ESSAY
"Terror Alert is a Well-Planned Distraction"
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Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"On February 7th
2003 the current presidential administration decided to raise the terror alert
level from yellow (“elevated”) to orange (“high”). The official reasons given
were information from Al Qaeda operatives held at camp X-ray, confessions from
Shadi Abdullah and Mounir el-Motassadeq, suspected Al Qaeda operatives arrested
in Germany, and an increase in intercepted telephone conversations, email
messages and other intelligence regarding a terror attack....
...However the millions of people protesting in London, Madrid, Berlin,
Rome, New York, Sydney, and Melbourne are sidelined from the American public, as
is the embarrassing pro-war presentation of Colin Powell to the UN Security
Council by the heightened terror alert. It is no coincidence that the fear
created by the increased terror alert comes at a time when this administration
is under such scrutiny by its own public and the international community."