CAN I TRUST YOU?

From Mr. Albert Poku
TEL: +233 242182422
Greetings to you,
This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends/ business partners. I am Mr. Albert Poku, currently Head of Corporate Affairs Department with a reputable bank here in Ghana. I write you this proposal in good faith, believing that I can trust you with the information I am about to reveal to you.

I have an urgent and very confidential business proposition for you. On June 5th, 2000, a German business tycoon Mr. Andreas Schranner made a (Fixed deposit) for 60 calendar months, valued at US$12,500,000.00 (Twelve Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in my bank and I happen to be his account officer before I was moved to my present position recently.

The maturity date for this deposit contract was last 3rd of April 2005. Before this date, I have tried my possible best to locate a Next of Kin to late Mr.chranner, but all efforts proved abortive, because all his family, including his Son In-Law and children died in the plane crash of Concorde Air France Flight AF4590 which took place on 25th July 2000, some months after he did the deposit in my bank. You can read more story about the plane crash by visiting this website;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/859479.stm With the recent change of government in my country and with their efforts to support the United Nations in checkmating terrorism aid in Ghana.

By end of April next year, the Government will pass a new Financial Control Law which will give the Government authority to interrogate account owners of above $5 million Dollars to explain the source of the funds, making sure it is not for terrorism support. If I do not move this money out of the country immediately, by October the Government will definitely confiscate the money, because my bank cannot provide the account owner to explain the source of the money since he is late.

I decided to utilize this life time opportunity, instead of Government confiscating the, but I cannot directly claim the money without the help of a foreigner and that is why I am contacting you for an assistance. As the Account Officer to late Mr.Schranner, coupled with my present position and status in the bank, I have the power to influence the release of the funds to any foreigner that comes up as the Next of Kin to the account, with the correct information concerning the account, which I shall give you. I am having the secret Code for the account, which only the account owner or his Next of Kin can know.

I shall supply all necessary information we need for the claim and there is practically no risk involved, the transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law, beside Ghana is porous and anything goes. If you accept to work with me, I want you to state how you wish us to share the funds in percentage, so that both parties will be satisfied. I shall explain to you in details how we shall handle the transaction once I receive your response. Thanking you in advance and may God bless you. Please, treat with utmost confidentiality.

I shall send you copy of the deposit slip issued to Mr. Schranner when the deposit was made for your perusal.
I wait your urgent response.
Regards,
Albert Poku
 
 

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2352 Beds 152 Koningin Julianaplein 21 ,
1112 AX.
Den Haag, The Netherlands.
(Lotto affiliate with Subscriber Agents).
From: Susan Console
(Lottery Coordinator)
Website: www.lotto.nl

Sir/madam,

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lotto NL Winners
International programs held on the 21st February 2009, Your e-mail address
attached to ticket #: 00903228100 with
prize # 778009/UK drew ?1,000,000.00 which was first in the 2ndclass of the
draws. you are to receive ?450,000, (Four hundred and fifty thousand Euros).
Because of mix
up in cash pay-outs, we
ask that you keep your winning information confidential until your money
(?450,000) has been fully remitted to you by our accredited pay-point
bank. This measure must be
adhere to avoid loss of your cash prize - winners of our cash prizes are
advised to adhere to these instructions to forestall the abuse of this
program by other participants. It's
important to note that this draws were conducted formally, and winners are
selected through an internet ballot system from 60,000 individual and
companies e-mail addresses -
the draws are conducted around the world through our internet based ballot
system. The promotion is sponsored and promoted Lotto NL.

We congratulate you once again. We hope you will use part of it in our next
draws; the jackpot winning is ?85million. Remember, all winning must be
claimed not later than 20 days.
After this date all unclaimed cash prize will be forfeited and included in
the next sweepstake. Please, in order to avoid unnecessary delays and
complications remember to quote personal
and winning numbers in all correspondence with us.

Congratulations once again from all members of Lotto NL. Thank you for being
part of our promotional program.

For immediate release of your cash prize to you, please kindly contact our
Paying Bank
( Atlantic Finance Rotterdam The Netherlands.)

Send them the following:
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(ii) Contact telephone and fax numbers
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(iv) your winning numbers
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Massainstraat 24b 1103 ML
Rotterdam, Netherlands

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JINSA Report #869 "Elusive Moderates"

JINSA Report #869 March 13, 2009 "Elusive Moderates" When Secretary of Defense Robert Gates received JINSA's Henry M. Jackson Distinguished Service Award, he remarked upon his long personal search for "the elusive Iranian moderate." We were taken by the phrase, "elusive moderate." What makes them moderate, and why do they elude us? The U.S. government has also sought Palestinian moderates, with whom Israel could make a secure and lasting peace, and now "moderate Taliban" for peace talks in Afghanistan. They too, appear elusive. Vice President Biden seems more certain that Taliban moderates actually exist than Secretary Gates was of Iranians. The Washington Times reports, "In response to a question... Mr. Biden ticked off some percentages. 'Five percent of the Taliban is incorrigible, not susceptible to anything other than being defeated. Another 25 percent or so are not quite sure, in my view, [of] the intensity of their commitment to the insurgency... and roughly 70 percent are involved because of the money, because of them being . . . paid,' he said." One Qari Mohammad Yousuf, called a "purported (Taliban) spokesman" in a March 10th Reuters story, suggests otherwise. "This is illogical. The Taliban are united, have one leader, one aim, one policy... I do not know why they are talking about moderate Taliban and what it means. If it means those who are not fighting and are sitting in their homes, then talking to them is meaningless. This really is surprising the Taliban." Yousuf has a point.   To be Taliban is not like being Chinese or German, or even Sunni or Pashtun (which most Taliban are) - you aren't born into it, you choose its aims, policies and leaders to be yours. The Afghan sitting at home is not Taliban. To be Taliban is by definition not to be moderate, and to say one is Taliban but doesn't believe in the view of Islam that defines the Taliban is to be something else. [Interestingly, as an aside, it works the same way for the good guys. As a Soviet prisoner, Natan Sharansky chose to risk everything for freedom while millions of other Russians sat home quietly and waited. Sharansky was not a "moderate." Nor is Aung San Suu Kyi, nor was Nathan Hale.] One might make a deal with that person sitting at home, or on his behalf - or with the "moderate" Hamas, or "moderate" Taliban - but, as Yousuf said, "talking to them is meaningless" because aren't the ones fighting and they can't stop the ones who are.   Millions of people would not take up arms against anyone, deplore religious and secular excesses and hope for enlightened governance. There are millions of moderates. But the people who make their rules, and have effective coercive power over them, are - by choice - not moderate. Moderates are physically elusive because they fear their own radicals. They are politically elusive because they can't make a deal they can deliver. Yes, some Afghans may be in it for the money. But surely no one would suggest negotiating with them any more than negotiating with the child soldiers of Sierra Leone.  Policy that relies on finding the "elusive moderate" is unlikely to succeed in the face of well-armed, determined radicals - in Afghanistan or elsewhere. Archive of past JINSA Reports Support JINSA, click here! email: feedback@jinsa.org phone: 202-667-3900 web: http://www.jinsa.org

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JINSA Report #868 Freeman Withdraws

JINSA Report #868 March 11, 2009 Freeman Withdraws Politico reports that Charles "Chas" Freeman, "'requested his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed,' [DNI Dennis] Blair's office said in a statement. 'Director Blair accepted Ambassador Freeman's decision with regret.'" Amb. Freeman and his friends claim he was railroaded by the "Israel lobby" - which we think of as largely fictional. Politico reported that Nicholas Veliotes, a former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt said, "If they withdraw his appointment prior to the conclusion of [his formal vetting] that would be seen as abject caving in on people who are extreme partisans of Israel." Freeman himself said: There is a powerful lobby determined to prevent any view other than its own from being aired, still less to factor in American understanding of trends and events in the Middle East. The tactics of the Israel Lobby plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotation, the willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth. The aim of this Lobby is control of the policy process through the exercise of a veto over the appointment of people who dispute the wisdom of its views, the substitution of political correctness for analysis, and the exclusion of any and all options for decision by Americans and our government other than those that it favors. As one of the few Jewish organizations that took a public position on the issue, we'd like to know if Amb. Freeman believes JINSA is part of a powerful and dishonorable lobby that distorted his record. We don't think so. The directorship of the NIC is not a confirmable position. The vetting process was internal - no one but Director Blair and President Obama had to be satisfied with his credentials, and clearly Adm. Blair was satisfied. So why did he withdraw? Because once he aroused public and then Congressional interest and knew he would have to explain himself outside his cozy circle, he had neither the desire nor the ability to defend being paid by Saudi Arabia and sitting on the Board of a Chinese state oil company. It would have been illuminating to watch him try. Consider this - the Chinese state oil company, on whose board Freeman sits, pumps oil in Sudan. Two weeks ago, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Sudan's President Omar Bashir for crimes in Darfur. Bashir, in retaliation, ousted several of the nonprofit food and medical organizations that keep the people of Darfur alive even as they suffer the depredations of the militias supported by the Sudanese government. A few of the civilized countries, including the United States, tried to get a UN Security Council resolution condemning Bashir for tossing the food and medical people. China has a history of defending Sudan in the Security Council and in this instance threatened to exercise its veto on behalf of its state oil company.   Forget Israel. Try defending that in front of Congress. JINSA is an unabashed supporter of the State of Israel - though not all the policies of all of its governments - and we believe the relationship between the United States and Israel is based on shared values and shared security requirements. Lots of people stand where we stand - we don't need a "lobby." [You want a good lobby? Try the tobacco lobby - there is a "willful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth" - and the stuff is still legal.]   In this case, however, we think Israel and any presumed "lobby" had far less effect on the outcome than the common-sensical belief that the person who is the gatekeeper of intelligence information for the President of the United States should be unencumbered by payments from foreign governments. Archive of past JINSA Reports Support JINSA, click here! email: feedback@jinsa.org phone: 202-667-3900 web: http://www.jinsa.org

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Reminder - Invitation to Emerging Security Issues for the Obama Administration - March 26, 2009

The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs Cordially invites you to a Conference... "Emerging Security Issues for the Obama Administration" Thursday, March 26, 2009 Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel Arlington, VA 8:30am - 4:15pm · Turkey's Future as a Western Ally · Mexico - Security Developments to the South · Rethinking "Palestine" · Afghanistan: The Central Asian Dimension Keynote Luncheon Address: "The Hidden Costs of Maintaining a Post-Industrial U.S. Military" by Dr. Daniel Goure, Vice President, The Lexington Institute Panelists include: Dr. Soner Cagaptay, Turkish Research Center, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Hon. Karen P. Tandy, former Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Jonathan Schanzer, Director of Policy, Jewish Policy Center & author of "Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle for Palestine" Cost: $75.00 includes breakfast and lunch For more information, please contact Allison Krant at akrant@jinsa.org Please register online at www.jinsa.org For full schedule and speaker list, please see the full invitation here.

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JINSA Report #867 Good News on a Friday

JINSA Report #867 March 6, 2009 Good News on a Friday Italy Quits Durban II We were not surprised (see JINSA Report #848) when Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced at a meeting of NATO foreign ministers that Italy would not participate in Durban II, saying "aggressive phrases of an anti-Semitic nature" in the draft documents were "totally unacceptable." He said the statements "must be eliminated," and that Italy would not participate unless the draft document was changed. Viva Italia. The U.S. Navy Returns to Haifa In the heyday of the mid-1980s, 40 to 50 ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet annually visited Israel. Thousands of sailors and Marines shopped, ate and toured in Haifa and beyond.  They made themselves useful and loved, adopting schools and community centers. The USO - an early project of JINSA and partly the result of a very early JINSA Flag & General Officers Trip to Israel - was overseen by the "Mother of the Sixth Fleet," Gilla Gerzon, who made it one of the best-loved facilities in the USO system. The American military and the Israeli public have always been close. We remember the American general who took a Patriot missile battery to Israel from Germany during the first Gulf War talking about the welcome his troops received in Israel - and how they responded. "The Israelis set up phone banks to enable the soldiers to make free calls to their families in the U.S. They cooked for us; they took us home for dinner. And we didn't have one single serious incident of military discipline while we were in Israel - hundreds of young soldiers and not a single incident. Because they felt they were with family." The frequency of visits declined in the 1990s, in part because of the wars in Yugoslavia and deployments related to the Gulf War. But it was the so-called "second intifada" and the bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen that caused the U.S. Navy to halt port visits to countries across the region, including Israel - although the American consul in Haifa was quoted in The Jerusalem Post as saying "the safety of Haifa's port was still deemed adequate by the U.S." Now, they're back! The combined efforts of the city government and the U.S. Embassy convinced the Navy to make Haifa a port of call for the Sixth Fleet once again. Last week, the USS Vella Gulf (CG-72), an Aegis guided missile cruiser, docked in Haifa to begin five days of R&R. Haifa Municipality spokesman Roni Grossman said, "It's significant that there is a renewed connection between Israel and the American Navy. Now we're doing everything we can to show the sailors a good time." We have no doubt the U.S. Sixth Fleet will once again find the people of Haifa - and all of Israel - welcoming them back as friends, allies and partners in the region. And that our service personnel will serve, as they always do, as a terrific example of the American people. Archive of past JINSA Reports Support JINSA, click here! email: feedback@jinsa.org phone: 202-667-3900 web: http://www.jinsa.org

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Re: Next of kin to my late client Eng. Adams.

 

I am Barrister David Brimley, a solicitor at law; I am the personal attorney to late Eng. Adams, who used to work with shell - Development Company. Herein after shall be referred to as my client. On April 25th 2005, my client, his wife and three children were involved in a train accident in Japan during their visit to Japan which all the families were dead. Here is some news about the train accident:

 

Click on the web address:

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/25/AR2005042500187.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4480031.stm

 

Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives, but this has also proved unsuccessful. After several attempts to locate a member of his family, hence I contacted you. I am contacting you to assist me repatriating the money and properties left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposit were lodge. Particularly, the bank where the diseased had an account valued at [$25 million dollars] has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next official banking quarter.

 

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relative for the past years, now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to my late client. Since you are a Foreigner you are capable of doing this transaction. So that the proceeds of this account valued at [$25 million dollars] can be paid to you, then you and I can share the money 60% for me and 30% for you, while 5% will be used to offset all the expenses incurred in the course of this transaction including tax and 5% for the poor in your country. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up our claims. All i require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

 

Please get in touch with me by my email and send the following information to me.

 

 Your full name
 Residential address
 Phone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further about this transaction.

 

Looking forward to your prompt response. get back to me through my private email address:: davidbrimley1@rediffmail.com

 

Best regards to you and your family.

 

Thank you.

Barrister David Brimley

JINSA Report #866 Where the Bias Lies

JINSA Report #866 March 5, 2009 Where the Bias Lies It turns out JINSA is one of the very few organizations to go on record with our concerns about Charles "Chas" Freeman, the President's pick for the non-confirmable position of Director of the National Intelligence Agency. It has produced an interesting reaction. One Jewish professional had no problem with Mr. Freeman sitting on the board of a Chinese oil company doing business in Iran, or Saudi Arabia's sponsorship of Mr. Freeman's non-profit organization, the Middle East Policy Council. His view, to paraphrase, was, "We don't complain when someone is pro-Israel. We expect Jewish government officials to be 'neutral' when it matters. Why should we complain when someone is pro-Saudi, and why shouldn't we expect him be 'neutral' in his work as well?" First, the mixed metaphor. Mr. Freeman is not Saudi - or Chinese. Institutions in those countries pay him and the comparison to American Jews working for the American government is odious. But skip that, for the moment. We, at least, don't want neutrality on all issues from any of our government employees. We want a bias toward democratic, free-market countries with multiple centers of power including an independent legislature, unions and journalists, and respect for civil and religious liberties, minorities rights and the rule of law. We want a bias in our government toward the government of Costa Rica and away from that of Venezuela. Toward Italy and away from Zimbabwe. Toward Great Britain and away from Myanmar. Toward Taiwan and away from Sudan. Away from the Palestinian government - either of them. Toward Israel. Saudi Arabia and China are important countries with which the United States should have good relations. Saudi Arabia, in particular, has been operating on the Western side of the "great divide" of countries of late. We believe it is because Saudi Arabia, like Israel, has understood that Iran - not Israel - is the primary threat to stability in the region. China has, in the main, been obstructionist on both Iran and on Sudan.   Neither country qualifies as an ally based on shared values. Neither should receive a presumption of friendship or allied status. Neither is entitled to "bias toward." In no way does bias toward a country - France or Mali, Liberia or Argentina, Turkey or Israel - mean that everything its government does is right, or that the United States should do everything they want us to do. American interests are always determinative; we can and, no doubt, will argue with all of them - as friends. Mr. Freeman's position is non-confirmable, but there has been congressional interest in vetting and better understanding his financial relations with Saudi Arabia and China. We are more interested in where his biases lie. We hope they lie with America's fundamental interest in protecting our security and protecting our democratic friends and allies, including Israel, while maintaining relations with Saudi Arabia and China - and others - that serve that bottom line. Archive of past JINSA Reports Support JINSA, click here! email: feedback@jinsa.org phone: 202-667-3900 web: http://www.jinsa.org

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JINSA Report #865 To Whom Will The Fighters Be Loyal?

JINSA Report #865 March 4, 2009 To Whom Will The Fighters Be Loyal? Last week, Egypt invited Fatah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and others - a total of 12 groups - to Cairo with the intention of forging Palestinian "unity," something never previously achieved. Israel, the United States and the other members of the Quartet were supportive of the Egyptian effort in advance of the donors' conference this week. Secretary of State Clinton in Jerusalem said "During the conference, I emphasized President Obama's and my commitment to working to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and our support for the Palestinian Authority." In Ramallah today she announced support for Fatah as the only legitimate government of the Palestinian people. That may come as news to those Palestinian people who voted for Hamas in an election considered "fair and democratic" by the United States government, and who didn't appear to be in rebellion during the Gaza war - or after it. The Secretary is standing on an impasse. The donors want a single channel to funnel money to Gaza and thus need the fiction of a Palestinian government headed by Abu Mazen's Palestinian Authority. But Hamas does not agree - and why should it? Hamas, with its pet poodle UNRWA, remains in physical control of Gaza. Worse, the donors, plus Egypt, Fatah and Israel have ensured that Hamas remains the center of political attention by dangling aid and begging. Why should Hamas concede its deeply held belief in violent Islamic radicalism, the destruction of Israel and the victimization of the Hamas bunny to get in bed with Fatah - which it considers a traitor and whose supporters it has been busy arresting and executing? (Hamas added the dead Fatah members to the "civilian" list of casualties they claim Israel killed in Gaza.) So, although the Palestinian people rejected Fatah at the ballot box, Secretary of State Clinton rejects Hamas as a political partner and demands that it surrender to Fatah. In its determination to see Fatah rule, the United States has been training Palestinian "security forces" so they can fight Hamas. Yes, that's what the American government says. But what happens if Secretary Clinton gets her way, Hamas joins a "unity government" and demands a say in the management of those troops? What if "unity" is temporary and Hamas takes over the government - making it much more unified - and assumes control of the security forces? To whom would the troops be loyal? A deposed Abu Mazen who was using them to fight their Hamas cousins who are now in control?  To Hamas? What would Hamas want with American-trained security forces?   Oh. Hamas and Fatah have unity on one issue - the belief that Israel is a mistake created by the international community that needs to be reversed. Their difference on this point is tactical: Fatah is willing to take negotiated stages; Hamas - and the other 10 parties in Cairo - believe only in violence. The donors, Fatah and Israel should stop demanding a unity government, announce that Hamas is organization non-grata and accept that Israel will control the border with Gaza.  No one will starve - no one ever has because Israel won't permit it (yes, we are repeating ourselves, but it's worth it) and Israel is entitled to ensure its security from enemies who remain openly sworn to its destruction and pursue the death of Israeli civilians every day from behind their own people.   No one should want unity with that. Archive of past JINSA Reports Support JINSA, click here! email: feedback@jinsa.org phone: 202-667-3900 web: http://www.jinsa.org

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JINSA Report #864 The President's Chosen Advisors

JINSA Report #864 February 27, 2009 The President's Chosen Advisors Charles "Chas" Freeman is an appalling choice for Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). As President of the Saudi-funded Middle East Policy Council, Mr. Freeman functions as lobbyist, making his analysis suspect. And his analysis is, in any event, appalling. Gabriel Schoenfeld, in The Wall Street Journal's "Opinion Journal," reveals a once private 2006 Freeman Internet post that Schoenfeld says, "was provided to me by a former member" of a private site. Freeman is said to have written of the 1989 Chinese massacre in Tiananmen Square: The truly unforgivable mistake of the Chinese authorities was the failure to intervene on a timely basis to nip the demonstrations in the bud... I do not believe it is acceptable for any country to allow the heart of its national capital to be occupied by dissidents intent on disrupting the normal functions of government, however appealing to foreigners their propaganda may be. What he has written about Israel, and reprinted from Walt and Mearsheimer, is suspect because of his financial ties to the Saudis and appalling in its inability to differentiate between a Western democratic ally under siege from a combination of terrorists and the states that harbor and support them, and those very states and terrorist organizations.   This is a problem he shares with Samantha Power at the National Security Council. Which is why this is not exactly about Chas Freeman - who is entitled to make a living, even as a functional Saudi lobbyist, and who is entitled to be an appalling analyst.   This is about the President who has chosen Freeman to be chairman of the body that is "a center of strategic thinking within the U.S. Government," according to the NIC website. It produces, among other documents, National Intelligence Estimates - like the one that so thoroughly bungled the 2007 evaluation of Iran's nuclear program that our European allies took a walk on us.   It is a crucial appointment and one that, like those of Power and Robert Malley at the NSC and "informal advisor" Zbigniew Brzezinski, is not subject to Senate confirmation, making the calls to "action" by some Jewish and other organizations meaningless.  Who is expected to take such action? Do they expect the President to say, "Oh, they're right, I shouldn't have these people around"? These people represent the President's thinking on foreign policy.   Coupled with Secretary of State Clinton's decision not to mention human rights in China; President Obama's offer to find areas in which the United States and Iran could cooperate; Vice President Biden's desire to "reset" relations with Russia, while the Russians upset the supply of natural gas across Europe in the middle of winter; offering $900 million for Gaza without requiring any changes from Hamas or UNRWA; and overtures to Syria just as the UN tribunal is convening on the Hariri murder, there is an appalling pattern here of affinity for "stable" dictators at the expense of sometimes messy, democratic friends. We are appalled that a Democratic administration has wandered so far away from, or deliberately scorned, Senator "Scoop" Jackson's legacy of a strong American defense capability, close relations with our democratic allies and a serious commitment to human rights. If the President wants Freeman, et al., he will have Freeman, et al., but a price will be paid by America in places where people looked to us for hope. Archive of past JINSA Reports Support JINSA, click here! email: feedback@jinsa.org phone: 202-667-3900 web: http://www.jinsa.org

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