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Before I saw your message I bought a CD player for an auto (non-marine). It had an additional wire for accessory that I have seen before when wiring cars but didn''t make sense on the grounding bar for the boat. I tried to install it from 9pm to 1am this morning. I spent 2 hours on the phone today with the manufacturer (most of it on hold). Long story short, I went back and bought a marine CD player by a different manufacturer and hooked it up the same way and it worked first time.
Question: Does a marine CD player have anything special that allows it to be used with the grounding bar? Or is a boat identical to a car installation since you ground car radio''s to the chassis instead of the block?
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Removed the top and front panel, removed the dryer drum. Removed the worn out rear drum seal. I scraped and sanded the old glue residue from the rear of the drum. I used "0000" steel wool to clean the "brown seal residue" from the rear panel where the new seal on the drum would rub/seal against the rear panel. I used spring clamps to hold the seal in place prior to appling the glue. The glue was applied to the drum/seal and allowed to dry 30-45 min. I replaced the front drum seal (some of the other discussions in your forum had good hints on replacing this seal, better than the printed instructions), also replaced the belt and applied a light amout of lubrication (3 in 1 oil) to the idler pulley and the drum rollers. The dryer runs smoothly and quietly and most importantly no more brown streaks on clean clothes.
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Parenting, naturally - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | S... Page 1 of 5 This story is taken from Sacbee / Living Here Parenting, naturally The Holistic Moms Network is growing like a healthy, happy child. Here are some members' views on everything from diapers to discipline. firstname.lastname@example.com Published Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008 Obstetrician or midwife? Cloth or disposable diapers? To spank or not to spank? Nancy Massotto wanted to be the best parent possible. But what, she wondered, did that mean? Her search for answers led the New Jersey woman to found the Holistic Moms Network. The group brings together mothers who are interested in natural living and "positive" parenting, and, it focuses on the rights of parents to choose approaches outside the mainstream. Since its launch in 2002, the Holistic Moms Network has become a national, nonprofit organization with 125 chapters across the country, including two in the Sacramento area. "This is not a novel concept, but we are definitely seeing a revival of sorts," says Massotto. "When Wal-Mart starts selling organic products, you know that holistic living is hot." Holistic moms brag about "parenting to a different beat," and some of their philosophies – on vaccinations, for example – are controversial. But their approaches run the gamut and they strive to be nonjudgmental of others, says Massotto. We spoke with Massotto and two Sacramento-area holistic moms about their stances on http://www.sacbee.com/livinghere/v-print/story/784571.html 12/5/2008 Parenting, naturally - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | S... Page 2 of 5 some age-old parenting dilemmas. Wendi Bennett of Folsom and husband Dan are parents of Lilly, 4; and Conner, 2. Nancy Massotto of New Jersey and husband Mike are parents of Michael, 7; and Dominic, 18 months. Kim Loutzenhiser of Orangevale and husband Mark are parents of Kira, 6. Childbirth Massotto: I think natural childbirth empowers women in a strong way. Both of my children were born at home. I felt it was the best and most comfortable place to bring them into the world. Bennett: I planned to deliver my daughter at home naturally, but we had complications and I ended up getting a Caesarean section. My son was born at home in a tub. It was awesome. Afterward, we all crawled into bed and slept for quite a while. Loutzenhiser: My intention with Kira was to have a natural childbirth at the hospital without any medical intervention. I labored with her for three days, most of it at home with a midwife. By the third day, I needed the support so I went to the hospital. I would have a different plan if I had another child. I would have a midwife to be with me at the hospital, or hire a doula. Breast-feeding Massotto: It's absolutely one of the healthiest things you can do for your children. I breast- fed my first child until age 3, and my second is 20 months old and still nursing. They stop when they are ready to stop. Bennett: I breast-fed Lilly until she was 17 months, and then I stopped. My son didn't want to nurse any more after 18 months. I was pretty relieved. I wouldn't want to be nursing a 3- year-old. Loutzenhiser: My intention with my daughter was to breast-feed as long as that was working for both of us. But she was born with a highly unusual suck. We tried everything that the lactation consultants suggested. Finally, after eight weeks, she totally gave up at the breast. But I continued to pump for her. Vaccinations Massotto: Parents everywhere should have the option to choose what they would like to do. People should not blindly trust in the medical establishment that vaccinating is always the right thing to do. We have not vaccinated my older son, who has severe allergies. We haven't decided what to do about the younger one. Bennett: We researched all of the vaccinations they give to babies, and we decided we didn't want or need them. When Lilly went to preschool, we signed a waiver saying we were opposed to vaccinating. If there was some kind of an outbreak, the school would send her http://www.sacbee.com/livinghere/v-print/story/784571.html 12/5/2008 Parenting, naturally - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | S... Page 3 of 5 home. The idea of these tiny little people getting injected with all kinds of things just didn't make sense to us. Loutzenhiser: I didn't realize when Kira was a baby that it was a choice not to vaccinate. Kira got her first vaccination on the day she was born, and I didn't even realize that was happening. We continue with boosters, but I spread them out so she isn't getting too much vaccine at one time. Medical care Massotto: Some of us are lucky to have holistic pediatricians who are a little more hesitant to prescribe medication whenever a child has a fever. I prefer trying natural remedies before giving a child antibiotics right away. Bennett: My son has never seen a regular doctor, and Lilly has only seen one twice. They've had fevers, but unless it gets pretty high, I'm not that worried. I use echinacea, cranberry, garlic, belladonna, other homeopathic things. It gives them relief while the fever runs its course. If something happened that I really couldn't handle, I would call for help. Loutzenhiser: My daughter has never had a high fever. She has never had antibiotics; we never had a need. If she has ear pain, I use a natural means of helping with that, like using a humidifier, making sure she is hydrated and that her body is warm. We use doctors for diagnostic purposes and consider their recommendations, but we handle most things ourselves. Diet Massotto: I make some of my own baby food, but not all of it. I buy from companies that I really like that make organic baby food. I try to stay away from processed foods. Bennett: I buy anything organic or whole-grain and within my budget. I try to keep my kids away from trans fats and refined sugar. While they're growing, I want to give them a good foundation. Easter is coming up, but the Easter bunny won't bring candy. He might bring a toy. Loutzenhiser: I try to buy organic whenever possible, and I am also concerned about buying locally. But Kira goes to a school where she does eat some processed food and sugar. She plays on a soccer team in the fall, and they give out Otter Pops on hot days. At 6, it's important for her to make some of those choices on her own. The best thing I can do is be a role model for her. Toys Massotto: A lot of us are worried about all the recalls, and what our kids are playing with and putting in their mouths. I certainly have plastic toys, but I try to look for toys made from natural products, like wood and cotton, and I choose toys that are educational and not so commercial. The important thing is to encourage imaginative play. Bennett: This is not as big an issue for me as it is for others. We don't buy new toys on a regular basis, just birthdays and Christmas. I like creative toys like crayons and painting http://www.sacbee.com/livinghere/v-print/story/784571.html 12/5/2008 Parenting, naturally - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | S... Page 4 of 5 easels. Overall, for me, this is fairly low on the list of concerns. Loutzenhiser: A lot of the negative information I have now about plastics, I didn't have when Kira was younger. If we had another child, I would be more aggressive about finding out what the toys are made of. We do try to keep commercialism at a minimum. We request no presents when we have birthday parties. We feel she already has a lot of stuff. Sleeping Massotto: Many, many people share sleep with their kids. I've always "co-slept" with my children. It's a nurturing, bonding thing. It makes them feel safe and secure. Bennett: From Day 1, they slept in our bed. I held them close and they never went far. Something seems wrong with the idea of having a baby inside you for nine months, then putting them in another room after they're born. As long as everyone else in the bed is comfortable, I have no problem with it. Lilly still sleeps with me. Loutzenhiser: We didn't start "co-sleeping" until Kira was 4 1/2. Partly because of her nursing issues, it made more sense to have her in her own space. Some nights she sleeps with us and some nights she doesn't. It's her choice and we're very comfortable with it. Diapers Massotto: I don't think that one is necessarily superior to the other. Most environmentalists say cloth is better, but I've done both. If I get tired of washing diapers I buy environmentally friendly ones like the ones made by Seventh Generation. Bennett: I love the idea of cloth diapers. But I tried them for a couple of days and it's just so much work on top of all your other mom duties. So yes, I use disposable. It's not the greenest part of my life, but it's what I'm doing right now. Loutzenhiser: We used cloth until Kira was about 5 months old, then switched. It turned out I was using old-fashioned cloth-diapering methods that made it a real struggle for me. Discipline Massotto: We stand very strongly for positive discipline, and that for the most part means no spanking. We all raise our voices at kids and get frustrated, but I do not spank. I look for better ways to get the message across. Bennett: I have swatted Lilly before, but not Conner because I've changed my views on it. I don't do timeouts, either. To me, that's fighting with my child. I don't want to feel like I'm winning something. I'd rather try to work with them and talk to them, try to understand their feelings and solve the issue. Loutzenhiser: We never spank. That will never, ever happen in our house. Our house is a place of peace. I try my best to respect Kira and her space and her body as much as I would any other human being. I don't view tantrums in a negative way. Usually if I allow her to get those feelings out, 30 seconds later, it's fine. http://www.sacbee.com/livinghere/v-print/story/784571.html 12/5/2008 Parenting, naturally - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | S... Page 5 of 5 Schooling Massotto: In the network we have plenty of home-schoolers, plenty of Waldorf and Montessori kids, and lots of public schoolers. It's a very personal choice. My older son is in Montessori. Bennett: Lilly goes to Bright Beginnings. It's less structured than a standard preschool, and the kids have a lot of choices. Home schooling is a great idea, but I wouldn't want to be the teacher. I'm not sure that would be the best thing for her. Loutzenhiser: It was a heavily researched decision for us. Kira goes to a public school. She's in kindergarten; it's an open-enrollment school and they teach the standard curriculum. There's lots of parental involvement. *** For more about the Holistic Moms Network, call (877) 465-6667 or go to www.holisticmoms.org. To find out about local meetings, contact Kim Loutzenhiser with the American River chapter at email@example.com; or Austen Sandifer with the Cosumnes River chapter at firstname.lastname@example.com. Call The Bee's Cynthia Hubert, (916) 321-1082. http://www.sacbee.com/livinghere/v-print/story/784571.html 12/5/2008
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"At least four women, four children and two civilian drivers were killed."
Provincial Governor Shujaul Mulk Jalala told AFP that 12 civilians — four women, four children and four men — were killed.
"Four armed insurgents belonging to al-Qaeda were also killed," he added.
ISAF said it was aware of the allegations and was looking into the incident.
"We can confirm Coalition Forces conducted a precision strike yesterday... resulting in 10 enemy forces killed," it said in a statement. "At this time, we have no reports of any civilian casualties in regards to this incident."
Ziarat Gul, a resident of Wattapur district where the attack occurred, described the strike as "brutal".
"They should not have attacked the truck because of three or four insurgents, the lives of the civilians were more important and precious."
Kunar, which borders Pakistan, is a stronghold of the Taliban-led insurgency and is also known to have a strong presence of foreign fighters.
A NATO air attack in the province in April left 11 children dead. — AFP


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The Learning Garden Preschool and Child Development Center in La Grange was recently awarded a quality enhancement grant for $2,500.
Grants are funded by the Rural KIPDA Early Childhood Council and supported by the KIDS NOW initiative. Licensed centers and certified family homes in Bullitt, Henry, Spencer, Trimble, Shelby and Oldham counties are eligible, other eligibility standards are required. For information about the grant, call 220-8624.
Buckner Alternative High School's graduation is 7 p.m. June 12 at the Oldham County Arts Center.
South Oldham High School's graduation is 11 a.m. June 13, Oldham County High School's graduation is 2:30 p.m. June 13 and North Oldham High School's graduation is 6 p.m. June 13, all at the Kentucky International Convention Center.
It's no historical preservation ordinance, but the Pewee Valley City Council is once again considering design guidelines for homes and businesses in portions of the city. The areas along Ky. 146 and Ky. 22 are designated scenic corridors under the Oldham County Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. The council is considering guidelines for those corridors, stretching 150 feet from the centerline of the two highways.
As Moses led the people out of Egypt, and they approach the Promised Land, Moses sends 12 spies to see the land God is about to give them. Two of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, believe that with God's continued help the land will be theirs.
Two payments to home-shopping giant QVC and several lunches on the city's dime leave some council members questioning the best use of La Grange taxpayers' money.
Arrest warrants
Jonathan J. Piasta, 26, 1002 E. Mailback Way, Crestwood, arrested by OCSO Feb. 24, failure to appear.
Oseguera Magana-George, 28, Ashbury Best Western, La Grange, arrested by OCSO Feb. 24, failure to appear.
Daniel Pablo Gomez, 34, 100 E. Madison St. No. 2, La Grange, arrested by OCSO Feb. 24, failure to comply.
Gerardo Mendina-Torres, 40, 2300 Taft Circle, No. 121, Baytown, Texas, arrested by OCSO Feb. 23, failure to comply.
Glad airport won't come to OC
To the editor:
Thank you, Oldham County for voting against the airport. I was so relieved to see that this peaceable community decided to take a stand on disturbing the peace.
After living in Louisville the better part of my life, I moved to Oldham County in 2004. The beautiful countryside, the birds, the few farms that are left were wonderful. But more importantly was the peace and serenity that seems to abide here.
An Oldham County grand jury recently handed up the following indictments:
• Paul A. Chitwood, 34, is indicted for flagrant non-support.
According to the indictment, between April 14, 2008 and Feb. 27, 2009 he persistently failed to provide support he could reasonably provide or knew he had a duty to provide.
• Shannon D. Murray, 29, is indicted for first-degree promoting contraband.
According to the indictment, on Sept. 30, when confined in the Oldham County Jail, he knowingly made, obtained or possessed methadone.
When Greg Wilson moved into his new home next to St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Pewee Valley in August, he had no complaints. But now, the new lights above the church and school do more than light up the campus all night long. They are bright enough to cast shadows within his house, he said.
Four local students have been named to the Murray State University dean's list for the fall semester.
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Australia's Radio 2GB: Sydney Live with Ben Fordham hosts 9/11 debate
"Arguments Rage over 9/11: John Bursill vs. Mike King"
Nearly 10 years on, many still argue who was really behind the 9/11 attacks….Ben Fordham investigates.
This excellent debate can be heard at 2GB, Sydney's number 1 rated talk station which has been broadcasting for over 80 years, part of Macquarie Radio Network, hosted by 2GB's show, " The Lounge ", or via upload to YouTube here:
This is Part II of our three-part one-of-a-kind interview series with author and researcher Paul Thompson. For additional background information please visit the complete 9/11 Timeline Investigative Project at HistoryCommons.org and Richard Clarke's interview by John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski at SecrecyKills.com .
Paul Thompson joins us to discuss the latest revelations by former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke and his explosive allegations against three former top CIA officials — George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee — accusing them of knowingly withholding intelligence about two of the 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who had entered the United States more than a year before the attacks. He provides us with the most comprehensive history and context to date on Nawaf al-Hazmi and… Continue reading
By Will Bunch
Philadelphia Daily News
IF YOU THINK that on the 10th anniversary you know the whole story of 9/11 – and here I'm addressing conspiracy-minded "truthers" and the 13 percent who approved of the job Dick Cheney did as vice president – actually, you don't.
Time has upheld the broad story line of how hijackers loyal to Osama bin Laden hijacked four planes and killed nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001 – claims about holograms being used to attack buildings instead of jetliners notwithstanding. At the same time, the dictum of famed investigative reporter I.F. Stone about all governments – i.e., they lie – is no less true about 9/11 than any other event.
Here are 10 questions about 9/11 that remain unanswered.
Richard Clarke, the national counterterrorism czar on 9/11, thinks so. In an interview for an upcoming radio documentary, Clarke claimed that top-level CIA officials deliberately withheld from the White House and the FBI knowledge as early as 2000 that two al Qaeda members – Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar – were living in San Diego.
The former anti-terror chief said he believes that the CIA kept the info under wraps because it wanted to recruit the two Saudis to serve as double agents within bin Laden's organization. Instead, the two terrorists ended up hijackers on American Flight 77. George Tenet, who was CIA director, claims that Clarke… Continue reading
Introduction: 9/11 Ten Years Later
The words in the title of this book – "9/11 Ten Years Later" – are often followed with an exclamation point. The exclamation point may be a way of expressing, by members of the 9/11 Truth Movement, amazement that the truth has not already been publicly revealed. The exclamation point might be used by detractors of this movement — perhaps along with an expletive — to express their feeling that it is time for these people to "get a life." The exclamation point might reflect a position somewhat in the middle — of spouses of members hoping that no more years of their family life will be oriented around the work of trying to get the truth revealed.
In any case, for reasons discussed in this book (especially the final two chapters), there is nothing surprising about the fact that the 9/11 crime has not been revealed. Those who have gained control of a state in an ostensible democracy have many means not only for orchestrating major crimes, but also for preventing those crimes (including their crimes against democracy itself) from being publicized.
What is somewhat surprising, perhaps to the perpetrators themselves, is the fact that the 9/11 Truth Movement is still alive and, in fact, continues to grow. The first professional 9/11 organization, Scholars for 9/11 Truth, was formed in 2005, and since then a dozen professional organizations have been created. It was not until 2006 that architect Richard Gage started… Continue reading
By Paul Craig Roberts
August 24, 2011 Information Clearing House — — -In a few days it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How well has the US government's official account of the event held up over the decade?
Not very well. The chairman, vice chairman, and senior legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission wrote books partially disassociating themselves from the commission's report. They said that the Bush administration put obstacles in their path, that information was withheld from them, that President Bush agreed to testify only if he was chaperoned by Vice President Cheney and neither were put under oath, that Pentagon and FAA officials lied to the commission and that the commission considered referring the false testimony for investigation for obstruction of justice.
In their book, the chairman and vice chairman, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, wrote that the 9/11 Commission was "set up to fail." Senior counsel John Farmer, Jr., wrote
that the US government made "a decision not to tell the truth about what happened," and that the NORAD "tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public." Kean said, "We to this day don't know why NORAD told us what they told us, it was just so far from the truth."
Most of the questions from the 9/11 families were not answered. Important witnesses were not called. The commission only heard from those who supported the government's account. The commission was a controlled political operation,… Continue reading
This is Part I of our three-part one-of-a-kind interview series with author and researcher Paul Thompson. For additional background information please visit the complete 9/11 Timeline Investigative Project at HistoryCommons.org and Richard Clarke's interview by John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski at SecrecyKills.com .
Paul Thompson joins us to discuss the latest revelations by former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke and his explosive allegations against three former top CIA officials — George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee — accusing them of knowingly withholding intelligence about two of the 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, who had entered the United States more than a year before the attacks. He provides us with the most comprehensive history and context to date on Nawaf… Continue reading
by Philip Shenon
In a new documentary, former national-security aide Richard Clarke suggests the CIA tried to recruit 9/11 hijackers–then covered it up. Philip Shenon on George Tenet's denial.
With the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks only a month away, former CIA Director George Tenet and two former top aides are fighting back hard against allegations that they engaged in a massive cover-up in 2000 and 2001 to hide intelligence from the White House and the FBI that might have prevented the attacks.
The source of the explosive, unproved allegations is a man who once considered Tenet a close friend: former White House counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, who makes the charges against Tenet and the CIA in an interview for a radio documentary timed to the 10th anniversary next month. Portions of the Clarke interview were made available to The Daily Beast by the producers of the documentary.
In the interview for the documentary, Clarke offers an incendiary theory that, if true, would rewrite the history of the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that the CIA intentionally withheld information from the White House and FBI in 2000 and 2001 that two Saudi-born terrorists were on U.S. soil–terrorists who went on to become suicide hijackers on 9/11.
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By Jason Leopold Truthout
With the tenth anniversary of 9/11 just a month away, the intelligence failures leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have started to attract fresh scrutiny from former counterterrorism officials, who have called into question the veracity of the official government narrative that concluded who knew what and when.
Indeed, recently Truthout published an exclusive report based on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and an interview with a former high-ranking counterterrorism official that showed how a little-known military intelligence unit, unbeknownst to the various investigative bodies probing the terrorist attacks, was ordered by senior government officials to stop tracking Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda's movements prior to 9/11.
And now, in a stunning new interview made available to Truthout that is scheduled to air on a local PBS affiliate in Colorado tonight, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, for the first time, levels explosive allegations against three former top CIA officials – George Tenet, Cofer Black and Richard Blee – accusing them of knowingly withholding intelligence from the Bush and Clinton White House, the FBI, Immigration and the State and Defense Departments about two of the 9/11 hijackers who had entered the United States more than a year before the attacks. Moreover, Clarke says the former CIA officials likely engaged in a cover-up by withholding key details about two of the hijackers from the 9/11 Commission.
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A Significant Stimulus for the Reform that Never Came
10 August 2011
by Kevin Fenton
Zacarias Moussaoui, one of the numerous "20th hijackers," was arrested ten years ago next Tuesday, outside the Residence Inn in Eagan, Minnesota. The arrest was one of the first events in a case that gave the FBI a chance to blow open the 9/11 plot, but resulted in abject humiliation for the bureau when its headquarters' string of errors was exposed in the press.
The Moussaoui case is a poster boy for the state of our knowledge about the attacks: we have some of the details, but know some are missing. Also, two key questions remain unanswered. This despite the wealth of information that came out at the trial and the fact that Moussaoui, although largely ignored by the 9/11 Commission's final report–partly due to the forthcoming trial–was a major topic of the Justice Department inspector general's report into the FBI's pre-attack failings.
These are the bare bones of the case: Moussaoui had been a known extremist for years prior to his arrest. Before the bureau first heard his name on August 15, he had been under surveillance by French and British intelligence and the CIA, although the agency would claim it only knew him under an alias. He was sent to the US for flight training by alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, possibly to participate in 9/11, possibly to participate in a follow-up operation. However, he was a poor student and… Continue reading
by Kevin Fenton
Published at 911truth.org
Following the airing of allegations by former counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke that the CIA deliberately withheld from him information about Pentagon hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, former CIA director George Tenet, former CIA Counterterrorist Center chief Cofer Black and Richard Blee, a mid-level agency official who occupied two key counterterrorist positions before 9/11, have responded with a joint statement.
Clarke said that information about the two men was deliberately withheld from him in January 2000, at the time of a key al-Qaeda meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which the CIA monitored. Clarke alleged that, based on his knowledge of how the CIA works, Tenet authorised the deliberate withholding. Clarke added that the information was clearly important in the summer of 2001, when the CIA knew that Almihdhar was in the country and, in the words of one of Blee's former deputies, was "very high interest" in connection with the next al-Qaeda attack. However, the CIA continued to withhold some information from both Clarke and the FBI.
Mark Rossini, one of Blee's former subordinates at Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, has previously admitted deliberately withholding the information from the FBI. According to Rossini, in early January 2000 he and a colleague, Doug Miller, knew they should notify the FBI that Almihdhar had a US visa and presumably intended to soon visit the US. Miller even drafted, but did not send, a cable informing the FBI of Almihdhar's visa. However, Rossini says he… Continue reading
Published at Colorado911Visibility.org
Press Contact: Robert Boutton (323) 300-5376 www.SecrecyKills.com
In a never-before-seen interview, Richard Clarke, former White House Counterterror "Tsar" to Presidents Clinton and Bush, goes on record about what he believes happened at CIA in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks, accusing then-CIA Director George Tenet and two of his deputies of deliberately not informing the White House, FBI, and Defense Department about two future hijackers inside U.S., then covering up from the 9/11 investigations. His comments air and stream Thursday, August 11, 2010 at 7 p.m. MDT on Colorado Public Television (CPT12) and simultaneously go live on SecrecyKills.com , along with CIA reaction.
News of the premiere set off attacks on Clarke from three of those he singled out. Tenet and former CIA officials Cofer Black and Richard Blee, chiefs of CounterTerrorist Center and Bin Laden Station respectively on 9/11, have issued a one-page joint statement to the producers calling Clarke's comments "reckless and profoundly wrong." Significantly, this is the only statement Blee has issued publicly since the intelligence failure of September 11th and, indeed, the first time his real name has been made public in the major media.
Filmmaker-journalists John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski conducted the interview in 2009 for a documentary to be released on the 9/11 tenth anniversary entitled "Who Is Rich Blee?", promising further revelations from Commission Chairman Tom Kean and other government insiders, produced by transparency advocates SecrecyKills.com in association with media company Globalvision, winner of the George Polk Journalism Award.…Continue reading
Just one of the Legacies of 9/11
by Kevin Fenton Boilingfrogs
Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar, communicated while they were in the United States to other members of al Qaeda who were overseas. But we didn't know they were here, until it was too late.
The authorization I gave the National Security Agency (NSA) after September the 11th helped address that problem in a way that is fully consistent with my constitutional responsibilities and authorities. The activities I have authorized make it more likely that killers like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time.
-President Bush, December 17, 2005
In the aftermath of 9/11, reams of newsprint were given over to discussing the CIA and FBI failures before the attacks; the agency had some of the hijackers under surveillance and allegedly lost them, the bureau was unable even to inform its own acting director of the Zacarias Moussaoui case. However, the USA's largest and most powerful intelligence agency, the National Security Agency, got a free ride. There was no outcry over its failings, no embarrassing Congressional hearings for its director. Yet, as we will see, the NSA's performance before 9/11 was shocking.
It is unclear when the NSA first intercepted a call by one of the nineteen hijackers. Reporting indicates it began listening in on telephone calls to the home of Pentagon hijacker Khalid Almihdhar's wife some time around late 1996. However, although Almihdhar certainly… Continue reading
Peter Dale Scott
The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 9, Issue 31 No 1, August 1, 2011.
Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America's interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today.1 Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert U.S. ally in both interventions, rather than its foe.
U.S. interventions in the Balkans and then Libya were presented by the compliant U.S. and allied mainstream media as humanitarian. Indeed, some Washington interventionists may have sincerely believed this. But deeper motivations – from oil to geostrategic priorities – were also at work in both instances.
In virtually all the wars since 1989, America and Islamist factions have been battling to determine who will control the heartlands of Eurasia in the post-Soviet era. In some countries – Somalia in 1993, Afghanistan in 2001 – the conflict has been straightforward, with each side using the other's excesses as an excuse for intervention.
But there have been other interventions in which Americans have used al-Qaeda as a resource to increase their influence, for example Azerbaijan in 1993. There a pro-Moscow president was ousted after large numbers of Arab and other foreign mujahedin veterans were secretly imported from Afghanistan, on an airline hastily organized by three former veterans of the CIA's airline Air America. (The three, all once detailed from the Pentagon to the CIA, were Richard Secord, Harry Aderholt, and Ed Dearborn.)2 This was an ad hoc marriage of convenience: the mujahedin got to defend Muslims against Russian influence in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, while the Americans got a new president who opened up the oilfields of Baku to western oil companies.
The pattern of U.S. collaboration with Muslim fundamentalists against more secular enemies is not new. It dates back to at least 1953, when the CIA recruited right-wing mullahs to overthrow Prime Minister Mossadeq in Iran, and also began to cooperate with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood.3 But in Libya in 2011 we see a more complex marriage of convenience between US and al-Qaeda elements: one which repeats a pattern seen in Bosnia in 1992-95, and Kosovo in 1997-98. In those countries America responded to a local conflict in the name of a humanitarian intervention to restrain the side committing atrocities. But in all three cases both sides committed atrocities, and American intervention in fact favored the side allied with al-Qaeda.
The cause of intervention was fostered in all three cases by blatant manipulation and falsification of the facts. What a historian has noted of the Bosnian conflict was true also of Kosovo and is being echoed today in Libya: though attacks were "perpetrated by Serbs and Muslims alike," the pattern in western media was "that killings of Muslims were newsworthy, while the deaths of non-Muslims were not."4 Reports of mass rapes in the thousands proved to be wildly exaggerated: a French journalist "uncovered only four women willing to back up the story."5 Meanwhile in 1994 the French intellectual Bernard-Henri Levy (BHL) traveled to Bosnia and fervently endorsed the case for intervention in Bosnia; in 2011 February BHL traveled to Benghazi and reprised his interventionist role for Libya.6
In all of the countries mentioned above, furthermore, there are signs that some American and/or western intelligence groups were collaborating with al-Qaeda elements from the outset of conflict, before the atrocities cited as a reason for intervention.. This suggests that there were deeper reasons for America's interventions including the desire of western oil companies to exploit the petroleum reserves of Libya (as in Iraq) without having to deal with a troublesome and powerful strong man, or their desire to create a strategic oil pipeline across the Balkans (in Kosovo).7
That the U.S. would support al-Qaeda in terrorist atrocities runs wholly counter to impressions created by the U.S. media. Yet this on-going unholy alliance resurrects and builds on the alliance underlying Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1978-79 strategy of provocation in Afghanistan, at a time when he was President Carter's National Security Adviser.
The Shah (left), Brzezinski (right), Carter (second right)
by Kevin Fenton
Introduction to Chapter 15 of Disconnecting the Dots , for publication at 911Truth.org :
In January 2000, several high-ranking al-Qaeda operatives, including alleged Flight 77 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, held a summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The meeting was monitored by the CIA and a local Malaysian service, although the agency reportedly failed to exploit this opportunity to learn what bin Laden's organization was planning. In addition, the CIA deliberately withheld information about the two men, in particular that Almihdhar had a US visa, from the FBI. The agency then allegedly suffered the misfortune of losing Almihdhar, Alhazmi and another al-Qaeda operative in Bangkok, Thailand. The surveillance of the Malaysia summit was run by Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, its chief Richard Blee and his deputy Tom Wilshire. On January 12 and 14 Blee gave his superior, Cofer Black, incorrect briefings about what was happening with the surveillance. Chapter 15 picks up the story on January 15.
Chapter 15
I know nobody read that cable
After the CIA allegedly lost Khalid Almihdhar, Nawaf Alhazmi, and Khallad bin Attash in Bangkok, it asked the Thais… Continue reading
One lawyer's relentless quest for information reveals fresh hints of a coverup.
By James Ridgeway
July 21, 2011
In 2007, Mother Jones was the first national media outlet to tell the full story of Jesse Trentadue and his quest for the truth, which began four months after the attack on Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, killed 168 people. It was then that Trentadue, a Salt Lake City lawyer, learned that his brother, a construction worker and one-time bank robber, had died in a federal prison in Oklahoma City. [Photo: Timothy McVeigh is escorted from the courthouse in Perry, Oklahoma. Bob Owen/Zuma]
Prison officials said the prisoner had hanged himself. But Kenney Trentadue, who had never revealed any suicidal inclination, was shipped home for burial with bruises all over his body and lacerations on his face and throat–suggesting something more sinister. Even Oklahoma City's chief medical examiner would later say, publicly, that it was "very likely he was murdered." But the most compelling evidence in the case was altered or turned up missing. Jesse Trentadue was never able to prove what had actually happened to his brother–though he did win a $1.1 million civil suit for "emotional distress" to his family, based on the way the government had handled the aftermath of Kenney's death.
Trentadue had all but given up, when, in the spring of 2003, he got a call from a small-town newspaper reporter in Oklahoma named… Continue reading
by Kristen
Breitweiser, 9/11 Widow and Activist
July 16, 2011
Huffington Post
Breathlessly, six members of Congress have requested that the FBI investigate the "outrageous" allegations that News Corp might have hacked into the cell phones of 9/11 victims and their families. Lickety split, the Justice Department has done so.
First off, does it surprise me that a corporation like News Corp. might try to hack into the information of private citizens for their own financial gain? Nope.
Much like it wouldn't surprise me if my own government hacked into the private information of its citizens for political gain or… er, I mean, "reasons of national security." Just ask Dick Cheney and Karl Rove about that.
Of course, any such "accidental netting" on their part would be immediately explained away under the protections of FISA and the Patriot Act, because clearly it would have been necessary "in the ongoing fight against terrorism."
Too bad, Congress doesn't want to investigate those types of indiscretions. Sigh.
But truly, I am awestruck when people like Congressman Peter King, Chairman of the House Committee for Homeland Security is so quickly moved to demand an investigation into such vague, seemingly hollow allegations as someone hacking into the cell phones of people like me.
Is this the same Congressman King who when faced with actual hard, incontrovertible facts and figures regarding the vulnerabilities posed by dangerous chemical and water plants across the country remains disinterested? And, I might add firmly on the side of… Continue reading
By JENNIFER EPSTEIN
July 18, 2011
Relatives of victims of the September 11 attacks have asked to meet with the FBI and top members of the Obama administration about allegations reporters from one of Rupert Murdoch's British papers tried to hack the cell phone accounts of victims.
In letters sent Monday to Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member on the House Judiciary Committee, a lawyer representing some victims' families is asking for meetings to discuss a report that journalists from the now-defunct News of the World asked a New York-based private investigator to help them gather information from victims' phones.
The FBI has initiated an informal probe into the allegations, which were first reported by the Daily Mirror.
"We commend the FBI for opening a preliminary inquiry into this serious issue and we are requesting a meeting to ascertain the scope, goals and timetable of the inquiry," the letter to Mueller said, Reuters reported. The FBI's press office declined to comment.
The lawyer representing the victims' relatives, Norman Siegel, told the wire service that his "clients are troubled about the allegation of potential hacking and they are particularly upset that there now exists an allegation that a newspaper would seek to illegally obtain information about their loved ones."
"I tried in the letter not to accuse anyone, especially News Corp, of anything yet because you don't want a media frenzy accusing someone if the facts aren't there. We want… Continue reading
It's front page news today that :
Journalists at Rupert Murdoch's now-shuttered News of the World paper tried to access the mobile phones of 9/11 victims, a former New York City police officer claimed on Monday.
It's also front page news today that the new Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said that American soldiers are in Iraq because of 9/11 , even though AFP notes:
That was one of the justifications for the 2003 US-led invasion, but the argument has since been widely dismissed.
(see this for details).
But a more important story – and one which might focus on a more appropriate country than Iraq – is that the co-chair of the Congressional Joint 9/11 Inquiry (Bob Graham) today alleged a cover up by the U.S. government of state assistance by Saudi Arabia to the 9/11 hijackers.
Graham is no flake. He was a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for 10 years (including 18 months as chairman), member of the CIA External Advisory Board, chairman of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, 18-year U.S. senator, two-term governor of Florida, co-chair of the national commission on the BP oil spill, and member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Graham writes today in the Daily Beast:
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The first two hijackers who entered the United States did so through Los Angeles International Airport in mid-January 2000. Within days they were urged by a shadowy man, already described in an FBI report as an "agent" of the Saudi government, to relocate to San Diego with promises of extensive support–promises on which he promptly delivered.?


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Bring back the brass
Everyone's gearing for the Ateneo-La Salle game Sunday, but there would be a strong force missing–the Blue Babble Brass Band
In a surprising move, the brass sections used by member schools of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) have been banned from playing inside the venues of the basketball games. This took effect in the opening game of the Ateneo Blue Eagles against the National University Bulldogs last June 30 at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena. At presstime, it wasn't clear whether this was imposed by the UAAP board or the MOA Arena management.
The Blue Babble Brass Band of Ateneo is a student-led varsity team, and is part of its Blue Babble Battalion. According to Rico Cruz (trumpet, BBB-Brass captain 2006-2010), the brass band was revived in the early 2000s after it was last seen in the 1970s, when Ateneo was still in the NCAA. Back then, the band was composed of alumni and college students.
In 2006, Cruz's freshman year in college, he was tasked to recruit new members for the band. Since it was difficult to find students who were interested to join, the band had only seven members.
In 2008, the recruitment process was more effective and the band's membership increased to 15. This had positive effects on the volume of the band's sound during the games and the drumline routines.
Lost without the brass
The brass band may not get as much publicity as the Battalion, Band, or the Cheerdancers and lifters, but the unit is just as important as all the aforementioned. The "Ateneo Chant" is just not the same without the brass band, much so the singing of the "Song for Mary."
The crowd looks lost without the guidance of the brass band in the game songs. Mark Dinsay, a Life Sciences major and current member of the brass band, said the group brings a sense of diversity to the whole UAAP experience. While some schools use just the standard snare and bass drum combo, others add a third layer in the brass section.
Alumna Abigail Agoncillo (trombone, BBB-Brass 2009-2012) said being part of the brass band gave her college life direction. It kept her sane when the rigors of schoolwork became too stressful. It gave her not just a team but a family.
"The brass band is the most under-appreciated group that I've seen," she said, "but it just keeps going because the members believe in what they do, even when people don't recognize how important they are to the school, and even when our own peers make fun of us."
To her, the ban on the brass sections in the UAAP is absurd. "We want our voices to be heard, partly because we don't want our years of hard work to go to waste, but also because we don't want years and years of tradition to go down the drain. This is a silent battle; we know we're challenging a giant, and we know this may not even lead to a victory, but as always, we soldier on because we believe in what we do."
Joining a brass band gives students an opportunity to learn something new, something they can truly enjoy outside of their academic lives. It also gives them a creative outlet to support their respective schools.
The brass bands definitely add excitement to the UAAP. They have been part of the league for a long time. This whole brass ban is, in our opinion, one of those decisions that make the UAAP a retrogressive league.
(The author's views do not reflect the Ateneo de Manila University's stand on this matter.)
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Stampede varsity runner Sam Leinhart, top photo, looks to break tackles in the teams' 27-0 loss to the talented Turlock Vikings in youth football action this weekend. At side, Stampede players wore a No. 2 on their helmets this week in honor of Steven Perez, a former Stampede player who was injured during a freshman practice earlier in the week at OHS.
The youngest players in the Oakdale Youth Soccer League, top photo, rush after the ball in the Under 6 division, as the Green Gators took on the Sharks, in white jerseys. In photo below, players in the Under 14 competitive program of the OYSL took the field as well at T.L. Davis on Saturday. Here, Taylor Rossini, center, battles it out with a Stockton opponent as teammate Montana Nunes, at left, looks on. The host Oakdale United Insanity girls took a 4-0 win off the field, with three goals from Izzy Arellano, one unassisted and two assisted by Danae ...
The Oakdale Stampede Pee Wee team walked away with a one-point victory a week ago and the squad followed up the win with another one point win over the Merced Cougars 13-12.
The Oakdale Stampede Pee Wee team walked away with a one-point victory a week ago and the squad followed up the win with another one point win over the Merced Cougars 13-12.
The Buhach Thunder showed up to the Corral ready to play and pulled out a couple of victories over the Oakdale Stampede organization, but the Pee Wee level fought off the clean sweep with a 13-12 win over the visitors.
The Oakdale Stampede got the production they were looking for as all three levels of competitive action rolled to victory in their regular season home opener. The pee-wee team put together a pristine effort, smashing Hilmar 41-0, while the JV and varsity squads did themselves justice with 22-6 and 7-6 victories, respectively.
The Oakdale based Cen-Cal 11-year-old baseball team made the long trek to Sunnyvale outside of San Jose and returned with runner-up honors in the Twin Creeks Tournament Aug. 29 and 30.
The Oakdale Stampede came out on the losing end of all three of its competitive contests against the Turlock 49ers on Saturday, forcing the squad into attack mode for the home opener against the Hilmar Packers on Sept. 5.
The Oakdale Stampede hosted four teams for one of three Cen-Cal Round Robin scrimmages that went off throughout the Central Valley on Saturday, Aug. 22 for each squad's final tune-up before the season opener.
The Oakdale Inferno put together a nice debut for their competitive season, bringing a third place finish back to Oakdale after participating in the recent Soccer By The Bay Tournament.
Former Oakdale High School softball standout, Brianna Parker, graduated from Texas Southern University on May 16. Parker played for the university's softball team all four seasons and helped her team win the South West Athletic Conference (SWAC) championship the last two seasons. She was named to the All-SWAC All-Tournament her senior year.
Oakdale's competitive travel team, the Gunners Under 16 boys competitive soccer squad, has made big waves this season, including winning the Presidents Cup in NorCal state competition recently.
Eleven of Oakdale's finest competed in the 2015 CIF Section qualifier swim meet recently, bringing their season to an end. Swimmers, fans and family gathered at the pool at Tokay High School in Lodi over the two-day meet to cheer on their teams. Four women and seven men represented Oakdale for the right to advance to the State meet. Oakdale turned in great performances but none of the 11 hopefuls punched their ticket to state.
Oakdale faced off against a familiar foe in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division III playoff semifinals when the fourth seeded Lady Mustangs took on the top seeded East Union Lady Lancers. Like everyone else in the Valley Oak League, Oakdale fell to East Union twice during the regular season, and the playoff outcome was no different as Oakdale lost a tough contest, 3-1 on Wednesday, May 13 at East Union, ending the season for the Lady Mustangs. East Union went on to defeat VOL foe Manteca 2-0 in the Section final on Saturday, May 16.
The hopes of repeating as CIF Section champions came to a screeching halt when the Oakdale Lady Mustangs fell to Cordova on Tuesday night, May 12. Oakdale came out on the short end of a 6-1 score at the Sacramento Softball Complex in Sacramento to the Lancers.
Home field advantage was not enough to hold off Yuba City as the 11th seeded Honkers came to town and knocked off the Mustangs 10-5, to eliminate the Oakdale varsity baseball team from the 2015 CIF Sac-Joaquin Division III playoffs.
Oakdale brought big bats to their home and home series against Kimball. With their 7-0 home win followed by an 11-6 road win in the 2015 regular season finale, Oakdale finished second overall in the Valley Oak League (VOL) standings.
Oakdale hosted Manteca in the regular season track and field finale on Tuesday, May 5 at The Corral. The varsity girls entered the day winners of 78 consecutive dual meets, and with a chance to win their 11th Valley Oak League title in a row. In front of the home crowd, the girls accomplished this feat with a convincing 93-43 victory over the Buffaloes.
A much anticipated regular season finale against undefeated East Union lived up to the hype on Wednesday evening, May 6. Oakdale traveled to Manteca to clash with the first place Lady Lancers for a share of the Valley Oak League title. The stage was set, a rematch from last year's CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Championship game, in which Oakdale won, and a rematch from this year's season opener in which East Union prevailed on Oakdale's home field. In a clash of the VOL's best this time around, East Union edged out Oakdale 7-6 in nine innings. The ...
Home field advantage – even in the rain – proved sweet for Oakdale, as the varsity soccer team notched a pair of playoff victories in front of a supportive home crowd this past week.
The 16th annual NHRA Summit Nationals featured several upsets and close racing in all three of the professional categories.
Thousands of fans packed the Oakdale Saddle Club rodeo grounds for the toughest two days in sports, April 11 and 12, for the 64th annual Oakdale PRCA Rodeo.
Why is it that every time the weather is absolutely perfect for fishing, that I have something else planned or I'm working? Then of course, when I finally get some time to get out fishing, a wind storm or some other type of change in the weather occurs. Don't get me wrong, I've had my fair share of perfect weather days out on the water but they're hard to come by, especially in the spring. I used to have a friend who told me that he was a fair weather fisherman. Needless to say, he didn ...
Every angler has his or her favorite fishing spot, I'm no different. Last weekend while fishing Lake Pardee, which is full by the way. My son and I were struggling to get any bites. We moved around from spot to spot until I decided that we try an old spot that I've been fishing since I was a kid. There was a time when that spot was the only place that I would fish on the lake, but as my boats have gotten bigger and more reliable, I've since ventured out. After fishing a while, my son ...
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Who's Running Afghan Policy?
Several months ago a leading American expert on Afghanistan was meeting with Meghan O'Sullivan, a deputy national security adviser in the Bush White House. The topic at hand was the attitude of Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistani leader, toward the revived Taliban insurgents operating out of Pakistani territory. Musharraf's government seemed (as it does now) to be willfully ignoring the Taliban, or perhaps even providing them with safe harbor and assistance. Why would Musharraf do either?
The expert explained that many factors shape the difficult Pakistani-Afghan relationship. He pointed to the decades-long conflict between Afghanistan and Pakistan and mentioned the Durand Line, the supposed border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. The 1,600-mile-long line, imposed on Afghanistan by the British in 1893, divides Pashtun and Baluch regions and separates Afghanistan from territory it has claimed as its own. Afghanistan has never officially recognized the Durand Line, which has been a great source of strife between the two countries.
By referring to the Durand Line, the expert was noting that US efforts in the region are complicated by pre-9/11 history. O'Sullivan, according to this expert (who wishes not to be named), didn't know what the Durand Line was. The expert was stunned. O'Sullivan is the most senior Bush Administration official handling Afghanistan policy. If she wasn't familiar with this basic point, US policy-making on Afghanistan was in trouble.
After Iraq, Afghanistan is the most profound foreign policy mess the Bush Administration faces. Five years after US forces chased the Taliban out of Kabul, the Taliban are resurgent, adopting tactics used by Iraqi rebels. The central government of President Hamid Karzai remains weak and cannot provide security or basic services to its people. Reconstruction has slowed dramatically. Poppy cultivation has exploded. Tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan are affecting the military campaigns against the Taliban and Al Qaeda. And the consensus among Afghanistan experts is that many Afghans, seeing little direct benefit from the lagging reconstruction efforts, have lost faith in the US-backed government. According to recent Congressional testimony by Barnett Rubin, a New York University professor who has advised the United Nations on Afghanistan, a former Afghan minister recently said, "The conditions in Afghanistan are ripe for fundamentalism."
Yet George Bush has no senior-level official responsible for policies and actions in Afghanistan. "The situation is worsening," notes former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. "We have to have someone in government responsible for the whole picture--military, economic assistance and political. There's a nexus between each. But there's not one person in the government designated to be in charge of that nexus. It could be the ambassador. It could be someone else--if they have resources and clout and accountability. But this Administration has not been keen on accountability."
O'Sullivan is not the issue. She is a protégé of Richard Haass, who left the State Department as policy director in July 2003 and became president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and she is neither a neocon nor an ideologue. She has even earned the suspicion of conservatives for having proposed engaging with Iran and for suggesting--before 9/11--that it is unproductive to brand a state a "rogue regime." The problem is that O'Sullivan, who is in her mid-30s, is not an expert in the field and does not have the stature to take on heavyweights in the Administration (say, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld). Worse, she has two briefs: Afghanistan and Iraq. Either project would (or should) be more than a 24/7 job for a senior Administration official. As a Congressional aide quips, "It's too much to ask anyone to handle two policy failures at once. And what we have now is Administration policy-making that happens mostly by drift, with the White House not caring all that much about it. They'd rather see Afghanistan as 'mission accomplished' and move on." (The White House said O'Sullivan was not available for an interview.)
It has been a year and a half since the Bush Administration had a major player covering Afghanistan. That was Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan-American named ambassador to Afghanistan and a special presidential envoy in 2003. He was well schooled in the nation's history and culture and its internecine conflicts. In 2002, as a special envoy, he oversaw the loya jirga that led to the establishment of a government there. He later negotiated with regional Afghan leaders. "He would routinely jump into a car and go over to Karzai's office to give him marching orders, for good or bad," says a Congressional aide who witnessed such occasions. A neocon advocate of the Iraq War and a disciple of Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, Khalilzad had direct lines into the White House and the Pentagon. In March 2005 he was named US ambassador to Iraq.
Khalilzad was replaced by Ronald Neumann, a career foreign service office, who previously served in Iraq and Bahrain. Neumann lacked the standing of Khalilzad. "He tries, but he's not able to get stuff done," Rubin says. "He does not have the clout. When I ask him for something difficult, he says, 'It will never get through the bureaucracy.'"


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About 8,500 American troops are expected to face the dangers of peacekeeping in Bosnia for at least another year and a half.
President Clinton announced the Bosnian commitment Friday and also confirmed that as many as 5,000 American troops may be headed for eastern Zaire to help rescue more than a million refugees from a civil war there.
``The United States cannot and should not try to solve every problem in the world,'' said Clinton. ``But when our interests are clear, our values are at stake - where we can make a difference - we must act and we must lead. Clearly Bosnia is such an example.''
On Africa, Clinton insisted that ``the world's most powerful nation must not turn its back on so many desperate people and so many innocent children.''
The decision to stay in Bosnia underscores a large danger of American military involvements around the world. Once committed, U.S. troops are frequently difficult to withdraw.
Clinton promised just a year ago that 15,000 American peacekeepers would be out of Bosnia by this December. But in recent months, it has become increasingly apparent that such a withdrawal was likely to lead to a renewal of the bloody civil war there.
A Republican in Congress hit Clinton on that point Friday.
``The problem is, it's easy to get in but tough to get out,'' said Sen. Dan Coats of Indiana, a persistent administration critic.
``I've not questioned the fact that the Balkans is a major concern,'' Coats said. ``I've questioned whether the president has been forthright with the American people about the costs and the risks of it and limiting our commitment to one year.''
Coats also said he was not yet convinced that a multinational relief force was needed to intervene in the refugee crisis in Zaire.
``That's another case where the president is too quick to commit our troops without having all the facts,'' Coats said. ``It's just another example of his seat-of-the-pants, reactive foreign policy.''
In a late-morning appearance in the White House briefing room, Clinton acknowledged the new American commitments were not without danger.
But the president argued that American involvement was almost certainly needed to save lives in Zaire and to hold gains of peace and democracy in Bosnia. The president emphasized that in both cases, U.S. troops would be under American command.
Clinton called reports Friday of a massive and apparently spontaneous exodus by refugees from their cholera-ridden camp in Zaire back to their homeland in neighboring Rwanda ``good preliminary news'' and ``a hopeful sign.'' However, he cautioned that ``I don't think we know enough yet to say the mission won't be needed.''
He said the 50,000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force that was sent to Bosnia in December ``has succeeded'' in preserving a fragile peace, but that a smaller force now must stay on to secure that peace while the Bosnian people rebuild their society.
``Quite frankly, rebuilding the fabric of Bosnia's economy and political life is taking longer than anticipated,'' Clinton said. While Bosnians rebuild their courts, police and democratic institutions, ``for a time they will need the stability, the confidence that only an outside security force can provide.''
Clinton said the roughly 8,500 U.S. troops would join a new NATO force of some 30,000 to police the peace. They will be empowered to defend themselves under ``tough rules of engagement,'' he said, adding that he hoped to bring half of them home by the end of 1997 and to close out the mission by June 1998.
At the Pentagon, Army Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary William Perry said the United States hadn't determined which troops would be used in Bosnia.
Shalikashvili said details still were being worked out by NATO commanders in Europe. U.S. Army Gen. William Crouch, who took over as NATO's top Bosnia commander last week, will direct the new force.
Shalikashvili indicated that the stabilization force would actually be deployed slightly beyond June 1998.
``We need to make assessments along the way, but it is now the intent for the mission to end in June of 1998, and shortly thereafter for the troops to withdraw from there,'' he said.
``We will ensure that approximately every six months we conduct assessments of what is ongoing in Bosnia and, based upon those assessments, make the judgments whether we continue on a proper glide path,'' Shalikashvili said.
Perry acknowledged that his estimates last year that the job would be done in 12 months were wrong. ``It was my error in judgment,'' he said.
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