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Vol. 24, No. 9 April 28, 2008
Cover Story
TERRORISM
12 A Bad Investment
Design by Joseph W. Kelly
by William F. Jasper — U.S. support for so-called “moderate”
terrorists, as we have given in Palestine, is a recipe for disaster.
18 Global Blowback
by William F. Jasper — Backing terrorists and terror regimes has
come back to haunt us.
18 20
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CONGRESS
20 House Holds Rare Secret Session
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ECONOMY
21 The Money Trust’s Next Move 21
by Charles Scaliger — The looming financial crisis has set the stage
for giving the Fed broad powers over the entire financial sector.
24 Don’t Spend Money; Save It
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. — The Bush administration wants us
to spend our way out of recession, but that won’t work.
INTERVIEW
27 Defending Gun Ownership
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Interview of Larry Pratt by John F. McManus
BOOK REVIEW
30 Creating Corruption 24 27
by Gregory A. Hession, J.D. — Once the cradle of liberty,
Massachusetts now has become a cesspool of political corruption.
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HISTORY — PAST AND PERSPECTIVE
35 Cuba Under Fidel and Raul
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30 35
DepartmentS
5 Letters to the Editor 41 Exercising the Right
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7 Inside Track 42 Correction, Please!
11 QuickQuotes 44 The Last Word
33 The Goodness of America COVER Design by Joseph W. Kelly
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Both before and during the “war on terror,” the U.S. government
has given money, arms, and military training to groups which could
ostensibly help accomplish its objectives. But events have shown
that the groups we are aiding — like the Palestinian Authority —
are often as destructive as the enemy we are fighting. (April 28,
2008, 48pp) TNA080428
Freedom’s Call 2008 Climate Debate
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return to constitutional principles warming is an established fact — such as the Denver
to safeguard our rights and our Post’s claim that “you could have a convention of
way of life, but this is only part all the scientists who dispute climate change in
of the solution. A recommitment a relatively small phone booth” — a convention
to traditional morality, family- in New York brought together over 100 of the
centered ideals, and sound money world’s top scientists who dispute conventional
are also needed to preserve liberty global-warming dogma. (March 31, 2008, 48pp)
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2003 Justice Department Memo Authorized Military Torture
A March 14, 2003, memorandum written by Deputy Assistant an enemy combatant during an interrogation in a manner that
Attorney General John C. Yoo of the U.S. Department of Jus- might arguably violate a criminal prohibition, he would be doing
tice’s Office of Legal Counsel granted military interrogators so in order to prevent further attacks on the United States by the
broad authority to use harsh methods in questioning suspects al Qaeda terrorist network. In that case, we believe that he could
deemed “unlawful combatants.” Yoo’s memo, the subject of argue that the executive branch’s constitutional authority to pro-
which was “Military Interrogation of Alien Unlawful Combat- tect the nation from attack justified his actions.”
ants Held Outside the United States,” was addressed to William In response to the release of the memo, Senator Patrick J.
J. Haynes II, general counsel of the Department of Defense. Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said it re-
Haynes had requested that the Justice Department examine the vealed policies that threatened “our country’s status as a beacon
legal standards governing military interrogations of such unlaw- of human rights.”
ful combatants.
The memo, made public on April 1 following declassification
in response to a request by the American Civil Liberties Union
under the Freedom of Information Act, rambles on in often de-
tached, clinical language for 81 pages. For example, a section
sub-headed “Severe Pain or Suffering” states: “The key statu-
tory phrase in the definition of torture is the statement that acts
amount to torture if they cause ‘severe physical or mental pain or
suffering.’ [Legal case citation] makes plain that the infliction of William J.
pain or suffering per se, whether it is physical or mental, is insuf- haynes II
ficient to amount to torture. Instead, the pain or suffering must
be ‘severe.’... Thus, the adjective ‘severe’ conveys that the pain
or suffering must be of such a high level of intensity that the pain
is difficult for the subject to endure.”
Yoo applied an end-justifies-the-means constitutional stan-
dard when he wrote: “If a government defendant were to harm
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Supreme Court Ruling Rebukes President Bush
Mexican national Jose Medellin was arrested, tried, and convicted Bush “had exceeded his constitutional authority by intruding into
for raping and murdering two Texas teenagers in 1993. He was the independent powers” of his state’s judicial system. So the
awarded the death penalty. But because he was not advised of a lawyers for the convicted criminal appealed further to the Su-
right to receive legal assistance from the Mexican consul, Mexico preme Court of the United States.
sued the United States on his behalf in the World Court, a United On March 25 of this year, the Supreme Court rejected this lat-
Nations body. In 2004, the World Court ruled that the United est appeal in a 6-3 ruling and effectively told the president that his
States must reopen powers are not unlimited. Chief Justice John Roberts stated that
the case. President Article 94 of the UN Charter provides only that “each member
John
Roberts Bush promptly an- of the United Nations undertakes to comply” with World Court
nounced his sup- decisions, and that further action by Congress would be needed
port for the World if the United States were to be subject to World Court decisions.
Court’s ruling and In his dissent, Justice Steven Breyer pointed to the Constitu-
told Texas to com- tion’s Article VI and claimed that treaties — such as the ques-
ply with it. tionable characterization of U.S. entry into the UN in 1945 as a
Medellin’s law- treaty — supersede the Constitution. Breyer’s contention is not
yers went back to supported by history. His attitude was roundly rejected by Hamil-
court in the United ton, Madison, and Jefferson, the men who wrote and commented
States, but the Texas on the very point raised by Breyer.
Court of Criminal Yes, Medellin’s conviction has been upheld. Yes, Bush’s latest
Appeals rejected grab for imperial power has been stifled. But the Supreme Court
their appeal in 2006. has indicated that should Congress enact legislation to comply
Texas Judge Mi- with World Court decisions, the Constitution could find itself
chael Kaesler even relegated to an inferior position vis-à-vis the United Nations and
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10. Inside Track
Promised EU Referendum Won’t Be Allowed in Britain
When the 2004 EU Constitution was making its way toward Former French President Giscard D’Estaing served as chair-
ratification by all EU nations, French and Dutch voters issued a man of the group that created the rejected constitution. He has
resounding No in referenda in their nations. Because acceptance stated that “the difference between the original treaty and the
by all nations is required, that killed the constitution. So the Eu- present Lisbon Treaty is one of approach, not of content.” Italy’s
ropean world planners went back to the former Prime Minister Giuliano Amato,
drawing board. In 2007 at a gathering D’Estaing’s vice chairman in creating
in Lisbon, the leaders of the 27 EU na- the rejected constitution, says of the of-
tions produced a new document called ficials who created the new treaty, “They
the “EU Treaty.” decided that the document should be
Treaty ratification has begun, and the unreadable” so it could be foisted on an
British people were gearing up for the unknowing public. Former Irish leader
promised referendum in their country. Garrett Fitzgerald approvingly referred
But it won’t happen. The British parlia- to the new treaty as “virtual incompre-
ment, heavily influenced by new Prime hensibility.” And Germany’s Chancellor
Minister Gordon Brown, told angry Angela Merkel supports the treaty be-
Britons, “If this was a constitutional cause “the substance of the constitution
treaty, we would hold the referendum. is preserved.” So, the angry Brits have a
But the constitutional concept was right to demand that the promised refer-
abandoned.” endum will occur. But it won’t.
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Free Speech in Broadcasting Threatened by Fairness Doctrine
If Democrat leaders get their way, the Fairness Doctrine, a policy into self-censorship, thus abridging their constitutionally guaran-
abolished by the Federal Communications Commission in 1987, teed right to free speech. Making matters worse, foxes were in
will be reinstated to regulate the opinions aired by broadcasters. charge of the chicken coop. Both Democrat and Republican ad-
Talk-radio and religious broadcasters would be significantly im- ministrations in the ’60s and ’70s manipulated the FCC, using the
pacted. Democrat leadership has called for it, including House Fairness Doctrine litigation threat to silence opposition, under the
Speaker Nancy Pelosi. pretext of enforcing the fair use of scarce frequencies. In 1987,
Half a century ago when stations were few, the FCC required the FCC revoked the Fairness Doctrine.
broadcasters to provide air time (paid or unpaid) for opposing To prevent reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine “The Broad-
viewpoints about controversial issues of public importance (as caster Freedom Act of 2007” was introduced in the House as H.R.
determined by bureaucrats). Offending the FCC resulted in fines 2905 and in the Senate as S. 1748. For more information, go to
or a loss of broadcasting privileges. That intimidated broadcasters www.thenewamerican.com/node/7658.
Ron Paul Congratulates the John Birch Society on 50th Anniversary
Congressman Ron Paul foster ‘less government, more responsibility, and — with God’s
has endorsed the John help — a better world.’”
Birch Society in a state- John McManus, president of JBS, responded, “We graciously
ment recently received accept Dr. Paul’s endorsement. He continues to demonstrate what
from his office. Dr. Paul an elected official should be doing … obeying the Constitution.
stated, “The John Birch We thank him for his continuous commitment to protect the free-
Society is a great patriotic doms of all Americans. There’s a reason why he consistently rates
organization featuring an toward the top of the Freedom Index, our congressional score-
educational program solid- card rating legislators’ votes published twice a year in The New
ly based on constitutional AmericAN magazine.”
principles. I congratulate Dr. Paul’s endorsement comes after confirmation that he has
Ron the Society in this, its 50th agreed to be the keynote speaker at the Society’s 50th anniversary
paul
year. I wish them contin- celebration, October 2-5, in Appleton, Wisconsin.
ued success and endorse The New AmericAN is an affiliate of JBS and John McManus
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8 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 28, 2008
11. States Keep Up the Pressure Against North American Integration
Last year the Arizona Senate passed a resolution asking Congress Congress of the United States, and particularly the congressional
to withdraw the United States from the Security and Prosperity delegation representing the State of Idaho, to use all their efforts
Partnership of North America and block any activity that seeks to to ensure certain conditions for continued NAFTA participation
create a North American Union. In contrast, this year the Arizona are met, and in the event of default of such conditions then with-
House has taken the lead by passing a similar resolution on March draw to stop additional harm to the American economy and work-
18 by a vote of 37 to 22. In another piece of good news, the Kansas force, loss of sovereignty and border security.”
House passed an excellent anti-NAU, anti-NAFTA Superhighway, During the 2007-2008 time period, the number of states
anti-NAFTA resolution by a vote of 93 to 28 on April 4. that have passed anti-NAU resolutions in both houses stands
Idaho became the first state to ask Congress to withdraw U.S. at five (Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Utah).
membership in NAFTA when its Senate passed an anti-NAFTA Twenty-one states have introduced anti-NAU resolutions during
bill by voice vote on March 20. Six days later the Idaho House this period. See www.jbs.org/node/3430 for more information
passed the same bill by voice vote. The legislation urges “the and updates.
Memphis and Illegal Immigration and Enforcement
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 34 migrants from Mexico and central America..., an unseen force at
workers, identified as Mexican nationals, at Memphis Interna- the bottom rungs of the Memphis area’s most important industry,
tional Airport working on the new Tennessee Air National Guard distribution.” The paper added that the major companies in the
base. The various contractors who hired them will likely not be area, except FedEx, use the illegals and that there are hard feel-
penalized because they’ll say that they didn’t “knowingly” hire the ings between the Hispanics and blue-collar blacks in the Mem-
illegal immigrants. If the illegals showed even crudely fraudulent phis area, who would be the main beneficiaries if the Hispanic
IDs to get hired, the employers are immune from prosecution. illegal immigrants weren’t there.
In fiscal year 2007, ICE arrested 4,077 people on immigration The companies that hire the Hispanics, such as Williams-
charges nationwide. Considering there are approximately 14,300 Sonoma, Technicolor Home Entertainment Services (which dis-
ICE employees, that’s one arrest for every 31⁄2 employees. Must tributes CDs and DVDs for Disney, Paramount, and Universal),
be a tough job! and Microsoft, prefer hiring illegal immigrants because they can
Federal officials said that they are focusing immigration en- take on as many workers as they want each day and send the rest
forcement efforts on projects where national security is a con- home; they don’t have to give any benefits; and they can hire
cern. In other words, they have simply decided to ignore what the workers for $7 to $7.50 per hour. Of course, none of the afore-
Commercial Appeal of Memphis describes as “battalions of im- mentioned companies “knowingly” hires illegal immigrants.
Charlton Heston Passes Away at 84
Screen legend Charlton Heston, famed for his epic film roles muscular frame of an action star with a sonorous voice, charisma,
in the 1950s and ’60s and his activism on behalf of conserva- and the dramatic skills of a classical stage actor. He was also
tive political causes in the 1980s and ’90s, passed away at his a leader, serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild for a
home in Beverly Hills on April 5. He was 84. His signature per- record six terms, and as president and chairman of the American
formances in The Ten Commandments (as Moses), Ben-Hur (as Film Institute. On political and philosophical issues, Charlton
Judah Ben-Hur, for which he won a Heston parted ways with many of his
best-actor Oscar), and The Agony and celebrity cohorts, most notably on the
the Ecstasy (as Michelangelo) estab- Charlton right to keep and bear arms. A princi-
heston
lished him as Hollywood’s top lead- pled supporter of the Second Amend-
ing man for historical, larger-than- ment, he served as president of the
life figures. However, he also proved National Rifle Association from 1998
himself equally capable at playing to 2003, and is famously remembered
modern characters in a 20th-century for holding an antique musket above
setting — or even in the future, as in his head at an NRA convention and
his sci-fi classics Planet of the Apes, defiantly pledging that gun-control
Soylent Green, and The Omega Man. advocates would not take his gun un-
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Heston combined the athleticism, less they could pry it “from my cold,
rugged good looks, and tall (6' 3") dead hands.” n
THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 28, 2008 9
13. QuickQuotes
Call It Hubris or, if You Prefer, Unadulterated Arrogance
Dick “So?”
Cheney
When told that two-thirds of Americans do not support the way the war in
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Iraq is being conducted, Vice President Dick Cheney gave his disdainful re-
sponse to a reporter and then discounted the polling process as unreliable.
Bill Richardson’s Endorsement of Obama Draws Fiery Response
“His endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for thirty pieces of
silver, so I think the timing is appropriate.”
A supporter of Hillary Clinton for president, James Carville was very unhappy when New Mexico
Governor Bill Richardson announced his support for her rival.
Ted Has Become a Scientist
“Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals.”
According to Ted Turner, the world will not be a very nice place in 40 years if action isn’t taken to
reverse the problem of global warming.
Former British Prime Minister Frustrated tony
Over Global-warming Indecision Blair
“We have an agreement that there should be an agreement. But there’s
no agreement on what that agreement should be.”
While vacationing at billionaire Richard Branson’s privately owned is-
land in the British Virgin Islands, Tony Blair — now a senior adviser
to JP Morgan Chase — participated in a conference with several other
high rollers who were seeking a solution for a problem many scientists
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say isn’t anything but a naturally caused phenomenon.
Automakers Look to China for Engines and Other Parts
“Today, it’s South Korea and Japan, and tomorrow it’s going to be China. It’s only a matter of time
before G.M., Ford and Chrysler are going to deal with the crisis they face by going to these countries....
Very few consumers ask: Where is the engine built or where is the transmission made?”
At Chevrolet’s Equinox plant in Ottawa, Canada, engines labeled Ecotec, Vortec, and Northstar are
installed in the vehicles, prompting union official Basil Hargrove to acknowledge the effect of trade
policies he deplores.
Texas Congressman Claims “Surge” Is No Success
Ron “Under the ‘surge’ policy, the United States military has trained
Paul and equipped with deadly weapons those Iraqi militia members
against whom they were fighting just months ago. I fear by arming
and equipping opposing militias we are just setting the stage for a
more tragic and dangerous explosion of violence, possibly aimed
at U.S. troops in Iraq.”
In his weekly “Texas Straight Talk” column of March 23, Con-
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gressman Ron Paul pointed to several aspects of U.S. policy that
few others will discuss.
Homeland Security Boss
Puts Blame for Real ID on Congress Michael
Chertoff
“Showing up at the airport with only a driver’s license from
such a state will be no better than showing up without iden-
tification. No doubt this will impel many to choose the in-
convenience of traveling with a passport.”
Pointing to the holdout states of Maine, Montana, and South
Carolina, Michael Chertoff said it was not he but Congress
that established the rules that states are now being forced
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— comPiled by JohN F. mcmANuS
THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 28, 2008 11
14. TERRORISM
A Bad
Investment
U.S. support for so-called “moderate” terrorists as the alternative to
worse terrorists, as we have given in Palestine, is a recipe for disaster.
by William F. Jasper day in April 2006 and dozens more were suicide bombings that have become all too
wounded, including the Wultzes, Ameri- familiar in Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, and many
Blowback: Unintended negative cans from Florida who were visiting Israel other parts of the world.
consequences from some action or on vacation. Daniel, who was the more se- Few Americans are aware, however,
policy. verely injured of the two, lost his spleen, a that the deadly attack that took the life
kidney, and a leg in the blast. Despite the of Daniel Wultz was planned and car-
T
uly Wultz and his 16-year-old son heroic efforts of doctors, he died a month ried out by U.S.-trained terrorists of the
Daniel were enjoying a Passover later in an Israeli hospital. Because Daniel PLO’s (Palestine Liberation Organization)
holiday dinner at a Tel Aviv restau- Wultz was an American, the terror attack notorious al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The
rant when the suicide bomber struck. Nine that claimed his life received more atten- Brigades, which are formally listed as a
diners were killed in the grisly attack that tion in the U.S. media than the “typical” terrorist organization by the U.S. State De-
12 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 28, 2008
15. partment, have carried out numerous sui- deputy commander of the
cide bombings, car bombings, shootings, Brigades in Nablus and the
and rocket attacks. Nevertheless, they are West Bank, called Wultz’s
Mahmoud Abbas’ pLo/Fatah is the same
a major military arm of Palestinian Au- passing a “gift from Allah.” organization that Yassir Arafat founded
thority President Mahmoud Abbas’ PLO/ Abu Aziz’s cell directed
nearly half a century ago. that the
Fatah organization. As such, they share in the bombing that killed
the hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer Wultz.... u.S. government not only provides it
dollars that annually are showered on the Abu Aziz went on to with financial, military, and diplomatic
Abbas-led Palestinian regime. pledge more suicide bomb-
But cash is not the only thing the U.S. ings inside Israel. “We will support, but also overlooks and covers
government lavishes on the Palestinian hit whenever we think it is up its terrorist activities, is indefensible.
Authority. Incredibly, it also sends Abbas suitable and do not expect
and his colleagues tons of arms as well that I give details but we can
— along with training in military tactics, hit everywhere,” he said. Palestinian Authority to the White House
intelligence gathering, and explosives. All on November 26, 2007. “Thank you for
of this is done for the ostensible purpose of “Our money helped pay for the death of coming,” he continued, “and thank you for
supporting the “moderate” Palestinian ter- Wultz and so many others,” Klein charges. working hard to implement a vision for a
rorists under Abbas against the supposedly And he provides details and hard proof to Palestinian state. We want to help you. We
more radical Hamas terrorists. back up the charge, showing case after want there to be peace. We want the people
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed case of the U.S.-backed Abbas “moder- in the Palestinian Territories to have hope.
responsibility for the bombing in which ates” carrying out deadly terrorist attacks, And we thank you for your willingness
Daniel Wultz was murdered. American including attacks on Americans. It should to sit down with Israel to negotiate the
journalist Aaron Klein, who has met and be clear to all but the willfully blind that settlement.”
interviewed many of the Palestinian terror- Mahmoud Abbas’ PLO/Fatah is the same It was the eve of the Annapolis Confer-
ist leaders, reports in his book, Schmooz- vicious terrorist organization that Yassir ence, which would initiate a flurry of dip-
ing With Terrorists: Arafat founded nearly half a century ago. lomatic activity culminating in the Decem-
That the U.S. government not only provides ber “donors conference” in Paris. And the
The cell of the Brigades that directed the Abbas terror apparatus with financial, Paris confab would result in total pledges
the attack … happens to be one of military, and diplomatic support, but also of $7.5 billion to the Palestinian Authority.
the groups I am closest to. Accord- systematically overlooks and covers up its In January 2008, President Bush journeyed
ing to Brigade sources, the entire terrorist activities, is indefensible. to the West Bank city of Ramallah, where
bombing operation — from the plan- he met Abbas at the Muqata, the infamous
ning to the recruitment of the suicide The Granddaddy of Terror PLO headquarters where Yassir Arafat and
bomber — was carried out by Fatah’s “It’s good to have you back here in the Abbas had harbored many of the world’s
Brigades.... Oval Office,” said President Bush, wel- most-wanted fugitive terrorists. In March,
The very crew who sent the bomb- coming President Mahmoud Abbas of the Vice President Dick Cheney duplicated
er into Israel to gravely injure Daniel
Wultz consisted of none other than
the U.S.-trained Brigades leaders
who walk around with American-
provided assault rifles.
Klein, the intrepid Jerusalem bureau chief
for World Net Daily, talked to the terrorists
responsible for the attack. They were un-
apologetic and pledged more of the same.
Klein reported:
American-trained Nasser Abu Aziz,
Blowback victim: Relatives and friends of U.S.
teenager Daniel Wultz touch his coffin during
a memorial service. Wultz died of wounds
sustained in a suicide bombing by a member
of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, many of
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whose members are trained and funded by the
United States.
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16. TERRORISM
fat had been transformed, in feigned renunciation of “the use of terror-
much of world opinion, from ism and other acts of violence.”
through successive u.S. administrations, a brutal terrorist thug run Much of the PLO’s most violent dirty
as Arafat and the pLo were elevated by the Soviet KGB into the work (under both Arafat and Abbas) has
“moderate” elder statesman been carried out by the al-Aqsa Martyrs
to new heights of respectability, the
of the Palestinian people. He Brigades, which compete with Hamas in
secrecy surrounding Arafat’s guilt in the presided over a global empire the suicide bombing category. For public
khartoum murders was maintained. It that included an estimated relations with the West, Arafat tried to
$10 billion-$50 billion in distance himself from the Brigades’ grisly
was not until 33 years later that the truth cash, commercial assets, and attacks. But documents surfaced showing
was finally admitted. investments and an annual that Fatah was funneling large sums to the
revenue of $1.5-$2 billion Brigades, and it was difficult to hide the
from donations, extortion, fact that many of al-Aqsa’s top command-
the trek to the Muqata, to coincide with drug trafficking, arms dealing, and other ers were also high-ranking officers in Ara-
the delivery of a no-strings-attached $150 activities. fat’s inner circle.
million payment from the U.S. taxpayers Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat’s longtime From their Soviet advisers, Arafat and
to the Abbas government. lieutenant, has further advanced the PLO’s Abbas learned the art of creating “deniable
In the world of terrorism, no organiza- march toward international respectability, assets” to shield the PLO from the reper-
tion has enjoyed a more charmed existence thanks partly to his personal style: in con- cussions of its most reprehensible acts. In
than Yassir Arafat’s PLO/Fatah. No matter trast to Arafat’s perennial stubble, grubby the early 1970s, Arafat created a special
how much murder and mayhem he dished fatigues, trademark Keffiyeh scarf, and terror squad, the Black September Organi-
out over the decades, Arafat could always generally crude, slovenly persona, Abbas zation, to carry out the PLO’s most notori-
depend on support not only from the So- always appears as the soft-spoken, well- ous deeds — but without any apparent ties
viet and Third World blocs, but also from groomed, grandfatherly diplomat in a to the PLO. Arafat would disavow them
the United Nations and much of the Is- business suit. More important, however, as renegades, even though they operated
lamic world. And increasingly in his later than the stylistic change from Arafat to under his direction.
years, his stature inflated by White House Abbas has been the rise of Hamas, which, In 1973, Arafat’s Black September ter-
visits, international conferences, a Nobel at times, can make the PLO/Fatah look rorists stormed the Saudi Arabian embas-
Peace Prize, and sympathetic media cov- reasonable by comparison. But by far sy in Khartoum, taking U.S. Ambassador
erage, Arafat and the PLO assumed an air the biggest factor in transforming first Cleo Noel, U.S. Charges d’Affaires George
of legitimacy. Arafat, and now Abbas, into “moderates” Moore, and Belgian diplomat Guy Eid
By the time of his death in 2004, Ara- has been the willingness of Western gov- hostage. The following day they brutally
ernments and the Western press to turn tortured and executed all three men. Arafat
a blind eye toward, or even actively to feigned innocence — and the U.S. govern-
Zakaria Zubeidi, the al-Aqsa Martyrs cover up, the fact that the PLO contin- ment feigned belief in his innocence.
Brigades leader in the West Bank, is carried by
ues to be one of the most violent terror- Deception of this sort is to be expected
supporters during a 2004 rally in support of
PLO’s Mahmoud Abbas. ist organizations in the world, despite its of a terrorist. However, far more repre-
Zakaria Zubeidi and fellow al-
Aqsa terrorists carry “moderate”
Mahmoud Abbas on their shoulders
in a 2004 West Bank rally.
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17. hensible and shocking is the fact that the
U.S. government and other Western gov-
ernments gave credence to this charade
for decades, even though they had proof
it was a lie. In the case of the Khartoum
operation, for example, we had ironclad
proof that Arafat had ordered the murder
of our officials.
For years, James J. Welsh, a National
Security Agency analyst, had been trying
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to force this fact into the open. Welsh had
been the NSA’s Palestinian analyst who
intercepted Arafat’s voice transmission
specifically ordering the execution after
the hostage takeover. However, apparently False peace: Israeli prime Minister Yitzhazk Rabin, president Clinton, and pLo Chairman
under the orders of Henry Kissinger, then Yassir Arafat at the signing of the 1993 peace accord between Israel and the pLo.
President Nixon’s National Security Ad-
viser (and soon to be secretary of state),
the existence of the tapes and transcripts approval of Yasir Arafat, Chairman of the shortwave radio transmission from Beirut
of Arafat’s order were kept secret. Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), to Khartoum. After the murders had been
Through successive U.S. administra- and the head of Fatah.” The report also completed, Arafat instructed his men:
tions, as Arafat and the PLO were elevat- notes that “Fatah representatives based in
ed to new heights of respectability, the Khartoum participated in the attack, using Your mission is ended. Release Saudi
secrecy surrounding Arafat’s guilt in the a Fatah vehicle to transport the terrorists to and Jordanian diplomats. Submit in
Khartoum murders was maintained. It was the Saudi Arabian embassy.” It goes on to courage to Sudanese authorities to
not until 33 years later that the truth was state that after the terrorists “had received explain your just cause to [the] great
finally admitted. orders from Fatah headquarters in Beirut, Sudanese Arab masses and interna-
they killed the two United States officials tional opinion. We are with you on
Truth About PLO/Fatah Revealed and the Belgian Charge.” the same road.
In May 2006 — two years after Arafat’s According to a 1975 U.S. government-
death — a declassified document concern- commissioned Rand Corporation report Mahmoud Abbas almost certainly was also
ing the kidnapping/murder was posted, on the attack, Arafat personally gave personally involved in the attack. Abbas,
unannounced, on the State Department the order to execute the Americans via a according to a number of credible sources,
website. The document, a summary of the
terrorist event, acknowledges that the Khar-
toum operation “was planned and carried
out with the full knowledge and personal
Allies, Not Enemies
W hile Hamas and the Arafat/Abbas-led PLO often have engaged in bitter rivalry,
they also have been allies in joint terror operations. On December 14, 2004, for
instance, the Abbas/PLO-controlled Voice of Palestine (VOP) radio proclaimed that
the bombing and shooting attack the previous day, which had killed several Israelis at
a border crossing checkpoint, had been a joint Hamas-Fatah operation. VOP regularly
praises Hamas suicide bombers as “heroic martyrs.” Many PLO/Fatah terrorists, includ-
ing members of Abbas’ elite Force 17, are also members of Hamas units.
In 2005, Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas journeyed to Damascus,
Syria, where he met with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal. He has been in negotiations
with Meshaal ever since, trying to arrange a Fatah/Hamas “unity” government for
Palestine.
In 2007, Hamas spokesman Abu Abdullah confidently stated that U.S. weapons given
to Fatah will eventually end up in the hands of Hamas fighters, telling Aaron Klein:
“These American weapons will be one day the property of all the Palestinian people
and its resistance, including Hamas.” “The US gives weapons to Fatah during internal
Palestinian clashes, but one day when we go back to carrying out operations together,
these (weapons) will be shared.” n
— williAm F. JASPer
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18. TERRORISM
military assistance and training to Ara-
fat’s various “police” and “security” units.
CIA, FBI, and U.S. military personnel
were given the task of providing Arafat’s
forces with advanced training in weapons,
tactics, intelligence, counterintelligence,
communications, and other skills. Clin-
ton’s CIA director George Tenet began
bringing squads of PLO snipers to Vir-
ginia to receive instruction in advanced
marksmanship. Over the past few years,
the Bush administration has dramatically
escalated the provision of U.S. armaments
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and military training, with thousands of
automatic rifles and sniper rifles and mil-
lions of rounds of ammunition going to
the PLO.
On May 23, 2007, Lieutenant General
President Bush walks with palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at the Muqata,
Keith Dayton, the Bush administration’s
the pLo’s infamous headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 10, 2008.
Security Coordinator for Palestine, testi-
fied before a House subcommittee on the
was in charge of financing the much more Oh warrior brothers, this is a na- supposed need to fund President Abbas’
well-known terror operation of the previ- tion that will never be broken, it is “security forces,” a euphemism for the
ous year, the Black September attack on a revolution that will never be de- collection of terrorist thugs from the al-
the 1972 Munich Olympics, in which 11 feated. This is a nation that gives an Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Islamic Jihad,
Israeli athletes were murdered before a example every day that is imitated Force 17, and various other PLO/Fatah
worldwide audience. Arafat feigned in- across the world. We gave the world militias. “I am committed personally and
nocence in this action as well. However, the children of the RPG [Rocket Pro- professionally,” said Gen. Dayton, “to
according to Abu Daoud, the Black Sep- pelled Grenades], we gave the world putting the $59 million authorized to me
tember commander who led the Munich the children stone [-throwers], and by the Congress to the uses you intended
operation, the entire attack was planned we gave the world the male and fe- with the Presidential Guard … and the
and blessed by Arafat. And Abbas, in ad- male Martyrdom-seekers [suicide Office of National Security under Presi-
dition to arranging the finances for the bombers]. dent Abbas. We must remain mindful of
operation, joined Arafat in kissing Abu the dangerous challenges facing Abbas’s
Daoud and wishing him luck on the ter- Zecharias Zubeidi, commander of the security forces, and continue to encour-
rorist attack. Martyrs Brigades in Yaabid and
Mahmoud Abbas continues the same Jenin, is especially proud of the
deception today, with the active conniv- newly paved main street in Yaa-
ance of our government officials. Sec- bid, paid for with $402,000 from
retary of State Condoleezza Rice in her the U.S. foreign-aid program.
testimony before the House Committee That street has been renamed in
on Foreign Affairs on October 24, 2007, honor of former Iraqi dictator
stated: “We will be seeking funds to sup- Saddam Hussein to show, says
port the government of … Mahmoud Zubeidi, that “Saddam Hussein
Abbas because we believe, as I said, that is still alive.” Mahmoud Abbas
is the best chance for a moderate Palestin- has made a point of publicly
ian government.” embracing Zubeidi and cam-
Moderate? In 2004, Abbas openly ad- paigning with him on the streets
mitted that the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of Jenin. And he has made sure
are part of PLO/Fatah, and his Brigades that Zebeidi and other Brigades
commanders are some of the most notori- commanders — such as Abu
ous terrorist leaders and recruiters of sui- Yousuf, Ala Senakreh, Nasser
cide bombers. Abu Aziz — are provided with
On November 14, 2006, Ahmed Hales the best weapons and training
Abu Maher, the secretary of PLO/Fatah in the U.S. can provide.
Gaza, declared on the Abbas-controlled In the late 1990s, the Clinton
Palestinian Authority TV: administration began providing
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19. age our European and Arab partners to
complement our efforts with their own
assistance.”
The arming and training of the Abbas-
led forces has been sold to the American
public as necessary to prevent a takeover
by the supposedly more radical Hamas
forces. However, as terrorism expert Ra-
chel Ehrenfeld emphatically notes, there’s
virtually “no difference” between Hamas
and our Arafat/Abbas PLO “peace part-
ners.” Dr. Ehrenfeld, the author of Nar-
co-Terrorism and Funding Evil, told The
New AmericAN: “Both [Hamas and Fatah]
carry out suicide bombings, murder, kid-
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napping, assassination, rocket attacks on
civilian neighborhoods, extortion, drug
trafficking — you name it. They both hate
Israel and the United States and are com- Unity in terror: Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands with Palestinian Prime Minister ismail Haniyeh
mitted to our destruction. Show me the dif- as Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal (center) looks on. The rival Palestinian leaders met in Mecca in
ference [between them].” February 2007 to discuss a Hamas-PLO coalition government.
In Schmoozing With Terrorists, Aaron
Klein has al-Aqsa Brigades commander of soldiers and settlers. We collected identities of the bombers and would bring
Abu Yousuf explain in his own words how information about the best timing to them to justice, but it never has done so.
he and his men have put their U.S. training infiltrate our bombers inside Israel. In fact, the man appointed by the PA to
to use. “All the methods and techniques We used weapons and we produced investigate the crime, Rashid Abu Shabak,
that we studied in these trainings, we ap- explosives, and of course the train- is himself a longtime terrorist. Dr. Nitsana
plied them against the Israelis,” Yousuf ings we received from the Americans Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat
boasted to Klein in an interview. Yousuf and the Europeans were a great help HaDin-Israel Law Center Director, has
continued: to the resistance. charged that it is Abu Shabak himself who
should be considered the top suspect for
We sniped at Israeli settlers and sol- “I do not think,” said Yousuf, “that the mastermind of the bombing. Of course,
diers. We broke into settlements and operations of the Palestinian resistance based on Khartoum embassy experience,
Israeli army bases and posts. We col- would have been so successful and would and the dissembling and cover-up we have
lected information on the movements have killed more than 1,000 Israelis since seen so far in this case, we can expect our
2000 and defeated the Israelis in Gaza government to cover up any evidence that
without these [American] trainings.” might implicate our “essential ally” Mah-
Very likely, Yousuf or some of his U.S.- moud Abbas in this vicious crime.
trained Fatah colleagues were responsible Tragically, as the next article (page 18)
for the 2003 murder of U.S. embassy em- shows, the PLO is not the only terrorist
ployees John Branchizio, Mark Parson, organization our tax dollars are support-
and John Linde, Jr. Their vehicle was de- ing. From the West Bank and Gaza to
stroyed by a road bomb as they journeyed Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Alba-
to Gaza to interview Palestinian students nia, and Pakistan, the story is the same.
for Fullbright scholarships in the United How many American lives will we allow
States. The Palestinian Authority (PA) to be sacrificed to blowback from these
stated soon after the blast that it knew the treacherous policies of aiding and abet-
ting our enemies? n
U.S.-armed terrorists
of the al-Aqsa Martyrs
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Dechristianization: Hundreds of churches like the one pictured to the
left in the town of Djakovica have been destroyed and the Christian
population driven out of Kosovo by the U.S.-supported KLA.
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“Tolerant” ally? President Bush is shown above promoting dictatorial
Prime Minister Sali Berisha during a June 2007 visit to Tirana, Albania.
GLOBAL BLOWBACK
Backing terrorists and terror regimes has come back to haunt us.
by William F. Jasper are certain to bring a torrent of deadly • Albania: The Bush administration is
blowback to America for years, if not de- intensifying the love affair begun by Presi-
L
ong before 9/11, Osama bin Laden’s cades, to come. dent Clinton and Secretary Albright with
terrorist activities around the world • Kosovo: In Kosovo, President Bush has the Albanian regime of Sali Berisha. Dur-
were being cited as a classic case continued the Clinton policy of supporting ing his historic trip to Albania in 2007 (the
of “blowback.” Quite obviously, the CIA’s Hashim Thaci, the Islamo-Leninist leader first by a U.S. president), President Bush
support for bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) ter- praised Albania as “a model of religious
and other radical Islamists in Afghanistan rorists. Thaci came to power in this prov- tolerance” and congratulated Berisha for
in the 1980s, ostensibly to counter the So- ince of Serbia as a result of our military in- his desire “to fight corruption.” Religious
viets, had indeed helped spawn a virulently tervention on behalf of the KLA. For years tolerance? Virtually all non-Muslims have
anti-American global terror network that now, the KLA has been carrying out a bru- been driven out of Albania under Berisha,
was returning to haunt us. tal campaign of ethnic cleansing against the who is broadly recognized as one of the
Unfortunately, aiding al-Qaeda is far Orthodox Christians who still live in Ko- most corrupt rulers in Europe. As presi-
from the only “mistake” of this sort to be sovo. Thaci is also the head of the Drenica dent of Albania from 1992-1997, Berisha
made by our government. In fact, the top Group of the fearsome Albanian mafia. welcomed Osama bin Laden and his al-
policymakers at the State Department and Under his leadership, hundreds of Christian Qaeda cadres into Albania. Now the coun-
National Security Council — in both Re- churches and monasteries, many dating to try’s prime minister, Berisha is the benefi-
publican and Democratic administrations Medieval times, have been desecrated and ciary of U.S. and NATO assistance, even
— seem to have a perverse proclivity for destroyed. Christians have been murdered, as he continues to back Islamic terrorists
backing some of the most brutal terrorist robbed, persecuted, and driven out. Kosovo, in neighboring Bosnia and Kosovo.
organizations and terror-sponsoring re- the cradle of Serbia’s Orthodox Christian- • Iraq: The U.S. government has sacri-
gimes, time after time after time. ity, has been transformed into a Marxist-Is- ficed the lives of thousands of American
Here are a few disturbing examples of lamic thugocracy. President Bush’s recog- troops, along with hundreds of billions of
the absurd and indefensible “war on ter- nition of Kosovo’s claim of independence dollars, to back the government of Nouri
ror” policies that are aiding our enemies in February of this year will accelerate the al-Maliki. But the Maliki government is
and undermining our security — and that radical Islamification of Europe. closely allied with Iran — which, the ad-
18 THE NEW AMERICAN • APRIL 28, 2008
21. ministration tells us, is our deadly enemy. It was precisely these same
In Iraq’s violent inter-sectarian and intra- kinds of interventionist policies
sectarian violence, the administration is (by the usual coterie of policy the top policymakers in both Republican
backing “good” Sunni and Shia factions, elites at the State Department, and Democratic administrations seem
which have terrorist pedigrees equally as the National Security Council,
vulgar as those of the “bad” Sunni and and the CIA) during the 1980s to have a perverse proclivity for backing
Shia factions we are opposing. Hence we that produced the Saddam Hus- some of the most brutal terrorist
find the U.S. military arming and train- sein threat. Saddam, we were
ing the Iranian-backed Badr Brigades and told way back then — against organizations and terror-sponsoring
other forces of the Supreme Council for all evidence to the contrary — regimes, time after time after time.
the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). was going to be our great ally
In fact, our underpaid soldiers are now against revolutionary Iran’s
tasked with literally handing out truck- Ayatollah Khomeini. Billions of dollars threat. With the ostensible object of check-
loads of cash in stacks of hundred dol- in military, technical, and financial aid ing the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan, our
lar bills to Iraqi militia members, many were showered on “ally” Saddam by the CIA-State Department went shopping for
of whom are members of (or allies of) “Bush 41” foreign-policy team during the Mujahedeen allies. But instead of support-
al-Qaeda and other groups that are kill- Reagan-Bush years. ing the proven pro-American, anti-com-
ing our troops. In a February 19, 2008 We know, of course, what that toxic al- munist forces under Younas Khalis, Abdul
article entitled “Money Day in Baghdad,” liance with Saddam ultimately begat: not Haq, and Abdul Qadir, they lavished aid
U.S. News & World Report correspon- one, but two major wars in Iraq — to make instead on the most virulently anti-Ameri-
dent Alex Kingsbury describes the U.S. the world safe from Saddam. can Muslims, such as Gulbadin Hekmatyar
“microgrants” program, in which a U.S. It was during that same period that the (a cutthroat warlord who killed more of his
Army captain with a backpack jammed same omniscient brain trust devised the fellow Afghans than he did Soviets), and
full with $110,000 in hundred dollar bills grand strategy that produced the al-Qaeda the al-Qaeda Arabs under the command
hands out packets of $2,500 to of the fanatical Osama bin Laden
(supposedly) worthy recipients. and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
That, of course, represents but However, even during the late
a molecule compared to the bil- 1990s, after the Clinton State De-
lions of dollars that were flown partment had declared al-Qaeda
into Baghdad on C-130s in the to be a terrorist organization, our
first couple years of the war; liter- CIA continued knowingly to arm,
ally hundreds of tons of hundred train, and finance al-Qaeda’s most
dollar bills stacked and shrink- violent subcontractors in Bosnia,
wrapped on pallets — that disap- Albania, Kosovo, and Macedo-
peared without any accounting. nia, even as those open bin Laden
According to an investigation allies carried out terrible atroci-
last year by the House Commit- ties and built their global terror
tee on Government Reform and networks. Incredibly, the Bush
Oversight, the total of “lost” cash administration has continued
may be more than $12 billion. arming and supporting the same
But that’s just part of the price sadistic thugs to this day.
of placing “moderates” in Iraq’s Countless victims in these
government, right? Moderates lands have already experienced
like terrorist Member of Parlia- the awful reality of blowback re-
ment Jamal Jaafar Mohammed, sulting from the fateful decisions
who was convicted of helping of our government to side with
plan the 1983 suicide bombing the terrorists. On September 11,
of the U.S. embassy in Kuwait. 2001, America received a bitter
Or Abdul Aziz al-Halim, a leader lesson in how terrible blowback
of both the radical SCIRI mul- can be, as terrorists who had
lahs and the United Iraqi Alli- once been hailed as our allies
ance, which dominates the Ma- brought death and destruction
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liki government. Jamal Jaafar to our shores. How many more
Mohammed and Abdul Azziz deadly attacks will be unleashed
al-Hakim are two of Iran’s most upon us in the future by terror-
ardent supporters in the Maliki ists whom our government today
regime. Troubling ties: Iranian president Mahmoud supports as allies? n
Ahmadinejad (left) shakes hands with u.S.-backed
Iraqi prime Minister nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad on
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