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Secret Service crisis 2.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

First Lady cancels USN&WR interview over Secret Service cover story President Bush and his wife are steaming over U.S. News & World Report's story about Secret Service protection for their twin daughters. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer calls the article "a disappointing departure from the media's traditional role of respecting the privacy of the president's family," but editor Brian Duffy tells Howard Kurtz the magazine performed "the usual balancing act between privacy concerns and whether the measures being taken are adequate to ensure (the twins') safety." (Washington Post) http://www.poynter.org/medianews/

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RE: bekliyorum tamam
by asi798＠hotmail.com 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

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Dermot Avon,a liar,an incompetent buffoon and Vic policeman.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Dermot Avon Fuckwit of the week. by profrv(a)(nospam)fuckmicrosoft.com 8:51pm Mon Sep 9 '02 article#33272 Dermot Avon enjoys lying,he told me he was from my ISP with a sickly smirk,then his little weasel mate,Conte told me they were Persons Impersonating Govt.servants or P.I.Gs. http://www.melbournecrime.bizhosting.com/gabdallah.htm "The Deputy Ombudsman began an inquiry into the circumstances of the shooting of Gary Abdallah and after an eight-month investigation suggested that the two detectives at the fatal shooting appeared to have agreed to corroborate each other's false accounts (The Herald, 22 December 1989)." FROM Gary Abdallah Abdallah was wanted for arson in connection with a $300,000 fire at Simons Disco in Northcote. He grew up as a young armed robber in the Flemington area and a member of a well known criminal gang which resided in his suburb and its neighbour, Ascot Vale. Other members of the crew included Mark and Jason Moran, Graham Jensen, Frank Valastro, Mark Militano, Jedd Houghton, Victor Pierce, Peter McKevoy and Santo Mercuri. Houghton, like Abdallah, was killed by police during investigations into the 1988 Walsh St police shootings. On March 31, 1988, a bank robbery occurred at a State Bank branch in Oak Park. The armed robbers left empty handed but shots were fired. Forensic records showed the gun used was definitely the same one used in the Walsh Street shootings. This robbery was linked to four unsolved recent hold-ups, police dubbing the perpetrators as the Flemington Crew. The gun used was retrieved next to tram tracks in Parkville's Royal Park Golf Course in 1990. In late 1988, the TyEyre Taskforce into Walsh Street undertook a series of dawn raids on drug dealers, armed robbers and other known criminals in some way connected with the police shootings. Abdallah was one of the men at the top of the list of people police wanted to speak with. Abdallah became a Walsh Street suspect on the evidence of the prosecution's key witness, Jason Ryan, whose statement was changed four times and finally thrown out by the court. Ryan, part of Richmond's feared crime family, the Pettingill's, claimed that Abdallah's part in the killings was to provide and drive the getaway car which the alleged killers had sought from his Carlton commission flat. The evidence was collected in an interview with Ryan conducted by Det John Noonan. He had taken Ryan on a trip out of the city, to Mansfield in the states north-east. It was there Ryan was interrogated and from his ever changing information and statements, Noonan initiated a case against his uncle, Victor Pierce, friend, Anthony Farrell, associate, Peter McEvoy and uncle, Trevor Pettingill. Abdallah feared for his life after he heard rumours that the police were out to kill him. He had good reason to be fearful: Jedd Houghton was shot dead by police in a Bendigo caravan park in November 1988. For two months Abdallah eluded the police. Raids were made on all known associates including his girlfriends family and the family of Jedd Houghton. News filtered back to Abdallah that police intended to kill him if they got to him first. He kept away from them until visiting Detective John Noonan at St Kilda Rd Police HQ on February 22, 1989 when he arranged a meeting with the task force head and his lawyer. Noonan told him that he was not wanted for the shooting, and Abdallah said he hadn't come in earlier "because people were telling me I was going to be knocked [killed]". Leo Musgrave, a Melbourne justice of the peace who knew Abdallah and Houghton as young criminals in the inner western suburb of Flemington, was also anxious about the atmosphere after he saw Abdallah's name on police bulletin boards. According to Roma Carew, the mother of Stephen Carew, a close friend of Abdallah, Musgrave warned her in December 1988 that if the police got to Abdallah first "the bastards will kill him". Stephen Carew said Musgrave approached him twice and urged that Abdallah give himself up to police, promising to ensure that Abdallah got the warning. Det. John Noonan (left) Jason Ryan and Victor Pierce (right) Noonan assured Abdallah that he was not wanted in any relation to the case. Abdallah's car, suspected of being used in the getaway, had been sold before the murders. It was later obtained by police although their tests proved nothing. He claimed not to have heard of the murders until the following day in the newspaper. Abdallah also said he never used telephones throwing police accusations that he'd phoned fellow suspects McKevoy and Pettingill out the window. Abdallah told Noonan that he didn't believe his friend Jed Houghton would ever have anything to do with Jason Ryan. Abdallah thought that Houghton couldn't stand him thinking that he was untrustworthy with a big mouth. Noonan sent Abdallah to arson over the Simons Nightclub incident. He was then bailed. Although Noonan assured him of his presumed innocence, Abdallah was immediately trailed. The police then planted a listening device in Abdallah's flat in Drummond Street, Carlton, and set up a permanent surveillance position in the building opposite. Abdallah's lease ended on Sunday April 9, 1989. Police surveillance was also about to end. He left his flat momentarily, was trailed by police who intercepted him and returned him home. Police claim he was being arrested for the attempted murder of a policeman's son several weeks before. It was there that Abdallah allegedly pulled an imitation pistol on detectives Cliff Lockwood and Dermot Avon from City West CIB. Lockwood fired six shots from his gun and then let off another one from his partners weapon. Abdallah was critically wounded and died after 40 days in a coma from complications arising from a bullet wound to the back of the head. When Gary Abdallah was shot and eventually died there was a large amount of media attention paid to the circumstances of his shooting. The Abdallah family and their solicitor were vocal in questioning the police version of events and demanding an independent public inquiry. Other influential groups and individuals also publicly questioned the shootings. The fact that Gary Abdallah was shot at seven times and had a bullet wound in the back of his head were not matters that could be readily explained. It was announced that there would be a special series of coronial inquiries into the shootings. The inquest has examined the circumstances of the shootings in a way that has never been done previously. The Deputy Ombudsman began an inquiry into the circumstances of the shooting of Gary Abdallah and after an eight-month investigation suggested that the two detectives at the fatal shooting appeared to have agreed to corroborate each other's false accounts (The Herald, 22 December 1989). One level of criticism against police suggested that in the wake of the killing of the two police officers revenge overcame reason in the police force. A lawyer representing a man charged in relation to the 'Walsh Street' killings said in court, while objecting to his client being held in custody, 'he is probably safer in Pentridge than on the streets where he could be subjected to a bullet in the back of his head' (The Sun, 13 September 1990). The coroner was told that 'After the two young policemen were killed, it was if the police had some kind of vendetta' (The Age, 13 September 1990). Mrs Carew, a local resident, told the coroner that a local Justice of the Peace, who she had known for many years, came to her house and asked her to get her sons to tell Abdallah, who at the time police wanted to question about 'Walsh Street' to come to his home and he would make sure that Abdallah 'got to the police station all right'. She said the Justice of the Peace told her: 'If they get to him first, the bastards will kill him'. In 1989, the Victorian government appointed state coroner Hal Hallenstein to conduct an inquiry into police killings following the shooting of Abdallah. Abdallah's family asked the deputy ombudsman, Dr Barry Perry, to investigate the shooting. His 329-page report was completed shortly before Christmas 1989. It said that "the evidence seems to provide some basis for believing that there was criminal conduct" in the police shooting. During the inquest, the Abdallah family lawyer expressed a more direct view: the pistol was a plant and Abdallah was on his knees, his hands behind his head, when he was shot like a dog on a short lead. In Victoria there were eleven fatal shootings by police in the two year period up to April 1989. This compares to only ten fatal shootings by police in the previous thirteen years. The number of fatal shootings by police had increased from only two in 1985 and one in 1986 to five in 1987 and five in 1988. The fatal shooting of Abdallah led to growing demands for a judicial inquiry into the shootings. Those calling for such an inquiry included families of some of the deceased, the Federation of Community Legal Centres, the Victorian Council of Civil Liberties, Member of Parliament Mr Neil Cole, Pentridge prison chaplain, Father Peter Norden, and the Bar Association. These demands were based on the growing number of shootings, the circumstances surrounding some of the shootings and the belief that the usual investigation by the Homicide Squad overseen by the police Internal Investigation Department and an inquiry by the coroner would not be sufficient to uncover any wrongdoing by police involved. The shootings became the subject of growing media attention and a public meeting was organised by the families of the deceased and the Flemington Legal Service. Hundreds of people attended the public meeting and passed a motion calling on the government to set up a judicial inquiry into the shootings and police accountability. There may be something wrong with Avons left eye,one time he faced me and his wandering eye was moving around the ceiling in the corner.If I was partnering this dingbat I would carry a knife as well nic.(should regulations allow of course.) See you weds,suckers.Get your stories straight.

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Capita Punishment UK Stasi.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Two in five face job vetting in drive to detect offenders 'The new Criminal Records Bureau predicts that within three years it will be making more than 11 million checks on past offenders, out of a working-age population of 29 million [in the UK]. The police previously made about one million criminal record checks a year ... The government drive means that a Criminal Record Certificate could soon become as essential for a job interview as a curriculum vitae and a suit ... Of the 11,627,595 checks predicted to be made each year from 2005, only 3.2 million will be on those who work with children. The other eight million or so certificates will be requested by people seeking to apply for work in a wide variety of other roles and professions. To reach these targets - which the bureau must hit if it is to become a self-funding body - employers will have to be encouraged to demand the £12 certificates from applicants' ( Independent ) The CRB has received a great deal of coverage in the UK media over the last two weeks, after it failed to clear a huge backlog of checks on school staff in time for the start of term. As the CRB is nominally a Home Office agency, the public has been given the impression that this was a civil service cock-up. In fact, the work of the CRB is performed by Capita, a private firm with a long record of botching government contracts See also this Telegraph article, and this Guardian article Capita punishment 'New Labour can't master the "ever-faster waves of technology". All it can do is produce needless suffering and throw public money at bungling and rapacious corporations. In all the coverage of the Criminal Records Bureau fiasco, few journalists have noticed the boldness of the Home Office's ambition. At the moment, Capita, the out-sourcing company whose failure to deliver benefits or stop fraud has made it an old friend of this column, can't check the criminal records of teachers. Children are probably dying on the roads because Ministers are too scared of the post-Soham tabloids to allow them into the safety of the classrooms. Today's scandal, however, could well be dwarfed in the spring ...' ( Nick Cohen via Observer ) See also this article by Michael Mandel from 1997, this Observer report quoting Scotland Yard sources as saying that CRB checks are likely to be virtually useless in any case, as the police database against which the checks are made is riddled with errors.LINKS? http://www.hullocentral.demon.co.uk/site/anfin.htm

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Saxotoxin sprinkled pretzels.
by Matthew X 09 Sep '02

09 Sep '02

Who will risk experimenting with SAXITOXIN? It is 1000 times more toxic >than a typical synthetic nerve gas such as sarin. It was used by CIA in >1950's as a suicide capsule. President Nixon ordered entire stock of of >SAXOTOXIN to be destroyed. > There are plus point to SAXOTOXIN, it has been used in medical research. > Checking on the structure of Saxitoxin in the Merck Index reveals that it >> has a most interesting architecture. Three terminal NH2 groups, an ether >> linkage and a ketone. Its stable in acid solution but decomposes rapidly in >> alkaline media. It looks like very good food for anaerobic bacteria and I >> suspect would decompose rapidly in the presence of acetogens and >> methanogens. Try a sample of digested sewage sludge (anaerobic) culture with >> some milk for a few days at 35 Celsius until gas is produced. Then add the >> Saxitoxin at known dilution, sample and analyse for Saxitoxin every hour. >> Within 12 hours I'll bet its all gone. Not sure of the specific test used to >> confirm saxitoxin but I guess its capable of parts per billion. Source in nature... http://www.scuba-doc.com/ingest.htm

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GREEN CARD CEK�L�S� KACIRMAYIN
by GREENCARDCEK�L�S�N� KACIRMAYIN 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

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by wangqing＠sina.com 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

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opsec hint: don't give classified into to Moussaoui
by Optimizzin Al-gorithym 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

US accidentally gave Moussaoui classified information on al-Qaeda: report September 07, 2002, 11:09 PM WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government accidentally gave Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in connection with the September 11 attacks, classified information about al-Qaeda, ABC News reported. The documents and computer disks were mistakenly handed over to Moussaoui along with materials the government is required to furnish for his legal defense, several legal sources, including one at the Justice Department, told the network Friday. Moussaoui is serving as his own counsel. <snip> http://www.arabia.com/afp/news/int/article/english/0,10846,283377,00.html

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research & homeland insecurity
by Optimizzin Al-gorithym 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

(sent to AAAS members) Dear AAAS Member: As the anniversary of September 11th approaches, AAAS continues to be engaged in issues that relate to national security and the role of science and technology. One such issue is the safe and responsible conduct of research involving biological agents and toxins. AAAS was recently asked by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to assist in alerting our members to the federal mandate (Public Law 107-188) requiring all facilities and persons that possess, use, or transfer agents or toxins considered a threat to animals, plants, animal and plant products and/or public health (called "select agents") to notify the CDC and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Approximately 200,000 facilities were sent a copy of the notification form by the CDC. The deadline for submitting a completed form to the CDC is September 10, 2002. All entities that receive a copy of the form must comply, even if they do not possess a select agent or toxin. If you are in possession of a select agent or toxin and did not receive a form, you should call CDC's toll-free number: 1-866-567-4232. Further information on the select agent list, procedures for notification, and exemptions can be found at the following websites: CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/lrsat.htm USDA: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/ncie AAAS is initiating an effort to monitor the effects of new national security initiatives on the research community. In that regard, we'd be pleased to hear about your experience, whether positive or negative, in complying with this new federal mandate. You can forward such information to Dr. Mark Frankel, director of the AAAS Program on Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law at mfrankel(a)aaas.org Sincerely, Alan I. Leshner Chief Executive Officer

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Re: seeking information for Tired News article
by Optimizzin Al-gorithym 08 Sep '02

08 Sep '02

At 02:33 PM 9/7/02 -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote: >> What kinds of people are involved? > >Doctors, Lawyers, Mathematecians, Felons, Druggies, Anti-druggies, >Anarchists, Libertarians, Right-Wing-Fanatics, Left-Wing-Fanatics, >Teachers, Housewives, Househusbands, students, cops, criminals... We're all just voices in TM's head.. >> Who (socially, i mean, not names!) exactly are the members of the group? > >Agains, there IS NO GROUP. I'm not trying to be cute here - THERE IS >NO GROUP. The whole concept of "group" is flawed in this context. Dogthinker seeks Alpha Cat. >> WN has had a very familiar relationship with the cypherpunks - has it been >> viewed as a positive thing? Which? WN is widely considered lame ('tired' to you) esp. since Declan left. On the other hand, publicity can attract contentful participants. Also trolling feds and folks looking for help with homework. >> With whom else are the cypherpunks allied? > >[I actually had to take a moment to wipe the tears of laughter from >the question] > >Nobody. Well a few authors have gotten free plane trips & bed & board at the Feds' expense.. some even came back after it was over. Any such "alliance" would require a Group Consensus - >something which is just patently impossible. If you ever find two >CP's who can agree on enough to come to a broad Consensus, you let me >know so I can mark it on my calendar. True 'nuff. Now ask us about protocols which let you determine a consensus... well, that's tasty. >> Thanks for your time. I am hoping to get the story done before the end of >> next week (i.e. before the actual party.) Of course, I would never publish >> the location of the party or any other information that you don't feel >> comfortable about. And 'we' should 'trust' "you" *why* ?? (Ho-ho, list relevence! Explain/define the scare-quotes! For extra credit, explain how protocols might avoid spoofing.)

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