy. He is trying to make Israel’s war as compelling as, and identical to, America’s.'

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