http://www.GuluFuture.com/news/cannon_fodder030401.htm http://www.GuluFuture.com On
al-Jazeera television, a reputed audience
of 45 million in the Arab world are being fed a daily diet of bloodied Iraqi corpses, civilians crying and unfettered live speeches by officials. Al-Jazeera's reporter in Australia, Sydney-based journalist Salef Saqqaf, 45, says that is the way the viewers like it. Al-Jazeera: view from the inside March 30 2003, Steve Dow, The Age, Sydney, Australia http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/29/1048653900135.html By now the War in Iraq should have
been all over. An uprising in the south should have signaled the end of
Saddam's regime. An overwhelming US-UK military force should have overrun
Iraq and be in full control. And an isolated Saddam -cut off from his
people-- should have become an irrelevancy. But it was not to be.
Truth is, it was never meant to be. By now, the officers of the US
military must know they have been made into cannon fodder. If they do
not, they must be wearing the blinkers the general public had donned.
In any event, General Tommy Franks is well on the way to achieving
the fragmentation of US forces and the creation of an Iraq-wide intifada.
Reinforcements are on the way however, or should we say more targets
for suicide bombers are on the way. Spread out across the territory of
Iraq like sheep in a vast field. Or lambs to the slaughter.
The true planners of the Iraq War sold the idea of a grotesquely insufficient
invasion force by hyping the insurrection potential and probably arguing
that US forces were needed elsewhere. Then Tommy Franks directed the paltry
force to spread out and run all over the Iraqi desert for a week, until
worn out and vulnerable.
That gave plenty of time for the other elements of the plan to kick
in. First, Iraqi State television was left on the air -to facilitate Saddam
Hussein rousing the Iraqi people. Brilliant tactical move that...NOT!
Since then, a few halfhearted efforts have successfully managed not to
knock State TV off the air. Leaving open the question of what agenda the
biographically-challenged General Franks is following.
Second, al-Jazeera --the CNN of the Arab world-- has been allowed free
rein to broadcast the conflict. And just in case they lacked sufficient
material, a couple of ghastly missile strikes on Baghdad markets soon
supplied the necessary incendiary footage. These inexplicable errors came
after hundreds of missiles had managed to hit Baghdad while leading to
a mere handful of civilian casualties.
Incendiary footage for what? For extending the Palestinian intifada
into Iraq and then across the Middle East, that's what. Ariel Sharon must
be laughing all the way to the West Bank.
RELIGIOUS MAFIA The Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP)
is backed by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, head of the cultish Unification
Church --and Korean CIA agent. Back in June 2002, UPI chief John O'Sullivan
spoke at an IIFWP symposium in Washington D.C. He opened his remarks
by referring to a previous speaker Imad Musa, Washington Bureau of Al
Jazeera.
"I had hoped to refer to him as the only member of Al Jazeera who hadn't been a former employee of the World Service of the BBC, thus subtly hinting that Al Jazeera is really an MI6 operation," said UPI's O'Sullivan. Was that an inside joke? If so, the joke is on the people around the world who think war is evil. Peacemakers have little chance of defusing tensions with CNN now counterpointed by al-Jazeera. Both are agents of the New World Order brigade. Both stations are assets of intelligence services. Both are fanning the flames of conflict in their respective audiences. This is how war is fomented. Not a short little war -but a great big long one. That 2002 symposium also heard IIFWP leader Rev. Dr. Chung Hwan Kwak (no pun intended) endorse Rev. Moon's proposal that the United Nations establish a council of religious and spiritual leaders within the structure of the United Nations. Guess which religious leader will have the "spiritual" dimension to the UN nicely sewn up? So it's lucky we have Tony Blair and GW Bush standing up to those UN loonies and their associated Moonies. Or is it? SURROUNDED Back when George Bush was inaugurated, Rev. Moon held an Interfaith
Inaugural Prayer Luncheon hosted by the Moon-owned Washington
Times. The guest of honor was the then Senator John Ashcroft, now US Attorney
General.
Also attending were Pat Boone, Rev. Walter Fauntroy and evangelist Robert Schuller. Moon and his political organizations have been mired in religious right politics for decades. The "right-on" religious supporters of Moon include Rev. Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart, and Robert Schuller, host of the "Hour of Power" TV show --among many others. According to the compelling book, Yakuza, by David E. Kaplan, Moon's early backers included Ryoichi Sasakawa --a key figure in Japan's Yakuza organized crime family. Despite these dubious beginnings, Moon’s organization has hired former President George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush to give speeches at Moon-sponsored events. In a speech on Aug. 4, 1996, Moon declared that Americans who insisted on “their privacy and extreme individualism … will be digested.” Tie all this in with President Bush's Faith-Based Initiative and the "spiritual" elements of the United Nations, and the game plan becomes clear. We are to be terrorized with manipulated wars blamed on a religious "clash of civilizations." After which the UN will come riding to the rescue and usher in a New World Order of "peace and prosperity." Featuring a New Age mushy feel-good pseudo-religion; corporate control of society and the abolition of the nation state as a political force. Meanwhile the dumb-and dumber slide in society will continue until we reach the psycho-social state seen in Dark Ages Europe. Think of it as a modern version of the Soviet Union's "Dictatorship of the Proletariat." A sort of "Dictatorship of the Dumb," run by the clever and devious. Welcome folks to 1984 writ large in real life. No matter which political way you turn, the New World Order has got you surrounded. Come out with your hands up. Or else, join with others to resist this. If we win, then humanity will blossom as never before. If not, see you later in the concentration camps for dangerous "extremists and terrorists." MOON & AL-JAZEERA REFERENCES Rev. Moon, the Bushes & Donald Rumsfeld by Robert Parry "BUSH PUSH" AGAINST FIRST AMENDMENT
BEGINS:
ASHCROFT IS PARTY ANIMAL AT REV. MOON INAUGURAL BASH http://www.atheists.org/flash.line/bush8.htm The former Texas governor was sworn in on Saturday as the nation's 43rd President... Among the festivities was a lavish Interfaith Inaugural Prayer Luncheon... The "America Come Together Luncheon For Unity and Renewal" was hosted by [Rev.] Moon's Washington Times Foundation, and attracted over 1,700 key religious right political operatives, ministers and public officials. Despite the impressive line-up of speakers and attendees,
the surprise guest of honor was former Missouri Sen.
John Ashcroft who is still under consideration as Mr. Bush's choice
to be the nation's next Attorney General. Ashcroft "brought down the
house" according to a Washington Times newspaper story, and told the
assembled ministers and political officials, "This is a country worth
praying for." OVERVIEW REPORT
http://www.iifwp.org/Activities/2002/USUNJune/report.shtml Keynote Address
Rev. Dr. Chung Hwan Kwak Chairman, IIFWP http://www.iifwp.org/Activities/2002/USUNJune/keynote.shtml On behalf of the Interreligious and International
Federation for World Peace it is my pleasure to address you today on our
Symposium theme, “The United States and the United Nations: Governance and the
Challenge of Contemporary Crises.”
As we entered the 21st century, I believe we all
hoped to see the dawning of an era of peace, cooperation and universal
prosperity......
At IIFWP’s Assembly in the year 2000, the Founder,
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, speaking at the United Nations, articulated a vision of
governance which had political leadership and spiritual leadership engaged in
constructive partnership in the effort to assess and solve critical
problems....
Our models and structures of governance should be
re-evaluated in light of the need to include other significant stakeholders and
problem-solvers.....
Dr. Moon straightforwardly advanced the proposal
that the United Nations establish a council of religious and spiritual leaders
within the structure of the United Nations. In this way, those who represent
governments and who have governmental experience in assessing and resolving
problems, can sit with non-governmental representatives of the religions.
Religious and spiritual leaders can often look more deeply at the roots of our
problems and can guide their followers to uphold high spiritual and moral
principles.....
Al Jazeera and the Need for Information in the Middle East http://www.iifwp.org/articles/media/al-jazeera.shtml MR. IMAD MUSA
Washington Bureau of Al Jazeera Good evening ladies and gentlemen. It's an honor to
be here tonight among such a distinguished group of diplomats, legislators,
journalists, opinion makers, and opinion leaders. What I wanted to do was just
share with you a few thoughts about what I believe the role of Al Jazeera is in
the small and very quiet and calm place known as the Middle East.
When I joined Al Jazeera, my friends said, "What?
Why are you going to work for the all-jihad-all-the-time network?" And I had to
correct them and say, "No, actually, our real logo is, 'We jihad, you decide.' "
And I could understand their concern. Because look at the havoc it would wreak
on my social life. I could just imagine myself seeing a nice young lady and
going up to her and saying, "Hi, my name is Imad Musa and I work for Al
Jazeera." It wasn't a good way to meet people.
But still, I understand that from the outside, Al
Jazeera must really look like a very suspicious, very foreign outfit with
dubious motives, dubious methods, and whose only claim to fame is to have been
close enough to the Taliban to actually have had a camera in Afghanistan before
the US-led war on Afghanistan began. To be able to have these exclusive pictures
for everybody else in the world to use.
And to have been close enough to Osama bin Laden to
be able to get his videotapes whenever he wanted to threaten the United States,
the United Nations, Arab leaders, Israel, Muslims who don't agree with him, and
just about anybody else. But to me, I saw Al Jazeera as something totally
different.
I knew that the things that had put Al Jazeera on
the map in the West, these bin Laden tapes, the Afghanistan footage, were not
really what made Al Jazeera the phenomenon that I believed it was. And I do mean
the word "phenomenon." Al Jazeera first attracted my attention in early 1997
when I was a reporter for the Associated Press based in Jerusalem.
And I knew from the beginning that it would be much
more than just another TV station.....
MR. JOHN O'SULLIVAN
Editor in Chief, United Press International I'd like to say how very much I enjoyed the two
people who spoke before me.....
But I also should say how much I appreciated the
remarks of the gentleman from Al Jazeera. I'm sorry he told us the story about
the BBC because I had hoped to refer to him as the only member of Al Jazeera who
hadn't been a former employee of the World Service of the BBC, thus subtly
hinting that Al Jazeera is really an MI6 operation.
But I want to say how much I think, as a
professional journalist, that Al Jazeera is a giant's leap forward in honest and
genuine journalism within the Arab world, and that we all ought to be very
grateful for it. I think that some of the criticism we heard of it in this
country may be understandable.
But it doesn't take into account the fact that for
the first time we have in the Arab world a genuine, independent Arab journalism.
Naturally, that journalism is going to some extent reflect Arab attitudes just
as American journalistic institutions reflect American attitudes, British ones,
British attitudes, and so on.
[snip]
And if people in this country are sufficiently
foolish to want to curb it because they think that in the short term it is going
to provoke certain difficulties in Arab politics, then I think that that is
itself a grave error. And for this reason: That as the Arab world moves toward
greater democracy, there are going to be enormous transitional difficulties, as
there are when any nation and culture moves toward democracy.
There are periods in which the population in those
countries, which isn't used to the disciplines and necessities, makes foolish
decisions, or makes the Arab street erupt, or whatever. But we have to accept
those expressions as movements toward a better state of society and, in the long
run, toward better and more tranquil relations between the different cultures
and the different societies and the different nations.
BBC signs deal with al-Jazeera http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=370021&host=3&dir=61 By Louise Jury
17 January 2003 The BBC has signed a news-gathering deal with
al-Jazeera, the television news channel that has become well known in
the West for its intimate contacts with al-Qa'ida.
The Qatar-based channel has provoked fierce
opposition in Washington for its coverage of Osama bin Laden and the Palestinian
conflict in the Middle East. But the channel has always maintained its
independence and the BBC deal will be seen as a vindication of its news
operation.
Adrian van Klaveren, the head of newsgathering at
BBC News, said: "Al-Jazeera has established itself as a major international
broadcaster. By working alongside them in our newsgathering activities, we will
be able to provide an even more comprehensive service to the BBC's audiences
both in the UK and around the world."
The British Council also announced a media exchange
with al-Jazeera yesterday to enable young British broadcast journalists to work
with the staff of al-Jazeera for short periods in the UK and Qatar. "The aim is
to demonstrate the UK's willingness to engage with the Arab world in the debate
on newsgathering, reportage and perceived media bias," a spokesman
said.
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