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Washington - The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered.

Several US officials defended the abrupt decision, saying the methodology the National Counterterrorism Center used to generate statistics for the report may have been faulty, such as the inclusion of incidents that may not have been terrorism.

Last year, the number of incidents in 2003 was undercounted, forcing a revision of the report, "Patterns of Global Terrorism."

But other current and former officials charged that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's office ordered "Patterns of Global Terrorism" eliminated several weeks ago because the 2004 statistics raised disturbing questions about the Bush's administration's frequent claims of progress in the war against terrorism.

"Instead of dealing with the facts and dealing with them in an intelligent fashion, they try to hide their facts from the American public," charged Larry C. Johnson, a former CIA analyst and State Department terrorism expert who first disclosed the decision to eliminate the report in The Counterterrorism Blog, an online journal.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who was among the leading critics of last year's mix-up, reacted angrily to the decision.

"This is the definitive report on the incidence of terrorism around the world. It should be unthinkable that there would be an effort to withhold it - or any of the key data - from the public. The Bush administration should stop playing politics with this critical report."

A senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, confirmed that the publication was being eliminated, but said the allegation that it was being done for political reasons was "categorically untrue."

According to Johnson and US intelligence officials familiar with the issue, statistics that the National Counterterrorism Center provided to the State Department reported 625 "significant" terrorist attacks in 2004.

That compared with 175 such incidents in 2003, the highest number in two decades.

The statistics didn't include attacks on American troops in Iraq, which President Bush as recently as Tuesday called "a central front in the war on terror."

The intelligence officials requested anonymity because the information is classified and because, they said, they feared White House retribution. Johnson declined to say how he obtained the figures.

Another US official, who also requested anonymity, said analysts from the counterterrorism center were especially careful in amassing and reviewing the data because of the political turmoil created by last year's errors.

Last June, the administration was forced to issue a revised version of the report for 2003 that showed a higher number of significant terrorist attacks and more than twice the number of fatalities than had been presented in the original report two months earlier.

The snafu was embarrassing for the White House, which had used the original version to bolster President Bush's election-campaign claim that the war in Iraq had advanced the fight against terrorism.

US officials blamed last year's mix-up on bureaucratic mistakes involving the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, the forerunner of the National Counterterrorism Center.

Created last year on the recommendation of the independent commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the center is the government's primary organization for analyzing and integrating all US government intelligence on terrorism.

The State Department published "Patterns of Global Terrorism" under a law that requires it to submit to the House of Representatives and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee a country-by-country terrorism assessment by April 30 each year.

A declassified version of the report has been made public since 1986 in the form of a glossy booklet, even though there was no legal requirement to produce one.

The senior State Department official said a report on global terrorism would be sent this year to lawmakers and made available to the public in place of "Patterns of Global Terrorism," but that it wouldn't contain statistical data.

He said that decision was taken because the State Department believed that the National Counterterrorism Center "is now the authoritative government agency for the analysis of global terrorism. We believe that the NCTC should compile and publish the relevant data on that subject."

He didn't answer questions about whether the data would be made available to the public, saying, "We will be consulting (with Congress) ... on who should publish and in what form."

Another US official said Rice's office was leery of the methodology the National Counterterrorism Center used to generate the data for 2004, believing that analysts anxious to avoid a repetition of last year's undercount included incidents that may not have been terrorist attacks.

But the US intelligence officials said Rice's office decided to eliminate "Patterns of Global Terrorism" when the counterterrorism center declined to use alternative methodology that would have reported fewer significant attacks.

The officials said they interpreted Rice's action as an attempt to avoid releasing statistics that would contradict the administration's claims that it's winning the war against terrorism.

Source: realcities.com
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Far beneath the shifting waves of the earth's oceans lie frozen crystals containing enough natural gas to meet the nation's growing energy needs for decades ??” maybe even centuries.

It may sound far-fetched, but nations around the globe are racing to find and ultimately tap vast deposits of gas-bearing methane hydrate, an energy source that could dwarf the planet's remaining accessible oil, coal and natural gas reserves.

Unfortunately, no one is sure how to accurately find large accumulations of crystals, or safely and economically withdraw the gas from the depths.

And some scientists are warning that a misstep in the pursuit of methane hydrate could lead to catastrophic consequences ??” ruining the ocean environment and speeding up global warming.

Those are unknowns that the crew of the research vessel Uncle John hope to help answer this month as they drill into crystal formations in the Gulf of Mexico, off the Texas and Louisiana coasts.

The 35-day scientific expedition is part of a four-year, $13.6-million project the U.S. Department of Energy and private energy companies are conducting in the gulf.

Roger Sassen, a gas hydrate geochemist at Texas A&M University, sees methane hydrates as the country's best shot at meeting its ravenous thirst for energy, particularly in the face of an ever-diminishing supply of oil and natural gas.

"It's the last chance," he said. "There is an awful lot of it out there, and unless it works there is going to be a problem. People are complaining about gas prices at $2 a gallon, but we may have to live with prices 10 times that high all of a sudden."

Methane hydrate ??” in some quarters it's known as "the ice that burns" ??” is an odd combination of gas and water, molded into icy chunks by pressure and cold temperatures underneath the ocean floor and in frozen northern climes.

The methane gas, which is naturally produced by decomposing matter, is released as the crystal is heated or depressurized.

A cubic foot of the substance releases the equivalent of about 160 cubic feet of methane, making it an attractive and volatile energy source. At that rate, it would take about 500 cubic feet of methane hydrate to fuel the average home in the U.S. for a year.

No one knows for sure how many of the frozen energy crystals are hidden under the oceans' depths or beneath the northern tundra.

Relatively large accumulations have been found off of the coasts of Oregon, Washington and the Carolinas, as well as in Alaska. They also have been found in the gulf, where some outcroppings have been located on the seafloor. But the jury still is out on how much methane hydrate exists there.

What makes exploration in the gulf attractive to many is the abundance of oil and gas infrastructure that could be put to different use harvesting the crystals.

The most likely methods of extracting methane from its icy cage involves heating or depressurizing the gas where it lies, then simply siphoning or pumping it out.

"Hydrates are certainly one of those things that have too much potential to ignore," said Ray Boswell, who heads the hydrate program at the Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory. "There are others, but hydrates is certainly the biggest prize."

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates there is 200,000 trillion cubic feet of methane hydrate in the United States and its territorial waters. By comparison, the estimated reserve of recoverable natural gas nationwide is a paltry 1,400 trillion cubic feet.

This means that even if only 1 percent of methane hydrate ends up being recoverable, it would more than double the amount of natural gas within the country's reach.

"The numbers, even at the low end, are huge," said Arthur Johnson, a former ChevronTexaco geologist who chaired the Department of Energy's Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee.

Many nations have come to the same conclusion. Most notably, Japan, India and Canada have developed aggressive research programs. But some scientists are urging them to slow down because of possible disastrous environmental consequences.

Richard Charter, a Marine Conservation Advocate with Environmental Defense who describes himself as the "token environmentalist" on the Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee, is among that group.

"This is a technology that has the capacity to generate truly staggering environmental impacts, and most are not good," he said. "We ought to do the science first so they don't have any big mistakes."

Methane is a potent global warming gas many times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Geologists already have linked large releases of the gas from destabilized methane hydrate with dramatic warming events that have brought the planet out of past ice ages.

Given the potential, he cautions against a high-speed attempt to develop methane hydrate technology that could trigger a massive release of the gas into the atmosphere.

"This is not wild, made-up stuff," Charter said. "This is in our report to Congress."

Johnson doesn't see the global warming scenario as a problem. He doesn't believe human activity could trigger a methane release that would register as anything more than a fraction of the gas being naturally released into the atmosphere.

Sassen agrees.

"That's really ridiculous," he said of the massive global warming theory. "This gas is leaking out of the sea floor all the time."

One thing most scientists can agree on is, with all the unanswered questions, research is the key ??” particularly given the alien nature of the subject.

"Humans and gas hydrates are incompatible," said Charlie Paull, a marine geologist with the Monterey Bay Research Institute in California. "We die under the conditions in which they are formed, and they decompose under the conditions where we are comfortable observing them."

The Uncle John has been specially equipped to deal with the latter of the two problems.

The ship is a roughly square, semi-submersible drilling vessel that resembles a rig and measures about 160 feet on each side. It has been outfitted to take borings of the methane hydrate under the gulf floor and return them to the surface for study without destabilizing the material.

The tests will seek to determine, among other things, how well existing technology can pinpoint large quantities of methane hydrate. Scientists have picked two areas in the gulf where they believe large deposits exist, but they're not sure.

Despite its potential, oil companies' immediate concern with methane hydrates is how to deal safely with a substance that has become a dangerous nuisance during conventional drilling expeditions.

As gas companies have waded into deeper and deeper water in search of oil, drilling through gas hydrates to get to the petroleum has become more common.

This opens up a whole range of safety issues dealing with the potential of drilling rigs to destabilize the hydrate, which could in turn cause slides or softening of the ocean floor. Paull said the problems could develop slowly over decades.

"Gas hydrates respond to very subtle change in pressure and temperature," he said. "Some of these platforms we are talking about are the most expensive things man has ever built. Couple that with the loss of life and can we afford to lose even one of these facilities?"

Some experts, like Paull, think the safety issues for large drilling rigs are the most important linked to methane hydrate. Paull thinks ultimately the substance will prove too dispersed to ever be harvested as a major energy source.

Others, like Johnson, disagree and believe the country's future will be tied directly to the mysterious crystals. The former oilman doesn't believe any of the obstacles will be too difficult to overcome, particularly as energy prices keep rising.

"It looks like we may be just a few years away from some kind of development on a limited basis," he said. "If we can prove you can make money on this, hydrates will take off."

Source: My San Antonio
http://www.mysanantonio.com/global-includes/printstory.jsp? path=/news/metro/stories/MYSA041805.1A.crystals.1ea6b9322.html

We have been had again by the prophecies of Nostradamus and St. Malachy, meaning;  we understand their predictions only after they come to pass.

Both of those two prophets have referred to the successor of John Paul II as "That of the Olive Trees" or "That of the Olive grove" the Latin word "Olivae" used by both means a collection of olive trees or an olive grove and it does not mean an "olive branch."

The choosing of the name of "Benedict" by Cardinal Ratzinger brings to our mind the Benedictine monks who used to grow and take care of olive groves. Moreover, it looks interesting that Pope Ratsinger, in his first address to the world from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, referred to himself as "a simple, humble worker in the Lord's vineyard" of olive trees.

Ratzinger is stern, very conservative, and ultra-orthodox Catholic; as a matter of fact he was the head of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the modern successor to the Office of Inquisition. He will never compromise with his opponents, he will not cede an inch to Satan or the antichrist; he will try to save the Catholic Church and the faithful from subjugation to the evil and for his strong stand he will pay the price with his life.

It is very well-know that the one referred to as 'The Olive Trees/Grove" pope will die and be killed in a year or two and be succeeded by the last antichrist pope; most likely the French cardinal Lustinger.

Jack Manuelian is the author of the book--NOSTRADAMUS: PREDICTIONS OF WORLD WAR III - ISBN: 0938294520