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PROTOCOL No. 4 Materialism Replace Religion 1. Every republic passes through several stages. The first of these is comprised in the early days of mad raging by the blind mob, tossed hither and thither, right and left: the second is demagogy from which is born anarchy, and that leads inevitably to despotism - not any longer legal and overt, and therefore responsible despotism, but to unseen and secretly hidden, yet nevertheless sensibly felt despotism in the hands of some secret organization or other, whose acts are the more unscrupulous inasmuch as it works behind a screen, behind the backs of all sorts of agents, the changing of whom not only does not injuriously affect but actually aids the secret force by saving it, thanks to continual changes, from the necessity of expanding its resources on the rewarding of long services. 2. Who and what is in a position to overthrow an invisible force? And this is precisely what our force is. GENTILE masonry blindly serves as a screen for us and our objects, but the plan of action of our force, even its very abiding-place, remains for the whole people an unknown mystery. WE SHALL DESTROY GOD 3. But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in the State economy without injury to the well-being of the peoples if it rested upon the foundation of faith in God, upon the brotherhood of humanity, unconnected with the conception of equality, which is negatived by the very laws of creation, for they have established subordination. With such a faith as this a people might be governed by a wardship of parishes, and would walk contentedly and humbly under the guiding hand of its spiritual pastor submitting to the dispositions of God upon earth. This is the reason why IT IS INDISPENSABLE FOR US TO UNDERMINE ALL FAITH, TO TEAR OUT OF THE MIND OF THE "GOYIM" THE VERY PRINCIPLE OF GOD-HEAD AND THE SPIRIT, AND TO PUT IN ITS PLACE ARITHMETICAL CALCULATIONS AND MATERIAL NEEDS. 4. In order to give the GOYIM no time to think and take note, their minds must be diverted towards industry and trade. Thus, all the nations will be swallowed up in the pursuit of gain and in the race for it will not take note of their common foe. But again, in order that freedom may once for all disintegrate and ruin the communities of the GOYIM, we must put industry on a speculative basis: the result of this will be that what is withdrawn from the land by industry will slip through the hands and pass into speculation, that is, to our classes. 5. The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards the higher political and towards religion. Their only guide is gain, that is Gold, which they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of those material delights which it can give. Then will the hour strike when, not for the sake of attaining the good, not even to win wealth, but solely out of hatred towards the privileged, the lower classes of the GOYIM will follow our lead against our rivals for power, the intellectuals of the GOYIM.

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We will complete the Jewish domination over British Media Granada Group Carlton's power in "independent" television is rivalled onlyby the Granada Group, which is worth around £ 6.2 billion and ownstwo ITV franchises: Granada TV and London Weekend Television. It also hasa 20 per cent stake in ITN and Yorkshire Tyne Tees TV (with Lazards merchantbank);a half-share in London News Network, and an 11 per cent stake in BSkyB,in partnership with which it has set up Granada Sky Broadcasting (GSkyB),a joint cable and satellite venture which launched seven new channels on1st October 1996. BSkyB in turn has stakes in the "adults-only"Playboy Channel. Among Granada's satellite channels is Granada Talk TV,which includes an afternoon teen show, F2F, which is presented bySacha Baron Cohen. Granada was founded by Sidney and Cecil Bernstein. AlexanderBernstein was the long-standing Chairman until he went into semi-retirementin March 1996 while retaining his interest and influence. The newly createdGranada Media Group (GMG) is controlled by three men. The Chairman, Granada'sChief Executive, Charles Allen, is not thought to be a Jew, but his twocolleagues at the top most definitely are. Duncan Lewis is the Chief Executive of the Granada Media Group; ChiefExecutive of Granada TV, and Chief Executive of London Weekend Television.Lewis was formerly marketing director at BT, where he initiated the nauseatingJewish grandmother adverts starring actress and sponsor of the Zionist-controlledfront organisation, the Anti-Nazi League, Maureen Lipman. Until April1996 Lewis was head of Mercury Communications and, according to theEvening Standard of 22.5.96, he is now heading a group of financehouses seeking to take over Mercury. He is backed by Warburg Pincus, the"American" firm which is already a key investor in the Britishcable and television industry (including Channel Five). City sources saythat Granada's keeness to link up with Mercury is based on the convictionthat the communications and entertainment businesses are set for furtherconvergence. Chief Executive of the Granada Group, Duncan Lewis The third key figure at Granada is Steve Morrison. He is the chiefOperating Officer of GMG; Deputy Chief Executive of Granada TV, ManagingDirector of LWT and head of Granada's sales operation Laser. On his wayto the top, according to the Jewish Chronicle of 1.9.95, Morrisonwas Director of Programmes and Managing Director of Granada TV. His replacementsin these last two jobs are Peter Salmon and Andrea Wonforrespectively. Commercial Director at LWT and GMTV is Kate Stross,and Controller of regional programmes at LWT is Simon Shaps. In October 1995 Granada launched British Independent Television Enterprises(BRITE), which involved the merger of the sales arms of Granada TV, LWTand Yorkshire Tyne Tees TV. The Managing Director of this sales giant isNadine Nohr. One of Granada's leading functionaries is the scriptwriter and producerKay Mellor, a self-confessed feminist responsbile for the "acclaimed"ITV series Band of Gold. Another Granada regular is Paul Marcus,owner of Marlow Films and producer of Granada's Prime Suspect. Controller of Arts at LWT is Melvyn Bragg. Although he describes himself as a "Christian", Bragg is extremelypro-Jewish and told the Jewish Chronicle of 5.4.96 that he viewsIsrael as his "spiritual home". Since this interview came afterextensive coverage of the brutal Israeli supression of the Palestinian Intifada,with soldiers dynamiting Arab homes if one member of the family is caughtthrowing stones, shooting dead unarmed schoolchildren and burying teenagersalive with bulldozers, this comment tells us a great deal about the mentalityof this sickening "liberal" and the chattering classes who regardhim as their arbiter of artistic good taste

Bush warns Iran, Syria, Hezbollah on Lebanon WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush deplored recent violence in Lebanon and warned that Iran, Syria and Hezbollah must be "called to account" for trying to destabilize that country. While Lebanon's friends seek to help the Lebanese government build a free, sovereign, and prosperous country, Syria, Iran and Hezbollah are working to destabilize Lebanese society," Bush said in a statement. "All those who seek a peaceful, constitutional solution to the crisis in Lebanon deserve the support of the international community, but those responsible for creating chaos must be called to account," he said. Four people were killed and 152 injured Thursday in clashes between Sunni and Shiite Muslims apparently triggered by a row in a cafeteria at Beirut's Arab University between government supporters and opponents. "I am deeply disappointed by the recent violence and bloodshed on the streets of Lebanon. It is all the more troubling that the violence occurred while Lebanon's legitimate leaders and friends were gathered together in Paris to help secure a peaceful and prosperous future for the country," said Bush. The United States has pledged 770 million dollars in new aid to Lebanon as part of a major international drive to rebuild the country and bolster the embattled pro-Western government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora. "This is a strong symbol of the American people's support for and commitment to the future of Lebanon," said Bush, who had tough words for Damascus, Tehran, and the militant Shiite movement Hezbollah. Bush said they sought to derail the creation of the international tribunal to try suspects in the murder of Lebanon's former premier Rafiq Hariri and stall Hezbollah's disarmament as called for by the UN Security Council. "Their goals are clear. They foment violence in order to prevent the establishment of a Special Tribunal in response to former Prime Minister Hariri's assassination, to prevent full implementation of UN Security Council resolutions calling for Hezbollah's disarmament, and to bring down Lebanon's democratically elected government," said Bush.

Iraqis: At least 200 insurgents killed By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi officials said Monday that U.S.-backed Iraqi troops had targeted a messianic cult called "Soldiers of Heaven" in a weekend battle that left 200 fighters dead, including the group's leader, near the Shiite holy city of Najaf. A military commander said hundreds of gunmen planned to disguise themselves as pilgrims and kill clerics on the holiest day of the Shiite calendar. The Iraqi government spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, said the raid on Sunday in date-palm orchards on the city's outskirts was aimed against the fringe Shiite cult that some Iraqi officials said had links to Saddam Hussein loyalists and foreign fighters. Officials said the group was hoping the violence it planned would force the return of the "hidden imam," a 9th-century Shiite saint who Shiites believe will come again to bring peace and justice to the world. U.S. and British jets played a major role in the fighting, dropping 500-pound bombs on the militants' positions, but President Bush said the battle was an indication that Iraqis were beginning to take control. "My first reaction on this report from the battlefield is that the Iraqis are beginning to show me something," Bush told NPR. The fighting began Sunday and ended Monday. U.S. officials said an American military helicopter crashed during the battle, killing two soldiers on board, but gave no further details. Maj. Gen. Othman al-Ghanemi, the Iraqi commander in charge of the Najaf region, said the aircraft was shot down. It was the second U.S. military helicopter to crash in eight days. Both Mohammed al-Askari, the defense ministry spokesman, and al-Ghanemi said 200 terrorists were killed and 60 wounded, lowering previous estimates. Al-Ghanemi said 150 had been captured, while al-Askari put that figure at 120. Authorities said Iraqi soldiers supported by U.S. aircraft fought all day Sunday with a large group of insurgents in the Zaraq area, about 12 miles northeast of Najaf. Provincial Gov. Assad Sultan Abu Kilel said the insurgents had planned to attack Shiite pilgrims and senior clerics in Najaf during ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day in the Shiite calendar commemorating the 7th-century death of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad. The celebration culminates Tuesday in huge public processions in Najaf, Karbala and other Shiite cities. Al-Ghanemi said the army captured some 500 automatic rifles in addition to mortars, heavy machine guns and Russian-made Katyusha rockets in what amounted to a major test for Iraq's new military as it works toward taking over responsibility for security from U.S.-led forces. The commander said the leader of the group, called the Jund al-Samaa, or Soldiers of Heaven, was among those killed and identified him as an Iraqi named Ahmed Hassan al-Yamani, who went by several aliases and was armed with two pistols when he died. Abdul-Hussein Abtan, deputy governor of Najaf, said the cult leader had been detained twice in the past few years, although he did say why. Abtan also said a few women who were believed to be residents of the area were among those taken into custody. Al-Ghanemi said the area where the men were staying was once run by Saddam's al-Quds Army, a military organization the late president established in the 1990s. The commander said "the gunmen had recently dug trenches in preparation for the battle." He added that the area of full of date palm groves. Other officials in Najaf said Saddam loyalists bought the groves six months ago. Al-Ghanemi said 600 to 700 gunmen had planned to disguise themselves as pilgrims and attack Najaf on Tuesday, the day they believed that the Imam Mahdi, or the "hidden imam," would reappear. He said leading Shiite ayatollahs consider such fringe elements as heretics. Their aim was to kill as many leading clerics as possible, al-Ghanemi said. Najaf government officials indicated the militants included both Shiite and Sunni extremists, as well as foreign fighters. Although Sunni Arabs have been the main force behind insurgent groups, there are a number of Shiite militant and splinter groups that have clashed from time to time with the government. The mortar attacks and bombings appeared to be part of the sectarian reprisal killings that have pushed Iraq into civil warfare over the past year, violence that Bush hopes to quell by sending up to 21,500 more American soldiers to Baghdad and surrounding areas. Bombings, mortar attacks and shootings killed at least 36 people elsewhere on Monday. In one of the worst attacks, mortar rounds rained down on a Shiite neighborhood in the Sunni-dominated town of Jurf al-Sakhar, 40 miles south of Baghdad, Monday morning, police spokesman Capt. Muthanna Khalid said. He said 10 were killed, including three children and four women, and five other people were wounded. A wounded boy lay next to his bloodstained father at a hospital in the nearby town of Musayyib, while six bodies were covered with blankets in the morgue. The strike came a day after mortar shells hit the courtyard of a girls' school in a mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of Baghdad, killing five pupils and wounding 20. A Sunni organization, the General Conference of the People of Iraq, blamed Shiite Muslim militias with ties to government security forces. Also Monday, a prominent Shiite leader renewed his calls for setting up federal regions in Iraq, saying that would solve the country's problems. Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the Shiite bloc in the 275-member parliament, spoke at a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad to mark Ashoura. "I reaffirm that the establishing of regions will help us in solving many problems that we are suffering from. Moreover, it represents the best solution for these problems," he said. Al-Hakim said his concern cut across sectarian lines. "I sympathize with our Sunni brothers in their ordeal with the terrorists as I sympathize with the Shiites in their ordeal with the terrorists," he said. "I condemn the killing of Sunnis as I condemn the killing of the Shiites."

Hamas, Fatah declare new cease-fire GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Warring Hamas and Fatah factions in Gaza declared a cease-fire early Tuesday and said it would take effect within hours. Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahar of Hamas said the truce would go into effect at 3 a.m. local time. He spoke after a meeting between Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas and a representative of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, with the participation of Egyptian mediators. They flanked him during his statement. Zahar said clashes that have taken more than 60 lives are to halt, security forces are to return to their bases and suspects in killings are to be handed over. As he spoke, gunfire could still be heard in Gaza City.

Palestinian militants kill three in Eilat attack By Rami Amichai EILAT, Israel (Reuters) - Palestinian militant groups mounted their first suicide bombing in Israel in nine months on Monday, killing 3 people in the Red Sea tourist resort of Eilat. The Eilat blast occurred four days before the so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators was to meet in Washington as part of a bid to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Efforts have been complicated by Palestinian factional gunbattles. Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for what was the first suicide attack in the Red Sea town, and named a 21-year-old from Gaza as the bomber. Israeli police said he infiltrated from Egypt. Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz said the attackers were trying to disrupt a shaky two-month-old ceasefire between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza. "We intend to protect Israel's citizens ... We are certainly prepared to give the proper reactions. At the same time, we will do everything to keep the ceasefire," Peretz told parliament in remarks that could suggest Israel's response would be limited. In Gaza, rival Palestinian factions battled in the streets for a fifth successive day on Monday, killing at least three people. Saudi Arabia has offered to host talks between the feuding Hamas movement and Fatah in the holy city of Mecca. The fighting has been the fiercest since Hamas, an Islamist group, won elections a year ago. Gunbattles have spread across the densely populated Gaza Strip, where 1.5 million Palestinians live, and have prompted some families to flee their homes. The latest deaths raised to 30 the number of people killed in clashes since Thursday. The fighting, which has erupted periodically over the past year, has derailed unity talks between Hamas and Fatah. "What else can we call this but a civil war?" asked Abu Omar, a shop owner in Gaza City, where most businesses closed down. BAKERY BLAST Eilat residents were jolted by what witnesses described as a powerful explosion in the Lechamim bakery in a residential neighborhood of the city, far from its beach hotels. "I saw a man with a black coat and a bag. For Eilat, where it is hot, it is strange to see someone walking with a coat. I said to myself, 'Why is this idiot dressed that way?' Seconds later, I heard a huge blast. The building shook," Benny Mazgini, a local resident, told Israel Radio. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in broadcast remarks all three of those killed by the bomber were Israelis. He said Israel was weighing its response. Islamic Jihad and the Aqsa brigades said the bombing was a response to Israeli "attempts to defile al-Aqsa mosque" in Jerusalem, a reference to recent archaeological excavations. Israeli officials said the work had not damaged the shrine. "The heroic operation announces the beginning of a series of operations in defense of al-Aqsa mosque and it was a natural response to savage aggression by the occupation (Israel)," the two groups said in a statement. A spokesman for the Aqsa brigades, part of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, identified the suicide bomber as Mohammad Faisal Siksik, 21, from Gaza City, a member of the brigades' Army of Believers. Israeli police said the bomber entered Egypt from Gaza and then made his way through the Sinai peninsula to the porous Egyptian-Israeli border north of Eilat, where he caught a ride with an Israeli motorist who drove him into the city. After dropping him off, the driver phoned police to report the hitch-hiker had behaved suspiciously. The bomber detonated 10 kg (22 lb) of explosives while police were searching the area where he was dropped, a police spokesman said. Olmert voiced fears the attack could scare tourists away from Eilat. Nearly 180,000 foreign tourists visited the resort, at the northern tip of the Red Sea, last year. The city has been spared the violence of a more than six-year-long Palestinian uprising. At his family home in the northern Gaza Strip, Siksik's brother Naeem told reporters: "We knew he was going to carry out a martyrdom operation. His mother and father prayed for him to succeed." In Washington, the White House issued a statement in which it condemned "Palestinian terrorist groups, including Hamas, that condone these barbaric actions." It said the Palestinian Authority's failure to "act against terror will inevitably affect relations between that government and the international community and undermine the aspirations of the Palestinian people for a state of their own." A Palestinian suicide bomber last struck in Israel on April 17, 2006, killing 11 people outside a restaurant in Tel Aviv in an attack claimed by Islamic Jihad.

Euro MPs elect German as speaker The European parliament has elected a German conservative, Hans-Gert Poettering, as its new president. Mr Poettering is one of the veterans of the European parliament Mr Poettering, a 61-year-old Christian Democrat, replaces the Spanish Socialist Josep Borrell. He was elected under a deal by which the Socialist bloc and centre-right bloc took it in turns to share the current five-year term. He won in the first round, with 450 votes out of the 689 counted. He defeated three rivals. The other contenders were: Green Italian MEP Monica Frassoni, Danish Eurosceptic Jens-Peter Bonde and Francis Wurtz, a member of the European United Left group. Mr Poettering has been a member of the parliament since it was first directly elected in 1979. The parliament in Strasbourg formally welcomed 35 Romanian and 18 Bulgarian MEPs on Monday - bringing its total to 785 - for the first plenary session since they joined the EU on 1 January. The new MEPs have been appointed by their national parliaments and will keep their seats until European elections in the two countries later in the year.

Olmert under pressure after military chief resigns By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The resignation of Israel's armed forces chief over failure to win last summer's Lebanon war dealt a fresh blow on Wednesday to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, already weakened by political scandal. Israeli media described Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz's decision to quit as an earthquake and speculated whether it might ultimately trigger a domino effect toppling Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz. "He did not agree to my request that he reconsider. I very much regret the chief of staff's resignation," Olmert said in a statement in which he called Halutz one of Israel's "greatest warriors" but made no comment on his conduct of the Lebanon war. The former fighter pilot's move was announced hours after Israel's state prosecutor ordered a criminal probe into Olmert's role in the privatization of Israel's second biggest bank in 2005, when he was finance minister. "The investigation of Olmert and Halutz's resignation in the wake of the Lebanon war could rock the foundations of the government," political analyst Hanan Crystal told Israel Radio. A poll commissioned by Israel's Channel 10 television found that 69 percent of Israelis want Olmert to follow Halutz's lead and resign. Eighty-five percent called for Peretz to step down. Olmert has denied any wrongdoing in the sale of Bank Leumi or in another case, now being considered by Israel's attorney-general, into the alleged appointment of cronies to a government-funded business authority. His troubles could weigh heavily on Washington's new push to revive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking, efforts that it hopes can bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in his power struggle with the governing Islamist group Hamas. Mushir al-Masri, a senior Hamas legislator said in Gaza that investigations against Olmert and Halutz's resignation "prove the Zionist government is weak" and should spur Palestinians "to continue resistance and jihad." STORM CLOUDS An Israeli poll published on Friday indicated Olmert's approval ratings had slipped to 14 percent. The survey showed his centrist Kadima party would lose nearly two-thirds of its strength in an election. Balloting is still three years away but storm clouds are gathering quickly on Olmert's political horizon. A government-appointed commission of inquiry into Israel's inconclusive war against Lebanon's Hezbollah guerillas is looking into the conduct of Olmert and Peretz in the 34-day conflict that ended in a ceasefire on August 14. The Winograd Committee's interim report is expected to be out within weeks. Halutz, 58, chose not to wait. I n his resignation letter, Halutz said that after overseeing the military's own investigations into the war, it was time for him to "act responsibly" and go. The internal probes criticized Israeli top brass for poor organization but stopped short of recommending that Halutz quit. Few in Israel had expected him to remain at his post after a conflict in which the Middle East's mightiest military failed to stop constant Hezbollah rocket attacks that forced a million Israelis to spend a sweltering summer in bomb shelters. "Never has an Israeli chief of staff resigned of his own free will over the failure of a war," Alex Fishman, a military affairs correspondent, wrote in the Yedioth Ahronoth daily. Israel drove Hezbollah fighters from its northern border but failed to retrieve two soldiers, whose abduction by the group on July 12 triggered the war in which some 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 157 Israelis, most of them soldiers, were killed. Halutz, chief of staff since 2005, will continue in his role until a new army chief is named. Israel Radio said Peretz was expected to present a candidate to the government on Sunday.

Israeli army chief resigns over Lebanon war by Jean-Luc Renaudie JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's military chief quit over the failures of the Lebanon war, in a second blow to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's unpopular government after a graft probe was launched. In what several newspapers called an "earthquake," Lieutenant General Dan Halutz became the most senior head to roll over last year's war against Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, which has been bitterly criticized in Israel. "I have accomplished the objective that was set for me at the end of the Lebanon war, which was to study and learn the lessons from what transpired," wrote Halutz, 58, in his letter of resignation. "I consider under the conditions it is my duty to resign my office immediately." He went on to tell military chiefs of staff Wednesday that he had "no intention of packing up my desk and leaving in a rush," adding: "I intend to ensure an orderly transition for my replacement." Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Halutz would remain in his post until a successor is named. Olmert, scraping the bottom of public opinion ratings, said a successor would be chosen in the coming days after consultations with former prime ministers, defense ministers, chiefs of staff, the foreign minister and the opposition in parliament. "I very much regret the chief of staff's resignation," he said. Halutz resigned just hours after Israel's chief prosecutor ordered a criminal investigation against Olmert -- the latest in a string of corruption scandals described by one newspaper as "Sodom and Gomorrah." Olmert, who has been hounded by allegations of corruption since before he took office last May, is suspected of intervening on behalf of a friend while acting finance minister in 2005 during the privatization of Israel's second-largest bank. He has denied any wrongdoing. Following Halutz's resignation, political commentators in Israel turned their attention to who could be the next official to pay the price for the mid-summer war, which failed to achieve its goals of freeing two captured Israeli soldiers and stopping Hezbollah rocket fire. Israeli army radio said Halutz's resignation would, in a "domino effect", lead to the resignations of Peretz and Olmert himself, sentiments echoed in the press and by opposition lawmakers. "The chief of staff's resignation officially confirms the failure of the Lebanon war and compels the prime minister and the defense minister to stop holding on to their positions and resign from their posts," Yisrael Katz of the right-wing opposition Likud party told the Ynet news service. Zahava Gal-On of the liberal opposition Meretz party echoed the view. "The responsibility for the failure of the Lebanon war cannot stop at the military echelon but must include the political echelon as well for making irresponsible decisions before the war," Gal-On said. Wrote the Maariv daily: "Now it is Defense Minister Amir Peretz's turn to hand over the keys, so that the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) will be able to embark on a new path. "And what about Olmert? The public will judge his performance," it said. Roni Zweigenboim, a leader of military reservists protesting over the conduct of the war, told AFP: "We will continue our struggle until Olmert and Peretz step down, because we are worried for the country. As long as they are prime minister and defence minister, our condition is very dangerous." According to opinion polls in recent weeks, the public has already passed harsh judgement on the prime minister -- Olmert's approval rating is 14 percent, half of Israelis think he should resign and 85 percent think the nation's leadership is corrupt. Meanwhile, the ratings of the right-wing opposition Likud party have surged. Polls show it would nearly triple its current 11 seats in the 120-member parliament at the expense of Olmert's Kadima party and its main coalition partner, Labour. The war on Hezbollah, launched after the Shiite militia -- backed by Iran and Syria -- seized the two soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12, had raised a storm of outrage in Israel following the UN-brokered ceasefire that took effect on August 14. The conflict killed more than 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers, and more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians. Halutz was appointed in June 2005, the first man with an air force background to be chosen as army chief of staff. He has been criticized for overestimating the effectiveness of air strikes during the war on Hezbollah, while infantry and armored units were poorly trained and equipped.

PROTOCOL No. 3 Methods of Conquest 1. To-day I may tell you that our goal is now only a few steps off. There remains a small space to cross and the whole long path we have trodden is ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by which we symbolize our people. When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be locked in its coil as in a powerful vice. 2. The constitution scales of these days will shortly break down, for we have established them with a certain lack of accurate balance in order that they may oscillate incessantly until they wear through the pivot on which they turn. The GOYIM are under the impression that they have welded them sufficiently strong and they have all along kept on expecting that the scales would come into equilibrium. But the pivots - the kings on their thrones - are hemmed in by their representatives, who play the fool, distraught with their own uncontrolled and irresponsible power. This power they owe to the terror which has been breathed into the palaces. As they have no means of getting at their people, into their very midst, the kings on their thrones are no longer able to come to terms with them and so strengthen themselves against seekers after power. We have made a gulf between the far-seeing Sovereign Power and the blind force of the people so that both have lost all meaning, for like the blind man and his stick, both are powerless apart. 3. In order to incite seekers after power to a misuse of power we have set all forces in opposition one to another, breaking up their liberal tendencies towards independence. To this end we have stirred up every form of enterprise, we have armed all parties, we have set up authority as a target for every ambition. Of States we have made gladiatorial arenas where a lot of confused issues contend .... A little more, and disorders and bankruptcy will be universal .... 4. Babblers, inexhaustible, have turned into oratorical contests the sittings of Parliament and Administrative Boards. Bold journalists and unscrupulous pamphleteers daily fall upon executive officials. Abuses of power will put the final touch in preparing all institutions for their overthrow and everything will fly skyward under the blows of the maddened mob. POVERTY OUR WEAPON 5. All people are chained down to heavy toil by poverty more firmly than ever. They were chained by slavery and serfdom; from these, one way and another, they might free themselves. These could be settled with, but from want they will never get away. We have included in the constitution such rights as to the masses appear fictitious and not actual rights. All these so-called "Peoples Rights" can exist only in idea, an idea which can never be realized in practical life. What is it to the proletariat laborer, bowed double over his heavy toil, crushed by his lot in life, if talkers get the right to babble, if journalists get the right to scribble any nonsense side by side with good stuff, once the proletariat has no other profit out of the constitution save only those pitiful crumbs which we fling them from our table in return for their voting in favor of what we dictate, in favor of the men we place in power, the servants of our AGENTUR ... Republican rights for a poor man are no more than a bitter piece of irony, for the necessity he is under of toiling almost all day gives him no present use of them, but the other hand robs him of all guarantee of regular and certain earnings by making him dependent on strikes by his comrades or lockouts by his masters. WE SUPPORT COMMUNISM 6. The people, under our guidance, have annihilated the aristocracy, who were their one and only defense and foster- mother for the sake of their own advantage which is inseparably bound up with the well-being of the people. Nowadays, with the destruction of the aristocracy, the people have fallen into the grips of merciless money-grinding scoundrels who have laid a pitiless and cruel yoke upon the necks of the workers. 7. We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from this oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces - Socialists, Anarchists, Communists - to whom we always give support in accordance with an alleged brotherly rule (of the solidarity of all humanity) of our SOCIAL MASONRY. The aristocracy, which enjoyed by law the labor of the workers, was interested in seeing that the workers were well fed, healthy, and strong. We are interested in just the opposite - in the diminution, the KILLING OUT OF THE GOYIM. Our power is in the chronic shortness of food and physical weakness of the worker because by all that this implies he is made the slave of our will, and he will not find in his own authorities either strength or energy to set against our will. Hunger creates the right of capital to rule the worker more surely than it was given to the aristocracy by the legal authority of kings. 8. By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our way. 9. WHEN THE HOUR STRIKES FOR OUR SOVEREIGN LORD OF ALL THE WORLD TO BE CROWNED IT IS THESE SAME HANDS WHICH WILL SWEEP AWAY EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT BE A HINDRANCE THERETO. (The Biblical "Anti-Christ?") 10. The GOYIM have lost the habit of thinking unless prompted by the suggestions of our specialists. Therefore they do not see the urgent necessity of what we, when our kingdom comes, shall adopt at once, namely this, that IT IS ESSENTIAL TO TEACH IN NATIONAL SCHOOLS ONE SIMPLE, TRUE PIECE OF KNOWLEDGE, THE BASIS OF ALL KNOWLEDGE - THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE STRUCTURE OF HUMAN LIFE, OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE, WHICH REQUIRES DIVISION OF LABOR, AND, CONSEQUENTLY, THE DIVISION OF MEN INTO CLASSES AND CONDITIONS. It is essential for all to know that OWING TO DIFFERENCE IN THE OBJECTS OF HUMAN ACTIVITY THERE CANNOT BE ANY EQUALITY, that he, who by any act of his compromises a whole class, cannot be equally responsible before the law with him who affects no one but only his own honor. The true knowledge of the structure of society, into the secrets of which we do not admit the GOYIM, would demonstrate to all men that the positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that they may not become a source of human suffering, arising from an education which does not correspond with the work which individuals are called upon to do. After a thorough study of this knowledge, the peoples will voluntarily submit to authority and accept such position as is appointed them in the State. In the present state of knowledge and the direction we have given to its development of the people, blindly believing things in print - cherishes - thanks to promptings intended to mislead and to its own ignorance - a blind hatred towards all conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no understanding of the meaning of class and condition. JEWS WILL BE SAFE 11. THIS HATRED WILL BE STILL FURTHER MAGNIFIED BY THE EFFECTS of an ECONOMIC CRISES, which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring industry to a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC CRISES WHEREBY WE SHALL THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERS SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot. 12 "OURS" THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILL BE KNOWN TO US AND WE SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN. 13. We have demonstrated that progress will bring all the GOYIM to the sovereignty of reason. Our despotism will be precisely that; for it will know how, by wise severities, to pacificate all unrest, to cauterize liberalism out of all institutions. 14. When the populace has seen that all sorts of concessions and indulgences are yielded it, in the same name of freedom it has imagined itself to be sovereign lord and has stormed its way to power, but, naturally like every other blind man, it has come upon a host of stumbling blocks. IT HAS RUSHED TO FIND A GUIDE, IT HAS NEVER HAD THE SENSE TO RETURN TO THE FORMER STATE and it has laid down its plenipotentiary powers at OUR feet. Remember the French Revolution, to which it was we who gave the name of "Great": the secrets of its preparations are well known to us for it was wholly the work of our hands. 15 Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one disenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us in favor of that KING-DESPOT OF THE BLOOD OF ZION, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE WORLD. 16. At the present day we are, as an international force, invincible, because if attacked by some we are supported by other States. It is the bottomless rascality of the GOYIM peoples, who crawl on their bellies to force, but are merciless towards weakness, unsparing to faults and indulgent to crimes, unwilling to bear the contradictions of a free social system but patient unto martyrdom under the violence of a bold despotism - it is those qualities which are aiding us to independence. From the premier- dictators of the present day, the GOYIM peoples suffer patiently and bear such abuses as for the least of them they would have beheaded twenty kings. 17. What is the explanation of this phenomenon, this curious inconsequence of the masses of the peoples in their attitude towards what would appear to be events of the same order? 18. It is explained by the fact that these dictators whisper to the peoples through their agents that through these abuses they are inflicting injury on the States with the highest purpose - to secure the welfare of the peoples, the international brotherhood of them all, their solidarity and equality of rights. Naturally they do not tell the peoples that this unification must be accomplished only under our sovereign rule. 19. And thus the people condemn the upright and acquit the guilty, persuaded ever more and more that it can do whatsoever it wishes. Thanks to this state of things, the people are destroying every kind of stability and creating disorders at every step. 20. The word "freedom" brings out the communities of men to fight against every kind of force, against every kind of authority even against God and the laws of nature. For this reason we, when we come into our kingdom, shall have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as implying a principle of brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts. 21. These beasts, it is true, fall asleep again every time when they have drunk their fill of blood, and at such time can easily be riveted into their chains. But if they be not given blood they will not sleep and continue to struggle.

I heard that Barzan head separated from his body

Finally they started to win:wacko:

Saddam half brother, ex-official hanged By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein's half brother and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court were both hanged before dawn Monday, Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said, two weeks and two days after the former Iraqi dictator was executed in a chaotic scene that has drawn worldwide criticism. Barzan Ibrahim, Saddam's half brother and former intelligence chief, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court, had been found guilty along with Saddam in the killing of 148 Shiite Muslims after a 1982 assassination attempt on the former leader in the town of Dujail north of Baghdad. "They (the government) called us before dawn and told us to send someone. I sent a judge to witness the execution and it happened," al-Faroon said. Two aides to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki confirmed that the executions had taken place. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the government had not yet released the information. Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh was to hold a news conference later Monday and was expected to announce the hangings. The executions reportedly occurred in the same Saddam-era military intelligence headquarters building in north Baghdad where the former leader was hanged two days before the end of 2006, according to an Iraqi general, who would not allow use of his name because he was not authorized to release the information. The building is located in the Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah. The two men were to have been hanged along with Saddam on Dec. 30, but Iraqi authorities decided to execute Saddam alone on what National Security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie called a "special day." Last week, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani urged the government to delay the executions. "In my opinion we should wait," Talabani said Wednesday at a news conference with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad. "We should examine the situation," he said without elaborating. Saddam's execution became an unruly scene that brought worldwide criticism of the Iraqi government. Video of the execution, recorded on a cell phone camera, showed the former dictator being taunted on the gallows. On Tuesday, al-Maliki said that Khalilzad asked him to delay Saddam's execution for 10 days to two weeks, but added that Iraqi officials rejected the demand. A lawyer for the two men told The Associated Press recently that they were taken from their cells and told they were going to be hanged on the same day Saddam was executed. Issam Ghazawi, a member of Saddam's defense team for the past two years, said he met individually with Ibrahim and al-Bandar recently, and that Ibrahim told him they were escorted from their cells and told they were also going to be executed. "The Americans took me and al-Bandar from our cells on the same day of Saddam's execution to an office inside the prison at 1 a.m. They asked us to collect our belongings because they intend to execute us at dawn," Ibrahim reportedly said. He said the two men were also told to write their wills. Al-Bandar and Ibrahim were taken back to their prison cells nearly nine hours later, according to Ghazawi. "Their execution should be commuted under such circumstances because of the psychological pain they endured as they waited to hang," he said. Ghazawi quoted as Al-Bandar as saying he "wished to have been executed with President Saddam." Ibrahim, the lawyer said, "was in the worst condition. He kept crying over the death of his brother and said it was a great loss for the family and the Arab world." After Saddam's execution but before Ibrahim and al-Bandar's, Human Rights Watch released a report calling the speedy trial and subsequent hanging of Saddam proof of the new Iraqi government's disregard for human rights. "The tribunal repeatedly showed its disregard for the fundamental due process rights of all of the defendants," said Richard Dicker, director of Human Rights Watch's International Justice Program.

PROTOCOL No. 2 Economic Wars 1. It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to the economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our international AGENTUR; which possesses millions of eyes ever on the watch and unhampered by any limitations whatsoever. Our international rights will then wipe out national rights, in the proper sense of right, and will rule the nations precisely as the civil law of States rules the relations of their subjects among themselves. 2. The administrators, whom we shall choose from among the public, with strict regard to their capacities for servile obedience, will not be persons trained in the arts of government, and will therefore easily become pawns in our game in the hands of men of learning and genius who will be their advisers, specialists bred and reared from early childhood to rule the affairs of the whole world. As is well known to you, these specialists of ours have been drawing to fit them for rule the information they need from our political plans from the lessons of history, from observations made of the events of every moment as it passes. The GOYIM are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced historical observation, but by theoretical routine without any critical regard for consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any account of them - let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed. For them let that play the principal part which we have persuaded them to accept as the dictates of science (theory). It is with this object in view that we are constantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these theories. The intellectuals of the GOYIM will puff themselves up with their knowledges and without any logical verification of them will put into effect all the information available from science, which our AGENTUR specialists have cunningly pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in the direction we want. DESTRUCTIVE EDUCATION 3. Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words: think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzsche-ism. To us Jews, at any rate, it should be plain to see what a disintegrating importance these directives have had upon the minds of the GOYIM. 4. It is indispensable for us to take account of the thoughts, characters, tendencies of the nations in order to avoid making slips in the political and in the direction of administrative affairs. The triumph of our system of which the component parts of the machinery may be variously disposed according to the temperament of the peoples met on our way, will fail of success if the practical application of it be not based upon a summing up of the lessons of the past in the light of the present. 5. In the hands of the States of to-day there is a great force that creates the movement of thought in the people, and that is the Press. The part played by the Press is to keep pointing our requirements supposed to be indispensable, to give voice to the complaints of the people, to express and to create discontent. It is in the Press that the triumph of freedom of speech finds its incarnation. But the GOYIM States have not known how to make use of this force; and it has fallen into our hands. Through the Press we have gained the power to influence while remaining ourselves in the shade; thanks to the Press we have got the GOLD in our hands, notwithstanding that we have had to gather it out of the oceans of blood and tears. But it has paid us, though we have sacrificed many of our people. Each victim on our side is worth in the sight of God a thousand GOYIM.

Rice begins Mid-East peace push Ms Rice insists the US must stand firm over Iraqi security US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Israel as she begins a renewed effort to revive stalled negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. She is due to meet both sides but has admitted that she will not be presenting any concrete new proposals. Ms Rice will also visit Arab capitals to rally support for President Bush's new strategy in Iraq. She has denied that the US intends to escalate the war in Iraq by confronting Iranian groups operating there. Ms Rice is set to hold talks with Israeli ministers later on Saturday and will see Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday, before wrapping up this stage of her tour with talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Monday. No plan She has said she expects intensive consultations but has played down any hopes of a major breakthrough and stressed that she had not come to the region with a plan to end the conflict. "I think anything that is an American plan is bound to fail," she said. "The United States is not going to succeed in this alone. This has to have an Arab voice - Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia. "It certainly has to have the voice of the reasonable factions among the Palestinians, like Abu Mazen [Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas]. And it has to have an Israeli voice." The US is hoping to shore up Mr Abbas whose Fatah faction has been locked in a power struggle with the governing Hamas movement. Washington is planning to provide $85m to help train and equip Mr Abbas's presidential guard. Tensions between Fatah and Hamas appeared to have eased somewhat, with both Mr Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas urging national unity after weeks of feuding. Hamas, which refuses to recognise Israel or renounce violence, is regarded by Israel and the West as a terrorist group. A Hamas statement on Saturday said Ms Rice's trip would "only contribute to creating divisions and dissension in the region" and Mr Haniya accused Israel and America of seeking to foment a Palestinian civil war. As well as Israel and the Palestinian territories, Ms Rice's week-long tour will take in Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Ms Rice has said Arab leaders have every incentive to help as a stable Iraq is also in their interests. The BBC's Katya Adler in Jerusalem says these countries would agree but they also question the logic of sending more US troops to Iraq. Arab countries are also saying that if the US wants their help in Iraq, it must engage more in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, our correspondent adds. 'Good policy' President Bush on Wednesday announced that 21,500 extra troops would be sent in an effort to reduce violence across Iraq, especially in Baghdad. The plan has been condemned by Democrats and some Republics as a dangerous escalation. But Ms Rice, speaking ahead of her visit, backed a pledge by President Bush to run search and destroy missions against groups suspected of building bombs for use within Iraq. She insisted that the US was not going to let either Iran or Syria continue activities that endangered American soldiers in Iraq. "I don't think there is a government in the world that would sit by and let the Iranians in particular run networks inside Iraq that are building explosive devices of a very high quality that are being used to kill their soldiers. "That's not an escalation, that's just good policy," Ms Rice told the BBC. Earlier this week the US raided the Iranian consulate in Irbil, northern Iraq, detaining five people. Last year an influential report led by former Secretary of State James Baker urged the Bush administration to begin negotiations with Iran and Syria in a bid to find a solution in Iraq.

Lieberman calls on Peretz to quit over appointment of first Arab minister By Mazal Mualem, Gideon Alon and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents, and Haaretz Service. MK Raleb Majadele greeting friends in his office in the Knesset on Thursday. (AP) Minister for Strategic Affairs Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday called on Amir Peretz to resign the defense portfolio over his appointment of Israel's first Arab minister, saying Peretz was unfit to hold the post. Lieberman said that Peretz had abused his role as defense minister, and used the apparatus of the state for his own ends in the Labor Party primaries, and as such was not worthy of holding the position. Lieberman's comments followed condemnation of the appointment by the chairman of Knesset faction of his Yisrael Beiteinu party, MK Esterina Tartman, who lambasted the move as "a lethal blow to Zionism." She told Israel Radio that Labor MK Raleb Majadele's appointment as minister of science and technology damages "Israel's character as a Jewish state." "We need to destroy this affliction from within ourselves. God willing, God will come to our help," she said. Tartman's remarks were widely condemned by lawmakers from across the political spectrum. Majadele later said that her comments did not merit a response. Tartman also said Peretz only made Majadele minister because the MK is an Arab, and to strengthen Peretz's power within Labor. "Peretz is making a sacrifice of Zionism," she said. "He has crossed all the red lines. Israel is a Jewish state and should be run according to Jewish principles." Tartman insisted that she did not have anything personal against Majadele, but objected to his appointment in principle. "This is assimilation," She said. "I call on the prime minister not to approve this appointment, not for personal reasons, but in order to protect the state of Israel's interest as a Jewish and Zionist state." MK Michael Eitan (Likud) called for a Knesset debate on what he termed Tartman's racist comments. He said that he "rejected with disgust Tartman's racist pronouncements. The Zionism of Herzl, Jabotinsky and Begin always advocated the integration of Arabs who are loyal to the state in all of its institutions on the basis of equality. Tartman's statements are such that no believer in equality and democracy can accept them being on the agenda." Labor MKs, including Danny Yatom and Yoram Marciano, called for Peretz to convene party institutions to reconsider Labor's continued participation in the coalition following Tartman's remarks. Yatom said her comments show that Peretz and the ministers erred in choosing Knesset seats over ideology. Marciano, head of the Labor faction in the Knesset, called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to oust Yisrael Beiteinu from the coalition, and for Labor to reconsider whether it can "sit in the government with this racist party." "These remarks are an insult to the Knesset, to democracy and to the state," MK Nadia Hilo (Labor) said. "If they are acceptable to Yisrael Beiteinu, then it should leave the government. Arab citizens did not receive citizenship through the grace of Yisrael Beiteinu." Meretz Chairman Yossi Beilin called on Labor to condition its participation in the government on the removal of Yisrael Beiteinu. He added that the racist remarks that Tartman made, an issue which Yisrael Beiteinu should "confront internally," are extremely serious, and urged Attorney General Menachem Mazuz to check whether there is legal justification for opening a criminal investigation over the remarks. MK Magali Wahaba (Kadima) said, " I regret that there are still people who instead of speaking of cooperation, continue to speak in a racist tone. Such people must be removed from our midst," he said.

Blast at U.S. embassy called 'terrorism' By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 11 minutes ago ATHENS, Greece - The U.S. Embassy in Athens came under fire early Friday from a rocket that exploded inside the modern glass-front building but caused no casualties in an attack police suspect was the work of Greek leftists. Narrowly missing the embassy emblem, the anti-tank shell pierced the building near the front entrance shortly before 6 a.m., damaging a bathroom on the third room, which houses the ambassador's office, and shattering windows in nearby buildings. "We're treating it as a very serious attack," U.S. Ambassador Charles Ries said. Greece's Public Order Minister said police were examining the authenticity of anonymous phone calls to a private security company claiming responsibility on behalf of Revolutionary Struggle, a militant left-wing group. "It is very likely that this is the work of a domestic group," Minister Vyron Polydoras said. "We believe this effort to revive terrorism is deplorable and will not succeed." Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for a May 2006 bomb attack on Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis, in which nobody was injured. U.S.-owned banks and companies have often been targeted in small bomb attacks by groups in Greece. But Friday's incident was the most serious since the 2002 break-up of the far-left November 17 group, which was blamed for several attacks against foreign diplomats and military personnel, including the assassination of a CIA station chief in Athens. Polydoras said Greece "strongly condemns" the attack. "We believe it is a symbolic act," he said. "It is an attempt to disrupt our country's international relations." Police cordoned off streets around the heavily guarded building after the explosion, stopping traffic in much of central Athens for more than three hours. Emergency services scrambled to the embassy building, which is a frequent destination for protest groups. Investigators were examining what they believed was the device used to fire the rocket shell from a construction site near the embassy. "This is an act of terrorism," Police Chief Asimakis Golfis said. "There was a shell that exploded in the toilets of the building ... It was fired from street level." Ambassador Ries said the building was not occupied at the time and the damage was minimal. The embassy is now a crime scene and will remain closed until further notice, he said. "There can be no justification for such a senseless act of violence," said Ries, who added that there had been no warning. Authorities were searching nearby apartment buildings and a nearby hospital for evidence. Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis visited the embassy after the blast. "I came here to express the solidarity of the Greek people following this deplorable action," she said. "Such actions in the past have had a very heavy cost for the country. ... The Greek government is determined to undertake every effort to not allow such phenomena to be repeated in the future." Giorgos Yiannoulis runs a kiosk near the embassy. "I heard a loud bang; I didn't realize what was going on," he said. It was the most serious attack on the mission since 1996, when November 17 carried out a rocket attack against the embassy that caused minor damage and no injuries. Polydoras said police would set up a special task force, headed by a former counterterrorism chief who eradicated the November 17 group in 2002. The group was blamed for killing 23 people — including U.S., British and Turkish officials — and dozens of bomb attacks. Several obscure militant groups have appeared since the November 17 members were arrested. Radical groups Revolutionary Struggle and Popular Revolutionary Action have been blamed for the bombings of three government ministries in 2005. In 2003, a special court gave multiple life sentences to November 17's leader, chief assassin and three other members. Lesser sentences were given to 10 others.

PROTOCOL No. 1 The Basic Doctrine 1. ....Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak of the significance of each thought: by comparisons and deductions we shall throw light upon surrounding facts. 2. What I am about to set forth, then, is our system from the two points of view, that of ourselves and that of the GOYIM [i.e., non- Jews]. 3. It must be noted that men with bad instincts are more in number than the good, and therefore the best results in governing them are attained by violence and terrorisation, and not by academic discussions. Every man aims at power, everyone would like to become a dictator if only he could, and rare indeed are the men who would not be willing to sacrifice the welfare of all for the sake of securing their own welfare. 4. What has restrained the beasts of prey who are called men? What has served for their guidance hitherto? 5. In the beginnings of the structure of society, they were subjected to brutal and blind force; after words - to Law, which is the same force, only disguised. I draw the conclusion that by the law of nature right lies in force. 6. Political freedom is an idea but not a fact. This idea one must know how to apply whenever it appears necessary with this bait of an idea to attract the masses of the people to one's party for the purpose of crushing another who is in authority. This task is rendered easier of the opponent has himself been infected with the idea of freedom, SO-CALLED LIBERALISM, and, for the sake of an idea, is willing to yield some of his power. It is precisely here that the triumph of our theory appears; the slackened reins of government are immediately, by the law of life, caught up and gathered together by a new hand, because the blind might of the nation cannot for one single day exist without guidance, and the new authority merely fits into the place of the old already weakened by liberalism. GOLD 7. In our day the power which has replaced that of the rulers who were liberal is the power of Gold. Time was when Faith ruled. The idea of freedom is impossible of realization because no one knows how to use it with moderation. It is enough to hand over a people to self-government for a certain length of time for that people to be turned into a disorganized mob. From that moment on we get internecine strife which soon develops into battles between classes, in the midst of which States burn down and their importance is reduced to that of a heap of ashes. 8. Whether a State exhausts itself in its own convulsions, whether its internal discord brings it under the power of external foes - in any case it can be accounted irretrievable lost: IT IS IN OUR POWER. The despotism of Capital, which is entirely in our hands, reaches out to it a straw that the State, willy-nilly, must take hold of: if not - it goes to the bottom. 9. Should anyone of a liberal mind say that such reflections as the above are immoral, I would put the following questions: If every State has two foes and if in regard to the external foe it is allowed and not considered immoral to use every manner and art of conflict, as for example to keep the enemy in ignorance of plans of attack and defense, to attack him by night or in superior numbers, then in what way can the same means in regard to a worse foe, the destroyer of the structure of society and the commonweal, be called immoral and not permissible? 10. Is it possible for any sound logical mind to hope with any success to guide crowds by the aid of reasonable counsels and arguments, when any objection or contradiction, senseless though it may be, can be made and when such objection may find more favor with the people, whose powers of reasoning are superficial? Men in masses and the men of the masses, being guided solely by petty passions, paltry beliefs, traditions and sentimental theorems, fall a prey to party dissension, which hinders any kind of agreement even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable argument. Every resolution of a crowd depends upon a chance or packed majority, which, in its ignorance of political secrets, puts forth some ridiculous resolution that lays in the administration a seed of anarchy. 11. The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who is governed by the moral is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstable on his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and to make-believe. Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are vices in politics, for they bring down rulers from their thrones more effectively and more certainly than the most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be the attributes of the kingdoms of the GOYIM, but we must in no wise be guided by them. RIGHT IS MIGHT 12. Our right lies in force. The word "right" is an abstract thought and proved by nothing. The word means no more than: Give me what I want in order that thereby I may have a proof that I am stronger than you. 13. Where does right begin? Where does it end? 14. In any State in which there is a bad organization of authority, an impersonality of laws and of the rulers who have lost their personality amid the flood of rights ever multiplying out of liberalism, I find a new right - to attack by the right of the strong, and to scatter to the winds all existing forces of order and regulation, to reconstruct all institutions and to become the sovereign lord of those who have left to us the rights of their power by laying them down voluntarily in their liberalism. 15. Our power in the present tottering condition of all forms of power will be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine it. 16. Out of the temporary evil we are now compelled to commit will emerge the good of an unshakable rule, which will restore the regular course of the machinery of the national life, brought to naught by liberalism. The result justifies the means. Let us, however, in our plans, direct our attention not so much to what is good and moral as to what is necessary and useful. 17. Before us is a plan in which is laid down strategically the line from which we cannot deviate without running the risk of seeing the labor of many centuries brought to naught. 18. In order to elaborate satisfactory forms of action it is necessary to have regard to the rascality, the slackness, the instability of the mob, its lack of capacity to understand and respect the conditions of its own life, or its own welfare. It must be understood that the might of a mob is blind, senseless and un- reasoning force ever at the mercy of a suggestion from any side. The blind cannot lead the blind without bringing them into the abyss; consequently, members of the mob, upstarts from the people even though they should be as a genius for wisdom, yet having no understanding of the political, cannot come forward as leaders of the mob without bringing the whole nation to ruin. 19. Only one trained from childhood for independent rule can have understanding of the words that can be made up of the political alphabet. 20. A people left to itself, i.e., to upstarts from its midst, brings itself to ruin by party dissensions excited by the pursuit of power and honors and the disorders arising therefrom. Is it possible for the masses of the people calmly and without petty jealousies to form judgment, to deal with the affairs of the country, which cannot be mixed up with personal interest? Can they defend themselves from an external foe? It is unthinkable; for a plan broken up into as many parts as there are heads in the mob, loses all homogeneity, and thereby becomes unintelligible and impossible of execution. WE ARE DESPOTS 21. It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated extensively and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among the several parts of the machinery of the State: from this the conclusion is inevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any country is one that concentrates in the hands of one responsible person. Without an absolute despotism there can be no existence for civilization which is carried on not by the masses but by their guide, whosoever that person may be. The mob is savage, and displays its savagery at every opportunity. The moment the mob seizes freedom in its hands it quickly turns to anarchy, which in itself is the highest degree of savagery. 22. Behold the alcoholic animals, bemused with drink, the right to an immoderate use of which comes along with freedom. It is not for us and ours to walk that road. The peoples of the GOYIM are bemused with alcoholic liquors; their youth has grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which it has been inducted by our special agents - by tutors, lackeys, governesses in the houses of the wealthy, by clerks and others, by our women in the places of dissipation frequented by the GOYIM. In the number of these last I count also the so-called "society ladies," voluntary followers of the others in corruption and luxury. 23. Our countersign is - Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers in political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the rule for governments which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet of agents of some new power. This evil is the one and only means to attain the end, the good. Therefore we must not stop at bribery, deceit and treachery when they should serve towards the attainment of our end. In politics one must know how to seize the property of others without hesitation if by it we secure submission and sovereignty. 24. Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory sentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce blind submission. Just but merciless severity is the greatest factor of strength in the State: not only for the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, for the sake of victory, we must keep to the programme of violence and make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts is precisely as strong as the means of which it makes use. Therefore it is not so much by the means themselves as by the doctrine of severity that we shall triumph and bring all governments into subjection to our super-government. It is enough for them to know that we are too merciless for all disobedience to cease. WE SHALL END LIBERTY 25. Far back in ancient times we were the first to cry among the masses of the people the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," words many times repeated since these days by stupid poll- parrots who, from all sides around, flew down upon these baits and with them carried away the well-being of the world, true freedom of the individual, formerly so well guarded against the pressure of the mob. The would-be wise men of the GOYIM, the intellectuals, could not make anything out of the uttered words in their abstractedness; did not see that in nature there is no equality, cannot be freedom: that Nature herself has established inequality of minds, of characters, and capacities, just as immutably as she has established subordination to her laws: never stopped to think that the mob is a blind thing, that upstarts elected from among it to bear rule are, in regard to the political, the same blind men as the mob itself, that the adept, though he be a fool, can yet rule, whereas the non-adept, even if he were a genius, understands nothing in the political - to all those things the GOYIM paid no regard; yet all the time it was based upon these things that dynastic rule rested: the father passed on to the son a knowledge of the course of political affairs in such wise that none should know it but members of the dynasty and none could betray it to the governed. As time went on, the meaning of the dynastic transference of the true position of affairs in the political was lost, and this aided the success of our cause. 26. In all corners of the earth the words "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were canker-worms at work boring into the well-being of the GOYIM, putting an end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations of the GOYA States. As you will see later, this helped us to our triumph: it gave us the possibility, among other things, of getting into our hands the master card - the destruction of the privileges, or in other words of the very existence of the aristocracy of the GOYIM, that class which was the only defense peoples and countries had against us. On the ruins of the eternal and genealogical aristocracy of the GOYIM we have set up the aristocracy of our educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The qualifications for this aristocracy we have established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, and in knowledge, for which our learned elders provide the motive force. 27. Our triumph has been rendered easier by the fact that in our relations with the men, whom we wanted, we have always worked upon the most sensitive chords of the human mind, upon the cash account, upon the cupidity, upon the insatiability for material needs of man; and each one of these human weaknesses, taken alone, is sufficient to paralyze initiative, for it hands over the will of men to the disposition of him who has bought their activities. 28. The abstraction of freedom has enabled us to persuade the mob in all countries that their government is nothing but the steward of the people who are the owners of the country, and that the steward may be replaced like a worn-out glove. 29. It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people which has placed at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of appointment.

Senior al-Qaida suspect reported killed By The Associated Press FAZUL ABUDLLAH MOHAMMED: A 32-year-old senior al-Qaida suspect who has a $5 million bounty on his head for allegedly planning the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 225 people. Fazul, who was born in the Comoros Islands, is also suspected of planning the nearly simultaneous car bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel and failed attempt to shoot down an Israeli airliner in Kenya in 2002. Thirteen people died in the hotel bombing. Fazul joined al-Qaida in Afghanistan and trained there with Osama bin Laden before becoming a teacher at a religious school in northern Kenya in the mid-1990s. He was captured by Kenyan police in 2002 for credit card fraud, but escaped after a day and fled to Somalia where authorities believe he has been hiding ever since.

New U.S. strikes hit sites in Somalia: govt source By Sahal Abdulle MOGADISHU (Reuters) - U.S. forces hunting al Qaeda suspects hit four locations in new air strikes in Somalia on Wednesday, a Somali government source said, as criticism mounted over Washington's military intervention. "As we speak now, the area is being bombarded by the American air force," the source told Reuters. He said the attacks hit an area close to Ras Kamboni, a coastal village near the Kenyan border where many fugitive Islamists are believed holed-up after being defeated by Ethiopian troops defending Somalia's interim government. Four places were hit -- Hayo, Garer, Bankajirow and Badmadowe, the source said. "Bankajirow was the last Islamist holdout. Bankajirow and Badmadowe were hit hardest," he added. Lawmaker Abdirashid Mohamed Hidig said at least 50 people were killed in strikes he said were carried out by U.S. and Ethiopian planes. It was unclear how either Hidig or the government source were able to distinguish between Ethiopian and U.S. aircraft. "Yesterday I personally saw the planes striking. The air strikes resumed this morning," Hidig told reporters in the port of Kismayu after returning from a tour of the attacked areas. "The worst loss has befallen civilians since the fleeing Islamists are hiding among the people there," he said, adding he was airlifted to the sites in an Ethiopian helicopter. Pentagon officials confirmed one air attack on Monday, as part of a wider offensive including Ethiopian planes. U.S. officials said the strike was aimed at an al Qaeda cell that includes suspects in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in east Africa and a 2002 attack on an Israeli-owned Kenyan hotel. Somali officials said many died in Monday's strike -- the first overt U.S. military action in Somalia since a disastrous humanitarian mission ended in 1994. A clan elder reported a second U.S. air strike on Tuesday, but that was not confirmed by other sources. The U.S. actions were defended by Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf, but criticized by others including new U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, the EU, and former colonial power Italy. "The secretary-general is concerned about the new dimension this kind of action could introduce to the conflict and the possible escalation of hostilities that may result," U.N. spokeswoman Michele Montas said. Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said Rome opposed "unilateral initiatives that could spark new tensions in an area that is already very destabilized." EMBASSY BOMBINGS Monday's U.S. attack on a southern village by an AC-130 plane firing automatic cannon was believed to have killed one of three al Qaeda suspects wanted for the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, a U.S. intelligence official said. Washington is seeking a handful of al Qaeda members including Abu Talha al-Sudani, who U.S. intelligence believes is the network's east Africa commander. Critics of the action say it could misfire by creating strong Somali resentment and feeding Islamist militancy. "Before this, it was just tacit support for Ethiopia. Now the U.S. has fingerprints on the intervention and is going to be held more accountable," said Horn of Africa expert Ken Menkhaus. "This has the potential for a backlash both in Somalia and the region." Ethiopia sent troops across the border late last month to oust Islamists who had held most of the south since June and threatened to overrun the weak government at its Baidoa base. In the capital Mogadishu, residents were woken by gunfire before dawn on Wednesday in an area housing Ethiopian and Somali troops, who were targeted in a rocket attack on Tuesday. One corpse lay in the street, witnesses said. In another attack, at least one person was killed on Wednesday when Somali militiamen fired a rocket-propelled grenade at an Ethiopian truck, missing it but hitting a house, a government source said. Quoting U.S. and French military sources, ABC News said U.S. special forces were working with Ethiopian troops on the ground in operations inside Somalia. But Interior Minister Hussein Mohamed Aideed denied the report. "There are no American ground forces inside Somalia. The American involvement is limited to air and sea," he said. President Yusuf and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi have pledged to restore order in Somalia after entering the capital for the first time since they took office in 2004 at the head of an internationally-recognized interim government. Both have called for African peacekeepers to help fill a security vacuum that is expected when Ethiopian troops pull out. The government has called on militias to report to various police stations for recruitment in the country's security forces, a government spokesman said. (Additional reporting by Guled Mohamed in Mogadishu, David Morgan and Sue Pleming in Washington, Philip Pullella in Rome, Irwin Arieff in the UN, Andrew Cawthorne in Nairobi and Noor Ali in Garissa)

Residents report new US raid in south Somalia, government denies MOGADISHU (AFP) - Residents have reported a new US air strike on suspected Al-Qaeda targets in southern Somalia, but government officials denied the accounts and the Pentagon said it had no information. Elders in the area where the United States has confirmed hitting an alleged extremist position north of the port of Kismayo said the new attack was launched near the towns of Badade and Afmadow. "Elders in Badade and Afmadow who made a radio contact with us confirmed there was an American air strike in the same area today," Yusuf Ismail Aden, a resident of Kismayo told AFP in Mogadishu by phone. "They said they could hear overflights in the morning," he said. However, Somali Information Minister Ali Jama said he was unaware of any air operations in the area other than those by Ethiopian troops backing the Somali government, which have been underway for weeks. "There are operations going on in southern Somalia by Ethiopian and Somali forces," he told AFP. "They might be either ground or air." Somali government spokesman Abdirahim Dinari said the resident accounts were "nonsense." "It is nonsense," he told AFP. "It is fake news. We do not have any information about the alleged airstrikes. I do not know where these reports ... are coming from." In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman, Chris Isleib said he had no information on new strikes. On Tuesday, the United States acknowledged it had carried out its first overy military action in Somalia since 1994 on Monday with a targetted air strike on Al-Qaeda's main leaders in southern Somalia. The Pentagon said an AC-130 gunship had struck positions in southern Somalia early Monday in an operation against several Al-Qaeda operatives believed hiding with elements of Somalia's Islamist movement. But it denied US involvement in at least two helicopter gunship attacks in the region reported by the Somali defense ministry on Tuesday. Washington accuses the Somali Islamists of harboring at least three Al-Qaeda figures, two of whom are believed to be responsible for the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Their fate is not known, officials said. It was the first known US military strike in the country since the withdrawal of US forces there in 1994, and follows a rout of Islamist forces by Ethiopian and Somali government troops. Among the Al-Qaeda militants believed in Somalia are Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, whom the United States holds responsible for the embassy bombings that killed 224 people, mostly Africans. Another is Abu Taha al-Sudani, a Sudanese alleged to be an explosives expert close to Al-Qaeda leader Osama ben Laden and whom the Somali government claimed led the Islamists in recent fighting. Somali elders said at least 19 people had died in Monday's and Tuesday's attacks, while government suggested the figure was higher.

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US sub collides with Japan ship A US nuclear-powered submarine has collided with a Japanese tanker near the Straits of Hormuz, Japanese and US government officials have said. A model of the tanker was shown to reporters in Tokyo The USS Newport News did not suffer substantial damage, and there were no injuries to crew, a US Navy spokeswoman told the AFP news agency. There were no oil spills from Japanese tanker, the Mogamigawa, and no injuries, a company official said. The tanker will dock in the United Arab Emirates to check the damage. The bow of the submarine collided with the stern of the oil tanker at 1915GMT just outside the busy shipping lanes of the Straits of Hormuz. The Mogamigawa is operated by Kawasaki Kisen Ltd, the Kyodo news agency reported Japanese oil company Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. told the agency the ship was en route from the Gulf to Singapore with a crew of eight Japanese and 16 Filipinos. A US Navy spokesman in Bahrain said that there had been a collision. "I can confirm that an incident took place between one of our submarines and a merchant ship," said Commander Kevin Aandahl of the US Fifth Fleet. The 110-metre (360-foot) USS Newport News carries a crew of 127. The BBC's Chris Hogg, in Tokyo, says there will be embarrassment for the US navy over the incident but also relief that the collision was not more serious. In February 2001, the US nuclear submarine Greenville sank a Japanese fisheries training vessel, the Ehime Maru, off Hawaii, killing nine sailors on the fishing boat. Credit: BBC News