The Last Crusade

$60 MILLION PRISON OPENS

GITMO TO CLOSE-PRISONERS UPGRADED

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The Obama administration plans to detain international terrorism suspects to a 5,0000 acre U.S. military base on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan.

The prison facility at the Bagram Air Base has been constructed at a cost of $60 million to American taxpayers.

Holding suspects captured outside Afghanistan at Bagram Air Base would create another prison serving the same purpose as the one President Barack Obama has pledged to close in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The idea has drawn stiff opposition from Army Gen. Stanley McCrystal, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, and other senior officials. Opponents worry the expansion of the facility at Bagram air base could make it harder to stabilize the country, the Times said.

“General McCrystal’s singular focus is on making sure our military campaign is successful,” a senior Defense Department official said. “Anything that potentially complicates that is something they are reluctant to embrace.”

Detainee abuse, including two deaths, occurred at Bagram early in the Afghan war, and the prison there had been criticized for harsh interrogations and the amount of time it held suspects without trials.

But the new facility offers detainees spotless cells with fresh linen, clean blankets, and, of course, their petsonal copy of the Quran.

The prisoners can spend their time playing soccer on a newly created soccer field, watching newly released movies, attending religious classes (Islamic, of course), napping, or conversing with friends, relatives and fellow jihadis through video links.

The cost of maintaining the prison is $5 million a year, but this figure does NOT include the cost per detainee.

Despite the exemplary treatment granted to the detainees, Taliban prisoners regularly throw feces and spit at visiting dignitaries and US military personnel.

Consideration of the plan, which needs Obama’s approval, is an indication the administration has few other places to hold and interrogate foreign prisoners outside the U.S. court system, senior administration officials told the Los Angeles Times.

The officials said that with no non-U.S. location for sending prisoners, the administration must bring the prisoners back to the United States or turn them over to foreign governments. Killing them – - even the most violent – - is not an option under the prevailing rules of engagement.

“No one particularly likes any of the choices before us right now, but Bagram may be the least bad among them,” the Defense Department official said.

A White House spokesman refused to comment.

FEDS FAIL TO MAKE TERROR CONNECTION

FAULTY OVERSIGHT SHOWS SAD STATE OF NATIONAL SECURITY

by

Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.

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Semion Mogilevich (also known as Mogelivich) now tops the FBI’S Most Wanted list.

The Russian crime boss, who set up an office in Newtown, Pennsylvania, stands accused of ordering assassinations, money laundering, passport crimes, mail fraud, and a host of other financial crimes.

Mogilevich bilked Canadian and US investors of more than $150 million through a bogus company called YBM Magnex International, which was incorporated in Pennsylvania.

YBM Magnex did not produce highly revolutionary and incredibly powerful magnets as its brochure proclaimed.

Though listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the company did not produce anything but hype and cash for Mr. Mogilevich.

His fraudulent scheme made him the subject of America’s Most Wanted, a Fox crime program with John Walsh.

But neither the FBI nor America’s Most Wanted appear to be aware of the depth of Mr. Mogilevich’s criminal activity, let alone the reason why he remains a threat to national security.

The Russian crime boss not only controls extensive natural gas pipelines in Eastern Europe but he also is the world’s leading illegal arms dealer.

Mr. Mogilevich specializes in state of-the-art weaponry. He provides the Taliban not only with AK-47s and AK-74s (Soviet assault rifles), Stalin Organ-style RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), LAWs (light antitank weapons) and thousands of crates of land mines but also Stinger surface-to-air missiles and even Tomahawk AGM-86Ds, 550 mile-per-hour “smart bombs.”

But even this fact is not the reason for real alarm.

Mr. Mogilevich has sold nuclear materiel and devises to Osama bin Laden and the leaders of al Qaeda. Israeli intelligence has documented one sale of twelve to fifteen kilos of uranium-236. The uranium had been enriched to 85 percent – - far beyond the standards of enrichment for weapons-grade quality. For this transaction, Mogilevich received a relatively modest payment of $70 million

The Russian crime lord continues to be the leading supplier of weapons of mass destruction.

Will he be caught?

Probably not until the Department of Justice comes to realize the real scope of his criminal activity and the real reason he must be collared at all costs.