||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||| ||| ||| A N T I F A ||| ||| ||| ||| I N F O - B U L L E T I N ||| ||| _____ ||| ||| ||| ||| * News * Analysis * Research * Action * ||| ||| ||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ***** ||/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\|/\||/\|| || * - SUPPLEMENT - * -- June 28, 1996 -- * - SUPPLEMENT - * || ||\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/|\/||\/|| CONTENTS: Supplement 55 _____ 1. (ALERT) Quebec Cops Raid Anarchist Milieu 2. (DEMAN.) DEMANARCHIE: Editorial On Quebec Riots 3. (A2 OAK) ANN ARBOR ORGANIZING AGAINST THE KLAN: Police Brutalize Antiracists - Defend The Ann Arbor 8! 4. (BA) BLACK AUTONOMY: Urgent Appeal For Funds! 5. (MXGM) MALCOLM X GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT: Free Sundiata Acoli Now! Benefit 6. (DHKC) REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT: German Police Attack Turkish/Kurdish Hungerstrikers 7. (REUTER) Turkish Kurd Party Members Killed After Congress 8. (REUTER) Le Pen Fights French Fine For Gas Chamber Remark 9. (AP) Former Nazi's Citizenship Revoked By Default 10. (AP) NAACP, Pentagon Differ On Extremism In Military 11. (NYT) CIA Plans To Counter `Cyberwar' Threat 12. (AFA) Anti-Fascist Action Strikes As C-18 And Loyalists March In London ----- Subject: URGENT: Quebec Cops Raid Anarchist Milieu Date: 27 Jun 1996 16:36:34 GMT {Editor's Note: The post below was received from a Montreal- based activist.} ----- QUEBEC COPS RAID ANARCHIST MILIEU The past few days have witnessed dramatic repression of Quebec anarchists, following a mass riot in Quebec City on June 24th, St-Jean Baptiste Day (this is a very popular Quebec holiday, and has often been a good excuse to riot in the past). Thousands of people smashed windows and expropriated goods during the riot, as well as trashing the National Assembly (the place where the government meets), breaking its windows and trying to set it afire. Initially the Quebec police chief claimed that the riot had been instigated by an unnamed "extreme right wing" group. However, a State-controlled "anti-fascist" watchdog group, the "World Anti-Fascist League" was quick to set them right. WAL leader Alain Dufour, publicly fingered anarchists in general, and the newspaper Demanarchie in particular, as having instigated the riot. Following Dufour's "revelations" a comrade was arrested for selling Demanarchie at Place Youville, the popular youth hangout where the riot had started. The comrade's house was subsequently raided and his computer seized, and then twenty police raided the Food Not Bombs in Quebec city (FNB is an anti-authoritarian anti-poverty group). A total of four people were arrested, three of whom were charged with growing pot. The comrade who had been arrested for selling the paper has been released but is under surveillance, and the FNB comrades will be appearing in court tomorrow. That evening the chief investigator for the Quebec police revealed that several dozen copies of Demanarchie had been found at one of the raided houses, and held up a copy for reporters to oogle, as if this was proof of anything. The situation has not stabilized yet, and the government is promising a through investigation, which means added heat and surveillance on the radical left in Quebec. It is important that comrades across Canada and the United States, and indeed around the world, pay attention to what is happening to us. We'll try and keep you posted as things progress. In the meantime, it should be taken for granted that money will be needed to defend our comrades, but as of yet I can't give any address for it to be sent. What people can do is telephone the Victoriaville Police Department and demand that the Quebec City police lay off of the radical Left and cease engaging in all of this post-riot repression. The phone number is: 819-752-4545. In closing, today the Montreal Section of Demanarchie released the following statement to the bourgeois media: WHY YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD NOTHING OF THE ST-JEAN RIOT The Demanarchie collective rejects all claims of authorship and ownership of the St-Jean riot at Quebec City. Bear unto Caesar that which is Caesar's: the riot belongs only to those who participated in it. As we explained quite clearly in our editorial, the one that you find so controversial: "The Riot is a spontaneous phenomenon." This is to say that the accusations of a conspiracy and premeditation are nothing but lies meant to criminalize us on the basis of our political beliefs. The hunt for scapegoats is an attempt to disguise the authorities' responsibility for the ever-worstening social climate which is making more and more young people feel like they have less and less to lose. If you really want to find those responsible for the damage done on the St-Jean, go check out the cops and the mass media. Policies of zero tolerance and sensationalistic blather provoke the excitement and the violence of crowds. You can gag the anarchists, but you won't be able to silence the cries of the excluded. ***** Subject: Demanarchie Editorial on Riots Date: 27 Jun 1996 20:25:03 GMT ----- {Correspondent's note, followed by Demanarchie editorial-- AFIB.} Since the Quebec City police's crackdown on the anarchist milieu, all of the bourgeois newspapers have been having fun with Alain Dufour of the World Anti-Fascist League's "revelations" about violent anarchists. The prime target of Dufour's poison is Demanarchie, a radical anarchist newspaper. Some newspapers have gone particularly gaga over the editorial of the most recent issue. For your own erudition, here is that editorial: Editorial to Demanarchie vol.2 #4 What with the recent events in Quebec City and Montreal (1), we here at Demanarchie feel compelled to take a stand on the question of Riots as a means for social revolt. As an alternative newspaper, we have every intention of sounding a different note than the bourgeois media, which just couldn't wait to "expose" young people as the sole, eternal force behind all riots, while obscuring the true nature of things in order to better protect the status quo. For our part, Demanarchie unconditionally supports the riots of Place Youville and Saint Laurence Boulevard. Certain essential preconditions must be met before a Riot can break out. You've got to have a bunch of people, and there must be an atmosphere of tension, one where you can feel the pressure building. This tension can be positive, as was the case with the fans who rioted after the Stanley Cup victories in 1986 and 1993. Or it can be negative, resulting, to give one example, from police harassment. Such was the case during the recent riots on Saint Laurence Boulevard and at Place Youville. But the true catalyst is people's sudden realization of the power that freedom has to offer. During every riot there comes a moment when people realize that the State's repressive machinery is temporarily powerless in the face of their rage. For example, a Riot will often break out once someone smashes a window or a cop and avoids arrest. This freedom, this power which can be expressed thanks to the momentary balance of power in the favour of the rioters, allows them to take revenge on everything that has always oppressed them. And this means all of those unaffordable commodities - perfect symbols of the capitalist system. This is why people smash windows and expropriate goods in a joyous proletarian shopping spree. The rioters are also bound to attack the cops, who represent both authority and repression, who protect all of these commodities, and who are often the ones who provoked the Riot in the first place. Commodities are the means through which human beings are exploited. Everything's for sale and everything can be bought, including human relations. It's thanks to commodity relations that those with money can oppress us. To attack commodities is to attack the very source of our exploitation as well as those who have money. In this way the Riot is class warfare between those who own and those who are owned. Such acts, whether politicized or not, take place as soon as the State loses control and people instinctively take action. It is unfortunate that a group of young people in Montreal apologized for these acts, as we have yet to hear a murmur of disapproval for the police harassment which started it all. The media, for one, only shed their hypocritical tears for the shopkeepers whose windows were smashed. The Riot is a spontaneous phenomenon. While hooligans or professional vandals may take part, they do so after the fun has already begun (such as in the Stanley Cup riots). The Riot is a response to all of the different instruments of social control which leave us powerless to express our desire to truly be alive: school, work and the media... These instruments fuel our rage, and it is from this rage that the Riot is born. Fuck rules. Fuck harassment. Fuck control. The spectre of a counter-attack against those who wage war on the poor haunts capitalist society. This is why capitalism is trying to up its control of all human relations. They want to know all about us; witness the proliferation of databanks, community police stations, etc. Witness the sinister cooperation between the media, businessmen and cops, not to mention the community collaborator groups like Sun Youth(2). This is how the ruling class seeks to maintain control. The State will reap what it sows. And this long-suppressed freedom to fight the State will certainly express itself by means of the Riot. Support Class Warfare! Support the Riots! We will rebel! We'll fuck shit up! -- the Demanarchie Collective (1) There riots in both Quebec City and Montreal earlier this summer as people responded militantly to police harassment. (2) Sun Youth is a Montreal food bank which organizes community patrols in close cooperation with the police. ----- * D E M A N A R C H I E * C.P. 32100 Montreal, Quebec H2L 4Y5 CANADA ***** Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 07:09:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Arm The Spirit Subject: A2 OAK Statement ----- POLICE BRUTALIZE ANTIRACISTS - DEFEND THE ANN ARBOR 8! Below is the text of a flyer so far endorsed by a number of groups protesting the large-scale display of police brutality at the anti-KKK rally in Ann Arbor on June 22. To help build the defense of those arrested and to support anti-Klan organizing for Saginaw on July 6, here's how you can get involved: 1. Attend the Ann Arbor Organizing Against the Klan meeting on Wed. June 26 at 7pm in B-119 MLB 2. Come to the picket and packing of the court at 8:30am Wed. July 3 at the County Courthouse, Main & Huron. If your group is interested in endorsing the four demands listed in the text of the flyer, email me back. Thanks. - Paul Lefrak, plefr@umich.edu ----- DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE! POLICE RIOT AT ANTI-KKK RALLY JUNE 22! Although mainstream media reports would have people believe that a lawless mob attacked an innocent police force "just doing its job" at the June 22 anti-KKK rally in Ann Arbor, this is far from the truth. In reality, there were numerous incidents of unprovoked police brutality against anti-racist counter-demonstrators there. Protesters who did nothing illegal were randomly maced, beaten and gassed. Several of the eight people arrested were beaten and maced while they were already handcuffed and in police custody and were offering absolutely no resistance at that time. One passerby who did not even participate in the counter-demonstration was maced apparently for questioning a police officer. Police maced a man holding a baby. A puppy belonging to a counter-demonstrator was repeatedly and deliberately kicked and maced. A woman organizer was maced after the rally was over as she was walking to her car; the police stopped their car, rolled down the window and sprayed mace in her face. The police did everything possible to ensure the Klan had a successful recruitment rally. All told, 200 cops from several different police departments were deployed to protect the KKK, a group whose history of murder and racist terror are well-known. This deployment consisted of tens of thousands of tax dollars spent on erecting fences around City Hall, blocking and re-routing traffic, paying for overtime for the police, providing transportation for the KKK to and from the rally site, and allowing the KKK access to the second floor terrace of City Hall as a staging area for their rally. Apparently, one has to advocate genocide in order to be afforded these amenities! In a telling display of racism, of the eight people arrested, only the two Black arrestees had to post bond! Based on these and many other incidents of widespread police brutality, we demand the following: 1. Drop all charges against the people arrested. 2. In the future the City of Ann Arbor will not provide preferential police protection for the Ku Klux Klan, Nazis or other fascist groups. 3. An independent investigation of overall police conduct and tactics on June 22 with the power to implement its proposals. 4. The immediate, unpaid suspension of those police officers involved in brutalizing the counter-demonstrators and passersby. Drop The Charges Against Those Arrested! Picket And Pack The Pre-Trial! WED. JULY 3rd 8:30am WASHTENAW COUNTY COURTHOUSE (Main & Huron, Ann Arbor) Supported by the following organizations (as of 6/25/96): Minority Affairs Commission of the Michigan Student Assembly, Free Mumia Coalition, Industrial Workers of the World, Workers World Party, Trotskyist League, Malcolm Marts, President UAW Local 1976*, Judy Wraight, member Executive Board, Tool & Die Unit UAW Local 600*, La Onda Latina, Culturas De Las Razas Unidas, Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano De Aztlan de MSU (MEcha), Brown Berets, Lansing Chapter. *Organization used for identification purposes only. Labor donated. For more info, call 313-913-9538. ***** Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 21:00:06 -0700 From: bd982@scn.org (Greg Jackson) Subject: Urgent Appeal for Funds ----- Well, it's all said in the heading. Basically, the new issue of Black Autonomy is out but postage is severly lacking. In addition, the number of prisoner subs has jumped (along with the number we are helping with litigation in our partnership with Raze the Walls). I know you all are sick of hearing the above-mentioned sad refrain, but I thought I'd ask. Gotta go, library's closing... G. jackson. ----- * B L A C K A U T O N O M Y * 323 Broadway Ave. E #914 Seattle, WA 98102 USA 206-680-8916 (voice mail) ***** ** Topic: *FREE SUNDIATA ACOLI NOW! ** ** Written 12:14 AM Jun 23, 1996 by nattyreb@ix.netcom.com in cdp:misc.activism. ** ----- free the land sistas and brothas, i just wanted to let yall folks know about an upcoming program/poetry reading for Prisoner of War, Sundiata Acoli. ----- FREE SUNDIATA ACOLI NOW! Speakers: Chokwe Lumumba, Chairperson of the New Afrikan Peoples Organization (NAPO) Mujhah Shakir, Co-Founder of the New Afrikan Women for Self-Determination Kiilu Nyasha, Knowing Injustice Coalition Poetry Reading featuring Brotha Masauko, Sista Clark, Brotha Baye, Sista Ayanna, and Brotha Toussaint and an Open Mike!! ----- Date: Saturday, July 6th 1996 Time: 6:30 to 10:00 pm Place: El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Cultural Center 8021 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland CA Donation: $5 - $20 Sliding Scale All Proceeds Go to the Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign Event sponsored by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Sundiata Acoli Freedom Campaign, and the National Plebiscite Education Campaign for Self-Determination ----- For Further Information call 510-635-2516 ***** From: "DHKC informationbureau Amsterdam" Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 21:33:39 +0000 Subject: Solidarity with the Hundred from Cologne! ----- {Editor's Note: The text below is a compilation of 2 communiques from the DHKC informationbureau.} GERMAN POLICE ATTACK TURKISH/KURDISH HUNGERSTRIKERS After our last message on the sixty arrests in Cologne, Germany of people who were on hungerstrike for nineteen day in solidarity with the hungerstrike of political prisoners in Turkey, another fourty arrests were made in Cologne! The following fax was sent to the following political parties in Germany: -Buendnis 90, Gruene central headquarters -In Cologne: SPD, Gruene Fraction, the Greens Call on all political parties in Cologne and Germany Today the police in Cologne brutally attacked and arrested more than a hundred Turkish and Kurdish activists who were in hungerstrike for 19 day's. We condemn this brutal action by the German state. The German state is the state in Europe that knows best of all countries the face of fascism. By supporting the Turkish state with it's fascist civil society on such a horrible way shows that Germany has not learned its lessons from the time, the Nazis ruled in Germany. We are informing the world about this brutal attack at a group of people who were doing nothing wrong. The eyes of the world will watch Germany in this case. The brutally harassed and arrested people were in a hungerstrike in solidarity with the hungerstrike of the political prisoners in Turkey. The demands in Turkey as well in the numerous solidarity hungerstrikes in Europe are: * 1. The so called May 6 Decree must be withdrawn. * 2. All isolation prisons, like the one in Eskisehir, must be closed down. * 3. The prisoners must be allowed adequate medical treatment. * 4. The prisoners must have the opportunity to attend their own trials. * 5. The policy of systematic abuse must come to an end. * 6. The repression against relatives and lawyers must be stopped. In Cologne, Germany, the German state acted like a watchdog from the fascist Turkish state. Many people were wounded. One person was wounded so heavily that he had to be transported to the hospital by ambulance. Also two German lawyers, who protested the violent, unjustified behaviour against the weakened hungerstrikers were arrested as well. WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE MORE THAN HUNDRED ARRESTED TURKISH AND KURDISH ACTIVISTS! WE DEMAND THE RELEASE OF THE LAWYERS! THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH JAILS IN THE WHOLE WORLD TO STOP THE JUSTIFIED STRUGGLE FROM THE PEOPLES IN TURKEY! STOP THE GERMAN SUPPORT OF TURKISH FASCISM! FREEDOM FOR THE POLITICAL PRISONERS! ----- VOICE YOUR PROTEST! Protest faxes: Germany: Head of Police: # 49-221-22 98 922 Head of State: # 49-221-14 731 State Prosecuter: # 49-221-47 74 050 Turkey: Minister of Justice, M. Agar: # 90-312-417 39 54 Minister of Internal Affairs, U. Guney:# 90-312-418 17 95 ------------------------------------------ Visit HTTP://WWW.xs4all.nl/~ozgurluk For regular news and information about the classwar in Turkey and Kurdistan ***** _________________________________________________________________ TURKISH KURD PARTY MEMBERS KILLED AFTER CONGRESS _________________________________________________________________ ANKARA, June 24 (Reuter) - Unknown assailants on Monday shot dead three members of a Kurdish activist party in Turkey who were returning by car from a party congress that has enraged officials. A group of between eight and ten attackers firing automatic weapons ambushed the car with the People's Democracy Party (HADEP) members on a road near Kayseri, in central Turkey, local gendarmerie forces said. One other passenger was wounded, they said. ``HADEP membership cards were found on them. They were HADEP members,'' a gendarmerie commander told Reuters. HADEP leader Murat Bozlak and about 30 aides were detained in Ankara earlier by police following Sunday's congress during which masked youths tore down a large Turkish flag at the crowded congress. They replaced the flag with a banner of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebel group and a poster of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan. Hundreds of participants chanted pro-rebel slogans. ``(The shooting) is related to the congress. Certain people were trying to take revenge,'' HADEP Ankara provincial chairman Babur Pinar said. Anatolian news agency said the detained party offficials were being questioned on charges of ``separatism'' and ``insulting the Turkish flag.'' Caretaker Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz called for calm. ``I urge all our citizens to keep calm and cool-headed in the face of this ugly affair,'' Anatolian quoted him as saying. Twenty-two people were injured when police dispersed party members after the congress, HADEP officials said. Turkish television showed pictures of police beating participants protesting at the arrests. European Parliament Greens group leader Claudia Roth, in Turkey for an inter-parliament meeting with Turkish deputies, condemned the police. ``I have seldom so closely witnessed what brutality and violence can be used against basic human rights,'' she told journalists at HADEP headquarters. HADEP was formed in 1994 after another Kurdish party was forced to disband by the constitutional court for separatism and 13 of its deputies were thrown out of parliament. Six Kurdish MPs were later sentenced to up to 15 years in jail for links to the guerrillas. Two have since been released. More than 19,500 people have been killed in the rebels' 12-year-old fight for autonomy or independence in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Anatolian said 50 protesters and 10 police officers were injured in clashes in Ankara on Monday between police and supporters of the far-left Labour Party, facing a constitutional court ban for supporting Kurdish separatism. ***** _________________________________________________________________ LE PEN FIGHTS FRENCH FINE FOR GAS CHAMBER REMARK _________________________________________________________________ Paris, June 21 (Reuter) - Far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen said on Friday he wanted the European Court of Human Rights to punish France for fining him 1.2 million francs ($233,000) for dismissing the Nazi gas chambers as a ``detail of history.'' Le Pen, the firebrand leader of France's National Front, said he had asked the Strasbourg-based Euro-court to order France to pay him 1.5 million francs ($292,000). In a radio broadcast in 1987 that outraged France, Le Pen said: ``I'm not saying the gas chambers didn't exist. I did not see them myself. I have not studied the question, but I think it is a mere detail in the history of the Second World War.'' Le Pen was initially convicted in May 1990 of inciting racial hatred and fined a symbolic one franc (about 20 cents) after a court ruled that he had cast doubt on Nazi persecution suffered by the Jews and gypsies during World War Two. Le Pen challenged the judgment, but an appeals court in Versailles rejected his arguments and raised the fine. He was also ordered to publish the ruling in national newspapers and magazines. In his request to the European rights court, Le Pen argued that his words had been taken out of context and that the fine had violated his right to freedom of speech and to a fair trial. In his 1987 remark, the National Front said in a statement, Le Pen ``stated that he recognised the horror of the tragedy lived by Jews as well as non-Jews in the concentration camps, but he left it to historians to deal with the details of the Second World War as far as concentration camps were concerned.'' ***** http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/nation/062696/nation9_6097.html _________________________________________________________________ FORMER NAZI'S CITZENSHIP REVOKED BY DEFAULT, HE FLED U.S. TWO YEARS AGO _________________________________________________________________ Copyright © 1996 Nando.net Copyright © 1996 The Associated Press WASHINGTON (Jun 26, 1996 4:53 p.m. EDT) -- A man accused of collaborating in the killing of Jews during World War II has had his U.S. citzenship revoked -- more than two years after he moved back to his native Lithuania. The Department of Justice won a default judgment in U.S. District Court late Tuesday revoking the citizenship of Kazys Gimzauskas, 88, a retired machinist who once lived in St. Petersburg, Fla., said department spokesman John Russell. The department's Nazi-hunting Office of Special Investigations sought last October to remove Gimzauskas's citizenship. Calling it a "significant victory," OSI Director Eli Rosenbaum said, "Others who, like Kazys Gimzauskas, played a provable role in the Nazi regime's genocidal reign of terror should be on notice that the government remains steadfast in its commitment to tracing them, revoking their ill-gotten U.S. citizenships and removing them from these shores as expeditiously as possible." The department alleged that from 1941 through 1944, Gimzauskas was a senior official in two units of the Saugumas, the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian Security Police. The Saugumas played a major role in the annihilation of that nation's Jews. The government alleged that Gimzauskas served in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas in 1941 and was deputy province chief of the Saugumas in Vilnius from late 1941 until July 1944. In the latter job, he was second-in-command to Aleksandras Lileikis, now 89. A federal court in Boston ordered Lileikis denaturalized on May 24, and he returned to Lithuania last Wednesday. The next day, investigators for Lithuanian prosecutors interrogated Lileikis for two hours before adjourning until early July after doctors insisted he be hospitalized, the Baltic News Service reported, citing prosecutor Gintautas Starkus. Lileikis could face charges of crimes against humanity. Documents signed by Gimzauskas and found in the Lithuanian Central State Archives show that he ordered the arrest, interrogation, incarceration and turnover to the German Security Police for execution of civilians, including many Jews, at least one of whom was born in the United States, the Justice Department said. Gimzauskas "was in a position of considerable authority and was instrumental in the death of thousands of Jews," former OSI Director Neal Sher said recently. The Justice Department told the Lithuanian government last year that Gimzauskas had moved to Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, and supplied details of his wartime record so he could be prosecuted there. Gimzauskas entered the United States in 1956 under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. The government said the law would have barred him from this country for assisting in persecution on the basis of race, religion or national origin had his wartime activities been known. Since it began work in 1979, the Office of Special Investigations has caused the revocation of citizenship from 57 Nazi persecutors and gotten 48 removed from the United States. More than 300 people remain under investigation. ***** _________________________________________________________________ NAACP, PENTAGON DIFFER ON EXTREMISM IN MILITARY _________________________________________________________________ DONALD M. ROTHBERG Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon and the NAACP are offering widely varying assessments of how deeply extremist groups have penetrated the military. In testimony Tuesday before a House committee, the civilian heads of the military services said the problem was minimal, a view disputed by an official from the NAACP. ``It is clear that Fort Bragg has serious problems,'' said John J. Johnson of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. ``Anecdotal evidence suggests that the military's finding of only 22 skinheads out of 14,736 soldiers assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division is unbelievably optimistic.'' Army Secretary Togo West said a task force he created to study the problem concluded that ``extremist activity in the Army and touching the Army is minimal.'' Navy Secretary John Dalton said that ``the problem of extremist activity in the Navy and Marine Corps is a limited one.'' Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall said that ``we found no evidence of hate groups operating on any of our bases around the world.'' All said they are pursuing policies of ``zero tolerance'' toward active participation in hate groups. The hearing by the House National Security Committee was held to assess steps the services are taking to combat extremist activity in the wake of the April 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City and last December's killing of a black couple in Fayetteville, N.C., home of Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne Division. Two former soldiers with ties to militia groups were charged in the Oklahoma City bombing. Three soldiers at Fort Bragg were arrested and charged with killing the black couple. Two of the soldiers reportedly had ties to neo-Nazi skinheads. Among the questions the services are wrestling with is the distinction between active and passive participation. West said the Army has dropped that distinction in favor of basing its disciplinary policy on ``What did you do?'' Nonetheless, he said, membership in extremist organizations ``can be taken into consideration for promotion and can be taken into consideration for assignment purposes.'' (Copyright 1996 by The Associated Press.) {Editor's Note: Looks like the cover-up of neo-Nazi/militia activity in the military is proceeding as one might expect. For further background see: Todd Ensign, "A Real Threat to National Security: Racism in the Ranks," _Covert Action Quarterly_, Summer 1996, Number 57; posted to Antifa Info-Bulletin, "Research Supplement," June 14, 1996} ***** http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/0626spy.html _________________________________________________________________ CIA PLANS CENTER TO COUNTER `CYBERWAR' THREAT _________________________________________________________________ June 26, 1996 By TIM WEINER WASHINGTON -- Alarmed at the growing threat that computer hackers pose to national security, the director of central intelligence Tuesday announced plans to create a "cyberwar" center to protect the bits and bytes that weave the nation together. The United States cannot be brought to its knees by a madman with a modem. But the director, John Deutch, said the nation's intelligence agencies were alert to the threat of "very, very large" attacks on the computers that run Defense Department war rooms, power plants, telephone systems, air traffic control centers and international financial transfers. "The electron," Deutch warned, "is the ultimate precision-guided weapon." Deutch said he was seeking to create a cyberwar center at the National Security Agency, the giant electronic eavesdropping branch of American intelligence. He said the center could focus the government's previously scattershot efforts to understand and combat the threats posed by governments, terrorist groups and mischievous teen-agers. Deutch's first public statement about information warfare came in testimony before Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., who called a hearing of a Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee to discuss the little-understood, highly classified problem. "There are some who believe we are going to have to have an electronic Pearl Harbor, so to speak, before we really make this the kind of priority that many of us believe it deserves to be made," Nunn said. "Do you think we're going to need that kind of real awakening, or are we fully alerted to this danger now?" Deutch replied: "I think that we are fully alerted to it now. I don't know whether we will face an electronic Pearl Harbor, but we will have, I'm sure, some very unpleasant circumstances." He added, "I'm certainly prepared to predict some very, very large and uncomfortable incidents." Deutch said cyberwar could become a 21st-century national security threat second only to nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Potential attackers may already possess the sophisticated techniques they would need to bring off a cataclysmic crash, many experts believe, but they still lack the deep knowledge of their targets and direct access to the computer systems they would seek to disable. Military and civilian organizations are increasingly dependent on ever-more complicated and interlinked systems. They run the risk of understanding the threat less and less as it becomes more and more complex, Nunn and Deutch suggested. Nunn also said intelligence agencies have communications problems with banks, telecommunications companies and other business ventures vulnerable to cyber attacks. "There's a great reluctance by the private sector to discuss the threat that they've faced or even the attacks that have already occurred," he said, "because they fear that the word would go out they're vulnerable, and therefore could destroy or damage consumer confidence and thereby cost them business." "At some point," the senator added, "there's got to be communication here." Copyright 1996 The New York Times Company ***** Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 07:08:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Arm The Spirit Subject: AFA ----- ANTI-FASCIST ACTION STRIKES AS C-18 AND LOYALISTS MARCH IN LONDON Combat 18 and Loyalists combined forces again last month to stage marches in London and Bolton under the banner of the English Committee of the Amalgamated Apprentice Boys of Derry. On both occasions, Anti-Fascist Action mounted effective political and physical opposition. The London march, on April 27, attracted about 250 marchers, including Loyalist bands which came down from Scotland for the occasion. As on previous marches, C-18 were to provide the stewarding. In response to this open link between the Loyalists and the openly Nazi C-18, London AFA put together its first full stewards mobilisation for about a year. Despite heavy policing, the AFA stewards were able to enter the area where the march organisers were preparing. Once again, C-18 boasts of being able to control the streets of Central London were exploded as AFA hit a pub where a Loyalist band from Aberdeen had chosen to hole up. As AFA appeared around the corner, the Orangemen at first appeared unworried, evidently taking C-18 at their word and mistaking the AFA stewards for good national socialist comrades. A rude awakening was not long in coming. The marching band was sent into disarray as AFA hit, scattering them. Some managed to run into the pub, locking the doors behind them - which was not at all appreciated by those who were not so quick off the mark, and resulted it a row among the Loyalists after AFA pulled out. Those who did not make it into the pub were introduced to AFA's distinctive combination of political and physical confrontation. One of the injured Loyalists also got himself lifted for laying into a copper while being helped into an ambulance. The Orangemen have not been hit when marching in London before. AFA's actions were not the result of its views on Irish politics - it does not have any. Rather, it was a clear response to the decision by the Loyalists to use C-18 stewards. If you want Nazis to protect your march, you have to be prepared to pay the consequences when their inability to deliver is exposed. C-18, who were nowhere to be seen when AFA was introducing the Aberdeen bandsmen to the London pavement, did manage to hit a handful of ANL supporters near Chancery Lane, jumping out of vehicles in order to pile into a soft target in their usual brave manner. Things went even worse for C-18 and the Loyalists at the Bolton march. After AFA's intervention into the proceedings, the Loyalists and C-18 lost control of the streets, and the police decided to ban the march. (Source: Communist Action - Monthly Journal Of Communist Politics, Issue #11 - May 1996) ----- Anti-Fascist Action Press Release "A LEGITIMATE AND INVITING TARGET" The English Amalgamated Committee of the Apprentice Boys of Derry with Combat 18 security intend to march on Saturday, April 27, 1996, assembling at Lincoln's Inn Field at 1pm. Anti-Fascist Action is calling for a counter-demonstration to assemble at the same site for 12:30. The claim by loyalist organisers that Combat 18 are 'unwelcome' on the demonstration is a sham. C18 stewarded the same march last year. Political fraternisation between the two is long established. Throughout the eighties fascists and loyalists openly collaborated, violently opposing initiatives by the Irish community. AFA is a single-issue organisation. It has no policy on Ireland. It is the evidence of long-standing fraternisation between loyalists and fascists and the active participation of C18 in the event that makes it an inevitable, legitimate and inviting anti-fascist target. Anti-Fascist Action, April 20, 1996 ----- And from the mainstream press... (Irish Post, May 4, 1996) Anti-fascists clashed with loyalists in central London last weekend as the Apprentice Boys of Derry staged a march. Members of Glasgow's Pride of Goven Band were drinking in the White Hart pub, Theobolds Road, Holborn, when counter-demonstrators attacked, smashing the pub's windows and hospitalising four people. Anti-Fascist Action claimed responsibility for the attack. A bomb scare caused by a suspect vehicle delayed the march in setting off from Lincoln's Inn Field, and Pride of Goven band members required a police escort to the assembly point after being attacked. An estimated 100 counter-demonstrators were cordoned off in Holborn to prevent any further clashes. 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