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'Fight Smart' Update - 21 March 2004

Don't Take the Bait - Fight Smart
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Who is the enemy?
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American Coup D'Etat
Is Bush Camp Preparing Another 'October Surprise'
For The 2004 US election?
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATOctoberSurprise2004.htm
Tehran Claims 'U.S. Unloading WMD in Iraq'

"I just wake up in the morning and tell myself, 'There's been a military coup [in the US],' and then it all makes sense,' said one veteran US foreign service officer."
Diplomats on the Defensive
Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2003

"Over the past few days, in the wake of the bombings in Karbala and the ideological disputes that delayed the signing of Iraq's interim constitution, there have been reports that U.S. forces have unloaded a large cargo of parts for constructing long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the southern ports of Iraq. A reliable source from the Iraqi Governing Council, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Mehr News Agency that U.S. forces, with the help of British forces stationed in southern Iraq, had made extensive efforts to conceal their actions. He added that the cargo was unloaded during the night as attention was still focused on the aftermath of the deadly bombings in Karbala and the signing of Iraq's interim constitution. The source said that in order to avoid suspicion, ordinary cargo ships were used to download the cargo, which consisted of weapons produced in the 1980s and 1990s... The source went on to say that the rest of the weapons were probably transferred in vans to an unknown location somewhere in the vicinity of Basra overnight. 'Most of these weapons are of Eastern European origin and some parts are from the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. The U.S. obtained them through confiscations during sales of banned arms over the past two decades,' he said."
U.S. Unloading WMD in Iraq
Tehran Times, 13 March 2004

"... witnesses to [former Secretary of State Madeline] Albright's comment said the ambassador did not appear to be joking Tuesday when she suggested President Bush may reveal bin Laden's capture as an 'October surprise' before next November's presidential election. Albright was in the Fox News studio's green room waiting to appear on an evening program when she made the remark. 'She said, 'Do you suppose that the Bush administration has Usama bin Laden hidden away somewhere and will bring him out before the election?' said Fox News analyst and Roll Call executive editor Mort Kondracke. 'She was not smiling.' Two makeup artists who prep the guests before their appearances also reported that Albright did not ask her question in a joking manner.'"
Albright: Bin Laden Comments Were 'Tongue-in-Cheek'
Fox News, 17 December 2003

"Suspicions about a deal between the Reagan campaign and Iran over the hostages have circulated since the day of President Reagan's inaugural, when Iran agreed to release the 52 American hostages exactly five minutes after Mr. Reagan took the oath of office. Later, as it became known that arms started to flow to Iran via Israel only a few days after the inauguration, suspicions deepened that a secret arms-for-hostages deal had been concluded. Five years later, when the Iran-contra affair revealed what seemed to be a similar swap of hostages for arms delivered through Israel, questions were revived about the 1980 election. In a nice, ironic twist, the phrase `October surprise,' which Vice Presidential candidate George Bush had coined to warn of possible political manipulation of the hostages by Jimmy Carter, began to be applied to the suspected secret activities of the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign... In a Madrid hotel in late July 1980, an important Iranian cleric, Mehdi Karrubi, who is now the speaker of the Iranian Parliament, allegedly met with Mr. Casey [Director of the CIA] and a U.S. intelligence officer who was operating outside authority. The same group met again several weeks later.... From Oct. 15 to Oct. 20, events came to a head in a series of meetings in several hotels in Paris, involving members of the Reagan-Bush campaign and high-level Iranian and Israeli representatives. Accounts of these meetings and the exact number of participants vary considerably among the more than 15 sources who claim direct or indirect knowledge of some aspect of them. There is, however, widespread agreement on three points: William Casey was a key participant: the Iranian representatives agreed that the hostages would not be released prior to the Presidential election on Nov. 4; in return, Israel would serve as a conduit for arms and spare parts to Iran. At least five of the sources who say they were in Paris in connection with these meetings insist that George Bush was present for at least one meeting. Three of the sources say that they saw him there... Immediately after the Paris meetings, things began to happen. On Oct. 21, Iran publicly shifted its position in the negotiations with the Carter Administration, disclaiming any further interest in receiving military equipment.... Between Oct. 21 and Oct. 23, Israel sent a planeload of F-4 fighter aircraft tires to Iran in contravention of the U.S. boycott and without informing Washington. Cyrus Hashemi, using his own contacts began privately organizing military shipments to Iran. On Oct. 22, the hostages were suddenly dispersed to different locations. And a series of delaying tactics in late October by the Iranian Parliament stymied all attempts by the Carter Administration to act on the hostage question until only hours before Election Day... On Jan. 15, Iran did an about-face, offering a series of startling concessions that reignited the talks and resulted in a final agreement in the last few hours of Jimmy Carter's Presidency. The hostages were released on Jan. 21, 1981, minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as President. Almost immediately thereafter, according to Israeli and American former officials, arms began to flow to Iran in substantial quantities... Moshe Arens, the Israeli Ambassador to Washington in 1982, told The Boston Globe in October 1982 that Israeli's arms shipments to Iran at this time were coordinated with the U.S. Government `at almost the highest of levels.' ... The allegations of these individuals have many disturbing implications for the U.S. political system. One is the tampering with foreign policy for partisan benefit. That has, of course, happened before and it may well happen again, but it assumes special poignancy in this case since it would have involved tampering with the lives and freedom of 52 Americans. Another implication is that leaders of the U.S. exposed themselves to the possibility of blackmail by Iran or Israel. Third, the events suggest that the arms-for-hostage deal that in the twilight of the Reagan Presidency became known as the Iran-contra affair, instead of being an aberration, was in fact the re-emergence of a policy that began even before the Reagan-Bush Administration took office."
The Election Story of the Decade
New York Times, 15 April 1991

"On April 15, former Carter administration staffer Gary Sick gave added weight to the 'October Surprise' theory -- the allegations that officials in the 1980 Reagan-Bush campaign cut a deal with Iranian revolutionaries to delay the release of the fifty-two hostages until after Reagan's inauguration -- with a 2,000-word op-ed piece in The New York Times.... The day Sick's piece appeared in the times, listing dates and participants in suspected meetings between campaign staffers and Iranian clerics, none of the network evening newscasts even mentioned the story... there were a number of newsworthy developments... [including] the State Department considered blocking a visa for former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who came to the U.S. to promote his book My Turn To Speak, in which he asserts that the Reagan campaign cut a deal with the Iranians at the height of the hostage crisis; President Bush made his first public denials of the allegations; and eight of the former hostages voiced suspicions about the circumstances surrounding their release. But many of these developments, which were reported by the wire services and picked up by alternative papers and even by the Phil Donahue show, were missed altogether by the major media. And a story that could make [Watergate's] Deep Throat look shallow has yet to make the cover of Time or Newsweek. When the story does appear, the key questions not only go unanswered, they go unasked. "
WHO WILL UNWRAP THE OCTOBER SURPRISE?
Columbia Journalism Review, Sept/Oct 1991

"[Paul Wilcher, the] Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport with Casolaro and the 1980 'October Surprise' was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993 in his Washington, DC apartment. [He] Had delivered a report to [US Attorney General] Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death."
Just A Few People Clinton Didn't Have To Pardon
Afrocentric News, 2000

"McClendon has been told that preliminary autopsy results have found no natural cause of death, and no other cause of death to explain Wilcher's demise. Given that Wilcher, in his 40s, was in apparent good health, this seems fairly astonishing. A much larger issue is also implied here: if critics of our government are found dead in their bathrooms from obscure causes, and the government itself doesn't take steps to find out why, then our freedoms themselves are threatened -- as well as the activities that protect those freedoms. If individual investigation and criticism of government activities is chilled or intimidated into silence, then democracy loses its most important protection."
Letter To Attorney General Janet Reno
Dr Garby Leon, Columbia Pictures, 14 July 1993

'October Surprise'
Election Campaign 1980 - The Reagan/Bush Covert Arms Deal With The Iranians
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"The most detailed analysis yet of the contested Florida votes from last year's [2000] presidential election - with the potential to question President George Bush's legitimacy - is being withheld by the news organisations that commissioned it. Results of the inspection of more than 170,000 votes rejected as unreadable in the 'hanging chad' chaos of last November's vote count were ready at the end of August [2001]. The study was commissioned early this year by a consortium including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times and the broadcaster CNN. The cost was more than $A2million. Now, however, spokesmen for the consortium say that they decided to postpone the story of the analysis by the National Opinion Research Centre at the University of Chicago for lack of resources and lack of interest in the face of the enormous story after the September 11 attacks."
Media suppress the news that Bush lost election to Gore
Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 2001

"Is it O.K. to talk about the recount yet? It wasn't the right time on September 10th, because the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center had only just finished organizing the data gleaned from its meticulous examination of a hundred and seventy-five thousand uncounted Florida ballots. It wasn't on September 12th, because the news organizations that had commissioned the study were otherwise occupied. It was the right time on November 12th, apparently: that was the day the news organizations got around to publishing their analyses of the results. But, judging from the lack of discussion that has ensued, it abruptly became the wrong time again on November 13th. Maybe it'll never be the right time. But what the hell. Let's talk about it anyway. That finding, it turned out, was that, no matter what standard or combination of standards is applied, Al Gore got a handful more votes [in Florida] than George W. Bush..... The third reason [there was no discussion about this], of course, is September 11th, which extinguished the last traces of any appetite for a discussion that might call into question the legitimacy of a President who has his hands full and who needs, and has, the support of a nation united in the struggle against terror. But by then, it must be said, the damage to democracy had already been done."
Recounted Out
New Yorker, 17 December 2001

These results of the media recount of the Florida vote in the 2000 Presidential election were finally released 12 November 2001, the day of the New York Queen's airliner crash whose tail fin fell off shortly after take off. The incident absorbed all the significant news coverage that day and as a result few noticed the Florida 'recount' story.

America In Crisis
THE 2000 - 2002 CREEPING CONSTITUTIONAL COUP
Who, Why, Where, When and How
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Bush is already trailing in the polls against Kerry and the situation in Iraq may well get even worse before the US Presidential election in November. With the election date creeping ever closer are moves already underway for another 'October Surprise' from the Republicans as the on-going mess in Iraq becomes a vote loser for Bush?

Below are two 'interesting' press reports from Iran 12/13 March claiming that WMDs are being covertly brought into Iraq by US and British troops. The origin of the story is claimed to be "A reliable source from the Iraqi Governing Council".

The reports are produced by the Mehr News Agency which last month claimed to have "received an e-mail from the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry pitching the candidate as one who will 'repair the damage done' to international relations by President Bush" according to a WorldNetDaily report 9 February. The claim was published in the Tehran Times.

Clearly favourable press coverage about the Bush administration cannot be expected from Tehran, but even though the report is likely to be widely dismissed as anti-American propaganda, a claim of a covert US WMD operation in Iraq raises more eyebrows than usual. For the Mehr News Agency to relay this kind of accusation without firm evidence would be a high risk strategy for Iran - it could hardly be seen as smoothing its steadily sliding relations with the Anglo-American occupiers of neighbouring Iraq who now seem to have Iran in their sights. Iran is already almost completely surrounded thanks to a US military presence in most of its neighbours, a presence which has been steadily bolstered since 911 (see map link on our web page 'War And Oil').

However, it is conceivable that Iran might consider it worth spreading the WMD story if it felt that the near term fate of its government had already been decided by the US. This seems increasingly likely.

According to Associated Press 14 March "Secretary of State Colin Powell put Iran on notice Sunday that other countries will not 'just sit by idly' while Tehran pursues building nuclear weapons.... 'If they continue in this manner, to deny and to put out the kind of statements as they did, they'll find that the international community will be prepared to take action' when the agency meets in June, Powell said on 'Fox News Sunday.' 'I won't prejudge now what those actions might be, but the Iranians need to understand that the international community is not going to just sit by idly while they continue to move in the direction of a nuclear weapon,' Powell said."

Iran holds some of the world's largest reserves of oil at a time when there are growing doubts over the reliability of those in Saudi Arabia - America's largest supplier.

Whilst the covert Iraq WMD-delivery story from Tehran might also suit those running an anti-American agenda within Iraq, nonetheless the Iranians do in fact have direct experience of the lengths to which the Republican Party is prepared to go in order to secure the US Presidency as happened in the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan. This was the infamous 'October Surprise' stunt carried out by the Republicans which is said to have deprived Jimmy Carter of a second term in the White House.

According to an article by John Dee published by 'Lumpen' January 2001"[The 'October Surprise' sabotage] was a covert operation by

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