Month: May 2002

Israeli drone films Palestinians faking funeral in Jenin. “In a press briefing Thursday, IDF Intelligence Officer Colonel Miri Eisen screened a four minute tape of a staged Palestinian… [The news, Uncensored.]

The “corpse” gets up on his own after the “pallbearers” drop him. The article also mentions that the Palestinians are digging up bodies from a nearby cemetary in order to fake a mass grave. Ironically, a friend had suggested they might do something like that last weekend. So far my fear has not yet materialized, that the PLO might simply round up a few hundred of their own people and murder them to fake a massacre.

Israeli officer killed as IDF arrests terror suspects in Nablus. “Battalion Commander Major Avihu Ya`akov, 24, from Kfar Hasidim, was killed Friday, as the IDF entered Nablus and arrested several… [The news, Uncensored.]

The page asks why the international media haven’t mentioned the Israeli officer’s death, only the two Palestinians. I think it’s because journalist types don’t care too much about soldiers’ lives, because soldiers are expected to get killed. Journalists care much more about “civilians,” even if they are really terrorists.

Indian jet crashes into office building. At least seven people are killed as an Indian Air Force MiG-21 fighter
jet crashes into an office building in the northern state of Punjab. [BBC News: world]

Apparently the cause was a malfunction. MiG-21s have been in service for decades, but most of the countries that use them are very oppresive. I wonder how many more incidents like this have happened that we never heard about?

Mind your major, foreigner. The White House, back in October 2001 issued a directive, called Combating Terrorism Through Immigration Policies. This directive contains six subdirectives which deal with everything from a new Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force, to budgetary support for the initiatives themselves. Recent news is drawing closer scrutiny upon the third subdirective, titled Abuse of International Student Status. This subdirective directs the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, along with the Attorney General and other officials and departments, to restrict foreign students from studying subjects which are deemed sensitive, including “areas of study with direct application to the development and use of weapons of mass destruction” [kuro5hin.org]

Hopefully someone in the government with a working brain cell will drop this idea, before they actually get around to blocking foreigns students from studying physics, chemistry, and medicine.

I’ve added a new article to my collection of links concerning crime in Britain.

May Day tension in Paris. Supporters and opponents of France’s far-right leader, Jean-Marie Le
Pen, rally in the French capital amid a heavy police presence. [BBC News: world]

The article dances around the point a bit, but the significance here is that May Day is the main holiday for Communists. The article also mentions various “celebrations” by Communists around the world–funny how many of them involve riots and looting.