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- KNOW WHICH BATTLES TO FIGHT DEPARTMENT - 
 
CIA Insider Says U.S. Fighting Wrong War 
 
A career CIA officer claims in a new book that America is losing the 
war on terror, in part because of the invasion of Iraq, which, he 
says, distracted the United States from the war against terrorism and 
further fueled al-Qaida’s struggle against the United States. The 
author, who writes as "Anonymous," is a 22-year veteran of the CIA 
and still works for the intelligence agency, which allowed him to 
publish the book after reviewing it for classified information. 
 
In an interview with NBC’s Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent 
Andrea Mitchell, he calls the U.S. war in Iraq a dream come true for 
Osama bin Laden, saying, "Bin Laden saw the invasion of Iraq as a 
Christmas gift he never thought he’d get." By invading a country 
that’s regarded as the second holiest place in Islam, he asserts, the 
Bush administration inadvertently validated bin Laden’s assertions 
that the United States intends a holy war against Muslims. 
 
In his book, titled "Imperial Hubris," he calls the Iraq invasion 
"an avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked war against a foe who posed 
no immediate threat," arguing against the concept of pre-emptive war 
put forward by President Bush as justification for the Iraq war. 
 
The book also argues that the U.S. focus on bin Laden as a terrorist 
is the wrong way to fight him and the wrong way to think of the foe. 
The real enemy, he asserts, is the radical form of Islam that bin 
Laden and his followers espouse. And he calls for escalating the 
level of violence in the war against al-Qaida. 
 
Andrea Mitchell: "What is your background? How many years were you, 
are you in the agency?" 
 
Anonymous: "Well, I’ve been in the intelligence community for 22 
years. My background is I was trained as a historian, British 
imperial history. But I’ve been here since 1982 and have had a very 
good career." 
 
Mitchell: "Starting in 1996, the CIA decided to create a station 
devoted to Osama bin Laden. Why?" 
 
Anonymous: "I think it was created because the intelligence 
community had turned up bits and pieces of information in multiple 
areas of the world, after the end of the Afghan war, that indicated 
bin Laden was involved in one way or another with various Islamist 
groups who were opposing the Egyptian government or the Saudi 
government, the Yemeni government. And it was decided to try to make 
a concerted effort against this individual, to see where it would 
lead, to see if he was either a spendthrift billionaire, or if he was 
a serious military-minded opponent of the United States. And that 
was, I think, the genesis of the effort." 
 
Mitchell: "Now, you were placed in charge of this station, the first 
time that the CIA developed a station just devoted to a man, to a 
person, not to a country." 
 
Anonymous: "That’s what I understand, yes." 
 
Mitchell: "You say in your new book that the United States is not 
making a dent in the war on terror against these foes. Why do you 
think so?" 
 
Anonymous: "Well, I think we have made a dent in some areas. I think 
in the leadership, the first generation of al-Qaida leadership, we’ve 
made a - certainly made a dent. America’s clandestine service has 
done a terrific job in that regard. But we are - we remain in a state 
of denial about the size of the organization we face, the multiple 
allies it has, and more importantly probably than anything, the 
genius of bin Laden that’s behind the movement and the power of 
religion that motivates the movement. I think we are, for various 
reasons, loath to talk about the role of religion in this war. And 
it’s not to criticize one religion or another, but bin Laden is 
motivated and his followers and his associates are motivated by what 
they believe their religion requires them to do. And until we accept 
that fact and stop identifying them as gangsters or terrorists or 
criminals, we’re very much behind the curve. Their power will wax our 
costs in treasure, and blood will also wax." 
 
Mitchell: "But isn’t it a distortion of Islam, what they espouse? 
How can you say that this is the Muslim belief to attack us and to 
wage war against us?" 
 
Anonymous: "I’m certainly not an expert and neither am I a Muslim. I 
think the appeal that bin Laden has across the Muslim - I indeed 
think he’s probably the only heroic figure, the only leadership 
figure that exists in the Islamic world today, and he does so because 
he is defending Muslims, Islamic lands, Islamic resources. From his 
perspective it’s very much a war against someone who is oppressing or 
killing Muslims. 
 
"And the genius that lies behind it, because he’s not a man who 
rants against our freedoms, our liberties, our voting, our - the fact 
that our women go to school. He’s not the Ayatollah Khomeini; he 
really doesn’t care about all those things. To think that he’s trying 
to rob us of our liberties and freedom is, I think, a gross mistake. 
What he has done, his genius, is identify particular American foreign 
policies that are offensive to Muslims whether they support these 
martial actions or not - our support for Israel, our presence on the 
Arabian Peninsula, our activities in Afghanistan and Iraq, our 
support for governments that Muslims believe oppress Muslims, be it 
India, China, Russia, Uzbekistan. Bin Laden has focused the Muslim 
world on specific, tangible, visual American policies. 
 
"And there seems to be very little opposition to him within the 
Muslim world, and that’s why I think that our assumption that he 
distorts Islam is just that, it’s analysis by assertion. I’m not sure 
it’s quite accurate." 
 
Mitchell: "Well, you say in your book that the reality is that there 
is a large and growing among the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims against 
America, not because of a misunderstanding of America but because 
they understand our policies very well." 
 
Anonymous: "That’s exactly right. I certainly believe that, and I 
think the substantial amount of polling that’s been done by the Pew 
Trust and by other very reputable pollsters in the Islamic world 
indicate that most of the Islamic world believes they know exactly 
what we’re up to, and that’s to deny the Palestinians a country, to 
make sure that oil flows at prices that may seem outrageous to the 
American consumer, but are not market prices in the Islamist’s eyes, 
supporting Russia against Chechnya. I think very coolly bin Laden has 
focused them on substance rather than rhetoric. And his rhetoric is 
only powerful because that is the case. He’s focused them on U.S. 
policies." 
 
Mitchell: "You’re saying that no amount of public diplomacy will 
reach the Muslim world and change their minds because they hate 
everything that we stand for." 
 
Anonymous: "No, I don’t think they hate everything that they - that 
we stand for. In fact, the same polls that show the depths of their 
hatred of our policies show a very strong affection for the 
traditional American sense of fair play, the idea of rule by law, the 
ability of people to educate their children. I think the mistake is 
made on our part to assume that they hate all those things. What they 
hate is the policy and the repercussions of that policy, whether it’s 
in Israel or on the Arabian Peninsula. It’s not a hatred of us as a 
society, it’s a hatred of our policies." 
 
Mitchell: "You call for some very tough actions here. You talk about 
escalating our war against them, and you say in your book that 
killing in large numbers is not enough to defeat our Muslim foes. 
This killing must be a Sherman-like razing of infrastructure. You 
talk about civilian deaths. You talk about landmines. Is that really 
what we have come to in this war on terror?" 
 
Anonymous: "I think we’ve come to the place where the military is 
about our only option. We have not really discussed the idea of why 
we’re at war with what I think is an increasing number of Muslims. 
Which - it’s very hard in this country to debate policy regarding 
Israel or to debate actions or policies that might result in more 
expensive energy. I don’t think it’s something that we wanted to do, 
but I think it’s where we’ve arrived. We’ve arrived at the point 
where the only option is military. And quite frankly, in Iraq and in 
Afghanistan we’ve applied that military force with a certain 
daintiness that has not served our interests well. 
 
Mitchell: "But in fact in your book you argue that we are waging 
half-failed wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan that have only further 
incited Osama bin Laden and his sympathizers." 
 
Anonymous: "Well, I think we made no impression on them with our 
military might. We are unquestionably the strongest military power on 
earth. And in both Iraq and Afghanistan, our opponents rode out that 
war. I wrote in the book that if we give the military, you know, 
substantial credit for actions, probably 40,000 Taliban fighters went 
home with their guns in Afghanistan; probably 400,000 Iraqis went 
home with their guns in Iraq, all to fight another day. We seem to 
have a little bit of trouble distinguishing between winning a war and 
winning a battle. And I think - 
 
Mitchell: "In other words, we’re winning the battles but not the war." 
 
Anonymous: "We’re - yes, ma’am. We’ve won, we won quite a few 
battles and marvelously so, but we’re fighting opponents that 
perceive tactical losses rather than strategic losses. And it’s quite 
clear that these wars are half-started." 
 
Mitchell: "You call the invasion of Iraq, ’an avaricious, 
premeditated, unprovoked war against a foe who posed no immediate 
threat.’ Why do you think so?" 
 
Anonymous: "For several reasons. That was a passage cut from a 
larger passage where I describe my personal aversion to aggressive 
war, to the war started by the United States. And I tried to draw an 
analogy between our war against Mexico in the 19th century and just 
saying it is not part of the American character or our basic sense of 
decency to wage wars except in self-defense or preemption. 
 
"The major problem with the Iraq war is that it distracted us from 
the war against terrorism. But more importantly, it allowed-it made 
us invade, or it caused us to invade a country that’s the second 
holiest place in Islam. It’s not really the same as the Russians 
invading Afghanistan in 1979. Afghanistan is an Islamic country, but 
it was far from the mainstream of world Islam. 
 
"Iraq, however, for both Sunnis and Shias, is the second holiest 
place in the Islamic world. And to invade that country, on the face 
of it, is a great offense to Islam and an action which almost 
entirely validated bin Laden’s assertions about what the United 
States intended vis-à-vis the Islamic world." 
 
Mitchell: "But we were encouraged by many of Iraq’s neighbors 
quietly saying, you know, go ahead and do it as long as you get 
Saddam, which we did." 
 
Anonymous: "Yes, they certainly did. But you need to remember that, 
I think the neighbors of Saddam were afraid of Saddam. I’m not sure 
our goals were their goals in those countries." 
 
Mitchell: "You believe that, you believe that al-Qaida is going to 
hit us again and harder, in this country?" 
 
Anonymous: "I believe that’s the case, yes." 
 
Mitchell: "Why?" 
 
Anonymous: "Well, they stay very much on message and on task. And 
although the line is not perfectly straight, bin Laden since 1996 has 
told us he will attack us periodically with incremental increases in 
the amount of destruction he causes. And he’s been true to his word. 
Whether you start with Somalia and move on to the explosions in Saudi 
Arabia in 1995 and 1996, you take one step further to 1998 and two 
embassies that were destroyed in East Africa. The attack on the Cole 
in 2000, and then the attack on New York City and Washington in-" 
 
Mitchell: "Since there has not been an attack on the homeland since 
9/11 -" 
 
Anonymous: "Yeah?" 
 
Mitchell: "- doesn’t that suggest that al-Qaida has either lost some 
of its ability to mobilize and/or that our homeland security has been 
improved?" 
 
Anonymous: "Well, that might indeed be the case. I tend to think 
that’s more analysis by assertion. The one thing these people have, 
bin Laden and his ilk, is tremendous patience. One huge failing of 
the American counterterrorist community throughout its existence has 
been the assumption that if someone hasn’t attacked us in a while, 
they can’t attack us. And I think that’s where we are, the kind of 
mindset that if it hasn’t happened, it’s because they can’t. I tend 
to think bin Laden will attack us when he wants to. He’s an 
individual who has been very unmoved by external events. If there’s a 
man who marches to his own drummer in terms of timing, it’s certainly 
bin Laden and al-Qaida." 
 
Mitchell: "What would you like to tell the president?" 
 
Anonymous: "I would like to tell the president, I think, and, and 
it’s presumptuous of me, but I genuinely think that we have 
underestimated the scope of the enemy, the dedication of the enemy 
and the threat that it poses to the United States. I think someone 
should have gone to the president when the, when the discussion of 
going to Iraq was broached and have said, Mr. President, this is 
something that can only help Osama bin Laden. I think, and al-Qaida 
and other of America’s enemies in the Islamic world certainly saw the 
invasion of Iraq as a Christmas gift they always wanted and never 
expected to get. 
 
Mitchell: "It’s a dream come true." 
 
Anonymous: "If you’re familiar with that wonderful Christmas movie, 
’The Christmas Story,’ at the end of the day, Ralphie getting his air 
rifle even though his mother was worried his eye would get shot out. 
It’s a terrific gift." 
 
Mitchell: "OK. Thank you very much." 
 
Anonymous: "You’re welcome." 
 
Source: MSNBC 
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5279743/ 
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- WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW DEPARTMENT - 
 
Report: Cyber-Freedom Under Threat 
 
The freedom of individuals around the world to surf the net is under 
threat from the policies of democracies, as well as authoritarian 
regimes and dictatorships, according to a new report. 
 
The report, by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, said there 
had been a raft of restrictions on Internet freedom set in place in 
2004 and called for "vigilance." 
 
In the Internet under surveillance report, the authors 
distinguished between dictatorships like China that "gag the 
Internet," and democracies, which they said threatened freedom of 
expression in the name of fighting pornography, racism or global 
terrorism. 
 
"The report should not be seen as a kind of ranking of regimes by 
their repression of the Internet, but more an appeal for vigilance in 
countries where, as in democracies, it’s still possible to expose 
abuses and flaws," the report said. 
 
The authors put China top of the list of the most repressive 
countries for Internet users. 
 
"With a total of 61 Internet users in detention at the start of May 
2004, China is the world’s biggest prison for cyber-dissidents," the 
report said. 
 
"It is also the country where the technology for email interception 
and Internet censorship is the most developed." 
 
Vietnam was also targeted by the report, which said seven cyber- 
dissidents were currently serving prison sentences there for Internet- 
related offenses. 
 
The report also singled out the Maldives, where it said three cyber- 
dissidents had been behind bars since January 2002 for producing a 
newsletter about human rights. 
 
The report described the Maldives as "an island paradise for 
tourists but an all-out hell for cyber-dissidents." 
 
Another culprit, said the report, was Tunisia, which practices "a 
disguised but effective censorship," and where "nine young Internet 
users were sentenced in April 2003 to sentences of up to 26 years in 
prison for downloading files deemed by the authorities to be 
dangerous." 
 
Western democracies are no less likely to be tempted into abuses, 
according to the report. 
 
After the Sep. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, "U.S. 
legislation has increasingly trampled on the civil liberties of 
Internet users," the report said. 
 
"And U.S. senators, while launching a program to combat Internet 
censorship worldwide, refuse to rein in U.S. companies that help 
equip dictatorships with online surveillance and filtering equipment." 
 
A recent law passed by France to try to keep extremist material off 
the net also came in for criticism. The Law on the Digital Economy 
passed in May 2004 says Internet service providers (ISPs) can be 
prosecuted unless they block material known to break the law. 
 
But critics say this simply encourages ISPs to block access to any 
supplier they consider might represent a risk for them. 
 
The Council of Europe and the European Union also attracted the 
report’s criticism. Both organizations "seem less and less concerned 
about ensuring individual freedom" against a backdrop of the fight 
against global terrorism and crime on the web. 
 
Reporters Without Borders’ secretary general Robert Menard 
recognized in the report, however, that it was this "fight against 
terrorism that governments say justifies repressive controls and laws." 
 
He said this was understandable "as long as parliaments approve all 
such measures, which does not always happen, and police always act 
only at the request of judges, which sometimes is not done." 
 
Source: Discovery Channel 
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20040621/cyberfreedom.html 
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- PLAGUE OF FIRE DEPARTMENT - 
 
Residents Driven Out By Fiery Outbursts Finally Return Home 
 
CANNETO DI CARONIA, SICILY - There are many ways for evil to arrive 
but perhaps only one way to get rid of it: Exorcism. 
 
That about sums up the collective psyche of this stone-filled 
village perched above the sea after a series of puzzling electrical 
shorts, unexplained fires and smoky outbursts that struck nine 
houses, displacing 17 families. 
 
First to explode was Nino Pezzino’s television, two days before 
Christmas. 
 
Fuse boxes then blew in houses all along the Via Mare. Air 
conditioners erupted even when unplugged. Fires started 
spontaneously. Kitchen appliances went up in smoke. A roomful of 
wedding gifts was crisped. Computers jammed. Cell phones rang when no 
one was calling and electronic door locks in empty cars went 
demonically up and down. 
 
Before long, the mainly Roman Catholic populace professed to see the 
hand of the Devil at work, turning their postcard-perfect paradise 
into a place possessed of evil, embers and ash. As Pezzino put it, 
"Whoever believes in the good believes in the bad." 
 
He paused, wiped his brow and added: "I’m Catholic. I believe in the 
Devil. I don’t know why the Devil is here." 
 
On Feb. 9, after a particularly harrowing fire, 39 of the hamlet’s 
150 people evacuated their homes. Earlier this month, fingers 
crossed, they returned. 
 
The intervening period can be summed up like this: Enel, the 
country’s electrical company, cut power to the village. Some 
scientists came. They studied things. They made declarations about 
the release of electromagnetic waves. The town replaced its wires and 
grounded them. Now, the odd phenomena seem to have stopped, but the 
scientists are at a loss to explain why. "It is not certain that the 
fires are finished forever," said Tullio Martella, the head of 
Sicily’s Civil Protection Agency. "They were episodic to begin with." 
 
As a practical matter, the scientists took notes, mapped the 
occurrences, used Geiger counters and interviewed witnesses. But in 
the end officials from several agencies, including the National 
Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology and the National Research 
Center, were left with only hypotheses. 
 
One was that high pressure from under the crust of this volcanic 
spit of land on Sicily’s northern coast caused underground shifts 
that released electrical energy that found its way to the village. 
The supercharged ions, once in contact with electronic devices, may 
have caused sparks to fly, the scientists say, especially since the 
hamlet is near transmission lines and railroad tracks. But the fires 
could just as easily have been caused by some problem in the 
atmosphere, Martella said. 
 
"The cause of the fires seems to have been static electric charges," 
Martella said. "What we don’t understand is why there were these 
static electric charges." 
 
Even less definitive was Gianfranco Allegra, of the Italian Center 
for Electrotechnical Experimentation, in Milan. "No one knows what 
the cause of these fires are," he said. "They are inexplicable." In 
the absence of clear science, villagers say there is no question it 
is the Devil’s work. The causes, they say, have more to do with 
superstitions in a land known on maps as Demon’s Valley, a veritable 
cradle of vampire lore. 
 
"Maybe the problem we’re dealing with is technology,’’ Pezzino said 
as he and other villagers started trickling back to their homes. "But 
it’s not earth-bound technology." 
 
Then he added: "If it happens again, I’m bringing in the exorcist." 
Standing around him, the town’s mayor, Pedro Spinnato, 38, and an 
older man, Pippo Cicero, an olive farmer, burst out laughing. But 
Pezzino, a 43-year-old insurance company employee, looked dead serious. 
 
"If we’re going to do it, we have to do it right," he said. "In 
order to do it, you need a sacrifice for the immortal gods, like a 
black goat or a black sheep. You have to dig a hole into the ground, 
because this is serious." 
 
Spinnato, an atheist, is not ready to call in an exorcist. But he 
did revoke his evacuation order and is now helping people settle back 
into their damaged, and still a little scary, houses. 
 
In one, the story was told by a burned bathroom water heater and 
furniture pushed to the middle of the floor, away from electrical 
sockets. On a wall was a portrait of Padre Pio, the celebrated monk 
and mystic who died in 1968, at the age of 81, but who was credited 
with countless miracles and intercessions: healing incurable cancer, 
finding people jobs and ridding their apartments of mice. 
 
In another, a second-floor bedroom held the soot-stained remains of 
Lucia Pezzino’s wedding gifts. : photos, clothes, silver, crystal and 
linens that her mother had made. 
 
"What everyone here wants is a complete, scientific, official 
explanation of what happened, why it happened and could it happen 
again," said Spinnato. "Otherwise we will always be saying, ’I don’t 
know.’’’ 
 
Just then, Lucia Pezzino drove up in a silver Fiat. Asked if she was 
happy to be back she said, "But are we coming back?’’ 
 
Another car lurched forward. Out popped Francesco Cuffari waving the 
two-page decree saying the houses were open again. "For me, it’s not 
even toilet paper," he said, thrusting the paper at the mayor, 
laughing. "Tomorrow, if something happens, what do we do? How are we 
going to defend ourselves?’’ 
 
He pointed to a spot where flames had singed his car’s hatchback. 
"I’ve never done anything bad to anyone, so I knew no one did this to 
me," he said. "I never even called the wrong woman beautiful. And 
then this happened." 
 
Source: International Herald Tribune 
http://www.iht.com/ihtsearch.php?id=526314&owner=(NYT)&date=200406240 
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- BLAME IT ON THE GREMLINS DEPARTMENT - 
 
Malfunctioning Car Remotes Still a Mystery 
 
Las Vegas, Nevada - Today’s technology should make our lives more 
convenient. But for some Valley residents, getting in and out of 
their cars is proving to be downright inconvenient. Their keyless 
remotes -- car remotes, garage door openers, and even after-market 
alarms -- aren’t working and no one has a clue why. 
 
For some reason, on the east side of the valley, remotes don’t work, 
which is not only annoying to drivers, but to the dealer’s that sell 
them. Like Steve Grossart, who said, "Hundreds and hundreds of calls 
coming in. Not just calls, people trying to replace their batteries 
thinking that’s the problem, but it’s not their battery." 
 
Gary Shelley is one of those people. His remote won’t open his truck 
unless he’s right up next to it. His garage door remote doesn’t work 
either. "Now that we know it’s not just us, we thought maybe it was 
wireless control for our computer. Tried unplugging the computer, 
same problem," Shelley said. It’s the same problem for a lot of people. 
 
Ford has contacted other dealers and many are experiencing the same 
complaints from customers. 
 
Gary Shelley added, "If I’m away at another part of the city it will 
work 30-feet away. You can click it anywhere and it will work 
perfectly." 
 
Grossart says he knows what the problem is, he just can’t find it. 
He says something is using the 315 mega-hertz frequency assigned to 
manufacturers that make door remotes. "They’re looking to send 
someone out from Ford to see if they can help us identify what’s 
going on." 
 
If they can find out, they can go to the FCC with the proper data. 
Shelley just wants a solution. He says it’s not only about 
convenience -- it’s about safety too. "My wife comes home at 
nightime, I prefer her to have the garage door opened, without having 
to get out of the vehicle." 
 
Some of the problems are around the Nellis Air Force Base. But 
officials there say they’ve checked all their frequencies and they 
aren’t interfering. Car dealerships say it could be anything from a 
cell tower to a broadcast company. They just ask everyone to be 
patient. 
 
Source: KLAS-TV 
www.klas-tv.com/global/story.asp?s=1965494&ClientType=Printable 
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- THERE’S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS DEPARTMENT - 
 
Mystery Treasure Still Tempting New Hampshire Searchers 
 
RANDOLPH, N.H. -- For all of his 88 years, Almon Farrar has heard 
stories of the treasure missing in the heart of the White Mountains 
where he grew up and has spent most of his life. 
 
Farrar never went looking for the treasure but his uncle, a game 
warden who crisscrossed the mountains through much of the first half 
of the 20th century, always kept an eye out for it while he pursued 
poachers. 
 
"Everybody’s hunted for it," Farrar said as he took a break from 
cutting firewood in the yard of the home he built in 1937 into the 
Cascade and Castle ravines. "I tell you it’s rough up there." 
 
Up there, not far from Farrar’s home, is some of the most rugged 
terrain in the Northeast. It is where eight rangers from an elite 
force of American frontiersmen attached to the British army during 
the French and Indian War perished while carrying a silver statue of 
the Virgin Mary and Christ child. 
 
The rangers are believed to have taken the 10-pound statue, a ruby 
ring, a gold calf and other priceless artifacts during a 1759 raid on 
a Jesuit mission at an Indian settlement in Quebec. Much of the 
treasure is still believed to be lost today somewhere among the 
cliffs, ravines and timber on the north side of Mount Washington. 
 
Throughout the 19th century, treasure hunters prowled the mountains 
of New Hampshire looking for the spoils the rangers left behind. 
 
And still they come. 
 
Last summer, two men showed up at the Lancaster Historical Society 
looking for information about the path of the rangers. They planned 
to use a metal detector to try to find the statue. 
 
The Rev. Jacques Monet, director of the Jesuit archives in Toronto, 
said he could find no record of the missing artifacts, but it is 
plausible that they would have been housed at the mission. 
 
Forty years of mission records were destroyed in the raid on St. 
Francis by rangers under the command of Maj. Robert Rogers, an 
acclaimed military leader who in 1756 formed a 600-man contingent 
that came to be known as Rogers’ Rangers. A party of about 140 
colonial soldiers and a handful of British regulars went up Lake 
Champlain and crossed the broad plains of the St. Lawrence Valley 
before attacking the Abenaki village of St. Francis near present day 
Pierreville, Quebec. 
 
The raid at dawn Oct. 4, 1759, was revenge for a series of attacks 
by the Indians into the colonies. 
 
Rogers later claimed to have killed about 200 Indians, although 
French and Abenaki records put the number much lower -- perhaps 30 
killed. 
 
During the raid, Rogers’ men stumbled across the Jesuit mission and 
helped themselves to gold and silver, including the replica of the 
seated Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus on her lap. 
 
Military historian Gary Zaboly found a letter in a November 1759 
article in the New York Gazette that gives a rare firsthand account 
of the statue. 
 
"The people did bring away considerable plunder, but they drop’d 
them, or the greater Part before they arrived at Connecticut River. 
Tis also said, that one man brought off 1,700 guineas; and another a 
silver image of 10 lb. wt," New Jersey Capt. Amos Ogden wrote in the 
letter from Fort No. 4 at Charlestown, N.H., after the raid. 
 
Rogers’ initial plan was to return to Lake Champlain and sail back 
south in boats he had left in Missisquoi Bay. But the French 
discovered the boats and destroyed them. His alternate route went 
through what is now northeastern Vermont and northern New Hampshire. 
 
During the retreat, the rangers were pursued by the French and their 
Indian allies. The weight of the treasure slowed them, though, and 
they began to go hungry and suffer from the cold. 
 
The statue was in a knapsack carried by Sgt. Benjamin Bradley, of 
Concord. When he and eight other soldiers reached the Connecticut 
River, an Indian guide promised a shortcut through what is now 
Lancaster and up the Israel River to a pass to the south side of the 
mountains and home. Instead, they were led into the Castle and 
Cascade ravines. 
 
One by one the soldiers perished. The only survivor had no 
information about the statue. 
 
By the early 19th century, pieces of the treasure began turning up 
along the soldiers’ route home. 
 
In 1816, a farmer in Newport, Vt., (some reports say Quebec) plowed 
up a pair of golden candlesticks valued at the time at $1,000. In 
1827, an incense vessel was found on the banks of the St. Francis 
River. Rusted muskets, tomahawks, decaying uniforms and human 
remains, thought to be from the rangers, have been found throughout 
the area. 
 
In a 2002 history of Rogers’ Rangers by military historian Burt 
Garfield Loescher, it said the items plundered from St. Francis also 
included a ruby ring "as big as your eye," a stash of coins and a 
golden calf. The coins were said to have been buried near the spot 
where the Cow Brook flows into the Connecticut in Littleton. 
 
Throughout the 19th century treasure seekers searched the area, not 
realizing the river had changed course. Now the spot is beneath the 
Moore Reservoir. 
 
If found, it’s unclear what condition the statue would be in after 
245 years. 
 
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune 
http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Jun/06202004/nation_w/177145.asp 
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- CREATURES OF THE DEEP DEPARTMENT - 
 
Monsters of the English Channel 
 
Sailors have found many cadavers of the Sea Serpent Morgawr. 
 
The English County of Cornwall are famous as "Lands of Legends" and 
up until recently it was generally believed that the monsters in the 
Falmouth Bay waters was part of these legends; a romantic rumor, a 
mythological beast and free fantasies similar to trolls, fairies and 
mermaids. But samples of Morgawr, which in the old language meant 
"Giant of the Sea", has been found on numerous occasions since 1933, 
even if scientists could care less. 
 
The British scientific expertise; marine biologists, zoologists, 
etc. has not been without proof for a sea monster in Falmouth Bay, 
but apparently they have preferred to close their eyes instead of 
investigating the strange cadavers that for 70 years has been washed 
ashore along the coast of Cornwall. 
 
In 1933 an unknown cadaver was beached at Prah Sands in Cornwall. 
Because it happened the same year as Nessie came through in Loch 
Ness, it was forgotten by the newspapers and no one else seems to 
have bothered either. 
 
In the 50’s, a long-necked monster was caught by local trawl- 
fishermen Reece and Gilbert in Gerrans Bay, who caught it in their 
net five nautical miles south of Falmouth 
 
It’s above all in and off Falmouth Bay that Margawr has been visible 
during the years of the sightings. 
 
It was 20 feet long, had a 12 feet long tail, a "pointed head", 
scaly legs and a wide back with "thick brownish hair". Marine 
biologists of the day were unable to identify it. 
 
One sunny evening in September 1975, Morgawr was spotted off 
Pendennis Point. Mrs Scott, of Falmouth, and her friend Mr. Riley, 
saw a hideous, hump-backed creature, with "stumpy-horns", and 
bristles down the back of its long neck. 
 
The huge animal dived for a few seconds, then resurfaced with a 
conger eel in its jaws. Mrs. Scott says that she will never forget 
"the face on that thing", as long as she lives. 
 
In January 1976 another strange (and, so far unidentified) carcass 
was discovered on Durgan Beach, Helford River, by Mrs. Payne of 
Falmouth. 
 
For a while it was thought that the monster was dead, until the 
Falmouth Packet newspaper published two photographs of Morgawr, taken 
in February by a lady who called herself ’Mary F’. 
 
They showed a long necked, hump backed creature, at least eighteen 
feet long, swimming in the water off Trefusis Point, near Flushing. 
Mary F’s, monster was described as "black or very dark brown, with a 
snake-like head and ’humps on the back which moved in a funny way". 
 
After publishing those historic photographs, the Packet received a 
flood of letters from people who claimed to have seen Morgawr. 
Estimates of the creature’s length varied from twelve to forty five 
feet. 
 
At the beginning of May, two London bankers, on a fishing holiday, 
saw a pair of monsters in the mouth of the Helford River. Now it 
seems as if Falmouth Bay could contain a whole family of Sea Serpents. 
 
The mouth of the Helford River appears to be the area most favored 
by the sea-serpents; the majority of sightings being from the stretch 
of coastline between Rosemullion Head and Toll Point. This is now 
known as "Morgawr’s Mile". 
 
Duncan Viner, a dental technician from Truro, saw Morgawr, in 
January 1976, swimming "a few hundred yards off Rosemullion Head". At 
first, he thought it was a whale, as only a dark hump was visible; 
but as he watched, it started to rise in the water and a long neck 
appeared. Mr. Viner estimated the length of the monster to be between 
thirty and forty feet. 
 
Miss Amelia Johnson, on Holiday from London, was taking a walk in 
the Rosemullion area when she saw a "strange form suddenly emerge 
from the water in Falmouth Bay". She describes "a sort of prehistoric 
dinosaur thing with a neck the length of a lamp-post". 
 
Gerald Bennett of Seworgan, saw a creature swimming in the Helford, 
one afternoon. The part of it above the water was "about twelve feet 
in length, with an elongated neck". 
 
On Good Friday, 1976, a fifteen year old schoolboy from Helston 
spotted a ’weird animal with two humps and a long neck like a snake’, 
moving up the river between Toll Point and the Gew. The monster was 
"slimy, black and about twenty five feet long". He took a photograph 
of the animal which was later shown on BBC television in the 
Spotlight program. 
 
Needless to say no one could identify what he had photographed and 
scientists debunked it. 
 
There have been many other sightings along Morgawr’s Mile, the 
hottest length of coast for would be monster spotters. 
 
Towards the end of March 1976, a professor of metaphysics, from 
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, arrived in Falmouth with a plan to 
capture the monster. 
 
Professor Michael McCormick, a fire-eater and traveling showman, 
intended to trap Morgawr and to exhibit the beast in his Matchbox 
Circus. But by the beginning of May, the "professor" had left 
Cornwall ... without his sea-serpent. As it happens, May turned out 
to be a busy month for Morgawr. 
 
World-famous monster hunter, Tim Dinsdale, decided to investigate 
the Great Falmouth sea serpent. Mr Dinsdale is best known for his 
tireless efforts, over a number of years, in pursuit of the Loch Ness 
Monster. 
 
He has written several fascinating books on the subject of Nessie. 
Another writer showing an interest in Morgawr is Peter Costello, 
(author of In search of Lake Monsters), who regards the Mary F. 
photographs as an "important contribution to unraveling the mystery 
of the Great Sea-Serpent". 
 
Folklorist, Tony Shaw, (co-author of The Folklore of Cornwall), is 
another keen investigator. He has collected and recorded interviews 
with most of the people who claim to have seen Morgawr, and is 
working on a book about the Cornish Sea-Dragon. Mr. Shaw, at first 
regarded the monster as, simply a "modern day myth", but is now 
convinced that there is a huge unidentified creature living in 
Falmouth Bay. 
 
There are various theories which have been put forward to explain or 
identify the creature known as Morgawr. 
 
The most attractive and exciting notion is that the animal could, 
possibly be a plesiosaur, a reptile which is supposed to have been 
extinct for over seventy million years. The Mary F pictures certainly 
show something very large, with a long neck, small head, a large, 
hump-backed body, and flippers riding high in the water, all of which 
fits in with most zoological descriptions of the plesiosaur. 
 
It is also true that these aquatic dinosaurs could adapt to life in 
both fresh and salt water. However, it is unlikely that a cold 
blooded reptile could survive the temperature of Falmouth Bay. 
 
It has been suggested that Morgawr may be an invertebrate, a giant 
mollusc or worm. But it would be difficult for a creature without a 
skeleton to support such a huge body. Nevertheless, very large 
invertebrates, such as the Giant Squid, do exist in deep water, 
although they show themselves on the surface very rarely. 
 
The most logical theory, it seems, is that the monster is a type of 
long-necked seal, a warm-blooded mammal. 
 
This is the explanation favored by such experts as Peter Costello 
and Dr. Bernard Heuvelmans. It is possible that a so far undiscovered 
and very large species of seal could exist in Falmouth Bay (not to 
mention Loch Ness!). Seals are fairly common around the Cornish 
coast, and recently a black one was seen in the River Fal. 
 
It is unlikely that Morgawr will be properly identified until a 
good, clear color photograph or a chine film is taken of the 
creature. Any cameraman who is lucky enough to obtain such a picture 
will, undoubtedly, have something of great scientific and monetary 
value. 
 
Anyone with a camera has a chance of capturing Morgawr on film. 
Modern, automatic, cassette-loading cameras make good photography 
easy; removing, as they do, all worries about exposure, shutter 
speed, focus and so on. However, for a really good still picture of 
the monster, I would recommend a single-lens reflex camera with a 
good telephoto lens. 
 
Amateur movie-makers would also be well advised to try and shoot the 
beast. A length of chine film, showing the monster in motion, would 
be invaluable to cryptozoologists. Most chine cameras these days use 
Super-8 film, and are fitted with zoom lenses. Better pictures are 
more likely to be obtained if the camera is tripod mounted rather 
than hand-held. 
 
Color film is to be recommended for both still and chine photography 
where a sea-serpent is to be the subject. A full color picture would 
certainly contain far more useful information than one in black and 
white.Monster-snapping is, of course, very much a matter of luck. 
 
Being in the right place at the right time is something which is not 
so easily planned in advance. Anyone, anywhere on the coast around 
Falmouth Bay and the mouth of the Helford River has a sporting chance 
of getting a picture of Morgawr ... so long as they don’t forget to 
carry a camera at all times. 
 
Those who are seriously interested in photographing the creature 
would be best advised to station themselves in one of the less easily 
accessible parts of, say, Morgawr’s Mile. 
 
Sea Monsters are most often seen to surface during periods of warm 
weather and calm, unruffled waters. If and when you are lucky enough 
to see or to photograph Morgawr, it is advisable to make a few notes 
as soon after the sighting as possible, giving estimates of size, 
distance and so on. The more details noted, the more valuable your 
sighting or picture will be. 
 
If a camera is not available when the monster is seen to surface, 
sketches, as detailed as possible, should be made and signed by 
witnesses. In this way, when all the evidence is collected and 
compared, an accurate picture of the creature can be built up and 
analyzed by scientists interested in such phenomena. 
 
Source: Global Underwater Search Team 
http://www.bahnhof.se/~wizard/GUSTeng03/okandadjur_morgawr.html 
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- THE WILD WORLD OF UFOS DEPARTMENT - 
 
Man Finds Tough Sell For His "UFO Discovery" 
 
REEDS SPRING, Mo. - Bob White is convinced his story deserves a 
grand stage, that his most prized possession should be displayed 
before a national audience. 
 
It should draw tourists from all over the country, he figures, and 
be a major attraction for people who want to see an artifact that 
White swears was retrieved from a UFO in 1985. 
 
Instead, White’s find is in tiny Reeds Spring in southwestern 
Missouri, secured in a locked display case at Museum of the 
Unexplained, a converted video-rental store that, during a recent 
morning, went more than three hours without a customer. 
 
White can’t figure it out. 
 
All he wants to do is find some believers. He wants people to quit 
snickering and looking at him as if he’s crazy. He wants them to 
listen to his story, to take a hard look at his metallic artifact, to 
give him a chance. 
 
"This," White said, "is the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in 
my life." 
 
The odds are stacked against him. He and his partner at the museum, 
Robert Gibbons, have been rejected and ridiculed. White estimates he 
has spent more than $60,000 traveling to conferences, starting the 
museum, having the artifact tested and retested. 
 
And yet he forges on. 
 
"I’m 73 years old," White said. "I don’t have much longer. 
 
"What I’d like to see before I’m gone is the national media get 
their heads out of their ... " White paused, choosing his words 
carefully, "out of the sand. I’d like to see the national media and 
everybody else realize that what I have is real." 
 
Scientists theorize that the "UFO" lights that White said he 
encountered could have been nothing more than a meteorite, that his 
artifact could be space debris. Some scientists who have tested the 
object said there was nothing extraterrestrial about it. 
 
Ask White whether he believed in unidentified flying objects prior 
to 1985, and he scrunches up his nose. 
 
"Never," he said. "Not a bit. I was the biggest skeptic in the world." 
 
That all changed overnight. Here’s how he remembers it: 
 
White and a friend were driving from Denver to Las Vegas on a 
desolate highway near the Colorado-Utah border. It was 2 or 3 a.m., 
he said, and White was sleeping in the passenger seat. At one point, 
his friend woke him up and pointed out a strange light in the 
distance. White didn’t think much of it and went back to sleep. 
 
Then his friend woke him up again. This time, White said, the lights 
were blinding. 
 
He got out of the car and stared, dumbfounded. The object was about 
100 yards in front of him, he said, "and it was huge ... absolutely 
huge." 
 
In time, he said, the lights bolted toward the sky and connected 
with a pair of neon, tubular lights - "the mother ship," White 
guesses now. And just like that, he said, the entire contraption 
zipped eastward through the Colorado sky and disappeared. 
 
"What I saw," White said, "was not of this Earth." 
 
As the craft flew away, White said, he noticed an orange light 
falling to the ground. A locator probe? Something that simply broke 
off? It was red hot when he reached it, he said, but in time it 
cooled enough to pick up. White shoved the object into the trunk of 
the car. 
 
The object is about 7-1/2 inches long and shaped like a teardrop. It 
has a coarse, metallic exterior and weighs less than 2 pounds. It 
looks a bit like it could be a petrified pine cone and is composed 
primarily of aluminum. 
 
White has had the item tested several times, hoping for some answers. 
 
The Nevada-based National Institute for Discovery Science in 1996 
sent a sample of the object to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and 
Technology. 
 
"The metallurgical analysis was pretty mundane," said Colm Kelleher, 
a scientist at the National Institute for Discovery Science. 
 
"We didn’t find any evidence that it was extraterrestrial. Now you 
can make the argument that we didn’t spend $1 million and look at 
every conceivable option. We didn’t cover every base." 
 
Another scientist who tested it at a California laboratory - and who 
asked that his name and that of the laboratory not be used - said, 
"It didn’t show any extraterrestrial signature." 
 
Sgt. Gary Carpenter, who works at the North American Aerospace 
Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., said it was not uncommon 
for NORAD to get calls about strange lights and unidentified objects. 
Not once, he said, has the object been identified as an alien 
spacecraft. 
 
"Usually it turns out to be space debris from a satellite that’s 
decaying, or it’s in the realm of naturally occurring, celestial 
lights," he said. "It could be something like a falling star. It 
could be contrails, the things you would see trailing an aircraft." 
 
White opened the Museum of the Unexplained with visions of turning 
it into a destination. He wasn’t looking to get rich - according to 
the Missouri secretary of state’s office, the museum was registered 
as a nonprofit organization in August 2000 - but he hoped to spread 
the word about his experience. 
 
The museum, about 13 miles north of the glitzy Branson strip, might 
as well be in another world. There are no neon signs pointing the 
way, no twinkling lights outside the front door. Rather, it’s 
sandwiched between the Humane Society thrift shop and the Sunrise 
Cafe on Main Street. 
 
It has struggled, unable to tap into the Branson spinoff crowd and 
secure a niche audience of its own. Only 2,800 people went through 
the doors that first year, when admission was free, and the museum 
hasn’t been able to replicate those numbers since. 
 
These days, patrons age 12 and older pay $5 to stroll through about 
2,000 square feet of space. Exhibits include a keyboard from the 
movie "Men in Black II" in which the shift key doesn’t capitalize or 
decapitalize but translates from English to an alien language. Other 
exhibits are little more than newspaper articles or passages from the 
Internet affixed to the wall with thumb tacks. 
 
The focal point is White’s artifact, and he takes no chances with 
its safety. Motion detectors, closed-circuit TV and window and door 
alarms protect it at all times. White packs it up in a gun case every 
day at 5 p.m., and the object never spends the night at the same 
place two nights in a row. You can never be too sure, he figures, 
even in a town with just 465 residents. 
 
"I’m happy for them that they’re having a good time, but I guess I’m 
just not into that kind of thing," said Kacee Cashman, the Reeds 
Spring city clerk since 1998. "I really think they’ve been accepted, 
but everybody’s kind of taking it with a grain of salt." 
 
Said White, "I don’t know what I have to do to prove this is the 
truth. You can’t make this stuff up." 
 
Source: The Seattle Times 
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/ 
2001961735_ufo22.html 
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- EDDY’S IN TIME DEPARTMENT - 
 
Blind River’s Ahead - By 10 Minutes 
 
BLIND RIVER - This may read like an X Files story, but something in 
the Blind River area is moving electrically powered clocks ahead by 
10 minutes. Hydro One is not only surprised but stumped. 
 
As best as can be determined, the time jumping seems to have started 
this past Monday. 
 
Local residents didn’t start talking about it until Wednesday 
because many thought someone in their home put the clocks ahead or it 
was an isolated incident. 
 
Local media became aware of the situation when about 10 residents in 
the Blind River area called an Elliot Lake radio station Wednesday 
morning asking staff if they knew why the clocks in Blind River were 
jumping 10 minutes ahead. 
 
What type of clocks that are affected appears very specific: 
electrically-powered digital clocks on stoves and microwaves, as well 
as clock radios. VCR or television clocks don’t appear to be affected. 
 
"It first happened to us Monday morning," said Perry Boyer, who 
works at the Mississauga First Nation band office. 
 
"My daughter walked to her bus stop at the usual time of 8:10 a.m. 
and when she got there she thought she had missed the bus because no 
one else was there. So she started to walk back home and that’s when 
she saw other students headed to the bus stop." 
 
Boyer said it turned out his daughter had left home 10 minutes 
earlier because of the time jump. 
 
"When she got back home and we found the clock was 10 minutes ahead 
she asked why I moved it up," Boyer said. "I’ll do that sometime, but 
not this time. So we moved the clock back 10 minutes. But on Tuesday 
morning the same thing happened. The clock was ahead by 10 minutes 
and my daughter again left too early for her bus. When I got to work 
Tuesday my co-workers told me they had encountered the same type of 
incident . . ." 
 
Boyer said he again moved the clock back on Tuesday and Wednesday 
morning he found it was about five minutes ahead as the Boyer 
household prepared for work or school. 
 
Boyer said the time shifting only affected electrical clocks in his 
home and that battery operated clocks were fine. 
 
Because of this, Boyer dismissed the incident as hydro related. 
 
Ken Corbiere, the Town of Blind River’s administrator, confirmed he 
also experienced the clocks at his home moving ahead. 
 
"I thought it was just me until I mentioned it at work," Corbiere 
said. 
 
That’s when he learned his co-workers also experienced the same 
problem. 
 
"But no one said anything because we all thought it was just 
happening to us individually. One thing I did notice though is the 
clocks on our computers have not been affected by whatever’s 
happening but our dial hand clock at the Town Hall, which is 
electrically powered, was affected." 
 
A call to Hydro One only deepened the mystery. 
 
Daffyd Roderick, Hydro’s media spokesman, said the events "were very 
unusual." 
 
"It isn’t a problem we’ve encountered in the past," Rodderick said. 
"There may be something else going on here. But something affecting 
only clocks is highly unlikely to be hydro." 
 
Rodderick said if there is some kind of voltage fluctuation, 
normally that should burn a digital clock because of the sudden surge 
in power. But that’s not happening, which is one reason why Hydro One 
doesn’t believe hydro is causing the time jumps. 
 
Engineers Rodderick checked with at Hydro One are stymied but 
Rodderick said he planned to keep looking into the matter. 
 
Source: THE SAULT STAR 
http://www.saultstar.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentID=70613 
&catname=Local+News 
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