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By Aaron Klein JERUSALEM Marking what many here are calling a major escalation in Palestinian terrorism, security officials announced yesterday they captured a rocket launcher and several mortar shells intended for attack against a Jerusalem neighborhood. A leader of the planned attack told WorldNetDaily yesterday his group will soon launch a rocket war against the Jewish state, threatening to fire missiles at Israel's international airport and warning his group's rockets will soon "bring hell" to Israelis. Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's Shin Bet security serviced yesterday afternoon revealed during a Knesset session the Israeli army uncovered the launcher and eight shells in a house in Bethlehem, which borders Jerusalem. Diskin said the weapons, transported by the Popular Resistance Committees terror group, were intended for use against Israeli homes in the neighborhood of Gilo on the outskirts of Jerusalem. "As far as we know, this is the first time a projectile weapon aimed at targeting Jerusalem was found," said Diskin. Jerusalem has been the scene of suicide bombings and shooting attacks, but Palestinian rockets have never been fired at the city. Over 500 rockets have been launched at Jewish communities in and near the Gaza Strip the past five years. Following Israel's withdrawal from Gaza this past summer, terror groups warned they transferred their rockets to the West Bank, which borders Israel's major cities, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Military leaders here threatened massive retaliation for any rocket launched from the West Bank. Abu Abir, spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, told WND his group takes credit for the failed mortar attack against Jerusalem. In an interview to be released in full tomorrow, he threatened more rocket attacks: "We call on (Shin Bet chief) Diskin and tell him not to be so happy and proud about stopping our attack because there is much more to come. The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon," Abu Abir said. Abu Abir warned his group has stockpiles of rockets in the West Bank ready to launch at Jewish cities. "I am not going to give details (about which cities we will attack), but we are planning to be present all around the West Bank. Every Israeli target is a legitimate target. Wherever there is an Israeli soldier or settler they will find our rockets. "Jerusalem, Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv and every Israeli point can be part of our goals. Whenever it is needed rockets will be fired against every Israeli settlement, city or neighborhood. ...We know that Israeli central cities are more sensitive targets and they contain more sensitive targets, but we will not hesitate to fire rockets everywhere against the Zionist enemy, " Abu Abir said. The Popular Resistance leader warned of a massive new wave of violence he said will soon be launched against Israel: "The bases for rockets networks and technology are already installed in the West Bank, but their operational capacities should be ready in the next few months. Israelis should wait for a revolution very soon." Abu Abir is one of many terror leaders to speak of major planned violence against the Jewish state. In a widely circulated article, WorldNetDaily reported last week recent events here are leading terror leaders to launch what they called a third intifada against Israel consisting of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish communities and "a few new surprises in our arsenal." The Palestinians launched their first intifada in 1987, which developed into a well-organized violent rebellion orchestrated by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization from its headquarters in Tunis. The so-called second intifada was initiated in 2000 after Arafat rejected at Camp David an Israeli offer of a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and sections of eastern Jerusalem. Some 993 Israelis and 3,781 Palestinians have been killed so far. Many say the second intifada is still being waged. Some terror leaders, particularly from the Al Aqsa Brigades, whose associated Fatah Party scored poorly against Hamas in last month's parliamentary elections, say they are planning massive violence against Israeli civilians mostly to revolt against the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian government. Abu Nasser, an Al Aqsa leader in the West Bank, told WND, "When we were in power, we were obliged to be more sensitive and more obedient to the instructions and policies of our leadership. Now that we lost the elections, why should we obey the leaders and just who do we obey? The Hamas?" Abu Nasser said the Brigades will not respect any cease-fire agreed to by Hamas and will not halt attacks at Hamas' request. Other terror leaders told WND now that Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his administration will seek an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, terrorism against Israel must be stepped up "to prove we are chasing out the Israelis like we did in Gaza." WorldNetDaily caught up with Abu Oudai, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader responsible for coordinating the organization's rocket network in the West Bank. He warned his organization is preparing a massive rocket onslaught against Israel: "We have launched [several] times and with the help of Allah we will launch these rockets regularly. There will be no calm, no cease-fire until the occupation leaves our land. I don't need to tell you that the aerial distance from Jenin to Netanya, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities is not big without telling you what are all our plans concerning other parts of the West Bank." Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Abu Hani told WND his terror group used a cease-fire signed with Israel last year "for a rest in order to rehabilitate forces. The Palestinian people preserves its right to fight against Israel ... which is forcing us to launch a new intifada." Islamic Jihad's northern West Bank leader, Abu Khalil, said his terror group is planning a new terror war to chase Israel from the West Bank and eventually from Jerusalem. Asked by WND which weapons will be emphasized during Islamic Jihad's next wave of terror attacks, Abu Khalil replied, "I should not answer this question for operational reasons. But we proved that we use everything Allah enables us to achieve and to use suicide attacks, rockets and more surprises. The Israelis should wait for interesting surprises." Related offer: Definitive work on Mideast - available only here! Previous stories: 'Good,' bad terrorists trade roles in Mideast Hamas: We don't want 'satanic' American money Hamas chief outlines 'peace initiative' 'Terror U.' sets up shop in former Jewish capital Takeover of Egypt part of Hamas' plan? Hamas hints long-term truce, demanding Israel change flag Introducing Hamastan: The new Mideast dynamic Hamas, al-Qaida linked in phony passport ring Hamas divulges 'peace initiative' Hamas government to be new Taliban? Hamas: We're ready to rule Palestinians Aaron Klein is WorldNetDaily's Jerusalem bureau chief, whose past interview subjects have included Yasser Arafat, Ehud Barak, Mahmoud al-Zahar and leaders of the Taliban.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

By Jerome R. Corsi An Iranian fatwa (holy edict) permitting the use of nuclear weapons has been issued for the first time. Mohsen Gharavian, a disciple of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, has stated that using nuclear weapons as a counter-measure is acceptable in terms of sharia (Islamic law), depending upon the goal for which the weapons are used. Up until now, the religious leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran have publicly declared that the use of nuclear weapons are opposed to sharia, maintaining this position to buttress the argument that Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only. Gharavian, a lecturer at the religious schools of Qom, stated that: One must say that when the entire world is armed with nuclear weapons, it is only natural that, as a counter-measure, it is necessary to be able to use these weapons. However, what is important is the goal they may be used for. With Iran's President Ahmadinejad openly declaring that Israel must be wiped from the map of the Middle East, we are compelled to ask if Gharavian would consider killing Israeli Jews to be a purpose that sharia would consider acceptable for the use of nuclear weapons? This fatwa marks a clear signal that the ultra-conservative spiritual leaders in Iran are in full control. Gharavian's statement takes additional importance because he is a disciple of Ayatollah Yazdi, who is also the spiritual mentor of Ahmadinejad. The Jamkaran Mosque in Qom was also the center from which Ayatollah Khomeini based his opposition to the Pahlavi dynasty before he was forced to leave Iran in exile. Devout Shiites believe that the Mahdi, the famous "lost Twelfth Iman," disappeared as a young boy down a well that is now revered within the Jamkaran Mosque. Ayatollah Yazdi and President Ahmadinejad both profess that the Mahdi will emerge from that same well in his Second Coming, but only following an apocalypse in which the world will go through great calamities and upheavals. In September 2005, when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, Ahmadinejad mentioned the Mahdi in describing what he considered to be his divinely appointed political mission as president of Iran. Gharavian's fatwa was published by the IraNews news agency, suggesting that the statement had the official blessing of the Iranian regime. Iran has openly defied the world diplomatic community by deciding unilaterally to resume uranium processing at Isfahan and uranium enriching at Natanz. Now, the Mesbah Yazdi group has given the first public statement that the use of nuclear weapons is authorized on religious grounds, a further defiant step on the road toward Iran's open proclamation that the regime is pursuing nuclear weapons, not simply the peaceful use of nuclear power. The signs that the radical fundamentalists have regained control of Iran's revolution are abundant. In recent weeks, Ahmadinejad has traveled to Damascus to give Syrian President Bashar Assad his support in the international controversy over Sryian complicity in the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Hariri. Last summer, before taking over the presidency, Ahmadinejad met in Tehran with Seyed Hassan Nasrollah, the Lebanese leader of the radical terrorist group Hezbollah. In January this year, Moqtada al-Sadr, the young Iraqi Shiite radical cleric whose "Al-Mahdi Army" engaged in acts of terrorism in April 2004 against U.S. troops in Iraq, visited Tehran and swore to support Iran if the United States or Israel should attack Iran. Hamas member Muhammad Jamal al-Natshah, who was elected to the Palestinian legislature in late January, after being released from Israeli prison, declared that Iran would provide financial support to Hamas if Israel should cut off funds. Iran is also rushing to conclude with China a $100 billion deal that will allow a Chinese government-controlled oil company to develop the vast oil and natural-gas holdings in Iran's Yadavaran field. The goal is to complete the deal before a U.S.-led motion might cause the Security Council to consider imposing additional sanctions on Iran for violations in their nuclear program. Iran will hold in euros foreign currency reserves from the sale of oil and natural gas to China. With China's increasing dependency upon Iran for energy resources, the Iranians have suggested that China should diversify into euros a greater portion of their nearly $1 trillion in foreign currency reserves. With approximately 75 percent of China's foreign currency reserves currently held in dollars, a move by the Chinese to the euro could depress the value of the dollar, making more costly the U.S. Treasury's need to sell massive debt into the international markets to maintain our large and growing twin trade and budget deficits. Now, ahead of the International Atomic Energy Agency's scheduled March 6 meeting in Vienna to vote on referring Iran to the Security Council, the IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei has suggested that Iran might be permitted to enrich a small quantity of uranium for "research and development" purposes. ElBaradei has told diplomats recently that a pilot enrichment program at Natanz is Iran's bottom-line, "a reality" the world may have to learn to live with. With this statement, the prospect looms that Iran may once again have won the negotiating game of chess, by winning the concession of even the IAEA that Natanz and Isfahan can continue operating. Even should the IAEA vote to send the Iranian portfolio to the Security Council, Russia and China appear ready to veto any meaningful sanctions. In the next few weeks, we will most likely see the United States forced to admit that the Bush administration strategy since the second inauguration of allowing the IAEA and the E.U.-3 to lead negotiations with Iran may simply amount to a waste of time. Iran has also begun suggesting that the Russian proposal to enrich uranium on Russian soil, possibly with the assistance of an international consortium pledging to provide enriched uranium to Iran will be acceptable, as long as Iran can also continue enriching uranium on Iranian soil. What reason does the world community have to believe that Iran will only enrich a small amount of uranium when Iran has consistently violated agreements with the IAEA? With Iran and Hamas both declaring that Israel has no legitimate reason to survive and with diplomacy failing to contain the Iranian nuclear program, increasingly the military option is the only option left with any promise of stopping Iran from having nuclear weapons that the mullahs now declare can be used in accordance with Islamic law. What more do we need to see before we conclude that Israel and America are inevitably headed to war with Iran? Purchase Jerome Corsi's "Atomic Iran," the definitive shocking expose of nuclear terror Jerome R. Corsi received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and articles, including co-authoring with John O'Neill the No. 1 New York Times best-seller, "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry." Dr. Corsi's most recent books include "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil," which he co-authored with WND columnist Craig. R. Smith, and "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians."
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
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"Beware cockpit intrusion. Two aircraft hit world trade center."
This cryptic message appeared at 9:23 a.m. on Captain Jason Dahl's in-flight computer screen Sept. 11, 2001. By 9:28, the terrorists had taken control of United Flight 93. However, a heroic group of passengers aboard the flight fought back against their captors, in what has been called "America's first strike back against terrorism."
What really happened aboard Flight 93 over Pennsylvania that day?
Recently revealed critical details have been painstakingly combined to create a moving and inspiring documentary "Portrait of Courage: The Untold Story of Flight 93." This unforgettable one-hour special tribute hosted by actor Michael Flynn will be broadcast for just the second time on television Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. EST/PST (7 p.m. MST/CST) on the i Networkformerly PAX-TV.
This docudrama features exclusive interviews, the actual voice recording from the Cleveland Ohio Air Traffic Control Center, and newly released forensic evidence of what occurred during the final 30 minutes of that fateful flight.
Produced by Grizzly Adams Productions in association with Total Living Network, the documentary is based in part on the book "Fighting Back" by Deena Burnett, wife of passenger Tom Burnett. Mrs. Burnett shares the moving details of the four in-flight calls from her husband that morning. When she informed her husband of the fate of the earlier planes, he realized the peril that faced Flight 93. Tom Burnett and fellow passengers began formulating a plan to take back the plane.
Flynn shares compelling details about those on board: a strategic business planner, an NCAA judo champion, an ex-detective, a former paratrooper with the 101st Airborne, a Navy veteran, a skilled pilot, an emergency medical technician, and two men trained in hand-to-hand combat, among others. Recollections by loved ones of their final conversations reveal the heroic determination of the passengers that prevented Flight 93 from flying into the U.S. Capitol.
"It was almost as if someone had handpicked a group of people that could carry out an insurrection against the hijackers," says Washington correspondent Gregory Gordon of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
In the program, friends and family members of the passengers and crew share personal recollections about the unique talents and abilities their heroic loved ones possessed, making them a distinctively gifted group exceptionally prepared for the good versus evil battle in the sky that day. Interviewees include Deena Burnett, Sandy Dahl wife of Flight 93's Captain Jason Dahl; airline pilot David Dosch, Captain Dahl's best friend; Lorne Lyles who received a phone call from his wife, flight attendant Cee-Cee Lyles; and Kenny Nacke whose brother is believed to have been a key player in the passenger revolt. These and others share their insights and sustaining faith, along with telephone operator Lisa Jefferson, who shared an emotional recital of the Lord's Prayer with Todd Beamer before his final call to arms, "Let's roll!"
"The more we learn about the terrorists' plans and targets for that day, the greater the significance of the valor displayed by the passengers and crew," says supervising producer Chuck Sellier. "Telling their story is one way we can commemorate their lives and the ultimate sacrifice they made for us."
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
![]() Lt. Col. Bob Stephenson in pro-war ad opposed by Democrats in Minnesota |
The first of two ads, which are being tested in Minnesota, was rejected by St. Paul station KSTP because it criticizes the mainstream media. It includes Staff Sgt. Marcellus Wilks of Iowa, Capt. Mark Weber of Iowa and Lt. Col. Bob Stephenson of Minnesota.
In the 60-second spot, which can be viewed here, Stephenson, a Marine reservist, says:
"You'd never know it from the news reports, but our enemy in Iraq is al-Qaida, the same terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans on 9-11, the same terrorists from the first World Trade Center bombing, the USS Cole, Madrid, London and many more."
Stephenson, who spent five months in Iraq, said in an interview the ad is a chance to show the other side, as Americans hear mostly about death tolls, security problems and other negative aspects of war, the Associated Press reported.
"The mainstream media has a message about the war in Iraq that perhaps isn't shared by a lot of people involved in the military," he said. "Some folks that haven't had a different perspective on the war on terror will have this perspective added to the mix."
The ads were funded by the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group Progress for America, which says it's comitted to "forcing the media to report the facts about President Bush's commonsense conservative agenda" and "setting the record straight about liberal groups like Moveon.org, AARP & the unions."
![]() Merilee Carlson, mother of slain soldier, in pro-war ad opposed by Democrats in Minnesota |
The newest ad features Merrilee Carlson of St. Paul, whose son Michael was killed in Iraq last year. This past Memorial Day, the Wall Street Journal published her son's "credo," titled "An American Soldier."
Michael Carlson wrote:
"When I am on my deathbed, what am I going to look back on? Will it be thirty years of fighting crime and protecting the country of all enemies, foreign and domestic? I want my life to account for something. ... I only have so much time. I want to be good at life; I want to be known as the best of the best at my job. I want people to need me, to count on me. ... I want to fight for something, be part of something that is greater than myself. I want to be a soldier. ... "
Carlson, 22, was killed on a mission to take out two bomb-making factories.
His mother says in the ad:
"We are privileged to have men and women serving in the military who are willing to give their lives, their time, and their energy to preserve, protect and defend our freedom."We can't leave this work undone in Iraq. We can all argue about how we might have gotten there. But we're there and we need to see it through. ... I suppose we could have taken the beaches at Normandy and then decided it was too expensive or too difficult to keep going. I wonder what the world would look like today."
"Swift-boating' the war
Last Thursday, top Democratic leaders in Minnesota demanded television stations in the state stop airing the initial ad, calling it "un-American, untruthful and a lie," noted the Minnesota-based weblog Powerline.
"There is a line that shouldn't be crossed," said Brian Melendez of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, or DFL as the Democratic Party is known in the state. "There's room for a lot of puffery in politics. You know, there is room for spin, there is room for opinion, there is room for disagreement. There shouldn't be so much room for lies. And this ad is about lies."
Powerline reported the DFL sent out an e-mail message, saying, "The ads erroneously make a connection between Iraq and the 9/11 terrorists attacks and suggest that the war in Iraq will prevent an attack by Al Queda in America. The 9/11 Commission findings clearly state that there was no connection between Iraq and the the [sic] Al Queda terrorists attacks on 9/11. We must call for media responsibility regarding this issue."
But the ad does not refer to the contentious claim that Iraq was connected to 9-11, alluding only to the fact that the coalition's No. 1 enemy in the country is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of the terrorist group known as Al-Qaida's Jihad Committee in Iraq.
The Democrat's letter says the party has "extraordinary sympathy for our troops and their families and believe that while our soldiers' role is to protect the citizens of our country, it is our role as citizens to protect our soldiers and to make certain that they are not misused. It is a travesty that the tragedies of five countries and the deaths of our brave men and women are being used in this type of propaganda."
Noting that Minnesota is a testing ground for the ads, the e-mail says, "If Minnesota speaks out and says no to this ad, the entire country can thank us. What we do here, now, will have an enormous impact on the success or failure of this kind of swiftboating in 06."
At a press conference, Melendez declared Minnesota "has a chance to take a stand against this misleading and untruthful propaganda," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.
"Minnesota TV stations should pull this ad and send a message that we will not tolerate this kind of 'swift-boating' anymore."
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| India Seeks Humans Sickened by Bird Flu Feb 20 10:22 PM US/Eastern | |
By ASHOK SHARMA
Associated Press Writer
NAVAPUR, India
Indian health officials went door-to-door Monday searching for people sickened by the deadly bird flu strain, while hundreds of German troops disposed of dead wild birds in a desperate attempt to contain the fast-moving disease in Europe. In Brussels, Belgium, European Union agriculture ministers discussed ways to combat bird flu _ such as by vaccinating poultry _ as the disease spread to half-a-dozen EU nations. Malaysia announced the deaths of 40 chickens from the lethal H5N1 strain, the first reported cases of the virus in the country in more than a year. In Hong Kong Tuesday, a dead magpie found near a street flower market was confirmed to have been infected by the H5N1 virus, the government said. It was the latest in a spate of bird deaths from the strain in recent weeks. With India conducting a mass slaughter of birds for a second day Monday, plumes of black smoke filled the air as farmers burned dead chickens in the now-deserted poultry farms around Navapur, more than 250 miles northeast of Bombay. Local officials near the affected area reported that a 27-year-old poultry farm owner died of bird flu-like symptoms, though tests had yet to determine the cause of death. Samples from at least eight other people hospitalized for flu-like symptoms near Navapur also were being tested, and results were expected later this week. Inspectors visited homes and farms surrounding Navapur, a town of 30,000 people, searching for signs of illness and making sure even chickens being raised at private homes were killed and properly disposed of. "It's like a war _ they come in completely covered with masks and goggles and check if the carcasses are disposed properly," said Ghulam Vhora, a Navapur poultry farmers' association. Since early Sunday, more than 200,000 chickens have been slaughtered around Navapur, a major poultry farming region where the H5N1 strain of bird flu was found in some of 30,000 dead chickens. Checkpoints also have been set up to stop people carrying poultry out of the area. Heavy earth movers also dug deep pits at some poultry farms. Workers already dumped more than 200,000 bird carcasses along with the gloves, goggles and blue gowns used by health teams. The pits were coated with chemicals, including disinfectant, before being filled in. The government now plans to slaughter some 700,000 birds within a 1.5- mile radius of the outbreak, and 48 poultry farms will be emptied and shut for three months. There are concerns the Indian poultry industry could suffer badly. India exports some $84 million worth of poultry and eggs annually to Europe, Japan and the Middle East. "There must be no movement of poultry out of Navapur," said O.P. Tiwari, a health officer in neighboring Surat district. Since 2003, the H5N1 virus has devastated poultry and killed at least 92 people, mostly in Asia, according to the World Health Organization. Most human cases have been linked to contact with infected birds. But scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmitted between humans, triggering a pandemic. Nigerian health authorities said Monday the H5N1 strain has been identified in two more states, and the government ordered an immediate slaughter of birds in the area. The northern states Katsina and Zamfara are among five of Nigeria's 36 states now confirmed to have been affected. Nigeria documented Africa's first H5N1 case earlier this month, but no human infections have been reported. In Europe, nearly 250 German troops cleared dead birds from the Baltic island of Ruegen, where the country's first outbreak of the disease were confirmed in wild birds last week. EU officials cautioned against panic, saying bird flu had not reached commercial stocks, only wild birds. They encouraged people to continue eating poultry. "This is an animal disease, not a human disease," EU Public Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou said. "There is no reason for Europeans not to eat poultry meat." France, the EU's largest poultry producer, became the latest European country to confirm H5N1 in wild fowl. Birds in Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy and Slovenia also have tested positive for the strain. Hungary also has reported five cases of suspected H5N1 in birds. Elsewhere in Europe, the virus has turned up in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Bulgaria. European chicken farmers said consumption has fallen, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. The EU head office said recent outbreaks of avian bird flu in wild birds had created "a very serious market situation." However, EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel told the EU farm ministers that conditions were not serious enough to warrant compensation for poultry farmers. She said she would reconsider "if the situation so requires." France, the Netherlands, Italy and other nations want to vaccinate poultry "but opinion in Europe is divided," said Josef Proell, the Austrian agriculture minister who chaired the EU meeting. In Asia, Malaysia's government said 40 chickens died last week from the H5N1 virus in an area near Kuala Lumpur, the main city. Agriculture Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said there were no human deaths, and all 110 chickens in the area, covering four hamlets, were slaughtered. Malaysia had declared itself free of bird flu in January 2005, more than six weeks after its last infection was detected.
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BOSTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -
United Press International -
- Scientists say they've concluded containment might buy time, but is not enough to stop a flu pandemic.Through mathematical modeling, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and Seattle's University of Washington show flu outbreaks are likely to emerge in multiple locations and containment of all outbreaks is improbable.
Based on the modeling, the scientists predict containment efforts could likely double the time before a pandemic appears. But they say containment should be just one element of a multi-pronged preparedness strategy.
The work is part of a project aimed at developing modeling techniques to understand the spread of infectious diseases, including pandemic flu.
The findings appear in PLoS Medicine online.
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060220-085559-1675r
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science CorrespondentMon Feb 20, 8:03 PM ET
Bird flu is likely to cross over into people again and again if it ever even once acquires the ability to pass from human to human, experts predicted on Monday.
In theory, the virus only has to mutate once, in one person, to spark a pandemic. But the researchers argue that this could happen again and again, in several places around the world.
They said even if the current pandemic killing birds passes, no one should breathe a sign of relief because the threat to people will not be gone.
"At best, a containment policy will only postpone the emergence of a pandemic, 'buying time' to prepare for its effects," Dr. Marc Lipsitch and colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health and Dr. Carl Bergstrom from the University of Washington wrote.
This is what officials hope they are doing now by culling birds when new outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza occur. Public health experts agree the world is nowhere near ready to cope with a pandemic, but with a few years' preparations, some countries might be.
"We argue here that if a single introduction of a pandemic-capable strain is expected, multiple introductions should also be expected," Lipsitch's team wrote in the Public Library of Science Medicine, an online medical journal.
"Each containment effort would likely be more difficult than the last as manpower, antiviral stockpiles, and other scarce resources become depleted," they wrote.
H5N1 avian influenza has spread in chickens from Korea, across China, south into Indonesia, west across Turkey into western Europe and into the African continent.
It has killed or forced the culling of more than 200 million birds in 32 countries and Hong Kong. While it does not easily infect people yet, it has sickened 170 people and killed 92, according to the latest World Health Organization figures.
No one can say if or when it would happen, but if H5N1 acquired the ability to pass easily from human to human, it could spark a pandemic that would kill millions or even tens of million within a few short months.
TEMPORARY CONTAINMENT
Some experts have published theoretical models showing that quick action with antiviral drugs, culling of birds and isolation of cases could quell such a pandemic before it started.
But it would require a lot of luck, noted Lipsitch and colleagues -- not the least identifying those cases right away, before they spread the disease.
Other experts have also noted this and also said there is no reason to believe that the mutations needed to make H5N1 a human disease would occur only once. Lipsitch's team ran some mathematical models based on known disease outbreaks.
Their article, published online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030135, suggests that an H5N1 pandemic could only be contained temporarily. And the longer the virus is around, the harder it will be to stop it from spreading.
"Even if each successive containment effort is no more difficult than its predecessor, the chance of at least one failure increases with the number of introductions," they wrote.
"Since the last pandemic nearly 40 years ago, we have observed dramatic changes in social and ecological factors thought to facilitate emergence of a pandemic-capable strain," the researchers wrote.
"Surging human and bird populations in Asia have increased the frequency of contact between birds and humans -- and these changes might facilitate emergence by permitting 'crossing over' of a mutated avian influenza to humans, or by allowing human and avian influenzas to reassort in the same animal host."
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| Is A War Going On In Texas? | |
| Feb. 15, 2006 | by Phyllis Schlafly |
| If you don't have access to Texas newspapers or the internet, you may not have heard the sensational news about the enormous cache of weapons just seized in Laredo, Texas. U.S. authorities grabbed two completed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), materials for making 33 more, military-style grenades, 26 grenade triggers, large quantities of AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, 1,280 rounds of ammunition, silencers, machine gun assembly kits, 300 primers, bullet-proof vests, police scanners, sniper scopes, narcotics, and cash. That sounds like a war is going on in Texas! If bomb-making factories and firearms assembly plants are ordinary day-to-day business in the drug war along our southern border, the American people need to know more about it. The Val Verde County chief deputy warned that drug traffickers are helping terrorists with possible al Quaeda ties to cross the Texas-Mexico border into the United States. A government spokesman in Houston said "at this point there is no connection with anything in Iraq." We are not so easily reassured. We wonder what our government is doing to fulfill its duty to "protect each of them [the states] against invasion," as called for in the U.S. Constitution, Article IV. The Department of Homeland Security now admits that there have been 231 documented incursions by Mexican military or police, or drug or people smugglers dressed in military uniforms, during the last ten years, including 63 in Arizona, and several Border Patrol agents have been wounded in these encounters. This admission comes after years of pretending that such incursions were just "accidents." Homeland Security sent a confidential memo in January to our Border Patrol agents warning that they could be the targets of assassins hired by alien smugglers. The alert states that the contract killers will probably be members of the vicious MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang (whose 17-year-old killers will be protected from capital punishment by a recent U.S Supreme Court decision). There is, indeed, a drug war going on between rival drug gangs, but the U.S. government seems to be just a bystander without manpower or weapons to take action. Are we going to continue to leave our Border agents sitting ducks for Mexican snipers? Rep. Tom Tancredo reported that sheriff deputies spotted a military-style Humvee near El Paso, Texas, with a mounted .50-caliber machine gun escorting a caravan of SUVs bringing illegal drugs into our country. Our outgunned and outmanned sheriff deputies and state highway patrol couldn't do anything except take pictures. The Mexican government is unwilling or incapable of doing anything to stop the w ide-open lawlessness on the Mexican side of the border. Our Border Patrol agents say they are often confronted by corrupt Mexican military units employed to protect and escort violent drug smugglers. Meanwhile, the news media have shown us pictures of the just-discovered sophisticated 2,400-foot tunnel running under our border to a warehouse in San Diego. U.S. authorities recovered more than two tons of marijuana, and it is unclear how long the tunnel has been in operation or how many tons of drugs already passed through. The Bush Administration whines that it can't (i.e., won't) do anything to implement border security unless its guest-worker/amnesty proposal is part of the legislative package, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff looked pathetically weak when interviewed on television by Bill O'Reilly. When is our government going to protect us from the crime, the drugs, the smuggling racket, destruction of property, the endangerment to U.S. residents along our border and our undermanned Border Patrol? In charge of protecting Americans against this war is 36-year-old Julie Myers, to whom President Bush gave a recess appointment after her Senate confirmation bogged down because of her total lack of law-enforcement experience. Her qualifications are her connections: she is the niece of former Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers and the wife of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's chief of staff. Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) says that if you visit the border, you will find that almost everyone who lives there is armed for protection from illegals. Just imagine if you had to carry a gun to go to the grocery store or take your kids to school! For the best up-to-date analysis of what our government should do, read Rep. Hayworth's new book called "Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigratio n, Border Security, and the War on Terror." He calls for a security fence, 10,000 border agents, enforcement of penalties on employers who hire illegal aliens, cooperation between the feds and our 700,000 local and state police officers to enforce our immigration laws, more detention centers to keep illegals until they can be deported, and an end to the racket of giving U.S. citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens. Further reading: Immigration / Amnesty | |
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THE Truth will set you FREE
By Jennifer Bails
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Monday, February 20, 2006
Protecting yourself from biological weapons might be as simple as using a hot clothes iron.
Through a project for a statewide science competition, Central Catholic High School senior Marc Roberge discovered truth in the urban legend that ironing can kill anthrax spores in contaminated mail.
His findings will appear in the June edition of the Journal of Medical Toxicology, which publishes peer-reviewed research papers. It is an accomplishment usually reserved for Ph.D.-level scientists and physicians.
"He's just 17. I was 35 before I had my first publication," said Roberge's father, Dr. Raymond Roberge, a medical toxicologist who works for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in South Park. "This is just amazing to me."
Marc Roberge's idea for his Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Sciences project -- which won first place at regional and state events last year -- came after the 2001 bioterrorism attack in which letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two U.S. senators. Anthrax infections killed five people. The crimes remain unsolved.
Anthrax mail scares still occur periodically. Last week, a letter containing a mysterious white powder and addressed to Americans triggered an anthrax alert at a NATO center in Norway, the Associated Press reported.
Anthrax spores, covered by a hard protective shell, can fatally infect people who inhale them deep into the lungs.
On Oct. 12, 2001, a former Soviet germ warfare specialist told members of a U.S. Congressional committee that people could use a hot steam iron through a moist layer of fabric to kill anthrax spores in mail.
This comment spawned debate about whether conventional household irons would work against the deadly agent. During a CNN interview four years ago, a reporter asked Dr. Roberge if the report was accurate.
"My response was to her was that high heat could kill anthrax, but I didn't know if a household iron would work, since no studies had been done," he said.
Roberge discussed the topic over dinner that night with his son, who decided to investigate it for his Academy of Sciences project, required as part of his Advanced Placement biology course.
For his experiments -- conducted in the family's Highland Park home and at Central Catholic in Oakland -- Marc Roberge did not use actual anthrax.
"The government might have had a little problem with that," he said.
Instead, he substituted a more heat-resistant but harmless bacterial spore from the anthrax family that scientists often use as a surrogate.
Marc Roberge placed paper strips laden with millions of spores inside standard envelopes, and then ironed the mail at various dry heat settings for up to 15 minutes.
He found that an iron adjusted to the hottest setting -- at least 204.5 degrees Celsius, or 400 degrees Fahrenheit -- and used for at least 5 minutes destroyed all spores so no bacteria would grow. The iron didn't open the letters or make pen-written addresses hard to read, Roberge said.
"When the anthrax attacks happened, I thought, 'There's got to be a way to stop this,'" he said. "I just never thought it would be so easy."
Based on Roberge's findings, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center bioterrorism expert Dr. Michael Allswede doesn't recommend that people routinely press their mail.
"But should there be another threat like the anthrax attacks in 2001, it would be one of the techniques that could be used by regular people," he said.
Jennifer Bails can be reached at jbails@tribweb.com or (412) 320-7991.
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| 'President's gone insane' 9/11 dad BY JIMMY VIELKIND DAILY NEWS WRITER Monday, February 20th, 2006 Peter Gadiel just doesn't get it. How, asks Gadiel, whose son James died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, can a company owned by a terror-linked country get control of our nation's ports? "I'm a lifelong Republican and I think the President's gone insane," said Gadiel, 58, who heads 9/11 Families for a Secure America. Two of the 19 9/11 hijackers were citizens of Dubai, the Arab emirate whose bid to run ports in New York, New Jersey and four other cities was okayed by the White House even though investigators have found signs that money used to finance terrorism flowed through Dubai banks. "How the hell could this happen?" fumed Bill Doyle, 58, a retired Staten Island stockbroker whose son Joseph also died when the Trade Center fell. "We're not securing our country in any way by selling our ports to foreigners," he said. Gadiel and Doyle stood with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) yesterday at the harbor to express their outrage. Bruse DeCell, 55, whose son-in-law died in the attacks, said that homeland security should be the highest concern when approving the activities of foreign business interests. "This administration is putting the selling of our country on a fast track," he said. "There are a lot of loose ends that caused 9/11 to happen. I'm trying to close them." Only 5% of the cargo containers entering U.S. ports are inspected, said Schumer, who has called for upgrades in port security for years. |
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To: <elcm@messiahsbranch.org>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 10:43 AM
Subject: Editorials from the Hebrew Press 20-Feb-2006
Editorials from the Hebrew Press 20-Feb-2006
20/02/2006 18:10:05
Shalom, Pastor Dan Catlin
**Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press 20-Feb-2006
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Haaretz - http://www.haaretz.com
Ma'ariv - http://www.maariv.co.il
Yediot Aharonot - http://www.ynet.co.il
Globes - http://www.globes.co.il
Hazofeh - http://www.hazofe.co.il
Jerusalem Post - http://www.jpost.com
Haaretz comments: "It is not realistic to think about separating Hamas rule
from the Palestinian people, or about starving government institutions while
sending humanitarian assistance directly to the population. The Palestinians
chose their leadership democratically, and any such separation is arrogant
and has no chance. The unsuccessful comments by Dov Weissglas - whose
position and source of authority in the present government is difficult to
understand - regarding the need to put the Palestinian nation on a diet, but
not to starve it, symbolizes more than anything the humiliating way in which
Israel relates to the Palestinians, which was one of the factors in Hamas'
rise to power. It is unnecessary and degrading to recommend a diet to a
hungry and unemployed nation, in addition to which Israel is still
responsible for preventing hunger in all parts of the West Bank that it
controls as an occupying power...The government must declare a waiting
period in which nothing will change in the agreements between the PA and
Israel that were in effect before the elections. The government must wait
and examine how the Hamas government will use the money transferred to it,
and not expect that the Palestinian nation will change its tune. Any
pressure in this direction is liable to cause radicalization and a renewal
of violence."
The Jerusalem Post writes: "The welcome presence in Israel of Tenzin Gyatso,
the 14th Dalai Lama and leader of the Tibetan people, reminds Israelis that
we are not, after all, at the center of the universe; that there are
political struggles, philosophical approaches and spiritual roads that have
nothing to do with Jews, Israel, or the clash between Islamist medievalism
and Western modernity...Yet alluring as the Dalai Lama's message is, his is
not the Jewish way. Facing an enemy that invented the suicide bomber's belt,
the response of unilateral pacifism would result in our annihilation. In
place of an imperfect Israel, a violently reactionary Islamist regime would
arise. Still, even though the message of non-violence resonates only as a
faint hope vis-a-vis the Arab and Muslim world, perhaps the presence of this
'simple Buddhist monk' will at least remind Israelis of the way we should
treat each other."
[Yediot Aharonot and Hatzofeh were not available today.]
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Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 11:22 AM
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Cabinet Communique 19-Feb-2006
19/02/2006 18:49:13
Shalom, Pastor Dan Catlin
**Cabinet Communique 19-Feb-2006
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**Cabinet Communique 19-Feb-2006
(Communicated by the Cabinet Secretariat)
At the weekly cabinet meeting today (Sunday, 19 February 2006):
1. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Education, Culture and Sports
Minister Meir Shetrit eulogized the late Shoshana Damari.
2. Ministers were briefed on Palestinian affairs following the Palestinian
Authority (PA) elections and determined policy in light of the swearing-in
of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).
Acting Prime Minister Olmert made the following remarks:
"From Israel's point-of-view, a new situation has been created. Israel has
defined threshold conditions for holding contacts with Palestinians in the
Hamas administration and it will continue to act accordingly. Israel has
proven that it is interested in acting on behalf of regional peace and
stability. The disengagement is a main example of this, at the base of which
lies the desire to have here two states for two peoples living side-by-side
in stability, security, and peace. Of course, Israel will continue to see to
the personal security of Israeli citizens and will not compromise on this
issue now or in the future. It is clear that in light of the Hamas majority
in the PLC and the instructions to form a new government that were given to
the head of Hamas, the PA is - in practice - becoming a terrorist authority.
The State of Israel will not agree to this. Israel will not compromise with
terrorism and will continue to fight it with full force. However, there is
no intention of harming the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian
population. Israel will not hold contacts with the administration in which
Hamas plays any part - small, large, or permanent.
"From our point-of-view, the swearing-in of the PLC means that Hamas has -
in effect - taken control of the PA. Israel views the rise of Hamas as a
dangerous milestone that turns the PA into a terrorist authority. This new
situation will influence the future of Israeli-PA relations and will begin a
period in which ties with the PA are downgraded, unless Hamas fully accepts
the principles that the international community has presented to it:
Recognition of the State of Israel and abrogation of the Hamas Covenant, the
renunciation of terrorism and the dismantling of terrorist infrastructures
(by adopting the Roadmap and accepting its principles), and recognizing all
understandings and agreements between Israel and the Palestinians.
"It must be pointed out that the international community's
point-of-reference is the day on which a Palestinian government is formed.
Until then, the international community will continue to see it as the main
address, including that regarding the continued transfer of financial
assistance. The US and the EU include Hamas on their lists of terrorist
organizations and are refraining - at this stage - from any contacts with
it. We will continue to demand that the PA fully honor the three conditions
that the international community has set before it. Until this happens, we
will take a series of steps, some of which we will decide on today. In any
case, Israel has no intention of bringing about the collapse of civil
frameworks and creating a humanitarian crisis in the PA. Israel will
continue to act determinedly against terrorism and against terrorists. The
new situation, in which Hamas members have been elected to the PLC, does not
change this."
OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yedlin, ISA Director Yuval Diskin, National
Security Council Chairman Giora Eiland, and Coordinator of Government
Activities in the Territories Maj.-Gen. Yosef Mishlav briefed ministers on
the results of the recent PA elections.
The cabinet decided as follows:
"It is decided that, upon the swearing-in of the Hamas dominated PLC
yesterday (Saturday, 18 February 2006), and upon the upcoming conclusion of
the PA transitional government, the PA will become a terrorist authority
unless Hamas, which controls the PA, fully accepts the following threshold
conditions as determined by Israel and approved by the Quartet:
* Recognition of the State of Israel and the abrogation of the Hamas
Covenant;
* Renunciation of terrorism and the dismantling of terrorism
infrastructures;
* Recognition of agreements and understandings between Israel and the
Palestinians.
A. Therefore, the cabinet immediately decides - at this stage - to implement
a series of measures vis-א-vis the PA:
i. Upon the formation of the transitional government, no funds will be
transferred from Israel to the PA;
ii. Israel will appeal to the international community so that, upon the
formation of the transitional government, the international community will
refrain from all financial assistance to the PA except for humanitarian aid
given directly to the Palestinian population;
iii. Transfers of means and assistance to the Palestinian security services
will be prevented;
iv. The movement of VIPs connected to Hamas, including members of the PLC,
will continue to be restricted in all areas under Israeli control;
v. Given the heightened security risks, security checks at crossings -
especially Karni and Erez - will be increased, regarding both people and
goods. Activities to upgrade the Gaza Strip crossings will continue in order
to enable more effective security oversight.
B. All measures necessary to thwart acts of terrorism against Israel will
continue, both in the Gaza Strip and in the Gaza Strip; acceleration in
construction of the security fence will continue.
3. The cabinet discussed the issue of the construction of the permanent
Beduin Negev communities of al-Fura and Abu-Talul.
4. The cabinet, pursuant to the 1982 Communications Law (Bezeq and
Broadcasts), accepted Communications Minister Avraham Hirschson's and
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni's recommendation, and appointed attorney Rani
Neubauer as the Justice Ministry representative to the Cable and Satellite
Broadcast Council, in place of Noga Rubinstein, who has finished her
position at the Justice Ministry.
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