THE ISRAELI SPY RING SCANDAL

"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."
US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring.

 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html

YEAH suprising that they didn't do a few snuff video's in "Abu Grub"
Also a big problem in Italy with trading in women and children of which Israeli's Russians and Turks
are mainly to blame ( in that order) Source BBC world service radio)

here's the snuff video links .

Jewish Gangsters raped children as young as two.
 http://www.ety.com/HRP/jewishstudies/snuffporn.htm

Phillip willand ( Gaurdian Correspondent Rome) has written quite a bit on the subject .

there's loads of stuff on this snuff video ring check my google search results

 http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&ie=UTF-8&q=Snuff+videos+rome+israeli&spell=1

Israeli people can be gangsters. So what? Israeli subcontractors were involved in Abu Graib?. So what? Out of all the horrors going on, what is the point of writing about this, headlining it, concentrating on it? The Israeli government and the American government are allies. We all know that.

oh common. now the israelis are also a nation of sex-abusers. there's gangsters in tel-aviv who get young russian or polish girls to go to israel and be prostitutes. (by the way most of them are russian and probably not jewish or only vaguely so). in any case in italy there's one hell of a lot more italians doing such things. israel is not particularly bad about this kind of stuff and the police stops it.
and what about the video you posted which is titled "jewish gangsters raping a girl" or something. when italians rape somebody does anyone call them "christian gangsters". and what about this mania of seeing israeli plots everywhere. wouldn't it be easy enough to pick on any advanced nation in this way? all this is just antisemitism. why doesn't indymedia take it away?

I think the link to 'Jewish Gangsters' raping young girls does equate to anti-semitism. Other nationalities, other races have gangsters too, the way you've presented it, and the Israeli people as 'child rapers', has the stink of medieaval anti-semitism about it.
Do you also have any video evidence of Jewish people drinking the blood of babies in their dark rites, or cursing the cattle?

Could someone please take that post down?

WIth regards to the discussion, the issue of prostitution and so forth is linked to the Russian mafia. Many immigrants to Israel are Russian, and some have links to the Russian mafia. I've even heard of Palestinian suicide bombers paying Russian settlers to smuggle them into Israel in their car. But the problem of the Russian mafia is widespread all around Eastern Europe as well, and is not specifically an Israeli problem.

With regards to the ACTUAL ARTICLE, Israeli intelligence routinely uses sexual humiliation against the Palestinians as an interrogation technique. Because in Muslim culture there are so many taboos, it is easy to use photographic evidence, sometimes taken in custody, of men and women in compromising situations, as a form of blackmail, and a way of garnering more intelligence.

When I saw what had happened in Abu Ghraib, I immediately thought of what I know from my time in Palestine, and of the fact that Israeli and American forces trained together. And the soldiers have said, for their defence, that they were told to do these things from 'higher up'. It's a tried and tested technique of torture and interrogation in the middle-east. They may have also been wanting to use the photographs in order to blackmail the prisoners when they were released, to be informers. But it back-fired dramatically on them.

Re: the comments above, I think it interesting that one comment decries (rightly) the use of "Jewish gangster" rather than "Israeli ganster"......but where's the same comment everytime an Israeli gets killed and is referred to as "Jewish"?

It's a double standard..."Israelis" may rape, "Israelis" may be involved in drugs, "Israelis" are involved in espionage, "Israelis" are involved in prostitution

but always, when there's a terrorist attack, only "Jews" get killed.

Well I'm sure Christians and Muslims die in suicide attacks too. When I was out there there was an attack that killed mainly immigrant workers. They weren't referred to as Jewish. Maybe there is a double standard, but I think it's important to make the distinction very clear between Jewish and Israeli. Israel is born out of Jewish history, in particular the reaction to Jewish persecution and anti-semitism. It comes out of the sense that Jewish people can't live anywhere as a minority without being subjected to violent persecution, therefore, a nation-state is the only way to ensure security.
HOWEVER, the tragedy lies in that nationalism is not a way to guarantee security, and that the actions of Israel, in stealing Palestinian land and continuing an occupation, rapidly generating more hatred towards it, make the Jewish people less safe. I don't want to shift responsibility away from Israelis, but Europe and in particular Britain perhaps have the biggest share in making this problem. 'We don't want the Jews, lets send them to Palestine', I think was a prevailing British attitude, and British politicians were looking at the imperial strategy of having 'a little Ulster in the middle-east'.
The Jews have found themselves in a situation of 'out of the frying pan, into the fire', but I don't know what I'd have done differently in their situation. They had to go somewhere, and British imperial powers only gave them this one chance...

Also, what it goes to show, is that we're all capable of the same evil, and we all do similar things in the name of nationalism and empire. Israel is not spectacularly worse than many other countries around the world. However, the issue of Israel has direct impact upon us. I would not be as interested in this issue if not for September 11th. I'd probably be more interested in Tibet, or West Papua, or the plight of Africa. But blatantly, the issue needs to be resolved because the middle-east is going up in flames, and we're all going to suffer the consequences, and I really believe that the only way is for both the Israelis and the Palestinians to live together, in one country, which respects all religions and races, with equal rights.

The more people throw around blatant anti-semitism, the less chance this has of happening, because it feeds the ideology that created Israel in the first place, that Jews cannot live together with other races, without being hated and persecuted, and they will never want to live with the Palestinians, who would be the majority. So work needs to be done to build bridges, not burn them. Focus on attacking the racist policies of Israel, in helping the Palestinians in their struggle just to live, and in bringing about Jewish-Palestinian co-operation in these efforts, and we'll reach a resolution on this issue. Don't play into the hands of divisive forces by giving genuine anti-semitism any room to breathe.

yes sorry about the "Jewish gangster" link , I have heard a lot about the Israeli connections with so called "snuff video's" and also with trading in women and children.
I was in a hurry and made a mistake with cut n' pasting links .. there's plenty about this gang that were caught in Rome.

But I wouldn't want to punish all Israelis for the crimes of some of their fellow countrymen I really think that there is a lot of evil coming out of both Israel and the USA. Child abuse is pretty appalling but to make a cottage industry well it's just beyond me i don't have the words to describe what I feel.
The really scary part is that some one out there is prepared to pay sums of $25.000 or even 50.000 if the
kid meets a partiucularly nasty death ..

sorry about the link balls up, but SNuff Video's definately seem to be something that Israeli's specialise in and there is no getting round it , anti semitic or not it's a fact ..

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3754611.stm

Israel releases British reporter


Peter Hounam (left) with Mr Vanunu's adoptive parents


A British reporter arrested by secret agents on the streets of Tel Aviv has been released by the Israeli authorities after a day in custody.

Peter Hounam, 60, who exposed Israel's atomic secrets in a newspaper article in 1986, was making a BBC documentary.

His source, Mordechai Vanunu, was freed from an Israeli jail on 21 April after serving an 18-year sentence for spying.

Israeli media reported the country's attorney general had intervened on Mr Hounam's behalf.

Mr Hounam was shown on television walking out of prison and speaking to reporters.

His lawyer indicated that he would leave Israel at the weekend.

The journalist said Israel should be ashamed of arresting him, and said he had been held in a "dungeon with excrement on the walls" and limited to "two hours of sleep", the Associated Press news agency reported

If this isn't a "Jewish" thing why aren't tens of millions of Jews openly condeming Israel?

Why aren't masses of Jews (especially Jewish celebrities) comming forward and making clear public statments opposing Sharon's racist policies? Why don't they make ther opinions known, like the majority of US and UK folk, who openly condenm Bush and Bliar. After all, it wasn't Muslims who orginized the anti-war movement in the UK, it was us Brits....Therefore why aren't Jews orginizing protests against Sharon?

Come on all you Jews, prove me wrong, PLEASE ?

Besides, if it turns out that Jews are complacent or are encourage a racist immoral agend, would it then be okay to be anti-semitic ? Surely being anti-semetic would only be a bad thing if the Jews were inocent and above condemnation? (e.g. Was being anti-nazi before the 2nd world war the same as being antin-nazi after the war, when the atricities were proven to the world...?)

Don't you know that victims of abuse are more likely to later comit acts abuse themselves (Christians Muslims and Jews included!). Got to be worth discussing and thinking about at least.

Yes, but why criticism of Jews above, say, white people. Certainly, there's a very high percentage of Jewish people who do openly come out against the policies of Israel. To name a very famous ones, Chomsky, for example.

Here are the thoughts of some older, famous Jews
An interesting, prophetic thought from Einstein, who was Zionist, but in a deeper way, looking for the cultural re-invigoration of the Jewish people, not in a nationalistic way.
 http://www.one-state.org/articles/earlier/einstein2.htm
'I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. Apart from practical considerations, my awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resist the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain, especially from the development of a narrow nationalism with in our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.'
- Out of My Later Years


Martin Buber – “Only an internal revolution can have the power to heal our people of their sickness of causeless hatred...It is bound to bring complete ruin upon us. Only then will the old and young in our land realize how great was our responsibility to those miserable Arab refugees in whose towns we have settled Jews who were brought here from afar; whose homes we have inherited, whose fields we now sow and harvest; the fruits of whose gardens, orchards and vineyards we gather; and in whose cities that we put up houses of education, charity, and prayer.”

Not to mention old socialists like Marx and Trotsky, who's ideas we owe a lot to, even if we may not be socialist or communist, even anarchists owe a lot to these ideas.

Israeli nationalism is a corrupting influence on a deep and powerful tradition. The famous Jewish religious scholar, Marc Ellis, calls it 'Constantinian Judaism'. In the same way Constantine took Christianity, and made it the religion of State, which then went on to persecute and murder and generally engage in all manner of un-Christian activities, the State has hijacked Judaism. And many Jews are behaving very badly. But a great many are seeking a truer Zionism, that is universalist in perspective, and does not involve a state with borders and an army, and the oppression of other people. Whether it stands any chance in the face of narrow-minded nationalism, maybe not, but better to appeal to that side of the human character, I think.

Charliban, I'm glad you're repentent. The rest of that website which that link is to is seriously dodgy. Please be careful.

Well, what to say, when these comments seem so thoughtful, and not full of spite and malace. It's complicated to say the least. What is a Jew? Is it racial, is it religion, and if the latter, then can anyon join, or does one's mother have to have been Jewish, in which case it is racial in the sense that one has to be born to it. And if it's religion, then what's that? I think of religion as being about a relationship with God, not tanks, f16's and barbed wire....but that is the central concerns of Jewish organizations....not God, but military might. In America, for the last couple of years, every synogue has billboards in front showing twined American Flags and Israelis flags, with the statement, "We stand with Israel". I don't think that's a religious statement...it's purely political...and a statement that I as an American don't agree with....but hiding behind the tax shelters of "religion" Jewish organisations are putting up this propaganda, bribing US senators, and lobbying for war. This is fact. So how does one fight against this and not be "antiSemitic", and in truth, maybe it is antiSemitic to be for peace...because the Jewish organisations are lobbying for war, and Iraq is a direct result of their efforts.
I starting to think, given the total domination of American foriegn policy by these Jewish organisations, that something is really amiss....and that while nobody agrees with the Nazi's holoucast....maybe there were legitiment concerns about Jewish influence in that country....there's certainly legitiment concerns about what's happening in America...where 2% of the population controlls 90% of the media, and controls the US foreign policy, and particularly as they're pushing for war.

As an individual, if I were always hated, I might ask myself what I'm doing wrong. Maybe after 2000 years, Jews should ask the same question...because there is something wrong...terribly wrong....and the way it's going, nobody is going to win, in fact, everybody, Jew, Gentile, you name it, is going to lose. Jewish organisations have become the biggest danger to world peace. Their agenda is WAR.

Having been at almost all the national anti-war protests and many regional protests, there appeared to be a conspicuous absence of any official representation of either Christianity or Judaism. Admittedly, there were groups who were overtly Christian or Jewish but there were no signs of any vicars, priests or rabbis. Yet there always seems to be an immam.

I often wondered what the Christian clerics were preaching to their flock as bombs were reigning down on innocent Afghans and Iraqis, apparently in their name. I also wondered why there weren't mass pickets outside every church at least one Sunday shortly after the outbreak of war. After all, it is the church which encourages us not to kill each other on pain of God's wrath. Why then, does it seem that the God fearing amongst us did not speak up against the slaughter?

You ask why Jews have been hated in history? I don't know everything, this is my perspective on it, from what I've read. Initially, it was because they were an influential non-Christian minority living in Christian lands, and they were persecuted in the various hunts for heretics and witches that european Christians engaged in. They've been hated for being capitalist and hated for being communist. But remember that capitalism, which is a power holding us back at the moment, was a progressive force a couple of centuries ago, that led us out of feudalism and religious superstition. Jewish ideas, in particular Jewish mysticism, combined with Muslim ideas from the east, helped bring about the Renaissance in Europe, and it means we no longer live under a Christian Theocracy. Inevitably, Jews and Renaissance thinkers suffered in the reactionary backlash.

At the same time, they're just people, you know, and prone to the same mistakes as all of us, such as nationalism, even fascism. But the actions of Israel are no worse than the actions of Europe, of the US, of Turkey, of Russia, of China...the oppression of the Palestinian people at the hands of the Jewish state shows that Jews are all too human, and prone to the same vices we are all prone to.

But no people ever deserve to be persecuted in the way the Jews have been. Generally, in history, they've been hated because of religious closed-mindedness. Hitler blamed Jews as undermining the social order, due to strong left-wing tendencies in Jewish thinkers, and fascism was very much trying to impose a 'stable world-order' against revolutionary forces trying to bring 'disorder' to the state, forces which I'm very glad to be a part of :)

Following the holocaust, it was said 'Never Again', but by this was meant an embracing of the values that persecuted them in the first place. A belief in a social darwinism, that to be strong and powerful is the only way to survive, an embracing of power and influence, of a state, of one of the most powerful armies in the world, of nuclear weapons, of occupation of another people, of the fascism embodies by Sharon...this goes against everything Judaism was up until the point of the holocaust. And in the collective memory of the Jewish people is the suffering they endured at the hands of Europe. This makes Israel as much a danger to us, as to the middle-east. Israel, though, feeds off anti-semitism. It was born from anti-semitism, and it needs anti-semitism to grow, like some fantastic monster that feeds off hatred. So the best way to deal with it is to appeal to what is best in people, show up the contradictions and evils that lie within this embrace of narrow-minded nationalism, and work towards greater unity and co-operation, between Jews and Arabs, and ourselves.
The problem is more to do with Western Imperialism, and the needs of capitalism, than any sort of racial conflict.

The issue is very important now, because the conflict in the middle-east is dragging all of us into it. Unless it is resolved, a rightfully pissed off Bin Laden or somebody will wreck terrible vengeance against us. So this makes the issue a priority. Also, this nationalism is infecting us all, and I just saw topping my ballot papers today the BNP and the English Democrats...fascism is on the rise again. It's just dire...what to do eh?

Methinks it's time for vicars, priests and rabbis to join the rest of us and stand up and say NOT IN OUR NAME ! This is especially so for Jews who have had their religion apparently hijacked by Sharon, or else the rest of the world may be forgiven for blaming them and consequently subjecting them to further persecution. And around and around it goes.

The following URL conveys that the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal goes much higher and that Israel is involved as well (as CACI Abu Ghraib interrogator Joe Ryan has mentioned that he was trained in interrogation in Israel even as CACI -which is mentioned in the Taguba report along with Titan- has denied that their interrogators have been trained in Israel, John Benjamin Israel, who is also mentioned in the Taguba report, has been living in the Los Angeles area for the past ten years and refers to himself as an Iraqi Christian when is name sounds very Jewish - please access the articles about him via the following URL as he could be former/current Mossad or Shin Bet or could have been trained in Israel like Joe Ryan was):

 http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/signal/iraq/

More articles (which include mention of the Israeli association to the Abu Ghraib torture scandal appear at the following URL):

 http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=16332

I just heard James Bamford (author of 'Body of Secrets' which also includes a chapter on the USS Liberty cover-up) interviewed on MSNBC about his new 'Pretext for War' book as it is about how the war in Iraq was for the Likud in Israel:

 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/002-4969230-0796000

You might want to read the review of Bamford's book at the following URL:

 http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=16388


Below, I mentioned how I had faxed Captain Ward Boston's declaration (about the USS Liberty cover-up as Israel had attacked the USS Liberty in order to illegally occupy the Golan according to Admiral Thomas Moorer as an article to this effect by him is also linked below) to Mr. Bamford for him to read during the USS Liberty panel discussion at the State Department earlier this year (on January 12th, 2004). Here is the link which will enable one to watch/listen to Dr. Shaaban's segment on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' program yesterday (as my mother with the British accent was the initial caller as I mentioned on the telephone with you earlier today) as one just has to scroll down to it here (the Abu Ghraib segment with Mr. Hirsch was interesting as well - I had the telephone call about the neoconservatives which came on about 15 minutes before my mother's call for Dr. Shaaban, but the C-SPAN hosts know my voice and do not like the message that I have conveyed about the neocons):

 http://www.c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=Series,WJE&ArchiveDays=30



Subj: For Dr. Buthaina Shaaban: My Mother's C-SPAN Phone Call for You Yesterday
Date: 6/14/04 12:05:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time

Dear Dr. Shaaban,

I am emailing you to let you know that it was my mother (with the British accent) who was the initial telephone caller for you on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' yesterday. I later played my mother a videotape recording of her call as she hoped that she did not seem rude with you as such was certainly not her intent. Rather, she was trying to get across (to you and to as many people as possible listening on C-SPAN/C-SPAN Radio and on the BBC Parliamentary Channel in the UK as C-SPAN airs on such on Sundays) how concerned she is about the (JINSA/PNAC) neoconservative (neocon) warmongering agenda in the Middle East for Israel (and Halliburton and Bechtel). I am very concerned about it as well. I had first learned about JINSA via the following article by Robert Fisk for the London Independent newspaper:


 http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles114.htm

The following is the URL for the 'Men from JINSA and CSP' article (from 'The Nation' magazine) which Fisk mentioned in the above article:


 http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=vest

There are JINSA (Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs) Zionist extremists who are also associated with PNAC (Project for the New American Century) as mentioned at the following URL:


 http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=1970

War Conceived in Israel:


 http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_conc1.htm

This article (found at the following URLs) was written by a very valued anti-Zionist Jewish contact/friend (Jeffrey Blankfort):


 http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=14695


 http://www.leftcurve.org/LC27WebPages/IsraelLobby.html


 http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/12/Counterpunch_1.html

Even Israelis admit that the war in Iraq was for Israel:


 http://www.counterpunch.org/avnery04102003.html


I have been in touch with Tam Dalyell who is the Father of the House of Commons (and is also the rector for Saint Andrews University in Scotland) and conveyed material to him which persuaded him to go public about JINSA as conveyed via the following URL:

 http://www.rense.com/general39/tenet.htm

I just noticed the following URL as well after doing an Internet search for Tam Dalyell:

 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/may2003/lab-m22.shtml

I actually have been in touch with Robert Fisk and had faxed him material that he used in association with the following articles:


 http://www.robert-fisk.com/articles402.htm


 http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk01142003.html

I have also been in touch with some of the lawyers for the seven MP soldiers charged in association with the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal. The following URL conveys that the scandal goes much higher and that Israel is involved as well (as CACI Abu Ghraib interrogator Joe Ryan has mentioned that he was trained in interrogation in Israel even as CACI -which is mentioned in the Taguba report along with Titan- has denied that their interrogators have been trained in Israel, John Benjamin Israel, who is also mentioned in the Taguba report, has been living in the Los Angeles area for the past ten years and refers to himself as an Iraqi Christian when is name sounds very Jewish - please access the articles about him via the following URL as he could be former/current Mossad or Shin Bet or could have been trained in Israel like Joe Ryan was):

 http://www.scvhistory.com/scvhistory/signal/iraq/

More articles (which include mention of the Israeli association to the Abu Ghraib torture scandal appear at the following URL):

 http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=16332

I have been in touch with Paul Bergin about the Israeli association to Abu Ghraib as he mentioned that he would bring such up during an interview for '60 Minutes II' that he is doing today.. He is the civilian for Javal Davis who is mentioned at the following URL:


 http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/05/1680731.php


I am the friend of Captain Ward Boston mentioned in the San Diego Union Tribune article linked at this URL:

 http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20040217-9999-1n17liberty.html

 http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfm?fmedia_id=4957&fcategory_desc=Under%20Reported

More on Captain Ward Boston is mentioned via the following URL:

 http://www.rense.com/Datapages/usslib.htm


 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ussliberty.html




The message threads that appear at the top of the following URL are interesting as well:

 http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0/viewforum.php?f=10

The following articles by Pat Buchanan are also excellent:

Whose War?:


 http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/cover.html



The Dog Days of the War Party





by Patrick J. Buchanan

 http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=2759

Fourteen months ago, after the 3rd Infantry Division and Marines swept into Baghdad, Washington was at the feet of the neoconservatives who had been plotting and propagandizing for an invasion for years. A celebratory breakfast was held at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, where William Kristol, Richard Perle and Michael Ledeen held forth in a spirit of joyous anticipation of wars and victories to come. At a dinner party at the vice president's mansion, Kenneth ("Cakewalk") Adelman, Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, and Paul Wolfowitz toasted one another and the president. As the '60s song went, "Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end." Now, enmeshed in a guerrilla war, Americans are demanding to know who told us we would be welcomed with garlands of flowers. Who said our troops would come home in a year? Who said democracy would flourish across the Arab world? Who misled us about the weapons of mass destruction? Who lied us into war? But the neocons may be facing problems more serious than entering the history books alongside the Whiz Kids of the McNamara era who got it wrong in Vietnam and left 58,000 behind. Some War Party leaders may see careers cashiered and reputations ruined. According to The New York Times, U.S. intelligence officials claim that Ahmad Chalabi informed the top Iranian agent in Baghdad that the Americans had broken their top secret code and were reading their messages to Tehran. Chalabi reportedly told his Iranian contact he got this intel from a high American official who was drunk. According to writer Sidney Blumenthal, the FBI is now visiting AEI to interrogate scholars in residence to learn who leaked word we had broken the Iranian code – to Chalabi, who is emerging as the Alger Hiss of the neoconservatives. Another question is whether Chalabi was being used all along by Tehran to goad the United States into invading Iraq, thus opening the door to a Shi'ite regime in Baghdad, which, with Shi'ite Iran, might control the Persian Gulf and its oil treasures in perpetuity. If so, this Iranian coup would rank with Bismarck's doctoring of the Ems telegram to goad Napoleon III into a war that cost him his throne and Alsace-Lorraine, and united Germany behind a Prussian king whom Bismarck would have crowned Kaiser in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. The White House dumping of Chalabi represents a rout for the neocons, who had all their chips on this pony. For Chalabi had promised them that, once installed in power, he would recognize Israel and resurrect the old Mosul-to-Haifa pipeline. Another scandal on the back burner that could explode and spill over before November is the Justice Department's investigation into the White House leak of the CIA identity of the wife of former Ambassador Joe Wilson. That leak was a retaliatory strike on Wilson for an op-ed in The New York Times that undermined Bush's claim in his 2003 State of the Union Address that Iraq was seeking uranium for nuclear weapons in the African nation of Niger. Apparently, Justice is not only seeking to identify the leakers, but looking at the possibility that FBI investigators were misled or lied to. President Bush has himself hired outside counsel. As ever, it is not the offense, but the cover-up that ensnares them. Then there is the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. This appears to be working its way up the chain of command toward the E-Ring of the Pentagon and even the West Wing of the White House. If orders went out to ignore the Geneva Convention, and prisoners who had nothing to do with terrorism were abused or tortured, or died in captivity, famous heads could roll. Later this summer, the 9-11 commission reports. It seems certain to single out Wolfowitz and administration neoconservatives along the line of argument of Richard Clarke's Against All Enemies – for an obsession with Iraq that blinded the White House to the real and present danger of bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Beyond this, the national press, cable TV and the Internet are still flush with stories of how, in a secret Pentagon intel shop, neocons "cherry-picked" the prewar intelligence and "stove-piped" it up to Cheney's office, where it was inserted into the addresses of President Bush. The Night of the Long Knives has begun. The military and CIA are stabbing the neocons front, back and center, laying responsibility on them for the mess in Iraq. Meanwhile, the Balkan wars of the American Right have reignited, with even the normally quiescent Beltway conservatives scrambling to get clear of the neocon encampment before the tomahawking begins. But a larger matter looms than the cashiering of ideologues and apparatchiks whose time has come and gone. If Bush's "world democratic revolution" and "Pax Americana" are out, what is in? What is our post-Iraq foreign policy to be? After we come home from Iraq, how far does retrenchment go? If the neocons are being stuffed into the Hefty bags of history, who moves up next?