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Issue 27 AFP Master 2004 WEEKLY PAPER: DO NOT DELAY—MAILED: 6-25-04 ★ American Free Press AFP Volume IV #27 July 5, 2004 americanfreepress.net $1.50 Unprecedented Security for Billions Swiped from Iraq Democratic Occupation Authorities Stash Oil Funds as Iraqi Health Care Dies By Christopher Bollyn Convention raqi children perish for want of medicines and equipment in Iraq’s under-funded hospitals while U.S. Treasury officials have billions of dollars of ACLU Calls Planned Measures Iraqi oil revenues stashed away in secondary “slush A Violation of 4th Amendment funds” and U.S. Treasury bills. President George W. Bush has repeatedly said that I PAULA IMAGES BRONSTEIN/GETTY Iraqi oil revenues are to be used solely for the benefit of By James P. Tucker Jr. the Iraqi people. At a White House press conference on April 13, Bush said: “Well, the oil revenues are—they’re s part of unprecedented security measures during bigger than we thought they would be at this point in the Democratic National Convention in Boston time. And that money is—it will benefit the Iraqi the week of July 26, police officials there are people. It’s their oil, and they’ll use it to reconstruct the advising all commuters in the area who use pub- country.” Alic transportation to avoid carrying briefcases, purses, In May, as oil prices soared and Iraqi oil production backpacks, grocery bags or other parcels on subways and reached 2.4 million barrels per day, nearly $70 million trains or risk being stopped and subjected to random per day flowed into the coffers of the Development Fund searches. for Iraq (DFI). The DFI funds, administered until June The precautions, police say, were prompted by the 30 by L. Paul Bremer III and the U.S.-led Coalition train bombings in Madrid, which caused the heavily Provisional Authority (CPA), are managed in accounts at favored incumbent government to lose an election. the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. U.S. Military American officials fear that, with this success, terrorists With the approach of the June 30 handover, howev- will attempt to similarly affect U.S. elections. er, reports suggest that Iraq’s oil revenues have been mis- Civil liberties groups said the random searches are managed and that untold millions have been siphoned In Quiet Revolt unconstitutional and they will be monitoring police off into unregulated “slush funds.” action to detect any rights violations in such searches. According to CPA accounting, a total cash inflow of “This approach violates the Fourth Amendment’s pro- more than $20.24 billion filled the DFI since it was cre- Neo-Cons Bitterly Denounced tections against unreasonable searches without making ated on May 28, 2003. Although nearly all of the “devel- anyone safer,” said Carol Rose, executive director of the opment” funds came from Iraqi oil exports, the Central By Retired Brass, Men of Peace ACLU of Massachusetts. “Moreover, any system that is Bank of Iraq had only $216 million in its DFI account on truly random—in which the police exercise no discre- June 20. By Michael Collins Piper tion—will be incapable of either catching or deterring ter- A simple spread sheet of 35 rows lists how more than rorists, given that more than one million people use $11.3 billion of the fund had been disbursed by the CPA. [Boston’s subway] each day.” he uniformed military is in almost open Commuters carrying such items will be subject to ran- See SECRET SLUSH, Page 4 “ revolt against its civilian masters in the dom searches. They can refuse to be searched, but police offices of neo-conservatives [Undersecretary officials have said they will be denied access to public of Defense] Paul Wolfowitz and [his deputy] The Inside Scoop: DouglasT Feith at the Pentagon. The troops resent the transportation. Bush administration hardliners as dangerously ideolog- Huge backups are anticipated as police fan out to sub- • Personal from the Editor. Page 2. way and train stops to check passengers. ical.” • AFP Editorial: Americans become targets. Page 3. That eye-opening statement isn’t some “anti-Semitic “We are not looking for joints,” a police officer said • Iraqi puppet minister spied for coalition. Page 5. when asked if arrests would be made if illegal items of a conspiracy theory” cooked up by American Free Press. • Paul Craig Roberts: Attorney-client privilege at risk. Page 6. non-threatening nature were found. ★ Instead, that’s a direct quotation from the May 31 issue • Mothers, fathers losing maternity rights. Page 7. of Newsweek magazine, which is owned by the AREA BELOW FOR MAILING ADDRESS • Charley Reese: Institutionalized hypocrisy. Page 8. Washington Post Company. The Washington Post is the • Spotlight on Congress. Page 9. most influential daily newspaper in the nation’s capital. While it may be a surprise to the readers of Newsweek, • Life inside Baghdad’s Green Zone. Page 10. it is no surprise to AFP readers, who were told long • America’s imperial ventures span globe. Page 11. ago—before the advent of the Iraq war—that the admi- • U.S. Military enlistment suffering badly. Page 12. rals and generals in the Pentagon were fed up with the • The Ryan Report: Global anti-Semitism. Page 15. hard-line, pro-Israel policies being pursued by the Bush • AFP Book Review: Next 9-11 could be a doozy. Page 17. See NEO-CONS’ WAR, Page 3 2 AMERICAN FREE PRESS • July 5, 2004 TIMELY TEDDY? PERSONAL Gas Alternative calling into question the reliability NEWS of circulation figures for the entire Could Replace YOU MAY newspaper industry, reports Associa- From the Editor HAVE MISSED ted Press. “Our biggest fear,” the Petroleum Soon report said, “is that [Hollinger’s] HAS AFP BEEN TOO HARD ON PRESIDENT announcements may not be isolat- BUSH? It’s been an ongoing debate, even ETHANOL PLANT OPENS missteps as planning to name Ne- ed incidents.” here in the office of this newspaper. While The Commonwealth Agri-Energy braska millionaire Anthony Raim- Ethanol Plant celebrated its grand ondo his national “jobs czar,” but NO PRIVACY some people were unsure about the pro- ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES priety of going after a sitting president in opening in Hopkinsville, Ky. The having to backtrack when Sen. John Transportation Security Administra- time of crisis, others felt that AFP should farmer-owned company plans to Kerry (D-Mass.), likely Democratic tion Director David Stone told nominee, pointed out that the man Congress in late June that five major be giving the unvarnished truth to our convert more than 7 million bushels of corn into 20 million gal- had laid off 75 workers in 2002 to airlines and two travel agencies readers, regardless of sensitivities. The lons of ethanol each year. The build a $3 million factory in China. turned over private records on U.S. questions were mulled over: Are there demand comes from cities where citizens to federal investigators with- An emotional party tribute is other people we should be investigating? gasoline must be blended with oxy- GEORGE BUSH DIAPERS out informing the passengers or ask- planned for Sen. Ted Kennedy genate additives such as ethanol to A Chinese manufacturer has applied ing their permission. This is the Was Bush being swayed by influential (D-Mass.) on the opening night curb emissions. There is no impor- for a trademark on the brand name, third time in nine months reports forces around him? Should AFP have of the Democratic National tant reason why 100 percent ethanol “George Bush,” reports BBC. The have surfaced that airline compa- focused on those individuals who may Convention, The New York Post cannot be used in place of gasoline. entrepreneur reportedly plans to use nies turned over passenger details to have been shaping the country’s policies reports. “That July 26 salute to the name for a line of diapers in his the government. The information, Teddy just happens to coincide from behind the scenes rather than Bush? BUSH WOMEN WORRY province, Henan. In local dialect, which included financial records, with . the 35th anniversary of Well, we decided to stick to our guns, First lady Laura Bush and the presi- “bushi” means “not wet.” health data and home addresses, Chappaquiddick,” columnist do what we usually do and report without dent’s mother are worried that was sought because the government Eric Fettmann wrote. It was on George W. may be a one-term presi- EXAGGERATIONS was testing passenger screening soft- bowdlerizing anything. What happened? July 25, 1969, that a drunken dent like his father, Time magazine An audit committee set up by pub- ware, known as CAPS II. The action Everything we have predicted so far con- Kennedy drove off a bridge and reports. Barbara Bush “does not lishing powerhouse Hollinger Inter- may have violated the Privacy Act, cerning Bush, the war in Iraq and this left Mary Jo Kopechne at the want to see her family go through a national Inc., which has been going which prohibits the U.S. govern- country’s efforts in the Middle East has bottom of a creek. He then ’92 thing again,” according to two through the corporation’s books as ment from keeping databases on waited 14 hours to tell authori- come true. And now public opinion Bush aides quoted. Time cites such part of a broad review of its activi- American citizens. ties. Mary Jo lived for four appears to be turning against Bush and his ties, has reported that Hollinger’s hours in an air pocket before wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chicago newspaper, The Chicago LOSING SUPPORT drowning, authorities said. Historian Predicts Sun-Times, has been exaggerating its A new poll shows that 52 percent of Once again, AFP was tackling the tough Ted’s driver’s license was tem- number of subscribers for the past Americans polled believe the Iraq issues and reporting the honest-to-God American Defeat porarily suspended.
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