Yellow Journalism

1- June 10 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration will transfer as many as 17 Chinese Muslims from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay to Palau, a Pacific island nation that recognizes Taiwan sovereignty.

“The United States has asked Palau to assist with such a critical task,” Palau President Johnson Toribiong said in a statement e-mailed today. Palau, a former U.S.-administered territory about a third the size of New York City, is located about 15,000 kilometers (9,322 miles) from Cuba.

China opposes the resettlement of the ethnic Uighur detainees to third countries and has repeatedly urged their repatriation. Lawyers for the group say they would be persecuted at home. Palau is one of 23 countries in the world to have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan instead of China.

The resettlement agreement comes after American government officials speculated that some Uighurs would have to be released in the U.S. to convince other countries to take Guantanamo detainees. The State Department has had trouble relocating the roughly 240 detainees held at the prison camp in Cuba, which President Barack Obama made a campaign pledge to close.

“If the Americans repatriate them, then the U.S. administration would be under a lot of pressure to make sure that these people were treated OK within China,” said Steve Tsang, a fellow in modern Chinese studies at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, in the U.K. “That’s actually more problematic for the Chinese than if these people are parked in some pacific island.”

The U.S. is prepared to give Palau as much as $200 million in development, budget support and other assistance in return for accepting the inmates, the Associated Press reported, citing two U.S. officials that it didn’t identify.

The Uighur detainees are from Xinjiang, a predominantly Muslim far-western desert region of China that borders Kazakhstan. Before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, they traveled to Afghanistan to train in camps in the Tora Bora mountains, according to U.S. court filings.

The Uighurs fled China because of racial repression and discrimination, their lawyers said. The camps in Afghanistan were run by a Uighur separatist group designated a terrorist organization by the State Department, according to the U.S.
Enemy Combatants

Many of the Uighurs fled to Pakistan when the U.S.-led coalition’s bombing campaign to oust the Taliban regime began in October 2001, according to the U.S. They were captured, turned over to the American military and branded enemy combatants, though that label was later dropped.

Palau, located 500 miles southeast of the Philippines, consists of eight main islands and 250 smaller ones. Tourism accounts for more than half of its economy, according to the U.S. State Department.

Palau received $450 million in U.S. aid since 1994 under the terms of an independence agreement signed that year. The money is set to stop after this year. The U.S. also agreed to provide defense for the nation of 21,000 people until 2044.
Palau citizens volunteer and serve in the U.S. armed forces. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cited Palau as one of America’s “staunchest allies” during a May 6 hearing of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Last Updated: June 10, 2009 05:29 EDT


Terror Names Linked To Doomed Flight AF 447 3:58pm
UK, Wednesday June 10, 2009 Peter Allen, in Paris

Two passengers with names linked to Islamic terrorism were on the Air France flight which crashed with the loss of 228 lives, it has emerged. French secret servicemen established the connection while working through the list of those who boarded the doomed Airbus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 31. Flight AF 447 crashed in the mid-Atlantic en route to Paris during a violent storm.
While it is certain there were computer malfunctions, terrorism has not been ruled out.

Soon after news of the fatal crash broke, agents working for the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), the French equivalent of MI6, were dispatched to Brazil. It was there that they established that two names on the passenger list are also on highly-classified documents listing the names of radical Muslims considered a threat to the French Republic. A source working for the French security services told Paris weekly L'Express that the link was "highly significant". Agents are now trying to establish dates of birth for the two dead passengers, and family connections.

There is a possibility the name similarities are simply a "macabre coincidence", the source added, but the revelation is still being "taken very seriously". France has received numerous threats from Islamic terrorist groups in recent months, especially since French troops were sent to fight in Afghanistan. Security chiefs have been particularly worried about airborne suicide attacks similar to the ones on the US on September 11, 2001.




You will have trouble finding anything pertaining to these two articles in your local newspaper or on the government controlled alphabet news outlets. (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN) When Alexis de Tocqueville came to this country in 1848, he wrote that freedom in America was supported by the fact that in 1792, officials had made the mailing of newspapers and magazines possible all over the country.

Even during the Indian Wars, in the west, (the wars in which Abraham Lincoln fought) newspapers were still being delivered and the people of this country, who had fled the oppression of Europe, were experiencing the greatest freedom in the world, (freedom of speech). Has it occurred to you that news is being controlled, that newspapers (which are rapidly disappearing) only print items which the organized socialist agenda permit. There was a time, when the local newspaper would print a letter to the editor from me. They do not print any letters, anymore, unless it is “liberal drivel”.

Recently, I wrote a letter to the editor, of the local paper, protesting the outrageous expenses when the city council went to a meeting in Washington. Thousands of dollars, for council members and their spouses at fancy restaurants, etc. I protested this exorbitance at a time when, we underlings, are having to cut back on everything in every way, when there are lay-offs, even among city employees. I sent copies of the letter to the editor to other news organization and to members of the city council.

One city council member, a professor at the local university, told me they were 'due' such extravagance for their services. When I wrote letters to editors protesting the $100,000 pay-off to Governor Easley (his wife hired by NC State University, because of which the Chancellor and others have resigned) President Bowles wrote me that both Democrats and Republicans on the board had approved this extravagance. The liberal newspapers, in the state, had refused to even print my letter. As you know, I have traveled through 157 different countries, I believe I have been in every communist country. You will find here, just as those human beings have found there, the Obama government is in complete control.