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Subject: [BPR] - RE: UN team wants more data on 'saucers'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Bo")
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 01:46:48 +0800

WATCH THE PROPAGANDA MOVIE

MISSION TO MARS

and you'll know why.

It's part of a set up for the world gov in my view.

More complicated than I have time to go into here.

Check out THE BLACK VAULT on the web.

At 09:00 AM 10/5/2000 -0500, you wrote:

>Why is the UN getting involved with this?
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Subject: [BPR] - Sin leads Virgin Mary anniversary rites today
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:48:20 -0500

[ Another example of how real life names are better than anything you can
make-up..."Cardinal Sin", (If he had a dime...) ]-Shophar

Sin leads Virgin Mary anniversary rites today
http://www.mb.com.ph/MAIN/2000-09/MN090803.asp

Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin will lead in celebrating the 2015th
birth anniversary of the Blessed Virgin Mary today. Cardinal Sin will
officiate at mass at 10 a.m. at the Immaculate Conception Parish in Pasig
City to commence the Virgin Mary's birthday celebration, a holy day of
obligation.

Sin is expected to seek the intercession of the Blessed Mother in
achieving a just and lasting peace in the country, especially in war-torn
Mindanao.

The cardinal believed that Virgin Mary had interceded for the success of
the bloodless EDSA people power revolt which toppled the Marcos
dictatorship in 1986.

Celebrated by Catholics all over the world, this solemn feast coincides
with the Jubilee of Marian Movements and the Jubilee of Women in the
archdiocese of Manila, with the theme, "Maria, Huwaran ng Sambayanan at
Kababaihan sa Bagong Milenyo."

Papal Nuncio Archbishop Antonio Franco will lead the Canonical Coronation
of Our Lady of Buensuceso, patroness of Parañaque. Sin will again
celebrate mass at the St. Andrew Parish Jubilee Church, La Huerta,
Parañaque City, after the coronation at 5 p.m.

Rev. Frs. Victor Velasco and Catalino Arevalo will discuss the Third
Secret of Fatima at 2 p.m. at the Immaculate Conception Parish, Pasig
City.

Marian processions will be conducted at the Immaculate Conception Parish,
Pasig City at 6 p.m.; and St. Andrew parish and Jubilee Church, La Huerta,
Parañaque City at 7 p.m.

Culminating the activities will be a grand launch of the Jubilee
Pilgrimage for Peace 2000 at 9 p.m. at the Mary Queen of Peace Shrine
(EDSA Shrine) in Quezon City. A prayer, song and Church tour will take
place during this activity.

Cardinal Sin and former President Corazon Aquino last month led ceremonies
consecrating the whole country to the Virgin Mary so that there may be
peace in Mindanao, ravaged by war between the government and the
secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

Meanwhile, the 6th Ave Maria Exhibit will be opened to the public at the
Madrigal Art Center in Ayala Alabang Village today. Organized by Friends
in Art (FIAT), a non-profit corporation of Muntinlupa-based professional
women, Ave Maria features reredos, bas reliefs, icons, nativity tableaux,
statuary, and framed productions of images honoring the Blessed Virgin
Mary as Mother of God and men. (Genalyn D. Kabiling)

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Subject: [BPR] - Hindu leader tells church to go
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:57:17 -0500

Hindu leader tells church to go
http://theage.com.au/news/20001005/A32208-2000Oct4.html

By LUKE HARDING
NEW DELHI
Thursday 5 October 2000

A senior Hindu leader with close links to India's ruling party has called
for all foreign missionaries to be thrown out of the country. He made the
call just hours after a 13-year-old boy was jailed for 14 years for his role
in murdering an Australian Christian priest.

K.S. Sudarshan told an audience of right-wing Hindu activists on Tuesday in
Delhi that the government should set up a "totally Indian church" and ask
all foreign churches and missionaries "to pack up and go".

His organisation, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), enjoys the support of
India's main Hindu nationalist politicians.

The comments were made after a juvenile court in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa state,
convicted Chencu Hansda of taking part in the killing last year of Graham
Staines, 58, an Australian Christian missionary.

Mr Staines was burned to death with his two sons, Philip, 10, and Timothy,
eight, while they slept in a vehicle in the remote Keonjhar district of
eastern India.

Hansda was one of an 18-strong mob accused of the murders in January 1999.
The teenager was tried first because of his young age. He will serve his
sentence, handed down on Saturday, in a juvenile prison. His lawyer said he
would appeal, arguing the maximum term Hansda could serve was three years.

The alleged ringleader is Dara Singh, 38, a Hindu fundamentalist also
accused of murdering a Muslim trader by hacking off his arms and setting him
alight. Mr Singh apparently targeted Mr Staines, who had spent 30 years
working with leprosy patients in Mayurbhanj, an inaccessible region of
Orissa, for "converting" villagers to Christianity.

After the crime Mr Singh spent a year in the jungle before his capture in
January. He has become an icon for the Hindu right, commended in anonymous
pamphlets for carrying out a "sacred act" and cleansing India of
"cow-eaters". His trial, and that of the others accused of the murders, is
scheduled for December.

India's minority Christian community has been under attack since the Hindu
nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in March 1998.

Three months ago India's Christian leaders complained they were the butt of
a "well-orchestrated campaign of hate and calumny". The campaign included
murders, rapes, and bomb blasts at churches, they said.

In his speech last night, Mr Sudarshan told 21,000 RSS volunteers that India
should establish a national church similar to China. Catholics should be
forced to sever links with the Vatican, he said. Most leading members of the
BJP, including India's Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, are also
members of the RSS, the party's ideological wing.

Mr Staines' widow, Gladys, refused to return to Australia and is realising
her late husband's dream of building a 30-bed hospital for leprosy patients.

- GUARDIAN

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Subject: [BPR] - Re: UN team wants more data on 'saucers'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Bev")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:33:28 -0400

where is Las PIA????? What make s this one different? where it happened or
what do you think?

[Moderator: The city is located in the Philippines. As to what makes this
particular siting different, I'm not sure, although I personally believe we
will be seeing more and more of an open government (and UN) interest
in UFOs and "alien abductions." In the past, governments in general
have been skeptical and secretive about any role they may have in
the investigation of UFO sitings and such. I believe that their role in the
future may not be so secretive. There are many endtime scenarios
that are offered by various individuals where UFOs and "aliens" play
a part in the deception referred to in the bible. ]

----- Original Message Posted by Moza-----
From: "Moza" <bpr-list@philologos.org>
To: BPR Mailing List <bpr-list@philologos.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 1:34 PM
Subject: [BPR] - UN team wants more data on 'saucers'

UN team wants more data on 'saucers'

by :Rainier Allan Ronda 9/24/00

Unable to identify unidentified flying objects (UFOs) seen in the
evening sky over Las PiÃ±as last Sept. 3, scientists from the United
Nations (UN) want more data to explain the sighting.

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Subject: [BPR] - Weekend News Today items (10/5/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:52:53 -0400

U.S. closes embassies in Arab world

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Reuters

Thu Oct 5,2000 -- The United States closed all its embassies and
consulates in the Arab world on Thursday for four or five days for
fear of violent demonstrations in support of Palestinians fighting
Israeli forces. The State Department said the missions would stay
closed until after the Columbus Day holiday, which some observe
on Sunday and some on Monday.Thousands of Syrians stoned the
U.S. embassy in Damascus on Wednesday in protest against the
killing of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers. Demonstrations against
Israel and the United States, its ally, have taken place in other
Arab cities.

Albright announces Mideast security committee

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Ha'aretz

Thu Oct 5,2000 -- At the conclusion of talks in Sharm el Sheikh
without Prime Minister Ehud Barak, U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright said on Thursday the United States had helped
to set up a trilateral security committee after a week of Israeli-
Palestinian violence which has claimed 67 lives. "President Clinton
has already announced that the parties have agreed that the United
States will chair a trilateral security committee to facilitate the
process of security cooperation," Albright told reporters at a joint
news conference with Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa

Roman Catholic leader calls for Arab control of east Jerusalem

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Leo
                         Source: AP

Thu Oct 5,2000 -- Talks leading to Israel's withdrawal from east
Jerusalem are the only hope for peace there, the Roman Catholic
church's highest official in Jersusalem says.

The Vatican's missionary news service Fides carried excerpts
Wednesday from an open letter by Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah,
a Palestinian. "The only way to return to a time of peace is to
return to peace talks, and to see how to restore the situation that
prevailed prior to 1967," Sabbah wrote.

Biggest meeting of its kind in Middle East about worldwide water

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: faith
                         Source: CNN

Thu Oct 5,2000 -- AMMAN, Jordan -- The world's biggest
environmental network launched a $30 million initiative on Thursday
to provide fresh water for communities around the world that are
facing shortages. Water is a major focus of the IUCN's eight-day
congress from October 4-11. Scarcity of water is one of the world's
most serious environmental threats. Nearly a quarter of the world's
six billion people have no access to safe drinking water and water-
related diseases kill up to four million people a year. In the Middle
East, where water is a scarce natural resource, access to water
has been a key point in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The IUCN
congress is the biggest meeting of its kind ever held in the Middle
East. About 2,500 delegates from 140 countries are attending the
meeting.

Barak: Arafat has committed himself to halting violence

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: JerusalemPost

Thu Oct 5,2000 -- Prime Minister Ehud Barak told senior security
establishment officials this afternoon that even though no
agreement had been signed in Paris, Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat had unequivocally committed himself, to
the Americans, to halting the disturbances in the territories,
including the shooting at IDF soldiers by Palestinian policemen and
Tanzim, the Fatah militia. Barak added that since last night senior
IDF officers and their Palestinian counterparts have been working to
implement the Paris understandings. The IDF is due to redeploy
but without impairing its level of alert or its ability to quickly
respond to renewed shooting at its soldiers.

Fatah calls for demonstrations in Jerusalem tomorrow

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: Jerusalem Post

Thu Oct 5,2000 -- The Fatah organization in Jerusalem has called
on Palestinians to demonstrate tomorrow and go to the Al Aqsa
mosque even if they have to break through Israeli roadblocks to do
so. Fatah has declared tomorrow as a =93Day of Rage.=94 Jerusalem
Waqf officials have denied that any agreement has been reached
with the Jerusalem police regarding arrangements for tomorrow=92s
prayers on the Temple Mount.

Jerusalem police commander warns of imminent Friday violence

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: IsraelWire

Thu Oct 5,2000 -- Yair Yitzhaki, commander of the Jerusalem
District of the Israel Police, on Thursday warned that intelligence
information points to planned Islamic rioting on Friday following
Temple Mount prayer services. Wilk indicated that the Jerusalem
District Command would recommend to Police Chief Yehuda Wilk
that limitations be placed on worshipers entering the Temple Mount
complex on Friday, barring the entry of young persons.Yitzhaki
also stated that the shooting into Jerusalem=92s southern Gilo
neighborhood on Wednesday night was not an attack but stray
bullets from the fighting in Bethlehem between Israeli and PLO
Authority forces.

Putin warns of ''grave consequences'' of Yugoslav election strife

Weekend News Today
Source: AFP

Thu Oct 5,2000 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin warned of
"grave consequences" Thursday if Yugoslavia's election crisis spun
out of control, renewing his offer to mediate as a Belgrade crowd
stormed parliament."Unfortunately the situation in Yugoslavia in
recent days has acquired more and more of the character of
confrontation," Putin said in a letter to Gennady Seleznyov, the
speaker of the State Duma lower house of parliament."If this
development is not checked, the consequences could be grave --
and not just for Yugoslavia," said Putin in the letter, a copy of
which was faxed to AFP.The rapidly escalating events in Belgrade
were in danger of overtaking Putin's offer to mediate between
incumbent Slobodan Milosevic and opposition challenger Vojislav
Kostunica over disputed presidential polls.

Mobs storm burning parliament building in Yugoslavia

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: ABCNews

Thu Oct 5,2000 -- Tensions were rising after the Yugoslav
Constitutional Court issued a ruling that one justice reportedly said
nullified the recent election. The opposition claimed the decision by
the pro-Milosevic court was aimed at prolonging his stay in power.
By early afternoon, downtown Belgrade was a mass of people,
many streaming toward the parliament building and blocking traffic
as they did so. =93At this moment, terror rules in Belgrade,=94 the pro-
Milosevic government television said in a commentary. =93They are
attacking everyone they see on the streets and there is chaos.=94
Black smoke billowed from Yugoslavia=92s parliament building today
as security forces fought mobs trying to storm the building to
demand Slobodan Milosevic=92s ousting.

Clashes spread through the streets of the capital, which echoed
with the sound of stun grenades and tear gas fired to break up the
crowds. Dozens of people were injured, according to witnesses.
The melee erupted at the start of a huge rally the opposition called
to force Milosevic to accept electoral defeat by Vojislav Kostunica
in the Sept. 24 election. In what was apparently the largest anti-
Milosevic protest since his 13-year rule began, hundreds of
thousands of people had assembled less than an hour before the
rallies to begin, and tens of thousands more were seen streaming
into the city. Opposition leaders attempted to rally the crowd,
blasting rock music through the capital and calling for nonviolence.
An opposition leader told the crowd that Kostunica would address
the rally =93from inside=94 parliament.

Albright and Arafat to attend Egypt talks; Barak's presence not
needed says U.S. official

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: AFP

Thu Oct 5,2000 -- US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright left
Paris for Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt early Thursday to hold talks
that would be attended by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat but not
by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, an airport official said.
Albright had chaired marathon talks between the two leaders in
Paris Wednesday but they failed early Thursday to reach an
agreement to end the violence in the Middle East which has cost
72 lives in the space of days.

Instead of heading for Egypt, Barak flew home and a senior Israeli
official blamed Arafat for the failure to reach agreement to stop the
violence.However a senior US official said Barak's presence in
Egypt was "not essential".

http://216.219.160.226/cgi-
bin/readnews.cgi?day=3D00_10_5&item=3D#970785304

From: moza@butterfly.mv.com

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Subject: [BPR] - (Fwd) Arutz-7 News: Thursday, October 5, 2000
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:57:42 -0400

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TO OUR READERS:
During these critical days for the State of Israel, the picture being
painted by the world media - now, more than ever - is of a "cruel and
domineering Israel suppressing the civil rights of the peace-loving Arab
population." Many of you have written to us that Arutz-7 is serving a
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the events being presented to much of the world. Thank you.

TODAY'S HEADLINES:
   1. VIOLENCE LAST NIGHT, TODAY, AND TOMORROW
   2. ARAFAT DIDN'T SIGN
   3. LET'S TALK UNITY
   4. WESTERN WALL ATTENDANCE - DOWN; VIOLENCE EXPECTED
   5. NEW IDF CHIEF RABBI
   6. MERIDOR STANDS RIGHT
   7. CLOSING ROADS - INSTEAD OF OPENING THEM
   8. IN BRIEF

1. VIOLENCE LAST NIGHT, TODAY, AND TOMORROW
The ceasefire promised by Arafat in the Rosh HaShanah Arab Assault does not
seem to be holding - and a Tanzim leader said today that a decision has
been made to "militarily clash" with the IDF in a Palestinian city
tomorrow. Fatah leaders have called on their members to arrive and
demonstrate at the mosque on the Temple Mount tomorrow.

An Israeli from Tiberias was moderately injured late this afternoon when he
was attacked by an Israeli-Arab mob near Beit Rimon; the Arabs shot on his
car and threw rocks at him. Heavy fire is being exchanged outside
Netzarim, after Arabs resumed their assault on Israeli troops there this
afternoon. Two Arabs were shot and killed while climbing the roof of an
Israeli outpost at the Netzarim Junction. The Arabs have stationed
ambulances - which they know will not be targeted by the Israelis - at the
site, but have been seen removing ready-made firebombs from the ambulances
and throwing them in the direction of the Israelis.

Shots were also fired on IDF soldiers in Kalkilye, as well as on Hevron's
Beit HaShishah; one of the bullets penetrated a room in a home there. The
wave of Arab-ignited blazes continued with new cases of arson in the north
this afternoon, and to date has claimed some 9,000 dunams of Israeli landscape.

At least 23 rock-throwing incidents were registered in the towns of Ramle
and Lod in the past 30 hours.

Last night:
        Shots were fired at the southern Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo; at least
one bullet penetrated a home, but no one was injured. A resident there
said this was not the first shooting there, "but only the first one that
actually hit..."
        Heavy exchanges of fire were registered at Psagot and Joseph's Tomb in
Shechem...
        Shots were fired at Kiryat Arba and Jewish homes in Hevron, as well as at
Dugit, N'vei Dekalim, and Morag in Gush Katif...
        Travel to and from Netzarim is only via helicopter; the commander of the
IDF brigade in northern Gaza told Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler that he hopes that
within days, land transportation to Netzarim will go back to normal; "if
not, then sooner or later, we will open the roads..."

Earlier today, the IDF took in-the-field measures for the "cease-fire:" It
withdrew its forces from the Ayosh Junction - within Israeli-controlled
territory, immediately north of Ramallah - which was the scene of several
intense battles over the past few days, and closed it to Israeli
traffic. Beit El residents, who normally use the Israeli-controlled
intersection to drive to and from home, are being routed through a nearby
army camp instead. After Israeli and Palestinian officers met today to
discuss ceasefire arrangements, IDF tanks were also withdrawn from other
recent battle zones, such as Psagot, Netzarim, the Bethlehem region, and
N'vei Dekalim.

2. ARAFAT DIDN'T SIGN
A frustrated and somewhat humiliated Israeli delegation returned home this
morning from Paris, after Yasser Arafat did not show up for the signing of
the cease-fire agreement on which the Americans, Israelis, and Palestinians
worked all night. Arafat continues to demand the establishment of an
international commission of inquiry about the past week's violence.

Upon his return to Israel, Prime Minister Barak reported to his Cabinet
that despite the lack of an agreement, Arafat had "unequivocally committed
himself, to the U.S., to halt the disturbances on the Palestinian side,
including shooting by the Tanzim and Palestinian policemen at IDF
forces." [The Tanzim is a quasi-military Fatah militia whose members, all
of whom were imprisoned by Israel in the intifada, initiate and organize
confrontations against Israel, not solely controlled by Arafat.]

Barak also said, "We have witnessed during the past days hundreds of
[Palestinian] violations of all the agreements which have been signed with
them, starting with the existence of armed militias and ending in the use
of live fire... It is not clear whether we in fact have a partner for
peace [in Arafat], and unfortunately, the time has not yet come for us to
beat our swords into plowshares."

Makor Rishon correspondent Riki Shushan, who accompanied Barak to Paris and
back, reported afterwards, "This was a very humiliating night for Barak -
no one ever humiliated him like [French President] Chirac and Arafat did
last night. Immediately after word of an agreement was released in the
U.S. Embassy in the middle of the night, Arafat walked out in anger,
saying, 'You're not respecting me!' Albright ran after him, begging him to
stay, just like little kids - it was unbelievable. Arafat didn't stop, so
then Albright ordered the gates locked so that he would not be able to get
out! Later, after everyone had left, they then returned again to the
Embassy, where they were all supposed to sign the agreement - they were all
standing around waiting for Arafat, but it turned out that he simply
decided not to show up! This was a big slap in the face for Albright and
the U.S. Chirac and Arafat worked together against the Americans and
Israelis." Barak security-aide Danny Yatom confirmed that Chirac had
worked to convince Arafat to stand firm in his demands for an international
investigation.

Yasser Arafat and U.S. Secretary of State Albright met in Sharm a-Sheikh
with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak today - without Prime Minister
Barak. No "breakthrough" was reported. Albright has transmitted an
invitation to all the negotiating teams to arrive in Washington next Tuesday.

3. LET'S TALK UNITY
Talk of an emergency national-unity government is once again the order of
the day, and Prime Minister Barak is likely to initiate the idea within a
few weeks. A senior Prime Ministerial aide said that the idea would be
actualized if it becomes clear that Israel has no partner for peace.

The proposal was first raised today by Communications Minister Binyamin
Ben-Eliezer, and was soon seconded by Shas leader Eli Yeshai, MK Michael
Kleiner (Herut), Likud members - and even President Moshe
Katzav. Opposition leader Ariel Sharon has not committed himself one way
or another, saying today that though he has been briefed continually by
Barak, they did not discuss political options. Sharon said he would back
Barak for as long as he stands firm against the Palestinian violence.

The opposition parties have agreed to work together regarding the
possibility of a national-unity government. During a meeting of opposition
representatives this afternoon, each party agreed to inform the others in
the event that One Israel invites it to join such a government, but they
did not commit themselves to take a unanimous course of action in such a
case. National Religious Party MK Sha'ul Yahalom said that his party would
be likely to accept such an invitation, on condition that the diplomatic
process changes and the secular revolution is put to rest.

One Israel MK Avi Yechezkel explained to Arutz-7 today what he felt would
be the agenda of such a unity government: "If there is even a slight
possibility for a peace agreement, then let Barak - we'll assume he'll
still be Prime Minister - try to reach that agreement. But if it turns out
that there is no such chance, then let's turn our joint attention to a new
agenda - social, civil, settlement - and solve the problems that we have
here at home..."

4. WESTERN WALL ATTENDANCE - DOWN; VIOLENCE EXPECTED
Despite the heavy incitement in the Palestinian press for Moslem violence
at the Temple Mount following tomorrow's Friday prayers, no decision has
yet been made to close the area for such prayer by the Israeli security
establishment. Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch called today for
"significant limitations" to be placed on Palestinian entry to the Mount,
lest rocks again be thrown on the Jewish worshippers at the Wall below.

The rabbi called upon Jews "not to abandon the Kotel [Wall]," noting that
in previous years, Kotel worshippers during the Ten Days of Repentance
between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur have numbered well into the thousands,
while this year, the number is drastically down. Rabbi Rabinovitch says
that the police have informed him that the area is totally protected and
that the dangers are nil. The Egged Bus Company is operating special bus
service to the Kotel until 1 AM. "It's a terrible feeling to see the Wall
so empty - certainly not what it's like every other year during the Ten
Days," he said.

Jerusalem Police Chief Ya'ir Yitzchaki said that the police have
information on major disturbances planned for tomorrow. He said that he
will recommend that the entry of young Palestinians to the Mount tomorrow
be limited.

5. NEW IDF CHIEF RABBI
After five months of indecision and difference of opinion, Prime Minister
Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Sha'ul Mofaz have agreed on a new IDF
Chief Rabbi: Lt.-Col. Rabbi Yisrael Weiss. His appointment has not been
well accepted in the army, as he is lower-ranked than the two military
rabbis who had been considered the natural candidates for the post. Rabbi
Weiss, 51, studied in the Merkaz HaRav Kook yeshiva in Jerusalem.

6. MERIDOR STANDS RIGHT
MK Dan Meridor (Center party), Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and
Defense Committee, was harshly critical today of Prime Minister Barak's
decision to negotiate with Arafat in Paris while shooting was still going
on. The former Likud member said:
"The Palestinians must be made to pay a price for their violence... We
must not hold talks at all with them when they make a changeover from the
negotiating table to street violence... We have now moved to a new phase,
which we might not be realizing, just as happened in the beginning of the
intifada. Until [last week], the terrorism was always being perpetrated by
Hamas and the like - but now it's being done by the exact people with whom
we are talking! This must be a red light, one that stops the process. We
must not allow ourselves to become accustomed to this reality - of shooting
on Jerusalem, and people locked in their homes, and people getting food
only by helicopter... [In answer to a question:] Yes, I think Arafat can
control the violence - but if he can't, then why are we talking with him?"

Meridor denied that there was any connection between Ariel Sharon's visit
to the Temple Mount last week and the violence: "So they didn't like his
visit - so what? Do we like everything that they do? Barak has said many
times that we will not give up on that which is holy to Israel, and the
Temple Mount is the holiest site in the world to the Jewish people."

7. CLOSING ROADS - INSTEAD OF OPENING THEM
Gush Etzion Regional Council chief Sha'ul Goldstein commented today on the
army's decision to close roads that are threatened by Arab violence: "The
closing of the Tunnels Road - the connection between Gush Etzion and
Jerusalem - and the other road closings are a scandal of the first
order. The government must wake up and order the army to station tanks
facing and threatening Beit Jalla [the Arab village from which shots were
fired on Jewish targets]. What, guns should cause a major Israeli artery
to close down? This brings us back 52 years!"

Hevron Jewish Community spokesman David Wilder similarly commented,
"In many cases the Israeli army, rather than try to insure security on the
roads, simply closes them. One of the most ludicrous instances concerns
the trans-Judea highway, leading from Hebron to Ashkelon via Kiryat
Gat. This road also provides easy access to Beit Shemesh, bypassing
Jerusalem. A few miles out of Hebron is the Halhul bridge that crosses
over the road from above. This bridge is under total Arafat-control, while
the road below is under Israeli control. For the past week, Arabs have
been using the bridge to bombard any moving vehicle with Israeli license
plates traveling under it. Rather than send in Israeli troops to take over
the bridge, or rather than use one missile to take the bridge down, Israel
has closed the road. This, because the road is in "Arafat territory" and
Israeli prefers not to 'react too harshly' to the continued attacks..."

Yesha residents blocked the Ofrah-Psagot road to Arab traffic for several
hours yesterday, saying, "If we can't travel freely on the roads, then why
should the Palestinians be able to?"

8. IN BRIEF
        The Palestinian Authority has released, over the past 24 hours, twelve
Hamas terrorists from prison. Security elements fear renewed terrorist
attacks...
        The Knesset will convene next Wednesday for a special session on the
events of the past days. So decided Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg today,
after consulting with coalition and opposition leaders. The session will
be pushed off until after Sukkot (Oct. 14-21) if the violence continues...
        A Smith Institute poll finds that 2/3 of secular citizens in Israel
believe in a Creator and in His influence over human activities and fate...
        The Movement for Quality Government in Israel has demanded that
Attorney-General Rubenstein order the indictment of Israeli-Arab citizens
who took part in the recent riots. The movement argues that if the state
ignores the crimes that were perpetrated - property-damage, road-blockings,
injurious throwing of rocks, bricks, and firebombs, and more - it will not
be able to enforce the law in the future...

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Subject: [BPR] - Scientists 'want to patent man-pig'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 18:59:01 -0400

Scientists 'want to patent man-pig'

Genetic scientists have created a living organism from a mixture of
human and pig cells which survived for about a week.

The US and Australian companies behind the work have also
applied for a patent on the process that helped its scientists create
the "man-pig".

Greenpeace Germany, which uncovered the application, says the
firms created a living mix of human and pig cells. The
environmental organisation's German office said human foetus cells
were transplanted into pig eggs and the resulting organism survived
for about a week.

A Greenpeace spokesman said the application had been filed to
the European Patent Office in Munich by "Stem Cell Sciences" of
Australia and "Biotransplant" of the US.

Christoph Then, Greenpeace Germany's genetics expert, said it
could be years before a patent is granted but called for a new euro-
law to ban such applications.

He said: "We are against patenting human embryos it is just like
labeling them as man-made. It would also set a precedent for other
similar patent applications.

"I cannot believe they wanted to do this just to show that it was
technically possible. Although I have seen several genetic patent
applications, this one was special - it is really shocking."

Last updated: 18:57 Thursday 5th October 2000.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_77042.html?nav_src

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Subject: [BPR] - House passes bill to punish Russia for arms sales to China
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:06:53 -0400

House passes bill to punish Russia for arms sales to China

By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The House has passed legislation that would punish Russia with
economic sanctions for selling supersonic cruise missiles to
China. The measure was passed late Tuesday night on a
unanimous voice vote. It would prohibit the United States from
providing debt relief for Moscow unless Russia agrees to stop all
sales of SSN-22 Sunburn missiles to China. The bill now goes to
the Senate, where a companion bill has been introduced by Sen.
Robert C. Smith, New Hampshire Republican. Russia already has
sold dozens of the missiles for use on two Sovremenny-class
missile destroyers, Pentagon officials said. The first ship was
delivered in February and a second one is set to be transferred as
early as next month. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California
Republican and chief sponsor of the bill, said the missile is "the
most dangerous anti-ship missile in the Russian, and now the
Chinese, fleet." "Our Navy admittedly has scant ability to defend
against this 200-kiloton nuclear-capable weapon," Mr. Rohrabacher
said. Mr. Rohrabacher said in an interview that he hopes the
legislation is a wake-up call to Russian leaders. "The Russians
cannot continue to send deadly weapons and technology that is
designed to kill American military personnel to our potential
enemies and expect that we're going to do them any favors when it
comes to debt restructuring," he said. The White House said in a
statement it opposes the bill because it "does not believe [the
measure] would be effective in accomplishing its aim of dissuading
Russian arms sales to China." "Russia's economic stability can
best be advanced through a reasonable and considered approach
to dealing with Russia's indebtedness," the White House said. The
statement also said the administration is concerned that the
legislation would be "inconsistent" with other U.S. goals toward
Moscow. "The security of the American people is the first priority in
our relationship with Russia," it said, noting that the administration
closely monitors Russian arms sales and China's military
development. The legislation, known as the Russian Anti-ship
Missile Nonproliferation Act, would block any rescheduling of
unpaid bilateral debts owed to Washington by Moscow until the
president certifies to Congress that Russia permanently ends all
transfers of Sunburns that endanger U.S. national security. It
contains a provision that would allow the president to waive the
sanctions in the U.S. national security interest. The president also
is required to report to Congress every six months on the status of
Russia-China missile sales. Rep. Sherrod Brown, Ohio Democrat,
said he supported the bill because the Sunburns "pose a danger to
our navy and the Taiwan Straits." "Russian sales of Moskit anti-
ship missiles to the [People's Republic of China] pose a great
threat to the security of Taiwan and to our country," Mr. Brown said
on the House floor. "These missiles arrived in China at a time when
the mainland has enormously increased the number of other types
of missiles on China's coast facing Taiwan," he said. "Taiwan is a
vibrant democracy and a key economic player in the Asia-Pacific
region, and it is unacceptable that the PRC continues to boast to
the world about its missile threat to Taiwan and, by extension, of
the United States." Pentagon intelligence officials said the first
shipment of Sunburns was sent to Russia in May. The first batch of
24 missiles was described by the officials as China's most
significant recent weapons development for its navy. The second
shipment of missiles was scheduled to be sent last summer, the
officials said. One Pentagon official familiar with the sale said the
Sunburns, because of their killing power, "really did change the
capability of the [Chinese] surface force." Officially, Pentagon
spokesmen have sought to play down the Russian warship and
missile sales as not a new development. A report by a blue-ribbon
panel of House Republicans criticized the Clinton administration for
condoning the weapons sales between Russian and China. The
Moscow-Beijing cooperation "calls into question the fundamental
prediction undergirding much Clinton administration security
planning: that the United States will face no peer competitor in the
military field during the next two decades," the report said.
Pentagon intelligence officials said in July that a second cruise-
missile destroyer built by Russia began sea trials in June. That
guided-missile ship was spotted in the Gulf of Finland and its
exercises included a test firing of a Sunburn missile. The second
destroyer is scheduled to be sent to China by the end of the year.
The Sunburn has a range of 65 miles and can deliver nuclear or
conventional warheads. Chinese military writings have indicated
that Beijing's interest in the missiles is to use them against U.S.
aircraft carrier battle groups.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/default-200010523347.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Recent Earthquakes
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:18:34 -0400

Updated as of Thu Oct 5 21:47:31 GMT 2000.

00/10/02 07:29:43 5.5Mb RYUKYU ISLANDS, JAPAN
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00/10/03 02:46:58 5.1Mb CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO REGION
00/10/03 02:59:02 4.7Mb SOUTHEAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
00/10/03 03:07:28 5.1Mb NORTHERN XINJIANG, CHINA
00/10/03 04:13:29 5.7Ms NEAR E COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
00/10/03 05:30:18 5.2Mb ANDREANOF ISL, ALEUTIAN IS.
00/10/03 08:49:07 3.4Md <USBR> WYOMING
00/10/03 18:04:31 5.1Mb CARLSBERG RIDGE
00/10/04 02:33:59 5.0Mb TURKEY
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00/10/04 14:37:44 6.0Mw WINDWARD ISLANDS
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Subject: [BPR] - Reality experiments
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 19:26:56 -0400

REALITY BITES

In 1971 Philip Zimbardo picked 24 students, assigned half to be
guards and half to be prisoners, then studied the group in a
simulated prison. The experiment had to be stopped after only 7
days. No one could have anticipated that "such a benign group of
students, knowing they were involved in what was a game of cops
and robbers, would become so transformed so suddenly".
Zimbardo believes that reality experiments are one of the best
ways we have of finding out about "evil" and "heroism". We talk to
the psychology professor at Stanford University who wants to run
his own reality experiments in a forthcoming TV series.
http://www.newscientist.com/nl/1007/zoo.html

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Subject: [BPR] - RE: Vatican wants paedophilia declared crime against humanity
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Harry")
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 17:00:07 -0700

This is especially interesting since there is growing documentation that
Catholic priests have been involved in numerous acts of paedophilia with
younger members of their flocks. With the ranks of priests and seminarians
falling precipitously, I truly wonder if the Vatican is prepared to
prosecute its own. Or, once again, will the Vatican attempt to shield its
own paedophiles from prosecution while aggressively pursuing lay persons?

Harry

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Vatican wants paedophilia declared crime against humanity

VATICAN CITY, Oct 3 (AFP) - Colombian Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo
Tuesday reiterated a Vatican call for paedophilia to be declared a crime
against humanity.

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Subject: [BPR] - Thoughts on the "Signs of the Times" by Charlie
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Charlie")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:27:58 -0400

The 'thoughts' are about the 'signs of the times' spoken of in the
Bible. Signs in the sun, the moon and in the stars have been
appearing, in increasing numbers. Part of the increase is due, of
course, to improvements in man's means of observing the heavens,
we can 'observe' things we could not observe before, but there is
agreement among astronomers that there is increased activity in
the 'heavenlies'. These I think are some of the signs referred to. In
addition, we are all aware, I am sure, of the 'distress of nations',
that has been growning greater each year, and of the increase in
earthquakes, world-wide. However, there are other signs, not
specifically mentioned but which can be =91looked for=92 because of
what the Bible says WILL take place after the rapture of the
church. Praise the Lord!

The two most important, I think, are the appearance on the world
scene, of a Beast who will be the head of a 'reborn' Roman Empire
and who will be so powerful that he will, in effect, 'rule' the world, as
did the Roman Empire of Jesus day. The other is the appearance
of the Anti-Christ who will, apparently, be head of a 'World Church'.
In order for either of these two 'beasts' to appear on the world
scene there must be an organization in place, for each of them,
before the end-times can begin. I think those organizations are,
now, set up and ready to go. Praise the Lord!

I have obtained information (available on request) of the outcome of
a 3 day meeting held in September of this year of heads of 130
nations of the world, under the auspices of the United Nations. The
theme of the meeting was 'One World Governance', an evasive way
of saying One Word Government. I think the first beast will be the
head of this organization and I feel sure, if we were privy to the
inner workings of the UN, we would find that the organizational
structure is in place and the senior staff selected. Praise the Lord!

I have also obtained information on the outcome of a 3 day
meeting, held in August of this year, of 1,000 heads, or senior
representatives, of the religions of the world. The purpose of the
meeting was to establish 'unity' between the various religions, in
the interest of peace. The agreements formulated, and signed, by
many of the attendees, make it clear the objective of the organizers
of the meeting, the UN, is a 'One World Church'. Since this, too,
was set up under the UN, I am sure the organizational structure is
in place now, however, there is still too much diversity between the
religions of the world for it to become a reality, at present.
However, I think it will come about and I think the head of this
organization will be the anti-Christ and the One World Church will
become a reality, after the departure of the Bride, the 'Christians'.
Praise the Lord!

Both of the above, I think, are in the category of 'signs of the times'.
They are NOW in place ready to be go and I think the rapture will
be the 'trigger' that fires the gun, marking the start of the last lap of
the Israeli marathon - Daniel's 70th week. Maranatha! Praise the
Lord!

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Subject: [BPR] - IDF: Palestinians offer $2,000 for 'martyrs'
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:35:25 -0400

Friday, October 6 2000 02:09 7 Tishri 5761

IDF: Palestinians offer $2,000 for 'martyrs'

By Margot Dudkevitch

HEBRON (October 6) - The IDF Hebron area commander Col.
Noam Tivon suggested yesterday that the Palestinian Authority is
encouraging children to participate in clashes with the IDF by
offering their families $300 per injury and $2,000 for anyone killed.

The main goal of the Tanzim, or Fatah militia activists, is to
continue perpetrating attacks, to kill soldiers and settlers, he said.
He noted the cynical use by Palestinians of their children, who are
pushed to the forefront of the clashes.

Senior IDF commanders met with Palestinians security officials on
Wednesday night and yesterday morning in an attempt to quell the
violence.

Tivon also met with his Palestinian counterpart yesterday morning.
He said that "the meeting took place after a night of severe, intense
fighting, with armed Tanzim later joined by armed Palestinian
policemen who perpetrated scores of shooting attacks, firing at the
buildings of the Jewish community and IDF soldiers. It is about
time that the public understand that the Tanzim are directly linked
to PA Chairman Yasser Arafat - he is the only one that can control
the situation."

Tivon said it was up to Arafat to issue clearcut orders to his
security forces and armed Fatah activists.

From the numerous meetings with Palestinian preventive security
officials he has conducted in the past week, it is clear they have no
control over the situation and the Tanzim, Tivon said.

"It's a game - one hand operates the Tanzim, the bad guys, and
the other hand the security services. But both hands are held up by
the same body and head. The Palestinian security officials are fully
aware that they have no control and are facing a difficult situation,
but without a doubt everything is orchestrated by Arafat."

He said the soldiers have acted with the utmost restraint and have
not initiated any shooting attacks or violence.

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/10/06/News/News.13361.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Gambling Clinic Treats E-Chat Addicts
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:44:46 -0400

Thursday October 5 9:44 AM ET
Gambling Clinic Treats E-Chat Addicts

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Danish clinic specializing in the
treatment of people suffering from pathological gambling and
Internet addiction has begun helping mobile phone SMS (Short
Message Services) chat addicts.

One of the clinic's first such patients was a 25-year-old chauffeur
who drove at night and spent several hours per day e-chatting, the
daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten reported on Thursday.

The man sent on average 217 SMS text snippets per day and his
quarterly mobile phone bill quintupled to 12,000 crowns ($1,412),
way beyond what he could afford.

Michael Joersel, head of the clinic's Internet therapy center, told
Jyllands-Posten he expected a growing number of mobile phone
SMS chat addicts to seek help.

Some 60 people have received treatment at the Internet therapy
center since 1998.

Denmark has 2.6 million registered mobile phone subscribers and
1.1 million Internet subscribers, according to national telecoms
agency figures.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001005/od/sms_dc_1.html

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Subject: [BPR] - UNs depopulation goal
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 08:59:45 -0400

CARDINAL RATZINGER CRITICIZES UN PROPOSAL FOR "NEW WORLD ORDER"
Says Christians Have Duty To Protest

ROME, Sept 18 (LSN.ca) - Writing in the Italian newspaper
Avvenire, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger slammed the UN's proposals
for a "New World Order" targeting for special criticism the UN's
goal of depopulation. He noted that the philosophy coming from
recent UN conferences and the Millennium Summit "proposes
strategies to reduce the number of guests at the table of humanity,
so that the presumed happiness [we] have attained will not be
affected." He criticized this philosophy for "not being concerned
with the care of those who are no longer productive or who can no
longer hope for a determined quality of life."

Ratzinger is prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, which is the Vatican office responsible for protecting and
promoting Catholic doctrine.

Ratzinger noted that "at the base of this New World Order" is the
ideology of "women's empowerment," which erroneously sees "the
principal obstacles to [a woman's] fulfillment [as] the family and
maternity." The cardinal advised that "at this stage of the
development of the new image of the new world, Christians - and
not just them but in any case they even more than others - have
the duty to protest."

For more see the Zenit News coverage at:
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=7058

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2000/sept/000918.html
--------------------

Following is substantial evidence to prove that UNICEF has
become a very willing partner in the population control anti-child
and anti-family programs of the U.N. Until recently, UNICEF was
vehemently denying its involvement in
contraception and abortion programs.

http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/unicef/index.html

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Subject: [BPR] - London's Streets May Be Paved with Titanium
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:12:36 -0400

Thursday October 5 9:42 AM ET

London's Streets May Be Paved with Titanium

LONDON (Reuters) - London's streets could soon be paved with
the rare metal titanium if tests on a new kind of pollution-absorbing
paving stone go according to plan.

Frixos Tombolis, head of the Transportation and Highways
Committee for Westminster in central London, told BBC radio that
the slabs would break down and absorb nitrogen oxide which
comes from passing traffic.

``It's a titanium-coated paving stone which reacts with oxides of
nitrogen and absorbs them and converts them into harmless
nitrogen and oxygen and therefore reduces one of the major urban
polluters,'' he said.

The plan could prove popular with British motorists who are furious
about high fuel taxes aimed partly at reducing energy consumption
to bring down pollution levels.

``We're going to trial this probably next year and we're currently in
negotiations with Mitsubishi Corporation,'' the Japanese company
involved in developing the new paving stones, Tombolis said.

He said that if the tests were successful the new pavements would
be laid over the next few years.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001005/od/titanium_dc_1.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Wiccan Priest Opens Dallas Council Meeting
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:19:44 -0400

October 6, 2000 -- 9:17 am

Wiccan Priest Opens Dallas Council Meeting

DALLAS, TX (MCNS) -- When Bryan Lankford opened Wednesday
night's Dallas City Council meeting with an invocation, it was a
controversial first. Lankford is a Wiccan priest and his prayer was
offered to "Mother Goddess, Father God."

Despite complaints, Lankford was allowed to go forward with the
invocation in the spirit of religious diversity, Mayor Ron Kirk told the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Lankford, first officer for the Texas Council of the Covenant of the
Goddess, was originally scheduled to give the invocation at last
week's meeting. But Kirk pulled the plug when residents protested.
Wednesday night Kirk apologized to Lankford and quieted a
protester who attempted to interrupt the prayer.

"We pray for honesty, love, compassion and faith, that our spirits
be transformed into golden spirits, shining with the light of the
divine," Lankford prayed.

Several members of the audience and Councilwoman Donna
Blumer refused to bow their heads during the prayer. "I wanted to
make it very clear that their faith did not reflect my faith," Blumer
told the Star-Telegram.

Kirk insisted that Lankford's appearance was not an endorsement
of Wicca, a disputed practice that claims to be nature-based.

Warnings of Wicca's non-Christian dogma came from Cathie
Adams, president of the Texas Eagle Forum. "I want to encourage
the City Council to do as our founding fathers did--- to fear the one
true God," Adams said. "And I'm asking that you consider the fact
that just like it would be unwise for the American Jewish Congress
to invite the American Neo-Nazis to address them, it is unwise for
you to invite witches to pray before you."

Dallas Councilwoman Laura Miller supported having various groups
say the invocation. "It's important to have generic prayers from all
kinds of people," she told the Dallas Morning News. "I still flinch
when they end prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, because that's
not all of our religion."

=A9 2000 Maranatha Christian News Service

http://www.mcjonline.com/news/00b/20001005b.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Top intelligence secrets websites
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:27:19 -0400

[This is from a list member.--Moza]

Black Vault
    More than 6,200 pages of official US government
    documents, as well as other UFO, NASA, space and
    aviation information. With online store and auction.

         Dossier Covert Ops
    Hundreds of declassified government documents and
    analysis of covert ops and propaganda campaigns
    worldwide.

         National Security Archive
    The Archive collects and publishes declassified
    documents acquired through the Freedom of
    Information Act (FOIA).

         WashingtonPost.com: Hobbyists Track Spies in the Sky
    "Anyone with a personal computer and a basic
    understanding of astronomy...can calculate when these
    billion-dollar birds will pass over any point on ...

CNN: The Spy Files
Case files from the Cold War.

        Cold War Experiments
    Reports on government-sponsored radiation and gas
    experiments conducted on U.S. citizens.

        High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program
    Official Department of Defense site outlines the research
    program that some theorists say is actually a new
    weapon.

        Naval Historical Center: The Philadelphia Experiment
    Allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer was
    made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia,
    Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia.

        Smoking Gun Archive
    Scanned documents and other material obtained from
    government and law enforcement sources.

The Montauk Project
Real pictures and maps and maybe real documents.

http://www.go.com/WebDir/News_and_Politics/Governments/Intellig
ence_and_counterintelligence/Top_intelligence_secrets?sv=W3&sv
x=related

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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat News items (10/6/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:34:01 -0400

*** Council may put child soldiers on trial

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations on Thursday outlined
proposals for a special war crimes court for Sierra Leone to
prosecute those most responsible for killing and maiming tens of
thousands of people - including a controversial provision to put child
soldiers on trial. Secretary-General Kofi Annan laid out a plan to
bring fighters as young as 15 under the joint court's jurisdiction, but
left the ultimate decision on whether to proceed with such trials to
the Security Council after children's rights advocates voiced
outrage and concern. The advocates, including those within the
United Nations itself, argued that the estimated 5,400 child fighters
in Sierra Leone are themselves the victims of abusive commanders
who abducted them, drugged them and forced them to kill. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570385662-ce0

*** Group backs ban of Sudan in UN

NEW YORK (AP) - Human rights campaigners and a former
Sudanese slave strongly backed a U.S. campaign to deny Sudan a
seat on the U.N. Security Council, citing Sudan leaders for a
record of "brutality and violence." The U.S. was engaged in
intensive lobbying to promote Mauritius as a rival candidate for an
African seat on the 15-member council in next Tuesday's ballot,
arguing that Sudan's bid should be rejected because it is under
U.N. sanctions and is considered by Washington to be a sponsor
of terrorism. The civil war in Sudan has pitted the Muslim North
against the Christian and animist South since 1983, claiming about
2 million lives. It also has caused more than 4 million people to flee
their homes. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570392574-9cc

*** French Assembly OKs pill in schools

PARIS (AP) - France's National Assembly voted Thursday to allow
public school nurses to distribute a morning-after contraception pill
in junior and senior high schools. The Socialist-government backed
proposal still has to go through a second reading in the Senate
before going into effect. Thursday's vote passed by a large majority.
The pill, called Norlevo, is taken within 72 hours after intercourse
and prevents pregnancy by blocking the implantation of a fertilized
egg in the uterus. Opponents claim it amounts to abortion. Last
year, Socialist Deputy Education Minister Segolene Royal
authorized school nurses to give out the pill, which is available in
pharmacies without a doctor's prescription for about $8. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570390590-6d2

*** FDA approves a birth control shot

WASHINGTON (AP) - The FDA approved a new form of birth
control Thursday - a monthly shot to prevent pregnancy. Lunelle,
made by Pharmacia Corp. of Peapack, N.J., is more than 99
percent effective when women get the shot once every month,
company studies concluded. The FDA cautioned that women
cannot go longer than 33 days between shots, or they will need a
pregnancy test before the next injection. The shots must be
administered by a health care provider. Lunelle is an alternative to
another injectable contraceptive called Depo-Provera that lasts
three months. Like many birth control pills, it works through a
combination of the hormones progestin and estrogen. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570391708-265

*** Scientists find planet-sized balls

WASHINGTON (AP) - Scientists are rethinking some basic
theories about
planets after astronomers found 18 planet-sized gas balls drifting
free in a star field some 1,200 light years from Earth. Experts
wonder whether faint objects of this size, which have never before
been detected, are failed stars or planets without a sun, said Maria
Rosa Zapatero Osorio of California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena, Calif. The objects don't meet the classic definition of a
planet because they are free-floating and nomadic instead of being
locked into the orbit of a star, like the Earth and its sister
planets in the solar system. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570387815-d9a

*** NYSE plans to open new facility

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Stock Exchange plans to open
its new
high-tech trading facility in late November. The announcement was
made at a news conference on Thursday highlighting changes the
exchange is planning to update its services and image. Starting in
December, the NYSE will launch two new services: NYSE Direct+,
which
uses an electronic connection to automatically execute small stock
orders, and the NYSE MarkeTrac, which offers a virtual view of the
trading floor and real-time data. The marAdditional high-tech
products are planned for 2001. The new trading facility is adjacent
to the current stock exchange floor. The 10,000 square-foot area will
be outfitted with high-tech computers, visual displays and other
equipment designed to make trading easier and more efficient. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570390361-469

*** Western Japan jolted by earthquake

TOKYO (AP) - A very strong earthquake struck southwestern
Japan on
Friday, sharply jolting skyscrapers and bridges, knocking objects
from shelves and setting off automatic fire extinguishers. There
were no immediate reports of injuries from the magnitude 7.1
quake,
which was centered six miles beneath western Tottori state, 315
miles southwest of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
It hit at 1:30 p.m. local time. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake is
capable of causing heavy, widespread damage. Two nuclear
reactors located in the area had recently been shut down for
repairs before the quake struck, officials said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570395371-d62

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Subject: [BPR] - Infobeat Entertainment News items (10/6/00)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 09:40:29 -0400

*** FCC suspends on-air rebuttal rules

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal rules that require broadcasters to
give candidates a chance to respond to personal attacks and
political endorsements were suspended Wednesday for the
duration of the 2000 campaign. Over the vehement objection of its
Republican members, the Federal Communications Commission
put the rules on hold, saying that the election season offered "an
ideal time to determine how broadcasters are affected by the
political editorial rule." The regulation requires TV and radio
stations that endorse a political candidate to notify and give free
rebuttal time to the candidate's opponent. The other suspended
rule requires broadcasters to provide politicians or other private
citizens with air time to respond when they have been attacked
during a program. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570367707-4fe

*** Iverson apologizes for rap lyrics

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Allen Iverson apologized Thursday to gays
and women who might be offended by the lyrics on his new rap
album. The album by the Philadelphia 76ers star, "Non-Fiction,"
has been criticized in newspapers, and discussion about it has
dominated sports radio shows. Though fellow hip-hop artists and
rap-music critics say Iverson's lyrics are typical of the music style,
columnists and radio hosts have criticized Iverson's lyrics for giving
the team a bad reputation and presenting a poor image for fans. "If
individuals of the gay community and women of the world are
offended by any of the material in my upcoming album, let the
record show that I wish to extend a profound apology," Iverson said
in a statement.

At training camp in State College on Thursday, 76ers president Pat
Croce said the album had nothing to do with Iverson's play on the
court. "I've told you I don't condone the lyrics. I'm not qualified
to evaluate the lyrics," Croce said. "I don't know if what John
Rocker did was different but in no way am I going to suspend Allen
Iverson." See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2570387816-98d

*** By The Associated Press

- Today is Friday, Oct. 6, the 280th day of 2000. There are 86 days
left in the year.

- On Oct. 6, 1927: The era of talking pictures arrived with the
opening of "The Jazz Singer," starring Al Jolson, a movie which
featured both silent and sound-synchronized scenes.

- In 1939: In an address to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler denied any
intention of war against France and Britain.

- In 1973: War erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria
attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

- In 1979: Pope John Paul II, on a week-long U.S. tour, became the
first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by
President Carter.

- In 1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by
extremists while reviewing a military parade.

- In 1989: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev joined in festivities in
East Berlin marking the 40th anniversary of East Germany, while
thousands of refugees migrated to the West

- In 1998: With a House vote set on launching an open-ended
impeachment inquiry, Democrats rushed to counter Republican
plans while still underscoring their disapproval of President
Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

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Subject: [BPR] - Clinton to join Lippo Group?
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:02:23 -0400

Clinton to join
Lippo Group?
Indonesian billionaire says president
to join board after leaving office

By Charles Smith
=A9 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

Although facing allegations of illegal campaign donations and an
ongoing Department of Justice investigation, Indonesian
businessman James Riady, son of billionaire Moctar Riady, says
President Bill Clinton will join the Lippo Group after he leaves office.

"Indonesian tycoon James Riady has invited U.S. President Bill
Clinton to join the board of Lippo Group when he steps down from
office early next year, according to business people who have met
Riady in Jakarta recently," states a report appearing in the Far
Eastern Economic Review.

"Riady has been telling business contacts in Jakarta that he
expects Clinton to accept, even though the U.S. president has
been dogged by allegations that Riady funneled illegal foreign
donations to Clinton's 1992 and 1996 election campaigns," states
the Intelligence section of the Review's edition dated Oct. 12, 2000.

White House Press Office spokesman Mark Kitchens did not
respond to WorldNetDaily's questions about the Lippo board
position being offered to Clinton. However, outside the White
House, the reaction to the report was swift.

"It would be a continuation of Bill Clinton's employment by the
Riadys, and for Chinese army intelligence, as reported by several
congressional committees," stated Tom Fitton, president of
Judicial Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group
that has several ongoing court actions against Clinton and his
administration.

"The Riadys were Bill Clinton's greatest financial supporter in 1992
and a major donor in 1996. Clinton met with the Riadys inside the
Oval Office and discussed fundraising and foreign policy," noted
Fitton.

"He's been working for the Riadys for eight years," echoed David
Schippers, former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee,
who successfully sought Clinton's impeachment.

"At least it might get him out of the country," said Schippers, who
has since written "Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's
Impeachment."

"Who could be surprised that Bill Clinton is viewed as more
interested in taking on a lucrative board position than, for example,
responding to the genocidal destruction of southern Sudan,"
commented Eric Reeves, Sudan researcher and human rights
advocate. "This is the real Bill Clinton."

The relationship between Moctar Riady and Clinton extends to the
1980s when Riady purchased the Arkansas-based Worthen Bank.
Riady is accused of sending his gardener, Arief Wiriadinata, to see
Clinton in the White House with an illegal campaign donation.
Wiriadinata gave the president a $400,000 donation.

Another key figure in the scandal surrounding Moctar Riady is
convicted fundraiser and former Lippo banker John Huang. Riady
and Huang met with Clinton at the White House 10 times between
June 21 and June 27, 1994. Directly after the meetings, Webster
Hubbell, who was then about to be indicted by a federal grand jury,
received over $400,000 from the Lippo Group.

Shortly after the Lippo money was given to Hubbell, Huang
obtained a secret clearance and an executive position as assistant
secretary of the Commerce Department. Huang reportedly left a six-
figure salary to work at Commerce.

While there, Huang obtained 37 briefings from the CIA on
encryption technology. He obtained secret materials on trade and
weapons deals with Indonesia, China, Japan, Korea and the Middle
East. It is also known that Huang obtained information on proposed
U.S. Patriot missile sales to South Korea and mobile artillery sales
to Kuwait.

Huang and his wife Jane have both taken the Fifth Amendment
during testimony. According to Judicial Watch Chairman Larry
Klayman, Huang relied on the Fifth Amendment nearly two
thousand times when asked if he was a spy for Beijing. Huang
pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations in August 1999.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_smith_news/20001006_xnsof
_clinton_to.shtml

via: Third_Watch@egroups.com

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Subject: [BPR] - 'Global settlement' with Iran imminent
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:05:19 -0400

'Global settlement'
with Iran imminent
Top U.S. negotiator says Albright
wants deal by end of Clinton's term

A Special Investigative Report from the Western Journalism Center
with the assistance of the Iran Brief

Editor's note: The Clinton administration is hoping to conclude a
"package deal" with the government of Iran in time for the
November elections that would resolve 20 years of hostility
between the United States and Iran, lead to renewed diplomatic
relations, and give President Clinton a much-sought-after "legacy"
in foreign affairs, according to intermediaries directly involved in the
negotiations and former U.S. officials.

As reported in WorldNetDaily the deal, if successful, would restore
complete commercial ties between the two countries, allowing U.S.
oil companies to invest in Iran and to buy Iranian crude oil while
allowing President Clinton and Vice President Gore to claim credit
for "resolving" the current oil crisis, all in time for the elections.

Earlier segments of this special report from the Western
Journalism Center have appeared in WorldNetDaily.com starting
Monday, Sept. 25.

Today's report centers around an exclusive interview the Clinton
administration's top negotiator with Iran, in which he reveals that a
"global settlement" between the U.S. and Iran could be announced
within weeks.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------=

By Kenneth R. Timmerman
=A9 2000, Western Journalism Center

The top U.S. diplomat in charge of negotiations with Iran says
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright wants a "global settlement"
with Iran by the end of President Bill Clinton's term of office -- "if it
takes that long" -- according to an exclusive interview with this
reporter.

David R. Andrews, formerly the State Department's legal adviser,
was appointed by Clinton on Sept. 19 as his "Special Negotiator for
U.S./Iran Claims" and awarded the "Personal Rank of
Ambassador" to enhance his status in dealing with the Iranian
government.

It is the first time since the creation of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal
in 1981 that a U.S. president has made such an appointment. Until
now, the tedious negotiations over the amount of money remaining
to be settled on the 20-year-old claims had been left to career
bureaucrats who reported to the State Department's Office of the
Legal Adviser.

But on March 17, Albright told an audience of pro-Iran lobbyists
and policy wonks in New York that the Clinton administration was
seeking a "global settlement" with Iran and would appoint a
"Special Negotiator."

"The administration thought this job was important enough for it to
have an important title," Andrews said.

His Iranian counterpart, Dr. Gudarz Eftekar-Jahromi, has served
successive Iranian presidents as legal adviser since 1982. Since
he was named to his new post, Andrews has already met face-to-
face with Eftekar in The Hague, Netherlands, where the Iran-U.S.
Claims Tribunal conducts business.

A U.S. official involved in the process said the Andrews-Eftekar
meeting took place "several months ago," and that there has been
no unusual activity at The Hague since then.

"It's quite surprising that someone would say they are close to a
deal by the end of President Clinton's term in office," the official
said.

Andrews downplayed the meeting with Eftekar, whom he had
negotiated with previously as the State Department's legal adviser.

"The meetings are still held in The Hague, but the decisions are
made in a number of different places," Andrews said. "The
secretary wants this to get done as quickly as possible. The time
frame of the settlement will be set by events. It could stretch out to
January eventually, if it takes that long. If we can reach an
agreement, our intent is to do it as quickly as possible."

Arthur Rovine, who was the first U.S. representative to The Hague
in 1981 and is now a partner with the law firm Baker & McKenzie in
New York, said that a resolution at The Hague in itself would not be
a major step toward renewing ties between the U.S. and Iran,
unless Iran's leadership had made the decision to do so.

"If it is true that they have made that political decision, then this is
indeed big news. This would be an October surprise, and a good
one," he said. "If they are ready to resume relations, then this is
the stumbling block, something they've been yelling and screaming
about for years."

The Iranian government dispatched Maurice Motamed, the only
Jewish member of parliament, to deliver precisely that message to
members of the American Jewish community in September, as
revealed in these pages on Sept. 25.

"Motamed told us that the decision to renew relations with the
United States has been taken at the highest level in Iran," Jewish
leaders in Los Angeles who met with him said. "This is not
President Khatami's initiative: It has been decided by the Supreme
Leader, Ayatollah Khamene'i."

Rovine noted that Iran's lead negotiator was a member of the
Council of Guardians in the 1980s, a government body that
oversees Iranian legislation to ensure it conforms with the regime's
interpretation of Islamic Sharia law.

"Eftekar is a well-known hard-liner, who has been a tough
negotiator," Rovine said. "He provides adequate cover for the
clerics" for any deal.

Andrews would provide no details of the actual proposals under
discussion, but stressed that his role as ambassador was not to
handle the details of individual claims.

"I've got the policy, which is to reach a global settlement," he said.

He also acknowledged that Iran was concerned over pending
legislation that would allocate Iran's U.S. assets to the families of
terrorist victims. "The Mack-Lautenberg bill is an active factor," he
said.

The envoy The Mack-Lautenberg bill, known as the Justice for
Victims of Terrorism Act, appears to have lit a fire under the Iranian
government.

After 20 years of tedious negotiations, Tehran is finally in a hurry to
resolve the issue of its outstanding commercial disputes with the
United States. And for good reason: Failure to do so could cost
Iran billions of dollars.

In July, just as the bill was scheduled for a key vote, Iran
dispatched a senior government lawyer to Washington to voice
strenuous objections to the legislation, hinting darkly that the bill's
passage would lead to the collapse of the secret U.S.-Iranian talks.
The lawyer, Mohammad Hossein Zahedin Labbaf, is Iran's resident
negotiator at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal at The Hague.

The U.S. and Iran "will soon lawfully resolve this issue, in a
relatively short period of time," Labbaf told a congressional panel --
but only if Congress and the president rejected the new legislation,
which would allocate Iran's U.S. assets to the families of American
citizens who have been murdered by Iran-backed terrorists.

Among those listening to his presentation were Rep. Jim Leach, R-
Iowa, chairman of the House Banking Committee, and the State
Department's Iran desk officer, Don Bloom.

Referring to the bill by name, Labbaf said it would "undermine the
tribunal's authority" and "set the international stage for a legal
confrontation" between the United States and Iran.

Labbaf also complained that the United States had "branded" Iran
as a terrorist state. Then, as an official from a regime that had
stormed the U.S. embassy in 1979 and taken U.S. diplomats
hostage for 444 days, he made this extraordinary statement:

"In case the Congress approves the proposed amendment, there
would be indeed very little trust left in other states in their dealings
with the United States. There is no way other states can
confidently put their money in the U.S. banks or enter into any
contractual relationships with the United States. They would
naturally fear that the United States, having taken the law into its
own hands, might label them as a state sponsor of terrorism, a
rogue, or of concern, and then convert their assets to its national
use. As you all know, law, unless founded on just and sound
principles, is, in fact, lawlessness in disguise."

The July 24 congressional roundtable was hosted by the American-
Iranian Council, a lobbying group seeking to get U.S. trade
sanctions lifted, and that boasts of its close ties to Tehran.

Council president Hoosang Amirahmadi acknowledged that the
conference had been paid for by the Houston oil company
CONOCO, which has been trying since 1994 to win U.S.
government approval to do business in Iran.

A CONOCO executive, Helen El Mallakh, also urged Congress to
reject the Mack-Lautenberg bill. She argued that the U.S. faced "a
crossroads" with Iran, and that the U.S. needed to "subjugate the
lesser priorities ... such as the freezing of Iranian assets ... [to] the
greater priorities" of a U.S.-Iran rapprochement.

In presenting her to the organization, Amirahmadi sounded a
standard theme of anti-sanctions groups: "My hope is that she will
be able to frighten all of you about all that the other countries and
the other companies are doing in Iran [while] the Americans are
sitting and watching."

( A complete transcript of the conference, as well as a guide to
official U.S government source documents on the Iran-U.S. Claims
Tribunal, is available from The Iran Brief.)

Labbaf's unusual presentation was the first time since the Claims
tribunal was established in 1981 that Iran was talking about it
openly in a public forum in the U.S. Even U.S. officials
acknowledged that the Claims tribunal was not an open court, but
a closed arbitration forum.

"There is no written list of claims, and no public case history," one
official said.

It was yet another carefully orchestrated step in the diplomatic
ballet between Tehran and Washington that was kicked into high
gear on March 17, when Albright revealed the Clinton
administration was seeking a "global settlement" with Iran.

In that speech, delivered at an earlier forum hosted by the
American-Iranian Council and funded by CONOCO, Albright
announced the lifting of U.S. sanctions on the import of Iranian
pistachios, caviar and carpets into the United States. A small
gesture on the surface, it was in response to a specific Iranian
request one year earlier by Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal
Kharrazi.

What kind of deal? A veteran negotiator used to solving thorny
problems, Ambassador David Andrews has been twice decorated
by the secretary of state for his work. He headed the legal team
that negotiated compensation for Communist China for the
destruction of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade earlier this year.
He also worked out the details that paved the way for the trial now
under way in Holland of two Libyan intelligence agents accused of
bombing Pan Am 103.

Both agreements have been attacked widely as a compromise of
U.S. principles and U.S. national security interests. In recognition
of his work on these cases, Albright decorated him with the
Distinguished Service Award on April 25, the highest award offered
a State Department employee.

But for George Williams, the immediate past president of the
Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, the negotiations with Libya led by
Andrews led to a "mistaken deal." He was strongly critical of
Andrews' approach.

"We caved in too soon. Dave Andrews gave away too much. Our
FBI and CIA are not allowed to investigate, or to ask questions of
the suspects. And they are not allowed to question or investigate
the involvement of the Libya government" in the bombing, said
Williams.

Andrews helped draft a secret letter sent by U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan to Libyan leader Moammar Khaddafi last year,
which pledged that the U.S. and Britain would not seek to place
the blame for the bombing on Khaddafi or the Libyan government.
In exchange for this political protection, Khaddafi allowed two
Libyan intelligence agents to be brought to trial.

For more than a year, the State Department refused to release the
text of the letter, claiming it was "properly classified." When it
finally released the letter to families of the victims in August, it was
immediately described as a "sell-out."

The letter refers to an undated memorandum setting out the
conditions for the trial of the two Libyan suspects, as agreed to by
the United States and the United Kingdom.

The letter notes: "There is no intention to interview [the two
suspects], or to allow them to be interviewed, about any issue not
related to the trial. There will be no deviation from Scottish law
which provides that the two persons have the right to refuse to see
any police or intelligence officers."

Most significantly, for U.S. critics of the deal, the letter then added:
"The two persons will not be used to undermine the Libyan
regime."

Syndicated columnist A.M. Rosenthal, the former executive editor
of the New York Times, attacked the letter and the deal in a
scathing column on Sept. 1:

"Bureaucrats and their masters used every national and
international legal device to keep it secret. ... They knew that if
published, it would be seen for exactly what it was: a deal with the
man President Ronald Reagan called the "mad dog" of the Middle
East. The letter would be taken, appropriately, as guaranteeing that
whatever happened at the trial would not be allowed to pin the
responsibility where it so obviously belongs -- on the Libyan ruler."

Rosenthal then added: "Sometimes I wonder -- what does it take to
get somebody who has served a free government to agree to work
for a killer government involved in tearing fellow countrymen into
pieces of flesh falling out of the sky? Ten million dollars, maybe? A
million? Or would a few bucks do, left for you on the table of the
motel room?"

Since leaving government service earlier this year, Andrews
rejoined the San Francisco law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown &
Enersen, which specializes in environmental and land-use
litigation. He said he agreed to work on the Iran claims issue on a
pro-bono basis.

"I'm doing this like George Mitchell did Ireland," he said.

If Andrews' past record is any guide, he can be expected to work
out a deal the Iranian government won't be able to refuse.

Patrick Clawson, an Iran scholar with the Washington Institute for
Near East Policy, believes a global deal could require the U.S. to
pay Iran "anything in the ballpark from $1 billion to $5 billion."

He said the U.S. Treasury has a special fund for international
judgments that could be tapped if the administration needed extra
money to pay out settlements to the families of Americans
murdered in Iranian terrorist attacks.

"This is an elastic account," Clawson said. "So the U.S. could
determine that we owed Iran, let's say, $2 billion, but then cut them
a check for $700 million and pay the rest to the families of the
victims of terrorism."

Looking at the spread of issues now being negotiated by
Ambassador Andrews, Clawson was optimistic: "There are
possibilities here."

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C U R R E N T N E W S S U M M A R Y
by the Editors of ReligionToday

October 6, 2000

The Church of England castigated a London television station for
planning to air a game show in which couples compete to get a
divorce. Channel 5 regularly airs explicitly sexual content, but its
critics say the planned show, D.I.V.O.R.C.E., sinks to a new low,
Britain's Electronic Telegraph reported.
..The show features six troubled couples competing to "win" a
divorce and $25,000. Producers are holding auditions for contestants
among childless couples whose marriages are failing, according to the
Telegraph. Interviews with friends, in-laws, and the couples
themselves will be aired. "I think they could be very vicious. I
would imagine their sex lives will be discussed," producer Richard
Hearsey said.
..The public will phone in its votes to decide who should get a
divorce and the "winners" will be filmed going to court. The man and
woman will get the cash, which they split, and vacations on opposite
ends of the world. The "losers" must go to marriage counseling.
..The show "makes a mockery of relationships," a Church of England
spokesman said. "Divorce should be personal and private. It is the
result of things going wrong -- not something you compete for." Peter
Ainsworth, a culture critic, said, "It's pretty sick, isn't it. This
is taking voyeurism to new depths."

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Subject: THE MOSLEM CLAIM TO JERUSALEM IS FALSE by Dr. Manfred R Lehmann
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THE MOSLEM CLAIM TO JERUSALEM IS FALSE
by Dr. Manfred R. Lehmann

The Moslem "claim" to Jerusalem is based on what is written in the
Koran, which although Jerusalem is not mentioned even once,
nevertheless talks (in Sura 17:1) of the "Furthest Mosque": "Glory be
unto Allah who did take his servant for a journey at night from the
Sacred Mosque to the Furthest Mosque." But is there any foundation to
the Moslem argument that this "Furthest Mosque" (Al-Masujidi
al-Aqtza) refers to what is today called the Aksa Mosque in
Jerusalem? The answer is, none whatsoever.

In the days of Mohammed, who died in 632 of the Common Era, Jerusalem
was a Christian city within the Byzantine Empire. Jerusalem was
captured by Khalif Omar only in 638, six years after Mohammed's
death. Throughout all this time there were only churches in
Jerusalem, and a church stood on the Temple Mount, called the Church
of Saint Mary of Justinian, built in the Byzantine architectural
style.

The Aksa Mosque was built 20 years after the Dome of the Rock, which
was built in 691-692 by Khalif Abd El Malik. The name "Omar Mosque"
is therefore false. In or around 711, or about 80 years after
Mohammed died, Malik's son, Abd El-Wahd - who ruled from 705-715 -
reconstructed the Christian- Byzantine Church of St. Mary and
converted it into a mosque. He left the structure as it was, a
typical Byzantine "basilica" structure with a row of pillars on
either side of the rectangular "ship" in the center. All he added was
an onion-like dome on top of the building to make it look like a
mosque. He then named it El-Aksa, so it would sound like the one
mentioned in the Koran.

Therefore it is crystal clear that Mohammed could never have had this
mosque in mind when he compiled the Koran, since it did not exist for
another three generations after his death. Rather, as many scholars
long ago established, it is logical that Mohammed intended the mosque
in Mecca as the "Sacred Mosque," and the mosque in Medina as the
"Furthest Mosque." So much for the Moslem claim based on the Aksa
Mosque.

With this understood, it is no wonder that Mohammed issued a strict
prohibition against facing Jerusalem in prayer, a practice that had
been tolerated only for some months in order to lure Jews to convert
to Islam. When that effort failed, Mohammed put an abrupt stop to it
on February 12, 624. Jerusalem simply never held any sanctity for the
Moslems themselves, but only for the Jews in their domain.

[DR. MANFRED R. LEHMANN is a writer for the Algemeiner Journal.
Originally published in the Algemeiner Journal, August 19, 1994.]

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   1. ISRAEL RETREATS FOR A DAY; ARABS CLAIM IT'S PERMANENT
   2. OUTRAGE
   3. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE END?
   4. HEAVY VIOLENCE AT OTHER FLASHPOINTS
   5. "OPEN MICROPHONE" POLICY TO END
   6. RABBI BROVENDER BEATEN
   7. BURNING DOWN ISRAEL'S FORESTS
   8. IN THE ARAB WORLD
   9. SLA SOLDIERS RETURN TO LEBANON

1. ISRAEL RETREATS FOR A DAY; ARABS CLAIM IT'S PERMANENT
Israel decided to entrust full control over the Temple Mount today to the
hands of the Moslem Waqf and Arab security personnel. The Barak government
decided that no Israeli policemen would be stationed on the Temple Mount or
in the alleys leading to it, in order not to avoid a clash that could lead
to bloodshed. Police leaders said their presence on the Mount would have
led to dozens of Arab deaths, as well as another week of violence.

For the first time, armed PLO policemen guarded the gates of the holy site
and oversaw the entry of Muslim worshippers - whom they did not limit in
any way, despite an Israeli police recommendation that teen-aged Arabs not
be allowed to enter. "Protection of the gates and sovereignty of the Mount
was given to PA Security Chief Jibril Rajoub," in the words of MK Benny
Elon (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu), who was an eyewitness to today's
events in the area.

Elon also said that it was agreed beforehand between Rajoub and the
Israelis that Arabs on the Mount would be allowed to throw stones "in a
supervised manner, for 3-5 minutes" from the Mount over to the Kotel
[Western Wall] below. The police had originally announced that Jews would
not be allow to the Western Wall area today, but in actuality, a relatively
small amount of Jews did pray there. The police evacuated them from the
Wall when the stone-throwing started; the Jews returned to pray there after
a few minutes. MK Elon said that he refused to leave, and in fact suffered
a small wound from a rock that hit him.

Center Party MK Dan Meridor, a former Likud government minister and
presently the Chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee, sharply attacked the police decision to abandon security to the
PA: "The Palestinian Authority has no business being anywhere that is
under Israeli sovereignty. If the police choose to stand on this side of
the gates or on that side, that's their decision. But in no way should the
PA have been allowed to have a part in preserving order there."

Senior police officials expressed rage at Barak's decision to hand over
Temple Mount security to the PLO, but they agreed to follow government
orders. They later defended the decision.

Young Arab participants in the riots told journalists on the scene that "we
have conquered the Temple Mount, and we will not give it back." Arutz-7's
Kobi Finkler reports, however, that Israeli police generally do not patrol
on the Temple Mount during Friday prayer services, but merely stand at the
gates. The difference today was that they stood 50 meters away; "they are
not likely to return to their usual positions until the end of the current
violence," said Finkler.

2. OUTRAGE
Opposition leaders responded with anger at today's abandonment of the
Temple Mount. Likud MK Ruby Rivlin said that the decision to remove all
uniformed police was "a disaster" and will cause the PLO to use the same
tactics to achieve additional Israeli giveaways. Jewish groups working for
a Jewish presence on the Temple Mount are worried that the removal of
Israeli police from the Mount will become permanent. The Yesha Council
announced that Barak's promises to safeguard all Israeli holy sites are
hollow.

On the other hand, Palestinian Radio said today that there is no difference
between Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak, and Binyamin Netanyahu - "they are all
settlers who are trying to conquer our land."

3. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE END?
The sum-up was, "It could have been much, much worse" - but it was still
quite bad. After the Moslem prayer service on the Mount, hundreds of Arabs
on their way out launched an offensive against Israel's Lion's Gate police
station 100 meters from the east side of the Mount. The station had
earlier suffered great damage when Arabs hurled huge stone blocks through
its roof, destroying computers and other equipment. Now, however, it was
burnt down by the Arabs, who came close to killing eight policemen
inside. Faced by a hail of bricks, bottles, and metal objects, the Israeli
policemen locked the doors; the Arabs then surrounded the building and
threw in burning rags and a tear-gas grenade. With fire and tear-gas on
the inside, and Arab mobs beating on the structure from the outside, the
policemen radioed for help. Back-up forces arrived, shot their way into
the station, and found two policemen unconscious; the other six were
suffering from breathing difficulties. They retreated 20-40 meters away
from the area, and journalists filmed Palestinian Arabs proudly standing
next to the burnt police station. The station is presently under the
control of neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians.

The Arabs began the attack on the police station by throwing bricks,
bottles, and metal objects, while shouting, "Continue on Until Jaffa,
Haifa, and Tel Aviv!" and "Death to the Jews!" The total number of injured
Israeli police was reported at 12, while the number of Palestinian rioters
who were hurt was 24. Several foreign journalists were hurt as
well. Palestinians reported that two Arabs were killed.

The Moslem sermon on the Temple Mount today included the following
supplications: "We want the battle against the enemy to be orderly. We
want dead amidst the enemy. We want to kill and not be killed. We must
fight guerilla warfare."

Later in the afternoon, rock-throwing over the Wall down to the worshippers
below continued. Additional policemen were injured in an Arab riot inside
the narrow streets of the Old City.

4. HEAVY VIOLENCE AT OTHER FLASHPOINTS
        In the Gush Katif area of Gaza, large riots are underway at three
different locations. Mobs of Arabs - estimated at between 6,000 and 10,000
rioters - are lined along the fences of the Jewish community of N'vei
Dekalim, throwing firebombs and stones. The IDF is firing warning shots
into the air. At the Netzarim junction, 1,000 Arabs are gathered, firing
occasional gunshots at the IDF outpost, and throwing firebombs. The IDF is
retaliating with selective gunfire aimed at the PLO gunmen. A third and
new venue of rioting is at Nisanit in northern Gaza, where hundreds of
Arabs are participating.
        IDF forces did not totally succeed in their efforts to blow up a PLO
outpost near the Netzarim junction. The Israeli bomb squad took down one
wall of the PLO headquarters there. Piles of ammunition were inside.
        Palestinian sources say that four Arabs were killed today, including two
in Shechem...
        Jewish residents from the Shilo area blocked Arab cars on the main
north-south road in Samaria. They claimed that they would not tolerate
restrictions only on Jewish traffic. Jews in Gaza planned to do the same,
but were convinced not to do so by police...
        Riots and violence are taking place in several other places throughout
Judea and Samaria, and journalists on the scene report that it is feared
that it will only get worse by the end of the day.

5. "OPEN MICROPHONE" POLICY TO END
The board of directors of the Israel Broadcasting Authority issued a
directive to its radio and TV stations ordering them to stop giving an open
platform to the leaders of the Arab rioters and inciters. The decision was
reached last night at a special meeting dealing with the media coverage of
the last few days. The directors compared the amount of time given to the
Jewish and Arab sides. Several participants complained about the open
microphone given to Arab Knesset leaders and the commanders of the PLO army.

6. RABBI BROVENDER BEATEN
Rabbi Chaim Brovender of Jerusalem, dean of Yeshivat Hamivtar and Midreshet
Lindenbaum, was severely beaten last night by Palestinian police on his way
home from Gush Etzion. While in a convoy of cars on the Tunnels Highway,
he mistakenly followed an Arab car into an Arab village, and was stopped by
Palestinian police. They began beating him, and were joined by young
Palestinians nearby. He was later hospitalized, and is listed in moderate
condition.

7. BURNING DOWN ISRAEL'S FORESTS
Large forest fires continues to rage near Nataf, in the green hills west of
Jerusalem. Tens of fire-fighters are on the scene. The same firemen spent
the night putting out another fire near the Beit-Iksa Arab Village, just
west of Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood. Jewish National Fund spokesman
said today that all of the forest fires over the past few days were cases
of Arab arson.

8. IN THE ARAB WORLD
The Syrian government newspaper Al-Ba'ath calls Israeli leaders
"neo-Nazis." The paper writes, "The crimes of Barak's soldiers have
surpassed those of the Nazis in World War II..." A lead article this week
called Ariel Sharon, Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak "murderers,
criminals, and racists," and proclaimed that the myth that Barak is a "man
of peace" has been proven false.

Thousands of Iranians shouted "Death to Israel" and burned Israeli flags in
a giant demonstration in Tehran yesterday afternoon. The gathering was
called as an act of solidarity with what they called the "new
Intifada." Hamas leader Haled Mishal called for a Jihad [Moslem holy war]
against Israel.

9. SLA SOLDIERS RETURN TO LEBANON
Approximately 200 soldiers from the Southern Lebanese Army and their family
members returned from Israel to Lebanon yesterday. According to a French
news service, the men were separated from their families upon their
arrival, and were interrogated by Lebanese about their service in the SLA.

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Subject: [BPR] - NewsScan item (10/6/00)
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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 13:05:44 -0400

JUDGE MAKES A CASE FOR THE DELETE KEY District Court
Judge James Rosenbaum has published an article called "In
Defense of the DELETE Key," in which he bemoans the eternal
nature of computer communications and reminisces fondly about
pre-computer days when people casually spoke "off the record":
"At this earlier time, two people could easily say something --
even, perhaps, something politically incorrect -- simply between
themselves. They might even have exchanged nasty notes between
themselves. And when they had moved past this tacky, but
probably innocent moment, it was truly gone." Today, however, "an
idle thought jotted onto a calendar, a tasteless joke passed to a
once-trusted friend, a suggestive invitation directed at an
uninterested recipient, if done electronically, will last forever. Years
later, it can subject its author to liability." Rosenbaum proposes a
"cyber statute of limitations" -- perhaps six months for an isolated
e-mail message -- after which "deleted" documents would be
legally consigned to the electronic rubbish heap and become
inadmissible as evidence of possible wrongdoing. He makes an
exception for recovered "deleted" messages from someone who
has exhibited a pattern of egregious behavior or communications.
The article was published in the Summer issue of The Green Bag,
a literary law journal. (New York Times 5 Oct 2000)
http://.nytimes.partners.com/2000/10/05/technology/06CYBERLAW.html

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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:03:03 -0400

Neurocomputers

Next the team wants to build a neurocomputer sophisticated
enough to learn tasks, such as how to move the legs of a robot
walking over a boulder-strewn landscape or to recognize abstract
spatial patterns, including stick-figure drawings of people. Either
accomplishment will be difficult to pull off. "Compared to learning
how to walk, calculus is easy," DeWeerth says. And harder
problems require more neurons. "We need hundreds of thousands
of neurons to solve these complicated tasks," he says. Which
presents a major challenge: "How do we program them all?" In one
sense, it should be easy. "Very simple rules can generate complex
behavior," Ditto says. Forager ants, for example, create elaborate
civilizations out of a mere handful of very simple rules. But how do
you figure out the fundamental set of simple rules? It is a question
that may never have to be answered. "We don't know how a
biological system self organizes," DeWeerth says, "but we might
not have to understand it to exploit it:' Instead of linking every
neuron via computer, the team plans to connect a computer to a
small number of neurons and allow them to communicate with a
much larger network of neurons. The computer interface will
stimulate the neurocomputer in the same way that our eyes, ears,
noses, and hands provide sensory stimulation to our brains. By
sending information and feedback through the interface, "we will
teach the neurons to make the right connections themselves,"
DeWeerth says. Constant repetition may be the key "The brain
adapts continuously, so we keep getting better at tasks that we
repeat," DeWeerth says. For example, when a novice tennis player
lofts a ball above his head and hits it, the brain gradually learns to
coordinate the muscles needed to serve the ball. But teaching
neurons takes time. Just imagine how many serves Pete Sampras
had to hit before he won at Wimbledon. Fortunately, neurons love
to practice, so Ditto's team is working hard to get them started.
"We are now gearing up to use two- and three-dimensional pieces
of neural tissue for computing; he says. Within seven years, he
hopes to teach a millimeter-sized cube of neurons to da arithmetic
and recognize patterns. Because it is impossible to insert a
computer moderator between all the different nerve layers, this will
be the first attempt at letting the neurons make their own
interconnections. Ditto acknowledges that "there are still lots of
engineering headaches. But once you get the neurons started, you
almost can't stop them from computing."

http://www.inyouremail.com/computerezine/articles/20001005-
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Hole In Ozone Hits Big City

Friday October 6, 2000

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has expanded to
expose a big city to high levels of ultra-violet radiation for the first
time, scientists say.

Previously, the hole had only opened over Antarctica and the
surrounding ocean, but on September 9-10 it stretched over the
southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas, exposing its 120,000-plus
residents to radiation. Too much UV radiation can cause skin
cancer and destroy tiny plants.

Citing data from Nasa, atmospheric research scientist Stephen
Wood said that the hole had grown to three times the size of the
US, a record.

Dr Dean Peterson, of the Antarctica New Zealand research group,
said segments of the depleted layer breaking off from the hole
could affect Argentina, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand.

"The hole won't grow to that size. But as it breaks apart, fingers of
low ozone, or filaments as we call them, will go over major land-
mass areas," he said.

Experts agree that the man-made chemicals contributing to ozone
depletion are levelling off thanks to the 1987 Montreal protocol. But
it could be 20 years before ozone levels recover noticeably.

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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:13:37 -0400

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"…the only way to impose our conditions is inevitably through our blood"

Special Dispatch - PA

October 6, 2000

No. 132

Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
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"…the only way to impose our conditions is inevitably through our blood"

Palestinian leaders have attributed the outburst of violence over the
last few days to the visit of Likud leader Ariel Sharon and several
other Likud MKs to the Temple Mount. Statements that violence is an
alternative to a deadlock in the negotiations or failure to achieve
Palestinian goals through negotiations have long been a part of
Palestinian strategy and have become particularly frequent in the
aftermath of the Camp David Summit. (I)

In the last week there have been many calls for violent confrontation
with Israel. For example Director-General of the PA Information
Ministry, Hassan Al-Kashef, in his daily column in Al-Ayyam, wrote: "The
only way to impose our conditions is inevitably through our blood. Had
it not been for this blood, the world would have never been interested
in us… therefore the continuation of the popular confrontation is an
urgent political need… the power of the Intifada is our only weapon. We
should not toss this weapon away until the Arab emergency summit is
convened and until we gain international protection… our national duty
is to continue the confrontation, continue the Intifada, continue to
sacrifice our martyrs so that the blood of our martyrs and injured will
not have been spilled in vain… so that the Intifada of Al-Aqsa will be
the gate to independence and freedom…" (1)

Preparations for Clashes in the Wake of Camp David

During the Camp David summit and after its July 25, 2000 failure many
Palestinian commentators and officials discussed and urged Palestinians
to prepare for a violent confrontation with Israel. On July 14, the
Israeli Arab magazine Kul Al-Arab reported that a high-ranking PA
security official stated, "The Palestinian people are in a state of
emergency against the failure of the Camp David summit. If the
situation explodes they are ready for the next bloody battle against the
Israeli occupation. The next Intifada will be… more violent than the
first one especially since the Palestinian people [now] possess weapons
allowing them to defend themselves in a confrontation with the Israeli
army. The Lebanese experience of wiping out the Israeli occupation…
strengthened the [Palestinian] spirit of armed struggle." (2)

A week later the same PA security official reported to Kul Al-Arab that
a state of emergency has been declared in the PA territories in
preparation for a possible confrontation with Israeli forces. He said,
"Popular recruitment in the PA territories has increased greatly and the
popular Palestinian army has been established... Weapons have already
been distributed to citizens by the PA, which supervises training and
preparations for a potential confrontation with occupation forces." The
source revealed that the training focuses on guerrilla warfare and there
is great demand for these courses… He added that the PA has
anti-aircraft missiles in all PA territories and that vacations have
been canceled in all PA security services.

________________________________________

(I) MEMRI has monitored this aspect of Palestinian rhetoric for several
years. For a few examples see Special Dispatches: · No. 58: "Violence
and the Peace Process in the Palestinian Media," November 18, 1999 · No.
52: "PLO Political Bureau Head on Armed Struggle and the Current Peace
Process" October 26, 1999 · No. 29: "Palestinian Leadership Renews Calls
for Violence," March 22, 1999 · No. 17: "Calls for Violence and Support
of Iraq in the Palestinian Media," December 18, 1998 · No. 13: "Arafat's
Speech to a 'Fatah' Conference," November 17, 1998 MEMRI has also
produced videos documenting this strategy.
_______________________________________

Mobilizing the Palestinians

Fatah central committee member Muhammad Ghneim stated: "The Palestinian
people… have set the end of September as the last date to achieve a
settlement realizing the[ir] hopes… [particularly] the right of return
for the refugees. Resolution 242 alone is not the basis for a
Palestinian-Israeli reconciliation… any disregard of the other
resolutions such as 181 and 194 will leave the wound open and the
conflict valid."(3)

The Secretary-General of the PFLP Abu Ali Mustafa, who left the
Palestinian rejectionist front and joined the PA, when asked about
alternatives to the failure of the Camp David Summit said: "The issues
of Jerusalem, the refugees, and sovereignty will be decided on the
ground and not in negotiations. At this point it is important to
prepare Palestinian society for the next step because we will
undoubtedly find ourselves in confrontation with Israel in order to
create new facts on the ground. I believe that the situation will in
the future will be more violent than the Intifada." (4)

PA appointed Mufti IIkrima Sabri - warned, "Any approach to Al-Aqsa will
face violent opposition from the Palestinians… Jewish prayer at Al-Aqsa
will prompt massacres the magnitude of which only Allah knows. If
Olmert thinks Al-Aqsa can be like the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron
[where both religions share worship] which the Jews have desecrated… he
is delusional. We want to clarify to Olmert and his supporters that
harm to Al-Aqsa will prompt massacres and rivers of blood." (5)

Hassan Al-Kashef, in his daily column in Al-Ayyam stated, "Every
Palestinian home is able to stockpile a few months of supplies for his
basic needs. Every home has enough space for a few bags of flour, rice,
sugar, candles, and salt. [The preparations should not be for a
military confrontation, rather for a popular Intifada.] It would be a
mistake and a sin to prepare for confrontation as an organized
establishment with specified camps, locations, and stores. This is
exactly what the Israeli army wants, counting on its superiority in
weaponry and in the air. The solution guaranteeing our superiority is
to go back to our quality as a fighting people that does the Intifada."
(II)

In Al-Ayyam Talal 'Okal said, "It is necessary that millions of
Palestinians, wherever they are, go into the streets at the same time.
This is the preferred way to counter… Barak's no's and the American
bias. The Intifada was a great action to counter the offensive army [of
Israel] as well as thousands of armed fanatic settlers. The Intifada
was also the strongest and most effective means to convince world public
opinion and attract attention to the national rights of the
Palestinians." (6)
___________________________________

(II) Al-Ayyam July 24, 2000. The day of the Camp David failure the PA
showed the wide-ranged training of students in summer camps on TV and
invited journalists to see it. The editor of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on July
24 criticized both the training and showing it, claiming that the
pictures of kids training with Kalashnikovs serves Israeli propaganda.
_______________________________________

Incitment in August

PA Minister, Hasan 'Assur stated that failure to reach a final
settlement would force Palestinian military action (7) and Faisal
Al-Husseini, PLO representative for Jerusalem affairs (8) warned that
the peace process's failure could lead to violence. PA Justice Minister
Freih Abu Middein stated, "…violence is near and the Palestinian people
are willing to sacrifice even 5000 casualties." (9)

There were other opinions as well. For example, columnist Rasmi Abu Ali
who quoted Abu Middein, argued that it is better to refrain from
violence: "The option of explosion is feasible for the Palestinians and
it can even begin today rather than tomorrow. But if we are to make a
rational account we need to count to 100 before we choose this option.
The Palestinians are able to inflict heavy casualties on the Israelis.
But the question is whether our own casualties will be even greater. We
have to be cautious and exhaust the other option before we reach the
point of no return…" (10)

High-ranking PA officials discussed the role of the PA police and the
Palestinian militia in the coming crises even before the outbreak of
violence. Ghazi Jabali, commander of the PA Police, stated "The
Palestinian police will be leading, together with all other noble sons
of the Palestinian people when the hour of confrontation arrives..."
(11)

Violence in pre-1967 Israel

Well before the present outburst of violence, high-ranking Palestinian
officials warned that violence would spread into pre-67 Israel. Head of
the Preventive Security Apparatus in Gaza, Muhammad Dakhlan said, "…If
Israel chooses the road of violence the PA can influence the way of life
in Israel…
If an agreement is not reached and confrontation with the occupation
explodes both the Palestinian people and Israel will suffer gravely.
Anyone who thinks that the confrontation with us will be easy is
delusional. The reactive ability of our people today is greater than
the days when the PLO was in Beirut. We will reach an independent
Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital even if it is by blood."
(12)

As soon as the violence began Dakhlan's counterpart in the West Bank,
Jibril Rjoub warned: "It is possible that the disturbances will move to
Israeli populated areas."(13) The night after his statement the
Jerusalem neighborhood Giloh was shot at from the Palestinian village
Beit Jala, which is under Rjoub's authority.

PA Minister of Supplies Abd Al-'Aziz Shahin added: "…the Palestinian
leadership will conduct the new bloody negotiations in the proper way.
…the successful leadership is the leadership that is not dragged into
the battle that the enemy wishes to have. Rather it is the leadership
that imposes [on the enemy] the terms of the battle, its location and
its weapons." (14)

Some Israeli Arab leaders confirmed the existence of possible violence
in the Israeli Arab community, such as Israeli Arab MK from Israel's
Islamic Movement Abd Al-Malek Dahamsheh expressed his readiness: "To be
the first martyr [shahid] in defense of Al-Aqsa." (15)

A Long Term PA Strategy

In fact, throughout the Oslo Process, Palestinian leaders have
reiterated this principle, that if the peace process reaches a deadlock
they will turn to violence. PA Minister of Planning and International
Cooperation Nabil Sha'ath clearly stated this in 1996 at a public
conference in Nablus videotaped by MEMRI:

"We decided to begin liberating our homeland step after step. It is now
impossible for the peace process to halt. For if it does, all of the
acts of violence will return to Israel. …we honor the peace treaties
and non-violence, so long as the agreements are fulfilled step-by-step.
[But] if and when Israel says 'enough,' namely, 'we will not discuss
Jerusalem, we will not return refugees, we will not dismantle
settlements, we will not withdraw to the borders,' in that case it is
saying that we will return to violence. But this time it will be with
30,000 armed Palestinian soldiers and in a land with elements of
freedom."

"I'm the first one to call for it if we get to a deadlock, we shall
return to the fighting and the struggle as we have fought for forty
years more; it is not beyond our possibility."

PA Chairman Yasir Arafat has also, personally and explicitly stated on a
number of occasions that the Palestinians are prepared to turn to
violence if there is a deadlock in the peace process. For example,
speaking to a "Fatah" conference in November 1998 he stated, "…the
Palestinian rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us
from praying in Jerusalem… [agreements] better be carried out, because
the 'generals of the stones' [i.e. the children of the Intifada] are
ready." (16)

Addressing a March 1999 "Fatah" conference Arafat stated, "We will
continue our struggle until… our flag [waves] on the walls, mosques, and
churches of Jerusalem, the capital of our independent state, whether
some people are happy about it or not. He who doesn't like it may drink
the water of the Dead Sea …the 'Fatah' movement is ready to fight… if
anyone tries to diminish our legitimate rights and our right to declare
a state." (17)

Endnotes:

(1) Al-Ayyam (PA), Oct. 3, 2000
(2) Kul Al-Arab (Israel), July 14, 2000.
(3) Al-Ayyam, July 20, 2000.
(4) Al-Quds (Palestinian), July 23, 2000.
(5) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (PA), July 21, 2000.
(6) Al-Ayyam, July 24, 2000.
(7) Al-Quds Al-Arabi, Aug. 24, 2000.
(8) Al-Hayat (London-Beriut), Aug. 30, 2000.
(9) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 24, 2000.
(10) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 24, 2000.
(11) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 11, 2000.
(12) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 16, 2000.
(13) Voice of Palestine, Oct. 2, 2000.
(14) Al-Ayyam (PA), Oct. 3, 2000.
(15) Al-Sinara July 15, 2000.
(16) Al-Ayyam, Nov. 16, 2000. See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 13,
"Arafat's Speech to a 'Fatah' conference," Nov. 17, 1998. (17) Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, March 20, 1999. See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 29,
"Palestinian Leadership Renews Calls for Violence," March 22, 1999.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent,
non-profit organization providing translations of the Arab media and
original analysis and research on developments in the Middle East.
Copies of articles and documents cited, as well as background
information, are available upon request.

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Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 18:18:04 -0400

Israeli police take over mosque compound(Temple Mount)

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: AFP

Fri Oct 6,2000 -- Israeli police Friday took over the al-Aqsa mosque
compound in east Jerusalem Friday after dispersing the remaining
demonstrators who had been there since the morning, Israeli radio
stations reported. An elite Israeli police unit did not fire their
weapons but used stun grenades when entering the compound.
About a dozen Palestinian demonstrators were arrested while
others fled, military radio said. Police officers resumed their "usual"
positions at the mosque compound's entrances and brought down
a Palestinian flag flying on an Israeli police post and a flag of the
Islamic militant group Hamas that was on al-Aqsa mosque, the
radio added.

Milosevic wants to remain in politics in Yugoslavia -Ivanov

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: AFP

Fri Oct 6,2000 -- Slobodan Milosevic wants to remain active in
Yugoslav politics as a political party leader, Russian Foreign
Minister Igor Ivanov said Friday.

Blair urges quick EU expansion; suggests EU presidency could be
held by three or four countries

                         Weekend News Today
                         Lead: Kelly
                         Source: AFP

Fri Oct 6,2000 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair called Friday for
the European Union to admit new members from eastern Europe
within three years, as he sketched his vision of an EU
"superpower" that could extend as far as the troubled Balkans.
"Nobody who considers that the EU has underpinned peace and
democracy in the reconstruction of postwar Western Europe can
doubt the benefits that enlargement will bring post-Cold War
Western Europe and the Balkans," he told an audience of political
and business leaders during a two-day visit here. "The EU is on the
brink of one of the most important decisions in its history," he said,
adding that he was "determined that there should be a
breakthrough on enlargement in the Swedish presidency," which
starts in January. "I want to see new member states participate in
the European Parliamentary elections in 2004," Blair added.

The British prime minister admitted that widening the European
Union would necessitate substantial reform -- not just from
candidate countries but from the European 15 themselves. So he
put forward a string of fresh proposals aimed at making the EU club
open to new members, more democratically accountable, and
capable of becoming "a superpower, not a superstate". Among his
ideas were a new "charter of competences" defining what powers
should be held at EU level and what should be devolved to national
governments; and a new chamber of the European Parliament to
police the division of responsibility.

He also wanted the European Council, as the highest EU body of
elected officials, to set the agenda rather than merely respond to it;
meanwhile the EU presidency could be held by two or three
countries at the same time once the club expands to more than 20
nations, so that it does the rounds more quickly. Blair is believed
to be positioning Eurosceptic Britain as a counterweight to France
and Germany, whose leaders called recently for an EU "pioneer"
group to accelerate their own integration before admitting new
members. The British leader said he had no problem with closer
cooperation as long as it did not lead to "a hard core ... in which
some member states create their own set of shared policies and
institutions from which others are in practice excluded."

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