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Insight on the News - Daily Insight  Issue: 07/22/02

Al-Qaida's Encrypted e-mails
By Arnaud de Borchgrave
<a href="http://www.insightmag.com/news/257229.html">http://www.insightmag.com/news/257229.html>

WASHINGTON, July 1 (UPI) -- Documents unearthed in the Tora Bora cave
complex convinced the intelligence community that al Qaida has already
activated "sleeper" agents in the U.S. 

Their mission was to deliver body blows to the American economy prior to
the nation's 226th birthday. 

The "sleepers" managed to penetrate the upper reaches of corporate life
and have sent encrypted e-mails back to al Qaida ("the base" in Arabic)
to report an impressive string of successes -- Enron, Arthur Andersen,
Tyco, Adelphia Communications, ImClone, Qwest Communications
International, Dynegy, Global Crossing, WorldCom and Xerox. 

The National Security Agency intercepted one of the e-mails.  It was
evidently from al Qaida's principal fifth columnist in the United
States.  The gender could not be established, but it bragged that
Operation WorldCon had collapsed WorldCom and had seriously crippled the
entire American military machine that is heavily dependent on the
telecom giant. 

The message went on to assure the terrorist powers that be, "everything
is now in place to plunge the capitalist world into a global depression
that will surpass the Great Depression of the 1930s." Just one more
downed jumbo, the message predicted confidently, will ground the
airlines and bankrupt hundreds of companies. 

"Our heroic volunteers have agreed to forsake martyrdom," the top
"sleeper" reported.  "Instead, they have got the best lawyers money can
buy so they can live to fight another day for what now can become the
world's biggest transnational conglomerate -- Jihad Inc.  The American
climate favors our operations.  Millions of Americans are reading and
talking about the end of the world."

Another intercept referred to a "simple formula that overstates revenues
and understates expenses and gives new meaning to a book titled
'Creative Destruction'."

The screenplay for this remake of the James Bond classic Dr.  No is, of
course, a flight of terror fancy.  But there is no denying that Wall
Street's example in financial debauchery has given new life to the image
of the rapacious capitalist.  The actions of a few have tarnished the
image of the shining citadel on the hill that was to be emulated
throughout the developing world. 

"This stealing frenzy," said the head of a major international
organization, "has done more harm to America around the world than
several 9/11s." Speaking privately at a Washington function, he shook
his head sadly and then explained, "Imagine trying to lecture the heads
of government in developing countries on the need for honest accountancy
and transparency.  'You mean like Wall Street,' they will answer'."

That's precisely what the ambassadors of these governments in Washington
are already saying.  Andrew S.  Grove, the legendary chairman of Intel
Corp., spoke for most corporate chiefs when he said, "I find myself
embarrassed and ashamed" to be a businessman. 

Bernard (Bernie) J.  Ebbers, the ousted chief executive officer of
WorldCom who emptied his desk still owing his company $408 million in
personal loans, showed up at his church in Brookhaven, Miss., according
to the Wall Street Journal, to teach Sunday school.  The congregation
gave him a standing ovation when he said, "I just want you to know you
aren't going to church with a crook." President Bush's tongue-lashing of
Wall Street won't come a moment too soon.  The Bush Doctrine of
preemption against those planning weapon of mass destruction
skullduggery against the U.S.  should start at home. 

Unless corporate America cleans up its image fast, entire countries may
turn away from privatization reforms and revert to the psychobabble of
leftist demagoguery.  Cause and effect between the 21st century robber
barons of Wall Street and Latin America's growing rebellion against the
"neo-liberal" model is not immediately apparent, except in Latin
American editorials and TV commentaries. 

Brazil's Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, the presidential candidate of the
left-wing Workers' Party, is leading in the polls for next October's
election.  Violent protests have forced Peru and Paraguay to abandon
plans to privatize.  Bloody demonstrations in Buenos Aires pushed out
the third central bank governor in a year.  Paraguay is also at wit's
end with growing public anger against the free enterprise models shopped
by IMF, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. 

The former communist countries of eastern Europe swung right after the
implosion of the Soviet empire.  Disenchanted with a decade of growing
disparities between rich and poor, the pendulum is swinging back to the
left. 

Corporate America as a role model for the world is an integral part of
the geopolitical equation.  Unless we want al Qaida's radical Islam to
dominate the 21st century as the Soviet Union and communism dominated
the 20th, probity must recover its sacrosanct status in corporate
governance. 

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