Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?
By James Hatfield July 3, 2001
RIP 18th July 2001
Online Journal Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18.

DEATH OF A BUSH BIOGRAPHER
If this don't chill your bones: Author James Hatfield, whose biography of George W. Bush, "Fortunate Son," contained material that alleged the current "president" was once busted for cocaine, turned up dead in a hotel room. Authorities said no "foul play" was suspected, although the ghost of Danny Casolaro was unavailable for comment ...MORE

OJ EDITOR COMMENTS ON 9-11 & LINKS


Blair grilled
on Arab TV
Prime Minister grilled, Paxman style,
by Arab TV interviewer...
"Blowing up innocent civilians" was an act
that must be condemned regardless of
the cause," Prime Minister Blair said,
missing the irony of the remark....


Third Anthrax Case
Found in Florida
The 35-year-old woman, whose name wasn't disclosed, was hospitalized after a swab of her nasal passages found traces of anthrax. She is being treated with antibiotics and her condition was not immediately known.

The Antrax Vaccine
There is only one source for the vaccine in the United States. The company has not shipped any in three years due to a string of foul-ups that could portend long range health problems and even death for American servicemen forced to take the vaccine.

Demand Growing
for Anthrax Vaccine
Since the World Trade Center tragedy, Americans have developed a fear of bioterrorism occurring in our country such that many are now willing to receive a controversial vaccination for Anthrax.

Fear of Anthrax Attack
Boosts Sales of Antibiotics
September is usually a busy month for antibiotics sales, but this year it is even more busy due to the potential bioterrorist threat of Anthrax and other biochemicals.

Feingold blocks
Senate attempt to
quickly pass anti-terrorism bill
The Bush administration's anti-terrorism legislation has stalled because of one senator's concern that it will erode civil liberties.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., tried to hurry the bill through Tuesday, but Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., refused Daschle's request to let the bill go through without debate or amendment.

European Pilots
to Protect US Skies
President Bush said in an appearance with Lord Robertson, the NATO secretary general, that the AWACS aircraft will be flying over the continental United States by Friday. "This has never happened before, that NATO has come to help defend our country. But it happened in this time of need, and for that, we're grateful,'' Bush said.

Proud to be a pacifist
I do not know any "privileged" peace and justice staffers, workers or volunteers. Most of us work for very little income; many of us for nothing. I was raised in a poor, rural New Hampshire town, by parents who barely had enough income to pay their bills. In 1965, I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force because giving back to the nation and the world was something my family believed in....

Authorities trace anthrax
that killed Florida man to Iowa lab
Federal investigators believe they have traced "unique characteristics" of the anthrax that killed a Lantana man to a strain harvested at an Iowa facility in the 1950s, according to law enforcement sources.

Blair must attack
"hot money" in Britain - French MP
Prime minister Tony Blair should tell banks in Britain to fight money laundering rather than travel the world to preach against terrorism, the author of a damning French report on British banking said on Wednesday.

Bush snubs Musharraf
US President George Bush on Tuesday peremptorily snubbed Pakistan's military ruler Pervez Musharraf amid clear indications of a strain in their event-based relationship.

THE Bravery of Barbara Lee
"In granting these overly broad powers, the Congress failed its responsibility to understand the dimensions of its declaration," Lee wrote in a recent column in the San Francisco Chronicle. "I could not support such a grant of war-making authority to the president. I believe it would put more innocent lives at risk. ...The Congress should have waited for the facts to be presented and then acted with fuller knowledge of the consequences of our action."

FBI TAKES OVER
ANTHRAX INVESTIGATION
The FBI also took over from the FAA in the
hijack crash investigation of Flight 93.
ANTHRAX KILLING OFF THE MEDIA?
The TradeWell connection.

Our New 'Friends' Are
Killers, Crooks And Torturers
By Robert Fisk, 7th Oct 2001, Mr Blair may believe that "the values we believe in should shine through what we do in Afghanistan" but few of our "friends" in the region have many values, and some of them have a lot of blood on their hands. For as we search for facilities and jumping-off points and air space and access -- and we are now creating policies by the day -- we are being asked to forget a lot of recent history.

First wave of U.S. strike begins
The first wave of U.S. military action against Afghanistanís ruling Taliban regime has begun, U.S. sources told NBC News on Sunday. The word came as explosions and anti-aircraft fire were heard in Kabul and electricity was cut throughout city...

Pearl Harbor?
....Too Right !
If, as the American media states that the attack on the Pentagon, and the World Trade Centre: "is another Pearl Harbor,"....

Last FEMA Crew Leaves WTC Site
October 06, 2001 The last federal rescue crew left the World Trade Center on Saturday, leaving New York officials to continue the nearly month-old effort to locate nearly 5,000 bodies buried in the rubble.

THE BUSHES AND THE PALESTINIANS
One taboo prevalent in the first weeks after September 11 is already listing badly: it is becoming less mandatory to pretend that the attack has "absolutely nothing to do" with the American tie to Israel. President Bush himself, asserted the terror was completely unrelated to any American policies in the Mid East. Generally it was attributed to Islamic dislike of American freedoms, success, to "who we are."...

Feminist's anti-U.S.
speech causes uproar
Hedy Fry jeered by opposition for sitting silent
"Today in the world the United States is the most dangerous and the most powerful global force unleashing horrific levels of violence," said Thobani, a women's studies professor at the University of British Columbia and former head of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women....

Digging for Gold, Guns and Drugs
The CIA ordered the building surrounded by FBI agents shortly after it collapsed. Since then, they have been searching for computers and a safe filled with classified documents. Government agents watch the construction workers through binoculars as they search....

All in the Name of Security
October 22, 2001 The Nation
"We're likely to experience more restrictions on personal freedom than has ever been the case in our country," Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor grimly warned a group of NYU law students --which, given her position on the Court, puts her in a position to be a self-fulfilling prophet--sounds extreme....

Verbal Slip by Bush Draws No Reaction
Winding up a speech, Bush said America will be tough and resolute to defeat terrorists so future generations can live in peace. "And there is no doubt in my mind, not one doubt in my mind, that we will fail," the president said...

A GRIN IN THE WAKE OF THE WTC
Now that a White House aide tells Time magazine that to keep Americans focused on the war, perhaps there should be a super-duper pop music concert for - get this - "educating a new generation of Americans on what war is all about."

There is Nothing Anti-American
About Opposing the Drive to War
As an American teenager protesting against the butchery in Vietnam, I became accustomed to being attacked by some fellow citizens as anti-American. It always seemed frustratingly unfair.....

AFGHANISTAN AND CHECHNYA:
Hunting For Wolves or Dancing With the Wolves?
The Russian media is giving all kinds of comments on the information about response attacks, which has flooded the pages of the Russian press.

Rambo McCaffrey - Retiree Rhetoric
He told the cadet, "We are going to disrupt these people through preemptive attack ... we will deceive them, we will run psyops on them, at selected points and times they will be killed suddenly, in significant numbers, and without warning."...

So what is this
Evidence against Bin Laden?
This is not a time for the U.S. to clench a secretive fist around "proprietary" information. "In terms of smart long-term political planning, it'll benefit the U.S. in to disclose more evidence about the accused than we have in the past."...

Web sites pull war-sensitive info
William C. Martel, professor of national security affairs at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, called the attempt to remove material from the Internet futile. "We can easily come into the category of shutting down the Internet," he said....

Many Question
Official Version of 9-11 Attack
Skepticism is being voiced from many quarters regarding the official U.S. version of the Sept. 11th terror attacks. The U.S. government claims it had no prior knowledge that the 9-11 attacks were imminent but within a few hours of the tragedy, it had determined who was guilty. It declared Osama bin Laden and his followers as the culprits...

Bush familyís dirty little secret:
Presidentís oil companies funded by Bin Laden family and wealthy Saudis who financed Osama bin Laden
President Bush recently signed an executive order to freeze the US financial assets of corporations doing business with Osama bin Laden. He described the order as a "strike on the financial foundation of the global terror network.î "If you do business with terrorists, if you support or succor them, you will not do business with the United States," said President Bush. He didnít say anything about doing business with a terroristís brother ñ or his wealthy financier...