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Credibility of JFK terror case questioned

Let me preface this story to say that I think this country has great intelligence organization, probably some of the best in the world. The primary problem I have with them is their lack of communication between each other, the government body of the US (electoral and congressional) as well as the divulging of factual information to the public in a timely manner. I abhor the way our current administration manipulates the information presented to them, by either omitting actual details, embellishing plausible threats to us citizens and all people around the world – either with the full knowledge that the information presented has not been authenticated or knowing authentication and hyping the plausibility to foster fear and further their own agenda – or even creating their own reality from their own information or unsubstantiated claims.

There was a story yesterday about the capture of Trinidadians who planned to set destruction in motion at America’s largest airport: JFK. The plot originally released to the public as detailed in this video by U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf on CNN news (youtube and google video have been scrubbed of all coverage, you can view these on AOL video):

However, after fact checking and reviewing the suspects, their capacity to execute such a plan and their backgrounds, the credibility and even plausibility of this plot ever being executed has been called into question. And now we should all listen very carefully to understand if this was a possibility and were Americans in danger, or is this another plot by the GOP, right and current administration to coral Americans into believing they are still insecure, vulnerable and encourage further governmental stranglehold on our rights and liberties.

Credibility of JFK terror case questioned

“When U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf described the alleged terror plot to blow up Kennedy Airport as “one of the most chilling plots imaginable,” which might have caused “unthinkable” devastation, one law enforcement official said he cringed.

The plot, he knew, was never operational. The public had never been at risk. And the notion of blowing up the airport, let alone the borough of Queens, by exploding a fuel tank was in all likelihood a technical impossibility.

And now, with a portrait emerging of alleged mastermind Russell Defreitas as hapless and episodically homeless, and of co-conspirator Abdel Nur as a drug addict, Mauskopf’s initial characterizations seem more questionable — some go so far as to say hyped.

‘I think her comments were over the top,” said Michael Greenberger, director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland. “It was a totally overstated characterization that doesn’t comport with the facts.’ “

“The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”
:Franklin D. Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address

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Veggie Oil Car Tax – Wow Genius

The bureaucratic impotence of this country and state governments in particular like that in IL, continue to amaze me….

Here’s a story where Yehuda Berlinger points us to the bureaucratic insanity faced by a retired couple in Illinois who simply want to drive their vegetable oil-fueled car, but now face huge fines and possible felony charges for doing so. The details sound like they’re right out of a bad movie. They’ve owned the car for while and they fuel it up using leftover restaurant cooking oil. However, earlier this year, two officials knocked on their door from the Illinois Department of Revenue, telling the couple that they were violating the law by not paying an additional motor fuel tax. The couple did the calculations on how much tax they needed to pay, and while annoying, it wasn’t outrageous. However, in order to pay, they first needed to get approved for a license as a “special fuel supplier” or “receiver.” Except… the process to become approved for such a license requires a $2,500 bond, and the forms are designed for businesses not individuals. The couple then received a letter saying they needed to stop being a special fuel supplier or receiver until they were licensed to be such — but the details of how you qualify to be either a special fuel receive or supplier showed that they qualified as neither. Yet, the state still insisted that they had to get such a license, because otherwise they had no way to collect the tax. They then noted that operating as a special fuel supplier or receiver without the necessary license was a felony…*

I find it incredible that the government would send 2 revenue officers to this couple’s home to collect what amounts to be $4.07 a month for 10 months = ~$400. And then force them to continue to pay this fee AND pay a $2500 bond for a receivers license they don’t even qualify for in the first place.

This kind of action goes completely against a statement we just heard a few months ago from the President that we as a country should look at incentives and alternatives to our oil addition. Certainly burning french fry oil waste is an alternative.

I suppose there’s no way for gasoline users to recoup the motor fuel tax when said fuel is not used for motor vehicles either… reverse discrimination in deed.

If I may make a suggestion, as it doesn’t seem to me there’s a clear legal precedent here then the government should forgo the collections of this tax until a simplified process has been implemented. I mean, isn’t their motto: “Make life less taxing”

*Source : Fines And Felony Charges For Letting Your Car Run On Restaurant Vegetable Oil? [TechDirt]

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Flashback: Iraqi Insurgents Identified

Have you ever wondered why “Iraqi insurgents” are always blamed for bomb attacks, are never identified or captured, and never take credit for their attacks?

yeah, me neither.

And then I came across this article from a year ago, which has since been edited. Interesting counter point, but I will be the first to say it takes more than one article to enlighten the truth.

Read and then ask yourself: why did the British forces have to storm and demolish the jail to free the two agents, when they most likely could have gotten them released through normal diplomatic negotiating?

British Troops Caught Planting Explosives in Basra?
News Brief Scroll down for latest update

The following news item carries a crucial piece of information missing from Western news agency reports. We’ve highlighted the passage in question which, if true, casts an entirely new light on the incident and may explain why the British military were so keen to free the two men. Had they been questioned for much longer they might have revealed who was really behind many of the bombings in Iraq which have hitherto been attributed to the likes of al-Qaeda and Al-Zaqarwi.

Iraqi police detain two British soldiers in Basra
China View September 19, 2005

Iraqi police detained two British soldiers in civilian clothes in the southern city Basra for firing on a police station on Monday, police said.

“Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two British soldiers,” an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

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The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosives, the source said.

He added that the two were being interrogated in the police headquarters of Basra.

The British forces informed the Iraqi authorities that the two soldiers were performing an official duty, the source said. British military authorities said they could not confirm the incident but investigations were underway.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/19/content_3514065.htm

See: Carry on Killing
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/09/carry-on-killing.html

Two Britons Held for Firing at Iraqi Police
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3603

Updated
The correspondent who sent the following news item in, reports that although this was originally published, as is, in the Washington Post, later editions omitted a crucial line. We’ve emphasized the line in question to show how critical items are now being carefully and maybe deliberately ignored by the Western news media. The end result being “news’ that does little more than misinform and deceive.

British Soldiers Clash With Iraqi Police in Basra
Jonathan Finer and Omar Fekeiki – Washington Post September 19, 2005

Heavy clashes erupted Monday between Iraqi police and British soldiers based in Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, witnesses said.

The clashes are the latest in surging tensions in Basra, a Shiite-dominated city that had long been one of Iraq’s calmest. Attacks have targeted Britons and Americans there.

Monday’s clashes stemmed from the arrest by Iraqi police on Sunday of two Britons, whom Iraqi police accused of planting bombs.

A Western military spokesman in Basra confirmed “an ongoing disturbance” in the city on Monday but said Iraqi and British forces were working together to quell it.

“There is public disorder going on,” the official said. “We are aware that Iraqi authorities are holding U.K. service personnel, and we are liasing with Iraqi authorities on the matter.”

Witnesses said the clashes developed amid British attempts to win the release of the two Britons. Fighting in the city continued into Monday evening, and witnesses saw a British armoured vehicle in flames after it was allegedly set on fire by Iraqi police. Earlier, gunmen loyal to a radical Shiite Muslim cleric attacked the house of Basra’s governor to press demands for the release of two prominent members of the cleric’s militia who were arrested Sunday by British forces.
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/63808

British “Undercover Soldiers” Caught driving Booby Trapped Car
Extracted from Al-Jazeera – September 19, 2005

Before the two British Special Forces men were freed by force on Monday, an Al Jazeera report suggested that the men were driving a booby-trapped car around Basra which was loaded with ammunition and explosives. The Al Jazeera report (see below) also indicates that the unrest in Basra was motivated by the perception that the two British soldiers were planning to detonate the explosives-packed car in the centre of Basra:

[Anchorman Al-Habib al-Ghuraybi] We have with us on the telephone from Baghdad Fattah al-Shaykh, member of the Iraqi National Assembly. What are the details of and the facts surrounding this incident?

[Al-Shaykh] In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. There have been continuous provocative acts since the day before yesterday by the British forces against the peaceful sons of Basra. There have been indiscriminate arrests, the most recent of which was the arrest of Shaykh Ahmad al-Farqusi and two Basra citizens on the pretext that they had carried out terrorist operations to kill US soldiers. This is a baseless claim. This was confirmed to us by [name indistinct] the second secretary at the British Embassy in Baghdad, when we met with him a short while ago. He said that there is evidence on this. We say: You should come up with this evidence or forget about this issue. If you really want to look for truth, then we should resort to the Iraqi justice away from the British provocations against the sons of Basra, particularly what happened today when the sons of Basra caught two non-Iraqis, who seem to be Britons and were in a car of the Cressida type. It was a booby-trapped car laden with ammunition and was meant to explode in the centre of the city of Basra in the popular market.

However, the sons of the city of Basra arrested them. They [the two non-Iraqis] then fired at the people there and killed some of them. The two arrested persons are now at the Intelligence Department in Basra, and they were held by the National Guard force, but the British occupation forces are still surrounding this department in an attempt to absolve them of the crime.

[Al-Ghuraybi] Thank you Fattah al-Shaykh, member of the National Assembly and deputy for Basra.

Text of report by Qatari Al-Jazeera satellite TV on 19 September (emphasis added)
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050920&articleId=972