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susu369 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 07:32 PM
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Hey, Perle, we want to see that letter you have
Charity Event May Have Terrorist Link
Pentagon Adviser Who Spoke at Function Thought Money Was for Quake Victims

"Pentagon adviser Richard N. Perle, a strong advocate of war against Iraq, spoke last weekend at a charity event that U.S. officials say may have had ties to an alleged terrorist group seeking to topple the Iranian government and backed by Saddam Hussein.

The event, attended by more than 3,000 people Saturday at the Washington Convention Center, generated enough concerns within the administration that officials debated whether they had the legal authority to block the event, U.S. officials said yesterday. FBI agents attended it and, as part of a continuing investigation, the Treasury Department on Monday froze the assets of the event's prime organizer, the Iranian-American Community of Northern Virginia.

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"All of the proceeds will go to the Red Cross," Perle said. Informed that the Red Cross had announced before the event it would refuse any monies because of the event's "political nature," Perle said: "I was unaware of that." Perle declined to say how much he received.

--snip--

Perle, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, said he was contacted by the Premiere Speakers Bureau in mid-January about giving the keynote speech. He asked for more information about the sponsoring organizations and received a letter saying aid would be coordinated though the Red Cross and describing the event as "solidarity with earthquake victims in Iran and an evening for Iranian Resistance." "

Ri-i-i-ght....and how much money did you make?

Full story:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58296-2004Jan28.html?nav=hptoc_n
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 07:37 PM
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1. The very creepy Richard N. Perle at work..
and crook-ed ...
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GreyV Donating Member (151 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 08:38 PM
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2. Perle...
True definition of a neoconservative. Guys like him were writing foreign policy for Israel in 1960s, and still are. Now they are doing the same for US. Look where it's gotten Israel since then.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 09:49 PM
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5. Heck Perle is still writing Israeli policy
The following document is the Israeli version of the PNAC strategy for America.

http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm


A Clean Break:
A New Strategy for Securing the Realm

Following is a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." The main substantive ideas in this paper emerge from a discussion in which prominent opinion makers, including Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser participated. The report, entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," is the framework for a series of follow-up reports on strategy.




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susu369 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 08:38 PM
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3. Shameless kick
mention of story was on Paula Zahn (not much)- still interesting to see there was a small spotlight on Perle's questionable activities.



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whatelseisnew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 09:37 PM
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4. First Norquist, now Perle, PNACers funding terra...
which they just happen to have a plan to deal with
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