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DUCT TAPE ACROSS AMERICA
A campaign to heighten media visibility of antiwar activities through protesters' placement of duct tape on objects at protest sites on March 15 for purposes of "homeland security."
A modest proposal for all who are considering marching in Washington or elsewhere on March 15:
THE DUCT TAPE ACROSS AMERICA CAMPAIGN!
People who oppose Bush's genocidal war on Iraq are the truest patriots of all - people who genuinely care about their country and its conduct in the world, not to mention its security.
At a cost of billions of dollars, Bush created the Department of Homeland Security, presumably to keep us all safe, right? And who are we, mere citizens, to argue with the presumably infallible logic of Shrub and his Homeland Insecurity czar, Tom Ridge, who - after, we would expect, tremendous amounts of diligent scientific study - has advised us that we are to keep ourselves safe with that old stalwart, duct tape?
Everyone knows that duct tape has innumerable valuable household uses, from patching a leaky muffler to repairing threadbare carpeting. But now we've learned that it's also AMERICA'S FRONT LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST TERRORISM! Who knew?
Since we all want to keep America safe, it is our humble suggestion that those protesting in DC or elsewhere on the 15th come armed with PLENTY of super-strong, super-durable duct tape, and proceed to "secure" everything in sight. Since duct tape's magical and hitherto unknown properties seemingly include the creation of an impenetrable force field invulnerable to chemical, biological, or nuclear attack, it stands to reason that affixing a small strip of it to anything and everything in need of that extra bit of security should do the trick.
Imagine: by simply applying one-inch squares, say, of duct tape to the sidewalk in front of the white house, YOU can do YOUR PART to keep America safe from Terrorism! And wherever Bush, Cheney, or their minions in the media look, they'll see EVIDENCE that some proud American cared enough to do their part to make America more secure! What could be more patriotic? Just think! Through the miracle of DUCT TAPE, items such as flag poles, lampposts, fences, phone booths, soda machines, public telephones - anything you can think of - can be made MAGICALLY INVULNERABLE to Georgie Bush's imaginary invading Iraqi armies!
Defending America has never been so simple, so nonviolent, or - at $3.97 down at the ol' hardware store - so cost-effective! Since the good folks over at the Department of Homeland Security can drop tens of billions of your dollars to make this carefully-reasoned recommendation, you can afford to chip in another $3.97 (plus applicable sales taxes), right?
So: SAY IT WITH DUCT TAPE! AND KEEP AMERICA FREE!
A public service announcement from fuckthewar.com
***PROUD AMERICANS: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO PATRIOTS EVERYWHERE! THANK YOU!***
THE DUCT TAPE ACROSS AMERICA CAMPAIGN!
People who oppose Bush's genocidal war on Iraq are the truest patriots of all - people who genuinely care about their country and its conduct in the world, not to mention its security.
At a cost of billions of dollars, Bush created the Department of Homeland Security, presumably to keep us all safe, right? And who are we, mere citizens, to argue with the presumably infallible logic of Shrub and his Homeland Insecurity czar, Tom Ridge, who - after, we would expect, tremendous amounts of diligent scientific study - has advised us that we are to keep ourselves safe with that old stalwart, duct tape?
Everyone knows that duct tape has innumerable valuable household uses, from patching a leaky muffler to repairing threadbare carpeting. But now we've learned that it's also AMERICA'S FRONT LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST TERRORISM! Who knew?
Since we all want to keep America safe, it is our humble suggestion that those protesting in DC or elsewhere on the 15th come armed with PLENTY of super-strong, super-durable duct tape, and proceed to "secure" everything in sight. Since duct tape's magical and hitherto unknown properties seemingly include the creation of an impenetrable force field invulnerable to chemical, biological, or nuclear attack, it stands to reason that affixing a small strip of it to anything and everything in need of that extra bit of security should do the trick.
Imagine: by simply applying one-inch squares, say, of duct tape to the sidewalk in front of the white house, YOU can do YOUR PART to keep America safe from Terrorism! And wherever Bush, Cheney, or their minions in the media look, they'll see EVIDENCE that some proud American cared enough to do their part to make America more secure! What could be more patriotic? Just think! Through the miracle of DUCT TAPE, items such as flag poles, lampposts, fences, phone booths, soda machines, public telephones - anything you can think of - can be made MAGICALLY INVULNERABLE to Georgie Bush's imaginary invading Iraqi armies!
Defending America has never been so simple, so nonviolent, or - at $3.97 down at the ol' hardware store - so cost-effective! Since the good folks over at the Department of Homeland Security can drop tens of billions of your dollars to make this carefully-reasoned recommendation, you can afford to chip in another $3.97 (plus applicable sales taxes), right?
So: SAY IT WITH DUCT TAPE! AND KEEP AMERICA FREE!
A public service announcement from fuckthewar.com
***PROUD AMERICANS: PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FORWARD THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO PATRIOTS EVERYWHERE! THANK YOU!***
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U.S.: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed planned 9/11 attacks
WASHINGTON (CNN) --"All appropriate pressure" is being put on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the man believed to be the key planner of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, to reveal plots for any future operations, a senior U.S. intelligence official said Sunday.
The capture of the man linked to nearly every al Qaeda attack of the past five years is a "huge win," the official said.
Al Qaeda members must now worry about which plots Mohammed -- the group's operations chief -- has exposed, and what information he might reveal that could lead to them, the official said.
U.S. officials were practically gleeful Sunday after Mohammed's arrest early Saturday in Rawalpindi, outside the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, a week after he eluded capture during a raid in Quetta, Pakistan, 400 miles away.
U.S. officials were present when Pakistani authorities arrested Mohammed and two other men, but they did not participate, the senior U.S. intelligence official said.
Pakistan held Mohammed "a few hours" before turning him over to the CIA, which immediately took him out of Pakistan, officials said. Mohammed is in U.S. custody at an undisclosed location, they said.
There are no plans to bring Mohammed to the United States, U.S. government officials said.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said it was "hard to overstate the significance" of Mohammed's arrest a week after he eluded arrest in Quetta, and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee called the arrest "huge."
"This is the equivalent of the liberation of Paris in the second world war," said Republican Rep. Porter Goss of Florida. "This is taking out [Nazi propagandist Joseph] Goebbels as an operative of the German Wehrmacht. This is just extremely important, and it's going to lead to other very successful activities very shortly, I'm sure."
Goss' counterpart in the Senate, Republican Pat Roberts of Kansas, said the arrest was "a big downer" for Osama bin Laden's network.
"We have taken the operations officer of the al Qaeda right at the same time they were planning a spring offensive," Roberts said.
Sen. Joseph Biden, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations committee, said the arrest was a "big deal" and "a phenomenal breakthrough."
Biden warned that Mohammed had been living "in plain daylight" near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, however.
"It is in a totally uncontrolled area," he said. "And there is overwhelming reason to believe that the other 22 of the top 25 we're looking for, including Osama bin Laden, are in the vicinity."
Senior administration officials also said that Mohammed likely has information on the whereabouts of other terrorist members, possibly including bin Laden.
Goss: Torture 'not permissible'
Goss said it was "certainly not permissible" to obtain any information from Mohammed through torture.
"The hallmark of our country is decency, democracy, freedom and so forth," Goss said. "The other guys don't, but we have to maintain our standards."
Goss added that he believes the United States can obtain information from Mohammed anyway. "There's lots of motives that make people do what they do, and there may be ways we can gather information in the process of professional interrogation that will link with other pieces that we have already."
The self-described head of al Qaeda's military committee, Mohammed is described as the strategist who helped coordinate finances and recruit for bin Laden's global terrorist network. The U.S. State Department had offered as much as $25 million for information leading to his arrest. (Life of terror)
In the mid-1980s, after studying engineering at Chowan College in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, the Kuwait-born son of a Pakistani trained volunteers fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan -- and met bin Laden.
Terror conspiracy indictment
Investigators in the Philippines found evidence linking Mohammed to a plot to blow up 12 U.S.-bound commercial airliners in a two-day period after Mohammed's nephew, Ramzi Yousef, set fire to his Manila apartment while experimenting with explosives.
Yousef was caught in Pakistan in February 1995, a month after the apartment fire, but Mohammed vanished into the terror underground. A year later, he was indicted on seven counts of terror conspiracy for his alleged role in the plot.
Mohammed might have been difficult to find, but he apparently kept up his organizational work for al Qaeda.
He has been linked to the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000; Richard Reid's foiled attempt to blow up an airliner with a shoe bomb in 2001; and most recently, the bombings at the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia, and the bombings in a resort town in Bali last year.
Rohan Gunaratna, terrorism expert and author of "Inside Al Qaeda," said Mohammed ordered the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan last year.
-- CNN correspondents Maria Ressa, Mike Boettcher, Ash-Har Quraishi, Kelli Arena, John King and Suzanne Malveaux, and producers Syed Mohsin Naqzi and Phil Hirschkorn contributed to this report.
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/02/pakistan.arrests/index.html