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Ik kwam wel een erg opmerkelijk bericht tegen dat ik jullie niet kan onthouden:
Hussein to Pay USA for Safe Haven in Belarus? 11:17, 22/09/2003, www.sundaymirror.co.uk Saddam Hussein has been in secret negotiations with US forces in Iraq for the past nine days, we can reveal. The Iraqi dictator is demanding safe passage to the former Soviet republic of Belarus. In exchange, he has vowed to provide information on weapons of mass destruction and disclose bank accounts where he siphoned off tens of millions of dollars in plundered cash. President Bush is being kept abreast of the extraordinary talks by his National Security advisor Condoleezza Rice. She is co-ordinating negotiations in Baghdad which are led by Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of American forces in Iraq. The United States has vowed never to negotiate with Saddam and want to take him dead or alive, but the White House hopes the clandestine talks will allow them to pinpoint the tyrant`s exact location. Saddam`s English-speaking representative walked into the US HQ at Tikrit - the dictator`s home town - on September 12 and asked to talk to senior officers. He then led a group of US troops to a nearby suburb where one of Saddam`s loyal security chiefs was waiting. The US officers were handed a hand-written note, purportedly from Saddam himself. The security boss had a British-made Racal military radio set which he claimed gave him direct contact with people in the same room as the dictator. The radio is notoriously difficult to monitor. He was immediately taken into custody, but the US has continued to exchange messages with Saddam using the radio and other means. A senior Iraqi told The Sunday Mirror last night: "A representative of Saddam dressed in Western-style civilian clothes came to coalition people at Tikrit at sunset on September 12. He led them to a house where the security official was waiting. "The discussions are now going on under the direct authority of General Sanchez. Naturally all the major decisions are being made at the level of the National Security Council, under Condoleezza Rice." He maintained that Saddam had decided to seek a deal "because he is desperate, trapped and finding fewer and fewer people willing to give him shelter." He added: "He resorts to arriving with a posse of armed men, and forcing them to give him hospitality. When he leaves the frightened `hosts` are told they`ll be killed if they say a word." It is believed the US authorities will simply string Saddam along, aiming to track the go-betweens until they know exactly where to find the rogue leader. "There`s no doubt the net is closing, and that his supporters` efforts to get the Americans to pull out of Iraq are not succeeding," said the source. "They can cause disruption and problems, but this does not bring Saddam any nearer to coming back to power, and he now knows it. The negotiators will try to keep the line of communication open as long as possible, but the word from Washington is: `No deal`." Saddam left strong hints that he was willing to talk in his last audio tape on Wednesday. It had a strongly defiant tone, but contained two significant indications that he was keen for a deal: -SADDAM addressed the US president directly and gave him a possible get-out for a negotiated surrender. "There might be some who lied to you, but you believed those lies," he said, hinting that coalition intelligence was badly wrong. -HE added: "If you want to discuss the withdrawal arrangements, some of the officials in the leadership arrested by your army ... you can contact them and hold a suitable dialogue." Although Saddam was still proposing an unconditional American withdrawal from Iraq, coalition chiefs took his latest statement as a willingness to talk. Since the fall of Baghdad in April the dictator has remained on the run. Saddam-hunters say he moves disguised as a peasant or labourer in a long white dishdasha (gown), especially in remote countryside. Fearing he will be spotted and betrayed, he seldom stays in one place for more than two hours. He is often sheltered by tribal leaders whom he appointed to replace the real leaders during his reign of terror. "They owe their very existence and their status and money to him, so they feel a strong obligation," said one hunter. "But the feeling of obligation gets less and less as time passes and the pressure mounts." He is also believed to have made brief visits to Baghdad in brazen defiance of the occupying US forces. One senior Iraqi told me: "He had set up over 1,000 hiding places before the fall, and I guess he goes from one to the other these days. When he was in power, even cabinet ministers wouldn`t know where meetings were to be held. "They were taken to a small bus, or if they were very senior the security sent a car. He`s been a master of survival." Saddam hunters have issued several photofit images of how he might look. He has apparently run out of black hair-dye and will almost certainly have white hair. "He`s moving every two hours and he`s not staying set," said Colonel Don Campbell, chief of staff of the 4th Infantry Division. "He has to." Saddam has demanded to go to Belarus, the former Soviet republic which still has a president and leadership descended from the old guard Communist Party era. Before the war the Americans told Saddam he could leave the country, but he spurned the offer. Since then President Bush has rejected any idea of making a deal with the ousted leader and has put a $25million dead-or-alive bounty on his head. -AN American soldier shot and killed a tiger in Baghdad`s zoo after it attacked a colleague who had put his arms through the bars to feed it. "They turned up after the zoo was closed and were both drunk", an Iraqi keeper said. Bron
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![]() ![]() Maar even serieus over dat andere van wat je zegt: hoezo als ze Saddam pakken hebben ze geen serieuze grond meer om in Irak te zijn? Denk je niet dat er heus wel een andere reden gezocht wordt?
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"At this point it does not appear that the president’s handling of Iraq is likely to be a net benefit for his reelection bid. Respondents were asked how the president’s handling of Iraq will affect their likeliness to vote for him on a scale of +5 (meaning it would very much increase the likelihood) to -5 (meaning it would very much decease the likelihood). The mean score was just a hair above completely neutral at +0.03. A larger percentage (35%) said it would increase the likelihood of voting for Bush than said it would decrease it (30%), but those saying it would decrease the likelihood felt that way more strongly. The net is essentially unchanged from a July poll (net response +0.09), but there is some sign of increasing polarization, as more respondents gave extreme responses at both ends of the spectrum. Consistent with this overall balanced response, in ABC News’ September 4-7 poll respondents were divided over “the way Bush is handling the situation in Iraq,” with 49% approving and 47% disapproving. As recently as August 24, 56% approved and just 37% disapproved. Also, PIPA/KN found 48% saying that they feel the president is handling the situation in Iraq well, 35% poorly, and 15% neither poorly or well, statistically unchanged from July." Bron (pdf formaat) Maar je weet niet hoe dat over een paar maanden zal zijn natuurlijk. Als t de huidige trend zal volgen zal Bush misschien inderdaad tot een drastischer maatregel komen om zieltjes te winnen, mocht hulp van de VN geen baat hebben.
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Maarja, je hebt cultuurscheppers en cultuurvernietigers. Het is wel duidelijk tot welke categorie de Amerikanen behoren. |
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Andy Warhol? Gershwin? etc. Niet gaan generaliseren, he ![]() Maar ik verwacht idd niet dat de gemiddelde soldaat een cultuurschepper is maar eerder een cultuurvernietiger. Maar een ethisch moraal is het Amerikaanse leger op zich vreemd. Het Nederlandse en Britse leger krijgt meer lessen in moraliteit; dat wil zeggen ook de lagere rangen krijgen te maken met ethiek. ![]()
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Les 1 uit de antropologie/sociologie: generaliseren mag.
![]() Het Amerikaanse leger krijgt inderdaad absoluut geen les in ethiek. Het wordt alleen gedrillt tot het hersenloze, opvolgende, obedient drones zijn die overlopen van misplaatste vaderlandsliefde. En dan maar wauwelen dat je in het leger een man wordt. ![]() |
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Het Nederlandse leger specialiseert zich nu eenmaal meer op humanitaire hulp en dat kan ik alleen maar goedkeuren (even daarbuiten gelaten naar aanleiding van wat voor een soort humanitaire hulp ze ingezet worden (wb. de kosovo-oorlog keurde ik t af, bv.)).
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Wat heb je aan humanitaire hulp als je bescherming nieteens kan geven door de mogelijkheid van geweld open te laten, als je niet in staat bent het überhaupt toe te passen. |
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- niet plunderen/jatten, e.d.; - geen nationale symbolen in land kapot maken (als ze dat zelf willen doen zij dat wel); - geen dieren in een dierentuin doodmaken of daar idiote spelletjes mee gaan doen - geen mensen boven het vuur houden (zoals de Belgen dat deden) etc.
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Echter, in elke oorlog worden misdaden tegen de menselijkheid gepleegd. Dat is inherent aan oorlog voeren. Het is wel zo dat dergelijke misdaden beperkt moeten worden, maar daar trekken met name Amerikanen zich weinig van aan. |
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Het heeft helemaal niets met een nazistische of een stalinistische visie te maken ![]() |
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En dat eerste is behoorlijk onwaarschijnlijk. En daarnaast geldt nog steeds mijn vraag: Citaat:
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Waar het op neer komt is eigenlijk dat elk mens wel doodt als het erop aan komt. Dat topic op DK over 'doden of gedood worden' ten spijt, zullen de meeste mensen toch hun eigen hachje redden als hun leven bedreigd wordt en ze de mogelijkheid hebben de aanval af te slaan door de aanvaller te doden. De drang tot zelfbehoud is enorm sterk, veel sterker dan je aanvankelijk zou vermoeden na zelfstudie. |
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