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Woman sailor ‘confesses’ on Iranian TV
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Iran has broadcast a film of the lone woman among 15 Royal Navy personnel seized in the Gulf last week, in which she says she “obviously trespassed” into Iranian territory.
As the seven sailors and eight Marines were paraded on Iranian state television, Leading Seaman Faye Turney was shown separately, wearing a headscarf and smoking a cigarette.
An apparent recording of the 26-year-old said: “I am Leading Seaman Faye Turney. I come from England. I serve on Foxtrot Nine Nine. I have been in the Navy nine years. I live in England.”
“I was arrested on Friday March 23. Obviously we trespassed into their waters. They were very friendly and very hospitable, very thoughtful, good people. They explained to us why we had been arrested. There was no aggression, no hurt, no harm.They were very, very compassionate.”
The broadcast was accompanied by what was claimed to be a letter from Ms Turney, 26, to her parents, which was released by the Iranian Embassy in London. In the letter, Ms Turney said they had “apparently” gone into Iranian waters and repeated her assurances that was being treated well by her captors.
“We were out in the boats when we were arrested by Iranian forces as we had apparently gone into Iranian waters,” the letter said. “I wish we hadn’t because then I’d be home with you all right now.”
The footage, condemned immediately by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as “completely unacceptable”, was made available at the end of a day of increasingly tense diplomatic gestures. This morning the Ministry of Defence published satellite coordinates which commanders said proved that the personnel were 1.7 nautical miles inside Iraqi waters when they were “ambushed” by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, then told MPs that Britain was immediately freezing all bilateral ties with Iran — except for negotiations directly concerning the 15. “They should not be under any doubt at all about how seriously we regard this act, which is unjustified and wrong,” Mrs Beckett said.
Iran responded by stating that the “first stage” of the investigation into the capture was nearly complete and hinted that Ms Turney could be released as early as this evening. “Today or tomorrow, the lady will be released,” Manouchehr Mottaki, the Foreign Minister, said on the sidelines of an Arab summit in Riyadh.
The sixth day of the hostage crisis began with a briefing by Vice-Admiral Style, Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff, who displayed nautical charts and photographs showing the position of the group when they were seized.
Vice-Admiral Style said that their coordinates had been confirmed by the skipper of an Indian-registered merchant vessel that the sailors had just inspected when they were captured.
The Navy chief said that the group were engaged in routine anti-smuggling patrols under a UN Security Council mandate at the time, operating with the authorisation of Baghdad.
He also accused the Iranians of having changed their story over the weekend after being told that the coordinates Tehran initially gave for the incident showed that the patrol boats were in Iraqi waters.
Minutes after the MoD press conference, the Prime Minister told the Commons that Britain was mobilising international support to show Iran how isolated it was. Mr Blair described the seizure as “completely unacceptable, wrong and illegal”.
Responding to a question from David Cameron, the Conservative leader, about the rules of engagement the patrols were operating under, Mr Blair said that the sailors and Marines could have used force in self defence. But he was was quite satisfied that they had taken the right decision in not drawing their arms after being surrounded by six heavily armed Iranian Republic Guard vessels.
“If they had engaged in military combat at the stage, there would undoubtedly have been severe loss of life,” he said.
Mr Blair added by the time the crew of HMS Cornwall realised that the 15 had been detained and a Lynx helicopter dispatched to find them, they were already in Iranian waters - making intervention that much more dangerous.
The vice-admiral said that far from being inside Iranian waters, the two boats were 1.7 nautical miles — almost two land miles — inside the Iraqi part of the Shatt al-Arab waterway, which forms the border between Iran and Iraq.
Their exact postition — 29′ 50.36″ N, 048′ 43.08″E — was confirmed by a Global Positioning System (GPS) on one of the small patrol boats that was displayed on the Cornwall. It was confirmed on a subsequent fly-past of the site.
In a statement to the Commons, Mrs Beckett said that the Government had tried to deal with the crisis through “private, but robust diplomacy”. When the Iranians’ mistake over the coordinates had been established, she had suggested to her Iranian counterpart that the situation “could be easily resolved” by releasing the detained Britons.
But it was now clear that a change of tack was needed. Accordingly, Britain was mobilising diplomatic support to show Iran how isolated it was over the issue. The Foreign Secretary said that she had spoken to various world leaders, including the US Secretary of State, the Turkish Prime Minister and the foreign ministers of both Iraq and Iran.
Mrs Beckett said that the Government had “no doubts about the facts or the legitimacy of our requirements”: that Tehran state where the detainees are being held, grant Britain consular access to them and give details of their release.
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The U.S. Terrorist Database
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Interesting article about the terrorist database: Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE).
It’s huge:
Ballooning from fewer than 100,000 files in 2003 to about 435,000, the growing database threatens to overwhelm the people who manage it. “The single biggest worry that I have is long-term quality control,” said Russ Travers, in charge of TIDE at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean. “Where am I going to be, where is my successor going to be, five years down the road?”TIDE has also created concerns about secrecy, errors and privacy. The list marks the first time foreigners and U.S. citizens are combined in an intelligence database. The bar for inclusion is low, and once someone is on the list, it is virtually impossible to get off it. At any stage, the process can lead to “horror stories” of mixed-up names and unconfirmed information, Travers acknowledged.
Mostly the article tells you things you already know: the list is riddled with errors, and there’s no defined process for getting on or off the list. But the most surreal quote is at the end, from Rick Kopel, the center’s acting director:
The center came in for ridicule last year when CBS’s “60 Minutes” noted that 14 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were listed — five years after their deaths. Kopel defended the listings, saying that “we know for a fact that these people will use names that they believe we are not going to list because they’re out of circulation — either because they’re dead or incarcerated. . . . It’s not willy-nilly. Every name on the list, there’s a reason that it’s on there.”
Get that? There’s someone who deliberately puts wrong names on the list because they think the terrorists might use aliases, and they want to catch them. Given that reasoning, wouldn’t you want to put the entire phone book on the list?
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Pakistan intelligence staff killed
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Armed men have attacked an army vehicle in a Pakistani tribal area, killing five members of the military’s spy agency, officials say.
The attack on Tuesday happened in the Bajaur region bordering Afghanistan, where Pakistan authorities and tribal elders signed a deal on Monday to deny sanctuary to foreign fighters.
A major and an assistant director of the military-run Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) were killed in the attack, along with two other ISI officials and their driver, Moaz Khan, a local intelligence official, said.
He said: “Masked men riding on a motorcycle opened fire on the vehicle when the ISI officials were coming to Bajur tribal district from Peshawar.
“They also lobbed two hand grenades at the vehicle and fled.”
Security officials gave the men’s ranks on condition of anonymity.
They did not say what the ISI officials were doing in the area.
Previous attacks
Bajaur, one of Pakistan’s seven federally administered tribal zones bordering Afghanistan, was the scene of an air strike on a school in October 2006 that killed 80 people.
Pakistani officials said it was an al-Qaeda training camp but locals said the victims were students.
In January 2006, a purported CIA missile strike aimed at Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian deputy al-Qaeda leader, killed 18 people.
Development deal
Monday’s “anti-terror” agreement was signed at a ceremony attended by tribal elders near Khar, the main town of the Bajur region, said Malik Abdul Aziz, head of Bajaur’s tribal council.
Aziz said local activists said they will not shelter foreign fighters, but it was unclear whether the deal included measures to prevent them joining Taliban operations.
Aziz said: “After hectic efforts and talks with [local fighters in the tribal region], we have signed a peace deal with the government to help it fight terrorism.”
In return for the tribal elders’ support, the government will expedite development projects in the region, he said.
Officials argue that the development projects will counter the poverty that helps extremist groups find recruits among the tribal region’s young and unemployed.
Critics say the government’s military pullback has instead handed even greater control to fighters.
Hundreds of al-Qaeda fighters and Taliban fugitives sought refuge in the tribal belt after the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001.
Principal abducted
Tuesday’s attack which killed the Pakistani intelligence officers occurred around the time the principal of a high school in nearby Tank was abducted.
About a dozen armed pro-Taliban activists barged into the house of Farid Mehsud, principal of the Oxford Public School in Tank, which borders the South Waziristan tribal region, his relatives said.
They “manhandled” family members and took Mehsud and his brother Humayun away in waiting cars, a close relative of the abductees said, requesting not to be identified by name.
The relative quoted the armed men as saying: “If you destroy us, you cannot expect safety.”
The principal on Monday had called for police protection after a group of armed men visited his school and others in a bid to recruit youth to fight against Nato and US forces in Afghanistan.
In the same town, a militant recruiter and a policeman died in a clash on Monday.
Earlier on Tuesday, fighters fired eight rockets at a paramilitary troop fort in Tank and troops retaliated, but the exchange of fire caused no casualties, officials said.
Activists recently torched video shops and banned barbers from shaving beards in northwestern Pakistan, fuelling concern about the “Talibanisation” of the already conservative area.
Pakistan poured thousands of troops into parts of the tribal belt to combat fighters who fled Afghanistan. Operations in the area have left 700 soldiers and 1,000 fighters dead.
Agencies
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OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF 9/11 FLIGHT CONTRADICTED BY GOVERNMENT’S OWN DATA
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Pilots for 9/11 Truth, an international organization of pilots and aviation professionals, petitioned the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) via the Freedom of Information Act to obtain their 2002 report, “Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 77″, consisting of a Comma Separated Value (CSV) file and Flight Path Animation, allegedly derived from Flight 77’s Flight Data Recorder (FDR).
The data provided by the NTSB contradict the 9/11 Commission Report in several significant ways:
- The NTSB Flight Path Animation approach path and altitude does not support official events.
- All Altitude data shows the aircraft at least 300 feet too high to have struck the light poles.
- The rate of descent data is in direct conflict with the aircraft being able to impact the light poles and be captured in the Dept of Defense “5 Frames” video of an object traveling nearly parallel with the Pentagon lawn.
- The record of data stops at least one second prior to official impact time.
- If data trends are continued, the aircraft altitude would have been at least 100 feet too high to have hit the Pentagon.
In August, 2006, members of Pilots for 9/11 Truth received these documents from the NTSB and began a close analysis of the data they contain. After expert review and cross check, Pilots for 9/11 Truth has concluded that the information in these NTSB documents does not support, and in some instances factually contradicts, the official government position that American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon on the morning of
According to the 9/11 Commission Report, which relied heavily upon the NTSB Flight Path Study, American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon at 9:37:46 AM on the morning of
The information provided by the NTSB does not support the 9/11 Commission Report of American Airlines Flight 77 impact with the Pentagon.
Pilots for 9/11 Truth is committed to discovering the truth surrounding the events of
As concerned citizens and professionals in the aviation industry, Pilots for 9/11 Truth asks, why have these discrepancies not been addressed by agencies within the United States Government? Why have they falsely represented their own data to the American people? Pilots for 9/11 Truth takes the position that an official government inquiry into these discrepancies is warranted and long overdue. We call upon our fellow citizens to write to their Congressional representatives to inform them of these discrepancies and call for an immediate investigation into this matter. For more information please visit pilotsfor911truth.org.
Signed:
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Government Misconduct, Not Truthers, Most Insulting to 9/11 Heroes, Victims
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Toxic air, abuse of recovery process and pothole scandal is the real disgrace
A popular tactic to shut down debate on behalf of debunkers is to claim that asking questions about the official 9/11 story is insulting to the victims, and yet it is the progenitors of that myth, the government itself, that through its post-9/11 actions has inflicted the most misery and suffering upon ground zero heroes and victims.
Frothing Neo-Con attack dogs like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, along with high profile 9/11 truth TV and newspaper hit pieces put out by the BBC and their ilk, have all regurgitated the emotional rhetoric that having skepticism towards the official 9/11 fairy tale is a direct attack on the memories of those lost on 9/11 and their loved ones.
As is usually the case with arguments put forth by debunkers, the exact opposite is true.
Many of the 9/11-related court proceedings against the government and the educational efforts that tie in with them, were organized directly by 9/11 victim groups. Bill Doyle, the head of the largest 9/11 families organization, states that around half of his members have serious questions about the attacks. Doyle himself lost his own son in the collapse of the twin towers and says the 9/11 Commission Report is “a total fallacy.”
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