Terrorized stupid
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by Kevin Good, Unknown News
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Feb. 3, 2007
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A number of suspicious looking devices have been appearing all over America. A concerned citizen called in this possible IED discovered at a school bus stop -- right here in River City!
As police the FBI, ATF and other members of Homeland Security in bombproof suits cautiously approached the object, a ring with a string attached was observed moving toward the device, and the device said, "The cow says mooo".
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Authorities fired 911 rounds in the direction of the suspected explosive devise, striking it five times and wounding six officers. A bomb squad robotic device
moved the suspected terrorist bomb a safe distance from the school and destroyed it as the IED attempted to reactivate itself by saying, "The cat says meow."
In other breaking news:
'Bush moves against
foreigners meddling in Iraq'.
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... Fool me twice, shame on me.
© by the author.
Bush moves against foreigners meddling in Iraq
by Simon Tisdall, The Mail & Guardian [Johannesburg, South Africa]
Feb. 2, 2007
United States officials in Baghdad and Washington are expected to unveil a secret intelligence "dossier" this week detailing evidence of Iran's alleged complicity in attacks on American troops in Iraq. The move, uncomfortably echoing Downing Street's dossier debacle in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, is one more sign that the Bush administration is building a case for war.
Nicholas Burns, the senior U.S. diplomat in charge of Iran policy, says Washington "is not looking for a fight" with Tehran. The official line is that Washington has made a conscious decision to "push back" against Iran on a range of fronts where the two countries' interests clash. Primarily that means Tehran's perceived meddling in Iraq, where its influence with the Shia-led government and Shia majority population appears to be increasing as Washington's weakens.
Sean McCormack, the state department spokesperson, said this week the administration had a body of evidence implicating Iran in sectarian attacks against Iraq's Sunni minority. "There is a high degree of confidence in the information that we already have and we are constantly accumulating more," he told The New York Times.
The CIA and Pentagon are also touting intelligence that "Iranians are smuggling into Iraq sophisticated explosive devices, mortars and detailed plans to wipe out Sunni Arab neighborhoods", the paper said. Officials would make a "comprehensive case" this week. But George W Bush has already acted on information received. He confirmed on Monday that he had ordered U.S. forces, in effect, to kill or capture Iranian "agents" targeting Americans in Iraq -- as happened last month when five Iranian officials were detained in Irbil.
Hassan Kazemi Qumi, Iran's ambassador to Iraq, ridiculed "sectarian maps" and evidence the U.S. military said it had obtained during a raid on a Shia compound in Baghdad. He repeated Tehran's contention that Iranians were in Iraq to help with "security problems".
Barham Saleh, Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, has said the U.S. and Iran are turning his country into a "zone of conflict and competition" and suggests they take their fight elsewhere. But as was also the case in the days before Saddam Hussein's downfall, external forces appear intent on stoking the fire.
"The al-Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards is stepping up terrorism and encouraging sectarian violence in Iraq," Alireza Jafarzadeh, a U.S.-based Iranian dissident who has been linked to the Mujahedin- e-Khalq (MeK) resistance group, told the Washington Times this month. Jafarzadeh is credited with revealing the existence of Iran's secret nuclear sites in Natanz and Arak in 2002. "There is a sharp surge in Iran's sponsorship of terrorism and sectarian violence in the past few months," Jafarzadeh told a conference organized by a pro-MeK lobby group.
Israel is also pushing the intelligence case while upping the ante, claiming to have knowledge Tehran is a year or two away from basic nuclear weapons-making capability. In a BBC interview last week, the former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu compared Ahmadinejad's regime to the Nazis. Speaking in Davos, the deputy prime minister, Shimon Peres, demanded immediate regime change or failing that, military intervention.
The U.S. "push back" against Iran comprises many other elements. Unconfirmed reports suggest Dick Cheney, the U.S. Vice-President, has cut a deal with Saudi Arabia to keep oil production up even as prices fall, to undercut Iran's main source of foreign currency. Washington is pursuing non-UN global financial sanctions against Tehran; encouraging and arming a "new alignment" of Sunni Arab Gulf states; and highlighting Iran's role in "supporting terrorism" in Palestine, where it helps bankroll Hamas, and Lebanon, where it backs Hizbullah.
Almost any one of these might produce a casus belli. When taken together, despite official protestations, they seem to point in only one direction. The Bush administration, an American commentator suggested, is "once again spoiling for a fight".
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in·fo·bab·ble
Pronunciation: INFOBABBLE!
Function: noun
1: the failure to communicate or the ability to misrepresent knowledge or intelligence
2: the attribute inherent in and communicated by one of two or more alternative sequences or arrangements of something (as nucleotides in DNA or binary digits in a computer program) that produce specific effects or a signal or character (as in a communication system or computer) representing data.
3: something (as a message, experimental data, or a picture) which justifies change in a construct (as a plan or theory) that represents physical or mental experience or other construct.
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