Terrorism

[MJ]

London (Platts)--19Oct2001

 

 

Greenpeace confirmed Friday that surface to air missiles have arrived near the nuclear waste reprocessing plant in France's La Hague to defend against possible terrorism attacks.

 

There are 24 rockets stationed at the plant. It is as yet unclear whether the rockets are to be stationed there temporarily or forever. The reprocessing unit, which was commissioned in the 1960s, has less protection against terrorism attacks than a nuclear power plant.

 

Nuclear processing plants like La Hague in France have only been constructed to withstand the impact of collision with a small jet since 1992. However, the collision with a plane such as a Boeing 747 would be about 450 times greater. In addition, a Boeing plane of this size has about 100 times more fuel on board than a small jet.

 

Experts of the WISE group estimate that an attack on La Hague could be 67 times worse than the Chernobyl disaster. "The fact that the French government protects La Hague with rockets just shows how dangerous the plant is and how big the fear amongst the French population is," said Veit Burger, energy expert at Greenpeace.

 

Next to the UK's Sellafield reprocessing unit, La Hague is one of the most dangerous and most environmentally-unfriendly plants in Europe, Greenpeace said. The plant feeds about 1.4-mil liter/day of radioactive sewage into the sea, it said.

[MJ]

Text of Bush's Speech at U.N.

By The Associated Press,

Text of remarks by President Bush (news - web sites) to the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday, as transcribed by eMediaMillWorks, Inc.

 

Thank you.

 

Mr. Secretary General, Mr. President, distinguished delegates and ladies and gentlemen, we meet in a hall devoted to peace, in a city scarred by violence, in a nation awakened to danger, in a world uniting for a long struggle.

 

Every civilized nation here today is resolved to keep the most basic commitment of civilization. We will defend ourselves and our future against terror and lawless violence.

 

The United Nations (news - web sites) was founded in this cause.

 

In the Second World War, we learned there is no isolation from evil. We affirmed that some crimes are so terrible they offend humanity itself, and we resolved that the aggressions and ambitions of the wicked must be opposed early, decisively and collectively before they threaten us all. That evil has returned, and that cause is renewed.

 

A few miles from here, many thousands still lie in a tomb of rubble. Tomorrow the secretary general, the president of the General Assembly and I will visit that site where the names of every nation and region that lost citizens will be read aloud.

If we were to read the names of every person who died, it would take more than three hours.

 

Those names include a citizen of Gambia, whose wife spent their fourth wedding anniversary, September the 12th, searching in vain for her husband. Those names include a man who supported his wife in Mexico, sending home money every week. Those names include a young Pakistani who prayed toward Mecca five times a day and died that day trying to save others.

 

The suffering of Sept. 11 was inflicted on people of many faiths and many nations. All of the victims, including Muslims, were killed with equal indifference and equal satisfaction by the terrorist leaders.

The terrorists are violating the tenets of every religion, including the one they invoke.

 

Last week, the sheik of Al-Azhar University, the world's oldest Islamic institution of higher learning, declared that terrorism is a disease and that Islam prohibits killing innocent civilians. The terrorists call their cause holy, yet they fund it with drug dealing. They encourage murder and suicide in the name of a great faith that forbids both. They dare to ask God's blessing as they set out to kill innocent men, women and children. But the God of Isaac and Ishmael would never answer such a prayer. And a murderer is not a martyr, he is just a murder. Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will remember every rescuer who died in honor. We will remember every family that lives in grief. We will remember the fire and ash, the last phone calls, the funerals of the children. And the people of my country will remember those who have plotted against us. We are learning their names. We are coming to know their faces. There is no corner of the earth distant or dark enough to protect them. However long it takes, their hour of justice will come.

 

Every nation has a stake in this cause. As we meet, the terrorists are planning more murder, perhaps in my country or perhaps in yours. They kill because they aspire to dominate. They seek to overthrow governments and destabilize entire regions.

 

Last week, anticipating this meeting of the General Assembly, they denounced the United Nations. They called our secretary general a criminal and condemned all Arab nations here as traitors to Islam. Few countries meet their exacting standards of brutality and oppression. Every other country is a potential target, and all the world faces the most horrifying prospect of all: These same terrorists are searching for weapons of mass destruction, the tools to turn their hatred into holocaust.

 

They can be expected to use chemical, biological and nuclear weapons the moment they are capable of doing so. No hint of conscience would prevent it. This threat cannot be ignored. This threat cannot be appeased. Civilization itself, the civilization we share, is threatened.

History will record our response and judge or justify every nation in this hall. The civilized world is now responding. We act to defend ourselves and deliver our children from a future of fear. We choose the dignity of life over a culture of death. We choose lawful change and civil disagreement over coercion, subversion and chaos. These commitments - hope and order, law and life - unite people across cultures and continents. Upon these commitments depend all peace and progress. For these commitments we are determined to fight.

 

The United Nations has risen to this responsibility. On the 12th of September, these buildings opened for emergency meetings of the General Assembly and the Security Council. Before the sun had set, these attacks on the world stood condemned by the world. And I want to thank you for this strong and principled stand. I also thank the Arab and Islamic countries that have condemned terrorist murder. Many of you have seen the destruction of terror in your own lands. The terrorists are increasingly isolated by their own hatred and extremism.

They cannot hide behind Islam. The authors of mass murder and their allies have no place in any culture and no home in any faith.

 

The conspiracies of terror are being answered by an expanding global coalition. Not every nation will be a part of every action against the enemy, but every nation in our coalition has duties. These duties can be demanding, as we in America are learning. We have already made adjustments in our laws and in our daily lives. We're taking new measures to investigate terror and to protect against threats. The leaders of all nations must now carefully consider their responsibilities and their future.

Terrorist groups like al-Qaida depend upon the aid or indifference of governments. They need the support of a financial infrastructure and safe havens to train and plan and hide.

 

Some nations want to play their part in the fight against terror but tell us they lack the means to enforce their laws and control their borders. We stand ready to help.

Some government still turn a blind eye to the terrorists, hoping the threat will pass them by. They are mistaken. And some governments, while pledging to uphold the principles of the U.N. have cast their lot with the terrorists. They support them and harbor them, and they will find that their welcomed guests are parasites that will weaken them and eventually consume them.

For every regime that sponsors terror, there is a price to be paid, and it will be paid. The allies of terror are equally guilty of murder and equally accountable to justice. The Taliban are now learning this lesson. That regime and the terrorists who support it are now virtually indistinguishable.

Together, they promote terror abroad and impose a reign of terror on the Afghan people. Women are executed in Kabul's soccer stadium. They can be beaten for wearing socks that are too thin. Men are jailed for missing prayer meetings.

The United States, supported by many nations, is bringing justice to the terrorists in Afghanistan (news - web sites). We're making progress against military targets, and that is our objective. Unlike the enemy, we seek to minimize, not maximize the loss of innocent life.

I'm proud of the honorable conduct of the American military. And my country grieves for all the suffering the Taliban have brought upon Afghanistan, including the terrible burden of war. The Afghan people do not deserve their present rulers. Years of Taliban misrule have brought nothing but misery and starvation. Even before this current crisis, 4 million Afghans depended on food from the United States and other nations, and millions of Afghans were refugees from Taliban oppression. I make this promise to all the victims of that regime: The Taliban's days of harboring terrorists and dealing in heroin and brutalizing women are drawing to a close. And when that regime is gone, the people of Afghanistan will say with the rest of the world, ``Good riddance.''

 

I can promise, too, that America will join the world in helping the people of Afghanistan rebuild their country. Many nations, including mine, are sending food and medicine to help Afghans through the winter. America has airdropped over 1.3 million packages of rations into Afghanistan. Just this week, we airlifted 20,000 blankets and over 200 tons of provisions into the region. We continue to provide humanitarian aid, even while the Taliban tried to steal the food we sent.

More help eventually will be needed. The United States will work closely with the United Nations and development banks to reconstruct Afghanistan after hostilities there have ceased and the Taliban are no longer in control. And the United States will work with the U.N. to support a post-Taliban government that represents all of the Afghan people.

 

In this war of terror, each of us must answer for what we have done or what we have left undone. After tragedy, there is a time for sympathy and condolence. And my country has been very grateful for both. The memorials and vigils around the world will not be forgotten, but the time for sympathy has now passed. The time for action has now arrived. The most basic obligations in this new conflict have already been defined by the United Nations. On Sept. 28, the Security Council adopted Resolution 1373. It's requirements are clear. Every United Nations member has a responsibility to crack down on terrorist financing. We must pass all necessary laws in our own countries to allow the confiscation of terrorist assets.

We must apply those laws to every financial institution in every nation. We have a responsibility to share intelligence and coordinate the efforts of law enforcement. If you know something, tell us. If we know something, we'll tell you. And when we find the terrorists, we must work together to bring them to justice.

 

We have a responsibility to deny any sanctuary, safe haven or transit to terrorists. Every known terrorist camp must be shut down, its operators apprehended and evidence of their arrest presented to the United Nations. We have a responsibility to deny weapons to terrorists and to actively prevent private citizens from providing them. These obligations are urgent, and they are binding on every nation with a place in this chamber. Many governments are taking these obligations seriously, and my country appreciates it. Yet, even beyond Resolution 1373, more is required and more is expected of our coalition against terror.

We're asking for a comprehensive commitment to this fight. We must unite in opposing all terrorists, not just some of them.

In this world, there are good causes and bad causes, and we may disagree on where that line is drawn. Yet, there is no such thing as a good terrorist. No national aspiration, no remembered wrong can ever justify the deliberate murder of the innocent. Any government that rejects this principle, trying to pick and choose its terrorist friends, will know the consequences. We must speak the truth about terror. Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty. To inflame ethnic hatred is to advance the cause of terror.

 

The war against terror must not serve as an excuse to persecute ethnic and religious minorities in any country. Innocent people must be allowed to live their own lives, by their own customs, under their own religion.

And every nation must have avenues for the peaceful expression of opinion and dissent. When these avenues are closed, the temptation to speak through violence grows.

We must press on with our agenda for peace and prosperity in every land. My country has pledged to encouraging development and expanding trade. My country had pledged to investing in education and combating AIDS (news - web sites) and other infectious diseases around the world.

 

Following Sept. 11, these pledges are even more important. In our struggle against hateful groups that exploit poverty and despair, we must offer an alternative of opportunity and hope. The American government also stands by its commitment to a just peace in the Middle East. We are working toward the day when two states - Israel and Palestine - live peacefully together within secure and recognized borders as called for by the Security Council resolutions. We will do all in our power to bring both parties back into negotiations. But peace will only come when all have sworn off forever incitement, violence and terror.

 

And finally, this struggle is a defining moment for the United Nations itself. And the world needs its principled leadership. It undermines the credibility of this great institution, for example, when the Commission on Human Rights offers seats to the world's most persistent violators of human rights. The United Nations depends above all on its moral authority and that authority must be preserved.

 

The steps I've described will not be easy. For all nations, they will require effort. For some nations, they will require great courage. Yet, the cost of inaction is far greater. The only alternative to victory is a nightmare world, where every city is a potential killing field. As I've told the American people, freedom and fear are at war. We face enemies that hate not our policies but our existence, the tolerance of openness and creative culture that defines us. But the outcome of this conflict is certain. There is a current in history, and it runs toward freedom.

 

Our enemies resent it and dismiss it, but the dreams of mankind are defined by liberty, the natural right to create and build and worship and live in dignity. When men and women are released from oppression and isolation, they find fulfillment and hope, and they leave poverty by the millions. These aspirations are lifting up the peoples of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, and they can lift up all of the Islamic world. We stand for the permanent hopes of humanity, and those hopes will not be denied.

 

We are confident, too, that history has an author who fills time and eternity with his purpose. We know that evil is real, but good will prevail against it. This is the teaching of many faiths. And in that assurance, we gain strength for a long journey. It is our task, the task of this generation, to provide the response to aggression and terror. We have no other choice, because there is no other peace.

We did not ask for this mission, yet there is honor in history's call. We have a chance the write the story or our times, a story of courage defeating cruelty and light overcoming darkness. This calling is worthy of any life and worthy of every nation.

So let us go forward, confident, determined and unafraid.

[MJ]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sh...shows/binladen/

[Azat]

Great show and a wonderful site.

[MosJan]

AZERBAIJANI LEADERSHIP WITHHOLD COMMENTS REGARDING INFORMATION ABOUT TERRORIST KHATTAB'S VISIT TO BAKU

27.11.2001

 

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Azerbaijan political leadership representatives refuse to comment the statements of Russian media, particularly RTR TV channel, that well-known terrorist Khattab who fought in Chechnya, stated in Azerbaijan for several days and illegally left for Pakistan and then to Afghanistan. According to ITAR-TASS agency information, Usama bin Laden has personally asked Khattab to lead the defense of Kunduz that is one of the last bulwarks of "Taliban" movement. The leaders of the law-enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan that were afraid of spreading of the information about the second top terrorist's visit to Baku state the information of the world news agencies does not correspond to the reality and they "purpose one aim, that is to promote worsening of Azerbaijan-Russia relations".

 

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[Harut]

Mosjan, urish anekdotner uneir patmelu?

es aderbeijantsik lriv vatatsel en.

[Juggernaut]

Yes, Harut I think they (Azeris and Turks) are running out of ideas.

[MosJan]

ANOTHER MISINFORMATION REGARDING ARMENIAN-BIN LADEN RELATIONS COOKED UP IN BAKU

26.11.2001

 

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Baku "political scientist" Rowshan Nowruzoghlu has published a new "work" to prove that Armenians helped Usama din Laden to get nuclear weapon. The main argument to support the crazy version on the relations of Armenians and "El Qaide" is that several Armenian worked in the scientific city Dubna, from where a group of physicists left for Afghanistan. "27 out of 48 experts working in Dubna at that time were Armenians", writes Nowruzoghlu, thinking that this is enough to make conclusions that exactly Armenians helped the top terrorist to create nuclear bomb. The fact that the nuclear physics is quite developed in Armenia is well known but only Baku "political scientists" consider this as a base for the conclusions that there are relations between Armenian and Ben Laden. Though, Nowruzoghlu has some other arguments. For example: "Armenian experts together with Chinese colleagues participated in the construction of the cement factory in Kandagar and also in the explorations of gas fields in Jilalabad, Bamiian and Gunduz". "The political scientist" does not accuse Chinese of anything, but Armenians were introduced as if they were engaged in development and producing of nuclear weapon. (By the way, it is known that during the years of Soviet military presence in Afghanistan a few experts of Azerbaijan as well as Georgia, Russia, etc. also worked there). In order to make the version believable, the author of the "work" introduces more detailed data about citizens of Armenia working for "Al Qaide". A Santrosyan, living in Yerevan, at 1 Manukyan str is mentioned. This street really exists in Yerevan. But the matter is that a bookstore was and a trade center is situated to that address.

 

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[MosJan]

HATTAB TERRORIST WAS ON A VISIT IN AZERBAIJAN

26.11.2001

 

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the information of Russian RTR TV channel, famous terrorist Hattab, who had fought in Chechnya, spent several days in Azerbaijan. Hattab left Baku for Pakistan, from where he went to Kunduz Afghani town under siege of the Northern Alliance. ITAR-TASS agency reports, Usama bin Laden had personally asked Hattab to the defense of one of the last strongholds of "Taliban" movement. The information on Hattab's stay in Azerbaijan confirms there is a local cell of "El-Quaide" terrorist network in Baku.

 

 

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[MosJan]

AZERBAIJAN, TURKEY CLAIM ARMENIA IS A TERRORIST HARBORING COUNTRY

Armenia is considered a terrorist harboring country in the ruling circles of Azerbaijan. The spokesman of Azeri foreign ministry Metin Mirza even expressed confidence that the Azeri diplomacy will achieve a point when the UN Security Council will recognize Armenia as a terrorist harboring country.

 

 

The above-mentioned diplomat, as well as many other Azeri officials find that Armenia ‘deserves to be included into the list of terrorist harboring countries’. And the two victims of this policy of Armenia - Azerbaijan and Turkey, can prove it. For this they must unite their efforts. According to Azeri politologist Mubariz Ghurbanmli works aimed at this purpose are activated both between the governments, and the political parties of the two ‘victim’ countries. ‘I think that in near future we’ll see the results of it’,- said Ghurbanli.

 

 

As Novruz Mamedov, chief of staff of the Azeri president, said, the international society does not recognize Armenia a terrorist harboring country for it is not well informed and because the activity of the Diaspora-Armenians veil the truth.

 

 

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[MosJan]

BIN LADEN MAY BE ON VISIT IN AZERBAIJAN

01.12.2001

 

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ According to the "New York Times" information the activists of "El-Quaide" terrorist organization leave Afghanistan under the pressure of the Northern Alliance and the members of the anti-terrorist coalition. Azerbaijan is one of the first countries, where people from the closest circles of Usama bin Laden are expected to flee. Such a prognosis is quite defenseble if the fact that a well organized group of terrorist net leaded by bin Laden operated in Baku is taken into consideration. (It should be reminded that according to the data of the investigation of terrorist acts in Kenya and Tanzania, the orders to blow up the American Embassy in Nairobi were directed from Baku. Commenting the information that bin Laden has left Afghanistan for Chechnya, "Izvestiya" Russian newspaper makes an assumption that the way of "the top terrorist" would pass through Azerbaijan. As it is known, terrorist Khattab, who was asked to lead the defense of Kunduz city by bin Laden personally, left Chechnya for Afghanistan through Azerbaijan last week.

 

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