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The Assassination in Mosul

The assassination of Saddam Hussein's two sons in Mosul this past week, tells a story that goes to the heart of the moral and psychological flaw of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and the Chickenhawk crew which they head. It demonstrates that this Administration has taken up an

explicit policy of assassination, which moves it morally in the direction of Nazism.

The reports indicate that the operation began with an exchange of small-arms fire between what appears to have been a small special-warfare operations force, and the occupants of the house. When the numerous hours of assault were not successful, someone apparently gave the order for the opening of tank-fire from the 101st Airborne unit, with the resulting destruction of the house, Saddam Hussein's two sons, and two others inside.

What was going on here? According to the July 20 Sunday Telegraph of London, Donald Rumsfeld had commissioned "Task Force 20," a special operations team, to operate in Iraq as part of the "Gray Fox" operation, which is centered in the Defense Department under Stephen Cambone, the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. EIR's intelligence sources report that Gray Fox has been constituted as Rumsfeld's personal assassination squad, a re-creation of the Vietnam-era "Phoenix" assassination program. Ostensibly, the special hit squad was on the verge of carrying out their assassination assignment against the Hussein brothers, but needed help. They got it, and got their men.

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King George, or Richard III: 'W' as in 'Watergate'
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The word in Washington, D.C. is that the Bush family is following in the footsteps of former President Richard Nixon, determined to stonewall all the way! Unless 'W' and his family change their ways very soon, future historians will record the tragic history of 'W's' Administration as a disgust- ingly poor quality of remake of Shakespeare's Richard III.

LaRouche To Youth Movement: - 'What This Planet Needs Now, For Humanity, Is A Future' - July 26, 2003
"Well, folks, we're at a very interesting point in world history. This is really something. It's something that doesn't come along, nothing comparable comes along in pretty much less than a century, and something like this, we're really going back. We're going back to the 17th or 16th Century, that kind of thing...

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this week in history

July 28-August 3, 1957

This week we turn our attention to an event which began on July 29, 1957, the founding conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. What this history confronts us with, is the dramatic shift, from scientific and technological optimism, to niggardly pessimism, which has occurred between that time, and today.

Today, the IAEA is constantly in the news, as the United Nations agency which supervises nuclear power operations internationally, monitors non-proliferation, and issues reports on the control, and containment, of any operations which might possibly be used for weapons-oriented nuclear activity. But when the IAEA was founded, at the instigation of American President Dwight D. Eisenhower, it had a much broader, more positive purpose: not only to move toward nuclear disarmament, but also to promote the development of peaceful nuclear energy, especially for the Third World.

The concept of the IAEA came under the name of "Atoms for Peace," a plan for which was first put forward at the United Nations General Assembly by President Eisenhower on Dec. 8, 1953.

President Eisenhower's speech did, of course, begin by directing attention to the danger of nuclear war, in light of the balance of terror which was being developed between the United States and Soviet Union at that time. He also took up the topic of a recent UN resolution on the matter of disarmament, and upcoming talks scheduled on this matter, and then dropped this conceptual bomb:

"We shall carry into these private or diplomatic talks a new conception. The United States would seek more than the mere reduction or elimination of atomic materials for military purposes. It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of the soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

"The United States knows that if the fearful trend of atomic military build-up can be reversed, this greatest of destructive forces can be developed into a great boon, for the benefit of all mankind. The United States knows that peaceful power from atomic energy is no dream of the future. The capability, already proved, is here today. Who can doubt that, if the entire body of the world's scientists and engineers had adequate amounts of fissionable material with which to test and develop their ideas, this capability would rapidly be transformed into universal, efficient, and economic usage?"

President Eisenhower then proposed that governments with nuclear materials begin to make contributions from their stockpiles to an international atomic energy agency, under the aegis of the UN, and that this agency be responsible for impounding, storing, and protecting the materials. Then he continued:

"The more important responsibility of this atomic energy agency would be to devise methods whereby this fissionable material would be allocated to serve the peaceful pursuits of mankind. Experts would be mobilized to apply atomic energy to the needs of agriculture, medicine, and other peaceful activities. A special purpose would be to provide abundant electrical energy in the power-starved areas of the world.

"Thus the contributing Powers would be dedicating some of their strength to serve the needs, rather than the fears of mankind."

All over the world, nuclear energy's benefits captured the imagination of those who were striving to transform society. Indian nuclear pioneer Homi Bhabha, who launched that country's nuclear program, said at the time: "For the full industrialization of the underdeveloped areas, for the continuation of our civilization and its further development, atomic energy is not merely an aid: It is an absolute necessity. The acquisition by man of the knowledge of how to release and use atomic energy must be recognized as the third great epoch in human history."

Two years after Eisenhower's speech, there were 28 research reactors in operation: five in the Soviet Union, four in England, two in Canada, one in France, one in Norway, and the rest in the United States. Fifteen years later, there were 375 research reactors in 50 countries, including 41 in developing nations.

The slogan in the young nuclear industry was "2,000 by 2000"—building 2,000 nuclear plants by 2000. The United States led the way, pioneering in every aspect of the nuclear cycle—fuel enrichment, fuel fabrication, reactor design, power production, breeder reactors, fuel reprocessing, and advanced reactor research. The first nuclear reactor to produce power was a 25-kilowatt-thermal breeder reactor called Clementine at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1946. A few years later, in 1951, the nation brought online the world's first breeder reactor to produce usable amounts of electricity, the Experimental Breeder Reactor, or EBR-1 which produced 200 kilowatts of electricity at its peak.

The first power-producing reactor was that of the Nuclear Navy, under the direction of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, sending the Nautilus submarine on its first journey in 1954. Rickover demonstrated that nuclear reactors could be built quickly and operate safely. Three years later, in 1957, the first U.S. civilian power reactor came on line, in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. This reactor took just 32 months from construction to power generation. By the early 1960s, other commercial nuclear plants were on line, and many were in construction. Commonwealth Edison of Illinois, for example, put the 207-megawatt Dresden 1 on line in September 1959—built in less than three years at a cost of $51 million.

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Feature:

The Case for Impeachment of Vice President Richard Cheney
By The Editors

In the face of the gathering storm against the George W. Bush Administration, for engaging in a pattern of lies to justify a pre-determined course of launching illegal war against Iraq, there is a sore temptation on the part of both the uninformed, and the opportunistic, to train their guns on President George W. Bush, and to call for his impeachment. Such an impeachment proceeding against the President would be a strategic and legal error which, if successful, would put the chief culprit, Vice-President Dick Cheney, into the Presidency, and effectively consolidate the coup which he and his chickenhawks' coterie have carried out.

King George, or Richard III: 'W' as in 'Watergate'
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.

The word in Washington, D.C. is that the Bush family is following in the footsteps of former President Richard Nixon, determined to stonewall all the way! Unless 'W' and his family change their ways very soon, future historians will record the tragic history of 'W's' Administration as a disgust- ingly poor quality of remake of Shakespeare's Richard III.

  • Chronology of Key Events Around The Faked Yellowcake Evidence
    Here is an outline of key events around the Niger uranium yellowcake fakery, as known to date; and more broadly, the development of the doctrine of pre-emptive, nuclear war—with emphasis on those aspects Vice-President Dick Cheney's role which are publicly known.

Cheney Invented Today's 'Bush Doctrine' in 1990
by Edward Spannaus and Jeff Steinberg

On Sept. 22, 2002, Lyndon LaRouche issued his first call for Vice President Dick Cheney to resign .... What triggered LaRouche's dramatic call for Cheney to step down, was the accumulated evidence that Cheney and a small group of his long-time collaborators, centered around Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis Libby, have willfully lied to the American public, to Congress, and to the President himself, about the circumstances under which they have promoted the so-called 'war on terrorism,' the drive for a new war against Iraq, and the fraudulent and dangerous new National Security Strategy.

Economics:

A Needless Decade of Despair: Developing Nations Are Dying
by Mary Jane Freeman
The decade of the 1990s was one of growing poverty and genocide for vast parts of the human population, as evidenced by data released on July 8 in the United Nations' Human Development Report for 2003. While the report is a mixed bag, some of its conclusions are not only horrifying, but they also bear out the veracity of Lyndon LaRouche's and EIR's forecasts over that same decade...

Trans-European Transport Networks Get New Push
by Lothar Komp
All the European economies are stuck in the mud. To make matters worse, the heads of many politicians and top managers seem to be quite muddy as well. After ten years of budget cutting in order to fulfill the requirements of the European Union's Maastricht Treaty, the deficits of public budgets in Europe are now larger than ever before....But, finally, some fresh wind is hitting the economic debate in Europe.

  • Euro-Russian Energy Accord Makes Sense
    by Rainer Apel
    Meetings took place in Moscow on July 21, between European Union envoy Christian Cleutinx and Russian Deputy Energy Minister Aleksandr Voronin, which may prove important for finalization of a project that has been discussed for three years: the continental Strategic Energy Partnership proposal, made by Russian President Vladimir Putin in September 2000.

Interview: Dr. Rushdi Said
Egypt's Development Under Nasser: Lessons for Today
Dr. Rushdi Said, geologist, has had long experience in the post-World War II economic development of Egypt. Among his many achievements are the founding of the Egyptian Geological Survey, and a definitive book on the history of the Nile River (The River Nile—Geology, Hydrology and Utilization, Pergamon Press, 1993). He was interviewed June 27, 2003, by Marcia Merry Baker.

Swedish Premier Bucks 'European New Deal'
by Ulf Sandmark
By putting on the table its Tremonti Plan for infrastructure investments, Italy has forced a European-wide economic policy fight out into the open. The Tremonti Plan offers Europe a chance to get out of the current deep economic depression,...But crawling out of the woodwork everywhere in Europe, are the fanatical Maastricht Treaty budget-cutters, promoters of financial speculation and other shady players on the financial markets, complaining that the Tremonti Plan violates the Stability Pact of the European Monetary Union. One of them is Swedish Prime Minister Go¨ran Persson.

International:

'Ibykus Principle' Is Hunting Britain's Blair
by Mark Burdman

To understand the extraordinary political drama unfolding in Britain since the July 17 death of Dr. David Kelly, Britain's paramount expert on Iraqi 'weapons of mass destruction' (WMD), one may read the great German poet Friedrich Schiller's ballad, 'The Cranes of Ibykus.' Schiller's poem depicts how the Greek poet Ibykus is murdered, and as he dies, calls on cranes flying overhead to avenge him. When his murderers attend a festival—where Ibykus was expected to offer his famous poetry—they see the cranes, and, impelled by conscience to cry out, 'See there, the cranes of Ibykus,' give themselves away.

Will Sharon Be Cheney's Hand Grenade vs. Iran?
by Dean Andromidas
American Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche warned on July 17 that Vice President Dick Cheney's 'chicken-hawks' could soon unleash a military confrontation with Iran, unless stopped by being put out of office. LaRouche described Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as Cheney's potential 'hand grenade' in launching a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear complex, a repeat of Israel's 1981 attack on Iraq's Osirak reactor—but this time, the use of nuclear weapons could not be ruled out.

Neo-Cons Push Korea Conflict To Divert From Iraq Failure
by Kathy Wolfe
Under attack for fraud in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney and fellow neo-cons such as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have escalated threats against North Korea to divert attention from their Iraq failures. They proclaimed it a 'serious concern' July 15 that Pyongyang reprocessed 8,000 fuel rods for nuclear weapons, and they released a provocative new war plan against the North.

Iraq Occupying Powers Caught In Legal Vise
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The urgency of implementing Lyndon LaRouche's exit strategy from Iraq—'Get Paul Bremer out; get the United States troops out; get the United Nations in'—is reinforced by several developments. The escalating guerrilla warfare being waged against American troops will not abate following the killing of Saddam Hussein's two sons on July 23. The United States has demonstrated its inability to provide the services required under international law, to the civilian population under occupation. Thirdly, there is no way, within the context of international law, for the occupying powers to take the steps required to reconstruct the country.

Preparing Today's Youth To Take Over the World
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Lyndon LaRouche gave the following address by telephone to a cadre school of the LaRouche Youth Movement in Hanover, Germany on July 13.
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The question is, under what conditions shall the younger generation, those who are in the college age, move to take over the world? What are the limitations that they must impose upon themselves, in doing this?"

National:

LaRouche Campaign Is Outspending Rivals
by Anita Gallagher
Vice President Cheney will be unhappy to hear that Lyndon LaRouche's Presidential campaign is outspending all other candidates for President to date, LaRouche said, upon being informed of that feature of the July 2003 Quarterly campaign reports filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

Dick Cheney Has Long Planned To Loot Iraqi Oil
by Scott Thompson
As this week's Feature highlights, Vice President Dick Cheney has been plotting the conquest of Iraq since he was Secretary of Defense in President George H.W. Bush's Administration—a plan then considered insane aggression. Moreover, on July 17, 2003, Judicial Watch announced that Cheney's Energy Task Force had developed a map of Iraq dated March 2001, as well as maps of the neighboring United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) and Saudi Arabia, which show that Cheney knew precisely how much the conquest of Iraq would be worth.

LaRouche Tells Pakistani-Americans 'We Are United' To Create Better World
by EIR Staff
Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche was the featured speaker at the June 28 gathering of the Pakistani-American Tameer-e-Millat (National Building) Foundation in New York City. The audience of approximately 350 included the leadership of the Pakistani community in the New York-New Jersey area, as well as representatives from Pakistan and elsewhere.

Congressional Closeup
by Carl Osgood

National News

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The Assassination in Mosul
The assassination of Saddam Hussein's two sons in Mosul this past week, tells a story that goes to the heart of the moral and psychological flaw of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and the chicken-hawk crew which they head. It demonstrates that this Administration has taken up an explicit policy of assassination, which moves it morally in the direction of Nazism.

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