——=_NextPart_001_0049_01C27498.57E9B420
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
BlankTwo days after the horrific bomb blast in Bali killed more than 180
people, President Bush, appearing at a Republican campaign rally in
Michigan, cited the assault as yet another reason for vigorous prosecution
of a war against Iraq. Bush maintained that Saddam Hussein hopes to deploy
al Qaeda as his own "forward army" against the West, that "we need to
think about Saddam Hussein using al Qaeda to do his dirty work, to not
leave fingerprints behind," and that "this is a man who we know has had
connections with al Qaeda."
But neither Bush nor his administration have offered any proof for these
claims.
For the full story, read the latest installment of David Corn's Capital
Games: http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=124
Also, see Liza Featherstone's new editorial from the October 28, 2002
issue of The Nation, charting the slow but steady rise of a national peace
movement: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 021028&s=featherstone
And don't miss The Nation's new activist weblog for a host of ways that
you can register your voice against war:
http://www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?bid=4
——=_NextPart_001_0049_01C27498.57E9B420
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE id=ridTitle>Blank</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-125=
2"><BASE
href="file://C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedStationery">
<STYLE>BODY {
MARGIN-TOP: 25px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 25px; COLOR: #000000; FONT=
-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica
}
P.msoNormal {
MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; COLOR: #ffffcc; FONT-F=
AMILY: Helvetica, "Times New Roman"
}
LI.msoNormal {
MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; COLOR: #ffffcc; FONT-F=
AMILY: Helvetica, "Times New Roman"
}
</STYLE>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2719.2200" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY id=ridBody bgColor=#ffffff
background=cid:004701c2748f$f622db20$0100a8c0@FURTHERFIELD>
<DIV><STRONG>Two days after the horrific bomb blast in Bali killed more tha=
n
180<BR>people, President Bush, appearing at a Republican campaign rally
in<BR>Michigan, cited the assault as yet another reason for vigorous
prosecution<BR>of a war against Iraq. Bush maintained that Saddam Hussein h=
opes
to deploy<BR>al Qaeda as his own "forward army" against the West, that "we =
need
to<BR>think about Saddam Hussein using al Qaeda to do his dirty work, to
not<BR>leave fingerprints behind," and that "this is a man who we know has=
had<BR>connections with al Qaeda."<BR><BR>But neither Bush nor his
administration have offered any proof for these<BR>claims.<BR><BR>For the f=
ull
story, read the latest installment of David Corn's Capital<BR>Games: </STRO=
NG><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=
=124"><STRONG>http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&a=
mp;pid=124</STRONG></A><BR><BR><STRONG>Also,
see Liza Featherstone's new editorial from the October 28, 2002<BR>issue of=
The
Nation, charting the slow but steady rise of a national peace<BR>movement:=
</STRONG><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 021028&s=featherston=
e"><STRONG>http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 021028&s=feathers=
tone</STRONG></A><BR><BR><STRONG>And
don't miss The Nation's new activist weblog for a host of ways that<BR>you =
can
register your voice against war:<BR></STRONG><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?bid=4"><STRONG>http:/=
/www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?bid=4</STRONG></A><BR></DIV>
<P><STRONG></STRONG> </P></BODY></HTML>
——=_NextPart_001_0049_01C27498.57E9B420–
——=_NextPart_001_0094_01C2749A.C7535CB0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Blank"A distinguished Shi'ite religious leader, Ayatollah Sadiq Al-Husseini=
Al-Shirazi, who is a member of the Iraqi opposition and resides in the rel=
igious city of Qum (Iran) called for relentless but lawful efforts to free =
the Iraqi people from what he described as the 'grievous oppression' that t=
hey have been enduring for several decades…" The Kuwaiti paper Al-Watan, =
which published the statement…
Iranian Official: The Day Saddam is Toppled will be the Happiest Day for Ir=
anians
In an interview with the Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan, deputy speaker of the Iran=
ian parliament Muhammad Riza Khatemi said that "the day Saddam Hussein is r=
emoved from power, regardless of how it is done, will be the happiest day f=
or the Iranian people." He added that the "Iranians considered Saddam an op=
portunist who could not be trusted and who did not honor international agre=
ements nor moral values…"(1)
Egypt: A Demand to Investigate Iraqi Bribes to Egyptian Politicians and Int=
ellectuals
In a dispatch from its reporter in Cairo, Al-Hayat daily reported that the =
Egyptian writer Mamdouh Al-Sheikh, formally requested that the attorney gen=
eral, Maher Abd Al-Wahid investigate news reports about Iraqi pay-offs to E=
gyptian nationals, who in turn campaign for the Iraqi regime. The request c=
ited a news report published by Al-Hayat on May 5th, 2002, in which it quot=
ed Jordanian sources as saying that: "Egyptian and Lebanese politicians est=
ablished companies and used their positions to further ties between their c=
ountries and Iraq…[and that] the Iraqi regime gifted quantities of oil to=
Egyptian and Syrian artists who visited Iraq and pledged support to its re=
gime…" Al-Sheikh went on to say that the Egyptian newspaper Sawt Al-Umma =
also published a report on September 30th written by Dr. Suleiman Abdallah =
Ahmad, in which he said that [Egyptian] intellectuals were helping Iraq at =
the expense of the poor Iraqi people…(2)
(1) Al-Rai Al-Amm (Kuwait), September 27, 2002.
(2) Al-Hayat (London), October 6, 2002.
—– Original Message —–
From: furtherfield
To: list@rhizome.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:15 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Bush Uses Bali to Press for War
Two days after the horrific bomb blast in Bali killed more than 180
people, President Bush, appearing at a Republican campaign rally in
Michigan, cited the assault as yet another reason for vigorous prosecution
of a war against Iraq. Bush maintained that Saddam Hussein hopes to deploy
al Qaeda as his own "forward army" against the West, that "we need to
think about Saddam Hussein using al Qaeda to do his dirty work, to not
leave fingerprints behind," and that "this is a man who we know has had
connections with al Qaeda."
But neither Bush nor his administration have offered any proof for these
claims.
For the full story, read the latest installment of David Corn's Capital
Games: http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=124
Also, see Liza Featherstone's new editorial from the October 28, 2002
issue of The Nation, charting the slow but steady rise of a national peace
movement: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 021028&s=featherstone
And don't miss The Nation's new activist weblog for a host of ways that
you can register your voice against war:
http://www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?bid=4
——=_NextPart_001_0094_01C2749A.C7535CB0
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE id=ridTitle>Blank</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-125=
2"><BASE
href="file://C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedStationery">
<STYLE>BODY {
MARGIN-TOP: 25px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 25px; COLOR: #000000; FONT=
-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica
}
P.msoNormal {
MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; COLOR: #ffffcc; FONT-F=
AMILY: Helvetica, "Times New Roman"
}
LI.msoNormal {
MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; COLOR: #ffffcc; FONT-F=
AMILY: Helvetica, "Times New Roman"
}
</STYLE>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2713.1100" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY id=ridBody bgColor=#ffffff
background=cid:009201c274bc$4e637610$3ce6fea9@wallyx848tqinf>
<DIV>"A distinguished Shi'ite religious leader, Ayatollah Sadiq Al-Husseini=
Al-Shirazi, who is a member of the Iraqi opposition and resides in the reli=
gious
city of Qum (Iran) called for relentless but lawful efforts to free the Ira=
qi
people from what he described as the 'grievous oppression' that they have b=
een
enduring for several decades…" The Kuwaiti paper Al-Watan, which publishe=
d the
statement…</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Iranian Official: The Day Saddam is Toppled will be the Happiest Day f=
or
Iranians<BR><BR>In an interview with the Kuwaiti daily Al-Watan, deputy spe=
aker
of the Iranian parliament Muhammad Riza Khatemi said that "the day Saddam=
Hussein is removed from power, regardless of how it is done, will be the
happiest day for the Iranian people." He added that the "Iranians considere=
d
Saddam an opportunist who could not be trusted and who did not honor
international agreements nor moral values…"(1)<BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Egypt: A Demand to Investigate Iraqi Br=
ibes to
Egyptian Politicians and Intellectuals<BR><BR>In a dispatch from its report=
er in
Cairo, Al-Hayat daily reported that the Egyptian writer Mamdouh Al-Sheikh,=
formally requested that the attorney general, Maher Abd Al-Wahid investigat=
e
news reports about Iraqi pay-offs to Egyptian nationals, who in turn campai=
gn
for the Iraqi regime. The request cited a news report published by Al-Hayat=
on
May 5th, 2002, in which it quoted Jordanian sources as saying that: "Egypti=
an
and Lebanese politicians established companies and used their positions to=
further ties between their countries and Iraq…[and that] the Iraqi regime=
gifted quantities of oil to Egyptian and Syrian artists who visited Iraq an=
d
pledged support to its regime…" Al-Sheikh went on to say that the Egyptia=
n
newspaper Sawt Al-Umma also published a report on September 30th written by=
Dr.
Suleiman Abdallah Ahmad, in which he said that [Egyptian] intellectuals wer=
e
helping Iraq at the expense of the poor Iraqi
people…(2) <BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>(1) Al-Rai Al-Amm (Kuwait), September 27, 2002.</DIV>
<DIV>(2) Al-Hayat (London), October 6, 2002.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>—– Original Message —– </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LE=
FT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>Fro=
m:</B>
<A title=info@furtherfield.org
href="mailto:info@furtherfield.org">furtherfield</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=list@rhizome.org
href="mailto:list@rhizome.org">list@rhizome.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:=
15
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RHIZOME_RAW: Bush Uses Ba=
li to
Press for War</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Two days after the horrific bomb blast in Bali killed more t=
han
180<BR>people, President Bush, appearing at a Republican campaign rally=
in<BR>Michigan, cited the assault as yet another reason for vigorous
prosecution<BR>of a war against Iraq. Bush maintained that Saddam Hussein=
hopes to deploy<BR>al Qaeda as his own "forward army" against the West, t=
hat
"we need to<BR>think about Saddam Hussein using al Qaeda to do his dirty =
work,
to not<BR>leave fingerprints behind," and that "this is a man who we know=
has
had<BR>connections with al Qaeda."<BR><BR>But neither Bush nor his
administration have offered any proof for these<BR>claims.<BR><BR>For the=
full
story, read the latest installment of David Corn's Capital<BR>Games:
</STRONG><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=
=124"><STRONG>http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&a=
mp;pid=124</STRONG></A><BR><BR><STRONG>Also,
see Liza Featherstone's new editorial from the October 28, 2002<BR>issue =
of
The Nation, charting the slow but steady rise of a national peace<BR>move=
ment:
</STRONG><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 021028&s=featherst=
one"><STRONG>http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 021028&s=feathe=
rstone</STRONG></A><BR><BR><STRONG>And
don't miss The Nation's new activist weblog for a host of ways that<BR>yo=
u can
register your voice against war:<BR></STRONG><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?bid=4"><STRONG>http=
://www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?bid=4</STRONG></A><BR></DIV>
<P><STRONG></STRONG> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
——=_NextPart_001_0094_01C2749A.C7535CB0–
——=_NextPart_001_009A_01C2749A.CBF21220
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
BlankBabylonian King Nebuchadnezzar Prophesied the Emergence of Saddam
"The official Iraqi daily Al-Jumhuriya said that the builder of the histori=
cal city of Babylon 'prophesied the emergence of President Saddam Hussein,'=
who would rebuild the city that the first Babylonian king had built. The I=
raqi newspaper talked about an archeological tablet which was found in the =
1980's, and dates back to 570 B.C. According to the paper, the tablet proc=
laims that '…Whoever finds this tablet, let him anoint it, then inscribe =
his name and deeds on it, and return it to its place…' According to Al-Ju=
mhuriya, another archeological find stated that: 'He who rebuilds Babylon w=
ill always defeat his enemies.' The paper added that: 'there is a great si=
gnificance and symbolism in that, because it signifies the prophecy of the =
Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar about Saddam Hussein, who is the first perso=
n who ordered the rebuilding of Babylon, and whose name is inscribed on the=
new corner stone, for the first time since Nebuchadnezzar built the city.'=
"(1)
At the annual festival at the site of the historic city of Babylon, the org=
anizers produced a light-and-sound show based on "a Sumerian legend in whic=
h love of country overcomes the powers of darkness, as a contemporary repre=
sentation of Iraq versus the U.S…"(2) The festival itself was held under=
the slogan "From Nebuchadnezzar to Saddam Hussein."(3)
(1) Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London), September 27, 2002.
(2) Babil (Iraq), October 4, 2002.
(3) Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, October 5, 2002.
—– Original Message —–
From: furtherfield
To: list@rhizome.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:15 PM
Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Bush Uses Bali to Press for War
Two days after the horrific bomb blast in Bali killed more than 180
people, President Bush, appearing at a Republican campaign rally in
Michigan, cited the assault as yet another reason for vigorous prosecution
of a war against Iraq. Bush maintained that Saddam Hussein hopes to deploy
al Qaeda as his own "forward army" against the West, that "we need to
think about Saddam Hussein using al Qaeda to do his dirty work, to not
leave fingerprints behind," and that "this is a man who we know has had
connections with al Qaeda."
But neither Bush nor his administration have offered any proof for these
claims.
For the full story, read the latest installment of David Corn's Capital
Games: http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=124
Also, see Liza Featherstone's new editorial from the October 28, 2002
issue of The Nation, charting the slow but steady rise of a national peace
movement: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 021028&s=featherstone
And don't miss The Nation's new activist weblog for a host of ways that
you can register your voice against war:
http://www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?bid=4
——=_NextPart_001_009A_01C2749A.CBF21220
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE id=ridTitle>Blank</TITLE>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-125=
2"><BASE
href="file://C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedStationery">
<STYLE>BODY {
MARGIN-TOP: 25px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 25px; COLOR: #000000; FONT=
-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica
}
P.msoNormal {
MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; COLOR: #ffffcc; FONT-F=
AMILY: Helvetica, "Times New Roman"
}
LI.msoNormal {
MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; COLOR: #ffffcc; FONT-F=
AMILY: Helvetica, "Times New Roman"
}
</STYLE>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2713.1100" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY id=ridBody bgColor=#ffffff
background=cid:009801c274bc$53022b80$3ce6fea9@wallyx848tqinf>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar Prophesi=
ed the
Emergence of Saddam<BR><BR>"The official Iraqi daily Al-Jumhuriya said that=
the
builder of the historical city of Babylon 'prophesied the emergence of Pres=
ident
Saddam Hussein,' who would rebuild the city that the first Babylonian king =
had
built. The Iraqi newspaper talked about an archeological tablet which was f=
ound
in the 1980's, and dates back to 570 B.C. According to the paper, the=
tablet proclaims that '…Whoever finds this tablet, let him anoint it, the=
n
inscribe his name and deeds on it, and return it to its place…' According=
to
Al-Jumhuriya, another archeological find stated that: 'He who rebuilds Baby=
lon
will always defeat his enemies.' The paper added that: 'there is a gr=
eat
significance and symbolism in that, because it signifies the prophecy of th=
e
Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar about Saddam Hussein, who is the first perso=
n who
ordered the rebuilding of Babylon, and whose name is inscribed on the new c=
orner
stone, for the first time since Nebuchadnezzar built the city.'"(1)<BR><BR>=
At
the annual festival at the site of the historic city of Babylon, the organi=
zers
produced a light-and-sound show based on "a Sumerian legend in which love o=
f
country overcomes the powers of darkness, as a contemporary representation =
of
Iraq versus the U.S…"(2) The festival itself was held under the slo=
gan
"From Nebuchadnezzar to Saddam Hussein."(3)<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">(1) Al-Sharq Al-Awsat (London), Septemb=
er 27,
2002.<BR>(2) Babil (Iraq), October 4, 2002.<BR>(3) Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Octob=
er 5,
2002.<BR></DIV></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LE=
FT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">—– Original Message —– </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>Fro=
m:</B>
<A title=info@furtherfield.org
href="mailto:info@furtherfield.org">furtherfield</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=list@rhizome.org
href="mailto:list@rhizome.org">list@rhizome.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:=
15
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RHIZOME_RAW: Bush Uses Ba=
li to
Press for War</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>Two days after the horrific bomb blast in Bali killed more t=
han
180<BR>people, President Bush, appearing at a Republican campaign rally=
in<BR>Michigan, cited the assault as yet another reason for vigorous
prosecution<BR>of a war against Iraq. Bush maintained that Saddam Hussein=
hopes to deploy<BR>al Qaeda as his own "forward army" against the West, t=
hat
"we need to<BR>think about Saddam Hussein using al Qaeda to do his dirty =
work,
to not<BR>leave fingerprints behind," and that "this is a man who we know=
has
had<BR>connections with al Qaeda."<BR><BR>But neither Bush nor his
administration have offered any proof for these<BR>claims.<BR><BR>For the=
full
story, read the latest installment of David Corn's Capital<BR>Games:
</STRONG><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=
=124"><STRONG>http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&a=
mp;pid=124</STRONG></A><BR><BR><STRONG>Also,
see Liza Featherstone's new editorial from the October 28, 2002<BR>issue =
of
The Nation, charting the slow but steady rise of a national peace<BR>move=
ment:
</STRONG><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 021028&s=featherst=
one"><STRONG>http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i 021028&s=feathe=
rstone</STRONG></A><BR><BR><STRONG>And
don't miss The Nation's new activist weblog for a host of ways that<BR>yo=
u can
register your voice against war:<BR></STRONG><A
href="http://www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?bid=4"><STRONG>http=
://www.thenation.com/actnow/index.mhtml?bid=4</STRONG></A><BR></DIV>
<P><STRONG></STRONG> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
——=_NextPart_001_009A_01C2749A.CBF21220–