Terrorism is used throughout the world as an excuse for government coverup and sponsorship of transnational crime. The Justice of God: The Pacific Rim

The Justice of God: The Pacific Rim

The Pacific Rim

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Admiral William Crowe was a career Naval officer who when he was ordered to facilitate the relationship between the CIA's Panamanian Drug Cartel Dealer Manuel Noriega and the CIA's favorite Japanese political would be god and Yakuza hoodlum, Daisaku Ikeda, Crowe did so in Hawaii in 1985 at a supposed culture festival held then and there by the Soka Gakkai. To his small credit, Crowe appeared disgusted with himself at the time for what he was doing.

World War III and the False Peace: Adm. William Crowe Dies at 82; Led Joint Chiefs - New York Times

World War III and the False Peace: Adm. William Crowe Dies [October 18, 2007] at 82; Led Joint Chiefs - New York Times

World War III and the False Peace: Eytan Gilboa, "The Panama Invasion Revisited: Lessons for the Use of Force in the Post Cold War Era," Political Science Quarterly, (v110 n4), p539

God and His Messiah Jesus Christ our Lord - our right and duty to witness to Him: Soka Gakkai's Cocaine Business

God and His Messiah Jesus Christ our Lord - our right and duty to witness to Him: Soka Gakkai's Cocaine Business

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Palestine Cry: U.S. Vetoes of U.N. Resolutions on Behalf of Israel

U.S. Vetoes of U.N. Resolutions on Behalf of Israel

U.S. Middle East Policy

U.S. Vetoes of U.N. Resolutions on Behalf of Israel

By Donald Neff
Former Time Magazine Bureau Chief, Israel
This updated version was published in Fifty Years of Israel
Originally printed in Washington Report, September ⁄ October 1993

Donald Neff has been a journalist for forty years. He spent 16 years in service for Time Magazine and is a regular contributor to Middle East International and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. He has written five excellent books on the Middle East.

On March 17, 1970, the United States cast its first veto in the United Nations Security Council during the presidency of Richard Nixon, when Henry Kissinger was the national security adviser. It was a historic moment, since up to that time Washington had been able to score heavy propaganda points because of the Soviet Union’s profligate use of its veto. The first U.S. veto in history was a gesture of support for Britain, which was under Security Council pressure to end the white minority government in southern Rhodesia.

Two years later, however, on Sept. 10, 1972, the United States employed its veto for the second time—to shield Israel.¹ That veto, as it turned out, signalled the start of a cynical policy to use the U.S. veto repeatedly to shield Israel from international criticism, censure and sanctions.

Washington used its veto 32 times to shield Israel from critical draft resolutions between 1972 and 1997. This constituted nearly half of the total of 69 U.S. vetoes cast since the founding of the U.N. The Soviet Union cast 115 vetoes during the same period.²

The initial 1972 veto to protect Israel was cast by George Bush [Sr.] in his capacity as U.S. ambassador to the world body. Ironically, it was Bush as president who temporarily stopped the use of the veto to shield Israel 18 years later. The last such veto was cast on May 31, 1990, it was thought, killing a resolution approved by all 14 other council members to send a U.N. mission to study Israeli abuses of Palestinians in the occupied territories. Then President Bill Clinton came along and cast three more.

The rationale for casting the first veto to protect Israel was explained by Bush at the time as a new policy to combat terrorists. The draft resolution had condemned Israel’s heavy air attacks against Lebanon and Syria, starting Sept. 6, the day after 11 Israeli athletes were killed at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in an abortive Palestinian attempt to seize them as hostages to trade for Palestinians in Israeli prisons.³ Between 200 and 500 Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed in the Israeli raids.⁴

Nonetheless, Bush complained that the resolution had failed to condemn terrorist attacks against Israel, adding: “We are implementing a new policy that is much broader than that of the question of Israel and the Jews. What is involved is the problem of terrorism, a matter that goes right to the heart of our civilized life.”⁵

Unfortunately, this “policy” proved to be only a rationale for protecting Israel from censure for violating a broad range of international laws. This became very clear when the next U.S. veto was cast a year later, on July 26, 1973. It had nothing to do with terrorism. The draft resolution affirmed the rights of the Palestinians and established provisions for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories as embodied in previous General Assembly resolutions.⁶Nonetheless, Washington killed this international effort to end Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands.

Washington used the veto four more times in 1975-76 while Henry Kissinger was secretary of state. One of these vetoes arguably may have involved terrorism, since the draft condemned Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians in response to attacks on Israel. But the three other vetoes had nothing at all to do with terrorism.

One, in fact, struck down a draft resolution that reflected U.S. policy against Israel’s alteration of the status of Jerusalem and establishment of Jewish settlements in occupied territory. Only two days earlier, U.S. Ambassador William W. Scranton had given a speech in the United Nations calling Israeli settlements illegal and rejecting Israel’s claim to all of Jerusalem.⁷ Yet on March 25, 1976, the U.S. vetoed a resolution reflecting Scranton’s positions which had been passed unanimously by the other 14 members of the council.⁸

The two other vetoes during Kissinger’s reign also were cast in 1976. One, on Jan. 26, killed a draft resolution calling for recognition of the right of self-determination for Palestinians. The other, on June 29, called for affirmation of the “inalienable rights” of the Palestinians.⁹

The Carter administration cast only one veto. But it had nothing to do with terrorism. It came on April 30, 1980, killing a draft that endorsed self-determination for the Palestinian people.¹⁰

The all-time abuser of the veto was the administration of Ronald Reagan, the most pro-Israel presidency in U.S. history, with the most pro-Israel secretary of state, George Shultz, since Kissinger. The Reagan team cynically invoked the veto 18 times to protect Israel. A record six of these vetoes were cast in 1982 alone. Nine of the Reagan vetoes resulted directly from Security Council attempts to condemn Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and Israel’s refusal to surrender the territory in southern Lebanon which it still occupies today. The other nine vetoes shielded Israel from council criticism for such illicit acts as the Feb. 4, 1986, skyjacking of a Libyan plane.¹¹

Israeli warplanes forced the executive jet to land in Israel, allegedly in an effort to capture Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal. He was not aboard and, after interrogation, the passengers were allowed to leave.¹² The U.S. delegate explained that this act of piracy was excusable “because we believe that the ability to take such action in carefully defined and limited circumstances is an aspect of the inherent right of self-defense recognized in the U.N. Charter.”¹³

Other vetoes employed on Israel’s exclusive behalf included the Jan. 20, 1982 killing of a demand that Israel withdraw from the Golan Heights it had occupied in 1967¹⁴; the April 20, 1982 condemnation of an Israeli soldier who shot 11 Muslim worshippers at the Haram Al-Sharif in the Old City of Jerusalem¹⁵; the Feb. 1, 1988 call for Israel to stop violating Palestinian human rights in the occupied territories, abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention and formalize a leading role for the United Nations in future peace negotiations¹⁶; the April 15, 1988 resolution requesting that Israel permit the return of expelled Palestinians, condemning Israel’s shooting of civilians, calling on Israel to uphold the Fourth Geneva Convention and calling for a peace settlement under U.N. auspices.¹⁷

The Bush [Sr.] administration used the veto four times to protect Israel: on Feb. 17, 1989, to kill a draft strongly deploring Israel’s repression of the Palestinian uprising and calling on Israel to respect the human rights of the Palestinians¹⁸; on June 9, 1989, deploring Israel’s violation of the human rights of the Palestinians¹⁹; on Nov. 7, 1989, demanding Israel return property confiscated from Palestinians during a tax protest and calling on Israel to allow a fact-finding mission to observe Israel’s suppression tactics against the Palestinian uprising²⁰; and, finally, on May 31, 1990, calling for a fact-finding mission on abuses against Palestinians in Israeli-occupied lands.²¹

The May 31, 1990 veto was the last, presumably, as the result of a secret understanding, if not an official agreement, with Russia and the three other Security Council members with veto power. By then it had become obvious that the council could not be effective in a post-Cold War world if Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States recklessly invoked their vetoes.

Moreover, the international alliances sought by Washington to repel Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait in August, 1990 made it necessary for the Bush administration to retain unity in the Security Council. As a result, instead of abstaining on or vetoing resolutions critical of Israel, as it did in 1989 and the first half of 1990, the Bush administration abruptly joined other members in late 1990, 1991 and 1992 in passing six resolutions deploring or strongly condemning Israel’s conduct against the Palestinians.²²

These resolutions brought the total passed by the council against Israel since its birth to 68. If the United States had not invoked its veto, the record against Israel would total 100 resolutions condemning or otherwise criticizing its behavior or supporting the rights of Palestinians.

The agreement on vetoes held until March, 1995, when President Clinton invoked the veto after all 14 other members approved a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on Israel to rescind a decision to expropriate 130 acres of land in Arab East Jerusalem.²³ The Clinton administration exercised two more vetoes in 1997, both of them on resolutions otherwise unanimously supported by the 14 other Security Council members. The draft resolution was critical of Israel’s plans to establish a new settlement at Har Homa ⁄ Jabal Abu Ghneim in East Jerusalem in the midst of Palestinian housing.²⁴

The three Clinton vetoes brought to 32 the number Washington has cast to protect Israel.

Recommended Reading:

• Cooley, John, Green March, Black September: The Story of the Palestinian Arabs, London, Frank Cass, 1973.
• Hart, Alan, Arafat. Terrorist or Peacemaker? London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1985.
• Hirst, David, The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
• Khouri, Fred, The Arab-Israeli Dilemma, 3rd ed., Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1985.
• Livingstone, Neil C. and David Halevy, Inside the PLO Secret Units, Secret Funds, and the War Against Israel and the United States, New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990.
• Nakhleh, Ism, Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, 2 vols., NY: Intercontinental Books, 1991.
• Neff, Donald, Warriors Against Israel: How Israel Won the Battle to Become Israel’s Ally, Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1988.
• Won the Battle to Become America’s Ally, Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1988.
• U.S. State Department, America’s Foreign Policy Current Documents 1986, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987.

NOTES:

1. Robert Alden, New York Times, Sept. 12, 1972; and U.S. U.N. Mission, “List of Vetoes Cast in Public Meetings of the Security Council,” Aug. 4, 1986. Also Neff, Warriors Against Israel, p. 96.
2. A complete list of the vetoes was printed in Donald Neff, “Vetoes Cast by the United States to Shield Israel from Criticism by the U.N. Security Council,” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 1993.
3. Cooley, Green March, Black September, pp. 125-28; Arafat, pp. 350-53; and Livingstone and Halevy, Inside the PLO, p. 39 and pp. 104-5.
4. Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch, p. 25 1. Also see Nakhleh,Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, pp. 450, 790 and 824.
5. Robert Alden, New York Times, Sept. 12, 1972. The source was identified as a key member of the American delegation but internal indications in the story strongly suggest the “key member” was Ambassador Bush.
6. New York Times, July 27, 1973.
7. New York Times, March 25, 1976.
8. Text of the draft resolutions is in New York Times, Jan. 27, 1976. Also see U.S. U.N. Mission, “List of Vetoes Cast in Public Meetings of the Security Council,” and Khouri, The Arab-Israeli Dilemma, p. 382.
9. U.S. U.N. Mission, “List of Vetoes Cast in Public Meetings of the Security Council,” Aug. 4, 1986.
10. New York Times, Feb. 7, 1986.
11. U.S. State Department, American Foreign Policy Current Documents 1986, p. 374.
12. U.S. U.N. Mission, “List of Vetoes Cast in Public Meetings of the Security Council,” Aug. 4, 1986.
13. New York Times, April 21,,1982.
14. Michael J. Berlin, Washington Post, Feb. 2, 1988.
15. New York Times, April 16, 1988.
16. Paul Lewis, New York Times, Feb. 18, 1989.
17. New York Times, June 10, 1989.
18. Associated Press, #VO51 1, Nov. 7, 1989, and Nakhleh,Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem, p. 778. Nakhleh has the text of the resolution draft as well as excerpts from the discussion by several delegates and opinions by lawyers and columnist Anthony Lewis.
19. Associated Press, #VO498, 09:50 EDT, June 1, 1990.
20. The resolutions are #672 of Oct. 12, 1990; #673 of Oct. 24, 1990; #681 of Dec. 20, 1990; #694 of May 24, 1991; #726 of Jan. 6, 1992; and #799 of Dec. 18, 1992.
21. The resolutions are #672 of Oct. 12, 1990; #673 of Oct. 24, 1990; #681 of Dec. 20, 1990; #694 of May 24, 1991; #726 of Jan. 6, 1992; and #799 of Dec. 18, 1992.
22. Barbara Crossette, New York Times, 5/18/95. Text of U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright’s remarks is in Journal of Palestine Studies, Summer 1995, pp.160-62.
23. Ian Williams, “For Second Time, General Assembly Votes to Condemn Israeli Settlements,” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June ⁄ July, 1997.

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JAPAN'S PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

Title:	JAPAN'S PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
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Pub Date:	10/9/1963
Release Date:	2/29/2000
Keywords:	PROBLEMS|PROSPECTS|MILITARY|ECONOMIC|POLITICAL|JAPAN|INTERNATIONAL|NIE 41-63

THE OKINAWAN ISSUE IN JAPANESE POLITICS

Title:	THE OKINAWAN ISSUE IN JAPANESE POLITICS
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Pages:	0009
Pub Date:	5/5/1967
Release Date:	4/24/2001
Keywords:	JAPAN|OKINAWA|OKINAWAN|RYUKYU ISLANDS|JAPANESE POLITICS|REVERSION|LDP|GOVERNMENT POLICY
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KOMEITO SEEKS THE MIDDLE ROAD IN JAPANESE POLITICS

Title:	KOMEITO SEEKS THE MIDDLE ROAD IN JAPANESE POLITICS
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Pages:	0009
Pub Date:	11/15/1968
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE, NUMBER 41-70; JAPAN IN THE SEVENTIES: THE PROBL

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Pages:	0026
Pub Date:	6/25/1970
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Keywords:	POLITICS|PROBLEM|JAPAN|SOCIAL ISSUES|PACIFIC|NATIONAL POWER|EAST ASIA|ECONOMIC ISSUES|WAMPLER ROBERT|NIE 41-70|SEVENTIES|WORLD ROLE
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TERRORISM REVIEW FOR 13 JANUARY 1987

Title:	TERRORISM REVIEW FOR 13 JANUARY 1987
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AUM Shinri Kyo

Japan fears another religious sect

San Francisco Chronicle/December 27, 1995

By Michelle Magee

Tokyo. When police zeroed in on the Aum Shinri Kyo (Supreme Truth) cult after the deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system this March, the bizarre group seemed to pose the ultimate threat to Japanese society. Aum's mission, after all, was to build an army, equipped with Russian tanks and biological weapons, for an eventual Armageddon that would be preceded by a war between Japan and the United States. But the cult that dominated the airwaves only a few months ago now gets second billing to another religious outfit.

Today the focus of alarm is Soka Gakkai (Value Creating Society) --a much less sinister but far more powerful organization that has been around for decades, has its own political party and claims 8 million members in Japan and 300,000 in the United States.

Soka Gakkai, a lay Buddhist group with $100 billion in assets, has been accused of heavy-handed fund raising and proselytizing, as well as intimidating its foes and trying to grab political power. It has recently made headlines by becoming the primary focus of a parliamentary debate over revising Japan's law governing religions, an effort originally spurred by public outrage over Aum's activities.

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) summoned Soka Gakkai leaders before the Diet in a twofold mission -- to score points with the voters and embarrass the principal opposition party by exposing its links to Soka Gakkai.

"The LDP is trying to establish in the public's mind that Shinshinto (the opposition party) is Soka Gakkai,'' said Hirotada Asagawa, a political critic. Such a prospect could kill efforts by Shinshinto, also known as the New Frontier Party, to wrestle back control of the government.

Soka Gakkai's size and wealth are impressive, and the group and its controversial leader, Daisaku Ikeda, are regarded with unease by many Japanese.

The public's disdain for links between religion and politics goes back to prewar days, when anyone opposing "state Shinto,'' the religion of emperor worship, was quickly hauled off by the military regime's secret police.

"While I wouldn't say that Soka Gakkai is seen as a cult, they are a very structured, organized, militarist group that wields immense political power,'' said Takayoshi Kitagawa, a professor of sociology at Senshu University in Tokyo.

Takashi Shokei, a professor of culture and sociology at Tokyo's Meisei University, goes further, calling Ikeda "a power-hungry individual who intends to take control of the government and make Soka Gakkai the national religion.''

Except in the Diet and some academic circles, however, the debate over Soka Gakkai is conducted in guarded whispers. Few critics or legal authorities will speak on the record about allegations against the group, saying they fear retaliation.

No one interviewed for this story would discuss the mysterious death -- officially ruled a suicide -- in September of an assemblywoman in Tokyo.

The legislator, 50-year-old Akiyo Asaki, was a vocal opponent of Soka Gakkai who assisted former group members who were being harassed for quitting. She was reportedly preparing a speech on her investigation of Soka Gakkai when she walked out of her office without a word and several hours later was said by police to have jumped out of the fifth-floor window of a nearby building.

In an article printed in a national weekly, Asaki's family accused Soka Gakkai of murdering her, prompting the group to quickly sue the publisher for defamation. The police, however, have reportedly reopened the case as a result of the allegations.

Like Aum Shinri Kyo, Soka Gakkai is headed by a controversial figure bent on rising to the highest level of power in Japan. And like Aum, the group is shrouded in mystery.

But unlike Aum, whose members sported flowing robes, lived in compounds and often appeared in public in trancelike states, one can scarcely pick Soka Gakkai members out of a crowd. A cross section of the group would include members from every tier of Japanese society -- from salarymen to housewives to university students. A high percentage of members are said to be former rural residents who moved to the cities. Experts on Soka Gakkai say the sect's recruiters play on the uprooted feelings and loneliness common to such people.

Soka Gakkai was formed in 1930 as a lay arm of Nichiren Shoshu, one of 38 Buddhist organizations that claim to represent the teachings of Nichiren, a monk who lived from 1222 to 1282.

Nichiren believed that chanting a simple prayer -- Namu myoho renge kyo, or I take my refuge in the Lotus Sutra -- would bring spiritual fulfillment and improve society.

In its appeals to potential converts, Sokkai Gakkai adds that chanting will also bring material rewards. The sect's own far-flung holdings include prime real estate, a nationwide chain of pub-restaurants and a publishing unit.

Nichiren also advocated a militant stance against other Buddhist groups and justified violence to protect his sect and repress rivals. Critics say Soka Gakkai has carried on the torch of intolerance.

Yoshio Yahiro, 69, says that after he quit the group and took 100 others with him to form another Nichiren Shoshu sect four years ago, several hundred Soka Gakkai members invaded his temple during a service and beat him so severely that he was hospitalized for three months.

Yahiro's hospitalization in April 1991 brought to light a brewing battle between Nichiren Shoshu and Soka Gakkai. Animosity intensified with several other clashes at temples, and in November of that year Nichiren Shoshu severed ties with Soka Gakkai and excommunicated Ikeda.

Yahiro, now honorary president of the Soka Gakkai Victims Association, a 10,000-strong organization formed last year, says he has succeeded in encouraging some 800 people to leave the sect.

Tomoko Suzuki is one of them.

The 42-year-old Tokyo housewife did part-time volunteer work for the local arm of Soka Gakkai, raising funds through neighbors and shopkeepers. But when she became disillusioned with the group and tried to quit, she learned that the sect regarded her commitment as a lifetime one.

"I enjoyed the religious practices, but I was not happy with how we were made to collect funds all the time,'' said Suzuki, who declines to use her real name. "They tried to keep us from leaving and made it very difficult for my family to have peace. We had many disturbing phone calls. For a while I thought it would never end.''

Other Soka Gakkai members have told stories of violent intimidation and death threats against critics of the sect and those who have tried to quit the group.

Asaki, the late assemblywoman, received several death threats shortly before her demise, according to her family. A sect spokesman strongly denied all such allegations.

Much of the unease about Soka Gakkai is laid on the stout, balding Ikeda, who urges senior members on with such phrases as Tenka o toru (Conquer the country). Ikeda was born in 1928 into a family of producers of edible seaweed. He joined Soka Gakkai at the age of 19 and quickly rose through the ranks.

He married another follower and had three sons -- the second eldest of whom was being groomed as his replacement before dying of a sudden illness at the age of 29. Ikeda's eldest son, Hiromasa is now said to be the heir apparent. Ikeda's public image is one of a charismatic leader, but he has been known to display a violent temper.

A videotape filmed at a 1993 Ikeda speech to followers in Santa Monica, later released by a disgruntled former sect member, shows Ikeda yelling and pounding on tables in anger and later railing against President Clinton for having refused to meet with him.

After taking control of Soka Gakkai in 1958, Ikeda accelerated efforts to gain political influence for the group. He developed an official political arm, known as the Komeito party. But a 1970 scandal in which Komeito members tried to pressure retailers into not selling a book critical of Soka Gakkai caused the hierarchy to disassociate itself from the party. But few doubt Ikeda's continued control over Komeito, which has since been renamed Komei.

The Aum scare has left the Japanese worried over whether the government has been too lax in its oversight of religious organizations. Polls have shown that nearly 80 percent of the public want some form of broader control. It was with this in mind that the LDP last month seized the opportunity to respond to the public and tarnish Shinshinto at the same time.

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A booming economy has spawned a militant new religion with 10 million adherents bent on dominating the world

Look Magazine/September 10, 1963

By Richard Okamoto

The Japanese people either want to be leaders or want to be led," says an international business executive and learned Japanophile. "Soka Gakkai guarantees fulfillment for both the shepherd and the sheep -- or for a Hitler and the hordes."

Soka Gakkai (Value Creating Society), or "True Buddhism," as it is called, today ranks next to the "in" Liberal-Democratic party and the opposition Socialist party. It has become the Third Voice of Japan. Its personable 35-year-old leader, who claims a following of 10,000 (including Americans, Europeans and Southeast Asians), has proclaimed that "Soka Gakkai's ultimate goals are happiness for the Japanese people and world peace." By respected detractors, the new faith is variously labeled as "militaristic," "fascistic," "ultra nationalistic" and "dangerous," "sacrilegious," "deceptive" and "fanatic." There is no question that Soka Gakkai's significance within Japan is of the first magnitude.

Soka Gakkai regards itself as not only the one true Buddhist religion, hut the one true religion on earth. Its principal aims are the propagation of its gospel throughout the world, by forced conversion if necessary, and the denunciation and destruction of all other faiths as "false" religions. Flushed with success at home, over and beyond the movement's own confident expectations, and armed with a powerful organization envied by other religious and political interests, Soka Gakkai is unmistakably a church militant in Japan geared for a determined march abroad. Its significance to America and all nations cannot be ignored. Its target is world domination.

The Japanese have been generally an irreligious but tolerant people who have made their country a fertile if frustrating field for all religions. Indeed, Japan has been called a "museum of religions." Today, a merger of religion and politics seems ready to transform that complacent museum into an exploding arsenal.

At a rehearsal for the Japanese adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, in Tokyo's dimly lit Haiyuza Theater, actress Tetsuko Kobayashi said, "Yes, Christianity is dominant in the world today, and there will be 'discrimination' and 'cold war' as long as people believe in this false religion. In order to gain world peace, people everywhere must be taught to believe in Soka Gakkai."

Tetsuko-san's voice was gentle; her vision of peace was unmistakably militant. The bright, comely 25-year-old television and stage actress continued: "The most important mission of Soka Gakkai is to show others that their religion, whatever it is, cannot be true religion and therefore cannot bring them true happiness. They must, sooner or later, join the only true faith, Soka Gakkai. It is our one purpose in life to make them join us and realize true happiness and he real values of life, now and in the life to come." Convinced that her artistic career would have ended long ago except for her strict adherence to Soka Gakkai, she said, "I never forget to worship, just as I never forget to breathe."

Of the 30 "new" religions now established in Japan, Soka Gakkai (pronounced So-ka Gok-ki-ee) is the one movement that has startled, ,shaken, awakened and alarmed this once again vigorous nation. Tetsuko Kobayashi is typical of 10 million who have rejected other beliefs to embrace "True Buddhism," and make it, within ten years, the Third Voice of Japan.

By the elections of 1962, Soka Gakkai had installed 15 members in Japan's Upper House (senate), and 99 percent of its candidates were shoo-ins in local and prefectural elections throughout the country. Leaders spoke openly of winning the majority of seats in both houses (a goal they now deny), and Japan was faced with the sudden intrusion of a religious movement into the political arena.

The Japanese Ministry of Education. scholars and such nonpartisan societies as the Union of the New Religious Organization Japan and the International Institute for the Study of Religions (Tokyo) began research on Soka Gakkai and the other religions. Their general conclusion was that the movements natural developments in the religious and sociological vacuum created in postwar Japan following the American Occupation.

According to missionary Harry Thomsen, author of The Religions Of Japan (Charles Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vt.), the existing "old" religions had been put to the test and had failed. Japan's defeat, the first in its long and unique history, opened the floodgate for the new religions, which poured, quite naturally, into a devastated and spiritually starved country.

The new faiths, for the masses, are answers to a moral crisis was a by-product of the impotency of traditional beliefs. Shinto, with its propagandized link to the head of state, the Emperor, suffered great loss of face upon Japan's defeat. Buddhism generally had not been a vital religion since long before the war. Christianity was (and remains today) a "foreign" religion.

The 30 new religions (that is, not Buddhist, Shinto or Christian) registered as "miscellaneous" with the Ministry of Education attracted about 18 million converts, or one out of every five Japanese. Ten million of the 18 million belong to Soka Gakkai.

All the new religions share some general characteristics: a modern and imposing "Mecca" headquarters; a simple, uncomplicated doctrine; optimism, faith healing and strong leadership. Each is in based in part on ancient Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity or convenient admixtures. Each holds out a sense of self-importance and dignity; each is an "I-ism" offering social acceptance and social security.

Soka Gakkai is distinguished by its near-miraculous pole vault into national prominence and by its fanatical egotism and maniacal intolerance of all other religions. No other group has so aroused a nation. No such charges as "militaristic," "aggressive," "fantastic," "intolerant," "egotistic" have been leveled against any new religion in Japan but Soka Gakkai. Its fantastic success can be attributed to it's principal Marxist-like doctrine of propagation (the end outweighs the means) and its militaristic organizational structure. Fifteen families' constitute a squad, six squads a company, ten companies a district, and 30 districts a regional chapter. The regional chapters are directly responsible to Tokyo headquarters, and headquarters chiefs of staff are responsible only to the president (or Commander-In-Chief), whose word is absolute. Each convert has a two-fold obligation: propagation and blind devotion

Founded in 1930 as a lay movement of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, a disgruntled school principal, Soka Gakkai was given new direction after World War II by Josei Toda, a former schoolteacher. Toda adapted Patron Saint Nichiren's 3th century doctrines to the needs and aspirations of a defeated people. The Toda-Nichiren doctrine calls for the marriage of church (Soka Gakkai) and state, a ferocious intolerance of any other teaching and destruction of all other religions as false, baseless or obsolete.

Today's president is energetic, genial and glib 35-year-old Daisaku Ikeda (no relation to the Prime Minister). Ikeda Sensei ("Teacher"), as he is addressed, was interviewed by LOOK in Soka Gakkai's modern press building in Tokyo. President Ikeda reflected actress Kobayashi's mild manner and dogmatic, arbitrary spirit.

Asked about Soka Gakkai's political principles, Ikeda replied that he was interested solely in getting rid of those "corrupt elements in Japanese politics which ignore the individual and are only concerned with themselves."

Recently, the Japan Times had reported that a 33-year-old an "avid follower of Soka Gakkai," had shoved his four-year-old son into the path of an oncoming train, then changed his mind about committing suicide. The child died of a fractured skull. Reminded that Soka Gakkai promised "instant" better lives to all members and converts alike, Ikeda commented, "Miserable incidents of this kind [can only be traced] to the poor, corrupt Government of Japan in order to elevate the Government from such a deplorable state, the Komeikai [Komeito] [political arm of Soka Gakkai] is trying to make the Government provide welfare for the general public and the peace of the entire world!"

As to other great world religions, he said, "Soka Gakkai leaders and I, myself, have thoroughly studied and researched all the religions of the world. We found them all to be wanting in one way or another ...false, too mystical, obsolete." When offered the information that

This writer is an Episcopalian, Ikeda ingenuously admitted ignorance of the denomination. He dismissed it adroitly by lumping it as "Christianity based on the Bible," and, since the Bible has been "researched and evaluated" and found to be "false, unbelievable" and "full of myths," it, too, was "valueless." By the end of the interview, it was clear that Ikeda, whose word is absolute law to 10 million unquestioning believers, was unflinchingly confident that Soka Gakkai will succeed in the total conversion of Japan, and then the world.

According to the organization's public relations director, Yukimasa Fujiwara, it has an average net annual income of over $8,500,000 -- tax-exempt as with all acknowledged religions. He points out that Soka Gakkai's temples and headquarters are not "littered with collection boxes like the temples of the false religions."

Fujiwara said, "We have many members who are poor in heart, poor in health, but wealthy; we do not ask contributions from the economically poor. The wealthy volunteer great sums." Asked for the identity of such affluent members, he supplied only the name of the head of a minor importing firm, who happens to be on Soka Gakkai's Board of Directors.

Soka Gakkai operates its own extensive printing plant, which publishes weekly and monthly magazines, pamphlets, bulletins and newspapers in both Japanese and English, as well as hard-cover books such as Essays on Buddhism by Josei Toda and President Ikeda's Lectures on Buddhism. It is a publishing empire with a built-in, captive subscription list of 3,500,000 households.

Soka Gakkai also operates a large-scale manufacturing enterprise, whose output includes home altars, shrines and religious objects to fit anyone's budget. Although leaders claim that the home prayer scroll does not require special "housing," members are regularly urged to buy altars and adornments when good fortune strikes, as it must with faith. Soka Gakkai is, in effect, a guaranteed multiple-sales monopoly with a self-controlled, self-perpetuating mass market.

Ambitious construction programs for its spiritual headquarters (to be "100 times bigger in seven years") at the foot of historic Fuji and business headquarters in Tokyo merely suggest the extent of its financial operations. Soka Gakkai is soliciting and granting investment requests "even from nonbelievers," says Fujiwara.

A Japanese critic marvels at the movement's commercial acumen. "Naturally, Soka Gakkai means to attract floundering and questionable small businessmen by its offer to invest or back them. It will do so to coerce such men into membership. It will also instruct members to patronize this or that enterprise so long as it 'plays ball'; otherwise, intimidation, threat or extortion must be expected. Soka Gakkai is not a benevolent society; it is as much a commercial venture as is greatest industrial combine . . . but it preys on the weaknesses of unfortunate people as well as the ambitions of the business-minded"

Scholars, students and priests of other Buddhist sects, and non- partisan private citizens, raise a common cry against Soka Gakkai. The cry is aimed at the religion's principal doctrine, propagation, and the tactics employed, which demand of believers unquestioning denigration of all other religions and the "only-ness" of theirs.

Daisetz Suzuki, world-renowned Zen Buddhist scholar LOOK: "If Soka Gakkai, so-called 'True Buddhism,' practices intolerance and aggressiveness-and it does-it cannot be Buddhism because Buddhism is the continuous striving toward absolute love and absolute wisdom. These are its two vital features. There is room for intolerance and aggressiveness. . . . When Soka Gakkai people claim theirs is the only religion with value, they contradict the basic tenets of Buddhism. Soka Gakkai is not Buddhism at all."

The Rev. Dr. Shohun Kubota, vice-president of Rissho University of Tokyo, concurs. "The principle of Buddhism," he says, "is to restrain man's desires, such as sex, hunger, wealth and fame, but Soka Gakkai promises the possession of these desires. It uses man's weaknesses as a tool for its own expansion. It has the same characteristics as Nazism. Finally, it is a corruption of Buddhism."

To Dr. Yoshiro Tamura, associate professor of Tokyo University, the "true nature" of Soka Gakkai is "fanatic and dangerous." He says Soka Gakkai "makes politics dependent upon religion as long as that religion is Soka Gakkai . . . and will eventually act against freedom of religion."

Another observer fears that it may act against all freedom. "The Japanese people either want to be leaders or want to be led," says an international executive and learned Japanophile. "Soka Gakkai guarantees fulfillment for both the shepherd and the sheep . . . or for a Hitler and the hordes."

William P Woodard of Tokyo's International Institute for the Study of Religions comments: "Soka Gakkai does not respect the rights of others. It threatens reprisals to all who oppose it. Followers are obliged to engage in forced conversion, and in doing so, they force themselves into private homes and refuse to leave when asked. They disrupt public meetings and threaten nonbelievers. Leaders encourage violence.

"Soka Gakkai has developed in such a sinister manner," Woodard contends, "that most people in positions of public responsibility are afraid to take objective stands against it. They are literally afraid; they never know what form reprisal will take. Its insidious nature makes it a definite threat to a free, democratic society. It creates a kind of private terrorism, something akin to prewar rightist activities here or McCarthyism in the States."

Anxious to talk but reluctant to be identified was one recent renegade from Soka Gakkai, a graduate student at one of Japan's "Ivy League" universities. "After the ritual ceremony when the gohonzon was presented to me, a Soka Gakkai squad came to my home," he began. "My parents and two sisters are believers of Shin-Shu Buddhism. I was shocked when they bullied their way to the family altar and bodily removed and destroyed religious objects sacred to my family. Later, my bloc leader ordered me to pray more heartily to my gohonzon for the salvation of my family and to tell them that Shin-Shu Buddhism was a false religion, and that, by destroying false images, Soka Gakkai simply had performed a 'mission of mercy.' It was now up to me to persuade my family that they, too, must adopt Soka Gakkai.

"From then on," the graduate student continued, "I had no peace. Gakkai is highly regimented. At all hours, organized squads came to my home, to my university, to my part-time job, to demand that I not only spend more time at prayer, attend weekly meetings without fail, but make up my mind that I must convert my family. I do not dare drop out now and I attend meetings only to escape further pressure. . . . I do not fear bodily harm, but I have heard of cases of threat, intimidation, extortion and other unpleasant situations.. .. So you must forgive me if I cannot give you my name for publication." Shakubuku is a word that haunts any discussion of Soka Gakkai. To believers, it means converting new followers; to others, it is "forced conversion." Literally, it is "breaking and subduing." A scholar-critic who also prefers to remain anonymous has said, "Soka Gakkai is an aggressive, fighting spirit which regards the outside world as the object of shakubuku- a world to be crushed and conquered."

Soka Gakkai leader Airman 1, c Robert E. Keen, 30, and other American converts held their first general meeting last June on the outskirts of Tokyo near Johnson Air Force Base. In his "guidance speech," the omnipresent public relations director Fujiwara said, "Sooner or later, you Americans will finish your tours of duty in Japan and must return to your homes in America. Your duty is to propagate the only true faith there."

Says Keen of shakubuku: "We don't high-pressure nobody ... we are an organization that if the balance should swing to the dirty side of politics, Soka Gakkai can control it, swing it back to the right track."

What brings American servicemen stationed in Japan to Soka Gakkai? Airman 1/c Dan Hansen, 27, recalls, "I don't believe I had any religious training before. I attended the Baptist Church until I was 17 or so and came to Japan. Here, I found Soka Gakkai is what I want to believe." Hansen, a strapping body-builder, says that he always had a "hurting feeling in my throat (whether it was physical or mental, I don't know), but since I joined, I haven't had the hurting at all."

Black Airman Peter A. Allen, 28, from Bessemer, Ala., married a Japanese girl 22 months ago. He wants to remain in Japan with his wife, who is a devout follower. Allen's wife and her Japanese friends persisted in shakubuku. Finally, "to shut them up and to make them stop badgering me to join," he said, "I agreed." Asked if this was the only reason for joining, Allen nodded. "But I have as much respect for other world religions as long as others respect mine. Soka Gakkai," he concluded, "is more democratic than Christian America -- look at the situation in Alabama today!"

Former Methodist Jerry Clayton Kubo, 20, found Soka Gakkai when he met his future Japanese bride. "Just before I received my gohonzon, my prayer scroll," he said, "I wanted to get married, but there was strong resentment on both sides of the Big Sea. On this side, from military personnel, from my parents on the opposite side. I decided to deepen my faith in the gohonzon. I said to it, 'Show me your power.' Things started to change. Letters started coming from home . . . 'Tell us more about the girl.' " Following his marriage, he spent 2 1/2 months in jail for what he describes as the "prejudice of the military against the Japanese, and religious intolerance."

The great shakubuku advance of Soka Gakkai began in 1951 under second president Toda. Ostensibly to "save Japan and asia," the immediate shakubuku goal was to win three million household in Japan. Within one year, membership mushroomed to over 10 thousand families. Today, with 10 million adherents already in the fold, leader Ikeda has clearly pushed the shakubuku button for aggressive worldwide propagation.

In past years, Soka Gakkai has been sending its top leaders throughout Japan "to give instruction in the faith." This year, the drive expanded to the Asian mainland and the West. During August leaders traveled to five major South American cities. The first general meeting for Thailand was held in Bangkok on August 18, and an all European meeting was conducted a week earlier. Americans gathered in Chicago on August 25. At all meetings, everywhere, the cry is shakubuku, ("break and subdue").

The air in Tokyo, night or day, rings with the cacophony of "Soka Gakkai" and "shakubuku," the endless chanting and self-asserting songfests reminiscent of prewar imperialistic Japan. Protagonists, from Ikeda Sensei down to the member-in-the-street, give the impression of being obsessed. A discussion of any topic other than Soka Gakkai with Soka Gakkai people is a rarity. An outsider senses an indefinable uneasiness in their company, like being with people wearing blinders and, perhaps, even earplugs. The distinct feeling that, whether you are talking for or against Soka Gakkai, Tokyo's enervating humidity, or the improbable symmetry of Mount Fuji, you somehow are not getting through.

Among non-followers, general curiosity is mixed with vehement castigation, pro and con opinions, scholarly dissertations, university seminars, surveys and official government interest. Japan's press gives heavy coverage to Soka Gakkai vis-a'-vis politics, it's astronomical growth, its overt declarations and its unspoken, underlying aims. "Once total world propagation is completed," Soka Gakkai spokesmen say, "there will no longer be need for Soka Gakkai."

What, then, will become of the shepherds and the sheep... or the Hitler and the hordes?

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From a letter to the FBI some years ago.

Nicherin Sho-shu and Soka Gakkai. (Please bear with me in the first five paragraphs of history; beginning with the sixth paragraph are the current events of matter now.) They are a much more dangerous cult than some might know. Please find links at the bottom to very good web site pages about Nicherin Sho-shu/Nicherin Shu/Soka Gakkai. These have other sites about the same also linked therein (which see). The real history of this very dangerous cult is as follows – in the Kamakura era of Japan’s history, in the 13th century A.D., Nicherin, a proponent of his own brand of esoteric/exoteric Mahayana Buddhism formulated his own sect of Hokke (“Lotus” teaching) Buddhism; since that time called Nicherin Shu or Nicherin Sho-shu. It was based loosely on the (called Tien-Tai or in Japanese Tendai) school of the Chinese monk Chih-i. This and other related schools of Buddhism were brought from Chang’an, China by Dengyo Daishi (Saicho) and Kobo Daishi (Kukai) in the 9th Century A.D. During Nicherin’s life he preached to a group of Samurai families who at that time were Yakusa. The priests and others of these families formed the core of this cult. By the time of the 16th century A.D. they had been deep into the Imperial politics of Japan under the shogunates for three centuries. By the end of the 16th century/beginning of the 17th century they had convinced the Shoguns (especially Tokugawa Ieyasu in about 1601 A.D.) that Christians were to be exterminated. Ieyasu undertook the remainder of this with the “Japanese Proscription”. Christians had been in Japan since the Heian Dynasty and the Nara era (8th century A.D.) and even before that, 6th/7th century A.D. . (I have personally been in Nara and seen the dwellings of the Christians of that time). Part of the martyrdoms instigated by Nicherin’s followers are recounted in the following:

THE MARYRS OF JAPAN (From Fr. Alban Butler’s Lives of the Saints) ABOUT forty years after St. Francis Xavier's death a persecution broke out in Japan, and all Christian rites were forbidden under pain of death. A confraternity of martyrs was at once formed, the object of which was to die for Christ. Even the little children joined it. Peter; a Christian child six years old, was awakened early and told that he was to be beheaded, together with his father. Strong in grace, he expressed his joy at the news, dressed himself in his gayest clothing, and took the hand of the soldier who was to lead him to death. The headless trunk of his father first met his view; calmly kneeling down, he prayed beside the corpse, and, loosening his collar, prepared his neck for the stroke. Moved by this touching scene, the executioner threw down his sabre and fled. None but a brutal slave could be found for the murderous task; with unskilled and trembling hand he hacked the child to pieces, who at last died without uttering a single cry. Christians were branded with the cross, or all but buried alive, while the head and arms were slowly sawn oft with blunt weapons. The least shudder under their anguish was interpreted into apostasy. The obstinate were put to the most cruel deaths, but the survivors only envied them. Five noblemen were escorted to the stake by 40,000 Christians with flowers and lights, singing the litanies of Our Lady as they went. In the great martyrdom, at which thousands also assisted, the martyrs sent up a flood of melody from the fire, which only died away as one after another went to sing the new song in heaven. Later on, a more awful doom was invented. The victims were lowered into a sulphurous chasm, called the "mouth of hell," near which no bird or beast could live. The chief of these, Paul Wiborg, whose family had been already massacred for the faith, was thrice let down; thrice he cried, with a loud voice, "Eternal praise be to the ever-adorable Sacrament of the Altar." The third time he went to his reward.

After these martyrdoms recounted by Fr. Butler, about forty plus years later, under Ieyasu's Proscription, the Tokugawa shogunate martyred another thirty thousand plus Christians. The Nicherin Buddhists built the “Five Storied Pagoda” at their head temple Taisekiji to comemorate their successful murdering of Japan’s Christians and said that the pagoda symbolized that their Buddhism would conquer the West and destroy the Christian faith and all other religions and Japan would rule the world.

After this, the Proscription held until 1868, when Admiral Perry reopened Japan, and Christians were again allowed to preach and worship the true God there.

The last part of the 19th Century A.D., in Japan, saw the Meiji restoration, which albeit short lived, saw a revival of cultic pagan worship of the Emperor. The 1890’s were the Edo period and saw the building and ascension of modern day Tokyo. The shogunate warlords took over again in the 20th century and that saw the rise of anti-western Imperialism.

After World War II a hoodlum (amidst all the other post war cults that arose in Japan), named Jogei Toda (who later renamed himself Josei Toda) took over a Hokke Nicherin society that Tsunesaburo Makiguchi had formed in the 1930’s. This was the beginning of what became Nicherin Sho-shu Soka Gakkai. Later, after Daisaku Ikeda had taken over from Toda, it became the Soka Gakkai International. Masayasu Sadanaga brought this cult to the United States in the early 1960’s. Sadanaga changed his name to George M. Williams and his wife’s to Virginia and claimed he was the reincarnation of George Washington.

After numerous money grubbing and high pressure tactics and an ever changing pseudo-theology (including a book wherein Sadanaga-Williams claimed that Billy Sunday paved the way for him to proselytize the United States) the disaffected left in even greater numbers. In the early days in the U.S., a great number of the Americans that came to be members of this cult were married to Japanese women they met in Japan. The Americans were American service men and usually hard drinking amoral types. The Japanese women nagged their half sloshed husbands into joining.

Ikeda has a total megolamaniac mental composition. He believes that he sums up all of Buddhism and all Buddhas, including Nicherin (supposedly the Buddha of the later day) in his embodying the law of Buddhism. He also stated in the late 1980’s that Jesus Christ had failed in his mission to mankind and that now people needed to turn to him (Ikeda) for salvation. The result of his blaspheming the true God by his comments concerning Jesus Christ led to a result totally unforeseen by this pathetic little paper hanging would be tyrant. The High Priest of Nicherin Sho-shu together with the head temple, Taisekiji, for their own reasons, split with Ikeda (and thus the whole pseudo-theological base of the Soka Gakkai vanished), and now Ikeda is basically a has been cult leader with just enough danger left in him to do something nasty, if he can.

Here in the United States, in the past, Sadanaga-Williams’ people have threatened murder (here in southern California Dede Miller in the 1980’s was certainly murdered by them).

They have people under their mind control, including, it would seem by the comments he made, a retired United States Marine Corps Colonel who said that the Japanese should control the world.

In summation, they have one goal, that Sadanaga-Williams used to lecture on incessantly, to use their false religion to take over the whole world, especially politically, with everyone bowing in obedience to Daisaku Ikeda.

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Congressman's Vista office evacuated because of bomb scare - KSWB

Bogus bomb threat empties Congressman's Vista office

7:55 a.m. PST, December 2, 2011

VISTA, Calif. -- A bogus bomb threat targeting a congressman's North County office prompted authorities to evacuate the building and close the frontage road for about three hours Thursday while determining that the area was safe, authorities reported.

One of the lawmaker's staffers received the threat by telephone shortly after 1 p.m., according to Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista.

"During this call, a staff member was told that something had been left outside that would explode,'' Issa said in a statement. "My district office staff immediately contacted the San Diego County Sheriff's (Department) and was thereafter evacuated from the office along with other occupants of the building.''

Deputies found a plastic bottle containing some kind of liquid outside the complex in the 1800 block of Thibodo Road, sheriff's Lt. Jim Nolan said.

Authorities cleared everyone out of the area, shut down a stretch of the street and called in a bomb squad, which searched the buildings and surrounding grounds with a service dog.

About 4:30 p.m., the ordnance team determined that the bottle posed no threat, according to Nolan. Investigators thought the liquid inside it might have been urine, the lieutenant said.

It was unclear who made the threat and left the container outside the congressman's office. Prior to the bomb scare, the complex had been the site of a demonstration by "individuals associated withMoveOn.org and Occupy North County, as well as individuals participating in a counter-protest,'' according to Issa.

It was unclear, however, if any of those people might have been involved in the bomb threat.

FBI says Issa office target of alleged bomb plot

FBI says Issa office target of alleged bomb plot

MSNBC/December 13, 2001

The San Clemente office of Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, was among the targets of a bombing plot allegedly planned by two members of a militant Jewish organization as a "wake-up call" to Arabs, federal authorities said Wednesday. A Los Angeles mosque also was targeted.

Issa, a freshman lawmaker who is the grandson of a Lebanese immigrant, has traveled to the volatile Middle East region, both as a private citizen and a representative of Congress, to encourage the various factions to work for peace.

Issa said Wednesday that he was on his way to a committee meeting at the Capitol when he learned of the plot and the men's arrests. He said he was shocked by the news and could only speculate on the reasons why he was singled out.

"Your initial reaction is 'You've got to be kidding'," Issa said in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C., where some offices in the U.S. Capitol are still barricaded because of anthrax contamination. "Nothing should shock you anymore, but it still does."

FBI agents were alerted to the alleged plan by a government source who participated in several strategy meetings held by Jewish Defense League Chairman Irving David Rubin, 56, and JDL member Earl Leslie Krugel, 59.

The men were arrested Tuesday night after the last component of the bomb ---- explosive powder ---- was delivered to Krugel's home, authorities said. It was not immediately clear when the alleged plot began or what prompted it.

In one meeting, the men told the FBI source to gather information on Islamic institutions in San Diego for a possible attack, court papers state. Rubin and Krugel were arraigned in federal court Wednesday afternoon on two counts of possessing a destructive device with the intent to commit a crime of violence. Both men are being held without bail.

If convicted on both counts, each man faces up to 35 years in prison.

Issa said several safety measures have been taken to protect his San Clemente staff members, who were temporarily moved to his Vista office inside the courthouse where all visitors would be subject to a security screening by sheriff's deputies.

Staff members declined to comment on their reactions to the threat. Three people work full-time in the Vista office, two in San Clemente in Orange County and one in the Riverside County community of Temecula. Issa represents the 49th Congressional District.

Issa said his wife was with him in Washington, D.C., and his son has been alerted to take extra precautions. His chief of staff, Dale Neugebauer, said the Capitol police have been in touch with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department office in Vista about security for Issa's son.

In a statement released by the Anti-Defamation League, San Diego resident and regional director Morris Casuto said the league has been tracking the activities of the JDL for more than 25 years.

"For many years, the JDL has engaged in counterproductive tactics against those it perceives as a threat," the statement reads. "If the current allegations prove true, ADL abhors and condemns this potential terrorist plot to attack members of our community."

Originally formed by Meir Kahane to mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York, the JDL gained notoriety when its members were linked to bombings in the United States, most of them aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the way that country treated its Jews. [That is a dodge on the part of the Jews. It is emphatically and massively documented that the Soviet Union and Russia before and since then has been and is massively run by the Haburah, the Jews' Kahal - and see Kahal. The Jews Haburah has a long history of False Flag Black Operations wherein they create terrorism and blame it on someone else in order to manipulate governments. 911 is the biggest example of that recently.]

Kahane left the JDL in the 1980s. A power struggle ensued, with Rubin among the contenders for its leadership. Kahane was assassinated in New York in 1990. The JDL claims to have 13,000 members, but experts say it may have only a few dozen active members.

Issa, 46, serves on the House Committee on International Relations and supports Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. He made two trips to the Middle East following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to broker support for the war against terrorism and promote talks between Palestinians and Israelis.

"All agree this was an unusual act by a small band" of individuals, Issa said in Washington, flanked by several Jewish lawmakers. "Perhaps in another country, we would be adversaries," he said. "We're not going to be divided by ethnic backgrounds."

Tajuddin Shuaib, director of the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, which was also targeted, said no threats had been received by the mosque. He noted that the alleged plot came during the holy month of Ramadan, when as many as 1,000 people attend the mosque to pray.

"I can't understand why people would do such a thing," he said. "We are not against Jews. We are not against anybody. We are like any church or synagogue or temple."

Federal authorities said the original target was the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles, but that target was dropped during a meeting last weekend.

Rubin's attorney, Peter Morris, said his client had nothing to do with the explosives. "It seems to us that, given the timing ... the government's action is part of an overreaction to the Sept. 11 events," he said.

Rubin's wife, Shelley, said her husband and Krugel "are completely innocent of anything."

"They are law-abiding, good people," she said.

Rubin has made a career out of confrontation, challenging white supremacists to fistfights, or burning a Confederate flag outside a courthouse. By his own count he has been arrested more than 40 times. In 1980, he was tried and acquitted of soliciting the murders of Nazis in the United States.

Maher Hathout, a senior adviser for the Los Angeles chapter of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said the arrests sent an encouraging message to the Muslim community.

"We can easily develop an attitude that (federal authorities) are out to get us," he said. "But it seems they are out to get anyone who breaks the law."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Jewish Defense League (JDL) which is a terrorist organization

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Method

That motivation of money and power and use of violent crime to further their agenda of attack upon victims they then blame for what they did is of the method of:

Rabbi Meir Khane


Rabbi Meir Kahane (1932-1990) Founder of The Jewish Defense League (JDL) which is a terrorist organization and has continued after Kahane's death as a violent anti-Arab organ of Jewish Khazar racist nationalism which has commanded numerous terrorist attacks on United States soil and overseas. It has operated covert and subvert assaults and attacks of every kind upon Jews it deems are not violent enough in its estimation and Muslims and peace activists.


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A Tale Of Two Murders

A Special Report On The Fifth Anniversary Of 9/11
By J. R. de Szigethy

Within the space of one day in November, 1990, two of the most significant murders in New York City crime history occurred; the murders of Rabbi Meir Kahane and Eddie Lino. Kahane was an Orthodox religious leader, author and public speaker, Israeli politician, FBI Informant, close associate of Colombo Mafia Family Godfather Joe Colombo, and the founder of the militant Jewish Defense League. Lino was a heroin dealer who was a hitman in the 1985 murder of Paul Castellano that elevated John Gotti to Godfather of the Gambino Family. Both murders have one common link; that of NYPD Detective Stephen Caracappa, who played a key role in the investigation of the first murder, and was the triggerman in the second."

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Ex-JDL Member Gets 20 Years in Prison - Los Angeles Times

Ex-JDL Member Gets 20 Years in Prison

JUDGE ORDERS MAXIMUM PENALTY FOR EARL KRUGEL, WHO ADMITTED TO PLOT TO BOMB A CULVER CITY MOSQUE AND THE FIELD OFFICE OF REP. ISSA.

September 23, 2005|David Rosenzweig | Times Staff Writer

A former Jewish Defense League member who admitted plotting to bomb a Culver City mosque and the field office of Arab American Rep. Darrell E. Issa (R-Vista) was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in federal prison.

Earl Krugel, a 62-year-old dental technician from Reseda, apologized for his actions, telling the court they were "dangerous, wrong and illegal and for that I am sorry."

But U.S. District Judge Ronald S.W. Lew said he did not believe Krugel's claim that he was a changed man. Lew assailed him for "promoting hatred in the most vile way" and sentenced him to the maximum provided under federal guidelines.

Krugel was charged in the plot in 2001 along with JDL leader Irv Rubin, 57, who later committed suicide while in custody.

Before Krugel's sentencing, lawyers for both sides argued over whether the defendant had lived up to the terms of a plea agreement in which he promised to cooperate with federal officials in investigating the long-unsolved slaying of Arab American leader Alex Odeh. Odeh, western regional director of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, was killed in 1985 by a bomb that was triggered to explode when he opened the door to his Santa Ana office.

Over the years, the FBI has investigated several onetime JDL members in connection with the slaying. No charges have ever been brought, and the JDL has denied involvement.

Defense attorney Jay Lichtman said Krugel had provided the FBI with the names of four persons mentioned by Rubin, the late JDL leader, as involved in the 1985 killing. The names were not revealed in court; however, one source close to the probe confirmed that three of them were former JDL members Keith Fuchs, Andy Green and Robert Manning. The trio had been publicly identified as possible suspects as early as 1988.

Fuchs and Green are believed to be living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Manning is serving a life prison term in California for sending a letter bomb that killed a Los Angeles secretary in 1980. The bombing was contracted by a fellow JDL member who had a business dispute with the owner of a firm where the secretary worked.

Lichtman acknowledged that Krugel had stalled for five months before revealing the names, three of which, he said, were already known to the FBI.

Assistant U.S. Atty. Gregory Jessner declined to comment on Lichtman's disclosure, saying it involved matters under investigation. Mary Hogan, the FBI agent in charge of the Odeh case, attended Thursday's hearing and also declined to comment.

Reached at his business in Orange County, Odeh's brother, Sami, said he remains "hopeful that whoever committed the crime will eventually pay for it."

Krugel and Rubin were arrested by FBI agents Dec. 11, 2001, as they were mapping plans to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City and Issa's field office in San Diego County.

After Rubin's death, Krugel negotiated a deal with prosecutors in which he pleaded guilty to conspiring to bomb Issa's office, an offense that carried a mandatory 10-year prison term, and violating the civil rights of worshipers at the King Fahd Mosque, punishable by up to 10 years.

In his plea agreement, Krugel acknowledged that Rubin selected the targets to be bombed while he supervised a young JDL member, Danny Gillis, who was to plant the explosives. Gillis, however, tipped off the FBI and wore a concealed tape recorder during numerous meetings with the two senior JDL members.

Although explosive powder and pipes were seized from Krugel's home, Lichtman said Thursday that the plotters were a long way from planting any bombs.

Moreover, he said, the tape recordings show that Rubin and Krugel contemplated setting off the bombs in the dead of night "because they didn't want to hurt any innocent people."

Jessner called that argument absurd, saying the conspirators could have caused many deaths and serious injuries. The judge agreed.

Lew also heard Thursday from Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who urged the judge to treat Krugel "like any other terrorist" and give him the maximum punishment possible.

At one point, the JDL plotters had considered planting an explosive device outside the council's Los Angeles office. According to court documents, Rubin vetoed the idea because it might cause collateral damage to other offices in the building.

Al-Marayati said the Muslim community has been living under a lingering threat because of Krugel's actions and because Odeh's killers remain at large.

The Muslim leader said the bombing plot has had one unintended consequence: It has brought the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities together in their opposition to all forms of racial, religious and ethnic hatred.

In Washington, Issa issued a statement thanking the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office for foiling the plot and bringing Krugel to justice.


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