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Excellency,

I have the profound honor, on behalf of the Palestinian people, to submit this application of the state of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations.

This application for membership is being submitted on the Palestinian people's natural, legal and historic rights and based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947 as well as the Declaration of Independence of the State of Palestine of 15 November 1988 and the acknowledgement by the General Assembly of this declaration in resolution 43/177 of 15 December 1988.

In this connection, the state of Palestine affirms its commitment to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the vision of two states living side by side in peace and security, as endorsed by the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly and the international community as a whole and based on international law and all relevant United Nations resolutions.

For the purpose of this application for admission, a declaration made pursuant to rule 58 of the Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council and rule 134 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly is appended to this letter.

I shall be grateful if you would transmit this letter of application and the declaration to the presidents of the Security Council and the General Assembly as soon as possible,

Mahmoud Abbas
President of the State of Palestine
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization

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'WTC-7 impossible to have fallen by fire'
September 7, 2011
Press TV

Scientists, architects and engineers all over the world have questioned the official version of how WTC-7 fell down, adding that these buildings are built to fight even the formidable forces of nature.

Based on claims by the US government, the 47-story modern steel-framed WTC-7 was brought down by office fires.

Shyam Sunder, the lead investigator at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) -- a state-run organization -- had said, “World Center 7 collapsed because of fire fueled by office furnishings.”

However, experts say that a building with a steel-frame never collapses after a few hours of fire.

“Fires have never before caused the collapse of any skyscraper. Even though there are numerous examples of much hotter, larger, and longer-lasting fires in these buildings,” says architect Richard Gage, the founder of AIA Architects.

Metallurgical engineer Kathy McGrade says, “You cannot generate enough heat to melt steel.”

According to witnesses, massive explosions were heard before WTC-7 collapsed.

NIST's official scenario resulting in the total collapse of the building is, as experts say, absolutely impossible.

All the columns needed to be severed at the same time in order for that structure to fall the way it did, based on what structural engineer Michael Donly says.

Although NIST rejected the possibility of any sort of controlled demolition, it refused to test the explosive residues, which could have documented the evidence of melted steel.

“The destruction of evidence was a criminal act itself. It was already being carted away and destroyed when the investigators got there,” says structural engineer Ronald Brookman.

Families of the victims demand that the cause of the collapse be investigated carefully because millions of people around the world, and not just scientists and engineers, want these unanswered questions answered.

High-Ranking Army Officer - "Missile Hit Pentagon"
Radiation Expert Claims High-Radiation Readings Near Pentagon After 9/11 Indicates Depleted Uranium Used

August 19, 2005

Two high profile radiation experts concur Pentagon strike involved use of a missile. Also Geiger counter readings right after the attack shows high levels of radiation 12 miles away from Pentagon crash site.

A radiation expert and high-ranking Army Major, who once headed the military's depleted uranium project, both contend the Pentagon was hit by missile, not a commercial jetliner, adding high radiation readings after the strike indicate depleted uranium also may have been used.

"I'm not an explosives or crash site expert, but I am highly knowledgeable in causes and effects related to nuclear radiation contamination. What happened at the Pentagon is highly suspicious, leading me to believe a missile with a depleted uranium warhead may have been used," said radiation expert Leuren Moret in a telephone conversation this week from her Berkeley, CA home.

Moret, who has spent a life time working in the nuclear field, first as a staff scientist at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory in California, is now a member of The Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP), a privately funded group studying the devastating effects of depleted uranium especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Regarding the missile theory, it is also backed up by retired Army Maj. Doug Rokke, a PhD educational physics and former top military expert banished from the Pentagon after the military failed to follow regulations regarding the use, clean up and medical treatment regarding the use of depleted uranium.

"When you look at the whole thing, especially the crash site void of airplane parts, the size of the hole left in the building and the fact the projectile's impact penetrated numerous concrete walls, it looks like the work of a missile," said Maj. Rokke from his Rantoul, IL home this week. "And when you look at the damage, it was obviously a missile. Also, if you look at the WTC and the disturbing flash hitting the tower right before the impact of the airplane, it also looks like a missile was used."

And to prove the government's jetliner theory is wrong, Moret said the quick actions of a friend near the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11, provide even more suspicion.

Moret recalls on the tragic morning that once she saw the jetliner strike the twin towers and then heard about the Pentagon crash, she immediately called a close friend in Alexandria VA, Dr. Janette Sherman.

Thinking radiation might be involved, she quickly asked Dr. Sherman, 77, a radiation expert and medical doctor who lived about 12 miles from the crash site, to get a Geiger counter reading.

What the pair of experts found is astonishing. What they found is not only astonishing but four years after 9/11, what's even more incredible is that their findings have been completely ignored by most everyone, including the Bush administration, the 9/11 Commission and the mainstream media, all who appear more interested in rubber stamping the official 9/11 story then getting at the real truth.

"Dr. Sherman was downwind from the Pentagon on 9/11 and her Geiger counter readings show an extremely high reading, a reading of more than eight to ten times higher than normal," said Moret, also an expert in the cause and effects of depleted uranium.

"Dr. Sherman, who is well-respected radiation expert herself, then went about contacting the proper authorities in order to try and alert emergency responders of the radiation risk at the Pentagon crash site. And we have also kept photos of the Geiger counter readings in order to verify what Dr. Sherman found 12 miles away."

After notifying the Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency (NIRS), experts from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the FBI were alerted and according to Moret, radiation experts later confirmed high radiation levels at the Pentagon crash site possibly from the presence from depleted uranium or other unknown causes.

But what disturbed Moret most has been the Bush administration's lack of concern and its failure to mount a thorough investigation into what really caused the high radiation levels, saying perhaps the findings might reveal something contrary to the official story that a jetliner rammed through 12 Pentagon walls of solid concrete.

"Even if there was depleted uranium used, do you think the likes of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld would really care? These are bottom feeders that 20 or 30 years ago wouldn't have been even allowed to set foot in such high positions of power," said Moret.

Although Dr. Sherman's Geiger counter can't be a conclusive finding, another nuclear radiation expert, Marion Fulk, agrees the positive reading, if anything, is suspicious.

"It definitely looks suspicious but of course many factors have to be considered before a conclusion is reached," said Fulk in a telephone conversation this week. "The type of Geiger counter used by Dr. Sherman needs to be looked at as well as the possibility of the true source of the radiation, whether it is depleted uranium in a missile, ballast in the airplane or within the structure of the building hit."

Even though no one can be sure, one thing positive is the Bush administration never really seriously cared about addressing the possibility of depleted uranium at the Pentagon just like it cares little about the same problem at the World Trade Center and in the war fields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

And, more recently, Moret, Fulk and Maj. Rokke, along with Dennis Kyne, Bob Jones and Mark Zeller, have provided documentation for an explosive video written and produced by Joyce Riley and William Lewis called "Beyond Treason," providing an in depth look at depleted uranium used in the Gulf Wars and its likelihood of causing numerous civilian and military illnesses.

"It has been determined that the equivalent of more than 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has been released in the middle east since 1991," said Moret, citing a report and subsequent speech at a 2000 depleted uranium conference given by Professor Yagasaki, a physicist and well-respected nuclear radiation expert.

And in the 89 minute video, exploring a massive government cover up, Riley and Lewis point out the unexplained illnesses in civilians and military personal may be the cause of depleted uranium or perhaps a combination of overlapping causes, including chemical and biological exposure and the use of experimental vaccines.

The writers of Beyond Treason, added:

"The ailing Gulf War heroes from all 27 coalition countries slowly die from of "unknown causes," they wait for answers from their respective governments, but no satisfying or even credible answers have come forth from the military establishment. Records that span over a decade point to negligence and even culpability on the part of the U.S. Department of Defense and their disposable army" mentality.

"The VA has determined that 250,000 troops are now permanently disabled, 15,000 troops are dead and over 425,000 are ill and slowly dying from what the Department of Defense still calls a mystery disease. How many more will have to die before action is taken?"

And in February, 2004, a conference called "Dialogues with Decision Makers" was held in New Delhi, India, where a group of experts gathered for the prevention of nuclear war and looked closely at the depleted uranium problem in the Middle East.

Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, former chief of the Naval Staff in India, reported the following shocking details about the effects of depleted uranium:

"In the 2003 war, the Iraqi's were subjected to the Pentagon's radioactive arsenal, mainly in the urban centers, unlike in the deserts in 1991. The aggregate effects of illnesses and long term disabilities and genetic birth defects will be apparent only 2008 onwards. "By now, half of all the 697,000 US soldiers involved in the 1991 war have reported serious illnesses. According the American Gulf War Veterans Association, more than 30% of these soldiers are chronically ill, and receiving disability benefits from the Veterans Administration.

"Near the Republican Palace where US troops stood guard and over 1000 employees walked in and out, the radiation readings were the hottest in Iraq, at nearly 1900 times background radiation levels.

"At a roadside stand, selling fresh bunches of parsley, mint, and onions, children played on a burnt out Iraqi tank just outside Baghdad, the Geiger counter registered 1000 times normal background radiation.

"The Pentagon and the United Nations estimate that the US and Britain used 1,100 to 2,200 tons of armor piercing shells made of DU during attacks in March-April 2003, far more than the 1991 Gulf War (this does not include air dispensed DU munitions and missiles)," wrote the Post Intelligencer.

"The long term effects, as Dr Asaf Durakovic elaborates, after the early neurological symptoms are cancer, and related radiation illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome, joint and muscle pain, neurological and/or nerve damage, mood disturbances, auto-immune deficiencies, lung and kidney damage, vision problems, skin rupture, increase in miscarriages, maternal mortality and genetic birth defects/deformation.

"For years the US government described the Gulf War Syndrome as a post traumatic stress disorder. It was labeled as a psychological problem or simply as mysterious unrelated ailments much in the same way as health problems of Vietnam veterans suffering from Agent Orange poisoning."

For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com. Greg Szymanski Powered by CityMak

http://www.arcticbeacon.com/articles/article/1518131/31824.htm

"It is a truth that a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique and it's physically impossible to defend at every time and every place against every conceivable technique. Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filed with our citizens, and the MISSILE to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center. The only way to deal with this problem is by taking the battle to the terrorists, wherever they are, and dealing with them."

Donald Rumsfeld answering Parade Magazine reporter Lyric Wallwork Winik in Pentagon Press Conference Oct.12, 2001. (Posted on the Pentagon website)

http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/rumsfeld-warnings.htm

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         Below in green, was first reported on ushostage.com on or before February 12, 2007 which was before the writer (Me) was thrown in a US Federal Prison for writing, which followed with eight of my websites being shut down which included USHostage.com all due to lawyers linked to The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), such as Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith Law Firm in San Diego, California.



United States maybe ready to make a truce deal with the Talibans and Al-Qaeda. Assassination of Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf will be part of the truce deal. United States Government psychological plan to sell this bull crap to the general public is that the Talibans were not the extremists, but it was Al-Qaeda whom are the extremists. In short the U.S. Government will say Al-Qaeda infiltrated the Talibans.

   June 7, 2011    UN Ponders On Lifting Taliban Sanctions

               June 12, 2011   Permanent Arrest Warrant for former President Pervez Musharraf

               June 18, 2011   United Nations splits Al-Qaeda - Taliban Sanctions

               June 19, 2011   Gates Confirms US Talks With Taliban

               June 19, 2011   Gates: US in Direct Talks With Taliban

               June 24, 2011   Taleban chief's son-in-law one of secret envoys at peace talks

              July 19, 2011    Remove Taliban Leaders from Blacklist, says Former Taliban Official

              August 9, 2011   U.S. Officials Make Millions Advocating For Terrorists

              August 17, 2011 Taliban Ambassador to Pakistan with British Ambassador

Palestinian State June 24, 2011 - Susan Rice, the American ambassador to the UN speaking at an event in Washington, said the Obama administration was devoting "extraordinary efforts and energy" to restarting middle-eastern peace talks so that a vote in September could be avoided.

On the prospect of it being approved, she said: "This would be exceedingly politically damaging in our domestic context, as you can well imagine.

"And I cannot frankly think of a greater threat to our ability to maintain financial and political support for the United Nations in Congress than such an outcome".

A video of Miss Rice making the comments has been removed from the internet.

A US army officer stands next to a sign for the Camp Taji Contracting Center. The Taji Contaracting Center is technically a training center for terrorists that call themselves Khalq-e-Arab.

Spiegel Law Group is a Zionist Terrorist

Quick Facts: CIA covert war in Pakistan

The Talibans are Cuddly People

                      168 Children Killed by the CIA
                                                      Enter Here

June 22, 2011 - Press TV: Iran says the job-finding centers were looking to recruit Iranians to spy for Washington with promises that included issuing visas, helping with permanent residency, and making job and study offers.

In a statement released on June 6th, 2011, the intelligence ministry announced that “the CIA has set up fake websites. Under the cover of job-finding centers, US agents look for ways to recruit Iranians to their cause.”

The list is as follows: (1) Hobertson Advisors (2) Technical Hiring (3) Engineer One Inc. (4) Deon Capital (5) Nuevara International (6) Waldmiller Group (7) Marketing Research Association

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Comment:

A very common method that the U.S. Government uses to blackmail Iranian citizens to spy for them is:

An Iranian citizen goes to seek a visa to enter the United States.

Lets assume that the Iranian citizen was born in the city of Torbat.

The person that is doing the paperwork for the Iranian citizen and/or the U.S. Government is really recruiting for the CIA without the Iranian citizen knowing it.

On the paperwork the person says to the Iranian citizen that it is better to write that you were born in Mashhad instead if Torbat because it is better known to U.S. Officials, so the Iranian citizen writes down Mashhad instead of Torbat for his/her place of birth.

Next the Iranian citizen is granted to go to the U.S. for whatever reason (Tourist, Student, ETC...).

At anytime the U.S. government can approach this Iranian citizen and accuse him/her that they knowingly gave false information on their application to enter the U.S. and for that reason they place you under arrest.

Thats when they blackmail you to work for them. You may be in the United States for 40 years before they approach you.

Basicly the U.S. Government (CIA, FBI) wait till you have too much to lose (Family, Kids, Wealth) before they blackmail you.

Would the British Government use this blackmail tactic?
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The poster below is from a terrorist group known as Sipah-e-Sahaba whom are funded by the CIA-FBI on and off of US soil, since at minimum 1995 under special operations. These US backed terrorists also own and operate at minimum websites and blogs: jmmpak.co.cc, kr-hcy.com, aleesar.tk, ahlesunnatwljamat.tk, haqcharyaar.tk, aleesar.blogspot.com, alesar.com.pk, jmmpak.tk, haqchaaryaar.net

The February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing was done by a Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorist member Ramzi Yousef. The US backed Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorists are the true Talibans and Al-Qaeda, but the US government and their puppet media do not want you to know this.

These terrorists live their lives according to a man named Mr. Muhammad Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab, who died in 1792. Mr. Muhammad Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab claimed that he has the right to re-interpret Islam and the Quran, and many stupid people followed him, and the British Government backed terrorist leaders that followed Mr. Muhammad Ibn Abd-al-Wahhab's books and teachings, and to this day the British Government along with the US Government still do.

To this day these people call themselves Muslims, and the British Government knew that this can divide Muslims, so the British Government created and funded other cult like movements that claim to be Muslims, such as cults by the names of Bahai's and Ahmadi's.

Beware of a Pro-Taliban Anti-US website theunjustmedia.com - There are several reasons that I believe that the website is backed by high ranking US officials (United States Central Command - CENTCOM) - Do your homework and you more than likely will come to the same conclusion as me - Sad but True.

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Pakistani Paper Unveils US Consulate's Close Ties with [Sipah-e-Sahaba] Jundollah

February 20, 2011
farsnews.com

TEHRAN (FNA)- A Pakistani paper revealed that Raymond Davis, a US consular employee who appeared in court late in January for murdering two Pakistani nationals, has been in direct contact with several terrorist groups in Pakistan, including the anti-Iran Jundollah terrorist group.

According to a report by professor Mohammad Ebrahim published in the Urdu language daily, Ausaf, a police probe into the phone record and sim cards of Davis's cell phone, along with his confessions, revealed that the diplomat has guided Jundollah's members in the Pakistani Baluchistan province.

Investigations also showed that Davis has been involved in the murder of Chinese engineers in Gwadar and an attack on the Pakistani Army Garrison in Rawalpindi.

The source said that the US national has also confessed to ties with other groups such as Lashkar-e-Jhangavi, Sipah-e-Sahaba, Balouch Liberation Army and another terrorist group.

Raymond Davis appeared in court on January 28 charged with the murder of two motorcyclists who were shot dead in the Pakistani city of Lahore on January 27.

According to eye witnesses, Raymond Davis took photos of the two men after they fell to the ground on being hit by bullets. Davis spoke in Urdu and told people who surrounded his car that he had acted in self-defense.

Another person was run over and killed by a vehicle carrying Raymond Davis's colleagues as they came to his aid, police and witnesses have said.

The US embassy in Islamabad said the man involved in the shooting was a consular official.

Lahore's police chief, Aslam Tareen, said that Raymond Davis was employed on "security duties" in the consulate.

He did not have diplomatic immunity and was not one of the foreign security personnel allowed to carry firearms, according to the Pakistani authorities.

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Comment:

Mr.Jonathan Banks was the CIA Station Chief in Islamabad, Pakistan before he fled back to the United States of America and before Mr.Raymond Davis was arrested.

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LHC moved for handing over Davis to ISI

February 20, 2011
thenews.com.pk

LAHORE: A writ petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court, seeking directions for the government to shift double murder accused Raymond Davis to Lahore Fort besides handing over the investigation into the case to the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

Rana Ilamudin advocate, in his petition, alleged on Saturday that Davis was in Pakistan on a special mission which could be harmful to solidarity of the country. He said that in both the cases against him -- murder case and a case for having illegal weapons

-- investigation should be conducted by the ISI.

He said the accused was spending his days of detention as a guest because his ‘residence’ in Kot Lakhpat Jail consisted of two barracks and 18 rooms.

He said Davis was provided facilities of mobile phone, TV, and all other necessities of life as if he was a guest of Pakistan, adding that the jail was very far from the City and the distance could help the accused in fleeing from the jail.

The petitioner alleged that the US wanted early release of Davis, fearing that he would reveal details of drone attacks in Pakistan or its secret missions in the country and added that that the US could launch an operation for his release. He said that after his arrest, drone attacks stopped as if he was providing assistance in this regard to the US forces. He said there were several instances when the US had taken action against sovereignty of different countries. He said the US authorities arrested Noriega, Panama’s army chief, on January 3, 1990 for challenging America’s authority. He also alleged that US managed the hanging of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for trying to make Pakistan a nuclear power.

The petitioner said that the documents recovered from Davis had proved that he was mastermind of terrorists, adding that he was a trained shooter and his expertise was not necessary for an ambassador.

He said for its own benefit, the US could not only try to forcefully get the accused released but also it could kill him. He said for Davis’ protection, it was necessary to hand him over to the ISI so that no one could kidnap him and he also could not flee from the jail. He said the ISI also could properly hold investigation into the issue and in this way all his missions against Pakistan could come on record.

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‘CIA using Afghan war veterans against Pakistan’
nation.com.pk
Merch 11, 2011

LAHORE – The US spy agency CIA cobra network is using the Afghan war veterans to achieve their vested interests on Pakistani soil, while the Madaris should operate under the direct supervision of the government. The ISI, MI, IB, Punjab Police, Special Branch in collaboration with the representatives of civil society should frame a mutual counter-terrorism strategy to eliminate the menace.

ISI former regional commander Punjab Brigadier (r) Muhammad Aslam Ghuman, MI former regional commander Punjab Brigadier (r) Muhammad Yousuf, Additional Inspector General of Operational Police Punjab (Additional IGP) Rafiq Hassan Butt, In-charge Aiwan-e-Waqt Khawaja Farrukh Saeed and Jam Sajjad Hussain expressed these views during a brief debate organised under the auspicious of Nawa-i-Waqt, TheNation and Waqt News here at Aiwan-e-Waqt.

Yousuf said, “We have to devise a comprehensive strategy to uproot terrorism network from our soil in which internal and external factors are directly or indirectly involved. The annual budget of CIA was hundred times manifold as compared to the entire fiscal budget of Pakistan. In connection with the menace of terrorism even within limited resources ISI, MI, IB and Special Branch have performed well. These agencies should further coordinate each other so that we may protect our sovereignty,” he added.

He stressed upon the political brass and big guns of sensitive institutions to analyse the root causes especially screening atmosphere of religious seminaries and initiate action from grass root level to eliminate this monster of terrorism. Fulminating to the stagnancy of police department, Yousuf said provincial police should adopt effective and scientific strategy for busting the aforesaid network. “The police department should restore public confidence by providing them immediate justice besides eliminating such foolish police picket system on various arteries of the country,” he concluded.

Brigadier (r) Aslam Ghuman said that India, USA and Israel were ‘injecting’ suicide bombers in the veins of our homeland in connivance with local agents, who often provide them logistic support for their vested interests. He said that intelligent, honest and committed leaders should supervise all the sensitive institutions, adding our intelligence network has been ranked the best professional set up across the world. “There was no Indian Consulate in Afghanistan when former Afghan Ameer Mullah Umer was ruling the state but now dozens of Indian Consulates have been established on the soil of neighbouring state which were engaged in brainwashing and pumping teenaged bombers in Pakistan.”

The ISI former chief further said when the USA become a unipolar power in the world, it left Pakistan in the clutches of so-called 40,000 Mujahideen, which she maneuvered for its vested interests against the Russian state.
He said the current situation of lawlessness is the outcome of those Mujahideen, who were created by the CIA.

Rafiq Hassan Butt said that the provincial police were playing a pivotal role in uprooting the suicide network. “Terrorism is an international crime and in vast perspective the local agents of the terror-hit localities were the prime culprits of this crime,” he added.

He complained the politicians, media men and other authorities concerned should first realise their prime responsibility that the brazen attacks were being carried out from local level, as the bombers, manipulators and even sometime the masterminds were Pakistani.

“Over 60 suicidal attacks, which took place across the province, claimed more than 665 innocent lives. The police have recovered 28,000 kilogram explosive materials, four mines, suicidal vests and 30 rocket launchers,” he revealed.

He said that the investigation police had traced 20 such high profile sensitive cases while they were expecting more breakthroughs.

Khawaja Farrukh Saeed also spoke on the occasion.

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Former Pakistan Army Chief General Aslam Beg: Raymond Davis was 'Working as a Coordinator of Four Important Foreign Secret Agencies in Our Country'
memri.org
March 2011

In an interview conducted before CIA contractor Raymond Davis was released by Pakistan on March 16, 2011, former Pakistan Army chief General (retired) Mirza Aslam Beg granted an interview to the Urdu-language daily Roznama Ummat. In the interview, he answered several questions regarding the Raymond Davis issue, noting that this one issue has given Pakistan a diplomatic advantage and has put the U.S. under Pakistani pressure. General Beg added that the Pakistan-U.S. relations will not remain the same after Raymond Davis's release.

In the interview, General Beg went on to allege that Raymond Davis was working for the intelligence agencies of four countries. He alleged that CIA and RAW (India's external intelligence Research & Analysis Wing) are responsible for terror attacks in Pakistani cities. The former Pakistan Army chief also alleged that Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an Al-Qaeda affiliated Sunni jihadist organization, and the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (which is the mother of Pakistani Sunni militant groups), were created on the advice of the U.S.

Regarding a question about Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif's recent objection to the use of the expression "Punjabi Taliban," General Beg said that Punjabi Taliban were responsible for the attack on Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi a few years ago, and also noted that the Punjabi Taliban and the Frontier Taliban (a reference to Pashtun Taliban) exist in the Pakistani border region.

Following are excerpts from the interview:

"Americans Bite Their Friends Wherever They Want; They did It in Vietnam and Also in Cambodia; [The U.S.] has Made Our Country a Target of Its Conspiracies"

Question: "At what level do you see Pakistan-U.S. ties after the arrest of Raymond Davis?"

General Aslam Beg: "You must understand this - that Americans bite their friends wherever they want. They did it in Vietnam and also in Cambodia. Now that the U.S. is fighting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is repeating the same behaviors here. In particular, it has made our country a target of its conspiracies. Lahore had become the center of American activities.

"In 2005, a special investigating center was established in Pakistan; its headquarters manned with 600 officials was set up at Model Town in Lahore, which was blown up in a powerful bomb explosion about one and a half years ago. This institution is responsible for many nefarious designs and activities in Pakistan. It has handed over hundreds of Pakistanis to the CIA after kidnapping them. Some of them were killed and some were put into torture cells. It is deplorable that the majority of those working in this institution are Pakistanis.

"Besides being the head of this institution, Davis is also responsible for other institutions like Blackwater [the private U.S. security firm now known as XE Worldwide Services] and an unnamed institution operating under the CIA in the north western frontier areas; and has been responsible for many other anti-national activities and drone attacks, and which continues until present. If it's not true, then why it is that [those] from President Obama to the U.S. Departments of State and Defense are pressuring Pakistan for the release of Raymond. The U.S. is lying that he is a diplomat and he has [diplomatic] immunity."

Question: "Why is the U.S. afraid of a legal action against Raymond?"

General Aslam Beg: "Because if this man remains in the custody of the Pakistani security agencies, many secrets would be obtained from him. Whatever he has said so far, its result is before us and we have come to know who this man is. He was working as a coordinator of four important foreign secret agencies in our country. He was the chief of the U.S. intelligence in Pakistan and was working under the CIA and the U.S. government. That is why the U.S. wants him back, so that the secret could not be divulged."

Question: "Will the difficulties of the government not grow by standing up to the U.S.?"

General Aslam Beg: "It is not Pakistan but the U.S. which is in difficulty. In my opinion, positive results will come out of it for the nation. A national awakening has greatly [occurred] with regard to this issue. The reaction which emerged from our media and people and the way Raymond Davis's reality was revealed, [President Asif] Zardari got such courage from the nation that he told President Obama not to put so much pressure that could worsen the situation.

"At present, Pakistan's position is sound and the American position is weak on the diplomatic level. Because of this incident, the U.S. General [David] Petraeus is saying that now they would intensify their action on the Pak-Afghan borders to stop intervention from Pakistan [in Afghanistan by Taliban militants]. So far, the demand had been that Pakistan should itself stop this intervention. The demands to 'do more' [and act against Taliban militants] were regarding this issue that Pakistan take military action in North Waziristan. But Pakistan told the U.S.: 'You don't trust us and it is your responsibility to stop the [Taliban's] intervention in Afghanistan, or face it.'

"In this case, our army and intelligence particularly rejected their demands. Because of the one case of Raymond, Pakistan has gained diplomatic advantage, and today, due to this, the U.S. is under our pressure. This change came at a time when the U.S. is leaving Afghanistan after facing defeat and it needs help from Pakistan."

Question: "Will the government hand over Raymond Davis on some pretext? There are reports that Saudi Arabia has sent messages in this regard."

General Aslam Beg: "Now, Raymond Davis has become insignificant. Pakistan-U.S. relations will not remain the same even after he is handed over. Now it is being tried to contact those persons whose relatives have been killed by Davis and they would be persuaded by Saudi Arabia through the Qisas and Diyat [tit-for-tat or compensation for the killing]."

"Punjabi Taliban and Frontier Taliban Exist; Many Organizations… Like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba were Formed on the Advice of the U.S… to Cause Riots"

Question: "But even after Raymond Davis's arrest, there are terror attacks in Pakistan."

General Aslam Beg: "Not all terrorist attacks are linked to Raymond Davis. Some other organizations are also involved in big terrorist activities to get their objectives fulfilled. Besides the CIA, RAW [the Research & Analysis Wing of India] is also involved in explosions carried out in mosques, Imambargahs [Shi'ite places of worship], and on congregations in order to cause riots between Shi'ites and Sunnis.

Question: "Shahbaz Sharif doesn't like the mention of Punjabi Taliban. Does the Punjabi Taliban exist?"

General Aslam Beg: "Punjabi Taliban and Frontier Taliban exist. Many organizations and groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Sipah-e-Sahaba were formed on the advice of the U.S. in order to cause riots. And when these people were banned after being declared as terrorists, they took flight to the borders where they are active. They are the people who abducted [former Pakistani spies] Colonel Imam and Khalid Khwaja and killed them. They have links with both the RAW and CIA.

"It was Usman Punjabi who killed Colonel Imam and Khalid Khwaja after abducting them; and other people wiped out his group. Who does not know that Punjabi Taliban were involved in the attack on GHQ [general headquarters of Pakistan Army]? Usman was from Kahuta and was running a full team.

"There are more such people. They are engaged in revenge attacks because the government has arrested them, tortured them, and put them behind bars; their men were killed. In my opinion, Shahbaz Sharif objects to the mention of 'Punjabi Taliban' because it gives this impression that Punjab is sending these terrorists. In reality, such sectarian organizations were formed by the government itself. And now, instead of finishing them duly, they have been declared terrorists."

Question: "Who could be involved in the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti [the Minority Affairs Minister of Pakistan killed over his support for reform in Pakistan's blasphemy laws]?"

General Aslam Beg: "The mindset which killed [Punjab Governor] Salman Taseer has killed him too. The government made lapses in his security and that is why he was killed. The Taliban don't seem to be involved in it."

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Step 1. Contact the US government last, it is in your best interest.

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Step 3. Contact multiple media outlets, TV News, Newspapers, Internet.

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Step 6. Contact the US government if the threat is on US soil (Police - FBI - US Embassy)

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US/British Backed Army Massacring Bahraini Protesters

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Perpetrators of STUXNET

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Stuxnet worm: Private security experts want US to tell them more

csmonitor.com
October 3, 2010

America's government security experts are among the best in the world. But their private sector counterparts are mystified why government's public findings on the Stuxnet worm – the world's first publicly-known cyber superweapon – so often have seemed muted, old news, or incomplete.

Tucked away on a government website, the Industrial Control System-Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) – part of the Department of Homeland Security – posts alerts and bulletins with government analysis of Stuxnet, dutifully logging its findings since it emerged publicly in July.

Yet those government alerts have mostly been echoes of findings already made public by anti-virus companies and private researchers – often lagging by several days and providing less detailed findings, industrial control system security experts say.

It looks like government is either inept at releasing detailed technical information to help protect the country or – for other reasons political or strategic – has decided to pull its punches on helping defuse Stuxnet, security experts, former government officials and Stuxnet experts told the monitor.

For instance, they say, the US government so far has refused to provide details on Stuxnet that might help some 40-50 US-based industrial control systems possibly infected by this new generation of cyber-war software. The government's failure, they say, leaves US corporations infected and open to attack in the future.

"Name me one new or helpful piece of information that ICS-CERT provided to the community on Stuxnet? Or any other helpful contribution on the biggest control system security event to date," writes Dale Peterson, CEO of Digital Bond, a control systems security firm, in his Sept. 20 blog. "It seems to me to have been a delayed clipping service."

'Those bulletins they put out were missing key data'

"They had the expertise, the relationship with vendors, the equipment in their labs and the ability to analyze Stuxnet," Mr. Peterson said in an interview. "But those bulletins they put out were missing key data or late. Getting this information out quickly was their sole mission, and they failed."

Sean McGurk, director of DHS's Control System Security Program, who oversees ICS-CERT, disputes that view, saying the team has been very focused on putting out timely public alerts – leaving out details if they did not serve the function of protecting critical US infrastructure systems.

"We took a broad all-hazards approach to the [Stuxnet] malcode," he says in an interview. "We immediately began to analyze it and produce information to get into the hands of the community so they could begin taking protective measures."

At the company level, ICS-CERT is focused on forensic incident response – like dealing with Stuxnet – and vulnerability assessment. Computer engineers in Washington, along with experts at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, test control system software and equipment. Results are distributed to software vendors and users of the system software.

"We were able to reverse engineer the [Stuxnet] code and monitor how it works," McGurk says. "There have been individuals speculating on attribution and intent…. Our main focus has been on understanding the malware and putting mitigation in place – how to prevent the spread and how to protect the physical infrastructure."

Still, examples of government as follower abound that Peterson and others say show the government has not been doing enough to get critical information out.

On Sept. 21, German researcher Ralph Langner dropped a bombshell at a cyber security conference in Maryland detailing how Stuxnet "fingerprints" its target, making it the first-known targeted cyber missile. It is designed to home in on and "destroy something" in the real world, Mr. Langner says. Some of his findings, posted on his website Sept. 13, were echoed days later in an ICS-CERT alert.

This past week the big anti-virus software company Symantec again eclipsed government researchers by unveiling a 49-page blue print of Stuxnet, which some experts speculate was aimed at wrecking Iranian nuclear facilities, but which has spread far beyond Iran.

Symantec's analysis – much of it released long ago in blog posts this summer – details not only how Stuxnet operates, but also key steps to defuse it.

That could be important since Symantec notes in its new report that about 60 percent of the 100,000 Stuxnet-infected computers worldwide were in Iran. Yet just under 1 percent of those infections were in the US – roughly 900 computers systems. And within that smaller group, about 5 percent of the infections (40-50computers) were on Siemens industrial control systems.

Siemans uncertain how many clients infected

That's a lot more than Siemens admits to. A spokesman told the Monitor just 15 of its industrial controls systems clients worldwide had reported Stuxnet infection. The spokesman acknowledged, however, the company is not certain all its clients would have reported an infection if they had one.

That worries some experts who wish there was a stronger government push to fan out among potentially affected industries to explain Stuxnet and the threat variants it might pose.

"I don't think the chemical industry has their eyes on this, which is why I'm writing about this," says Patrick Coyle, a retired chemical engineer who writes a blog called Chemical Facility Security News. "Government hasn't reached these guys."

Others like Joel Langill, an industrial control systems security expert who works in the oil and gas industry says there's been a distinct lack of information flowing from government.

"It was very quiet in July, and about the only place to get public information on Stuxnet was from Symantec," says "I don't think ICS-CERT reports have done justice to the magnitude of what happened. Their reports have contained a lot of detail about the Stuxnet worm and prevention, but haven't done much about what to do if you had it. If this was a massive cyber attack, they didn't do very well."

On Sept. 29, ICS-CERT released a four-page "advisory," the most recent in a series of similarly brief tracts on how Stuxnet has operated since July.

But until the Sept. 15 advisory – which appeared two days after Mr. Langner's revelations on his website – none of these federal missives provided details that would be needed by US-based industrial systems to detect and remove Stuxnet from infected programmable logic controllers or PLCs, several experts say.

One part of Stuxnet sneaks into an industrial control system. But another part drops its main bomb on PLCs – vital computers that directly control robots on the factory floor. It was an issue focused on and unpacked in detail by Symantec in early August. But it took the government until its Sept. 15 advisory to address the PLC issue.

While some private researchers have peeled the Stuxnet onion, others left waiting since mid-July for key details from US government researchers for corroboration have frequently been disappointed.

"They did okay addressing Stuxnet, but I would like to know what I can do to prevent a similar attack coming in the future. That's where they come up short," says Langill.

One who applauds the federal government for its efforts on Stuxnet is Mark Weatherford, chief of security for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. His organization, which is charged with keep the grid up and running, says his group has been working closely with government to get the word about Stuxnet security concerns directly to about 2,000 registered energy generators nationwide.

"Hopefully Stuxnet will die a peaceful death," he says. "But we're going to stay on top of it until we feel comfortable that the threat is no longer there."

Lack of details leads to rumors and speculation

Still, the consistent shortfall in Stuxnet details from government has led to rumors and speculation. One theory circulating is that the Defense Department feared somehow exposing nuclear systems by detailing Stuxnet fixes.

Another more obvious theory is that Israel may be behind the cyber attack on Iran – and US officials don't want to provide Iran with a road map for fixing computers inside their nuclear facilities. Iranian authorities have admitted that Stuxnet infiltrated their nuclear power plant.

"The real question is: Did the US government know the target," says one cyber security expert in the private sector who asked not to be named because he works with the government sector and fears losing its business. "Did the US government know Stuxnet's target and say, 'No, no, no – we don't want this information [about how to defang Stuxnet] out there. It's highly plausible that people knew Iran was the target and didn't want all the details about how to fix Stuxnet to get out right away."

But Scott Borg, who directs the US Cyber Consequences Unit, an independent cyber research center, says because malware attacks are so hard to source, he would not be too quick to assume the US is withholding information to help Israel, or even that Iran was the target, despite the apparent predominance of Stuxnet infections reported in Iran.

The most plausible explanation is that private sector researchers are winning the race on getting information out because they are better at it.

"Most experts [on control systems] are in the private sector and sometimes they are just faster," Mr. Borg says. "Everyone in government has to follow proper procedure. In the private sector you go for the right answer, cut every corner to get their first. It's easier to do this work in very informal settings."

Others, however, told the Monitor there is every sign that US government researchers at the Idaho National Laboratory knew a lot more about Stuxnet and how to defeat it – far more than has yet been released by the government. Government researchers, they say, knew well before most information about it was released publicly by private companies.

Government might have decided to release less information publicly about Stuxnet, Borg said, and supply it instead to Siemens with the details needed to fix the problem with its own customers, thereby safeguarding a valued relationship.

"There's this decision making process," he said. "Do we hurt trusted relationships, other governments, vendors, our own military? This is why you get this disparity between what is released from government and what's released privately."

Still, such decisions can leave even professionals "incredibly frustrated because they ended up looking like goofballs," the former official says of the federal bulletins and alerts. "They had done good work. They knew a lot – and had gotten to a good place with [Stuxnet] before anybody else. But in public they looked like they weren't on top of their game. These guys did an incredible level of work that never got out in enough technical detail."

Meanwhile, back in Germany, Mr. Langner posted another blog item – this one an eight-point critique of what he writes is critical, but missing information not raised in the most recent Sept. 29 ICS-CERT advisory on Stuxnet.

"Why explain in great length all the funny files that Stuxnet installs and not saying how to simply pull the plug by deleting one file?" he writes.

Joe Weiss, a managing partner at Applied Control Solutions, which sponsored the conference where Langner spoke, is disappointed that government officials at the conference provided few details about Stuxnet.

'Why are they holding back?'

"Neither the Department of Energy or DHS has been giving us any real help on this issue," says Mr. Weiss. "If they've got the information, why the heck wasn't that information being sent to our infrastructure owners? Why are they holding back?

He and others say there is more than a little irony in federal officials touting last week's Cyber Storm III, the government's third big war game, as great preparation for a cyber attack with the backdrop of Stuxnet, the first known cyber superweapon to make its appearance in the public realm.

But to charges of offering late and incomplete information on this major new threat, DHS's Mr. McGurk says his agency has no apologies for not listing all the gory details, which he said is intentional when it occurs.

"I wouldn't say information was intentionally withheld because it wasn't complete," he says referring to the ICS-CERT alerts on Stuxnet since July. Sometimes it's best to go to work directly with the chemical industry or petroleum industry, he notes.

That may entail sharing some detailed information the government knows but wants to keep to itself and those who most need to know it – information, he says, that is "not something we are going to put publicly on a public website."

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