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XorNand writes: "Time is reporting that the Dept of Transportation, acting on instructions from Congress, is in the process of linking together states' drivers' license databases. They figure that it'll be cheaper and easier to slip under the radar of civil libertarians and privacy watchdogs. Wonder if Larry is a bit peeved that he's not getting his cut?"
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USA Today ran (and printed) an article about Dave Thomas and Fark. Apparently, one too many moms fired up AOL and headed over; the site is very much down. It is serving pages now, but no cgi.
Let's hear it for the wonders of mySQL (and slow-ass Perl)!
courtesy of: http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/08/ltm.05.html
... this...
... is really big news.
... the prosecution of terrorism.
... apparently told the authors of this book. He
... to see if you can confirm any of this. Let's
... that was pushing for moving beyond
AMERICAN MORNING WITH PAULA ZAHN
Explosive New Book Published in France Alleges that U.S.
Was in Negotiations to Do a Deal with Taliban
Aired January 8, 2002 - 07:34 ET
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FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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UPDATED.
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Time to check in
with ambassador-in- residence, Richard Butler, this
morning. An explosive new book published in France
alleges that the United States was in negotiations to do
a deal with the Taliban for an oil pipeline in
Afghanistan.
Joining us right now is Richard Butler to shed some
light on this new book. He is the former chief U.N.
weapons inspector. He is now on the Council on
Foreign Relations and our own ambassador-in-
residence -- good morning.
RICHARD BUTLER, FMR. U.N. WEAPONS
INSPECTOR: Good morning, Paula.
ZAHN: Boy, if any of these charges are true...
BUTLER: If...
ZAHN:
BUTLER: Yes.
ZAHN:
BUTLER: I agree.
ZAHN: Start off with what your understanding is of
what is in this book -- the most explosive charge.
BUTLER: The most explosive charge, Paula, is that
the Bush administration -- the present one, just shortly
after assuming office slowed down FBI investigations
of al Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan in order to
do a deal with the Taliban on oil -- an oil pipeline
across Afghanistan.
ZAHN: And this book points out that the FBI's deputy
director, John O'Neill, actually resigned because he
felt the U.S. administration was obstructing...
BUTLER: A proper...
ZAHN:
BUTLER: Yes, yes, a proper intelligence investigation
of terrorism. Now, you said if, and I affirmed that in
responding to you. We have to be careful here. These
are allegations. They're worth airing and talking about,
because of their gravity. We don't know if they are
correct. But I believe they should be investigated,
because Central Asian oil, as we were discussing
yesterday, is potentially so important. And all prior
attempts to have a pipeline had to be done through
Russia. It had to be negotiated with Russia.
Now, if there is to be a pipeline through Afghanistan,
obviating the need to deal with Russia, it would also
cost less than half of what a pipeline through Russia
would cost. So financially and politically, there's a big
prize to be had. A pipeline through Afghanistan down
to the Pakistan coast would bring out that Central
Asian oil easier and more cheaply.
ZAHN: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) as you spoke about this
yesterday, we almost immediately got a call from "The
New York Times."
BUTLER: Right.
ZAHN: They want you to write an op-ed piece on this
over the weekend.
BUTLER: Right, and which I will do.
ZAHN: But let's come back to this whole issue of
what John O'Neill, this FBI agent...
BUTLER: Right.
ZAHN:
is alleging that -- what -- the U.S. government was
trying to protect U.S. oil interests? And at the same
time, shut off the investigation of terrorism to allow
for that to happen?
BUTLER: That's the allegation that instead of
prosecuting properly an investigation of terrorism,
which has its home in Afghanistan as we now know,
or one of its main homes, that was shut down or
slowed down in order to pursue oil interests with the
Taliban. The people who we have now bombed out of
existence, and this not many months ago. The book
says that the negotiators said to the Taliban, you have
a choice. You have a carpet of gold, meaning an oil
deal, or a carpet of bombs. That's what the book
alleges.
ZAHN: Well, I know you're going to be doing your
own independent homework on this...
BUTLER: Yes.
ZAHN:
move on to the whole issue of Iraq. The deputy
defense secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, at one time was
considered one of those voices within the
administration...
BUTLER: Yes.
ZAHN:
Afghanistan. He seemed to back off a little from that
yesterday.
BUTLER: Yes.
ZAHN: What do you read through the tea leaves here?
BUTLER: A very interesting report that the
administration will focus on the Philippines, Yemen,
Somalia as places where there are al Qaeda cells. But
the word Iraq wasn't used by the man who was the
chief hawk -- used as a, you know, as a future target.
So what I interpret from that is this: That very likely
our allies have been saying to us, this is too hard. This
is really serious. Be careful. Saddam is essentially
contained at the moment. Don't start, you know, a
bigger problem either in the Arab world or in the
coalition by going after him. And Wolfowitz, it seems,
has probably accepted that.
ZAHN: A quick thought on the Israelis intercepting
this latest armed shipment? What that means? You've
got to do it in about 15 seconds.
BUTLER: It's extraordinarily serious, because it
seems to have been tied to Yasser Arafat himself. It
needs to be further investigated, but you know, Paula,
the potentiality that this could once again prove an
impediment to resume peace negotiations is really
quite serious.
ZAHN: Thank you as usual for covering so much
territory. Richard Butler, see you same time, same
place tomorrow morning.
BUTLER: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
ZAHN: We appreciate your insights.
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Well, if this is true that one can be accused of tresspassing a law in a country or state just by what this person is posting on local forums, well than I think we all should ask google to only allow Internet-friendly countries to it's magnificent log of all postings back till '81.
If you were a furious rebel in your childhood back than, you better watch out!
You know what else is ironic? He didn't have a Pilot's License either.
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