Changing the topic: 

Dr. W. Edwards Deming, http://www.deming.org/ is the greatest social and political thinker of our times. http://www.well.com/user/vamead/demingdist.html

The issue is to fix the problem NOT the blame. That systems are at fault not people who work is broken systems. 

Inspection only makes it worse – the paradigm shift is from inspection to quality – and quality is not something external, but internal, standard can not be imposed from outside but contained inside. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 

If we apply these principles to the Roman Catholic Bishops, to the problem of Sadam in Iraq, to the Israel Palestine conflict, to the issue of corporation responsibility and honesty, to the issue of Homeland defense, to public education and almost all other issues – we find that the issue is badly defined, the questions wrong and the answers not as helpful as we think. 

The issue is only Child abuse as a symptom – the quality of leadership and how the system picks leaders, and how leaders relate to their staff (priests) and members is the real issue. As the representatives of the Body of Christ on Earth they have to be spiritually connected, pure, and indifferent to their own welfare, position, careers, and are NOT. We need a community of saints and have one of careerist bureaucrats. At the Bishops conference we hear morally floppy and nit picking careerist, we did not hear the clear voice of universal truth, that is a hard issue – 

One man is not a country or the cause of a problem – assassination is not an answer.  Either for Bin Laden, Arafat, Castro or Hussein the problem is in the system, the state of reality not the person.  The entire evil axis is military dictatorships based on force of arms and secret police as in many other places as Saudi Arabia, Africa etc., and the most of the other half of the world.  The issue is of civil society – more open, more modern, more democratic, so the issue is not one nasty regime here and another there but how to bring the other half or two thirds of humanity into the modern world. That is a hard issue – 

In corporate responsibility or accountability for public education only honesty works – rules, laws, tests, audits, inspections just drive everyone crazy or make for more clever crooks. How to have honest, responsible, goal orientated leadership rather than careerist, greed, short-term survivors, is a hard question – how are they selected, how promoted, how do they view themselves and their job? 

The cleaner Bureaucratic organization can make the government more effective in defense of the homeland and bureaucratic confusion can make it less effective and more expensive. But no structure assures success but some can assume failure. It all depends on naturism, reality, patriotism, sincerity of leaders and followers over career goals – “Don’t you know there is a war on” should focus action and attitudes. This is a hard issue in an age of egoism, materialism and operational values. Getting beyond “me first” is a hard issue - 

Short cuts, easy answers, slogans go so far – hard choices and changes in attitudes take longer. Better people, with better values, do a better job – the job of the organization is to provide the structure that hires, promotes, supports, and provides the right tools, to those motivated people.  Better Bishops, better National Leadership, better corporate leaders, better educators, and better bureaucrats – Elite colleges had this job – family traditions, the church, but all have become politically correct, weak, confused and un vibrant in their own right. It is a hard issue -

"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we will save our country."
[Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862]

That is what he said. That is what Abraham Lincoln said.

"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility."
[Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862]

He was born in Kentucky, raised in Indiana, and lived in Illinois. And this is what he said. This is what Abe Lincoln said.

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we will save our country."
[Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862]

 http://www.people.virginia.edu/~skd9r/409/portrait.html  

President Roosevelt changed the management of mobilization in May 1943. The new Office of War Mobilization under James F. Byrnes had broader authority, extending to manpower as well as to all functions formerly carried out by Nelson. So Byrnes brought together management of the two main categories of mobilization. Because of his broad powers, Byrnes became known as the "assistant president."

 http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/documents/mobpam.htm 

As World War II escalated, the Office of War Mobilization was developed by Congress; Byrnes was appointed its director. It was from here that policies originated and programs were planned for the war. All the war agencies which were connected with the production, procurement, transportation, and distribution of both civilian and military aspects of the war were governed by Mr. Byrnes. Because of his close involvement with President Roosevelt, Byrnes often was called the "Assistant President."

http://www.byrnesscholars.org/history/whiteyrs.htm

The Thousands of Devils in the details:

There is a danger of both types of errors: Type I is to do something in a rush that is not helpful but creates confusion

Type II is not doing something that is critically necessary

So the best choice is to reauthorize the Government reorganizations statues that allowed the President to make proposals that Congress could veto but not change.

And grant temporary powers to do what FDR did in WWII and Wilson and Baruch did in WWI and Lincoln did in the Civil War - mobilization - direct orders from the Commander in Chief (via a Deputy) to get thinks done quickly, move money, people, authority, cut red tape (public comment, purchase requirements)

Hard Choices: 

Lack of a chain of command on mobilization of Homeland Security is the critical element – Coast Guard radios can’t talk to customs, INS computers don’t connect to FBI or CIA watch lists, or do the State Departments visa offices connect to anyone, etc. Putting them all together is a big job – because they don’t come in neat packages. People labeled activities as anti-terrorist because it helped raise money - it was the issue of the year so a lot of people jumped aboard and now are being threaten by being jerked off.

Speed is critical - the complexity of the job is great - so there is not time for a lot more studies and reports so the James F. Byrnes model is useful.

If we took the Office of War Mobilization model – a deputy President is empowered to act, to order, to fire, to move money, under a war powers act. Maybe a executive order will be done as the legislation bogs down.  

Mr. Ridge now has more power just based on the threat of action.  

The first task has to be prevention by good intelligence operations -

there are just too many targets, ways and means to use "target hardening" of thousands of facilities - money wasted is money lost to more useful activity. The plan is a little weak on hard infiltration, interception, surveillance, and interruption of the few thousand really bad guys while making a lot of innocent people suffer.

The first priority is spies and informants the second is computers -

To get the computer systems into the field in months not years:

I would suggest the model of WWII Patterson's office centralized Army mobilization efforts in the War Department, with William Knudsen of General Motors commissioned a lieutenant general and assigned to the office of the undersecretary as director of production. At last, with the United States officially at war, it began to develop the kind of organization that had worked in World War I and had been recommended in the industrial mobilization plan.

From this time on, the Army and Navy Munitions Board declined in importance, and a new organization emerged within the Army to manage procurement. A command called Services of Supply was set up in March 1942 under Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell. For the rest of the year, industrial mobilization to meet the Army's needs was his principal concern. General George C. Marshall, the chief of staff, looked to Somervell as his adviser on supply, and Somervell provided the link between the mobilization and production functions of Patterson's office and the G-4 requirements and supply distribution responsibilities. One of the most adept empire builders in the modern history of the Army, Somervell

Left, General Knudsen (National Archives);

right, General Somervell. (DA photograph)

merged the staffs of the undersecretary's office and the G-4 into one operating agency, the Directorate of Procurement and Distribution, and attached it to his office. His organization was renamed Army Service Forces in March 1943.

- Office of War Mobilization - James F. Byrnes, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from July 1941 until his resignation on October 3, 1942, to head the wartime Office of Economic Stabilization until May 1943; director of the Office of War Mobilization,  executive order to get this done now.

http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/documents/mobpam.htm

The second task is response - biological infections which is being done OK

The third task is border security, INS and visa control - restriction for 10 million poorly or undocumented non-citizens -  

There are some interesting and important differences in homeland security:

The Department Secretary’s Duties

The Organization proposed by Introduced May 2, 2002 By Senators Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Bob Graham, D-Fla., and Reps. Mac Thornberry, RTexas, Jane Harman, D-Calif., Ellen Tauscher, D-Calif., and James Gibbons, R-Nev.

:Leaves out the secret service, some programs at Energy and Health Human Services - in the Presidents plan goes further but leaves FBI/CIA alone -

The Secretary’s duties would include:

Developing policies, goals, and plans to promote homeland security

Working with state and local governments to protect homeland security

Conducting exercise and training programs for federal employees involved in homeland security

Establishing effective command and control procedures for the range of potential contingencies, including those that may require

military support

Developing a response plan for homeland security and emergency preparedness

The Department’s Composition

The authorities, functions, personnel and assets of the following agencies would be transferred to the Department of Homeland Security:

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its 10 regional offices

The United States Customs Service

Immigration and Naturalization Service enforcement functions, including the Border Patrol

The United States Coast Guard

The Agriculture Department quarantine inspector functions

The Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office now located within the Commerce Department

The National Infrastructure Protection Center and the National Domestic Preparedness Office, now located within the FBI

An office of Science and Technology would be established to advise the Secretary on research and development and other science priorities.

The bill authorizes $200 million to help develop homeland security technologies.

The Department’s Organization

The Department would be divided into three sections: border security, protecting critical infrastructure, including computer systems, and

emergency preparedness and response.

Title II

Director of the National Office for Combating Terrorism within the White House

The director would be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.

The director would be an advisor to the National Security Council

The Director’s Duties

The director’s duties will include:

Developing and reviewing a comprehensive national assessment of terrorist threats

Developing, with the department secretary, a comprehensive strategy to combat terrorism

Coordinating and overseeing the execution of the strategy by federal agencies

Developing, with the department secretary, an annual budget to implement the strategy

Exercising budget review and certification authority over programs in the terrorism prevention and response budget.

Title III

National Strategy to Combat Terrorism

The National Strategy to Combat Terrorism will be developed collaboratively by the department secretary and the White House director.

The secretary will have the lead role on issues of border security, critical infrastructure protection, emergency preparation and response, and

integration with state and local efforts.

The director will take the lead on strategic planning concerning intelligence and military assets, law enforcement and diplomacy.

A non-partisan, nine-member panel of outside experts will be established to provide an assessment of the terrorism strategy.

 http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/homelandsummary2002.pdf

 http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/politics/12CONG.html

What is the difference? 

We need a new organization – let the FBI chase crooks; let the CIA collect and analyze information but let us have a new organization to be proactive about terrorist.  We need a new national security agency – really secret – (hidden in the NSA and DOD) employing many foreigners who know their way around and the languages and cultures. Let them form the strategies to break up, assassinate, infiltrate, and using contractors not limited by law or tradition and be quiet about it. 

The FBI is very good at tracking down criminals – in carefully examining every piece of evidence – of following every lead and finding criminals. Why is it so hard to use the same skills in finding and disrupting terrorist? 

People who have done the crime know that they are being hunted. The hunters build a case that goes to court. They can check every hardware store in five states, every phone call, every drop of blood, but everyone know they are doing it. They don’t have to be secret about it. 

People suspected of being dangerous may not have done anything. It is vital that they are unaware that they are being tracked and are under surveillance. In the spy business there are complex techniques for monitoring activities while not getting caught. FBI agents are not very good at being under cover, at counter intelligence, or abstract analysis. 

The CIA is basically in the business of buying stolen information. They “hand out the shingle” with known “field officers” with an office as the political officer in the Embassy. They wait for people to contact them with something to sell at a price. They hire spies but don’t do many dangerous field activities themselves. This does not work very well with terrorist – they just don’t show up at our door. Informers have to be recruited, trained, infiltrated, and protected from disclosure. The fact that dozens are exposed because of sloppy fieldwork makes working for the CIA a very high-risk occupation. 

Connecting the dots: 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/analysis.shtml 

1993 – Defense analysis reports on the danger of terrorism including the danger of al Qaeda martyr brigades use of Airplanes to attack the Whitehouse or the Pentagon – aircraft likely to be used as weapons – several more such reports up to a 1999 reports with specific analysis of suicide bombers using aircraft (with explosives or fuel) are identified in national security reports – It is not a new or un imagined idea

1993 Attempt to blow up twin trade towers

1994 – Algerian terrorist attempt to fly a highjacked commercial airline into landmarks in Paris with a heavy load of fuel stopped on ground by storming the aircraft. (Therefore it is not true no one imagined such a possibility of driving aircraft into landmarks)

1995 Various plots discovered in the Philippines by Arab terrorist to use aircraft as weapons

1999 Reports of possible air attack by suicide bombers on the G7 in Italy

2001 – Report from FBI in Arizona about suspicious Arabs taking flying lessons

           One such Arab (accused of being one of the team of 9/11 with phone numbers linking him to the leadership of the attack) He was reported as being very suspicious and was arrested in Minnesota but computer and documents not searched or reported to terrorist taskforces at DoD or CIA. 

The dots are there – but there was no (as there still is not) a central organization or computer system to put them together (of 13 intelligence agencies many in DOD, but also drug agencies, state department, customs, coast guard, ATF et al). There was and is no linkage between foreign information and domestic law enforcement. Prevention is not like making a criminal case for a court of law. The issue is not perusing a crime but finding out what is going on by infiltration, information gathering, and analysis. 

The NSA has the computer power to review millions of pieces of data a minute and could have tracked the connections – al Qaeda, Aircraft, highjack, flight schools, the report from Minnesota and Arizona, tracks to who took lessons (and had an interest in crop dusters) right to the bombers themselves who were using their own names to buy tickets and rent cars. In short better police work could have stopped the attacks of 9/11.  Not for sure but it is quite possible –AND more important We are not much better organized today to find and disrupt attacks – it is still business as usual (stove pipes) without a central point of analysis. Therefore it is of vital importance to track the record and fix the broken links.

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This Is a Religious War

A must read 

In a world of absolute truth, in matters graver than life and death, there is no room for dissent and no room for theological doubt. Hence the reliance on literal interpretations of texts -- because interpretation can lead to error, and error can lead to damnation. Hence also the ancient Catholic insistence on absolute church authority. Without infallibility, there can be no guarantee of truth. Without such a guarantee, confusion can lead to hell.

The Terrorist Attack on America: Background

http://www.wiredbrain.net/defense.htm

http://www.wiredbrain.net/bioterrorism.htm

http://www.wiredbrain.net/microbes.htm

http://www.wiredbrain.net/whatisnext.htm

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http://www.foreignaffairs.org/home/terrorism.asp

Foreign Affairs is making available previously published articles that contribute to an understanding of the tragic attacks on New York and Washington. Several of the essays analyze the nature of contemporary terrorism and the capabilities of the United States to combat it. Other essays provide the Middle Eastern and radical Islamic contexts for so much recent terrorism, including, apparently, the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

If the government seems confused it is because they are:  

What needs to be done? 

Let me be as clear as possible about what needs to be done now, at once, today -(by executive order under emergency powers with congressional approval to follow) to protect the American population from a “Hiroshima” size catastrophe.  This has to be the first priority. 

If 9/11 was not enough to get our attention – 6,000 dead, a trillion dollars in damage – (including the economic, travel, employment, extra costs etc) then what will?  If we can’t do what needs to be done now at least we should have the plans in place ready to go the next time.  

Open discussion on a cease-fire – under the cover of the need for crisis assistance. 

A real National Security Department: with a national and international supreme commander (The Secretary of State – Powell)  

Combine all national and international capacities to counter terrorism – International center with spies, electronic, observer systems, remote sensors, hit teams, made up of people who know what they are doing. The police (FBI) and intelligence community (CIA) and DOD special units must be put under unified command including EU and others with a clear focus on prevention. A meeting of principles should happen today – it is a grand alliance such as the NATO Supreme Command structure of military warfare with a supreme commander - who can draft whatever resources needed, make battlefield commissions, and apply military discipline. Their job is to reduce the power of terrorist organizations.  

Make Homeland defense (Gov. Ridge or the Sect. of Homeland Defense) one temporary super agency with wide emergency powers to include FEMA, Coast Guard, border security, INS, DOD, HHS and the other 40 agencies reporting directly with flexible budgets to move resources quickly. The three functions – target protection including populations from bioterrorism and facilities from attack, money controls, and control of people’s travels (national ID cards) as well as response, should be separate from the law enforcement or intelligence function – the first makes risk assessment the other makes plans to defend and respond. If we need the FBI, DOD, National Guard, and other agencies the part that is target protection is broken off from their prevention functions. Their job is to make it difficult to attack and respond when they do,  

"Confusion reigns at the lowest and the highest)  levels," said Mohammad Akhter, executive director of the American Public Health Association, who watched with growing unease last week as a single anthrax-tainted letter pushed the Washington area's emergency response system to the limit. He added, "This is the one thing that causes us to shake in our boots."
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31008-2001Oct21.html 

http://www.wiredbrain.net/terror.htm

http://www.wiredbrain.net/bioterrorism.htm 

http://www.wiredbrain.net/defense.htm 

War with Terrorism:

Besides, the killers who boarded those planes on September 11, like the senders of those Anthraxgrams, were not in Afghanistan at all. What military action can be taken against the likes of them? Dan Plesch, the highly rated analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, can envisage a revival of "covert operations", the stealth, rule-bending activities that were once the stock-in-trade of US intelligence. He quotes the military official who told him: "This new war is not Rambo, it's The Godfather."

An air offensive on a distant country is not going to defeat a language student in Hamburg with suicidal dreams of hijacking a passenger jet. All that could stop him would be a Corleone-style execution. But Plesch treads warily in such terrain, recalling the CIA's grim covert record in Latin America: "We have to know what we're getting into here." Others share his concern, fearful that a policy of assassination only "turns back to infect the society which allows it".

What is to be done? 

You can not go after an infection with surgery. 

First, I have to believe the Government from the President on down is doing their best, as they know the best to do. Many people are critics the government until they find they are dependent on the collective community to provide for their safety and welfare. May God bless our leaders, grant them wisdom and nerve, they need all the support and help they can get. 

But the sense of danger and emergency seems greater in the public than in some of the administration doing business as usual. The following suggestions are actions, which will improve our domestic security, the first priority of Government, because without order there is no other freedom. 

First freedom from fear is the first freedom, then freedom from overwhelming misery and want that blinds people to higher goals and reduces life to the law of the jungle, then freedom from ignorance, superstition, and false knowledge that drives people into evil, destructive, and prevents needed confidence and progress, the forth freedom is civil society, the room to disagree without being disagreeable, to promote diversity without chaos, the room to experiment and innovate. But they come in that order; so without security it is hard to provide the framework for basic economic progress, without basic living standards, basic education is impossible, and without a basic education civil society is impossible. 

Thus, all effort should be directed to security and the first line of defense is offence. There is no way of “target hardening” or borders, or ID, or police work that will make us secure. The War on Drugs is a close example and cannot defeat the importation of drugs. The War on Terror even if 10 or 100 times the war on drugs and even if 10 or 100 times more repressive and nasty, dirty, and mean will not make us safe here at home or our interests overseas. 

Therefore, our domestic security depends on covert intelligence and working on causes of misery, repression, ignorance, in those parts of the world which provide the motivation, troops, and where with all to attack us. Without a global vision there is no safety for the rich in a sea of poverty. 

1.)   Assign every resource in the coalition to covert penetration, disruption, decimation, and assassination, of the enemy.  A rapid response hit team from the G8 should be organized immediately and centered in the region. The Russians, Pakistanis, Jordan and the dictators of the CIS stans in the region, the Israeli, Egyptian, Saudi, Chinese, all have experience in kidnapping (including family members of the actors) bribes, threats, much better than we do. They are supported by electronic and visual intelligence, Special Forces and Air power, but the leadership is international, based on covert action not American traditional military. If you disrupt bank accounts you cannot use them to trace to the owners and who is getting the funds at the operational end. If you bomb camps you disperse the enemy rather than destroy them. You can not go after an infection with surgery.

2.)   Internationalization of border security is done at the source more than at the frontier. The world has to get use to a high level of certification of people and cargo at the point of origins.  Universal ID cards (passports) with biological ID need to be provided travelers, and secure manifests and seals for cargo. Oracle has volunteered to create such a system and we need it now – with tracks on travelers by recording the card at hotels, banks, auto rentals, airlines, and requiring all aliens to report via ATM machines (with bio scanners) on a regular basis.

3.)   The great information system in the sky which can provide every traffic cop, border agent, visa officer, Airport, car rental or other contacts with a good real time lists of who we are looking for what ever their ID or false papers. Persons must be identified by their person not their documents. This system must be international, universal, and efficient.

Contrasts: 

Basic elementary education, worldwide would be a fraction of the U.S. Military budget – A billion students – at $100 each – teaching salaries are under $1000.00, classrooms are primitive, books are reused or shared. That could do more to make us secure in the new world than seventy divisions. Includes a basic feeding program for 10 cents a day. 

I have sat in a modern office building in a modern University in a Southern City and looked across the street at “slave quarters” – little wooden houses for domestic staff. We have the backward areas in the Delta, in Appalachia, in Slums – England has Liverpool and south London, Spain has extreme contrasts, but nothing like it was is in Afghanistan, or Ethiopia, or of parts of the old Soviet Union, or China or India or Pakistan, or North Africa, Egypt, South Africa – Modern Universities, hospitals, engineering firms, communications along with tribal areas without roads (tracks), water, or any modern technology, medicine, just as a thousand years ago, or two thousand years ago or five thousand years ago. 

As the world moves forward faster and faster, those who stand still, or worse decline and get poorer because of ecological and population pressures, are further and further behind. Some can leap frog – jump from no phones to cell phones, but most are more and more dysfunctional and uncompetitive, both in means and ideas. Ideas from a thousand years ago were superstition, magic, tribal, irrational, but functional to their times and needs. The clash of civilization is a clash of ideas – modern vs. ancient. In Haiti, which has been in decline most of its history, and has a population ecological disaster, it became clear as we prepared for an election – a very modern idea –that voting was based on tribal customs and the power of Voodoo and village tom-tom macude, loyalties were based on clans and old land owning and business elites, politics included magic and witchcraft, there were few newspapers because people can’t read, independent radio was new and just beginning to have an impact, but the media was often in French, a foreign language to the 90 % who know only dialects,  there has been no renaissance, no age of enlightenment, no industrial revolution, no liberal middle class, no sense of a neutral bureaucracy or a constitutional army, so sense of modern law and procedures, but just an election imposed from outsiders. 

Basic elementary education, worldwide would be a fraction of the U.S. Military budget – A billion students – at $100 each – teaching salaries are under $1000.00, classrooms are primitive, books are reused or shared. That could do more to make us secure in the new world than seventy divisions.

Selling Modern Islam:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/specials/attacked/A40171-2001Oct10.html

Continued on http://www.wiredbrain.net/whatisnext.htm

Contrasts: 

Basic elementary education, worldwide would be a fraction of the U.S. Military budget – A billion students – at $100 each – teaching salaries are under $1000.00, classrooms are primitive, books are reused or shared. That could do more to make us secure in the new world than seventy divisions. Includes a basic feeding program for 10 cents a day. 

I have sat in a modern office building in a modern University in a Southern City and looked across the street at “slave quarters” – little wooden houses for domestic staff. We have the backward areas in the Delta, in Appalachia, in Slums – England has Liverpool and south London, Spain has extreme contrasts, but nothing like it was is in Afghanistan, or Ethiopia, or of parts of the old Soviet Union, or China or India or Pakistan, or North Africa, Egypt, South Africa – Modern Universities, hospitals, engineering firms, communications along with tribal areas without roads (tracks), water, or any modern technology, medicine, just as a thousand years ago, or two thousand years ago or five thousand years ago. 

As the world moves forward faster and faster, those who stand still, or worse decline and get poorer because of ecological and population pressures, are further and further behind. Some can leap frog – jump from no phones to cell phones, but most are more and more dysfunctional and uncompetitive, both in means and ideas. Ideas from a thousand years ago were superstition, magic, tribal, irrational, but functional to their times and needs. The clash of civilization is a clash of ideas – modern vs. ancient. In Haiti, which has been in decline most of its history, and has a population ecological disaster, it became clear as we prepared for an election – a very modern idea –that voting was based on tribal customs and the power of Voodoo and village tom-tom macude, loyalties were based on clans and old land owning and business elites, politics included magic and witchcraft, there were few newspapers because people can’t read, independent radio was new and just beginning to have an impact, but the media was often in French, a foreign language to the 90 % who know only dialects,  there has been no renaissance, no age of enlightenment, no industrial revolution, no liberal middle class, no sense of a neutral bureaucracy or a constitutional army, so sense of modern law and procedures, but just an election imposed from outsiders. 

Basic elementary education, worldwide would be a fraction of the U.S. Military budget – A billion students – at $100 each – teaching salaries are under $1000.00, classrooms are primitive, books are reused or shared. That could do more to make us secure in the new world than seventy divisions.

The big squeeze: 

There is light at the end of the tunnel of terror. Never has so much power been allied against so few and weak targets. The capture of Panamanian dictator Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega was done with overwhelming force. The Gulf war was a buildup of great forces against a third rank power.  The Powell Doctrine of overwhelming force seems to be applied again in the attack on Afghanistan. The doctrine is based on the idea that strong and short is better than long and painful – learned from Vietnam with escalated step by step – if we had put 500,000 troops in at the start of 1965, made a deal and were out in 1967 – the outcome would have been different.  

The new alliance with Russia (which changes the basic geo-political dynamics) means a great deal of new power brought to the pressure on the Taliban.  It is a criminal case and public procurers use squeeze techniques on those connected with the primary target.  They threaten maximum penalties unless the associates cooperate. A bunch of cops and lawyers can bring in RICO laws, technical infractions, and throw the book at the suspect (and in some cultures torture, pain and suffering) while offering rewards or bribes for cooperation, including witness protection, reduced or dropped charges, even using friends, family or other hostages. It can get really tough and mean. 

In international crime there is a military and diplomatic equivalent to squeezing a suspect or associate of a principle target.    Ben Laden is the target, a big reward on his head, and lesser rewards for his associates, wanted dead or alive, the Taliban are the associates and the subject of the big power play. From Pakistan, from Russia, from Iran, from the central Asian republics, from Arab fundamentalist, from various ethic and tribal forces (that cross international borders) even from international aid agencies, offer threats, bribes in sacks of gold to bandits, and while building up a clear threat of physical punishment. 

So we can apply Powell’s rules – overwhelming force, quick action, clear way out with something called victory.  Overthrow the Taliban, a coalition government under the old king, clear out the training camps and take Afghanistan away from the terrorist organizations. If they go elsewhere the message is clear such as Somaliland – we will not allow it, the government will be taken out and the base destroyed. A scattered underground organization is much more difficult to manage and less dangerous.

Blowback:  Continued on http://www.wiredbrain.net/whatisnext.htm

An eye for and eye – 

The unspoken agenda of national consciousness is tied up in the idea of “blowback”.  Now we must change our foreign and military policies to make us safer here at home but don’t want to say so because first of all we are perfect and they are evil and they just hate us for our goodness. 

To change under pressure (is there any other way?) may make it looks like they have made us do it (no matter how sensible in any case) and therefore have won by making us a better country and more responsible member of the international community. So far, they have scored a great victory and we have suffered a great defeat. We can and will recover but so far they are winning. It might be a good idea to make changes long overdue. When asked if our police work and foreign operations may increase the danger of retaliation and therefore increase rather than decrease our national dangers and insecurity, people don’t know what to say or do.  

You can’t just forget it and run a war of words and a phony war forever but real retribution increases the likelihood of a event even more terrible than Sept 11^th here at home and most likely in the Nations Capitol. The very decision makers are under the gun – the goal of the enemy is economic and political destabilization – the targets are money and power – where is the lynch pin of American money and power – the stock market and the world trade center, the federal reserve, the congress and Whitehouse, the TV networks, the power grid, the communications system not football games or population centers.  Civilian casualties do cause blowback even on terrorist.  

Most generals, politicians, diplomats, reporters are facing a great dilemma. We all are faced with a quandary within an enigma, problems within a puzzle inside a riddle in a predicament that is a international charade of great intricacy, a labyrinth, a maze, with great COMPLEXITY (as Churchill described the Kremlin) and with no safe or simple answers. In other words tough choices and we have a C grade leader, with a number of grade A+ advisors.  

Saudi Arabia is one of the least democratic nations and anyone in opposition can be labeled either a dangerous terrorist or a reformer since there are few avenues for legitimate dissent.  

Israel is our biggest problem making enemies in the billions with democratic leadership using terrorist methods in maintaining an illegal occupation of those lands conquered from others because their God told them to. (In the same way Andy Jackson and the US took native lands and then use methods of genocide and ethic cleaning against native peoples in the great removal, or the same in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America, where White Christians took lands and destroyed aboriginal populations. The American Army even used germ warfare, by giving Indians blankets infected with small pox, among other horrors. We even have blowback from the crusades, the British Empire, and of course the cold war, where no nation was too evil or corrupt if they were on our side. )

Bin Laden, they knew, has prided himself on maintaining a low profile. For the past decade, his mysterious ways have nourished the psychological threat he poses to the West. It has also kept him out of harm’s way.

The experts could not figure out what prompted his personal friend, Mullah Mohammed Omar, supreme leader of the Taleban government to offer him the post. Both men go back a long time, to the mid-1980s, when they used to pray together in the Karachi mosque.
It wasn’t Bin Laden’s only surprise. DEBKAfile’s terrorism experts believe that story was made of whole cloth and planted as a piece of misdirection

After a few thousand years of being bandits (on the silk road from Europe to China) they have learned the art of hit and run - and misinformation, 

My theory is he is Lebanon or Marbella, Spain or other places that rich Arabs go to private clinics - for treatment of his kidney problems. jaundice, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cystitis, nephritis, kidney failure a common problem in tribal Afghanistan He has several doubles that appear here and there to drive the cops crazy and look stupid. 

http://www.kirtland.cc.mi.us/honors/possums.htm

Blowback 

Blowback (blo¹bàk´) noun

1.   The backpressure in an internal-combustion engine or a boiler.

2.             Powder residue that is released upon automatic ejection of a spent cartridge or shell from a firearm.

3. The effect caused by recirculation into the source country of disinformation previously planted abroad by that country's intelligence service in an effort to mislead the government of another country. . i.e. The CIA starts a rumor that is picked up by the NSA as hard intelligence. We want people to believe Bin Laden is the biggest bad guy in the world and make a hero of him among the people who dislike us. 

But more than that; blowback is the long-term effects on our homeland security from foreign operations now and in the past. There are three major causes of Blowback in the current effort to provide protection of the American homeland.

More than the arming of the terrorist in the war against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, in Vietnam against Japan, in Central America against “communist”, our freedom fighters of the past become the terrorist of today.

Israel, Iraq, and Iran;

If we agree that the goal is to have fewer enemies and more allies. Do we need to carry on a old fight with Iran? Do we need useless sanctions and air cover on Iraq? Do we need to support illegal settlements in Palestinian territory that become flashpoints to bring down the safety of our homeland? Do we need bases in Arabia that look to protect absolute monarchs and their cronies?

Benefit Cost Analysis: 

The attack on America is the bloodiest single day in American History. It will cost several trillion dollar. There is up to 1/4 trillion in direct destruction which is not the major problem, another trillion is direct costs to air travel, tourism, insurance, and related businesses is much more important. A trillion or more was lost in commercial assets (stock market losses), which take several points out of GDP and deepens the recession already underway.  In this way the attack has weakened the nation at its economic core. 

In past law enforcement campaigns, The Alien Acts approved by Congress empower President Adams to order any alien from the country and imprison any alien in time of war. The acts force French aliens to flee the country at a time when war looms with France, Thomas Jefferson opposes the legislation and drafts Kentucky Resolutions that declare acts of Congress "void and of no force" when Congress "assumes undelegated powers," the governor of Kentucky approves  Jefferson's resolutions November 16, James Madison drafts similar resolutions, and the governor of Virginia approves them, the red scare of the 20’s, anti-communist in the 50’s, espionage, the drug laws, RICO anti-mob laws, have made serious inroads into freedom and liberty.  The last war fought on American soil, the Civil War, Lincoln suspended the constitution, the right of being charged or released, and ruled by decree, and he used wide emergency powers including the use of military courts and justice to union as well as southern citizens.  He surrounded the Congress with troops and sent the Supreme Court home.  The current government is not so extreme, yet, but moving in that direction, while claiming its belief in the constitution they mean to rewrite the 4^th amendment (search and seizure), the 6^th the right to due process, as they have in the past. It just is not possible to increase security within all the rights, liberties and freedoms we want. This is another cost, which cannot be avoided. 

Protecting borders, increasing control on visa holders, I.D., passes, inspections, checks et al is another cost.  

The first rule of the dismal science, economics, is the use of resources, if you do more of one thing you do less of something else – opportunity costs are the cost of things not done – so like the act of contrition – we regret what we have done, commission and what we have left undone, omissions. We spent trillions defending our nation from the “evil empire” while our schools got worse, our infrastructure rotted, our cities decayed, and it may not been the optimum use of scarce resources. The billions now going into anti-terrorist activities, when we don’t really have any good ideas or national strategy may not be the best use of our national energies. 

The enemies have shown a real capacity to strike at places and times of their choice. No system of security is 100% or even 50%. These costs of the next could be much greater, 10 times even 100 times greater. Before we go out and DO SOMETHING we have to stop and think. What can we do that will help and have a high benefit cost ratio. BIG Military action may have the lowest benefits and the highest costs. 

Action with more benefits than costs:  Continued on http://www.wiredbrain.net/whatisnext.htm

Make more friends and have fewer enemies

Force a solution on Israel and Palestine

Get organized as a government -

Improve international cooperation – money, chemical, biological, small arms, and arrangements

Improve human intelligence – and if we can’t do spy stuff we need to work or hire those who can

Reduce unnecessary military activities – bureaucracy, last war stuff and troops around the world 

Avoid using American resources to prop up corrupt and repressive regimes against their own people (such as in Iran and now in Saudi Arabia) excused during the Cold War as anti-communist but made us lots of enemies and still does.

Asymmetrical Warfare: hit and run

We have been used to going around the world and throwing our weight around. The gunboat diplomacy was based on Inequality: difference of quantity or degree with one of SUPERIORITY, one of INFERIORITY. There is no real defense as long as the causes continue to exist. The method was successful during the Rebellion of the American Colonies or we call the American revolution - in Vietnam - and against the Russians in Afghanistan. 

Therefore, the weaker party uses methods that are irregularity, variable, and unpredictable, changeable, never the same, sporadic, FITFUL inconstant, inconsistent, fickle, mercurial, And CAPRICIOUS so we can’t predict what they will do next. 

The enemy is Temperamental, EXCITABLE patchy, UNEQUAL random, haphazard, irregular, unsystematic or asymmetrical. Their methods are AMORPHOUS untidy, unkempt, disheveled, out of order, ORDERLESS uneven, off plumb, bumpy, lumpy, choppy, jerky, ROUGH erratic, out of step, out of sync, out of time, gaining, losing contrasting, contrasted, CONTRARY heterogeneous, various, diverse, DIFFERENT, DISSIMILAR multifarious, miscellaneous. They use techniques of many kinds, of all sorts, MULTIFORM multicolored, divergent, diversified, DEVIATING dissenting, DISAGREEING aberrant, atypical, UNCONFORMABLE exceptional, unusual, unconventional, ABNORMAL unique, lone, SPECIAL individual, handmade tools and weapons and are out of uniform.

We have to defend against great variability, patchiness, NONUNIFORMITY Unevenness, ROUGHNESS disproportion, asymmetry, DISTORTION, DISAGREEMENT oddness, skew ness, lopsidedness, OBLIQUITY disparity, DIFFERENCE unlikeness, DISSIMILARITY disequilibria, unstable equilibrium, imbalance, unbalance dizziness, the staggers tilting of the scales, using temporary preponderance, by means of hit and run. 

They are Underweight, short weight, LIGHTNESS defect, shortcoming, inadequacy, INSUFFICIENCY but fix the Odds, by being DIFFERENCE makeweight, counterpoise, OFFSET bonus, partiality, discrimination, BIAS, INJUSTICE and all kinds of dirty tricks. 

Abstract relations:  Not uniformity therefore, cannot be directly defended by planned defense but only by fast smart and flexible teams.

My fellow Americans:  

We are engaged in a serious campaign against serious enemies that are out to weaken us as a nation.  The threat to our nation is real and serious. Our response must be also serious and real.  The assurance of security is the first responsibility of the federal government and without security there cannot be the type of freedom, prosperity and creativity basic to our very existence as a nation. Yes, indeed, the future of the republic is endangered. We must respond accordingly. We are challenged to over come traditional special interests, bureaucratic traditions, and as the Secretary of Defense has said the inability of old systems to respond to new threats is a fundamental danger to our national security.  

Our security was designed in World War II and adjusted to defend us from the Soviet Union. We have a department of defense and other agencies organized and equipped to deter Atomic attack, a massive land war in Europe, protect our interests and allies in Asia, and maintain domination of the open oceans. Our intelligence community, designed to focus on Soviet Military threats, cannot protect us from the dangers that now exist. We need a new organization, a National Security Department – we have gone from the War Department to the Defense department now we need the National Security Department, NSD. The new dangers require new thinking, new people, new talent and creativity such as the Space Program in the 1960’s. If we fail to rethink we may fail to survive.  

The NSD will not have units based on 18^th and 19^th century military thinking, an Army, Navy, Air Force but on 21^st century threats and technology. The core functions are:

1.)   National Intelligence Agency,  (the CIA, NSA and dozens of other elements of the community) for technical and human intelligence using methods that work, our first and most important security service in the New World Order.

2.)   National Special operations Agency, Quick strikes forces – Special Forces, rangers, seals, SAS, by land, sea and air – international arrangements must be our first line of defense and response to enemy groups when they can be located.

3.)   War fighting systems –War fighters Command structure (by regions or threats) http://www.wiredbrain.net/defense.htm the big forces by Land Sea, air, and space based high tech weapons against real dangers when they exist. We must develop a rational research, development and procurement system.

4.)   Homeland security Agency domestic foreign agents and counter-intelligence, FEMA, chemical and biological threats, borders security, coast guard, customs, INS, and other controls on the movements of people, goods, and money – the national ID system – making it harder for our enemies to operate and being prepared if they succeed.

Domestic law enforcement  – the FBI, DEA, ATF, and domestic police refocused and organized to provide domestic security from real dangers.  

We cannot have all the old programs and create new systems at the same time – we have to reduce Cold War structures, bases, and equipment to pay for new means and methods. We must cut down on the number of federal crimes, returning the enforcement to the states and local communities. We must focus on the important federal function and reduce less critical activities.  

We must restructure and focus our national government, which as built up over the centuries. There are seven-core functions:  

1.) Natural Resources, (Interior, Agriculture, Energy)

2.) Human Resources (Health, Education, Labor, Social Security and Welfare)

3.) Treasury (commerce, trade, transportation, HUD)

4.) State Foreign Affairs (could include INS),

5.) National Security Department,

6.) Justice 

Congress must follow this reorganization and simplification and cut out pork and special interest log rolling (at least for a time)  

Every function that can be decentralized to regional capitals should be decentralized to Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Boston, Atlanta, Denver and the regions, states and inter-state organizations.  

Phony War:

We can hope the international community will help the Americans take the attack on America as a major criminal act by a global criminal conspiracy rather than an open war. The reason for restrain is because we are NOT safe from even worse attacks and will end up with a cycle of violence, retribution, and play into the hands of the enemy by destabilizing western civilization. Second, there are no good conventional military targets and Afghanistan is a tar baby or brier patch with no good options only ones that are less bad. 

There are lots of police and covert actions that will weaken the terrorist, remove their bases, disrupt communications and improve perpetration and intelligence without a big bang. There are many target hardening and security measures that need to be in place before there is overt military action. We must have our defenses in place before we attack. 

You often hear the pulse of the country from taxi drivers and barbers. 
The woman who's been cutting my hair for more than 20 years, who's an avid
watcher of television news, asked me yesterday, "Are we going to be safe?"
I wish I could know the answer. This was after her questions about
suitcase-sized nuclear devices and biological agents. Those of us in the
news business may be better informed than the average citizen, but I can't
begin to know how safe we'll be.

In the present environment, many would agree that more license must be granted to those responsible for our nation's security. Equally important however, is the need to maintain the civil liberties which make America unique among nations. In a recent article from the Cato Institute, http://www.cato.org/current/terrorism/pubs/eland-010920.html, the author reminds us of the importance of denying terrorists the victory that altering American society would represent. In an editorial by ACU's David Keene, http://www.conservative.org/columnists/keene09202001.htm, we are reminded that this alteration is the true motivation driving acts of terror, and being thoughtful about how we proceed is an act of defiance in itself.


Subject: NIGHTLINE: Could They Strike Again?


> 
> There's no doubt that the events of September 11th left a searing
> impression on much of the world. If the United States had been thought to
> be prepared for a major terrorist attack, the awful news that morning
> forced people here and abroad to reassess how protected Americans are from
> the kind of terrorism we've witnessed in other parts of the world. Just
> this morning, the finance ministers of the G7 industrial nations vowed to
> "leave no stone unturned in the fight against terrorism." There's no
> shortage of resolve, but how much do we know about the coordinated
> campaign of terror that has been a wake-up call for all of us?
> 
> Flight schools, cropdusters, trucks with hazardous cargo and fake i.d.
> cards have been the staple of recent stories on the investigation. It
> appears clear that some of the September 11 hijackers were able to operate
> in this country without detection or even suspicion. Now what law
> enforcement wants to know is who else may be lurking in our midst, who has
> similar intentions, and what do we do about it?
> 
> Another reminder that the whirlwind of news coverage has produced a
> cottage industry of rumors and information that demands closer scrutiny. 
> If there are stories you'd like us to check out, please e-mail us at
> niteline@abc.com and be sure to use the word "FACTCHECK" in the subject
> line.
> 

An important feature of this complicated landscape is a broad chasm between the way Americans see themselves and the way they are seen.

Who Hates the U.S.? Who Loves It?

GLASS in the water - more dangerous than sharks 

Counter-insurgency experts have long recognized that to be operationally effective extremist organizations need the support, or at least acquiescence, of a wider community of people who don't necessarily share all their aims. Mao Zedong, the 20th century's most successful exponent of what is now fashionably termed "asymmetrical warfare", understood this dynamic very well: "The people are water, the Red Army are fish; without water the fish will die." 

It's closer to the type of complexity in controlling international drugs than [it is to] Desert Storm," said retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who led the 24th Mechanized Infantry Division against Iraqi forces in the Persian Gulf War a decade ago and later headed the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President Bill Clinton. "It requires an interagency effort by the Defense, Justice and State [departments]."

Oh dear ! Is the War on Terrorism another "war on drugs" which has been a failure - It not a happy picture of the "war on terror" going the same way with even greater risk of failure. Why? Would catching 10 % of the weapons coming into the US be useful ? Is finding 5 % of the money? If after 30 years the trade is just as big and bad as it was with no hope in sight of getting any better?

WHY is the War on Drugs a looser?

 

If there is a will there is a way! Without working on motivation and causes and disrupt and pursue policy only raises the cost of doing business but does not stop the activity.  The five areas of crime or terrorism

http://www.wiredbrain.net/defense.htm

1.) Detective work in finding the bad guys after the fact - international police work

2.) Intelligence - getting informants inside to stop the act before they happen

3.) Target hardening - homeland defense -borders - guards fences - to make it more difficult - put locks on airplane cabin doors - or keep them off the planes - but they will find other doors in other places

4.) Causes -ONLY by reducing demand or motivation and Making friends and influencing people can the crimes be reduced

5.) Prevention - and response - psychological and physical warfare to demoralize and confuse the enemy - we need to get inside their heads and play mind games to make them afraid, uncertain, distrust each other etc.

Then courts, jails and criminal justice -

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10916-2001Sep22.html?referer=email

 

A former senior Near East Division operative says, "The CIA probably doesn't have a single truly qualified Arabic-speaking officer of Middle Eastern background who can play a believable Muslim fundamentalist who would volunteer to spend years of his life with shitty food and no women in the mountains of Afghanistan. For Christ's sake, most case officers live in the suburbs of Virginia. We don't do that kind of thing." A younger case officer boils the problem down even further: "Operations that include diarrhea as a way of life don't happen."

Behind-the-lines counterterrorism operations are just too dangerous for CIA officers to participate in directly. When I was in the Directorate of Operations, the Agency would deploy a small army of officers for a meeting with a possibly dangerous foreigner if he couldn't be met in the safety of a U.S. embassy or consulate. Officers still in the clandestine service say that the Agency's risk-averse, bureaucratic nature—which mirrors, of course, the growing physical risk-aversion of American society—has only gotten worse.

 http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/07/gerecht.htm

http://www.bigbrother.net/~mugwump/osamabinladen/

The INS, which controls U.S. borders, failed to interdict these people, as it failed to stop those responsible for the Sept. 11 attack, despite the fact that two of the them were wanted by the FBI for questioning about their relationship with bin Laden.

 But the INS and the FBI were not the only agencies to fail in their duty to protect America.

Together with the Maginot Line disaster that led to the fall of France in 1940 and the Israeli failure to foresee the Egyptian attack that started the 1973 Yom Kippur war, the opening salvo of what President George W. Bush has called the first war of the 21st Century's first war was a strategic surprise of Biblical proportions.

 The three concentric circles of American security failed: the Central Intelligence Agency's foreign intelligence; the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Naturalization Service's domestic security, and the Federal Aviation Administration's airport security.

 The roots of this calamity lie in institutional sclerosis and bureaucratic ossification. Congressionally-mandated blue ribbon task forces failed to see it coming.

 http://www.heritage.org/views/2001/ed091601.html

 

As a result of such attitudes, Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, head of the Egyptian Al Gamat Al Islamiya was allowed into the country – and subsequently convicted of leading a plot to bomb U.S. landmarks and bridges in New York.

 Musa Abu Marzook, one of Hamas' top three officials, was permitted to found and operate a think tank in Chicago and Virginia, and Ali Mohammed and Adih el Hage, a top Al Qaida lieutenant and secretary to Bin Laden, were also allowed into United States.

 In addition, senior leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Egyptian Jihad, Tunisian and Algerian radical Islamic organizations, and leaders and spokespersons for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which calls for attacks on American targets and for suicide bombings, as well as for Jihad against Jews and "other enemies of Islam" were allowed to receive green cards or U.S. citizenship, according to congressional testimony.

A Few Loyal Men Direct Bin Laden's Sprawling Network

Osama bin Laden, the fugitive Saudi millionaire accused by the Bush administration of masterminding a global jihad, or holy war, against the United States. The father of the bride was his longtime aide, Mohammed Atef, a former Egyptian policeman described by terrorism experts as military commander of the terrorist network al Qaeda.

The guest of honor was a physician, Ayman Zawahiri, leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization, which has claimed responsibility for a series of terrorist attacks in Egypt. Three years ago, Zawahiri formally merged his group with al Qaeda, creating a movement that called itself the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders.

According to U.S. officials and counterterrorism experts, Zawahiri and Atef are bin Laden's most important lieutenants, the ideological and military brains behind an escalating wave of terrorist attacks targeted primarily at the United States. Their hallmarks -- breathtaking audacity and meticulous planning -- appear consistent with the methods displayed by the organizers of the latest attacks.

At least one and possibly several organizational layers separate the tight circle around bin Laden and the men who hijacked the aircraft on Sept. 11, according to a variety of experts who have analyzed past cases in which bin Laden's network has been described.

Continued on http://www.wiredbrain.net/whatisnext.htm

 

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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-092101fried.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dcomment%2Dopinions

 

COMMENTARY

 

Will U.S. Be an Unwitting Tool in Bin Laden's Game?

By DEBRA FRIEDMAN and MICHAEL HECHTER

September 21 2001

To begin to understand the tragic and puzzling events since Sept 11, we may have to move beyond the logic of terrorism. The terrorist's aim is to inspire fear and create chaos in a target population. Suppose instead that Osama bin Laden is not a terrorist but a revolutionary. If so, his aim is not merely to harm the United States but to provoke us into a massive military retaliation.

President Bush's statement that the United States will take action against both the states that harbor terrorists and the terrorists themselves (if we can find them) would be, in this view, precisely the desired outcome of last week's attacks.

In addition to being a strategic and organizational genius, Bin Laden is also an idealist: He believes that the governments of the Islamic world are essentially corrupt dictatorships, ineffectual in the face of U.S. and allied imperialism; therefore they cannot do right by the Islamic people.

He is, of course, not far from the mark.

Many of these states are corrupt and ineffectual, and few of them care about most of their impoverished people. If the United States attacks some of these states, their regimes would certainly be destabilized.

Now that Bin Laden and his followers have sown the wind, they stand ready to reap the whirlwind. He is already the most popular political figure in the Islamic world: Osama is the second most popular name, after Mohammed, for male children there.

Bin Laden intends to lead this revolution for his own benefit and that of his followers. What he needs is the momentum necessary to bring about revolution in weak and illegitimate Islamic regimes. If Bin Laden is behind last week's actions, as Washington indicates, he has ensured that the United States stands ready to help him.

To understand this line of reasoning, it is important to appreciate something about the challenges of leading a revolutionary movement. The key problem is to not convince followers of the rightness of the leader's ideas—-most people in the Islamic world accept Bin Laden's ideas readily—-but rather that there is hope of succeeding. After all, the United States and its allies are the uncontested hegemony of the world system.

Once the Soviet Union provided an alternative vision of the future, and it lent its support to radical movements throughout the world. Think Fidel Castro or Ho Chi Minh. But the Soviet Union is no more, and no other power has emerged to take its place. China, once a candidate, has now applied for membership in the imperialist club; it seeks entrance into the World Trade Organization. In this monopolistic world system, how can a revolutionary leader attain the credibility necessary to mobilize a revolutionary force?

Bin Laden has found one answer. In the attack, he has shown that he can be successful in wounding the seemingly invincible power. This will embolden his followers and attract legions of new ones. More important, however, he may well have succeeded in mobilizing a powerful and unwitting revolutionary force against Islamic states. That force is the U.S. military. Just as the terrorists used our commercial air system to attack symbols of American wealth and might, Bin Laden would use the U.S. military as a battering ram against the weak and corrupt regimes of the Islamic world.

If we don't retaliate, Bin Laden will try to provoke the U.S. by other means. If we do, we court the prospect of revolution.

It appears that Bin Laden may have put us between a rock and a hard place. For the moment, he seems to have the upper hand. It appears that Bin Laden may have put us between a rock and a hard place. For the moment, he seems to have the upper hand. ___Debra Friedman is associate provost of the University of Washington. Michael Hechter, a professor of sociology at the university, is author of "Containing Nationalism" (OUP, 2000). ___Debra Friedman is associate provost of the University of Washington. Michael Hechter, a professor of sociology at the university, is author of "Containing Nationalism" (OUP, 2000).

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In response to war "Hawks" (there are no high ranking doves) Powell made clear his critical role in the chain of command and the importance of the international alliance - the NSC, The President, State, DOD, Treasury, Justice (in that order) had made decisions and would not allow confusion about who spoke for national policy. He said the focus remains on bin Laden and his al Qaeda network. Many people here and abroad are very comfortable with Powell and that he will not do something stupid that will make things worse. His response is that Phase I is in place and other issues will be dealt with latter, not now, so get in line, in response to the far right hawks.

Some in the administration, most notably Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, and Sen. Helms pressed for action against Iraq. Powell countered that this could "wreck" the international coalition now backing a firm U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13819-2001Sep23.html

The remarks by Powell and other administration officials were part of an effort to portray a calm, methodical response to the terrorist assaults, buying time for the administration from an American public craving revenge. "The campaign has begun," Powell promised in remarks to two television networks yesterday, echoed by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13984-2001Sep23.html

Counter-insurgency experts have long recognized that to be operationally effective extremist organizations need the support, or at least acquiescence, of a wider community of people who don't necessarily share all their aims. Mao Zedong, the 20th century's most successful exponent of what is now fashionably termed "asymmetrical warfare", understood this dynamic very well: "The people are water, the Red Army are fish; without water the fish will die." 

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To explain is not to excuse

Well, we spent trillions on MAD (mutual assured destruction), which was very unlikely but so terrible we felt we had to match their bombs and missiles with our bombs and missiles even to first strike capacity. NOW the unthinkable is a real “holy war” fought in the streets of Dallas, LA, Boston, and Chicago with biological and chemical weapons, causing 100,000’s of causalities, the failure of our infrastructure: power, communications, transportation, and even the civic order and the state itself. 

HEIR APPARENT

Egyptian Doctor Believed to Be bin Laden's No. 2

The Moslem Brotherhood, operating as a super secret league of small independent organizations only multiplies with every effort to destroy them. Like the war on drugs it becomes a cancer, which metastasize and spread into many of various malignant neoplasm characterized by the proliferation of anaplastic cells that tend to invade surrounding tissue and to new body sites. The pathological condition characterized by such growths becomes a pernicious, spreading evil: A cancer of hate, fear, want, and bigotry spread through the community.

 

Religious knowledge sans military training is incomplete," he told the audience mostly comprising Ulema and students of religious institutions.Khalil said it is the need of the hour to lay emphasis on those disciplines in Madaris, which are the demand of the time and religion. "Today Islam demands Jihad. So teach your students the know-how of using weapons and equip them with warfare technology," he urged them.

Harkat chief for military training at Madaris

http://www.jang-group.com/thenews/oct2000-daily/23-10-2000/main/main13.htm

 http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0498/9804047.html

 

As far as Afghanistan is concerned, the history of madaris (religious schools) and taliban (religious students) is as old as the arrival of Islam in that country. Both religious schools and taliban existed long before the modern system of schools and education was introduced there almost a century ago.

Since the establishment of Islam in Afghanistan, the taliban, a sort of religious proletariat, have been recognized as an inseparable part of the social fabric. In addition to running religious schools, mosques, shrines and all kinds of religious affairs, they have distinguished themselves as mujahideen (holy warriors) whenever the cause of Islam or, for that matter, the cause of Afghanistan as a Muslim country, was at stake. Thus, in the context of Afghan history, the Taliban are not an upstart movement. The international community, however, perceives them differently and seems to be confused by the Taliban phenomenon.

Sectarianism and Deeni Madaris (religious schools) in Pakistan

Saeed Ahmed Minhas

http://www.sangat.org/review/islam/minhas.html

CIA superspooks admit that their posse of white Mormons from Utah never learned Pashto or Tajik, Afghanistan's two principal languages.

http://frontierpost.com.pk/articles.asp?id=3&date1=9/27/2001

If there is an end of the American Century it would be would be ugly and painful – the basic cause is not the strength of the enemy but our own inability to change the way we think and act. All great empires and big companies fall of their own weight not from the strength of the barbarians at the gates. That is why we need to think the unthinkable: regional governments would be more stable than a centralized state, making enemies into friends or at least neutral - Cuba, Iran, Palestine, Syria, Libya, - yes, changes under threat – that is a common practice, the fear of death wonderfully concentrates the mind. 

Looking for the middle way in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and elsewhere – not repressive military dictators or violent revolutionaries but the middle ground. What we support at home we should do overseas. While America is a conservative middle class land, we act as a right wing bully overseas – the Alliance for Progress, Human Rights concerns, have tried to moderate our extreme foreign policy. 

How does this happen – a moderate country does immoderate behavior overseas. The power of special interests, oil, corporations, military, corrupt politics there over flows into campaign contribution, high prices lobbyist, and public relations firms in Washington for the Butchers of Haiti, murderers in Latin America, bandits in Africa, Ben Laden in the fight against the Russians, Marcos and the Shah who stole billions used to corrupt politicians, support for evil has been a staple of American Policy. There is almost no foreign news reported in the US, almost no interest or knowledge of foreign lands and policies, so into this vacuum comes the special interests, which knows the American Government as the best money can buy. It does not have to be either Batiste or Castro – but that takes intelligence, interest, attention, and the true reflection of American Values overseas.

Is it our fault people hate us? Is it our fault we are attacked? Yes, it is because we have allowed this anti-American foreign policy to go on for decades. If we acted better would we be safer. Yes, indeed, a lot safer. If we act has we have been acting will it get worse? Yes, a whole lot worse until the country is destabilized and weaken. Would being nice, friendly, and helpful everywhere all the time solve the problem – no way – but dividing into regional governments – ten allied federal sovereign states of 30 million would not behave in the same way as one of 300 million. 

A severe CHOICE:

The elements of stagecraft: 

The elements of stagecraft:

(As used in world war II but forgotten in the bureaucratic mess of state oversight)

 

The enemy is set up as many independent cells run by coordinators (handlers) who are independent of each other but connect to the next level by invisible leadership up the next circle or ring.  There are separate and independent specialist in separate cells performing functions in transportation, equipment, weapons, money, papers and identifications including cover and false papers, communications who operate with the rule “there is no there, there”, or double blind where neither side in an transaction knows or needs to know who the other is. 

 

There are cover companies in international trade, banking, aircraft, auto rental, travel agencies,  communications, news organizations, agricultural and construction (for a supply of explosives) and many other industries. Someone lets an actor know to go someplace and pick up something – the assassinations of Kennedy and Martin Luther King were done this way – the assassins did not know whom he was dealing with but was at the end of a chain of double blinds. (A research methodology where neither the agent, doctor for example, or the patient knows if they have the drug or a placebo to prevent prejudice) 

 

 State intelligence agencies have trouble keeping everything separate; money, supplies, communications, command and control so the people at the end of the chain can be rolled up by leaks higher up the system. This system cannot be cut off either at the head or the foot. Like the Internet there is a instant replacement for any element not working.  The system works not on circuits but works on independent address in separate packets that can travel separately only connect by the packets in the IP system.

 

Dr. Peter E. Pflaum, GlobalVillages
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The President laid out a bleak choice, either live in terror or carry on a long war against terror everywhere for a long time.

“But this country will define our times, not be defined by them. As long as the United States of America is determined and strong, this will not be an age of terror. This will be an age of liberty here and across the world.

Great harm has been done to us. We have suffered great loss. And in our grief and anger, we have found our mission and our moment. Freedom and fear are at war. The advance of human freedom, the great achievement of our time and the great hope of every time, now depend on us.

Our nation, this generation, will lift the dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire. We will not falter and we will not fail. “

Psychological warfare – tactical and strategic propaganda

“Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.

From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.

Our nation has been put on notice: We're not immune from attack.

We will take defensive measures against terrorism to protect Americans. Today dozens of federal departments and agencies as well as state and local governments have responsibilities affecting homeland security. These efforts must be coordinated at the highest level.

So tonight I announce the creation of a cabinet-level position reporting directly to me, the Office of Homeland Security

“These terrorists kill not merely to end lives but to disrupt and end a way of life. With every atrocity they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends. They stand against us because we stand in their way…they are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.

Americans are asking, "How will we fight and win this war?"

We will direct every resource at our command — every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence and every necessary weapon of war — to the disruption and to the defeat of the global terror network.

These measures are essential. The only way to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life is to stop it, eliminate it and destroy it where it grows.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/21/national/21BTEX.html?pagewanted=2

I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted it. I will not yield. I will not rest. I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war. And we know that God is not neutral between them.

Fellow citizens, we'll meet violence with patient justice, assured of the rightness of our cause and confident of the victories to come. In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom and may he watch over the United States of America. Thank you."

The choice of Ridge, a moderate Republican and Vietnam War veteran, addresses a problem highlighted by several recent government commissions and studies that found the United States seriously vulnerable to a terrorist attack and unable to properly coordinate law enforcement, intelligence, civil defense and emergency rescue operations.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1708-2001Sep21.html

By contrast, a bipartisan panel on national security headed by former senators Warren B. Rudman (R-N.H.) and Gary Hart (D-Colo.) recommended in January the creation of a new independent agency to plan, coordinate and integrate federal homeland security activities.

Rep. William M. "Mac" Thornberry (R-Tex.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee and author of a bill to establish a homeland security agency, called Bush's move "an important first step." He added: "The key thing now is to make sure it has a budget and authority and resources to get the job done."

"I'm encouraged by it," added Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.), who has called for the creation of a separate new homeland defense agency. "I take Bush's statement as an endorsement of the idea, although the new office will have to be more than just someone in the White House. It must be someone with line authority and a budget to go with it."

Currently, the more than 40 federal agencies that have some role in combating domestic or international terrorism consume more than $11 billion a year.

Bin-Ladin's investments include companies involved in property management, maritime transport, aircraft rental, public works, contracting and other commercial activities in a number of countries. His investments in Sudan include construction and agricultural projects, with other commercial activities in Somalia, Switzerland, and Luxembourg. His European interests are managed by lawyers in Switzerland, which makes his financial dealings and support to terrorism difficult, but not impossible, to follow.

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/ladin.htm

Mistakes of the past: 

We were not prepared for Pearl Harbor. Let us learn rather than repeat history. 

The fight against terrorism is very difficult, dangerous, and quite different from the past. It requires a New World Order, including security arrangements in international trade (certification of goods and services) and people ID and visas, banking, travel, arms control, biological and chemical weapons control, refugees, economic development, governmental reorganization, new forms of information, new types of intelligence, new forms of military organization and equipment, with the threat of real war – not the old style of radical behavior by small groups to call attention to causes or force political change. These old groups claimed their acts for publicity purposes.

The new groups are complete secret and deny their acts and have classical military aims of controlling territory, overthrowing governments, and destroying their enemies. Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda coalition and the Taleban are one and the same. The targets of their aggression include the region of Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, the Middle East and south Asia, with the attack on America is secondary. They believe America is the prime support for their enemies and needs to be weakened then driven out of the region. Indeed this is a new Nazi threat by stealth rather than blitzkrieg to establish a new world order different from what the West had in mind. 

Targets:

Afghanistan, Syria and Syrian controlled Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, part of the Philippines, Columbia, Peru, the Balkans, Palestine, Kashmir, the trans Caucasus and Samarkand, UZBEKISTAN, on the Trans-Caspian and the Chechnya region and elsewhere.

Much of the world resents us, and the resentment on the rise.The result of the terror attacks and maybe the response to the attack will likely destabilize the whole region. It is fundamental to the structural nature of the world economy and demographics.The base causes are inequality and unequal distribution of power. U.S. foreign policy must be more compassionate, more humble, less arrogance – we need to make more friends, have fewer enemies but this will not free the world of enemies of the modern world. 

Current news:

http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg?UID=A61BAC843351654C;page=show;topic=Homeland+defense

http://nt.excite.com/ntd.dcg?UID=A61BAC843351654C;page=show;topic=Osama+bin+Laden
 

We need new tools of:

Intelligence – new ways to infiltrate, disrupt and break up dangerous groups

Prevention – Target Harding, customs, USDA, coast guard, (DOT) INS, border control, security - 

Emergency Response –National Homeland defense agency – civilian built on FEMA

Retribution – new forms of police and military  action

Iran:

With strong Western CIA backing, monarchist elements ousted the nationalist Mussadegh in 1953. In the 1960s the shah initiated a modernization program that was designed to improve economic and social conditions, but which brought social and political unrest. The regime, supported by the U.S., became increasingly repressive, and in 1979 popular opposition forced the shah to leave. The CIA and diplomacy completely missed understanding of social forces in the country. 

Ayatollah Ruhollah KHOMEINI, an Shiite leader exiled since 1964, returned and established an Islamic republic. Hundreds of the shah's supporters were tried and executed, others fled the country, and the westernization of Iran was reversed. On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Teheran, held the occupants hostage, and demanded the return of the shah from the U.S. After the shah's death (1980) in Egypt, an agreement was negotiated that freed the hostages on Jan. 20, 1981. Meanwhile, a full-scale border war with Iraq erupted in Sept. 1980 (see IRAN-IRAQ WAR), severely reducing Iran's oil production and disrupting its economy. The government was also beset by internal violence and unrest among ethnic minorities. The war ended with a cease-fire in 1988. In 1989, Khomeini died and was replaced as supreme religious leader by Iran's Pres. Ali Khamenei; Akbar Hashemi RAFSANJANI became president. Rafsanjani diminished the influence of fundamentalist and revolutionary factions and placed greater emphasis on economic development, but continued economic deterioration revived the power of hard-line factions associated with Ayatollah Khamenei.

The conditions in Saudi Arabia are not so different from Iran. In 1990 the kingdom joined the American coalition that opposed Iraq's forcible annexation of Kuwait, and the forces of the coalition were largely based in N Saudi. In 1992 King Fahd decreed a new constitution; among its features were an appointed national council (est. 1993) with the right to review, but not overrule, government acts, but the royal family's power was basically undiminished. 

The stability of Pakistan as an independent Muslim state bordering India to the west and was in the east, now Bangladesh, with her capital at Karachi and formed by Mohammed Ali Jinnah, of the Muslim League as governor general. A dispute over control of Kashmir is referred to the United Nations December 30 after millions have died in bloody riots following partition. Since 1946 every form of government in the state has failed. The people are a mixture of many ethnic groups, with the Punjabis the most numerous; Pathan tribes in the northwest and Baluchis in the west have pressed for autonomous states. Islam is by far the dominant religion. Urdu is the official language, but English and Punjab, Pashto, Baluchi, and other ethnic languages are spoken.

Tajikistan:

We have Special Forces in place getting used to the region. 

Probably descended from the inhabitants of ancient Sogdiana, a Persian province between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, the Tajiks were successful in farming, crafts, and trade by the 9th cent. Between the 13th and 19th cent. they were ruled by the Mongols, Uzbeks, and Russians. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution (1917), the Tajiks rebelled and were not subdued by the Bolsheviks until 1921. The territory became an autonomous republic in Soviet Uzbekistan in 1924; in 1929 it became the Tadzhik SSR, a constituent republic of the USSR. Tajikistan declared (1991) its independence following the failed coup against Soviet Pres. Gorbachev. When the Tajik president sought to suspend the Communist party, the Communist majority in the parliament replaced him, which led pro-Islamic and pro-democratic opposition groups and their eastern Tajikistan allies to try to bring down the new president, former party boss Rakhman Nabiyev. In 1992 Nabiyev was ousted by opposition militias, and an ethnically based civil war erupted. Forces allied with the former Nabiyev government retook the capital and most of the country, and the parliament elected Imamali Rakhmonov president. Fighting between government troops, supported by the Russian army, and pro-Islamic forces persisted along the Afghanistan border, but in 1994 a cease-fire was signed. Rakhmonov won election as president in 1994; antigovernment forces did not participate in the vote. Tajikistan is a member of the COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES. 

Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view

Israel’s military intelligence service, Aman, suspects that Iraq is the state that sponsored the suicide attacks on the New York Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington. Directing the mission, Aman officers believe, were two of the world’s foremost terrorist masterminds: the Lebanese Imad Mughniyeh, head of the special overseas operations for Hizbullah, and the Egyptian Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, senior member of Al-Qaeda and possible successor of the ailing Osama Bin Laden.

Dr. Peter E. Pflaum, GlobalVillages
http://www.wiredbrain.net/
  Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism

The party line: 

The attack on America was because evil people hate all the virtues we represent. We are Innocent, have not hurt anyone, and are attacked by an ill rational evil, which has a fundamental hate for freedom, democracy, and capitalism and our success. Therefore, nothing we can do in foreign or public policy will make any difference because this is a pure war between good and evil. 

As in most political party lines there is more than a grain of truth but an equal grain of error and manufactured propaganda. The enemy is indeed evil but we need to understand them not just call them names. We are fundamentally innocent and benign, even humane as a people but agencies and parts of our government and business have made enemies around the world in our name. We have supported an occupation of Palestine, harmed the people of Iraq and Iran, and supported various evil governments from Haiti, Latin America, the Middle East and elsewhere, including Royal Families in Arabia, Kuwait, and the Gulf States, not exactly part of the modern world. 

The Nazi ideology and behavior was evil itself. BUT it was largely the outcome of the mistakes following World War I, vengeance, reparations, inflation, isolationism and appeasement. This does not justify Nazis but we have learned our lesson about how to avoid setting the stage for more evil by acts of short sighted self-interest, passions, greed, hate, and domestic political advantage. After the next War we have made friends and allies of the enemy of World War II. While Stalin was as bad as Hitler he was the most valuable military force of the allied powers against a common enemy. As Churchill said we will make a deal with the devil in the fight for our survival. The point is to be forward looking and smart not quick and stupid. 

So it is not just an ill rational attack by evil but the extreme edge of much bigger issues that have to be addressed. There is no possible justification for the attack but that does not mean we can refuse to understand it. Understanding is not justification; we understand the murderer does not mean we support murder. There some things called fuzzy liberal thinking where the criminal is made out to be a victim and used to be soft on crime. Understanding the causes of crime does not mean you have to justify crime and can make us safer from criminals.

http://www.wiredbrain.net/

 There are five aspects of law enforcement - and this was an international crime - not quite a "war"

1.) Detective work - reorganize CIA, FBI, DEA, ATF, Coast Guard, Customs, INS, NSA and 45 agencies- for international anti-terrorist police work

2.) Intelligence - spies - and real regional experts - who actually know something - languages - history

3.) Target Hardening - walls, bars, ID checks -

4.) Criminal Justice - trial or punishment - UN validation of military actions

5.) Causes - the goal of war is to reduce the number of enemies - the role of "smart" diplomacy is to make friends, naturalize others, and form alliances. 

We need to force a settlement on Israel - Palestine - deal with Iran and limit our fight in Iran. Death and dying:

denial - We are just realizing we are all vulnerable, expugnable, in danger of, not immune, LIABLE open to, wide open, exposed, naked, bare, UNCOVERED unarmored, unfortified, undefended, unprotected, at the mercy of DEFENSELESS unshielded, shelterless, helpless, guideless unguarded, unescorted, unshepherded, unsupported, unflanked, isolated, out on a limb unwarned, off one's guard, UNEXPECTANT and we all need each other everywhere.

 

The stages go in progression through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance  

The crime was horrific. Never have so many Americans died from violence on a single day. It felt and looked like war. President Bush and Secretary of State Powell have call the crashes "acts of war." But having four commercial airliners commandeered by political fanatics is not war, it is international terrorism, albeit at its worst.  America and all nations concerned about peace, justice, and dignity will need to respond. But the response should be deliberate, just, and humane.  In the past, the U.S. has responded to terrorist attacks with military strikes that were misdirected, mistakenly targeted, and counterproductive.  The 1986 bombing raids on two Libyan cities, the bombing of a Baghdad neighborhood in 1993 in response to rumors of a planned assassination attempt on former President Bush, and most recently the air strike on a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant mistakenly believed to be a chemical weapons factory associated with Osama bin Laden are three cases that should remind us of the folly--and terrorism--of vengeful retaliatory strikes.
 http://www.ips-dc.org/911/johnletter.htm http://www.tompaine.com/

 http://www.tompaine.com/opinion/2001/09/16/index.html HE speaks as one who hates the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. There is no doubt in my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in New York. I agree that something must be done about those monsters.

A Crusade:

People have not forgotten the military expeditions undertaken by European Christians Against the Moslems from the Holy Land to Hungary and Spain or Jihad is Moslem holy war or spiritual struggle against infidels. Wars of religion, holy war, crusade, jihad always are the worse. The Taleban is an order of soldiers like the Teutonic knights or Knights of Malta. Saladin 1137–1193, Muslim warrior and sultan of Egypt, the great opponent of the Crusaders; b. Mesopotamia, of Kurdish descent. He used his position as vizier to overthrow the Fatimid dynasty and establish himself (1171) as the first Ayyubid sultan. He greatly expanded his territories, thereby clashing with the Crusaders. With a large force of Muslims (called Saracens by the Christians) he won the battle of Hattin (1187), which led to his capture of Jerusalem. The Third Crusade (1189) was gathered to regain Jerusalem. During this Crusade Saladin and King RICHARD I of England met in the conflict celebrated in chivalric romance. Saladin triumphed over the Crusaders and left the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem with only a thin strip of coastline. Saladin was a learned man and a great patron of the arts.

It is entirely possible that Bin Laden wants to repeat Saladin’s jihad with a war with US. He knew the dramatic and terrible acts of terror would cause a reaction, which he trusts will be reckless, thoughtless, arrogant, and foolish. There is a track record American incompetence when dealing with very complex social, religious, economic and political issues in foreign lands. The resulting chaos from military intervention could topple Pakistan, which could fall into the hands of the Taleban and Kashmir radicals. With Pakistan comes an atomic weapon. The whole of the region is destabilized and the war against Christian and modern godless civilization establishes a territorial and military presence. It is unlikely that anything now in planning will make America any safer and a clear and present danger of making it a whole lot worse. Removing Bin Laden will not diminish the threat I am afraid it could make it worse. We need to get our act together, our friends together, and think long a hard and talk to people who know something about the lay of the land.

 So what do we do? Get our act together

 Homeland defense – including some dramatic governmental reorganization – put the FBI and DEA together – completely modernize INS, vastly improve intelligence see http://www.wiredbrain.net/terror.htm

 Make friends not enemies

 International organization – small arms, biological, chemical, money laundering, drugs, Interpol, Europol, Asiapol, all of which we have thumbed our noses at under this administration.

 Solve problems don’t make them – In war you want fewer enemies – not more

Impose a solution on the Israel Palestine issue

Makeup with Iran and reduce the pressure on Iraq

http://www.wiredbrain.net/defense.htm

As the Terrorism study, below points out there is NO plan for HOMELAND defense. No set of measures will make us secure in a divided world – 

A nation or globe divided against itself can not stand - a quarter rich and three quarters poor - with one nation having half of all the military power and NATO having 2/3 the economic power of the world - add in Japan and one billion people out of six billion or 16% have 3/4 of the wealth – BUT: 

http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/commission.html

The United States does not have a single counterterrorism budget. Instead, counterterrorism programs exist in the individual budgets of 45 departments and agencies of the Federal Government. The National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure, and Counterterrorism (currently a member of the President's staff) is responsible for ensuring that the counterterrorism programs in these departments and agencies meet the President's overall counterterrorism objectives.

Some of the agencies have a part in homeland defense - and in order of the quick fixes - this needs to be done now:

There are things that will slow them down.  In law enforcement there are five activities - catching criminals who have already committed crimes is only one of the five:

1.) Chasing the bad guys – detective work

2.) Target hardening (walls, fences, gates, passes) sends them somewhere else

3.) Intelligence – undercover penetration of criminal organizations and street knowledge

4.) Working on causes -

5.) Justice and corrections

Information and coordination:

1.)1.) NSA National security agency (DOD) and 2.) CIA – plus several military intelligence units for 3.) Army, 4.) Navy and 5.) Air force needs to update and coordinate their means and methods. I think the reasons CIA was independent 50 years ago are no longer important so it should be moved into DOD’s modern war fighter unit. http://www.wiredbrain.net/defense.htm 

2.)Homeland defense is a DOD – Dept. of Defense responsibility – so they should be in charge as the lead federal agency (LFA) overseas. Once people are in the country law enforcement becomes important so Justice should be in charge. The FBI and INS need to get their act together along with, 

3.)Who gets in? The 6.) State Dept., visa, (several units) 7.) Boarder patrol, 8.) Customs, 9.) ATF (in Treasury) 10.) INS (in Justice) and 11.) Agricultural inspection and others from different departments need to guard the borders - have the needed computer capacity to see who gets in and where they are now. The 12.) FBI and INS need to develop systems of current registration of visitors, aliens and students. 

4.)Why we have separate agencies for different laws is beyond me. It is as if you call the police and they have to know the nature of the crime to know who is sent – drugs, firearms, bank robbery, smuggling, money laundering, all have different agencies for one set of criminals. 

5.)What gets in? The 13.) DEA has both border and intelligence functions as does the 14.) Coast Guard (Dept. of Transport) – also MONEY tracking. 15.) Office of Foreign Assets Control and the 16.) IRS (Several more agencies in banking and currency) 

6.)Disaster planning: 17.) FEMA, 18.) Health services biological and 19.) DOE Atomic 20.) National Guard

7.)Airspace –21.) FAA

8.)22.) National security council, 

Over the past few years, the U.S. Government has taken a number of positive steps. Several Presidential Directives have effected major changes in organizational responsibilities and improved cooperation. The Department of Health and Human Services' Strategic Plan, the Attorney General's Five-Year Plan, the establishment of a military Joint Task Force for Civil Support, and improvement in first responders' capabilities are valuable efforts, but there is still more to do. 

There is a risk that, in preventing or responding to a catastrophic terrorist attack, officials may hesitate or act improperly because they do not fully understand their legal authority or because there are gaps in that authority. 

There is some statutory authority that does not now exist that should be considered for catastrophic conditions. For example: 

·Federal quarantine authority cannot be used in a situation that is confined to a single state.

·Not all cities or states have their own quarantine authority.

·There is no clear federal authority with regard to compelling vaccinations, or rationing scarce vaccinations, or requiring autopsies when necessary for a terrorism investigation.

The Constitution permits extraordinary measures in the face of extraordinary threats. To prevent or respond to catastrophic terrorism, law enforcement and public health officials have the authority to conduct investigations and implement measures that temporarily exceed measures applicable under non-emergency conditions. These may include cordoning off of areas, vehicle searches, certain medical measures, and sweep searches through areas believed to contain weapons or terrorists.

Surprise, when it happens to a government, is likely to be a complicated, diffuse, bureaucratic thing. It includes neglect of responsibility but also responsibility so poorly defined or so ambiguously delegated that action gets lost. It includes gaps in intelligence, but also intelligence that, like a string of pearls too precious to wear, is too sensitive to give to those who need it. It includes the alarm that fails to work, but also the alarm that has gone off so often it has been disconnected. It includes the unalert watchman, but also the one who knows he'll be chewed out by his superior if he gets higher authority out of bed. It includes the contingencies that occur to no one, but also those that everyone assumes somebody else is taking care of. It includes straightforward procrastination, but also decisions protracted by internal disagreement.

http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/commission.html

A national lock down:

Before we stir up a nest of hornets: 

Everyone needs to be issued smart high tech identity cards, one for citizens (help solve election registration problems), one for foreign aliens and even for undocumented workers. No one can move without the ID at hotels, car rental, cell phone registration, banks and credit cards, driver permits and airports, as in many countries around the world. 

Registries of aliens must provide current address and activities on a real time basis. They have to report in on a regular basis. The whole INS, State Dept. border patrol needs to be updated and completely computerized. These files need to be internationalized and tied directly to Interpol.

If there are dozens of terrorist teams already in the country they have to be rounded up before we attack their base.

Like Glass in the water: 

What do the terrorist want? They want to frighten us. Well, they have won I am frightened.

It must be apparent that they can retaliate. If there are 50 teams in the states and maybe a thousand worldwide they are glass in the water, less visible than sharks, with very dangerous plans and the ability to execute. Biological, chemical, by air including private planes, by sea, attacking mass populations and landmarks to get our attention or the power grid, the communications networks, of our fragile technology to weaken and punish us. 

Are you ready to attack? Are you ready for the counter attack? Are we to live like Israel with permeate enemies? This seems to be the elephant in the living room no one wants to see. ( a poll shows that 85% of the public expect more attacks) 

The American Military, which is configured to fight the last war, is in many ways more of a liability than an asset. Large bases are a target and need to be protected, sizable forces in Europe, Japan, Korea and else where with tanks and cannon are draining resources from mobility, flexibility, and having more bite than tail. DOD bureaucracy is really a threat to national security as the Secretary said last week. It stiffens innovation, slows everything down, and disables the ability to respond in a timely and creative manner. We need to assemble as quickly as possible a few 21^st century brigades of clever troops with smart weapons. http://www.wiredbrain.net/defense.htm

War with Terrorism:

Not just on but also with, means they will strike again at any time by means of their choice.

For this reason, Gouttierre is skeptical about talk of attacking bin Laden directly. For one thing, he says, “removing bin Laden from the scene would have no effect on the group ... It’s all designed so that if 10 people die, it’ll probably grow, not diminish.” Many of its members are overseas already—probably more than 50 left in the United States alone, he thinks, with hundreds or even thousands in other countries—and therefore self-directed. For another, such talk is simply “anthropomorphizing the threat” and missing the point that Al Qaeda is far more than one man. But doesn’t the group depend on his reported charisma? “The issues have made him charismatic,” says Gouttierre, “and we’ve made him charismatic. Even those who abhor what he does begrudgingly admire the way he frustrates the big power.”

http://www.msnbc.com/news/629240.asp#BODY

Terrorist organizations have been rolled up – but never completely eliminated. They evolve into something else.

To make matters even more complicated, US officials now seem to be looking into the possibility that this week's attacks may have been a co-operative effort. 

They may well have in mind the role of Ramzi Yousef, regarded as the mastermind of the last attack on the World Trade Center in New York, in 1993. 

He is now in an American jail. Ramzi Yousef has links with Mr. Bin Laden and Afghanistan - but he may also have links with the Saddam Hussein government in Baghdad.

“ Mr. Bin Laden's organization is very different from the groups that carried out bombings and hijackings in the past. 

It is not tightly knit with a clear command structure. It is a loose coalition of groups operating across continents. 

American officials believe Mr. Bin Laden's associates may operate in more than 40 countries - in Europe and North America, as well as in the Middle East and Asia. 

This has two important consequences for investigators. One is that tracking the people, the front organizations and the financial infrastructure of this network, is an immensely complex task. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1544000/1544534.stm

He has been described as a "venture capitalist" of Islamic extremism - running "Jihad Inc" and its subsidiary "Jihad-Dot-Com". 

A group might come to him with a plan for which he might supply money - or he might put one group in touch with another - or he might come up with a plan of his own and find sub-contractors to carry it out. “

http://www.msnbc.com/news/629240.asp#BODY

Most others are riven by internal conflicts or else have been heavily infiltrated. Indeed, the group provides much of the military muscle now being deployed by Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders in their ceaseless civil war against the opposition forces in the northern part of the country.

But to say that bin Laden is in some sense the sponsor of the attacks isn’t to say he ordered them. “He probably didn’t know what was going to happen on Tuesday,” says Gouttierre. “He’s clever. The organization is clever, and the more decentralized the organization is, the more effective it can be. If you don’t have communications streaming back to the center, you’re less vulnerable to discovery.” 

It’s in the nature of a terrorist group organized into cells that one cell doesn’t know much if anything about what other cells are doing. In the case of Al Qaeda, it’s clear that while bin Laden arranges financing for the group, sets out training methods and supplies an overall ideological framework, the terrorists are often on their own once training is over and they’ve been conveyed out of the camps in Afghanistan or Sudan. Gouttierre calls this “guerilla terrorism” because of the high degree of operational freedom the agents enjoy: “If you make the people involved not dependent on what happens to anyone else, the risk of failure is diminished considerably.”

In fact, he says, the system creates “a kind of friendly competition among cells.” There is similarity among them, but that’s because “the objectives are the same, the training is the same and therefore the methods are the same.”

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After the fact we find that operatives in the Attack on America were trained in Afghanistan, stayed in known safe houses, including the Brother of the chief suspect, applied and received American Visas under their own names, registrar in schools, etc., WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

The way this and maybe other terrorist organizations work means there are many other cells or teams out there.

Individuals are recruited or volunteer for training in camps in Afghanistan, Syria and Syrian controlled Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, part of the Philippines, Columbia, Peru, the Balkans, Palestine, Kashmir, the trans Caucasus and Samarkand, UZBEKISTAN, on the Trans-Caspian and the Chechnya region and elsewhere. They learn basic operations, military, close combat, security, spy craft, communications, money supply, arms, explosives, etc. and are sent out to act on their own in cells or teams. The teams that attacked America were working on the plan for years. The attack on the warship and the embassies in Africa were there for years. This means there is an inventory of cells still out there with widely different plans and schemes.

There is a connection to militant Islam but not completely limited to a holy war. The groups in Latin America and Ireland have interconnection, have bombed and assassinated and may have increased their capacity to run international operations. We have a dirty war going on the Columbia and Peru, which may spill over.

The willingness to die flying a civilian aircraft with passengers into a skyscraper to kill thousands means they are willing to use atomic, biological or chemical weapons. The current attack was years in the planning. What operations are now planned, where and how?

There is not likely to be any connection between operations – one does not lead to others. They are independent and unconnected. The core seems to be Saudi, Egyptian and other Arab states. Do we have to check every resident from those states?

After the fact we find that operatives in the Attach on America were trained in Afghanistan, stayed in known safe houses, including the Brother of the chief suspect, applied and received American Visas under their own names, registrar in schools, etc., WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
 
 
 

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Now no nation can assure it’s own security.

Economic Shock: Now no nation can assure it’s own security. 

Major economic sectors such as market trading, insurance, air travel, oil prices, hotels and resorts, consumer confidence, are all hit – about – 3 % hit on GDP (300 billion)- increased spending on reconstruction, military, security will add +1 % (100 billion) but not all at once – a rather long delay in getting money spent– so next quarter should go to – 3% and –2% for the first quarter of 2002 – a loss of 500 billion to the economy and 100 billion to the government – so given the extra costs, the surplus is GONE and given the surplus was based on +3% growth, public finance may go into actual deficit! 

So? The ability of the Americans to do anything depends on domestic peace and stability. Our resources are not unlimited and need to be used carefully. 

A real community of nations dealing with:

1.)Criminal investigation and intelligence (reopen arms trade and money launderings agreements)

2.)Military intervention – including international anti-terrorist forces with local knowledge

3.)Working on causes of poverty, inequality, political instability and corruption

This means stronger NATO, UN and other international organizations – a turn abound for the Bush administration – inclusion of China, Russia, Pakistan, the Arab League in the actual alliance. 

The issue of terror may last for generations and has no quick or easy answer. The strengthening of the global community could be a positive outcome. The American States were forced to unite in the 1780’s because of lawlessness and the inability of the separate states to provide guarantees of civic order.Now no nation can assure it’s own security.
 

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Dear Country:

What was said about American Domestic policy in Education, Law enforcement, Urban Affairs and transportation is now true of security affairs:

The actions most politically popular were likely to make things worse and those most likely to be useful were politically impossible or very difficult without brave leadership. New highways caused sprawl and made slower actual movement of people, urban renewal help destroy the urban core, public housing decreased the supply of safe and affordable housing, drug policy criminalized urban youth, IDEA (Americans with Disabilities) added huge bureaucracy but has not increased learning by anyone, but the highway lobby overwhelmed public transport, racial fears meant building new ghettos, private real estate and industrial interests overwhelmed the common good, cops overwhelmed social work and public health, interest groups for specific disabilities overwhelmed commonsense, all this is a common pattern in public policies, well organized minorities or centers of great wealth override the common or general interests. 

Our unconditional support for Israel, (and anti-Castro groups) our commitment to military solutions to political problems, (bay of pigs approach, Vietnam etc.) our weak central leadership, and cooperative mass media means that what would help neutralize the “holy war” in the Middle East are very difficult politically while revenge, punishment, efforts to destroy targeted groups, is enormously popular and will do little good and most likely is harmful – counter-productive as it always has been in the middle east. We need to make friends, have fewer enemies, lower our profile, promote development, democracy, work with allies, turn former enemies into allies, and infiltrate the core of terrorist groups.

In the history of the world the American Empire is one of the most benign. We have bases and the big footprint of international corporations around the world and the more contact we have with the world the more people do not like us. We appear and often are crude, arrogant, uninformed, provisional, greedy, pushy, the ugly American image and fact around the globe. 

But we have no territorial ambitions, few actual colonies, and are a pluralistic democracy. The Cuban, Jewish, military-industrial, and corporate lobbies, which can have an undue influence and act as a veto group on reform.

From dust to dust: 

Welcome to the neighborhoods:

 

Turkmenistan is important to world energy markets because it contains the world's third largest reserves of natural gas, with estimates of the country's total gas resource base ranging as high as 535 trillion cubic feet.

 http://www.turkmenistan.com/

 

Turkmenistan, a one-party state dominated by its president and his closest advisers, continues to exercise power in a Soviet-era authoritarian style despite Constitutional provisions nominally establishing a democratic system

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eur/index.cfm?docid=850

 

Uzbekistan is an authoritarian state with limited civil rights. The Constitution provides for a presidential system with separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. In practice President Islam Karimov and the centralized executive branch that serves him dominate political life

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eur/index.cfm?docid=858

 

Tajikistan is ruled by an authoritarian regime that has established some nominally democratic institutions. President Emomali Rahmonov and an inner circle of fellow natives of the Kulyab region continued to dominate the Government; however, Rahmonov's narrow base of support limited his control of the entire territory of the country. Rahmonov won reelection in a November 1999 election that was flawed seriously and was neither free nor fair

 

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eur/index.cfm?docid=840

 

Afghanistan* continued to experience civil war and political instability for the 21st consecutive year.  There was no functioning central government.  The Pashtun-dominated ultra-conservative Islamic movement known as the Taliban controlled approximately 90 percent of the country, including the capital of Kabul, and all of the largest urban areas, except Faizabad.  A Taliban edict in 1997 renamed the country the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, with Taliban leader Mullah Omar as Head of State and Commander of the Faithful.  There is a six-member ruling council in Kabul, but ultimate authority for Taliban rule rested in Mullah Omar, head of the inner Shura (Council), located in the southern city of Kandahar.  Former President Burhanuddin Rabbani claimed to be the head of the Government, controlled most of the country's embassies abroad, and retained Afghanistan's United Nations seat after the U.N. General Assembly again deferred a decision on Afghanistan's credentials during the September General Assembly session.  Rabbani and his military commander, Ahmed Shah Masood, (now dead) both Tajiks, also maintained control of some largely ethnic Tajik territory in the country's northeast.  Masood's forces were within rocket range of Taliban-held Kabul until late July 1999, but since then the Taliban has pushed them back, capturing large areas.

 

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/sa/index.cfm?docid=721

 

Afghanistan

 

During the year, a process to convene a Loya Jirga, or Grand Assembly of traditional leaders, which was focused around former King Zahir Shah and based in Rome, slowly began to gather support.  Other initiatives, such as the Bonn process and the Cyprus process, began to cooperate with the Rome-based initiative.  A number of provincial administrations maintained limited functions, but civil institutions were rudimentary.  There is no countrywide recognized constitution, rule of law, or independent judiciary.  In 1999 the Taliban claimed that it was drafting a new constitution based on Islamic law, but during the year there were no further announcements regarding a constitution.

 

Pakistan

The police have primary internal security responsibilities, although paramilitary forces, such as the Rangers and the Frontier Constabulary, provide support in areas where law and order problems are acute, like Karachi and the frontier areas.  Provincial governments control the police and the paramilitary forces when they are assisting in law and order operations.  In August the Government announced a devolution plan that included some increase in local political control of the police; however, the Government had not implemented this plan by year's end.  During some religious holidays, the regular army is deployed in sensitive areas to help maintain public order.  After the coup, the army played a role in enforcing exit control restrictions at airports and border crossings, reportedly as part of the Musharraf regime's anticorruption accountability campaign.  Members of the security forces committed numerous serious human rights abuses.

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/sa/index.cfm?docid=710

One hundred thousand years ago (more or less) in one population in Africa, part of the brain, which had been used for other animal senses such as vision and smell, was used as uncommitted cortex to develop speech and abstract thinking. This ability is best called the catch-on factor. It enabled these modern people to envision things that have not happened, to plan activities not yet done, to go beyond the seen to the unseen, to go beyond the known to the unknown, and learn for others what is possible.

http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/story.txt

Each generation spread over the globe at a days walk and in tens of thousands of years occupied most of the planet. The tribes created complex cultures and tools and abilities such as building boats and tombs but were not yet literate or civilized. About 10,000 years ago in caves and then monasteries in the Hindu Kirsch civilization began with symbolic language and a vision of leadership. The central idea is “being in the world but not of the world” a basic abstraction of life from culture. We all are the creation of culture in the way we think and believe. The cultural model of the world is a set of perceptions, beliefs, habits, customs, institutions, totem and taboos deep set in consciousness and reinforced by rewards and punishments. Leaders can not defy the paradigms of their times but must have a wider vision. They are in the culture but not of it. They have to pretend to believe in the common ideology but also transcend it. The role of priest king is an difficult act (it would be and is very dangerous to believe in your own divinity) but more than sincere pretence – it is the ability to be many things to many people while keeping a core of reality beyond the common perception of what is real or possible. 

http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/pathosum.txt 

In any case civilization was built on the Sufi training received and passed on from Ur to Egypt to Alexander by teachers in woolen robes. John the Baptist was such a teacher from the wilderness. Sheik (Lord or Master) Jesus, Ben Joseph el Nazareth of the house of David was a teacher of another faith with a new idea. The people could not separate themselves from themselves because it is too hard, and civilization needs the people to believe in the values of the common culture, but there was another more real and beautiful place after this life in the next world.The resurrection of the body as well as the transformation of the spirit made for a community of saints by faith alone. 

The Sufi masons who created the modern world from the Majorcan to Newton and Jefferson, knew the divine rights of Church and State was a big pretense made necessary for the civil order. They had the faith of enlightenment and a vision that a secular community of saints could establish a novus ordo seclorum using the annuit coeptis (look on the back of your dollar bill) of the ancient wisdom by the civic elite while maintaining the common faith of the people with new institutions and process including public education. Leaders need to humble themselves in the face of GOD, deist in the face of nature and natural law. Natural reason and law would replace the need for blind faith in ancient superstitions. 

http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/wilson.txt

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Now many of the people have lost their common faith and their leaders have no real Sufi training or vision. Even most Sufis have become mystics and a cult. And out of the Hindu Kirsch comes a devil that rejects the modern world and is out to destroy it. The ancient question still needs an answer – how do you have civic order, faith in greater good and higher authority, while promoting enlighten free thought and tolerance. The American religious fanatics, the Jewish settlers in Israel and part of the Catholic Church also reject the modern world’s values and call on the authorities of God to (themselves) reestablish a cultural discipline against the sinful way of the world, even to saying the death and destruction is from the wrath of God. Anyone who thinks they speak for God is guilty of the greatest heresy (including the Pope) and moral pride and is very dangerous because such pride has no limits.

I don’t know -

http://www.wiredbrain.net/documents/pathos/sufi01.txt

You must not confuse those who have made a business of right wing politics with religion, nor Rush Limbaugh with thought and analysis, nor other commercial speech. The same can sometimes be said for professional money raiser on the right - environmental, etc., The first rule of honesty is to not take fees for ideas -
 

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Peter E. Pflaum - Golden Globe - The Synergy Network
http://www.wiredbrain.net/ pfpfpfpflaump@cfl.rr.comp>RE: Fees for Practice:

Sufi is not other worldly but promotes success in this
world. The wisdom gained in becoming a complete human and
the charisma and power released will give force to any and all
activity. (The force be with you) There is magic in "the focus"
of a free, spontaneous, intuitive mind and spirit in complete
union and beyond self. All the waste of self doubt, insecurity,
social habits, internal battles, fears of feeling and the terror
of freedom is released and every day is a peak experience and we
all become Mallow's  Self-actualized transcendental person. There
is a method to educate people in this way. The simple process is
to release psychic energy that is bottled up. The process
involves music, sounds and tones (Om-Mani-Padme-Hum- Sssuuuf and
movement, bio-energies, wake-up, focus attention, Ti Ch'i, Zen,
visualizations and meditations, all of which raise awareness and
energize the mind and body with the life force.

In the long and honored history of Sufi Schools and guides
(Teachers) there are only two rules or principles of
instruction. The first is that "evil" (practically the only
mention of evil in the literature) comes from the belief
that your ideas are reality. Sin comes from Ideology, the
worship of idols, false prophets and blind faith in bad
leaders. (People are worse than beasts, stones, or storms - which
are natural - man can fight, pretend, and ignore nature and their
inter-selves- for long enough to do real harm. )

Reality exists outside the person or culture (A priori) and has
clear existence outside our thoughts, feeling, or beliefs. Human
attitudes are based on an experience of Illusions, we only see
shadows and social conventions. -
When we really begin to experience directly reality - it is our
relationship with that external existence that give knowledge and
truth. We can never be certain that we have not just raised our
level of illusion. A simple remaining doubt is necessary. As
Cromwell said to Parliament "Be think ye Gentlemen you maybe
wrong." We remain arrogant and foolish.

The second principle is the refusal to engage in a "fee for
practice" service arrangement. Sufis can not take fees. The
conflict of interest is clear. If you are making your
"living" by consulting or guiding - then you confuse your
interests and the interest of the "client". You are the
post in the story of the drunk holding on to the lamp post - the
consultant is there more for support than illumination. Sufi
instruction is not always easy or pleasant. You may
have to confront barriers.

Sufi methods depend on spontaneous and free response to
intuitions they have about other people. They tend to tell other
about what they are. These "hunches" maybe the result of neurosis
or imagination. Even if correct, most people do not want to know
more about their limitations, most prefer adulation and
avoidance. If you are concerned about social conventions, fees,
and how it will "come across", then you are a salesman, a
performer, not a teacher. You are not going to kick people off
their "life-rafts", or take away the physical and emotional ties
they have to protect themselves in what is perceived as rough
water. You are trying to help them ashore - and then point out
they don't need to care the weight of their rafts with them. Real
education requires real change - wake up - open your eyes - you
have been living in a dream - pay attention -

Short History of Sufi:

I think the origin was as shaman of the Caucasian tribes. In UR
and the first civilizations they then became priest and kings.
Meditative orders of monks grew up in the Hindu Kirsh which are
responsible for the order of the universes. (Like the Hopi) In
the first few thousand of years travelers in wool trades became
wandering teachers. Students were passed from one to the other
using signs, codes, and the numerical systems of language
(Letters being numbers - transformed into patters which gave an
internal or secret writing also pictures and patterns ). The
example of John the Baptist is a model of the Sufi man from the
wilderness, teacher and spiritual guide.

The contact between Persia, the Greeks, and Hindu cultures
produced a more complex and formal neo-Platonist, Hermes, and
other schools that influences the Manichean Gospels of Leucius,
St. Augustine, and mystic Christian. Sheikh Daud Yusuf, Jesus of
the House of David, a Prophet, a teacher, a Messenger of the rank
of Insan Kamil or Complete Man. (The Acts of John) The church may
have for bureaucratic reasons misunderstood the idea of "Son of
God." In some way Jesus has become less of a door and more of a
pit or barrier in formal churches. The idea that following blind
ritual and having an blind non-rational faith will cause salvation
is very un-Sufi. Wisdom is sought to fulfill the incompleteness
of our souls and for its own glory or merit - Slaves and peasants
may need prizes and promises that can not be met. As the Grand
inquisitor says they need a guiding hand and to have hope in the
impossible pie in the sky when they die.

The name Sufi appears with Mohammed and the organized schools
were very close to the family of the Prophet's grandchildren from
Fatima and Husin. The interactions of Moslem and Sufi culture
makes one believe that one is the reflection of the other. A law
and way for the masses, and another way for the "brotherhood."
All religions have to deal with the lazy and ignorant. No one has
found a way to make purses from pigs ears. I am working hard on
the way to do this. Democracy and current conditions require new
experimental methods. The old ways are too occult, complex,
mysterious and elitist.

Formal schools involved Thursday night meeting where circles of
annotated world work on mystic rights under the leadership of a
guide. Rumi founded the Dervishes. The Builders (al-Banna) became
the Freemasons, and the "secret knowledge" was much sought in
Europe from the time of the crusades on. The Philosophers stone
and alchemy that Newton spend most of his life trying to
understand may have been an allegory for psychological rather
that physical experiments.

A short list of influences:

Christians associated with St. Augustine and St. John of the
Cross (Rosticrusian), St. Teresa of Avila,
St. John the Baptist - the wool and Sheikh Daud Yusuf, Ben Joseph el Nazarene Jesus as a
Sufi Teacher. (Hallaj)
The Romance Literature and Troubadours, William Tell, Coffee,
clothes (shirt, belt, trousers) Andalusian, dance
waltz, morris dance, Dante, Robinson Crusoe, Chaucer,
William Tell, Freemasons, Tarot Cards,
Arabist School of Montpellier (Jews from Spain)
Medicine - Ibn El-Arabi
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence of Arabia)
Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali, Bilal, Ibn Riyah, Abu Abdullah, Salman the
Persian (Zoroastrians)
Burton's 1001 Nights, Omar Khayyan -
Jalaludin Rumi (and the Dervish)
The Rose, Rosicrucians, Rosary from the Spanish illuminist
(illuminati)
Sufi claim a decent from: (Saracens the Reciter)
Hermes of Egypt, Mary the Hebrew, Democritus of Greece,
Morienus of Rome, Avicenna (Ibn Sina) of Arabia, Albertus
Magnus of Germany, Arnold of Villaneuve of France, Thomas
Aquinas of Italy, Raymond Lully of Spain, Roger Bacon of
England, Melchoir Cibienis of Hungary, Anonymous Sarmata
(Michael Sendivogius ) of Poland.
Roger Bacon, Geber, (Western Alchemy), Raymond Lully the
Majorcan, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Dante, Milton - Hans Christian
Anderson, Kipling,
Jungian archetypal from Ibn El-Arabi (Modern Man in Search of a
Soul" C.C. Jung)
Robert Graves "The Crowning Privilege"
The Bhakti of Hindus, Zen , Yoga, Knights Templar, The Order of
the Garter, Freemasons.

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Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. * THE_SUFI_METHODS
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What shall be done?

Regional Government

Imposed peace on Israel and Palestine

Supports to Capital markets

Delegate to the 10 federal regional councils administrative and budget authority with regional commissioners acting for the OMB and Whitehouse. Decentralize the federal government by moving staff and power to the regional capitols. The first step in creating 10 smaller nations, within a political and economic union, which do not feel they have to police or rule the world.

An EU, NATO, Arabian intervention giving administrative control over the West Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt after the removal of the Jewish settlements. A kind of Balkans peacekeeping arrangement imposed on those who cannot solve their own problems. 

We need to work on the removal of sanctions on Iraq, Iran and Libya and a closer American Arab relationship looking toward a common interest in stability and anti-terrorist activity.

Creating stability – rainy day fund – of 100’s of billions from the surplus to a board of economic stabilization that is responsible for capital markets and has the resources to support markets in times of crisis.

One percent of a 10 trillion dollar economy is 100 billion – the forecasts range from up 3 % next year (OMB) to down 3 % (CSFB)- 300 billion up or down. The federal government gets 20 % so will gain or lose 60 billion of a 150 billion surplus. If there is a 3 % decline and costs go up 20 billion for recovery and war – the surplus is almost gone.

Deaths from U.S. Wars and Battles

American Revolution (April 19, 1775-Oct. 18, 1781): 4,435

Antietam  (Sept. 16-18, 1862): 3,654 Antietam  (Sept. 16-18, 1862): 3,654

Pearl Harbor (Dec. 6, 1941):  2,388

D-Day (June 6, 1944): 4,900

Iwo Jima (Feb. 19-March 25, 1945): 6,503

Inchon Landing (Sept. 15-22, 1950): 670

Tet Offensive (Jan. 27-June 1, 1968): 7,040

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COPERNIC 2001 SEARCH RESULTS Search:  Moslem Brotherhood fundamentalist Muslim terror terrorism intelligence CIA FBI threat terrorist Laden national security NSA antiterrorist Imad Mughniyeh Hizbullah Al-Qaeda Zawahiri Ayman Al Qaeda (Any word) Date:   9/24/2001 Found:  94 document(s) on The Web Sort:   Score