All categories - 20 September 2006

2006-09-20 22:20:36 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

2006-09-20 22:20:35 · 13 answers · asked by tej 1 in Other - Cultures & Groups

2006-09-20 22:20:32 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Music

My boyfriend allows me to check his e-mail from time to time, that means I have an access to read his mails. When I opened it today I found that her ex-GF is trying to be added on his Friendlist in friendster.

Though I feel bad to see that mail, I still told him about it. But he gets so mad at me saying that why the hell will I call him and tell about that stupid e-mail. He asked me not to accept it and decline the request, which I did.

Now there are two (2) questionsthat bothers me:

1. Does it means he still love that girl thats why he was so angry to found out that she wants to be added on his friendlist?
2. Does it mean that he never wanted to have any communication with this woman anymore?

To be honest, I suddenly feel scared and doubt him.. I know its not fair but what do you think should I do, if you were in my position?

2006-09-20 22:20:30 · 14 answers · asked by Gnet 1 in Other - Family & Relationships

2006-09-20 22:20:25 · 9 answers · asked by gymfreak 2 in Polls & Surveys

2006-09-20 22:20:18 · 15 answers · asked by sact 1 in Mental Health

I was wondering, if you are in a restraurant or another place that is independantly owned, and you are being serviced by the owner of the establishment are you still required to tip them? I understand tipping wait staff and other employees, since they make there wages almost strictly from tips (US). However, the owner makes the wage directly from the business.

2006-09-20 22:20:12 · 7 answers · asked by dipydoda 3 in Etiquette

i want to know more about HIV/AIDS DISEASE

2006-09-20 22:20:09 · 15 answers · asked by lizzy f 1 in Infectious Diseases

2006-09-20 22:20:03 · 3 answers · asked by mike don46 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

Oldies but goodies

2006-09-20 22:19:47 · 4 answers · asked by kimarley r 2 in Music

Independent Media TV
Under Reported
May 01, 2001

Friendly Fire (Operation Northwoods)
By: David Ruppe
ABC news

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N E W Y O R K, May 1 — In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.

America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."

Details of the plans are described in Body of Secrets (Doubleday), a new book by investigative reporter James Bamford about the history of America's largest spy agency, the National Security Agency. However, the plans were not connected to the agency, he notes.

The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years.

"These were Joint Chiefs of Staff documents. The reason these were held secret for so long is the Joint Chiefs never wanted to give these up because they were so embarrassing," Bamford told ABCNEWS.com.

"The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public will, and here this is the complete reverse, the military trying to trick the American people into a war that they want but that nobody else wants."

Gunning for War

The documents show "the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government," writes Bamford.

The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba, the documents show.

Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists et all Cuba [sic]."

The plans were motivated by an intense desire among senior military leaders to depose Castro, who seized power in 1959 to become the first communist leader in the Western Hemisphere — only 90 miles from U.S. shores.

The earlier CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles had been a disastrous failure, in which the military was not allowed to provide firepower.The military leaders now wanted a shot at it.

"The whole thing was so bizarre," says Bamford, noting public and international support would be needed for an invasion, but apparently neither the American public, nor the Cuban public, wanted to see U.S. troops deployed to drive out Castro.

Reflecting this, the U.S. plan called for establishing prolonged military — not democratic — control over the island nation after the invasion.

"That's what we're supposed to be freeing them from," Bamford says. "The only way we would have succeeded is by doing exactly what the Russians were doing all over the world, by imposing a government by tyranny, basically what we were accusing Castro himself of doing."

'Over the Edge'

The Joint Chiefs at the time were headed by Eisenhower appointee Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who, with the signed plans in hand made a pitch to McNamara on March 13, 1962, recommending Operation Northwoods be run by the military.

Whether the Joint Chiefs' plans were rejected by McNamara in the meeting is not clear. But three days later, President Kennedy told Lemnitzer directly there was virtually no possibility of ever using overt force to take Cuba, Bamford reports. Within months, Lemnitzer would be denied another term as chairman and transferred to another job.

The secret plans came at a time when there was distrust in the military leadership about their civilian leadership, with leaders in the Kennedy administration viewed as too liberal, insufficiently experienced and soft on communism. At the same time, however, there real were concerns in American society about their military overstepping its bounds.

There were reports U.S. military leaders had encouraged their subordinates to vote conservative during the election.

And at least two popular books were published focusing on a right- wing military leadership pushing the limits against government policy of the day. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee published its own report on right-wing extremism in the military, warning a "considerable danger" in the "education and propaganda activities of military personnel" had been uncovered. The committee even called for an examination of any ties between Lemnitzer and right-wing groups. But Congress didn't get wind of Northwoods, says Bamford.

"Although no one in Congress could have known at the time," he writes, "Lemnitzer and the Joint Chiefs had quietly slipped over the edge."

Even after Lemnitzer was gone, he writes, the Joint Chiefs continued to plan "pretext" operations at least through 1963.

One idea was to create a war between Cuba and another Latin American country so that the United States could intervene. Another was to pay someone in the Castro government to attack U.S. forces at the Guantanamo naval base — an act, which Bamford notes, would have amounted to treason. And another was to fly low level U-2 flights over Cuba, with the intention of having one shot down as a pretext for a war.

"There really was a worry at the time about the military going off crazy and they did, but they never succeeded, but it wasn't for lack of trying," he says.

After 40 Years

Ironically, the documents came to light, says Bamford, in part because of the 1992 Oliver Stone film JFK, which examined the possibility of a conspiracy behind the assassination of President Kennedy.

As public interest in the assassination swelled after JFK's release, Congress passed a law designed to increase the public's access to government records related to the assassination.

The author says a friend on the board tipped him off to the documents.

Afraid of a congressional investigation, Lemnitzer had ordered all Joint Chiefs documents related to the Bay of Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But somehow, these remained.

"The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after," says Bamford.





Original Link: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html



© Copyright 2001 ABC

2006-09-20 22:19:32 · 7 answers · asked by Mo 1 in Government

I met a guy when I started uni last september. We've always fancied eachother, and we kissed a few times (while drunk haha). Then he asked me out in June, unfortunately, 2 weeks after he found out he'd failed the year, and so had to move back home (Coventry, UK), but now he's moved out to Leeds...He came to visit all of us at uni for the last couple of days, we kissed (when sober), then went out for the night...and there was a lot more kissing lol. He wants to move back here in December, do you think there is a possibility that something could happen again with this guy? I still really like him, thanks!

2006-09-20 22:19:30 · 16 answers · asked by northukstudent 3 in Singles & Dating

My nose is stuffy and itchy. I can't taste or smell anything, and I am getting a lot of mucus in the nose. Also, I keep blowing out blood from my nose. I also have a runny nose. The blood bit weirds me out though...

2006-09-20 22:19:17 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Infectious Diseases

2006-09-20 22:19:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-20 22:19:00 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cooking & Recipes

strange gods before me .after all they have elevated mohammad to god like status.

2006-09-20 22:18:51 · 23 answers · asked by joseph m 4 in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-20 22:18:48 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

I was on the computer, and I had a small itch on my shoulder

2006-09-20 22:18:32 · 4 answers · asked by Hank 2 in Other - Society & Culture

I need to talk to sugars-that-heals ,she has info for me regarding shoe repair equipment,but I cannot get thro' to her ,so ,how can I send my em add to her ?thanks .E !

2006-09-20 22:18:22 · 1 answers · asked by EddaB 2 in Other - Business & Finance

2006-09-20 22:18:21 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Teaching

2006-09-20 22:18:08 · 4 answers · asked by Melanie S 1 in Other - News & Events

2006-09-20 22:18:07 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hobbies & Crafts

2006-09-20 22:18:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce

Is there symbolism in there of what will happen in the future?

2006-09-20 22:17:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-20 22:17:45 · 6 answers · asked by kimarley r 2 in Music

What is society's view on the religion of Scientology?
Would they view them as being deviant? and if so why?

2006-09-20 22:17:43 · 9 answers · asked by Dal D 1 in Religion & Spirituality

2006-09-20 22:17:30 · 15 answers · asked by miraclespoondiets 1 in Trivia

2006-09-20 22:17:26 · 31 answers · asked by Mike 1 in Toddler & Preschooler