Tag: 9/11

US & Terrorism in Xinjiang

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

South Asia Analysis Group 

Paper no. 499

24. 07. 2002

US & TERRORISM IN XINJIANG
by B. Raman

The annual report on the Patterns of Global Terrorism during 2001 of the Counter-Terrorism Division  of the US State Department states as follows on China’s contribution to the war of the international coalition against terrorism:

 2. “Chinese officials strongly condemned the September 11 attacks and announced China would strengthen cooperation with the international community in fighting terrorism on the basis of the UN Charter and international law.  China voted in support of both UN Security Council resolutions after the attack.  Its vote for Resolution 1368 marked the first time it has voted in favor of authorizing the international use of force.  China also has taken a constructive approach to terrorism problems in South and Central Asia, publicly supporting the Coalition campaign in Afghanistan and using its influence with Pakistan to urge support for multinational efforts against the Taliban and al-Qaida.  China and the United States began a counterterrorism dialogue in late-September, which was followed by further discussions during Ambassador Taylor’s (Francis Taylor, the State Department’s Counter-Terrorism Co-Ordinator) trip in December to Beijing.  The September 11 attacks added urgency to discussions held in Washington, DC, Beijing, and Hong Kong.  The results have been encouraging and concrete; the Government of China has approved establishment of an FBI Legal Attache in Beijing and agreed to create US-China counterterrorism working groups on financing and law enforcement.

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Profiting from 9/11: SAIC and Duane Andrews

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The fact that Andrews was the most knowledgeable person in terms of the vulnerabilities of information and communications networks for U.S. national security seems a worthy point for further consideration. That’s because so many inexplicable problems occurred with defense communications networks on 9/11, including the following.

There were serious problems with the National Military Command Center’s conference calls that morning. Important participants could not be connected or were repeatedly dropped from the calls, including the FAA.[12]
U.S. national security facilities were in an information void on 9/11. Agencies that should have known the most about an ongoing terrorist event were blind to the ongoing attacks.[13]
The SIPRnet did not have any information about the attacks even as late as the afternoon of 9/11.[14]
President Bush complained of poor communications in that he “could not reach key officials, including Rumsfeld” and “The line to the White House shelter conference room – and the Vice-President- kept cutting off.”[15]

— Read on digwithin.net/2014/06/04/andrews-and-saic/

Our problem is civil obedience — A Brief History of State Crimes Against Us (Video)

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

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“Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience… Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem… people are obedient, all these herdlike people.” — Howard Zinn

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History Unfolding: A blast from the past

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

It occurred to me this week, reading about the Republican sit-in in the Capitol basement, that today’s Republican legislators are using tactics developed 50 + years ago by my contemporaries in the Vietnam era.  This is not unprecedented: John Bolton led a gang of Republican operatives who descended on Miami in 2000 to stop the recount of Florida votes.  Democratic Boomers either dropped out of traditional politics altogether or became respectable.  Republicans, including many from Gen X, show the the same spirit, outlook and tactics that the SDS did back then.  That in turn reminded me of one of the first posts I did here fifteen years ago, which follows.

— Read on historyunfolding.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-blast-from-past.html

Fuckers!