On White House web page: Executive Order on Terrorist Financing 9/24/01

[zulchzulu]

I'm guessing that if I was a terrorist, I might go to the White House web site www.whitehouse.gov and do a search on "terrorist financing"...Or maybe Google it...and yes, it's there. It looks like the White House is letting terrorists know what they are doing!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010924-1.html

Executive Order on Terrorist Financing

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that grave acts of terrorism and threats of terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon committed on September 11, 2001, acts recognized and condemned in UNSCR 1368 of September 12, 2001, and UNSCR 1269 of October 19, 1999, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on United States nationals or the United States constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and in furtherance of my proclamation of September 14, 2001, Declaration of National Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks, hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. I also find that because of the pervasiveness and expansiveness of the financial foundation of foreign terrorists, financial sanctions may be appropriate for those foreign persons that support or otherwise associate with these foreign terrorists. I also find that a need exists for further consultation and cooperation with, and sharing of information by, United States and foreign financial institutions as an additional tool to enable the United States to combat the financing of terrorism.

And if you're a terrorist and use Google, you can see the listing of targeted terrorist groups:

Al Qaida/Islamic Army

Abu Sayyaf Group

Armed Islamic Group (GIA)

Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)

Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)

Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)

Asbat al-Ansar

Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)

Libyan Islamic Fighting Group

Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI)

Islamic Army of Aden

Usama bin Laden

Muhammad Atif (aka, Subhi Abu Sitta,

Abu Hafs Al Masri)

Sayf al-Adl

Shaykh Sai'id (aka, Mustafa Muhammad Ahmad)

Abu Hafs the Mauritanian (aka, Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, Khalid Al-

Shanqiti)

Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi

Abu Zubaydah (aka, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, Tariq)

Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi (aka, Abu Abdallah)

Ayman al-Zawahiri

Thirwat Salah Shihata

Tariq Anwar al-Sayyid Ahmad (aka, Fathi, Amr al-Fatih)

Muhammad Salah (aka, Nasr Fahmi Nasr Hasanayn)

Makhtab Al-Khidamat/Al Kifah

Wafa Humanitarian Organization

Al Rashid Trust

Mamoun Darkazanli Import-Export Company

[robinlynne]

1. fantastic. Have you sent it to the NYT?

[zulchzulu]

2. I'll send a LTTE to them...

Ohmygawd, am I a terrorist for finding this?

:sarcasm:

[zulchzulu]

10. Sent! Also, an MP3 of Bush whining about the release of the program

www.awolcowboy.com/mp3/bush-lie-NYT.mp3

It just gets stranger and stranger...

[electron_blue]

3. Well, I for one am sure those terrorists are just shocked, I tell you, to

find out that their financial transactions are being tracked. I bet they never saw it coming. Now the "leak" ruins everything.

(can't find the sarcasm smilie, but I hope you can tell I'm being sarcastic)

[Erika]

4. W and his corporate buds needs to apologize to the NY Times

W announced this program long ago.

[zulchzulu]

5. Bush? Apologize? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh my God, I'm laughing so hard! Apologize...Bush....WAAHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

:rofl:

[Redstone]

6. Imagine him actually TALKING like that!

Instead of "I go to," "We're gonna," and all that other bullshit down-home Nuculuar garble.

Redstone

[blm]

7. Countries were already mandated to report thru the Kerry Agreement

As it turned out, Bush's White House was not ENFORCING that law after they took office.

From Oct2004 NYT:

>>>>>>

In 1988, Kerry successfully proposed an amendment that forced the Treasury Department to negotiate so-called Kerry Agreements with foreign countries. Under these agreements, foreign governments had to promise to keep a close watch on their banks for potential money laundering or they risked losing their access to U.S. markets. Other measures Kerry tried to pass throughout the 90's, virtually all of them blocked by Republican senators on the banking committee, would end up, in the wake of 9/11, in the USA Patriot Act; among other things, these measures subject banks to fines or loss of license if they don't take steps to verify the identities of their customers and to avoid being used for money laundering.

Through his immersion in the global underground, Kerry made connections among disparate criminal and terrorist groups that few other senators interested in foreign policy were making in the 90's. Richard A. Clarke, who coordinated security and counterterrorism policy for George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, credits Kerry with having seen beyond the national-security tableau on which most of his colleagues were focused. ''He was getting it at the same time that people like Tony Lake were getting it, in the '93 -'94 time frame,'' Clarke says, referring to Anthony Lake, Clinton's national security adviser. ''And the 'it' here was that there was a new nonstate-actor threat, and that nonstate-actor threat was a blended threat that didn't fit neatly into the box of organized criminal, or neatly into the box of terrorism. What you found were groups that were all of the above.''

In other words, Kerry was among the first policy makers in Washington to begin mapping out a strategy to combat an entirely new kind of enemy. Americans were conditioned, by two world wars and a long standoff with a rival superpower, to see foreign policy as a mix of cooperation and tension between civilized states. Kerry came to believe, however, that Americans were in greater danger from the more shadowy groups he had been investigating -- nonstate actors, armed with cellphones and laptops -- who might detonate suitcase bombs or release lethal chemicals into the subway just to make a point. They lived in remote regions and exploited weak governments. Their goal wasn't to govern states but to destabilize them.
>>>>>

[Freedom_from_Chains]

8. Careful, you might be quilty of treason. n/t

[Supersedeas]

15. Right wing screaming faces want TRIALS and public executions

[zulchzulu]

17. Such bloodthirsty hoodlems and idiots that have no clue

Imagine these thugs going out and inflicting violence on those who still respect the Constitution all while the dumb Chimp had this "secret program" on the White House web site all along.

Do you think ANY of the Chimp Sheep are going to retract their stupid statements if they found out that the "secret" program WAS ON THE WHITE HOUSE WEB SITE FOR FIVE FUCKING YEARS?

No. They are cowards....stupid, unpatriotic cowards and idiots.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

9. I sent a copy to our local talk-radio ideologue

Who was calling for treason charges against the NYT today.

[zulchzulu]

11. Story? What story? New York Times? Hmmm...I think I've heared of it...

Your local talk-radio puppet will drop the story like a hot potato(e).

[Freedom_from_Chains]

12. Hopefully, as he was sure firing up the rabble today.

The last guy that called in was actually crying on the phone about how terrible it was that liberals in this country are trying to destroy this great and wounderful country of ours.

These people are so easy to manipulate it is pathetic.

[zulchzulu]

13. People crying that a free press is a bad thing for America....

WTF. We need to make these people take a basic civics test and if they fail, they lose their citizenship. Make it so they have to reenter the country as earn their right to be Americans...actually I'm kidding, but it's worth a thought.

[kentuck]

14. How come Zarqawi was not on the list ??

Was he not a "terrorist" at that time??

[gasperc]

16. I know, I've made similar posts, it's all a calculated political attack

aimed for the conservative base to use the stroy to blame the press and goose the base but also because I'll go so far as to believe that their might be high probability that there are signals that another attack may be coming but they can't shut it down so if it does happen, blame the press and not the 40% cuts in the homeland security budget!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Mz Pip]

18. Send this to JD Haysquirt

That Arizona twit is gathing signatures to have the NY Times reporters credentials revoked.

Semms the RW jumped a bit prematurely on the Times for reporting info that was previously posted by the WH. Idiots. Buy what else is new.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[zulchzulu]

19. Who's he?

I'd be glad as hell to send this info to him...

[Mz Pip]

20. JD Hayworth

is a congressman from Phoenix. He could pasds for Limbaugh's brother in looks and in demeanor. He oftern makes the talkshow rounds spewing RW talking points and when those trip him up he blames Clinton. He is one of the biggest asses in congress IMHO.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[zulchzulu]

21. Blaming Clinton - The Out Of Ammo Argument

Whenever a Repug blames Clinton for something, I do the hand gesture of a gun being shot off with a "pfftt" sound...followed by a "looks like you're out of ammo..." response

[chat_noir]

22. DU Research Forum compilations

Thanks for the post. It's been added to: SWIFTboating the New York Times