YOUTHS "MASSACRED IN ACEH VILLAGE

Fresh details have been emerging of alleged executions by Indonesian troops fighting separatist rebels in Aceh. The BBC's Orlando de Guzman has made a second visit the site of Wednesday's incident in the northern village of Mapa Mamplam, and has been told by witnesses that boys, one as young as 12, were among the victims. The villagers at Mapa Mamplam said a group of seven boys and men, aged between 12 and 20, were sleeping in a hut near a prawn farm to guard it - standard practice in rural areas. A group of Indonesian soldiers entered the hut and dragged the boys out, lining them up on one of the dykes dividing the ponds, they said. A witness, who had a clear view of the events, told our correspondent that some of the group were then shot one by one at close range.

INDONESIA ACQUITS GENERAL OVER E. TIMOR VIOLENCE

A former Indonesian military commander was acquitted Tuesday of human-rights violations allegedly committed during East Timor?s bloody struggle for independence in 1999. Brigadier-General Tono Suratman was accused of failing to prevent the deaths of five refugees during an April, 1999, attack on a church, and the killing of a dozen others two weeks later when pro-Indonesia militiamen stormed into the home of independence leader Manuel Carrascalao in East Timor?s capital, Dili.

NATO AGREES TO HELP POLISH IRAQ FORCE

NATO ambassadors Wednesday unanimously agreed to help Poland run a peacekeeping force in central Iraq, a move designed to help the alliance overcome a series of bitter rows over how to disarm former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

REPORTES WITHOUT BORDERS URGE THE US TO BREAK ITS SILENCE

Reporters Without Borders called on US officials to urgently say why they are still holding Sami al-Haj, an assistant cameraman of the Qatar-based TV station Al-Jazeera, at the US naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, nine months after his arrest.

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COALITION WILL NOT "PLANT" WEAPONS

Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said coalition forces will not "plant" weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in a bid to justify the war. Mr Straw said: "Given the fact that it will be American and British military who will be first on to any site it will always be possible for those who opposed this military action to say `oh well, they were planted'.

PUTIN APPEALS TO BUSH TO END RIFT OVER WAR AGAINST SADDAM

Russian President Vladimir Putin, seeking to heal relations bruised by the war in Iraq, has written to President Bush seeking cooperation "on all levels," a senior Russian official said on Thursday.

PREWAR VIEWS OF IRAQ THREAT ARE UNDER REVIEW BY C.I.A.

The Central Intelligence Agency has begun a review to try to determine whether the American intelligence community erred in its prewar assessments of Saddam Hussein's government and Iraq's weapons programs, several officials say.

AMERICA'S VIRTUAL ARMY

More Than 1 Million Gamers Have Army to Thank for Free Video Game

The game they're playing, America's Army, was designed, developed, and produced by the U.S. military.

"This game is a way for the Army to strategically communicate to the youth of America what the Army is all about," says George Juntiff, operations director at the Modeling, Virtual Environments, and Simulation Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. The institute is responsible for the game's development. It manages a $10 million annual budget for updating the game and for coming up with new ideas, some of which are classified.

CHOICE OF WORLDCOM FOR IRAQ CONTRACT DRAWS CRITICS

The Pentagon has hired MCI, aka WorldCom Inc., perpetrator of the biggest accounting fraud in American business and not a big name in cellular service, to build a small wireless phone network in Iraq. Questions are also being raised about the selection of Bechtel Corp., manager of Boston's "Big Dig," the nation's most expensive highway project, as the primary contractor to rebuild Iraq. The phone network contract incensed WorldCom rivals and government watchdogs who say Washington has been too kind to the company since WorldCom revealed its $11 billion accounting fraud and plunged into bankruptcy last year.

U.N. VOTE ON IRAQ ENDS SANCTIONS AND GRANTS U.S. WIDE AUTHORITY

The United States and Britain won an international mandate today to occupy and rebuild Iraq, as the Security Council voted to end nearly 13 years of sanctions. It was a significant diplomatic victory for the Bush administration, as France, Germany and Russia, the principal opponents of the American-led war, lined up in support of the measure.

JAIL OVER SARS CLAIM

A BEIJING truck driver who claimed to have SARS during a drunken encounter with police has been sentenced to two years in prison under anti-disease rules, a court official said today. Zhang was sentenced on charges of "hampering prevention and control of epidemic diseases", the court official said.

U.N. HEALTH AGENCY'S NEW HEAD PLEDGES STRONGER RESPONSE TO EPIDEMICS LIKE SARS

Dr. Jong-Wook Lee was elected director general of the World Health Organization yesterday and then pledged to expand and strengthen the agency's response network to help alert the world to epidemics like severe acute respiratory syndrome. SARS is an alarm signal of the need to strengthen disease surveillance systems at local, national and global levels to fight other new and emerging diseases in coming years, said Dr. Lee, 58, a South Korean.

TAIWAN'S EXTREME SARS MEASURES FEED PUBLIC FEAR

Some doctors blame the government for the growing panic, saying Taiwan's draconian anti-SARS measures have fuelled hysteria and undermined attempts to control the disease. For example, Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou proposed an automatic three-day quarantine for anyone with a fever. The Department of Health banned drugstores from selling anti-fever pills to force possible SARS sufferers to go to see doctors. Some people hoard surgical masks leading to a shortage for medical workers, while others hide their possible exposure to SARS patients in medical histories -- afraid of becoming social outcasts.

GLOBAL TECHNO-ORWELLIAN MASONIC MIND-CONTROL POLICE STATE DICTATORSHIP NIGHTMARE

FEEL THE SHROUD OF EVIL DESCENDING, THE MASS-MIND-CONTROL AGENDA IN FULL SWING

THE F.C.C. PROPOSAL REMAINS OFFICIALLY SECRET

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The future formation of American public opinion has fallen into the lap of an ambitious 36-year-old lawyer whose name you never heard. On June 2, after deliberations conducted behind closed doors, he will decide the fate of media large and small, print and broadcast. No other decision made in Washington will more directly affect how you will be informed, persuaded and entertained.

MOROCCAN JOURNALIST JAILED FOR FOUR YEARS FOR INSULTING KING

A Moroccan journalist was jailed for four years for insulting King Mohammed VI and undermining the country's national integrity, sparking protests that the sentence was too harsh and politically biased.

POLICE, DRESSED AS HOMELESS, CATCH DRIVERS RUNNING RED LIGHTS IN FLORIDA

Homeless advocates are outraged by an operation where undercover police officers dressed as vagrants, observed drivers running red lights or committing other traffic violations, then radioed ahead to other officers who stopped those cars and wrote tickets.

THESE THINGS ARE GOING TO BE WATCHING YOU, NOT TERRORISTS

RIDGE: UNMANNED DRONES MAY PATROL BORDERS

Unmanned Drones May Be Patrolling Borders by End of Year, Says Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge Unmanned aerial drones similar to ones used in the war on Iraq could be patrolling the U.S. border by the end of the year to help stem illegal immigration and increase security, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said Thursday. "We are very serious in looking at UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) for both border applications, land and sea," Ridge told the House Select Committee on Homeland Security.

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION EXPOSES GLOBALIST ASSAULT ON U.S. SOVEREIGNTY

In the May edition of its acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine -- titled "THE NEW WORLD RE-ORDER -- WorldNetDaily dives into the murky waters of global government, taking direct aim at its many-tentacled hub called the United Nations, and explores, among other things, the pivotal role of the controversial Council on Foreign Relations.

ELECTRIC SHOCK WEAPONS COULD GO WIRELESS

A weapon that delivers a debilitating electric shock to its victim without the need for wires is being developed in Germany. New Scientist has seen video stills of a prototype of the "Plasma-Taser" in action during firing-range tests. The pictures were shown at the European Symposium on Non-Lethal Weapons in Karlsruhe, Germany, two weeks ago. In the first image, a spray of dark gas is seen approaching a human-sized target. In the next, taken a fraction of a second later, there is a lightning-like flash of electrical discharge intended to incapacitate the targeted person.

"THE HIGH PRIESTS OF GLOBALISATION" -- WILL HUTTON

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TAKING THE SHUTTERBUG OUT OF THE PICTURE

Hewlett-Packard is working on a new consumer photography system that could "casually" capture terabytes of images from a person's daily lives and store them in data centers, where they could later be retrieved for conventional printing.

LISTEN TO ALEX JONES' REVIEW OF "THE MATRIX RELOADED"

The Illuminati laughs in people's faces while the majority think the fad is an 'anti-establishment' expression.

"RISE OF EVIL" AN IMPORTANT LESSON FOR ALL-AMERICANS

I watched the conclusion of the CBS mini-series Rise of Evil last night and was surprised at the similarities between Hitler's government reorganization and the reorganization of our federal government since Sept. 11th, 2001. Also surprising were the similarities for the reason that both governments were reorganized, terrorism.

LOST GRANNIES SPARK AIRPORT SYSTEM

Three elderly passengers have sparked a security scare at Sydney airport after they inadvertently wandered through a wrong door, causing long delays for hundreds of domestic passengers.

Australian flag carrier Qantas briefly shut down operations at part of its domestic terminal when the alarm was raised after the three people walked through an exit door and entered a secure area without undergoing screening. Qantas was investigating how the travellers had managed to go through the wrong door past a guard, despite heightened security at the airport since the October 12 bombings in Bali and the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

BOMBERS DISGUISED AS JEWS

Despite a Hamas suicide bombing that killed an Israeli couple in Hebron on Saturday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon went ahead just hours later with a scheduled meeting with Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas. But another Hamas suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus on Sunday morning that killed seven Israelis forced Sharon to cancel his planned visit to Washington this week, as Israel and the world confront an on-going wave of Islamic terror strikes. As Sharon prepared to host Abbas at the prime ministers' residence in Jerusalem on Saturday night, news broke that a Palestinian strapped with explosives had dashed past Israeli security in the divided city of Hebron and detonated his device in a Jewish neighborhood. Dressed in a white shirt to appear like a Jewish yeshiva student, the Hamas recruit ignored soldiers' calls to halt and blew himself up beside Gidi Levy and his pregnant wife Dina. The couple had been out for a post-Shabbat stroll in Gross Square.

ISRAEL ROOTS OF HAMAS ARE BEING EXPOSED

Speaking in Jerusalem Dec. 20, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer made the connection between the growth of the Islamic fundamentalist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and Israel's promotion of the Islamic movement as a counter to the Palestinian nationalist movement. Kurtzer's comments come very close to EIR's own presentation of the evidence of Israel's instrumental role in establishing Hamas, and its ongoing control of that organization.

ISRAEL CREATED TWO OF ITS OWN WORST ENEMIES -- HAMAS AND HEZBOLLAH

The decade of the 1980s saw the emergence of two of Israel's most militant Islamic foes, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the occupied territories. Hamas is responsible for many of the bloody suicide bombings which continue to terrorize Israel today. Ironically, both groups came into existence in large part because of unintended consequences of Israel's actions.

FROM CYBERNETICS TO LITTLEJOHN -- TECHNIQUES IN MIND CONTROL

The $9 billion a year video-game industry in America, which contributed mightily to the carnage at Littleton, Paducah, and Jonesboro, is far more than the mere commercial exploitation of techniques and technologies developed as ``legitimate'' training instruments for the military and law enforcement agencies. To understand the roots of this new form of ``Manchurian Candidate'' programmed terrorism, it is necessary to go back to World War II and the immediate postwar period, when there was a concerted effort launched, by the Frankfurt School and the London Tavistock Institute, to use the Marxist/Freudian perversion of psychology and other social sciences, as instruments for mass social control and brainwashing. The two pillars of the assault on the American intellectual tradition were cybernetics and the drug counterculture.

RAIDS ALONG AFGHAN-PAKISTANI BORDER FAILED TO CAPTURE TERROR CHIEF

Al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden remains at large in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials have concluded. U.S. and Pakistani forces along the Afghan-Pakistani border captured neither Bin Laden nor his chief aides in a series of raids last month. At one point, Pakistani military sources believed that a group of al-Qaida leaders had been captured and one of them was Bin Laden.

FBI SHOWS SKETCH OF MAN SEEN LEAVING YALE LAW SCHOOL CLASSROOM JUST BEFORE EXPLOSION

FBI agents investigating a bombing at Yale University's law school dusted for fingerprints Thursday and showed students a sketch of a man seen leaving the empty classroom just before the blast.

PLAN TO CAPTURE BIN LADEN BEFORE 9/11 WAS CALLED OFF

The FBI made secret plans to capture and arrest Osama bin Laden five years ago, long before the terror leader's deadliest plan came to fruition. Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent who is now an ABCNEWS consultant, said that federal agents seeking bin Laden had developed a plan to have a plane fly in and attack a compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where the terror leader was believed to have been holed up back in 1998 ? three years before the devastating attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But when the plan went up the chain of command for approval, it was killed by then-Attorney General Janet Reno.

FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL CONCLUDED "98 MISSION TO ARREST OSAMA IN AFGHANISTAN "TOO DANGEROUS"

The FBI had a clandestine plan to capture terror mastermind Osama bin Laden in 1998 ? and even practiced the daring operation in the Texas desert ? but former Attorney General Janet Reno scrubbed it, calling it "too dangerous," reports ABC News.

INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS FEAR IMMINENT ATTACK ON AMERICAN TARGETS

Members of an al-Qaida cell are believed to have fled Saudi Arabia for the United States or Europe shortly before the recent bombings in Riyadh.

NEW PANEL, INDEPENDENT OF 9/11 COMMISSION, IS SOUGHT

Several prominent lawmakers, including two Democratic presidential contenders, yesterday urged an independent commission to forcefully investigate government shortcomings prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, including an aviation security system experts described as riddled with holes.

9-11 DAMAGE CONTROL TEAM TESTIFIES FRIDAY ON AIR DEFENSE FAILURE

The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States will hold its second public hearing -- the first in Washington, DC -- this Thursday and Friday. The first day's agenda will include testimony from 9/11 Joint Intelligence Committee senators and congressmen who will outline the Commission?s mandate and objectives.

911: THE BIG LIE -- A BOOK REVIEW

The author hits and addresses the entire context, political, religious, and the mechanics of that infamous day...and lays bare the facts as they are of this POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS deception. It is absolutely irrrational to believe the official story and the actions consequent, both contrary to reasonable analysis. CONSPIRACY LAID BARE!

CULTIVATIING & EXPLOITING AMERICAN ANXIETY

By any reasonable calculation, members of the Bush administration should be looking for jobs as desperately as this year's college graduates. There are two million fewer jobs in the American economy today than on the day George Bush took office, and that fact alone should be enough for the voters in 2004 to turf out this ridiculous president and what Matt Taibbi calls his "small gang of snickering, stupid thugs whose vision of paradise is full of explosions and beautifully designed prisons".

FED LAUNCHES FINANCIAL EDUCATION CAMPAIGN

Beginning this month, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan will be featured in a financial education public service announcement to be aired by major television and radio networks. His message: "No matter who you are, making informed decisions about what to do with your money will help build a more stable financial future for you and your family."

FORMER IRS AGENT ACCUSED OF PROSTITUTION COVERUP

MAN ALLEGEDLY TOLD PROSTITUTES HE WAS FBI AGENT

A former Internal Revenue Service agent who allegedly covered up his involvement with numerous Hollywood prostitutes including a 16-year-old who stole his unmarked law enforcement car, was arrested in Puerto Rico Wednesday, federal prosecutors said.

COURT DISMISSED RAPE CASE AGAINST QUEEN'S AUSTRALIA REP

A court dismissed a civil case Friday alleging that the British queen's representative in Australia raped a woman 40 years ago, after the woman's surviving relatives withdrew the lawsuit. Julian Burnside, a lawyer for three children of the alleged rape victim, said the family decided to withdraw the lawsuit in Victoria state's Supreme Court after being confronted with the massive publicity that surrounded the case.

CANADIAN HERDS QUARANTIED DUE TO MAD COW

Seven Canadian Herds Are Under Quarantine As Investigators Search for Origin of Mad Cow Case Seven herds of cattle are now under quarantine in Canada, investigators said Thursday as officials broadened their search for the origins of North America's first case of mad cow disease in a decade.

UN-WHO EUGENICISTS CRY FOR MASSIVE TOXIC VACCINATION CAMPAIGN

U.N. HEALTH AGENCY URGES BOOST FOR MEASLES VACCINE, AIMS TO SAVE 745,000 CHILDREN'S LIVES

The lives of the 745,000 children who die annually from measles could be saved by a boosted global immunization program, the United Nations (news - web sites) health agency said Thursday. Also Thursday, WHO officials said they were launching a new initiative, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (news - web sites), to find new ways to develop tests for infectious diseases. The US$30 million grant, provided over five years, will help the United Nations and World Bank (news - web sites) set up the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics and research ways to better diagnose diseases in poor countries.

$2.7 TRILLION SCAM ENRON, WORLDCOM, OTHERS, ARE PIKERS

Don't worry, forty-three percent of our horrendous national debt is completely fraudulent and could be eliminated tomorrow without consequence. All that has to happen is that the Beltway Bandits suddenly become honest or, in one way or another, honest people decide to get rid of the bums, all of them.

HOUSE APPROVES INCREASING DEFENSE DEPT. WAIVERS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RULES

The House voted today to give the Pentagon broad discretion to waive laws meant to protect rare animal and plant species if the restrictions are judged to interfere with military training and readiness.

U.S. HAPPY TO SEE ITS DOLLAR PLUNGE

Stimulates economy: FPX indexes to rise as long as U.S. dollar falls, rates stay low

SOROS SAYS HE'S SELLING THE DOLLAR

Billionaire investor George Soros, in an interview with cable television station CNBC on Tuesday, said he was selling the dollar against most major currencies. In the wide-ranging interview in which he assailed the Bush administration's policies, Soros said he was buying the euro and the currencies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand against the dollar, as well as gold. The euro briefly broke above $1.17 following his comments before retreating.