seems like his expectations are unfortunately coming to pass.

Y2K People Finding People - http://www.webpal.org/list.htm

Everywhere-
words of peace,
and preparation for war.

Numerous reports that China is planning a blockade of Taiwan -
in October
and that Russia (Putin) has signed a treaty
committing Russian Navy to assist
if the US tries to intervene with the Seventh Fleet.

That Russia has moved 50,000 troops
to the border with Turkey.
Supposed reason (according to Stratfor)
is just an internal disagreement
between high level bureaucrats in Russia.
Highly unlikely.
No question Putin is in control.
Russia has also reportedly made a new treaty with Iraq.
Look now at the following.
Highly significant in view of that.

"The London Times reports:
"Iraqi infantry and mechanized army divisions are poised on the edge of
Kurdistan, awaiting President Saddam Hussein's order to strike in a blow
that would challenge America's pledge to protect the Kurds. The Iraqi
attack plan, entitled Operation Al-Khassas Al-Adel (Justice), is aimed at
capturing Suleimaniya, a large Kurdish city, and two dams that supply
water to central Iraq. The plan was disclosed by an Iraqi military
intelligence source who recently defected. He said it entailed three
divisions of infantry, accompanied by three armoured divisions, driving
north from three separate locations and sweeping towards Suleimaniya,
headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), headed by Jalal
Talabani. Tanks and armoured personnel carriers had been moved into place
south of Chamchamal, Kufri and Kallar. A total of 800 tanks and armoured
personnel carriers had joined the three divisions, each numbering 12,000
men, with Republican Guard divisions in reserve."

I do not have the original source for the above news article.
My source is:

http://pub5.ezboard.com/fyourdontimebomb2000.showMessage?topicID=7725.topic

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A reader sends me the following:

Crisis in Iran: Regime is split on

Hizbullah's future, rocked by

violent protests

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM

Monday, July 10, 2000

Mainstream Iranians join students against regime

NICOSIA -- The Iranian regime is split
over Hizbullah's role in southern
Lebanon, and the divide between supreme leader Ali Khamenei
and PresidentMohammed Khatami
was also spotlighted by violent demonstrations
on the streets of Teheran Saturday.

The clashes, which took place
outside the campus of Teheran University
when members of a vigilante force
organized by the regime
attacked pro-democrac demonstrators,
have been accompanied by renewed attacks by clerics
against the pro-reform administration
of President Mohammed Khatami.
The Khatami-Khamenei split was telegraphed
when both sides gave Hizbullah leaders
conflicting orders for the organization's future.

Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei
urged a visiting Hizbullah delegation
to resume attacks against Israel,
Middle East Newsline reported.
Arab diplomatic sources said
Khamenei pledged support
for the renewed Hizbullah campaign
and his aides proposed that the battle resume
after Lebanese parliamentary elections conclude
in September.

But Khatami urged Hizbullah
to lay down its arms
and become a political movement in Lebanon.
The London-based A-Sharq Al Awsat reported on Friday
that Khatami said Hizbullah ended its military role
when Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon on May 24.

Khatami was quoted as telling
Hizbullah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah
that the organization no longer has a reason to fight Israel
and a renewed campaign would only harm Lebanon.
The president said Hizbullah must change its priorities.

At issue, Arab diplomatic sources said,
is Iran's role in Lebanon.
Khatami, the sources said,
has pledged to international figures
such as United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan
that Teheran will not block efforts to restore
order along the Israeli-Lebanese border.

On Friday, UN envoy Terje Larsen held talks
in Beirut with Lebanese leaders.
Israeli officials have complained to the UN
that Beirut has violated Security Council resolution 425
in refusing to impose order in southern Lebanon.
The result, officials said,
is that Hizbullah has organized Lebanese to throw stones
at Israelis along the border
and cut the fence separating the two countries.

In Teheran,
vigilantes kicked demonstrators in the face during a demonstration
called to mark the anniversary of
the July 9, 1999, raid on a Teheran University dormitory.
Police tried to separate the two sides.
At one point, police opened fire.

The students rampaged through Teheran,
smashing windows,
burning pro-Islamic newspapers
and chanting slogans against the regime.

"Death to the clerical government," the students chanted.
"Death to dictators."

At least a dozen students were hurt in the clash,
a year after six days of student protests throughout the country.
Officials also reported that students were arrested.

A pro-reform group, the Office for Fostering Unity,
said the student violence was not authorized.
"The demonstrators were not students,''
the group said in a statement.
''They had nothing to do with this incident."

Iranian President Mohammed Khatami
warned against a crackdown against freedom of expression.
"To be strong does not mean
that if the people don't follow the establishment
they should be suppressed by the use of force," Khatami said.
"Public dissatisfaction will eventually lead to explosion."
Earlier, Khatami told
Hizbullah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah
that Israel plans to use any renewed Shi'ite campaign
to wage harsh strikes insides Lebanon.
The Iranian president said such a prospect
has raised concern in Beirut and around Lebanon.

"Khatami warned
the Hizbullah resistance movement against the enemies'
efforts to sow the seeds of discord among the Lebanese
and stressed the need for the Hizbullah leaders
to try to remove the existing concerns and fears
in Lebanon
and spoil the enemies' conspiracies,"
the official Islamic Republic News Agency said
in a report on Saturday's meeting.

Monday, July 10, 2000
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Yes, the above scenario
is the exact one that I have been predicting for weeks
and giving you details about the philosophy and personality
of the Iranian president versus the members of the Council of Guardians.
I have sought to show that the Iranian President
is a die-hard, dyed in the wool,
dogmatic Moslem Fundamentalist,
with zip love for Israel,
but even that is relative to the attitudes
of at least some members
of the Council of Guardians.
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Extremists everywhere.
Each with their own agenda.
But some, like Hamas, and the President of North Korea,
this week have suddenly started talking peace,
whereas they have never even intimated it before.
Let us hope they are sincere.

At the same time this week,
extensive preparations are being made for war
between Palestine and Israel.
ON BOTH SIDES.
People are receiving flyers
urging them to stock food and water.

This list just goes on and on around the world.
Such intense activity that I could list a dozen things more.
Whereas before,
I had to search fo