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Burn Down Valley
Cooperative land management efforts offer hope in the wake of the 2020 fire season.
By Theo Whitcomb
In September 2020, an east wind swept over Siskiyou Pass, catching a stray spark a mile from my family's home. Fire spread through the parched grass and summer brush, feeding on neglected blackberry bushes, and, over the next twenty-four hours, burning through nine miles of the Rogue Valley, decimating two small towns and nearly three thousand homes. All were north of us; my hometown of Ashland was barely touched, and I wondered if being upwind was just my family's luck of the draw.
The Almeda Fire, as it became known, was one of three fires to hit the region that week: the South Obenchain and Slater Fires also swept through portions of Southern Oregon and Northern California, burning through spindly conifers and chaparral, supercharged by the same wind throttling the region. The night before the fires, our house creaked like it was leaving the earth, and I imagined townhomes tumbling across farmland while I lay uncovered in the heat. I knew that the east wind event that drove the fire was not unique in the landscape's history, but the vulnerable, fire-suppressed second-growth forests surrounding the region were, consequences of a century of industrial extraction.
Back in the '90s, my parents bought into a brand-new development of single-family units overlooking a small creek in north Ashland. It remains a slice of suburbia in an otherwise rural county, driveways and garages parceled up and layered onto an old ranch. There's a derelict barn half a mile uphill, a property owned by the same people who used to own the mill. It's a holdout on the block, soon to be converted into much-needed housing. Out the back window, half a mile downhill, is the creek, lined with big-leaf maple, cottonwood, and white alder, the understory crowded with blackberries and scouring rush. Its water, flowing toward the Rogue River, used to be a reliable passage for steelhead and salmon.
At the time, my parents' purchase reflected the rural rebound of that decade. They'd moved to the Rogue Valley to raise children, trading the crowded city for the romance of the western United States. The town wove through manzanita and hills of mixed conifers, and asphalt turned quickly into fire and logging roads, disappearing into government-held forestland.
We had no roots there, really. My parents had chosen Ashland for the same reason so many people end up there: it's a stunning setting, a symbolic opposite to distant, clogged cities. When my grandparents eventually moved into a retirement home nearby, the coalescing of my closest family brought a deeper sense of belonging. But when smoke fixed itself to the fabric of summer sometime after I turned fourteen, each year hotter than the last, I began to suspect that the very elements my parents loved most about living in Southern Oregon—the hills and the forest—would also be the source of our greatest anxiety. In the surrounding forestland, the soil was drying out; the summers were getting hotter and longer; wind, once a relief from the heat, now held dangerous potential.
The Siskiyou Mountains, a protected forested area of incredible biodiversity, hold seven out of the top thirty communities in Oregon most at risk from wildfire. This represents a degree of vulnerability to fire unprecedented in modern human history, the result of the growing number of homes being built in these already fire-prone landscapes. Much of the surrounding forestland has been rendered a tinderbox, too, due to a century of aggressive logging operations and a policy of fire suppression in what are historically fire-adapted forests. My home watershed, for instance, once caught fire every decade, either from natural causes or because the Shasta people who lived here applied fire across Ko'hosadi, their ancestral land—a practice eliminated by White settlers.
Was it luck that my hometown escaped the burn? At the southern end of the valley, Ashland, dubbed Southern Oregon's "cultural capital," is tucked into the hills. For generations, the town held itself apart from the more industrialized rural region surrounding it: with its economy always listing toward tourism, Ashland was framed by early boosters as a racially homogenous safe haven. Later, adventure tourism and theater arts toed a similar line, marketing a highly manicured landscape, natural "wellness," and well-managed forest trails. These attractions resulted in more and more large homes—built for those who could afford the steep price—spreading deeper and deeper into the surrounding hills.
Down valley you'll find divergent economies. The gold mines, timber sales, and fruit farms of yesterday have given way to wineries and cannabis farms. Many employers in these industries, along with those in the service, retirement, and hospitality sectors throughout the entire valley, lean heavily on in-migration and special work visas for a largely Latinx population of immigrants living in a shrinking stock of affordable housing. When the fire swept through, its effects mirrored the area's inequalities, unsurprisingly.
It was still light out when Talent, the first city to our north, began to burn. As the flames spread down valley, Jackson County was unable to send evacuation notices to residents—due to a disconnect in emergency response communication, a report later showed. I immediately understood that the disaster would be felt disproportionately.
The fire was mainly burning along the creek and the freeway. This riparian seam along the valley contained some of the only affordable housing in the area, where many of the immigrant families lived in garden apartments and mobile homes, alongside fixed-income seniors. Elsewhere along the creek, in city parks and on public land patchworked through the valley, were the hundreds of people barred from stable housing by skyrocketing prices. Dotting the banks were makeshift camps and tarp shelters, threatened daily by a punitive police force.
I sat on the back porch and watched flames jump above the horizon as new structures ignited, sending black plumes of smoke billowing in the opposite direction. Over my phone, I streamed the fire department's frenetic radio signal. No one seemed to have a good idea of where the fire was, exactly, beyond the firsthand accounts of firefighters.
Eventually, when the fire was fully contained, I would learn that three people had died, 2,700 structures had been incinerated, and thousands of residents had been displaced. In the aftermath, I felt a shift—not only was the climate crisis finally "here," as local leaders reminded us, but the inequalities that had long preceded the fire were laid bare on charred earth. This was the most concentrated disaster to hit the valley in my lifetime, exposing the degree to which our society is ill-equipped to handle such a shock. I know that it will likely happen again, and that adaptation is desperately needed. But how to do that, I've been less sure.
On a hazy July morning ten months later, I had the chance to visit a project managed by Lomakatsi Restoration Project, an Ashland-based organization that has practiced a model of forestry centering forest health—as opposed to profit—since 1995. For decades, they've built landscape-scale ecological restoration projects across Oregon and Northern California, collaborating with a range of federal, tribal, municipal, industry, and nonprofit partners. They also conduct vocational training and classes for youth and adults, work with sovereign Tribal Nations to support forest restoration projects on their ancestral lands, and help build restoration-based economies through partnerships with regional industries. Lomakatsi's goal is to restore ecosystems and promote the sustainability of communities, cultures, and economies.
I wanted to understand what it might mean to live with fire, so I was heading toward one of their newer projects, a fifty-thousand-acre area held by the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, tucked into the jagged folds of the mountains outside the small town of Ruch in the Upper Applegate watershed. Much of this area consists of former tree plantations—land leased to timber companies—and is one of the highest-risk sections included in the organization's broad effort to remake the region's forests. Lomakatsi, through their role with Rogue Forest Partners, had recently received funding to begin a slate of ecological restoration projects across the Rogue River watershed, part of a broader collaboration with the Forest Service, the Department of the Interior, and a suite of other nonprofits.
In Ashland, forest restoration has long benefited the tourism-dominated economy, but for communities with limited infrastructure and resources, there has historically been less incentive to prioritize these sorts of efforts. Consequently, to drive through the foothills of the Klamath Mountains is to witness an uneven mosaic, with imprints left behind by more extractive uses: second- and third-growth Douglas fir tightly planted in national reforestation efforts, patches of manzanita and chaparral left in clear-cut quilts. The road through the Applegate Valley weaves through monocropped orchards, recently uprooted pear trees, vineyards, and farms. Occasionally it crosses a railway, outdated infrastructure connecting old logging roads to the rest of the world.
I parked my car and walked into a gully off a dusty forest road, dodging four-foot-high piles of branches with black tarp layered in the middle. The only trees left standing were madrone, oak, big-leaf maple, and Douglas fir—the latter all greater than eight inches in diameter, their lower branches distinctively sawed off to protect the upper canopy from inevitable fire. I moved easily along the forest floor—a sharp contrast to the tree plantation land I was familiar with, where snags make it impossible to walk in a straight line and dried-out trees form ladders to hop over.
A group of twenty workers had passed through this section of the Applegate Valley earlier in the week, starting around 5:00 a.m., their belts loaded with gasoline and oil, their hands wielding heavy chainsaws. Methodically, they had cut through small-diameter trees and thinned overgrown brush, piling up the wood to dry. Eventually it would be lit with a drip torch. The workers followed a "prescription," a plan that had been carefully developed by forestry staff in collaboration with Rogue Forest Partners—including input from Aboriginal tribes.
I understand that forest restoration and thinning techniques like these will likely not be enough to deal with the dramatic impacts of climate change. Megafires are here to stay. They will burn hotter and more intensely, and people will continue to build houses in areas that firefighters cannot adequately protect. However, this kind of large-scale restoration effort is more than just wildfire adaptation; it is about remaking the region's relationship to the land and reengaging people in the ecology of the forests.
For Lomakatsi, caring for the land is not about preserving it as a separate wilderness, but rather about integrating the rhythms of the landscape and the community. In addition to implementing ecologically based thinning techniques, they apply fire to reduce risk, and they also create good jobs in forest-dependent communities. Their in-house workforce of forty full-time on-the-ground restoration workers, predominantly Latinx and tribal members, augments a cadre of local forestry contractors and timber operators. The operation sends logs to the mill—by-products of ecological forestry work—with profits returning to help pay for additional restoration. The same infrastructure historically used to extract—chainsaws, mills, and logging roads—is now being repurposed to care for the ecosystem, extinguishing the long-standing tension in Oregon between environment and jobs. "It's a forward-thinking, replicable model that balances ecology and economy, reduces wildfire risks through an ecological approach, and addresses sociological challenges faced by
forest-based communities," Marko Bey, the organization's founder and executive director, testified to the US House Committee on Natural Resources in 2019, chaired at the time by Deb Haaland, now secretary of the Department of the Interior.
Lomakatsi and their partners want to return fire to the landscape, believing that by strategically treating sections of the forest, they can significantly reduce fire severity. However, since so much of the landscape has been so drastically altered over the past century, work is needed to prepare the region for the return of these cycles of fire. By bringing back fire and managing for key species, like old-growth ponderosa pine or Douglas fir—what they call "anchor trees"—Lomakatsi's leadership hopes to promote an ecosystem that is healthy for wildlife and humans alike, and one that is more resilient to climate impacts.
Fire has always been a fixture in this area, whether caused by lightning strike or expertly applied to the forest by the Aboriginal peoples living here. In Ashland, where low-burning fires cycled every seven to ten years on average, this was the work of the Ikirakutsum Band of the Shasta people, and in the Applegate Valley, the Dakubetede people. Thanks to their efforts, the forest was well adapted to receive fire. However, when the US government and its settlers waged war on the local tribes, taking their land, killing them, and forcibly removing them to reservations, the careful application of fire disappeared.
After this process of dispossession, war, and genocide, the power to manage most of Oregon's land and resources was taken by White settlers and their government, resulting in a patchwork of private, state, and federally held land. Today, 64 percent of the 63 million acres of forestland in Oregon is held by federal and state governments, while privately held land makes up 34 percent. Federally recognized tribal governments account for only 2 percent, even though the entire state consists of ancestral tribal lands. As anthropologist Patrick Wolff has argued, "Settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure, not an event."
Only after being validated by troves of scientific research has the application of fire—in conjunction with ecologically managing forestland—gained a foothold in national discussions of large-scale land management. Recent research confirms what has been known and practiced in Aboriginal communities for thousands of years: landscapes are better off when they are tended to with care and reciprocation, rather than industrial extraction on one end of the spectrum, or complete human exclusion on the other. And today, many tribes are leading the way in continuing to use prescribed fire to tend the landscape.
For two decades, Lomakatsi has partnered with Tribal Nations, at their request, to support them in building tribal capacity to restore ancestral lands. This work includes what's known as Master Stewardship Agreements: frameworks developed between tribes, the Forest Service, and other partners to support long-term, collaborative restoration activities that are culturally and ecologically centered. For example, in 2011 Lomakatsi entered into an agreement with the Klamath Tribes, Fremont-Winema National Forest, and the Nature Conservancy that has treated fifteen thousand acres of forestland, and they are currently in the process of partnering with the Kosealekte Band of the Ajumawi-Atsuge Nation (also known as the Pit River Tribe) and the Modoc National Forest on a tribal-led ecological restoration initiative targeting twenty thousand acres.
"There is not one other group out there that is including the tribes the way Lomakatsi has included the tribes," Belinda Brown, the organization's tribal partnerships director, told me in June. Brown, an enrolled member of the Kosealekte Band of the Ajumawi-Atsuge Nation, explained that these efforts are what makes Lomakatsi unique among Oregon's ecological restoration movements: "[The tribes are] just now getting a voice, and being able to participate in and comanage these large landscape initiatives that are happening on their ancestral ground."
With national focus shifting toward the future of the West's vulnerable forests, restorative forest management has begun to receive increased attention and funding. It's an appealing option in a polarized country: partnerships across the state, from Malheur County to the Rogue Basin, have formed among conservation-minded environmentalists, scientists, and the forest products industry. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, for instance, view the approach as a likely path forward through gridlock, and Western governors are lobbying President Biden to increase spending on restorative forest management.
And yet, as I drove back to Ashland, it still felt as if we were far behind where we needed to be. My trip coincided with the start of an exceptionally early fire season. That same day, crews were called to fight the growing Bootleg Fire near Klamath Falls, which quickly turned into the state's first megafire of 2021. Lomakatsi's chainsaws were no longer an option due to the fire risk; instead, they worked fire engine and hand crews.
The first time I visited Talent after the Almeda Fire, I ran into H, a friend from high school, outside a mutual aid center for fire victims. It was a week and a half after I'd watched the town burn. While people dropped off donations, we stood in the parking lot and caught up. I learned he'd just returned from fighting fires in California, where, as part of a contract crew, he'd worked nonstop for weeks clearing fire lines as one of the thirty thousand wildland firefighters actively deployed in September 2020. Despite the bleak backdrop of melted washing machines and lone chimneys in Talent, H seemed somewhat unfazed. Having maintained such proximity to fire-exposed landscapes for so long, he was simply grateful for his unburned house and ready for a rest.
I was struck by the upbeat conversation. For H, fire was a constant presence in his working life and gave a rhythm to it. Fire also brought him intimate and close relationships with the forest and his crew, which was something he had grown to love, he told me, despite the painful and dangerous work. Like so many people working with fire across the western United States, H was already a participant in the forest's fire ecology, part of the enormous amount of public investment earmarked for suppression. However, recent events have made it clear that focusing exclusively on fire suppression is no longer a viable option: wildland firefighters like H have racked up thousands of overtime hours while facing worsening conditions every year.
I asked H if he would continue working with the forest, given climate change and the rapid increase in the size and frequency of the fires. It'd likely end up being a year-round job, I guessed. He was unsure. If you worked on certain crews the pay was good, he told me, but the job was intense, like war. He'd seen friends almost crushed by snags, and approaching a fire was like being on a battle line.
Standing alongside the burned-down block, the precarity of the situation was apparent. The atmosphere, choked with smoke, drained the color from the landscape. The fire had melted paint off many buildings and cars, leaving only concrete, metal, and rust. Trees, either stripped of foliage or charred completely black, stood as reminders of the leaping flames.
However much I resisted the metaphor of battle, it felt uncomfortably apropos. We needed to rethink our relationship to fire—it would be with us for the rest of our lives. There will likely never be another summer in my lifetime when fire will not move through these vulnerable landscapes. "The question," Belinda Brown stated in written testimony to Oregon's Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire Recovery in early 2021, "is who gets to decide where the fire goes, what is burned, why it burns, and who are the stewards of this timeless natural element?"
I don't want to sensationalize Lomakatsi's work nor try and propose a solution. The sheer scale of the challenge is overwhelming, and addressing the encroachment of homes into vulnerable areas is an equally necessary step with its own set of complications. But I see reasons for optimism. Here in the Klamath Mountains, there are efforts to use mills, chainsaws, and logging roads not to extract, but to care for the forest. There is a growing movement to restore damaged tracts of industrial land. The place H and I grew up in has changed, that is a given, but I know that as long as people live here, there will be opportunities to try and reconfigure our relationships—to each other, and to the forest. I feel grief, or loss, over the fact that the valley will never be the same, anxious that my family's home will burn. I also know that we have no choice but to adapt, and I wonder what will come of it.
Theo Whitcomb is a journalist from southwestern Oregon. He writes about land use and natural resource politics in the Klamath-Siskiyou region. You can follow him on Twitter @theo_whitcomb.
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Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh's first wedding reception in Bengaluru - they will be hosting two more in Mumbai - is a classy affair. With the strict security and no-cellphone rule, lovebirds Deepika and Ranveer made their fans wait for long to get a glimpse of them as bride and groom. Sabyasachi's social media pages shared all the pictures, claiming that both Ranveer and Deepika were donned "head to toe" in Sabyasachi creations. The portrait, like their wedding photos from Itali, was shot by Errikos Andreou. DeepVeer wanted to share their special moments with their fans through their social media handles and even now, they continue to share those unseen candid moments from their extremely private wedding on Instagram. A source also revealed that Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy will also come to bless the couple. Gilt chairs and masses of red flowers against a cream-and-gold decor form the backdrop against which Deepika and Ranveer with meet with their guests.
The newlyweds' second reception will be held in Mumbai on 28 November, with a third event planned for 1 December at the Grand Hyatt.
The "Padmaavat" actors tied the knot at Lake Como in Italy in a traditional Konkani ceremony on November 14 and in a Sindhi wedding on November 15.
Deepika, the daughter of Bengaluru-based badminton player Prakash Padukone, and Ranveer dated for six years before they announced their wedding plans last month.
Deepika was seeing wearing an Advaya saree by The House of Angadi during her Konkani wedding as well. Their wedding in Lake Como was also decorated all around with red roses as well.
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Zombie Attack! – Museum of the Dead (Originaltitel: Museum of the Dead) ist ein US-amerikanischer Low-Budget-Horrorfilm aus dem Jahr 2004, der unter der Regie von James Glenn Dudelson eigens für den Videovertrieb produziert wurde.

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Es ist Halloween. Die zwei attraktiven Frauen Jewel, eine sportliche Kickboxerin aus Puerto Rico, und ihre Freundin Lisa beschließen, am Samstagabend das geheimnisvolle "Museum des Todes", eine jährlich stattfindende Veranstaltung für Horrorfans, zu besuchen, die einen gruseligen Aufenthalt am "Tag des Todes" verspricht.

Die beiden Frauen, Lisa ist kostümiert, fahren anschließend zum Sunset Boulevard, wo sich das unscheinbare Museum mit gestohlenen Artefakten eines gewissen Bobin befindet. Nach Einwurf der Münze, die die beiden Frauen zusammen mit dem Party-Flyer erhalten hatten, öffnet sich die Metalltür des Gebäudes, sie treten ein und erkunden, auf der Suche nach den nur wenigen Exponate der Ausstellung, das weit verzweigte, labyrinthähnliche Gangsystem des Hauses. In den Gängen verstreut wandern derweil auch andere Besucher, die sich die Ausstellung mit Werken der mexikanischen Frühgeschichte anschauen, darunter den ausgestellten, fluchbeladenen Schädel eines menschenfressenden mexikanischen Kriegers namens Tolec, des "Herrn des Todes". Trotz eindringlicher Warnung, nicht in die rubinroten Augen des Totenkopfes zu schauen, ignorieren die beiden Frauen die Gefahr und beamen bedingt durch ein parapsychologisches Phänomen an einen anderen Ort, vermutlich innerhalb des Gemäuers.

Dort werden sie, wie andere von Visionen geplagte Besucher zuvor, von einer bereits transportierten und mittlerweile zum Zombie mutierten Kreatur angegriffen. Dem Wesen gelingt es, Lisa zu beißen, sie folglich zu infizieren, während Jewel hilfesuchend die Polizei informiert. Bald trachtet Lisa ihrer wehrhaften Freundin, dem Fotografen Jimmy und dem inzwischen eingetroffenen Midas, einem Freund aus Jewels Fitnessstudio, nach dem Leben. Dem Trio gelingt es zunächst, vor der verwandelten Lisa, der immer größer werdenden Zahl von Zombies und der Reinkarnation Tolecs mittels mehr oder weniger willkürlicher Teleportation im undurchdringlichen System der Sackgassen zu entfliehen. Jimmy trennt sich wieder von der Gruppe und schließt sich dem mysteriösen McCloud an, der die Kunstobjekte stehlen und an ihre ursprünglichen Besitzer zurückgeben will. Fortan handeln die zwei Gruppen voneinander unabhängig.

Als die zwei herbeigerufenen Polizisten Russo und Law auf Jewel und Midas stoßen, kämpft diese Gruppe gemeinsam mit Waffengewalt gegen die Schar der Untoten. Doch der Einsatz von Schusswaffen erscheint aussichtslos, der wohlgenährte Midas wird  gebissen und muss in Notwehr liquidiert werden. Officer Law wird wenig später von Tolec ermordet. Jewel und die Polizistin kämpfen sich notgedrungen alleine durch, bis sie wieder auf Jimmy und McCloud stoßen. McCloud, der sich weiter als äußerst wortkarg darstellt, sich jedoch bestens in dem System auskennt, verweigert dem Team die Kooperation. Dennoch gibt er ihnen den Rat, umgehend den Ausgang aus dem Labyrinth zu finden, da dieser lediglich bis Sonnenuntergang geöffnet ist.

Am Ende des Films gelingt dies getrennt voneinander Jewel, McCloud und Officer Russo, während Jimmy getötet wird. In der letzten Szene des Films sieht man Russo ein Telefongespräch entgegennehmen, das sie als Komplizin des Museumseigentümers Dr. Bobin entlarvt.

Kritiken
Der Film konnte seinerzeit weder bei Filmkritikern noch beim Publikum überzeugen und wurde als einer der schlechtesten Horrorfilme des Jahres angesehen. Hier beispielhaft einige Kritiken:

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Earthpark: Grassley's the Story
December 7, 2007, 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.
[This is a continuation of Nicholas Johnson, "Earthpark's Week-Long Wake," November 26-December 7, 2007. Like the "Holy Roman Empire" that was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire, "Earthpark's Week-Long Wake" proved out to be neither week-long nor a wake. It did end up creating a blog entry that now prints out at about 38 pages. All of that content is hereby "incorporated by reference" and remains as relevant as ever.
NOTE: Because I may very well be out of Internet reach during the next four or five days, if anything breaks and you don't see it here, that's why. Check State29 and read between the lines in everything in (or left out of) your local papers.]
Johnson Forms "Exploratory Committee" to Challenge Earthpark's Grassley
I have been asked on more than one occasion in the past to run against Senator Chuck Grassley. I've always rejected the invitations. Not only do I not dislike Senator Grassley, I actually admire the attention he gives to constituent services -- it is of a quantity and quality among the best of any elected official in Washington. Moreover, I've always taken some responsibility for putting him in office, having lost (by my count by six votes) the Democratic primary for Congress in 1974 that led to a general election of then-legislator Grassley to the U.S. House of Representatives that year. Besides, as Art Small and others have discovered, running against Grassley is more of a sacrificial service to the Democratic Party than a realistic opportunity to gain a U.S. Senate seat.
But I have to say, with the way the Earthpark $50 million earmark is going, I'm seriously re-thinking my past reluctance. And this morning's (or was it yesterday's) Des Moines Register story about Grassley's current position on Earthpark was enough to prompt a serious discussion with my wife over breakfast this morning about my undertaking a statewide race against Grassley.
That's how strongly I feel about this.
Grassley is the Earthpark Story
What would you think on reading the following headline:
Tony Leys, "Grassley: No more extensions for Earthpark project," Des Moines Register, December 6, 2007. (And see, State29, "Grassley Finally Comments On Earthpark," December 6, 2007.)
"No more extensions" is Washington-speak for "more extensions." And that's exactly what seems to be going on.
Oman's document proving (he says) he's "matched" the $50 million of taxpayers' money Grassley's offered to give him if he can match it, is a public document. Many members of the media and public would like to see that document -- and are entitled to as a matter of law. Oman refuses to release it. Senator Grassley, who knows what's in it, refuses to tell. The Department of Energy has been asked to put it up on the Web, or at least respond to the formal Freedom of Information Act requests now pending at the DOE. It has yet to respond. Why all this secrecy about something that is, by law, a public document?
If we can't see what Oman filed on November 30, how can we ever know what revisions he was permitted to make in the document thereafter?
If the DOE said last week they'd have an answer in "a couple of days" how can this continued delay, on top of the secrecy, be considered anything other than an "extension"?
Moreover, it's an ancient trick of government agencies and other institutions to save major announcements that might reflect adversely upon them for the evening before major holidays, when they know there will be few journalists around to cover the story. I first wrote about this in the Saturday Review in 1972, Nicholas Johnson, "Why Ma Bell Still Believes in Santa." Is that what we have in store?
Leys writes:
"Grassley said he had been told what was in the financial documents, but he declined to predict whether the project's application would pass muster. He said he would not lobby the administrators.
"I'm writing the law, they're administering it, and I've got to be careful not to contact the department while they're making their decision," he said. "I don't think I ought to be seen to be trying to influence it one way or the other."
Let's put aside for the moment the difficulty of having "been told what was in the financial documents" while being "careful not to contact the department."
What are we talking about here?
For starters, the initial $50 million was provided in one of those secret, undebated, "earmarks." The beneficiaries were Republican leaders, friends and campaign contributors of Grassley, who paid a former Grassley staffer handsomely (and successfully, as it turned out) to lobby the Senator for the $50 million. From the beginning, the grant was viewed by some fellow Republicans, journalists, stand-up comics, editorial and TV writers as laughable. The project has been offered to, and rejected, by a half-dozen or more Iowa cities -- some more than once -- and for very good reasons.
But let's put even all of that aside.
There was never a time at which a strong case could be made for the wisdom of using $50 million of taxpayers' money for this purpose. But my point, for now, is that whatever case one could try to make at the time of the initial award -- the time at which the case was strongest (weak, but its strongest) -- has continued to erode over time until today, when it has completely evaporated.
Even if you want to excuse Grassley for making the money available in the first place (and I'm not inclined to do so), there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever for his failure to step in to prevent its being made available now -- match or no match.
It is by now obvious to all who will but look that "the emperor has no clothes." Such conditions as might have ever existed, when more was not known, no longer exist. There is not a prayer that this project will be built to the standards that would be necessary for it to even have a chance of programmatic and financial success -- or, even if it were, that it would create a sufficient cash flow to continue operations without ongoing taxpayer subsidy.
Consider the analogy to Iran.
If it is true that Iran has an active program underway to manufacture and imminently launch an atomic bomb our way (or Israel's), a presidential proposal that we launch a pre-emptive strike, start a war, and bomb their manufacturing facilities can still be questioned, but it will be considered in light of his rationale premised on that intelligence.
Once the NIE reports that Iran is not now, and has not been, engaged in such activities for the last four or five years, however, it is no longer possible for the president to continue -- at least not rationally or responsibly -- to advocate that course of action.
Give Grassley the benefit of the doubt, that he wasn't just doing a $50 million favor for friends, that he actually thought the project had merit for Iowa, and a probability of raising the additional $250 million (initially proposed) that economists thought necessary to a successful venture.
The point is, now he should know better -- as all do who have been paying attention. He cannot be permitted to pass this off onto the DOE, anymore than Bush could pass a post-NIE strike against Iran off onto the DOD.
To have awarded the $50 million in the first place may have been bad judgment and abuse of the earmark process.
To permit it to be given now, knowing what we do, knowing that it will be, if not entirely $50 million wasted at least never produce what was initially proposed, is not only shameful, it should be considered criminal.
Not up to speed on what we now know? Take a look at Nicholas Johnson, "Earthpark's Week-Long Wake," November 26-December 7, 2007, and my Earthpark Web site.
What Leys has succeeded in extracting from Senator Grassley -- that he refuses to step in and guarantee the taxpayers will be saved this criminal expenditure, for which he is solely responsible -- is a beginning. And the Register is to be praised for getting us this much. But it is far from the end of this story.
For my suggested questions for Grassley that still need to be pursued see, in Nicholas Johnson, "Earthpark's Week-Long Wake," November 26-December 7, 2007, the discussion and questions following the sub-heading, "[Nov. 30] Senator Chuck Grassley Has Explaining to Do," about half-way down, following the Sharpnack editorial cartoon.
Don't let him "sidestep" this one.
Come on, Iowa media! Let's get going on this major national -- not to mention statewide -- story. Get us the Earthpark public document that has been sitting at the DOE for a week now. Ask Grassley how he can justify not stepping in to stop this criminal waste of taxpayers' dollars. Save me from having to go around to Iowa's 99 counties at my own expense running a fruitless campaign against our Senator as a way of getting this story to the Iowa voters. Please.
The one-minute fair use clip, above, is from the delightful 1982 R-rated full-length musical comedy, "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," staring Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, among a great many other accomplished and well-known actors, and still available for rental and sale. It's based on a true story of a brothel outside LaGrange, Texas, that was ultimately closed down in 1973, following the work of investigative reporter Marvin Zindler of KTRK-TV, Houston. The writing was done by Larry King (whom I remember from Austin in the 1950s), the Governor was played by Charles Durning, and the studio was RKO Pictures. The film is copyright by, presumably, RKO. The use of this very brief clip is for non-commercial, educational and commentary fair use purposes only. Any other use may require the permission of the copyright owner.
Labels: David Oman, Department of Energy, DOE, earmarks, Earthpark, Senator Chuck Grassley
To me, this is a case in point of how corrupted our political system and parties are by money. It shows the power of political contributions from someone like a Ted Townsend.
Thomas Friedman's article today was excellent decrying US policy. It is pathetic that we are even still having this discussion about this boondoggle.
The SCOTUS Decision on campaign finance reminds me of Orwell's "Animal Farm" where some animals where "more equal" than others. If you have money in this country, your speech is "More free" than others.
I'd join that exploratory committee. Its time for a change. Sen. Grassley is a good man, but it is time for new leadership and an end to D.C. as usual.
UI's Good News, Bad News
Making Sense of Iowa Caucus Results
The Ultimate Negative Campaigning
Earthpark Today - Dec. 27
Kiva: The Gift You Give, Keep and Give Again
Op Ed: Caucus Choices Analysis [Dec. 22]
Rain Forest: Here Comes Santa Claus? [Dec. 22]
Earthpark: Resources and Updates
Violence at City and West High
To Err is Human, To Keep it Secret Even More So


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Ipro Announces New Enterprise Release
Posted on September 30, 2014 by gpldev
Arizona based, eDiscovery software innovator releases Enterprise 2014.1
Phoenix, AZ (September 29, 2014) – Ipro Tech, LLC, a worldwide leader in the design of eDiscovery software, today announces a new release of its Enterprise products, Allegro, Eclipse and eCapture. All three products received significant improvements in speed and feature upgrades. These updates universally enable users to achieve a superior end-to-end eDiscovery workflow. In addition, Ipro Nucleus, a centralized user authentication and Enterprise component registration application, is introduced. Ipro Nucleus will dramatically improve the user's overall experience with the Enterprise applications across-the-board.
The Allegro release brings significant improvements in the speed, stability, and reliability of document processing. Continuing the theme of tighter Enterprise integration and compatibility, this Allegro release implements an improved method of direct-export to eCapture and now hashes Outlook files equal to eCapture, resulting in greater consistency and greater flexibility in document analysis, resulting in maximum distributed throughput. A comprehensive list of Allegro enhancements may be found at: https://iprotech.com/media/Allegro-2014.1-Feature-Overview.pdf.
Features added to Eclipse give users the ability to export images, text, and/or native files and set a priority for the image source. They can also define a custom placeholder for missing images in a production and export job. Additional reports are now available, including the Review Audit Report, which helps identify tagging inconsistencies, and a Gap Report, which helps identify missing document pages. Users can now perform multi-entry field searching and add relational fields to search results, making searching easier and more comprehensive. To review a full list of Eclipse enhancements, please visit the following link: https://iprotech.com/media/Eclipse-2014.1-Feature-Overview.pdf.
For eCapture, this release provides significant enhancements and improvements to Outlook PST, OST, and archive handling using new and existing toolkits. As with Allegro, this will be the first eCapture release that integrates with Ipro Nucleus by providing a new component registration service. eCapture expanded and improved its API offering by migrating it into the Ipro Enterprise Service and adding bulk loading features. A new project-level setting allows users to set a maximum duration for tasks to ensure tasks and jobs complete in a timely manner. Additional enhancements are listed on our website at: https://iprotech.com/media/eCapture-2014.1-Feature-Overview.pdf.
"We continue with our commitment to the Iproclamation: simple, affordable and automated eDiscovery is the expected norm. The Enterprise Release continues to move us closer to our vison of our Automated Digital Discovery, 'ADD' Solution, which streamlines the workflow processes within our software offerings," said Kim Taylor, President and COO of Ipro Tech, LLC. "Our team, above all else, understands the absolute necessity of increased speed, built-in safeguards, improved workflows, and simplified processes. We continually strive to improve our clients' overall experience by removing unnecessary complexities from eDiscovery."
To learn more about these exciting solutions or to schedule a private demonstration, email sales@iprotech.com.
About Ipro Tech, Inc.
Founded in 1989, Ipro is a global leader in the development of advanced software solutions used by legal professionals to streamline the discovery process. Ipro's worldwide network of corporations, law firms, government agencies, and legal service providers rely on Ipro's Enterprise platform to organize, review, process, and produce litigation data of vast sizes and complexity levels more efficiently and cost-effectively than ever before. For more information on Ipro, visit www.iprotech.com.
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Established in 1958, Brush Research Manufacturing designs and produces miniature brushes and flexible honing tools in an assortment of designs, sizes and materials.


You might have seen that United States President Barack Obama released his Spotify playlist.
If you didn't know, Spotify is a music streaming service, and as Mr Obama is about to go on his summer holiday, this must have seemed like a perfectly reasonable thing for the US press pack to ask him about.
Our MPs aren't about to go on their summer holidays, but we thought it was reasonable to ask them about their favourite song choices anyway.
The results? Let's just say they're mixed.


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The tribal people in a remote African desert live a happy life, but it is all torn to pieces when a Coca-Cola bottle falls from a plane. With the villagers fighting over the strange foreign object, tribal leader Xi (N!xau) decides to take the bottle back to the gods to restore peace. His journey to the "end of the world" eventually has him crossing paths with a bumbling scientist (Marius Weyers) and a band of guerrillas who take a schoolteacher (Sandra Prinsloo) and her class hostage.


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Home Academic Analysis The Kumanjayi Walker murder case echoes a long history of police violence...
The Kumanjayi Walker murder case echoes a long history of police violence against First Nations people
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Holland, Associate Professor, Macquarie University
Readers are advised that the following article contains the names and images of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons. This article also contains mention of past deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. There is also mention of sexual assault.
In November 2019, Police Constable Zachary Rolfe was charged with murder after fatally shooting Warlpiri teenager Kumanjayi Walker in the Northern Territory. It was described as the first time a police officer has faced a murder trial in a death in custody case since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991.
But Rolfe, whose trial ended with his acquittal this month, is [not the first policeman] to be charged with murder but not be convicted. In fact, to many people, the case carries echoes of previous instances in which a very similar cycle has played out.
The cycle of police violence, murder charge and acquittal reminds us of the last time in Australian history when seven men were executed for the massacre of Aboriginal people in northwestern New South Wales in 1838. They were white settlers, not police, but their execution was described as an act of "judicial murder". After this, settlers maintained that no white man should in the future be prosecuted for the killing of a black person.
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Remembering Coniston
Members of Walker's Warlpiri community in Yuendumu, 300km north of Alice Springs, saw historic links between his death and the Coniston massacre in 1928 on a cattle station not far from Yuendumu.
The Warlpiri were among a large group of Indigenous peoples killed by a party of mounted troopers on a punitive expedition led by army veteran Constable George Murray.
The massacre was in retaliation for the murder of a white dingo shooter, Frederick Brookes. An internal police inquiry into the mass shootings of Warlpiri people denied legal aid to the Indigenous communities involved. No inquests were held to ascertain numbers killed and Murray intimated that the killing of Warlpiri was an act of self-defence.
The inquiry concluded there was no provocation for the local Aboriginal people's hostility to white men, despite it being widely understood that Brookes' murder was possibly retaliation for the alleged abuse of an Indigenous woman in the community.
Two Warlpiri men, Arkikra and Padygar were charged with Brookes' murder and were eventually found to be not guilty. The police involved in the massacre were exonerated and reinstated.
A long history of police violence
In a similar episode in the Kimberley two years earlier, a white pastoralist, Frederick Hay, was murdered by Lumbia, an Oombulgarri man, in retaliation for Hay raping Anguloo, Lumbia's wife.
In response to Hay's death, two police officers led an expedition that resulted in the deaths of 15 Aboriginal men, women and children. Their bodies were incinerated.
The police officers involved in this attack were charged with murder, but a trial never went ahead. They were instead reinstated. Lumbia, however, was convicted of murder and imprisoned for life.
And in 1934, a white police constable fatally shot Pitjantjatjara man Yokununna at Uluru following his escape from police custody. An inquiry found that, although unwarranted, the shooting was legally justified as an act of self-defence.
Police Constable Bill McKinnon continued with his duties and was eventually promoted to senior inspector.
Racism is a public health crisis – but Black death tolls aren't the answer
Demands for police reform 80 years ago
These cases of police violence in the interwar years led to widespread discontent with policing and the justice system. Reforms were demanded, including the abolition of all-white juries, implementing native courts and the separation of the powers of police and protector, as most protectors of Aboriginal people were police officers.
In 1934, such protests resulted in the aborting of yet another police-led punitive expedition into east Arnhem Land and the High Court overturning a murder conviction for Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda following the death of a white police officer. He later disappeared.
In the midst of these protests, however, A.P. Elkin, the chair of anthropology at Sydney University, described police as "agents armed with the power of life and death". As recorded on pages 3 -4 of an historical policy document authored by Elkin he noted that those who knew the history of relations between black and white understood that "teaching the natives (sic) a lesson" meant the use of guns and the death of many.
He went on to say,
"If giving the natives (sic) a lesson by sheer force of arms is the only way in which we can establish harmonious relations …, it is time that we realised our own incompetence, let alone our lack of imagination and of a sense of justice.
These words resonate in the Rolfe case, where Walpiri are demanding that guns be removed from police in their dealings with them and in their communities.
No more guns in the NT
The fatal shooting of Walker was justified by Rolfe as an act of self-defence against a violent man allegedly threatening the lives of him and his partner.
For the Warlpiri, it was a continuation of police violence against their communities and the memory of police retribution and its cost. With this context in mind, it might be possible to consider that Walker's violent response was an act of self-defence, too.
For Walker's community, the most important lesson was something that their historical experience made all too clear. In the words of elder Ned Jampinjimpa Hargraves:
We don't want no guns. Enough is enough.
Alison Holland does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
– ref. The Kumanjayi Walker murder case echoes a long history of police violence against First Nations people – https://theconversation.com/the-kumanjayi-walker-murder-case-echoes-a-long-history-of-police-violence-against-first-nations-people-179289
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Happy Weekend All! The one thing I love about winter is the way it makes me crave soup and how much better soups tastes on a cold, rainy day. This Butternut, Kale and Sausage Soup was exactly what came to mind when I woke on up a drizzly morning. Yep, I totally made this before I went to work because who doesn't wake up thinking about what they are going to have for lunch. I am kinda picky when it comes to soup. It needs to be hearty, delicious with layers of flavor (read to mean homemade, not canned), and scoopable (it's totally a word, I promise lol) with fun things to eat in it that make you want to keep going back for more. Kale is probably one of my favorite things to add to soup as it holds its texture quite nicely and fresh herbs plus crushed red pepper flakes are a must in my cookbook.
The butternut squash adds sweet cubes of deliciousness that pair so well with the spicy sausage, tangy tomatoes, chilies and the slightly crunchy kale. The rosemary gives it that bright flavor that makes people think you've cooked this soup for hours, not minutes.
Spray a large stock pot with nonstick spray and heat over medium heat. Add the sausage, garlic and leek, cooking until sausage is cooked through, about 5 minutes.
Stir in tomatoes, broth, water, butternut squash, kale and rosemary. Cook until the squash is soft, about 10-12 minutes.
Season to taste with sea salt, black pepper and crushed red pepper flakes.
You know the other thing that makes me love this soup ~ You get 1 1/2 cups for only 4 Weight Watchers Smart Points and that my friends, is just plain awesome. It gave me room for 1 tablespoon of peanut that I happily scooped up with a cup of carrots and celery on the side.
I added a few salt & pepper cucumber chips (0 points) for good measure. Lunches for 7 points make me happy!
Have a fantastic week all! It's going to be a busy one with my birthday celebrations 😀 which started today and work so I'll catch up with you all later.
Happy Birthday Danica! This soup looks delicious!
I wanted to mention that I made this in my Instant Pot. After sautéing I cooked on manual high pressure for 6 minutes. Perfection!


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Ransomware attack: The clean-up continues after WannaCry chaos
Hospitals and businesses are still trying to get back to normal following ransomware infections, while experts warn of copycat attacks.
Written by Steve Ranger, Editorial director, ZDNet
Steve Ranger Editorial director, ZDNet
Steve Ranger is the editorial director of ZDNet. An award-winning journalist, Steve writes about the intersection of technology, business and culture, and regularly appears on TV and radio discussing tech issues.
on May 18, 2017 | Topic: Security
All you need to know about WannaCrypt in 60 seconds
All you need to know about WannaCrypt in 60 seconds.
Source: ZDNet
While the WannaCry ransomware infections now seem to be declining, the chaos following the global attack is far from over.
The WannaCry ransomware spread rapidly last week, infecting more than 300,000 PCs, encrypting data unless users pay a ransom.
Brace yourself for the second wave
Hospitals still struggling in aftermath
The blame game begins
New variant discovered in the wild
An executive guide to the ransomware menace
This is why NSA shouldn't stockpile exploits
Microsoft issues emergency patch for Windows XP
Organizations around the globe pick up the pieces
Stop disabling automatic updates, people!
Hospitals across the UK seemed particularly badly hit -- possibly because of a reliance on older version of Windows -- and many are still dealing with the aftermath.
The country's biggest hospital trust, Barts Health in London, said it was no longer diverting ambulances from any of its hospitals, but that it continues to "experience IT disruption". This is causing delays and cancellations of appointments, and has reduced the volume of planned operations and clinics on Thursday to make sure it can run all services safely.
Others said that services were returning to normal, but the patients should expect some delays.
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital said services are returning to normal and patients with appointments should now attend as usual, although there may be some delays in clinics. East Lancashire Hopital Trust said all major clinical information systems are working as normal and that "as a priority, IT staff are working to repair/replace infected PCs and laptops".
A note on the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospital Trust website said it was "still dealing with some final issues caused by the cyber attack" but the majority of its services are now returning to normal. And Cheshire and Wirral NHS Trust's website said it was still experiencing "significant IT disruptions" and that its business continuity plans are being implemented as it works to get its systems back up and running.
East and North Hertfordshire Trust said on its website: "Our IT team have been able to restore much of the Trust's IT service over the past few days and most of these are now working." It added that the trust is now running a "near normal" service.
Colchester Hospital University Trust said: "We are aware that our voicemail and answerphone system is not fully functioning and are working on a solution to this. Our Switchboard equipment was compromised in the cyber attack. We apologise to people trying to call our hospitals and ask you to bear with us."
While organisations still struggle to reinstate normal service, there are fears that the vast spread of the ransomware will inspire more versions -- and that many systems remain unpatched.
Raj Samani, chief scientist at security company MacAfee, said that when any new major piece of malware arrives, it tends to be followed by copycat versions that make small tweaks to the original code. He explained that some had been spotted already. "The reality is there are vulnerable systems out there," he said.
Despite the 300,000 infections from the recent WannaCry attack, less than 300 victims have apparently paid the ransom so far. That's less than 0.1 percent of those infected, raising a paltry $80,000 for its developers. In comparison the crooks behind the CryptoWall 3 ransomware could have made as much as $325m from their malware a couple of years back.
The search now is for patient zero -- the first PC infected -- which may provide clues to the identity of the developers of the malware.
Read more about ransomware
How to defend yourself against the WannaCrypt global ransomware attack
Ransomware attack: The hunt for the hackers begins
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Ransomware attack on FinalSite still disrupting email services at thousands of schools
Finalsite says no data stolen during ransomware attack affecting 3,000 US public schools
Biden threatens 'cyber' response after Ukraine says computers wiped during attack
White House confirms person behind Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack nabbed during Russian REvil raid
Dark web carding platform UniCC shuts up shop after making millions
Attack Surface Management: Where is the market going?
CES 2022: HP shows off Elite Dragonfly G3, Dragonfly Chromebook and lots more new hardware


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Home » Context of 'Between July 9 and July 16, 2001: 9/11 Hijacker Atta and Associate Bin Al-Shibh Discuss Targeting a Nuclear Plant'
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July 8-19, 2001: 9/11 Hijacker Atta Meets Associate Bin Al-Shibh and Possibly Others in Spain to Finalize Attack Plans
Some al-Qaeda operatives hold a meeting in northern Spain to finalize plans for the 9/11 attacks. Those allegedly present are listed below. The first two operatives listed are definitely present; it is less certain that the others are there:
Future 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta. [El Mundo (Madrid), 9/30/2001]
Ramzi bin al-Shibh, an associate of Atta from Hamburg, arrives in Spain on July 9, and stays until July 16. Spanish authorities are notified of his arrival in the country by German intelligence (see (Around July 9, 2001)). [New York Times, 5/1/2002]
Some reports say that 9/11 hijacker Marwan Alshehhi attends, although if he does, he may use a false identity, as US immigration has no records of his departure or return. [El Mundo (Madrid), 9/30/2001; US Department of Justice, 5/20/2002]
The Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia will later report that 9/11 hijackers Waleed and Wail Alshehri meet Atta on July 16. [Associated Press, 9/27/2001] However, there will be no mention of them attending the meeting in some other accounts. For example, their attendance will not be mentioned in the relevant section of the 9/11 Commission Report. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 243-5]
Amer el-Azizi. [Wall Street Journal, 4/7/2004; Associated Press, 1/23/2005] El-Azizi, who seems to have made preparations for the meeting, is under surveillance at this time, as Spanish authorities are listening in on his phone calls. [Wall Street Journal, 3/19/2004] Calls possibly related to the meeting's organization were overheard (see Before July 8, 2001). [Los Angeles Times, 4/14/2004; Los Angeles Times, 4/29/2004] Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon will later indict el-Azizi for helping plan 9/11 and say that he assisted the plotters by arranging accommodation for them and acting as a courier. However, US officials will be less certain of his involvement. [Associated Press, 1/23/2005] His arrest shortly after 9/11 will be frustrated by Spanish intelligence (see October 2001 and Shortly After November 21, 2001) and he will go on to be involved in the 2004 Madrid bombings (see Before March 11, 2004 and 7:37-7:42 a.m., March 11, 2004).
Barakat Yarkas, head of an al-Qaeda-linked cell in Spain. [New York Times, 11/20/2001; Los Angeles Times, 1/14/2003]
Mohammed Belfatmi. Belfatmi is an associate of Yarkas, and lives near the hotels where Atta and bin al-Shibh stay. He will flee Europe just before 9/11 with Said Bahaji, a member of the al-Qaeda cell in Hamburg (see September 3-5, 2001). [Los Angeles Times, 1/14/2003; BBC Worldwide Monitoring, 12/2/2004]
Mamoun Darkazanli and Mohammed Haydar Zammar, associates of Atta's from Germany.
Al Jazeera reporter Tayseer Allouni.
Said Bahaji, a member of the al-Qaeda cell in Hamburg. According to Spanish investigators, Bahaji is with Atta the entire time, and they both stay at the Monica Hotel. [Fouda and Fielding, 2003, pp. 137]
9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM). In 2002, Al Jazeera journalist Yosri Fouda will allegedly interview bin al-Shibh and KSM together before either of them are arrested (see April, June, or August 2002). Neither bin al-Shibh nor KSM will discuss any details of the meeting with Fouda, including who attended. KSM will neither confirm nor deny he was there. However, in a 2003 book, Fouda will claim that, according to Spanish investigators, the initial attendees are Atta, bin al-Shibh, Bahaji, and a fourth man who might be KSM. They are later joined by Alshehhi and two unnamed others. [Fouda and Fielding, 2003, pp. 137]
However, there is a parallel meeting in Granada, in the south of Spain, at this time, and Yarkas, Darkazanli, Zammar, and Allouni may only be at that meeting, and may not meet Atta and bin al-Shibh in person (see July 6, 2001 and Shortly After). [New York Times, 11/20/2001; Los Angeles Times, 1/14/2003] After being captured, bin al-Shibh will deny meeting anyone other than Atta while in Spain. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 243-5] However, questions will be raised about the quality of information obtained from detainees due to the methods—including torture—used to extract it (see June 16, 2004). The movements of Atta and his associates in Spain are apparently mirrored by those of FBI agents John O'Neill and Mark Rossini (see July 5-16, 2001).
Entity Tags: Mamoun Darkazanli, Wail Alshehri, Marwan Alshehhi, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Mohamed Atta, Mohammed Haydar Zammar, Amer el-Azizi, Yosri Fouda, Mohammed Belfatmi, Tayseer Allouni, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Said Bahaji, Barakat Yarkas
Between July 9 and July 16, 2001: 9/11 Hijacker Atta and Associate Bin Al-Shibh Discuss Targeting a Nuclear Plant
Indian Point nuclear power plant. [Source: New York Power Authority]According to the 9/11 Commission, during their meeting in Spain where they discuss the looming attacks (see July 8-19, 2001), 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta tells would-be hijacker Ramzi Bin al-Shibh he has considered targeting a nuclear facility he saw during familiarization flights near New York. This is presumably Indian Point, which is about 30 miles north of NYC. [New York Times, 4/4/2002] Flight 11, which Atta pilots on 9/11, passes directly over Indian Point minutes before hitting the WTC (see 8:39 a.m. September 11, 2001). However, "the other pilots did not like the idea. They thought a nuclear target would be difficult because the airspace around it was restricted, making reconnaissance flights impossible and increasing the likelihood that any plane would be shot down before impact.… Nor would a nuclear facility have particular symbolic value." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 245] Also, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the 9/11 "mastermind," supposedly later tells his US interrogators he originally planned ten hijackings, with the additional targets including nuclear power plants. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 154] In 2002, Mohammed will reportedly tell an Al Jazeera reporter he'd thought of hitting a couple of nuclear facilities on 9/11, but decided not to, "for fear it would go out of control."(see April, June, or August 2002) Although the 9/11 hijackers had dismissed the idea, in January 2002 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will send a memo to power plants around the US, based upon information from the FBI, warning that al-Qaeda has planned a second airline attack, which would involve flying a commercial aircraft into a nuclear plant. [CNN, 1/31/2002] Also that month, in his State of the Union speech, President Bush will say US soldiers in Afghanistan have discovered diagrams of American nuclear power plants there. [US President, 2/4/2002]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Mohamed Atta
8:39 a.m. September 11, 2001: Flight 11 Flies Over Nuclear Power Station
While flying south along the Hudson River, Flight 11 passes almost directly over the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, NY, about 30 miles north of New York City. [New York Times, 4/4/2002; Bergen Record, 4/7/2002] The New Yorker will later comment, "An attack on a nuclear power plant would seem to fulfill, almost perfectly, al-Qaeda's objective of using America's technology against it," and the New York Times will report, "Everyone within at least a 50-mile radius would be in danger if something terrible happened at Indian Point. That 50-mile radius contains more than 7 percent of the entire population of the United States—20 million people." [New York Times, 4/4/2002; New Yorker, 2/24/2003] Mohamed Atta supposedly earlier considered targeting a nuclear facility on 9/11, but the other suicide pilots did not like the idea (see Between July 9 and July 16, 2001).
Entity Tags: Mohamed Atta
April, June, or August 2002: Al Jazeera Reporter Claims to Conduct Interview with 9/11 Masterminds
Ramzi bin al-Shibh. [Source: FBI]It is originally reported that Al Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda interviews 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) and 9/11 associate Ramzi Bin al-Shibh at a secret location in Karachi, Pakistan, in either June [London Times, 9/8/2002] or August. [Guardian, 9/9/2002] Details and audio footage of the interview come out between September 8 and 12, 2002. The video footage of the interview al-Qaeda promised to hand over is never given to Al Jazeera. [Associated Press, 9/8/2002] Both figures claim the 9/11 attacks were originally going to target nuclear reactors, but "decided against it for fear it would go out of control." Interviewer Fouda is struck that KSM and bin al-Shibh remember only the hijackers' code names, and have trouble remembering their real names. [Australian, 9/9/2002] KSM, who calls himself the head of al-Qaeda's military committee and refers to bin al-Shibh as the coordinator of the "Holy Tuesday" operation, reportedly acknowledges "[a]nd, yes, we did it." [Fouda and Fielding, 2003, pp. 38] These interviews "are the first full admission by senior figures from bin Laden's network that they carried out the September 11 attacks." [London Times, 9/8/2002] Some, however, call Fouda's claims into doubt. For example, the Financial Times states: "Analysts cited the crude editing of [Fouda's interview] tapes and the timing of the broadcasts as reasons to be suspicious about their authenticity. Dia Rashwan, an expert on Islamist movements at the Al-Ahram Centre for Strategic Studies in Cairo, said: 'I have very serious doubts [about the authenticity of this tape]. It could have been a script written by the FBI.'" [Financial Times, 9/11/2002] KSM is later variously reported to be arrested in June 2002, killed or arrested in September 2002, and then arrested in March 2003. After this last arrest report, for the first time Fouda claims this interview took place in April, placing it safely before the first reports of KSM's capture. [Guardian, 3/4/2003; CTV Television, 3/6/2003] Bin al-Shibh also gets captured several days after Fouda's interview is broadcast, and some reports say he is captured because this interview allows his voice to be identified. [Observer, 9/15/2002; CBS News, 10/9/2002] As a result, Fouda has been accused of betraying al-Qaeda, and now fears for his life. [Independent, 9/17/2002] As the Washington Post states, "Now Al Jazeera is also subject to rumors of a conspiracy." [Washington Post, 9/15/2002] Yet after being so reviled by al-Qaeda supporters, Fouda is later given a cassette said to be a bin Laden speech. [MSNBC, 11/18/2002] US officials believe the voice on that cassette is "almost certainly" bin Laden, but one of the world's leading voice-recognition institutes said it is 95 percent certain the tape is a forgery. [BBC, 11/18/2002; BBC, 11/29/2002] It will later be revealed that details of the interview were told to the CIA in mid-June 2002, which directly resulted in bin al-Shibh's arrest a few months later (see June 14, 2002 and Shortly After).
Entity Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Osama bin Laden, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Al-Qaeda, Yosri Fouda, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Late July, 2003: Mock Terrorist Attack on Nuclear Plant Called Unrealistic, Inadequate
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announces that security forces at the Indian Point nuclear plant, in upstate New York, have thwarted a mock terrorist attack. The mock attack was held under quite different circumstances from a possible real strike by terrorists: the guards were told exactly what date the mock attack would be held on, the mock terrorists were required to attack during daylight hours, and the number of attackers was limited to three. [Carter, 2004, pp. 18-19] Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) calls the drill inadequate. Lowey asks: "Were guards required to defend against airborne and water-based threats, two of Indian Point's greatest vulnerabilities? Why does poor performance in these drills carry no penalties? Our nuclear facilities must be protected by top-notch security forces that undergo regular, rigorous exercises that reflect the real-world terrorist threats we face today" (see Between July 9 and July 16, 2001). Alex Matthiessen, the director of the environmental organization Riverkeeper, agrees with Lowey: "When the NRC conducts a drill that tests post-9/11 terrorist scenarios and when they allow truly independent observers and experts to observe the drill, only then will I begin to believe that Indian Point's security is robust or adequate. At this point the NRC has no credibility with the public, having just rubber-stamped a patently flawed emergency plan." A spokesman for Entergy, the corporation that owns and operates the plant, calls the mock attack "rigorous and realistic." [New York Times, 8/12/2003]
Entity Tags: Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Alex Matthiessen, Entergy, Nita Lowey, Riverkeeper
August 4, 2004: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Decides Not to Inform Public of Nuclear Plants Failing Security Tests
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announces that it will no longer inform the public as to which nuclear energy plants have passed, or failed, security tests. The NRC claims the new restrictions are to keep potentially harmful information out of terrorist hands (see Between July 9 and July 16, 2001); critics argue the policy prevents the public from pressuring corporate executives to keep their plants safe (see Late July, 2003). Soon afterward, the NRC will move to withdraw large amounts of unclassified information, previously available to the public, from public view. Agency spokeswoman Sue Gagner will say that the move is to ensure that "information that could be helpful to a terrorist" is not available, but the upshot of both decisions is that only officials employed by the nuclear industry can discuss regulatory and security changes—public citizens and watchdog organizations no longer have the information required to pursue such issues. [Savage, 2007, pp. 103]
Entity Tags: Sue Gagner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission


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