Darkness Visible
Multiply the blackout by
months, and what you’d have is Iraq
By Christopher Dickey-Newsweek
...The phones, which are
provided exclusively by the bankrupt but well-connected American company
MCI....For a few days at the end of July, a couple of companies from
Bahrain and Kuwait actually did set up a working cell-phone network for the
public. But Bremer shut it down right away. According to the briefer
sent out to meet the press, the “illegal” Bahrain and Kuwait phone service
was interfering with U.S. military communications and the MCI network...
The problem—is that when an elite lives in a world utterly out of touch with
the people around it, letting them languish without modern necessities that
they think are their right (like electricity, airports, phones, and
sometimes water) then anger’s the inevitable consequence...
The article below is from June 2000 while Clinton was president. Bremer's recommendations were prophetic in some cases and frightening in others.
US Panel: Civil Liberties not jeopardized by anti-terror
CNN`-June 5, 2000
"We think there's a chance terrorists will try to stage a catastrophic event in the United States in the future," said Bremer, a former State Department ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism....
Among the commission's recommendations:
• Track international students in America..
• Allow the military to lead the response to any major terrorist attack on U.S. soil, as opposed to the FBI or the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
...Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder told CNN ..."I'd be wary of involving the military unless there's some strong showing that the civilian law enforcement has not been doing their job."
Bremer: Iraq Has Become
Battlefield of War on Terrorism
Voice of America - Aug 23, 2003
The American civil administrator in Iraq says the country has become
one of the battlefields
in the war on terrorism following ... The remarks by Paul
Bremer ...
Bremer:
Iraq a Battlefield in War on Terrorism - Voice
of America
Why the
UN's Baghdad office was bombed - Green Left*
