This book is dedicated to
Edward Abbey 1927-1989
John Zaelit (Mr. Goodwrench) 1954-1986
Bill Turk (The Mad Engineer) 1953-1992

[A note from the web-publisher: I put this up to make ecodefence information available to more people in these times of social/ecological crisis. The book is too expensive, hard to find, and there are obvious security risks to buying it through the mail from outfits like amazon.com. I hope you will download, print-off and pass it out to people in your area. Also, I want you to reproduce this information on other websites, so that in the event that this site is closed down - there are dozens of others with Ecodefense still available. Do understand that this is a hot item for the Feds and will likely be suppressed quickly. So it’s important that reproduction and distribution occur as soon as possible, please help! Reproduction involves some security risks. It has been said that Dave Foreman sued some Australian eco-anarchists when they bootlegged it, so the key here is anonymity, don’t have any contact info associated with this book, and don’t have any website this information is copied to associated with you. To the destruction of the megamachine.]

CONTENTS
Introduction to the Third Edition	1
FORWARD! by Edward Abbey	3
CHAPTER 1 STRATEGIC MONKEYWRENCHING	5
CHAPTER 2 THE FUTURE OF MONKEYWRENCHING	12
CHAPTER 3 DEVELOPMENTS	17
Tree Spiking	18
Tree Pinning	32
Ceramic Spikes	39
Rock Spikes	45
Plastic and Wood Pulp	50
Survey Stakes	52
Mining	61
Powerlines	62
Seismographic Lines	66
Plugging Waste Discharge Pipes	72
Grazing	76
CHAPTER 4 ROADS AND TIRES	87
Road Spiking	89
Spikeboards and Nailboards	98
Caltrops	99
Other Tire Flattening Methods	102
Snowmobiles	106
Closing Roads	107
Plugging Culverts	111
CHAPTER 5 VEHICLES AND HEAVY EQUIPMENT	116
Disabling Vehicles Outline	117
Heavy Equipment	118
Cutting Torch	143
Burning Machinery	145
Aircraft	148
Vehicle Modifications	152
Water and Big Yellow Machines	156
CHAPTER 6 ANIMAL DEFENSE	158
Trap Lines	159
Snares	177
Coyote Getter	177

CHAPTER 7 MISCELLANEOUS DEVILTRY	183
Urban Monkeywrenching	184
Slingshots	188
Condo Trashing	190
Computer Sabotage	191
Stink Bombs	197
Smoke Bombs	201
Jamming Locks	203
Disrupting Illegal Activities	205
Trash Return	205
Mountain Bikes	207
CHAPTER 8 PROPAGANDA	210
Advanced Billboarding	211
Billboard Trashing	217
Billboard Revision	219
Burning Billboards	221
Paint Remover	222
Posters and Silent Agitators	223
Correcting Forest Service Signs	226
Spray Paint Slogans	228
Stencils	231
CHAPTER 9 SECURITY	233
Basic Security	234
Military Movement	242
Rules of Security	243
Disposing of Evidence	245
Avoiding Arrest	249
Camouflage	251
Tools of the Trade	256
Radios and Communications Equipment	260
Eyes of Night	270
Tracking	274
Car Camping	278
Daily Routine	280
Mental Conditioning	282
Surveillance	285
Counterintelligence	290
Advanced Investigation Methods	290
Police Undercover Operations	295
Countersecurity	308
Pursuit and Evasion	319
Arrest	327
Media Relations	328
General Security Field Notes	337
EPILOGUE: MARINE MONKEYWRENCHING	342

INTRODUCTION

TO THE THIRD EDITION

Ecodefense is a historical artifact. It be argued that it is the most contro­versial environmental book ever published; more importantly, though, it is a key exhibit in the legal history of freedom of the press in the United States. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1791. It reads in part, Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. That enshrined freedom of the press and speech sets the United States of America apart from all other nations. No other country so jealously defends the right of its citizens to speak and publish controversial ideas.

Several years ago when Australia banned the importation and sale of Ecodefense, it was not possible for the United States to follow suit-because of the First Amendment. Instead, the United States government spent several million dollars, employed a small army of FBI agents, and entrapped a number of citizens in 1987-89 in an effort to suppress publication and distribution of Ecodefense. That attack on free speech and the freedom of the press glares like a pustulating boil in American history just as do the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Palmer Raids, and McCarthyism.

We at Abbzug Press believe that the Bill of Rights is like a set of muscles-if they aren't exercised, they atrophy. Therefore, it is our patriotic duty to defend the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and publish a new Third Edition of Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching.

Efforts to suppress Ecodefense and to entrap its co-editor, Dave Foreman, have been well covered elsewhere and we will not go into them here. Nor will we here attempt to justify the practice or necessity of monkeywrenching. Edward Abbey's Forward! and the first two chapters of this edition do that. Monkeywrenching is also justified in Ed Abbey's novels The Monkey Wrench Gang and Hayduke Lives!, Howie Wolke's Wilderness on the Rocks, Christopher Manes's Green Rage, and, in greater detail, Dave Foreman's Confessions of an Eco-Warrior.

We will here, however, rebut two myths about Ecodefense. First, it is widely believed that Ecodefense (or Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang) launched the practice of monkeywrenching. In fact, ecological sabotage was widespread before Ecodefense was first published in 1985 and even before The Monkey Wrench Gang was published in 1975.

The second myth is that Dave Foreman wrote Ecodefense. The first edition of Ecodefense was a compilation of articles and letters sent to the Earth First! Journal by dozens of individuals. This Third Edition has over two dozen major contributors and at least one hundred other contributors. In this edition, we have given aliases to credit all articles and significant field notes where the author did not offer her own alias. In the previous editions, Dave Foreman and Bill Haywood compiled, edited, and arranged the contributions. We have retained their names as editors for the Third Edition since it is largely based on the previous editions.

There are changes in the Third Edition, however. Some material deemed to be irrelevant or counterproductive has been dropped. Incorrect information has also been dropped. Much new information has been incorporated. Most of it was contributed between 1987 and 1989. A professional editor was retained to rewrite, copy edit, arrange, and otherwise clean up all of the text. Some previous material has been rearranged.

Edward Abbey and two other contributors, John Zaelit and Bill Turk, have died since the First Edition of Ecodefense. This Third Edition is dedicated to their memories and to the fierce green fire that burned in their eyes. They were heroes, defenders of their native land.

We thank the other defenders of the land who contributed to Ecodefense, though they must remain anonymous. It is their book.

When we began work on the Third Edition we asked Dave Foreman for any thoughts he might offer to today's reader of Ecodefense. He responded:

Is your act a strategic one, or is it merely an inarticulate yell, conveying only rage, alienation, and despair? Monkeywrenchers must constantly ask them­selves:

Who is my audience?

What is my message?

Will this deter destruction?

Are there legal means not yet used?

Of course this Third Edition of Ecodefense, like those before it, is meant only to entertain. No one should take it seriously.

Matthew Lyon

for Abbzug Press

FORWARD!

by Edward Abbey

If a stranger batters your door down with an axe, threatens your family and yourself with deadly weapons, and proceeds to loot your home of whatever he wants, he is committing what is universally recognized-by law and morality ­as a crime. In such a situation the householder has both the right and the obli­gation to defend himself, his family, and his property by whatever means are necessary. This right and this obligation is universally recognized, justified and even praised by all civilized human communities. Self-defense against at­tack is one of the basic laws not only of human society but of life itself, not only of human life but of all life.

The American wilderness, what little remains, is now undergoing exactly such an assault. Dave Foreman has summarized the character and scale of the assault in the first chapter of this excellent and essential book. With bull­dozer, earth mover, chainsaw and dynamite the international timber, mining and beef industries are invading our public lands-property of all Americans ­bashing their way into our forests, mountains and rangelands and looting them for everything they can get away with. This for the sake of short-term profits in the corporate sector and multi-million dollar annual salaries for the three-piece ­suited gangsters (M.B.A., Harvard, Yale, University of Tokyo, et alia) who control and manage these bandit enterprises. Cheered on, naturally, by Time, Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal, actively encouraged by those jellyfish Government agencies which are supposed to protect the public lands, and as always aided and abetted in every way possible by the quisling politicians of our Western states (such as Babbitt, DeConcini, Goldwater, Hatch, Garn, Symms, Hansen, Wallop, Domenici-to name but a few) who would sell the graves of their own mothers if there's a quick buck in the deal, over or under the table, what do they care.

Representative democracy in the United States has broken down. Our legis­lators do not represent those who elected them but rather the minority who fi­nance their political campaigns and who control the organs of communica­tion-the Tee Vee, the newspapers, the billboards, the radio-that have made politics a game for the rich only. Representative government in the USA rep­resents money not people and therefore has forfeited our allegiance and moral support. We owe it nothing but the taxation it extorts from us under threats of seizure of property, or prison, or in some cases already, when resisted, a sud­den and violent death by gunfire.

Such is the nature and structure of the industrial megamachine (in Lewis Mumford's term) which is now attacking the American wilderness. That wilder­ness is our ancestral home, the primordial homeland of all living creatures in­cluding the human, and the present final dwelling place of such noble beings as the grizzly bear, the mountain lion, the eagle and the condor, the moose and the elk and the pronghorn antelope, the redwood tree, the yellowpine, the bristlecone pine, even the aspen, and yes, why not say it?, the streams, wa­terfalls, rivers, the very bedrock itself of our hills, canyons, deserts, moun­tains.

For many of us, perhaps for most of us, the wilderness is as much our home, or a lot more so, than the wretched little stucco boxes, plywood apartments, and wallboard condominiums in which we are mostly confined by the insatiable demands of an overcrowded and ever-expanding industrial culture. And if the wilderness is our true home, and if it is threatened with invasion, pillage and destruction-as it certainly is-then we have the right to defend that home, as we would our private rooms, by whatever means are necessary. (An English­man's home is his castle; an American's home is his favorite fishing stream, 'his favorite mountain range, his favorite desert canyon, his favorite swamp or patch of woods or God-created lake.)

The majority of the American people have demonstrated on every possible occasion that they support the ideal of wilderness preservation; even our politicians are forced by popular opinion to pretend to support the idea; as they have learned, a vote against wilderness is a vote against their own re-election. We are justified in defending our homes-our private home and public home ­not only by common law and common morality but also by common belief. We are the majority; they-the greedy and powerful-are the minority.

How best defend our wilderness home? Well, that is a matter of strategy, tactics and technique, which is what this little book is about. Dave Foreman explains the principles of ecological defense in the complete, compact and conclusive pages of his short introduction. I can think of nothing I could add nor of anything I would subtract; he says exactly what needs to be said, no more and no less.

I am happy to endorse the publication of Ecodefense. Never was such a book so needed, by so many, for such good reason, as here and now. Tomor­row might well be too late. This is a book that will fit handily in any saddlebag, in any creel, in any backpack, in any river runner's ammo can-and in any pic­nicker's picnic basket. No good American should ever go into the woods again without this book and, for example, a hammer and a few pounds of 60-penny nails. Spike a few trees now and then whenever you enter an area condemned to chainsaw massacre by Louisiana Pacific and its affiliated subsidiary the U.S. Forest Service. You won't hurt the trees; they'll be grateful for the pro­tection; and you may save the forest. My Aunt Emma back in West Virginia has been enjoying this pleasant exercise for years. She swears by it. It's good for the trees, it's good for the woods, it's good for the earth, and it's good for the human soul. Spread the word-and carry on!

Edward Abbey
July 1984
Oracle, Arizona

Chapter 1

Direct Action

The following is a letter they released this morning.

There's a war going on, whether we like it or not. At this war everyone takes a stance, a position. The so-called "neutral", i.e. those who chose the silence of neutrality, do no other than contributing to the strengthening of sovereignty.

We no longer tolerate the crimes initiated in the school cells, mental health institutions and prisons and which continue via waged slavery, or in other words, the institutionalised robbing of thousands of labourers. We no longer tolerate a society sinking into the mire of consumption frenzy and indifference: A society doing no more than bowing to sovereignty, allowing the imperialist wars of the new Rome, of the Pax Americana and its obedient allies, which leave countless dead behind them (Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Palestine) in the name of the enforcement of a democratic totalitarianism.

It is for these reasons that we chose to take part in this war as anarchists on the side of the revolution, knowing from the beginning the repercussions of our decision. A revolution that, in the words of Rosa Luxembourg, "knows how to say I was, I am and I will be". A revolution that knows no other than attack.

We express our solidarity to political prisoners who, whether accepting the charges against them or not, are currently in prison.

Finally, we do not wish to talk about our case neither to comment on our beatings, the information leaks of the police concerning supposed gathered information nor do we wish to demand anything for us. We do, however, want to denounce the unjust pre-trial detention of the 20-year old female student of the Economic University of Athens who had absolutely nothing to do with our attempted action.

It is provocative to imprison a 20-year old human with the only "incriminating" evidence against her being a friendship, while at the same time defrauders like Tsitouridis and Papamarkakis* are on the loose, despite stealing 800 million Euros from the greek people, and continue their robbing activity unharmed.

INFORMERS ABACK -COMRADES, ONWARD!

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES BY ALL MEANS UNTIL THE FINAL VICTORY

THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN ANY PRISON

REVOLUTION FIRST AND ALWAYS

M. Tsourapas
Fourth Wing, Korydallos Prison, Athens

Ch. Kontorevithakis
Aulona Prison

*Ex-Minister of Labour Savvas Tsitouridis was forced to resign in late April this year after it was revealed that he and his associates were involved in a scandalous sale of government bonds to state pension funds.

Letter by the two detainees, accused for placing gas bombs outside the Municipal Police Department in Faliro.

Whether we like it or not, there is a war. In this war everyone is taking part. Those who are not taking part, that is those who choose to be neutrally silent, do nothing but contributing in imposing the dominance.

We can't tolerate the crimes beginning from the school prisons, the psychiatries and the prisons, going on within the structure of the paid slavery, the extortionate draining of thousands of workers. We can't tolerate a society that sinks in the bog of the consumism obsession and the “don't-care” misery; a society which the only thing it does is to obey the dominance, allowing the imperialistic wars of the New Roma, of Pax Americana and of their allying extortionate, leaving countless dead people behind them (Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine) in the name of imposing the democratic totalitarianism.

For the reasons above, we chose to take part in this war, by taking the side of the revolution as anarchists, knowing from the beginning the consequences of our choice. A revolution which, as Luxembourg said “knows to say I was, I am and I will be”. A revolution which only knows to attack.

We express our solidarity to the political prisoners, who, either accepting the accusations or not, are in prison.

Finally, we wouldn't like to talk for our case, nor to comment on the fact that we have been beaten up, the allegations of the security forces that they have information, nor to ask anything for us. Though, we want to denounce the unfair preventive detention of the 20 year old female student of the Athens Economic University, who had no connection with the action that we were about to do .

It is provocative to let a person into prison, having friendship as only clue of guilt, while financial criminals, such as Tsitouridis and Papamarkakis, who have robbed 800 million euros from the Greek people, are still free and keep on their extortionate raids.

THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES, BY ALL MEANS, TILL THE FINAL VICTORY

THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER THAN PRISON

REVOLUTION NOW AND FOREVER

M. Tsourapas / 4th wing of Koridalos Prison

X. Kontorevithakis / Avlona Prisons

In regard to the situation in the (greek) police's holding cells, as read by information coming from the country's Ministry of Public Order: More than 1,000,000 people have spent one night or longer in police stations since 2002, while deaths in custody are on a constant rise, reaching 57 in the last decade only. Statistics of those deaths are only available from 1997 onward. Since that year 28 detainees committed suicide (out of these, 26 hanged themselves and two jumped off the buildings they were held in).

Another eleven people ostensibly died due to pathological causes. Three suffered heart failure, while two had "lethal accidents in their attempt to escape". Six drug addicts died from pulmonary edema. In the last two years alone there have been 18 deaths, twice as many as in 2003-2004.

Prisons and detention cells are the places where authority shows its true face; when writing even for a fraction of all that take place in there, where people's ? rule and depressing metal bars rise all around you, words seem too poor to describe what happens to the soul and the body of the detained human when s/he has fallen to the hands of authority.

With respect to the memory of the people mentioned in this note, we will remember and remind of their deaths by denouncing the inhumane holding conditions and treatment of our fellow humans in so-called houses of correction and detention cells. We hold the firm belief that the time will come for the crimes of authority against humans to be punished.

Atrocious, horrific incidents in prisons and detention cells are innumerable. Many of these remain unknown and will never be heard, buried under the darkest prison cells.

The 19 year old student, arrested on 5th of May and accused for riots out of the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, wil

After staying more than 40 days in Avlona prisons, the second year old student of the Polytechnic Faculty of AUTh will be set free, under bail, until the trial takes place, according to the decision of the Magistrates Committee, issued last week. They accepted the plea of the youngster against the preventive detainment order.

According the decision which was issued on Monday, the 19-year-old will have to appear during the first five days of each month to the police department close to his home, while he is not allowed to leave the country. The bail that has to be paid amounts 3,000 euros. According the same decision, the rest two detainees are being set free (under the same restrictions and a bail of 1,000 euros each; they are both private employees, accused for taking part in the same riots. These two men, aged 24 and 27, were detained after their testimony to the Court Prisons of Komotini.

In the decision it was also mentioned that the three arrestees, who face criminal charges for constructing and possessing explosive bombs, and for causing explosions, "have never fugitives and have never been accused for any other offense". It was also noted that possible extension of their preventive detainment, until the trial, "would have extremely severe consequences for their social and financial state, given their young age."

The passion for freedom
is stronger than the prison

Please circulate widely On Tuesday 5th of June, two anarchists and a friend of theirs (all 20-22 years old) were arrested after trying to attack a car of the municipal police in the neighborhood of Paleo Faliro in Athens. During their arrest, all three were severely beaten up by the police to the point of collapse. After being beaten further and tortured (psycologically and physically) at the Police Headquarters in Athens, the Attorney General order the pre-trial detention of all three (up to 18 months imprisonment before the actual trial). The condition of the girl is particularly serious and alarming since she is now facing health problems; the vicious attack of the cops and their severe beatings have caused her a nervous breakdown. At dawn she was transfered to two different hospitals in Athens, where the doctors only offered her first aid and refused to accept her for further treatment. The doctors treating her currently (her personal doctor together with the police doctor) both speak of a serious psychotic-related amnesia condition caused by extreme stress during her arrest and detention. Despite this fact the girl is still held at the Police headquarters while her lawyers are trying to get her to another Athens hospital. Should this not happen, she will be transfered to and held at the mental health hospital of the Korydallos prison in Athens. Meanwhile, the two anarchists have already been transfered to prison.

... by NorthernAnarchist 04:30pm, Saturday June 9 2007

The car they alledgedly attempted to burn...

COMMUNIQUE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE SQUATTED POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

Today, January 13 2007, police attacked the anarchist and anti-authoritarian motorbike demo in solidarity to the three comrades arrested at the social forum on May 6 2006 in Athens. The demo was attacked by special motorbike forces (Z team) on the way back from Nikea hospital where there had been a solidarity gathering for two of the imprisoned comrades Tarasio Zadorozni and Gerasimos Kiriakopulos who are on hungerstrike. The anti riot police squads (MAT) then stormed the comrades on the ground, 42 were taken into custody at the national security police headquarters in Athens, many of them injured, and 4 of them are still being held 9 hours later. Tarasio Zadorozni and Gerasimos Kiriakopulos have been on hunger strike for 46 and 28 days respectively and were transferred from Koridalos prison to a secure unit in Nikea hospital on January 9 as their condition had deteriorated. They have been held in prison since May 6 2006 along with another demonstrator, Kostas Kachadouras, accused of rioting during the international antiwar demo of the European Social Forum in Athens.

The imprisoned demonstrators of May 6 are 3 of the thousands of people that took to the streets that day when riots erupted between the forces of repression and anarchists and young rebels and attacks were made against State and capitalist targets. The police arrested 17 demonstrators who were accused on trumped up heavy charges and 3 of them have been held in prison awaiting trial without any evidence against them (with the political consent of the traditional leftist parties and groups) so that they can be punished as an example for those who choose to resist without mediation or institutional representation. The struggle that those on hunger strike began for their freedom, using their body as a weapon, has now become the terrain where a general conflict between the State and those who fight it is being expressed.

It is about an attack in which the State, using all the repressive mechanisms of propaganda and control in its power, is attempting to isolate and eliminate anarchists and anti-authoritarians, who are the most radical part of social resistance, with the surrender of the whole of society as its final objective. Under these conditions of intensifying State terror, every action of solidarity to the imprisoned fighters has been under attack. The aim of this repression is not only to keep the 3 in prison as long as possible, it is also to eliminate the very dynamic of solidarity, self-organisation and resistance against the plans of the State and the bosses.

So, on January 12, the police attempted to prevent the solidarity demonstration that had been organised by anarchists and anti-authoritarians. The order was pronounced by the chief of police forces present, stating that he had instructions from the prosecutor, but this was subverted by the persistence of the demonstrators and finally a strong demo was held in the centre of Athens. The attack on today’s demonstration (January 13), with the arrests and the wounded, are the peak of this repressive violence, showing the State’s intent to bury the struggle of those on hunger strike in silence, to terrorise those in solidarity and attack the development of the anarchist struggle.
What has preceded today’s events: the arrest of an anti-authoritarian comrade outside his home following the motorbike demo to the house of the minister of justice; intensive provocation and pressure by the Z motorbike police squad on another motorbike demo to Koridalos prison on December 15; police attack on new year’s eve motorbike demo on its return from the prison that resulted in many comrades being taken into custody and one arrest, and on January 9 the surrounding by anti riot police squads of a radio station which had been occupied by 50 anarchists to transmit solidarity messages and news of the hunger strike.

AGAINST the attempts of the State to isolate the struggle of our imprisoned comrades who are on hunger strike behind a wall of silence

AGAINST the constant repressive attacks against anarchists and antiauthoritarians, aiming at their isolation and annihilation

AGAINST the attempt to impose social acquiescance

WE ARE TAKING OVER THE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS AND WE DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF OUR 4 COMRADES BEING HELD IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY BUILDING FOLLOWING TODAY’S ATTACK BY POLICE AGAINST THE SOLIDARITY MOTORBIKE DEMO AND THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE IMPRISONED PROTESTORS OF MAY 6 2006

By taking over this university building we are creating a place of constant counterinformation and solidarity within our city, an attempt that is operating horizontally and against all hierarchy, on the basis of the occupiers’ general assembly. No repressive action will extinguish our solidarity to our imprisoned comrades, or prevent the social struggle for liberation from the chains of Authority

THE PASSION FOR FREEDOM IS STRONGER
THAN ANY PRISON CELL

SOLIDARITY TO THE HUNGERSTRIKERS TARASIO ZADOROZNI (SINCE NOV 29 2006) AND GERASIMOS KIRIAKOPULOS (SINCE DECEMBER 15 2006)

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE 3 IMPRISONED PROTESTORS OF MAY 6

THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF OUR 4 COMRADES WHO ARE BEING HELD IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY BUILDING
FOLLOWING TODAY’S ATTACK BY POLICE AGAINST THE SOLIDARITY MOTORBIKE DEMO

SOLIDARITY TO ALL IMPRISONED AND ACCUSED SOCIAL FIGHTERS

FREEDOM TO ALL THOSE IN PRISON CELLS

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON!

Assembly of the occupied Polytechnic University
January 13 2007, 7pm.

An explosive this morning hit the United States embassy in the Greek capital Athens, with little damage but leaving a lot of question marks. Nobody go

THE MAN WHO HAS THE ANSWERS IS NOT TALKING by Henk Ruyssenaars - Foreign correspondent FPF - Europe - Jan. 12th 2007 - The Greek news agency published about the attack on the US embassy in Athens as follows: A strong blast was reported shortly before 6 a.m. (4 a.m. GMT) at the US embassy in central Athens, with Greek authorities now investigating inside the compound, according to the US ambassador." - Normally 'local authorities' are never allowed into any embassy area. A foreign embassy is 'extra-territorial'. What outside US embassy circles now is discussed is the question how anybody ever could come close enough to the US embassy at number 91 in the Vasilissis Sophias Avenue? Where for the past decades Greek special police, US Marines, guns, sniffer dogs and cameras have guarded the US embassy and the buildings around as some Fort Knox? Afraid of attacks by Greek and other people who for decades sincerely have disliked the US policy and what they have done to their country. Which with a CIA coup and the Greek 'colonels junta' was turned into a US colony and NATO base because it's strategically too very important for the US junta's quest for hegemony. But this 'terrorist attack' looks as suspicious as is possible, since only people connected or invited to the guarded US embassy can get anywhere close. No evidence - fake or real - has turned up yet. And it can't as usual be blamed on the 'November 17' (N-17) guerilla because the 'authorities' said they dismantled it.* But after forty years of US ruling still the Greek people keep saying - like most in the world - that Bush and Blair are the 'Butchers of Baghdad' and the US junta and it's war machine - including the UN plus NATO's troops and mercenaries - represent the real terrorists. Which is totally correct of course. The fact that US ambassador and Bush friend Ries immediately after the blast confirmed that the attack 'came from the outside' left the question unanswered how any person even could get close enough to throw a Molotov cocktail across the embassy's 3 meters (10 ft) high fences or carry around and shoot some kind of missile? "There is no justification for such an act of violence," Ries said and added that it was a "very serious" incident." Which may be used to further restrict what's left of civil liberties in this US colony with it's for freedom fighting people. [I've visited friends in Greece for decades. - HR] The US even was running secret jails of the American Gulag on military bases in Greece. - Url.: www.apfn.net/messageboard/ 01-06-06/discussion.cgi.72.html THE ANSWERS... It looks like the 'attack' on the US embassy as usual has been a 'false flag' operation by the US 'special ops forces' to divert global attention from the lost war in Iraq and the US junta's preparations to activate another 'false flag' operation to be able to start a nuclear war with Iran. ['False flag' - Google - http://tinyurl.com/ta9fl] - Never telling the people they brainwash that Iran is very much bigger in population and surface. And has bought arms for billions of oil money. And has been permanently controlled by the US via satellites too.* Now the Gulf is full of US warships and those of collaborating countries like Holland, waiting for the US orchestrated 'incident' to blind and brainwash people again. Like after the 9/11 'inside job', another US home made 'Pearl Harbor' as US commentator Roberts writes.* THE SILENT CIA MAN The man who has the answers and is not saying anything, is Thomas Countryman, at present the NSA/CIA liaison in Athens and as number 2 the 'policy officer' at the US embassy. Countryman learned most of his CIA tricks in the major CIA institute in the Arab world, situated in Tunisia in North Africa. As an independent foreign correspondent I had to know and knew also people at the US embassy, where I normally was invited during those years. And also of course by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) with the by the Israeli Mossad poisoned Chairman Yasser Arafat and his doomed cooperators as well.* Thomas Countryman was in Tunis in 1990/'91 and studied for a year at the CIA 'spy school' in Sidi Bou Said. He often ate his lunches at a small restaurant called 'La Bagatelle', on the other side of the street. I lived in Sidi Bou Said and very often lunched in 'La Bagatelle' too, in this very picturesque village on the beaches of the Mediterranean. [Sidi Bou Said Pics - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/vdhe9] In his official bio at says "From 1988 to 1990, Mr. Countryman studied Arabic language and culture at the Department's Foreign Service Institute in Virginia for one year, followed by a year at the Institute's field school in Tunis." At the embassy in Athens his function is described as Deputy Chief of Mission. Meaning he is the man in charge of overall security. THE CIA TRAINING CENTER As one of the last foreign correspondents I was declared 'persona non grata' and forced to leave the country July 31st in 1996. - [http://tinyurl.com/rw6o3 ] - A week after I arrived on 7 November 1987, coup general and president Zine El Abedine Ben Ali, the present military ruler of Tunisia, with american help took the power from old and ailing president Habib Bourguiba. The country which is an american colony, had, and apparently still has, the biggest secret Middle East 'CIA Arabic training center' in coastal Sidi Bou Said, 17 kilometers from the capital Tunis. The 'school' is next door to the US ambassadors residence, and can be seen from the terrace during receptions. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/585dc ] According to Countryman's cv: "He has been Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in Athens, Greece since September 2005. During Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, he served as the Political-Military Officer at the American Embassy in Cairo, Egypt. From 1991 to 1993, he was the senior officer for reporting on political, security, and religious affairs within Egypt. In 1993 and 1994, Mr. Countryman worked in the State Department's Office of Counter-Terrorism, where he helped to achieve passage of a UN Security Council resolution on bringing to justice the suspects in the bombing of Pan Am flight 103." THE BOMBING OF PAN AM FLIGHT 103 The last sentence again shows that Thomas Countryman is one of those fishy CIA characters. It didn't matter that Scotland Yard said that he and his CIA/FBI buddies falsified the evidence in the Lockerbie trial. A miscarriage of justice if there ever was one which was an eternal shame and mockery concerning human rights and justice. But Countryman 'helped' to bring the patsies to the Scottish kangoroo court. Url.: http://tinyurl.com/y6mujq Apart from the absolutely mad US junta's preparations for an attack on Iran - and if they still can, later on oil rich and close Venezuela - there are other protests they want to stop. Groups in Greece and the rest of Europe have to be silenced because they decided two weeks ago that coming 9th-11th February in Warsaw in Poland they'll hold an 'International Gathering To Prepare The Protests Against The G8-Summit 2007' to discuss the actions against the G-8 meeting in Rostock in Germany later this year. According to my point of view - working at a 15 minutes drive from the Dutch/German border - Germany and its policy under US stooge and PM Angela Merkel has become the murkil of the US junta in Europe. Again in November last year, Greek riot police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators marching to the US embassy in Athens who chanted slogans including "Bush the butcher, out of Iraq" and "The USA is the real terrorist". And Washington's junta abhors their very appropriate slogan: "To those who wants to dominate the world, the world responds: RESISTANCE!" But, as with a lot of irony can be said, it's good to know that the investigation is in the hands of qualified people... Who are specially trained for these kind of 'terrorist attacks'. By the CIA... HENK RUYSSENAARS REFERENCES + LINKS: UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO GREECE CHARLES P. RIES - Url.: http://athens.usembassy.gov/about_us/ambassador.htm US DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION - THOMAS M. COUNTRYMAN - Url.: http://athens.usembassy.gov/about_us/dcm.htm DISTRACTING CONGRESS FROM THE REAL WAR PLAN - By Paul Craig Roberts - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article16121.htm IRAN HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY CONTROLLED BY THE US - Url.: http://www.countercurrents.org/us-henk160805.htm LOCKERBIE : 2.7 BILLION $ SHAM AND SHAME - "This has been a political court case, where the verdict already was decided upon in advance" Prof. H. K?chler the UN observer said. - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4460.htm INTERNATIONAL GATHERING TO PREPARE THE PROTESTS AGAINST THE G8-SUMMIT 200 - Url.: http://dissentnetzwerk.org/node/129 ONE MORE IMPOSED FRIENDSHIP OF WAR - Picture Greek police guarding the National Assembly against the people - Url.: http://www.resistance2003.gr/en/news/story.php?id=97 NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE IS NEEDED FOR THE PICTURES: GREEK POLICE IN ACTION - Url.: http://www.2007-g8.tk/ US AND NOVEMBER 17TH: ACCORDING TO THE CIA VIA THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS November 17, Revolutionary People’s Struggle (Greece, leftists) - Url.: http://www.cfr.org/publication/9275/#1 THE ISRAELI SECRET SERVICE MOSSAD POISONED PLO LEADER ARAFAT. - Url.: http://forpressfound.blogspot.com/2006/11/israel-poisoned-arafat.html WHERE'S THE OIL IN IRAN? IS IT REALLY BIGGER THAN IRAQ? - Url.: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iran_petroleum_facilities_2004.jpg * HR / ARAFAT: FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS? - DOES THE 'ROAD MAP' LEAD TO 'ETERNAL PEACE' FOR THE PALESTINIANS ? - Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4666.htm * The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad - never in an English speaking country - for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism! Which also French President Jacques Chirac confirmed - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ym44vm * FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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21th day of trial, Aachen, monday, september 5th 2005

- Begonia is advocated by a new lawyer

- Taking of evidence finished

- Summing up speeches of the prosecutor

- Demanded sentences: Jose-15 years, Gabriel-14 years, 9 months, Bart-7

years, Begonia-13 months on probation 

(all sentences without a chance for get out of jail earlier)

- Summing up speech of the 

Today the trial began as sharp as it never did before and 'cos the 

judge

didn't wait for all visitors to make it through the controls there was

no friendly and loud "Hello"

for the three this time.

There was more police present then usually and in the neigboring street

8 police cars instead one could be found.

Begonia had the chance to change the lawyer. Today lawyer Schaefer is

present as substitution and from next time on the lawyer of her choice

will there.

It is announced that the applications for partiality are rejected, same

for two applications to hear further witnesses about the situation at

Halifaxstreet.

Lawyer Poell makes a statement about the cleaning of the audience space

during the last day of trial. One person who left the court room right

before this happened was

banned to not enter the house anymore, too. After this statement

Gabriels lawyer made an application with reading a text Gabriel wrote.

This text deals with results of his 

imprisonment and the torture in spanish prisons.

Lawyer Franke makes an application to hear the officer who interviewed

the witness Sommer whose car was the second one used for escape. He

should confirm that Mr. 

Sommer testified when he escaped he lost any sense of what happened

around him. (This testimony refers to that part of Barts accusation

which accuses him to have been actively involved of the stealing of the

car).

Prosecutor Geimer does as usually demand to reject all applications, 

the

first one 'cos there is no relevance to the trial and the other one 

'cos

it it too late.

After the judges retreated for consultation both application are

dismissed.

After a debate about lawyer Poells statement on the cleaning of the

audience space it is applied to hear the person who was banned from

entering the house without

any reason. The lawyer of Jose and Begonia join that application. The

chamber rejects it 'cos of the missing relevance to the taking of

evidences.

The chamber wants to close the taking of evidences. Following that

lawyer Ruppert makes an application to interrupt the trial 'cos today 

he

can only be present till 12:00

and wants to be present when the accuser does his final speech.

Begonias substitute lawyer declares that today he doesn't want to do 

the

pleading today. Judge Nohl assures him of that. When Nohl asks Begonia

she says the lawyer

of her choice from cologne will do the final speech.

The application of lawyer Ruppert is dismissed with the hint he could

obtain all details from lawyer Poell and this is the reason why there

are lawyers present.

What follows are the final speeches

At first: Prosecutor Geimer.

(comment: We tried to reproduce the final speeches of the prosecutor 

and

the joint plaintiff with the words they used. That we could not quote

everything is 'cos

we had no chance to write down excatly every word they used.

It is a pain to hear how they use the suffering of Mr. and Mrs. Schulz

and discredit Gabriels letter. And it is such a poor act that

"anarchists" "help" a prosecutor 

with his final speech. It hurts us to reproduce this so relaxed 'cos 

all

of the statements one has to question. These are final speeches of

lawyers who are aiming

at the maximum penalty...)

Final speech of the prosector:

Before he begins with his speech he declares that something like this

never happened before in his 25 year longing career as advocate for the

interests of the state.

On the one hand the behavior of the defendants, their behavior in court

and the intention to do this trial as a political one. On the other 

hand

the audience whose 

behavior was unbearable and who did a report after every day of the

trial one could read online. He rejects the political motives

vehemently. Regarding this he reads

a text where he quotes anarchists who declare that taking hostages has

nothing in common with anarchism, that a free society works without

violence (force) and

the defendants from Aachen are nothing but criminals. He uses this as

proof the trial is not a political one. It is blind solidarity and no

excuse.

All statements of the defendants were read after the taking of 

evidences

was done already that is why the statements must be seen as

constructions.

Concerning the points of the accusation he sees all of them as 

approved.

Accusation of Jose and Begonia about the bank robbery in Karlsruhe:

To him Jose is the for sure the committer of the bank hold-up 'cos he

was in Karlsruhe at this time the surveillance camera material convicts

him. He can't say for

sure that Begonia was his complice but she helped him on logistical

aspects since she lives in Karlsruhe and speaks german.

The fact of handling of stolen goods he sees as proved 'cos she was on

welfare, but bought a car for her brother and payed some debts.

Accusation of collusion for heist:

Two maps were found, wigs and walky talkies what indicates that they

were planning robberies. Nevertheless there are not enough proofs for

sentence on that.

Complex 3 and 4 of the accusation (control situation and chase)

Federal Frontier Guards testified the accused Jose and Gabriel had 

faked

papers with them, but they didn't realize this when checking it. The

situation escalated when they

said Jose should open the backpack what resulted in Jose and Gabriel

pulling their guns at the same time - this indicates they had an

arrangement on this.

Joint plaintill Schulz leaves the court room crying.

Geimer declares this is a proof he is still suffering from what

happened.

The hostages were forced to get into the car, Jose was driving and

witness Schulz sat right next to him. Bart was sitting in the back of

the car and so hindered Mrs. Schulz

to leave the car what makes him a complice. During the mad drive Jose

drove to the center of the city and 'cos of his life-threatening way of

driving Mrs. Weiss was slightly

injured when the first accident occured.

Gabriel was leaning out of the window and aimed at the car of the

Federal Frontier Police behind them. This was life-threatening to the

officers just as to the passersby 'cos

of possible richocets. Another life-threatening situation occured when

Jose was driving right through a group a passersby without using the

brakes. Only the prompt reaction of the passersby prevented harm. 

During

the escape Gabriel short various times at the car of the Federal

Frontier Police and again it was luck nothing happened. Because it was

not possible to go on with this car they had to change it. Before they

left with this new car Gabriel went to the car of Federal Frontier

Police and shot three times. A proof for this are the bullet casings. 

At

this time Bart had the chance to leave, but he remained inside the new

car and helped convincing witness Sommer to get into the car. But Mr.

Sommer could escape and the accused persons went to a shop and did dig

themselves in.

Begonia was resisting her arrestment, so the arrestment was rather

difficult just as the skilled officers affirmed. During the trial she

attracted attention by her arrogant behavior.

The guilt of Bart during the change of the car used for escape can be

determined.

The attempted murder the prosecutor derives from the firing off several

shots by Gabriel in combination with the valuation of the officers. He

points out that even the officers were old hands to them the situation

was very dangerous.

The missing criminal liabilty or reduced criminal liabilty - there is 

no

hint on that, the experts did clearly point it out.

Moral valuation: "What can be interceded for the defendants? NOTHING."

Begonia wasn't involved in the further deeds, that must be considered.

"What opposes the defendants? Massive use of force, brutality,

criminality."

The defense and the supporters show clear traits of belittlement. Mr.

Schulz is a proof for the heaviness of what happened 'cos even after a

year he can't stand staying inside the court room. A political

motivation of Gabriel and Jose can't be detected.

Concluding he states the citizens and the police must be protected by

court and justice as well: Only an insistent penalty can assure this.

The society needs to react on such a behavior to show that no one will

get away unpunished. Officers must be able to feel save. Political

motivations are just pleaded.

He demands the following sentence:

Jose:

Complex 1 (bank hold-up Karlsruhe): 5 years; Complex 2 (collusion to a

crime): acquittal; Complex 3 and 4 (resisting authority, intervention 

of

road traffic, mayhem, attempted armed roberry, taking hostages,

attempting murder): 12 years; Complex 5 (armed robbery, attempted

murder): 8 years

Overall duration of sentence: 15 years, without a chance to get 

released

earlier.

Gabriel:

Complex 2: (collusion to a crime); acquittal; Complex 3 and 4 

(resisting

authority, intervention of road traffic, mayhem, attempted armed

roberry, taking hostages, attempting murder): 12 years; Complex 5 

(armed

robbery, attempted murder): 10 years

Overall duration of sentence: 14 years, 9 months, without the chance to

get released earlier

Bart:

Complex 2: (collusion to a crime): 1 year, Complex 3 and 4 (resisting

authority, intervention of road traffic, mayhem, attempted armed

robbery, taking hostages, attempted murder): 4 years; Complex 5 (armed

robbery, attempted murder): 6 years

Overall duration of sentence: 7 years, without a chance to get released

earlier

Begonia:

Complex 1 (bank hold-up Karlsruhe): 1year, Complex 6 (resisting

authority): fine of 1200 Euro, 10 Euro a day

Overall duration of sentence: 13 months on probation

The wigs, weapons and the alleged money from the bank hold-up should be

confiscated.

Lawyer Poell declares the judges did already dismiss the accusation for

attempted murder. If the prosecutor now

comes up with this again he knows two applications he could make that

confute this. The first one would be the 

hearing of an officer who testified he saw the muzzle flash that means

the gun was pointed right at him what is

technically not possible. And the other application would deal with the

testimony three bullet casings were found 

what is not true as well 'cos the revolver couldn`t carry enough 

bullets

for that.

Final speech of the joint plaintiff:

The lawyer of the joint plaintiff just made some additions to what the

prosecutor already said. He pointed out the

hostages were not released, they escaped, still with panic another shot

could follow. Mrs. Schulz can`t participate

in the trial anymore, she just can`t stand it. What happened in court 

is

no tolerable treating of the court. The 

therapeutical method to handle what happened via being present in the

court room during the room was no

success. The traumata increased. It got so bad the marriage is in 

danger

now.

The apology Gabriel made to the former hostages with his letter doesn`t

deserve the label apology. Every

approach for excuse is followed by a "if" or "but". Not a single time 

he

says: I want to apologize. The worst

thing is the sentence: "I took away 5 minutes of your freedom, for me

this means years." Even if it had been

only 5 minutes (it was a lot longer, by the way), he didn't want to be

be the defendants on a mad drive, the

gun pointed at him. Regarding Mr. Schulz leaving the court room crying

he states: "Here it is no woman

that run away, a young man, but a man."

The judge asks the defense to do the final speech. The defense asks for

a five minute break. After

the break they declare to do the final speech all together which is

better than doing it in parts and lawyer

Ruppert isn`t present anymore and for Begonia only the

substitute-lawyer.

When asked Begonia says she wants the lawyer of her choice, Schulz, to

do the final speech which

is okay to the judge and the hint is made that her trial can be

separated from the one of the others.

The final speeches of the defense will be done during the next day of

trial on september 21th, 2005.