FORGET NOT SINGUR! NANDIGRAM!
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Two killed in explosion, PTI reports from Nandigram.
Two members of a family, including a woman were killed and three others were seriously injured when explosives used for making fire crackers went off at their home at Purushottampur in Panskura area of East Midnapore district today. Police superintendent G Srinivas said the family was engaged in making fire crackers and the explosive went off accidentally.
Mahashwets Devi has questioned the credibility of Women`s Commission in refereance to Tapasi Malik Rape and Mureder case. She is continuously writing in her column daily published in Bangla Statesman that no one should forget Tapasi Malik. FORGET NOT SINGUR! NANDIGRAM!She has warned the Rural India of mightier Eviction drive for so called Urbanisation and Industrialisation.
Left red faced, 2 workers held for murder in Singur
LEFT VS FARMERS: Police on guard during land acquisiton for the Tata factory in Singur last year.
Play cricket on your phone and win BIG! New Delhi: Two CPM workers in Singur, West Bengal, have been arrested in connection with the murder of a girl who was found dead near the controversial Tata Motors car factory last December.
Nineteen-year-old Tapasi Malik was a member of the anti-Left Save Agriculture Committee, which leads farmer protests in Singur against the small car factory.
Debu Malik, a CPI-M worker who was arrested on Sunday, has allegedly confessed to killing Tapasi. Surhid Dutta, the CPI-M’s zonal committee chief in Singur, has also been arrested.
Tapasi’s burnt body was found in a pit near a plot fenced off for the factory on December 18
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Malik, a distant relative of Tapasi, was in charge of the guards protecting the boundary wall in Singur at night. He'll now be produced in a court on Friday.
The two arrests are an embarrassment to the Left Front government, as it had rejected allegations that it workers were involved Tapasi’s death or that the incident was linked to the anti-factory agitation.
On the other hand as democratic ways of Resistance seems not to get a solution to the long Stand Off Land Acquisition the Maoists tke the Lead!In an earlier era, conflicts between the state and ‘victims' of development were organised under banners like Medha Patkar's.Social activist Medha dubbed the special economic zones “special exploitation zones” . Maoist insurgents blew up a railway station and disrupted public transport across several Indian states yesterday, on the second day of a strike that highlighted their growing strength and national coordination.Maoists called the two-day strike in their strongholds of east and central India to protest against special economic zones (SEZs), low-tax enclaves created to boost industrial growth that have sparked protests from farmers who will lose their land.The insurgents used powerful explosives to blow up Biramdih railway station in a pre-dawn attack in the eastern state of West Bengal, disrupting links with many parts of east and south India, officials said.Unsuspected angst over acquisition is triggering off landmines in dozens of places from Maharashtra to Meghalaya as ‘people's movements' protest development projects as diverse as roads, dams, removal of squatters and not least new factories, including those in special economic zones.
Final hurdle for Nanguneri SEZ cleared
TIRUNELVELI: The final hurdle for establishing a hi-tech park in the proposed Nanguneri Special Economic Zone (SEZ), transfer of 412 acres of land by the Department of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments to the promoter, was cleared on Wednesday.With the transfer, the minimum area of land required for establishing an SEZ – 1,000 hectares – has been achieved.
PM asked to drop Petroleum SEZ in M'lore
MANGALORE June 27: The SEZ Impact Assessment Committee an NGO working in the field of environment and anti chemical activism has apprehended that the proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and its downstream component Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) would make Mangalore a 'chemically hazardous zone'.
The intensity of the resistance is as unexpected as it is violent, provoking the state - in reality local administrations - to retaliate with even greater force. This has set in motion, what seems from the outside, a circle of unreasonable opposition inducing, in turn, intolerable coercion. The contest is not over the right to property. It goes beyond that into a space where sentiment is cleverly deployed by groups, who are outside the conventional structures of politics and so dismissed as irrelevant in calculations of costs and consequences of the processes popularly described as sustainable growth.
Social activists converge on Bhubaneswar against SEZ
Statesman News Servicereports from BHUBANESWAR: Social activists of 10 states who had gathered here for a two-day convention on displacement and SEZ policy resolved to fight against the anti-farm and anti-people move of MNCs and the land grab that was taking place in the country.
Scarp the SEZ law, repeal the Land Acquisition Act and put a halt to all land grab processes taking place in the country, demanded the social activists. Former Lok Sabha Speaker Mr Rabi Ray felt ‘civil disobedience’ is the answer to the question of mindless industrialisation and formation of SEZs taking place. He urged the participants to “teach and train” people about the adverse affects of these policies.
Mr Vilas Sonawane of Maharastra-based Maha Mumbai Setkari Sangram Samiti said that while agriculture was contributing about 4.5 per cent of the GDP a decade ago, it has slipped to 2.2 per cent. More than 14 lakh hectares of land are grabbed for SEZs and that will result in acute food stuff shortage. There are about 400 SEZs in the world and China has only six, whereas India proposes to set up more than 500 SEZs without any serious consideration for its future perspective, he added.
Mr Saroj Kumar, representative of Kashipur-based Prakrutika Sampad Surakshya Parishad observed that while 78 per cent of total investment in the country in mineral-based and other big industries generate only three per cent of total employment, agriculture is alone responsible for more than 65 per cent employment. Hence, more emphasis should be laid on agriculture and other related activities including village and small scale industries.
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee does not agree with Left economist Prabhat Patnaik's views on industrialisation and says such party ideologues are cut off from reality.Incidentally, only yesterday Kolkatan Intellectuals under the banner of Writers Cultural Activists` Forum demonstrated against SEZ near Metro Channel in Kolkata. Mahashweta Devi, poet Tarun sanyal, Bibhash Chakrabarti and shaoli Mitra cricised government`s policies on Industrialisation! Asserting that the proposed chemical hub would not be allowed to come up even outside Nandigram, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today said she would continue to resist acquisition of land from the people.The proposed SEZ, to be set up by the Hyderabad-based Ramky Industries Limited for pharmaceuticals industries, will be a part of the chemical hub. Reiterating that the 1894 Act for land acqusition should be amended, Ms Banerjee said the Trinamool Congress would give representation in this regard to the President and the Prime Minister. Making clear that more trouble was in store for the state Government for acquisition of land for future industries, Ms Banerjee said her party would not take part in the proposed all-party meeting for execution of the proposed steel plant of the Bhushan Group of Industries at Salanpur in Bardhaman district.
West Bengal Public Works Deprtment minister Kshiti Goswami said the decks have been cleared for renewal of survey of proposed 51 kilometer bypass on Jessore road and expansion of 300 kilometres of NH 34 following a meeting of different political parties.
Seeking to make Special Economic Zones more acceptable among the masses, West Bengal government has suggested industries in such zones to pay back 5 per cent of the concessions they get for development purpose. With investment proposals worth Rs 50,000 crore waiting to be implemented over the next 5 to 6 years, the state is keen to get across the message that industries and SEZs in particular are good for development.
Meanwhile,Calcutta High Court today granted bail to 100 people who clashed with police to stop the acquisition of land to expand the Indian Iron and Steel Company (IISCO) in West Bengal's Burdwan district. A division bench comprising Justices Amit Talukdar and P S Dutta granted bail to all the 100 people accused of rioting and assaulting police at Purushottampur on June 17. The Trinamul Congress and its allies are redrawing their strategy to take on the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee government after the so-called Singur package of state industries minister, Mr Nirupam Sen, dashed their hope of returning and to the unwilling farmers who haven’t given their consent for the acquisition of their land for the Tata small car project. There is no reason to believe that the package announced after the high-voltage drama involving Mr Jyoti Basu and Miss Mamata Banerjee has taken the steam out of the Opposition’s movement against farm land acquisition in Singur and Nandigram ~ the twin issues that have shaken the Marxists like never before.
The Opposition Trinamool Congress today announced a fresh round of street battle against West Bengal's Left Front government on Singur and Nandigram issues from July three and opposed the move to set up a chemical hub in the state. TC chief Mamata Banerjee told reporters here that she would launch a nationwide campaign on Nandigram and Singur issues from Delhi on July 3 and take it to Left-ruled Kerala on July 7. With the West Bengal Government resolving to go ahead with setting up a chemical hub, she said SEZs and chemical hubs could not be set up by acquiring people's land and she would lead a delegation to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on July 2 to take up the issue as well as that of Nandigram and Singur. Opposing a chemical hub and SEZs in the state, she said that it could not be set up by acquiring people's land.
"Earlier industrialists used to purchase land for their projects but now the Left Front government is acquiring land for private companies. Is it the government's job?" she said.
The TC supremo said she along with some victims from Nandigram and Singur would meet the Prime Minister. "The people of Nandigram have not got justice and the unwilling farmers' land at Singur has not been returned. I will raise these issues during the meeting with the PM as well as the issues of chemical hub and SEZs," she said.
The state government was now holding all-party meet not for development but to acquire land for private industries. "Our party will not participate in such meetings," she said.
She said a 'Bhukha Michhil' (hunger procession) would be organised in Delhi on July 3 and another in Thiruvanantapuram on July 7. She appealed to all non-CPI-M parties to join the protest.
Six persons, including a policeman, were injured in the incident.
On June 17, while land filling work for the IISCO expansion began, some people who stood to lose their land for the project tried to stop the bulldozers and demanded permanent employment in the company. When police intervened, the people attacked them, injuring a policeman. A total of 102 people were arrested and two of them were granted bail by a court in Asansol.
Protests against the acquisition of land were witnessed in the area over the past few days with the opposition Trinamool Congress and Congress organising agitations, including road blockades, in Asansol and nearby areas.
''I have serious differences with his (Patnaik's) views on industrialisation. This group (of Left economists who advise his party) is academic. It is not in touch with reality,'' Mr Bhattacharjee said in an interview to CNN-IBN to be telecast on Saturday night.
Mr Patnaik, heading the State Planning Board of Kerala at the invitation of Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan, is not in favour of the State Government accepting loans from international financial institutions.Countering Mr Patnaik's views, Mr Bhattacharjee said the last party congress in 2004 had agreed to accepting loans from these institutions.
''My Polit Bureau is solidly behind me,'' Mr Bhattacharjee said, when asked whether the CPM's highest policy-making body supported him.
On the larger question of industrialisation, he said there would be no rollback as he could not go back on his promise of generating jobs and betray the unemployed youth.
''But I will proceed cautiously. I have learnt my lessons from Nandigram,'' he added.
If there were any genuine grievances of land losers, he said, he would not go ahead with land acquisition.
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, who led protests against the car factory in Bengal last year, says she has been vindicated and the arrests are a proof of the CPI-M’s anti-people policies.
“The CPI-M was trying to manipulate the case, but now it ha been proven who has done it. In the name of industrialisation, people are being raped and killed,” she said in Kolkata.
Tapasi stepped out of her home early morning on December 18 for toilet and was dead hours later. An autopsy report said she was hit on the head but blanks out all allegations of gang-rape.
The horrified photographs of her charred body and screaming headlines about her murder made it harder for her parents to get over the loss. They said their daughter was murdered for taking part in the protests against the West Bengal government's land acquisition for the project.
“CPM cadres guarding the Singur plot killed my daughter. They were led by a worker called Debu Mallick,” Tapasi's father Manoranjan Mallick has alleged.
Indo-US nuke deal will be concluded by year end
The chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, today said the state cannot afford to miss the chemical hub and it has to be set up near Haldia. He, however, made it clear that the hub won’t come up in Nandigram. Mr Bhattacharjee said he has written to all political parties, including the Opposition, to discuss the issue. “The matter needs to be resolved as the chemical hub is a great investment opportunity with the potential for huge employment generation. Missing it is unthinkable,” he said.
Asked whether he would convene a meeting to arrive at a consensus on the project, the chief minister said : “It’s precisely with that end in view that I wrote to the political parties and am waiting for their replies. So far I have got the Congress’ suggestions.” The Trinamul Congress has already stated it won’t reply to the letter. Miss Mamata Banerjee has amply made it clear that when the “wounds of Nandigram, where the project was originally planned, are still raw the question of setting up the mega hub at Haldia doesn’t arise at all.”
The chief minister blamed the Opposition for the controversy over the issue. “The Opposition leaders reached Nandigram before we could persuade the people about the project’s benefits. They misled the people,” he said. The state government is trying to achieve a consensus, he said. The chief minister said the state had topped the list of prospective sites for a chemical hub when a meeting of eight states was called in New Delhi. “When the proposition of setting up three-four chemical hubs was being discussed, we were the first choice among prospective sites,” he said.
The United States has expressed confidence that the civil nuclear deal with India will be finalised by the end of the year. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has expressed hope that the Indo-US nuclear deal will go through by the end of the year.
Speaking in Washington at the annual meeting of the United States-India Business Council, she said the deal had strong bipartisan support.
Rice added that with will and determination, the two countries will be able to finalise the deal soon.
''I think this is a win-win if ever there were one,'' she said.
''...I'm quite confident that if we keep after it and if we stay faithful to the agreements that our leaders signed, if we stay faithful to the legislation that we have passed...we can get the approval of our Congress and ratification in India and we can move forward''.
Rice described the civilian nuclear deal as a bilateral agreement that has overcome Cold War estrangement.
However, she said it has ''just scratched the surface'' in areas of cooperation between two of the world's largest democracies.
Rice said that India and the US are getting warmer on the civilian deal and one could expect an agreement by the end of the year.
But she gave no details on just how the March 2006 and the July 2005 understandings will be translated into a 123-Agreement that is acceptable to both sides.
West Bengal announces incentives for small units
The West Bengal government Wednesday announced an incentive scheme for micro and small-scale enterprises to encourage their growth and promote employment generation.The West Bengal Incentive Scheme 2007 for Micro and Small Scale Enterprises will be applicable to units in the manufacturing sector set up on or after April 2007. The scheme will also include expansion projects of existing units.Announcing the scheme at a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) seminar, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya said the micro and small-scale sector is important to address the problem of unemployment in the country.
The incentives include state capital investment subsidy ranging from 17 percent to 35 percent and interest subsidies ranging from 25 percent to 30 percent.The scheme also includes a waiver of electricity duty and 30 percent reimbursement of electricity charges for a period of five years from the date of commercial production.It also provides for 75 percent reimbursement of expenditure for modernisation of unit with a cap of Rs.500,000.The improved package includes a subsidy of 50 percent of expenditure incurred for obtaining patent registration with a cap of Rs.750,000.The scheme has 10 percent additional incentive for all categories of subsidies, excepting those of waiver of electricity duty and patent registration.
The state already has two SME clusters at Baruipur for surgical equipment and Shantiniketan for leather goods.The central government will provide 75 percent of the funds required, while the state will give 20 percent and the industry association promoting the cluster the remaining part. The total envisaged investment in 20 clusters stood at about Rs.800 million.
Statesman News Service reports:
The chief minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, today said the state cannot afford to miss the chemical hub and it has to be set up near Haldia. He, however, made it clear that the hub won’t come up in Nandigram. Mr Bhattacharjee said he has written to all political parties, including the Opposition, to discuss the issue. “The matter needs to be resolved as the chemical hub is a great investment opportunity with the potential for huge employment generation. Missing it is unthinkable,” he said. Asked whether he would convene a meeting to arrive at a consensus on the project, the chief minister said : “It’s precisely with that end in view that I wrote to the political parties and am waiting for their replies. So far I have got the Congress’ suggestions.” The Trinamul Congress has already stated it won’t reply to the letter. Miss Mamata Banerjee has amply made it clear that when the “wounds of Nandigram, where the project was originally planned, are still raw the question of setting up the mega hub at Haldia doesn’t arise at all.”
The chief minister blamed the Opposition for the controversy over the issue. “The Opposition leaders reached Nandigram before we could persuade the people about the project’s benefits. They misled the people,” he said. The state government is trying to achieve a consensus, he said. The chief minister said the state had topped the list of prospective sites for a chemical hub when a meeting of eight states was called in New Delhi. “When the proposition of setting up three-four chemical hubs was being discussed, we were the first choice among prospective sites,” he said.
“It’s true there is now an apparent lull in the agitation that rose to a climax when the beleaguered CPI-M leadership approached Mr Basu to restart the negotiation after Miss Banerjee walked out of the all-party meeting organised by the Forward Bloc state general secretary, Mr Ashoke Ghosh, because of the CPI-M’s recalcitrant behaviour at the meeting,” said Mr Samir Putatunda, a key leader of the Opposition combine spearheading the agitation. “We have achieved a major goal and are reserving our strength for a renewed struggle to be launched at the opportune moment,” he said. The “achievement” has been to send the message across to the farmers, who comprise more than 60 per cent of the state’s population, that farmland can’t be “indiscriminately and rampantly” acquired by the present crop of the state’s Marxists “who are working for safeguarding the interests of big money and not of the peasants whom they claim to represent”. The Opposition-sponsored agitation has evoked such a response from the rural population that the state administration “doesn’t have the nerve even to widen the highways without consulting the local population”.
The new strategy is to watch how whatever initiatives the state government and the CPI-M leadership take to mollify the rural population backfire.
“The move to send Maulana Syed Ahmed Bukhari of Delhi’s Jama Masjid to Nandigram boomeranged on the chief minister and the CPI-M, just as the attempt to cite the example of Dr BC Roy (of Kalyani fame) to justify the state government’s ill-conceived and anti-farmer industrial initiative has met with ridicule and negative publicity,” Opposition leaders said.
The Trinamul’s Mr Saugata Roy said the Opposition had exposed the state government’s “Machiavellian” design at Singur and kept the police and CPI-M goons at bay in Nandigram. “We are with the rural people wherever the state government goes about implementing its anti-farmer industrial policy. The agitation that we launched can’t be organised everyday. It has gained natural momentum and we will replicate our model when necessary,” Mr Roy said.
State level talks only if local initiatives fail
Statesman News Service
The state level all-party talks that got aborted on 24 May can be resumed if the initiative taken by the local politicians in Nandigram fails to restore peace, Forward Bloc state secretary Mr Ashok Ghosh said today. Congress working president Mr Pradip Bhattacharya had written to Mr Ghosh last week to inquire about the status of the state level discussion initiated by Mr Ghosh. Today Mr Ghosh replied by saying that district level talks have so far yielded some results but another round of state level talks can be held if the situation demands.
Interestingly, copies of the letter were sent to all political parties that took part in the meeting on 24 May, including Trinamul chief Miss Mamata Banerjee who walked out halfway through the proceedings. “I had a discussion with Left Front chairman Mr Biman Bose before replying to the letter. I don’t think holding talks at both state and district levels is necessary if East Midnapore leaders from all parties can restore normalcy in Nandigram”, said Mr Ghosh. “However if they fail then we have to think of holding talks (in Kolkata) once again”. Referring to the proposed chemical hub in Haldia, Mr Ghosh said his party will hold a bilateral discussion with the CPI-M before giving its opinion on the project.
Asked why would the Bloc hold talks with the CPI-M when opinions have been sought by the state government, Mr Ghosh said: “How can the CPI-M and the government be different?”
est Bengal seeks lesser land requirement for SEZs
New Delhi: With its hands tied by the new guidelines on special economic zones, the West Bengal government will soon approach the centre seeking reduction in minimum land size for multi-product zones to 1,000 acres from about 2,500 acres now. A cap on number of SEZs in states and waiving the contiguity clause will also be part of demands that the Left Front regime will place before the UPA government, whose key ally is the CPI-M.
"The EGoM has asked states not to get involved in land acquisition. Then what is the role of the government?" West Bengal Industry Minister Nirupam Sen asked during an informal interaction with the media here.
Although the Centre had turned down the request on a previous occasion, the state would press for it again as it feels it would be difficult for any company to acquire 2,500 acres in the present circumstance.
A reduction in minimum land area would help companies acquire land more easily, especially in a densely-populated state like West Bengal.
An Empowered group of Ministers had earlier this year capped the maximum land size of SEZs at 5,000 hectares (nearly 12,500 acres) following protests, including an incident in West Bengal's Nandigram over land acquisition for Indonesia-based Salim Group's SEZ.
However, the minimum land requirement for a multi-product SEZ remains 1,000 hectares (2,469 acres). There is no minimum land requirement for product-specific SEZs.
While it was the Left Front government that initiated reforms to ensure equitable distribution of land in West Bengal, ironically today it is facing difficulty in acquiring even small pieces of land for industrial projects.
Concerned that this might result in uneven development, Sen said the state would also seek a cap on number of SEZs that can come up in a given state to ensure that wealth was not concentrated in any one state.
Already the Centre had agreed to the state's suggestion on SEZs' land use for processing units to reduce the component of real estate, Sen said.
The board of approval in the Commerce Ministry has so far given formal clearance to more than 200 special economic zones and in-principle nod to over 160. Of these, seven zones have been given formal approval and 14 in-principle in West Bengal. In comparison, Maharastra and Andhra Pradesh are far ahead, with 47 and 44 formal approvals in place.
Tata Motors finalising plans for satellite plants?
2007-06-28 19:50:47 Source : Moneycontrol.com
From Pant Nagar in Uttarakhand, to Dharwad in Karnataka to Pune in Maharashtra - Tata Motors is said to be in the final lap of firming up plans for its satellite plants. Tata Motors is trying to avoid delays on account of land acquisition to meet the May 2008 deadline.
Work at Tata Motors Singur plant is on track says the West Bengal Industry Minister and the company will meet its May 2008 deadline. In spite of that assurance, Tata Motors is not willing to take any chances with Ratan Tata?s dream project. Sources say the company is in the last leg of finalising sites for its satellite plants.
One location could be Pant Nagar in Uttarakhand. Tata Motors already has about 1000 acres there. This land, the company says, "will be used to manufacture motor vehicles and motor cars." Of this, 350 acres have been given to vendors.
The rest will be utilised for manufacturing their small truck - Ace. CNBC-TV18 learns Tata Motors has asked for an additional 300 acres but is likely to get about 150 acres by next month.
Moving to the West, the company already has 225 acres of land at Ranjangaon, home to Tata-Fiat joint facility. While this plant is being used only to manufacture Fiat cars, we understand Tata Motors may want to utilise it for their small car assembly line.
On to the South, the Karnataka government has already allotted 600 acres to the company at Dharwad. Last month the government approved the allotment of an additional 300 acres of land to Tata Motors for its proposed luxury bus manufacturing facility near Dharwad. This facility could take care of the South .
When contacted, Tata Motors officials said, "Tata Motors's mother plant is in Singur. There would be satellite plants for the small car assembly, locations will be announced in due course"
This model is the first of its kind in India and may help reduce costs. This could also change the traditional supply and distribution chain. It may make sense for the company to use existing facilities to avoid delays on account of land acquisition.
Basu is 'Bhishma Pitamah': Jairam Ramesh
JALPAIGURI: Dubbing veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu as the 'Bhishma Pitamah' of West Bengal's politics, Union Minister Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said he had shifted from his stand on not setting up industries in the state.
"When Bidhan Chandra Roy was Chief Minister of West Bengal, Basuji, who was then in opposition, had resisted the setting up of industries," Ramesh told reporters during his visit to closed tea gardens in Jalpaiguri district.
"Today there is a resurgence of industries in West Bengal and the CPI-M, which Basuji still leads in a way, will celebrate the birthday of Bidhan Chandra Roy. He himself criticises any kind of resistance put up by the opposition against the acquisition of farm land for industries," he said.
Ramesh, the Minister of State for Commerce, said the small car factory being set up by Tata Motors in Singur was important for the development of the state. "But the state appears to have been in too much of a hurry with regard to Nandigram (the site for a proposed SEZ)," he remarked.
In other states, he said, political parties agreed on development and supported projects despite their differences. "But the situation in West Bengal is always heated and leads to conflict."
Asked about Trinamool Congress's concern about closed tea gardens in the state, he said he was happy that it "remembered there are tea gardens and that 14 of them are closed".
CIA & The War on Terrorism
"Victory will come, but it will take time and require the kind of focused and sustained national commitment that we saw during the Cold War. Most importantly, it will require a relentless global campaign, joined by those in the Muslim world who are repulsed by al-Qa'ida's savagery, to expose the terrorists for what they are: peddlers of a hopeless, negative, backward vision of the world...."— D/CIA Michael V. Hayden, speaking at the
Duquesne University Commencement Ceremony
May 4, 2007
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2007
January 11, 2007 - Excerpt from D/CIA Statement to Senate Intel Committee
2006
November 15, 2006 - Director Hayden's Statement for the Record Before the Senate Armed Services Committee: The Current Situation in Iraq and Afghanistan.
2005
February 16, 2005 - DCI Porter J. Goss's Testimony on "Global Intelligence Challenges 2005: Meeting Long-Term Challenges with a Long-Term Strategy" Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
2004
June 4, 2004 - A Scapegoat is Not a Solution, by Paul Pillar, an Op-Ed Article Which Appeared in the New York Times.
April 14, 2004 - Opening Remarks of Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet Before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
March 24, 2004 - Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet's Oral Statement before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (as delivered).
March 24, 2004 - Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet's Written Statement for the Record before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
2003
June 3, 2003 - Terrorist CBRN: Materials and Effects.
May 28, 2003 - Iraqi Mobile Biological Warfare Agent Production Plants.
February 26, 2003 - Testimony by Winston P. Wiley, Chair, Senior Steering Group, Terrorist Threat Integration Center, and Associate Director of Central Intelligence for Homeland Security, before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee (as prepared for delivery).
February 2003 - National Strategy for Combating Terrorism [PDF 268KB*].
January 2003 - Putting Noncombatants at Risk: Saddam's Use of "Human Shields."
2002
December 11, 2002 - Remarks by the Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet at the Nixon Center Distinguished Service Award Banquet.
October 17, 2002 - Written Statement for the Record of the Director of Central Intelligence Before the Joint Inqu
