Voices of Innocence

The United States and Britain continue to claim innocence of having gone to war in Iraq uder false pretences of having evidence that the targeted country had WMD -- oh, many of you might have forgotten, WMD is "weapons of mass destruction".

Oh, the Mat Rempit claim they are law-abiding citizens who just wanna have fun, riding their killer bikes at beyond speed limits in large convoys that would endanger other road users. And UMNO Putra lend legitimacy to their claims by saying they could be moulded into Mat Cemerlang by becoming the "eyes and ears" for the Government. Eyes and ears for what, Desi cannot understand. Can you? Until the rival gangs of MR turn nasty among themselves ...and Death visits. Ad nauseum ... or Till infinity? BUT UMPNO Putra claims innocence.

And now, drum roll! ~~

From The Star, page 1, Oct 10, 2006:

AP Controversy
'I'm the senator and
I'm innocent'

Datuk Muhammad Abdul Ghani from
Kelantan has come forward to declare that he
was the senator implicated by two
newspapers as being involved in a cloned
Approved Permit scam. However, he ha
denied the accusation, saying he stopped
managing his car import company six
years ago. He claims the
company is now being managed by his son.

Dear ER: Don't be kedekut-lah,
claiming you're hard hit by inflation.
Spend RM1.20 and then Turn to Full report
in Page 3. The Star-lah, not the freebie,
you claimed victims of The Government's
purportedly very low CPI of just 4%.

Desi claims he's jest an innocent bearer
of bad nu'es. If you need to shoot me,
please use watery bullets -- yes, I need
Amore air,if I ain't gonna get
Au, Ag or Platinum kad. MyKad don't get me
Cash from ATM, I dunno why.


Now, finally Trumpet blast. Or iszit another
kindA blast? Wella, whatever, I'm not involved ~~

From the frontpage, which paper you asked, who do I ask?

Nuclear shockwave

NORTH KOREA annunced its first nuclear bomb test yesterday, defying
efforst to stop the secretive regime from joining the world's nuclear
poers and triggering global outrage and calls for tough UN action.

October 10, 2006
North Korea nuclear test condemned, U.N. ponders action

SEOUL (Reuters) - World powers condemned North Korea on Monday after it said it had conducted an underground nuclear test and Washington sought harsh U.N. sanctions that could further impoverish and isolate the communist state.

China, Pyongyang's strongest political and economic backer, denounced the test by its neighbor as "brazen," and urged it to avoid action that could worsen the situation.


South Korean protesters burn anti-North Korean banners at a rally in Seoul October 9, 2006 denouncing North Korea's reported nuclear test.

Russian President Vladimir Putin also condemned the test.

U.S. President George W. Bush called it a "provocative act" that threatened international peace and security and required an immediate response from the U.N. Security Council.

Monday's announcement by Pyongyang sharply escalated world concerns over North Korea's nuclear program and was a slap in the face for major regional and world powers engaged in six-party talks intended to prevent just such a test.

It delivered a sharp blow to Chinese President Hu Jintao's doctrine of using economic incentives and diplomatic coaxing to avert North Korea's drive to become a nuclear weapons state. Only seven states have acknowledged having nuclear weapons.

The Security Council discussed a U.S. proposal for tough measures including international inspections of cargo going in and out of North Korea to check for weapons of mass destruction and related materials, diplomats said. Other proposals included a total arms embargo and a freeze on assets associated with Pyongyang's weapons of mass destruction.

"We're going to take all actions we can, working with our partners, to make it very difficult for North Koreans to get the equipment, get the technology and to get the funding ... to market these weapons around the world," Christopher Hill, the U.S. State Department's point man on North Korea, told CNN.

Britain and France said they would support sanctions.

"The discussion will be on sanctions," said France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de la Sabliere. American officials were hoping that even countries that have been cool to sanctions like China and Russia would now be supportive.

SANCTIONS IN WORKS

U.N. diplomats said a tough sanctions regime could be in place by the end of this week. "Our aim will be to try and adopt this as quickly as possible, perhaps this week," said Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry.

Israel worried that Iran, already the focus of multinational efforts to curtail its nuclear program, might be emboldened to follow North Korea's lead.

"Now that North Korea has proven nuclear capabilities, it is liable to collaborate with Iran and accelerate the Iranian nuclear program," Israel's ambassador to the United States Danny Ayalon told Israeli army radio.

Financial market reaction was muted with oil rising slightly in New York to $59.96 a barrel despite the test and an OPEC plan to cut production. The dollar strengthened to an eight-month high against the yen and stocks rose.

Bush said North Korea had been a leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria, and warned Pyongyang against such activity.

"The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States and we would hold North Korea fully accountable for consequences of such action," he said.

A U.S. military intelligence official, who declined to be named, said North Korea's possible possession of nuclear technology also raised troubling questions about its possible proliferation to extremist groups such as al Qaeda.

Bush said he spoke by phone to leaders of China, South Korea, Japan and Russia -- the other parties involved in long-stalled negotiations with North Korea -- and all agreed the test was unacceptable.

China's Hu, feted as a friend when he visited North Korea last year, said Beijing believed there was still room for negotiations to end Pyongyang's nuclear weapons ambitions, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.

SMALL NUKE, OR SOMETHING ELSE?

Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said there was no leak or danger from its test.

"It marks a historic event as it greatly encouraged and pleased the KPA (Korean People's Army) and people that have wished to have powerful self-reliant defense capability."

A U.S. official said it could take several days for intelligence analysts to determine whether the event was the result of an unsuccessful nuclear test, a small nuclear device or a non-nuclear explosion.

"In terms of yield, we have it registering at less than four on the Richter scale. That's the kind of thing that could be the result of several hundred tons of TNT, rather than a nuclear test," the official said.

Australia's Seismology Research Center put the blast at about one kiloton, the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT.

John Pike, an independent U.S. intelligence expert, said the small yield could mean Pyongyang tested only the primary segment of a two-stage bomb. In such a device, a small primary implosion of perhaps a kiloton would emit a stream of X-rays to trigger a secondary fusion implosion.

"They basically need to see if they have correctly understood how to get the X-rays from the primary to the secondary. A full yield test of the secondary would not be necessary," said Pike.

The U.S. Air Force dropped a 12.5-kiloton bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945.

Analysts say North Korea probably has enough fissile material to make six to eight bombs but probably lacks the technology to devise one small enough to mount on a missile.


DESIDERATA: The various Countries and Players (highlighted in the Reuters report BOLDED THUS by Desi) must serach their own conscience, and ask of themselves: Are they really sincere in wanting peace, OR iszit a case of:
They see the speck of bullet dust in their neighbour's eye,
but not the cannon ball, or rocket, in their own eyes.

I plead guilty to plagiarising the above quote,
(IS THE ORI FROM THE bible?) but adapted, Okay!
At least I worked my brain cells a li'l!





Well, now NORTH KOREA claims innocence it's a threat to world peace because