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TERROR IN AMERICA 911 -
TERROR IN AMERICA
Tue Sep 11, 2001
Part 3
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911 - TERROR IN AMERICA Part 4
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far
better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That
awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a
horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and
shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. -
----Mark Twain
"Why Jesus Cannot Create a New Earth Now." "Does God Care?"
Revelation 9:1-12 KJV
Fifth Trumpet
9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, "and I saw a star
fall from heaven unto the earth: and to Him was
given the key of the bottomless pit.
9:2 And He opened the bottomless pit; and
there arose a smoke out of the pit, as
the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun
and the air were darkened by the reason
of the smoke of the pit.
9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts
upon the earth: and unto them was given power
"as the scorpions of the earth have power.
9:4 And it was commanded them that they should
not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any
green thing, neither any tree; but only those
men which have not 'the seal of God in their
foreheads.
9:5 And to them that was given that they should
not kill them, but they should be tormented
five months: and their torment was as the torment
of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
9:6 And in those days shall men seek death,
and shall not find it; and shall desire to die,
and death shall flee from them.
9:7 And the shapes of the locusts were like
unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their
heads were as it were crowns like gold, and
their faces were as the faces of men.
9:8 And they had hair as the hair of women,
and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9:9 And they had breastplates of iron; and the
sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots
of many horses running to battle.
9:10 And they had the tails like unto scorpions,
and there were stings in their tails; and their
power was to hurt men five months.
9:11 And they had a king over them. which is
'A-bad'-don, but in the Greek tongue hath his
name A-pol'ly-on.
9:12 One woe is past; and behold, there come
two woes more hereafter.
O'Lord please deliver every soul that reads these lines. In Jesus Name, Amen!
[How to receive the Seal of God: Prayer]
Yes, Lord, I believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins, and arose from the dead, and is alive and well at this very moment at the right hand of the Father. Yes, I want Jesus to come into my heart, right now and take over my life. I am His forever and ever. Thank you Lord for this second chance to make my life right with You. And I will follow You the rest of the days of my life. In Jesus' Name. Amen
CAN YOU EXPLAIN? PLEASE SEE:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/travel_6-23-01.htmDraft Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001
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BIN LADEN HAS SHARES IN MASS. BIOMEDICAL COMPANY- HYBRIDON
From the company Web site: "The employees of Hybridon extend our
deepest sympathy to the families and friends of all those who perished or
were harmed by the terrible events of September 11, 2001. We support efforts
to protect freedom throughout the world...."
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BIN LADEN HAS SHARES IN MASS.
BIOMEDICAL COMPANY- HYBRIDON
Bin Ladens own stake in Mass. biomedical firm
by Jonathan Wells and Jack Meyers
Tuesday, September 25, 2001
Boston Herald
One of Osama bin Laden's brothers and a separate Saudi banking family
suspected of funneling millions of dollars to bin Laden's terrorist
organization own 28% of the stock in a Massachusetts biomedical firm
engaged in advanced DNA research.
Securities and Exchange records show that Yahia M. A. bin Laden, one of the
bin Laden siblings in charge of the family's Middle East-based construction
conglomerate, owns 16 percent of Cambridge-based Hybridon, Inc., an
11-year-old company developing new medicine to combat cancer and bolster
the human immune system.
A second stockholder in the company is Abdela bin Mahfouz, a member of a
wealthy family which controls Saudi Arabia's largest bank, National
Commercial Bank. That bank was accused by the Saudi government in 1999 of
trying to transfer at least $3 million to front organizations for Osama bin
Laden's terrorist organization. As of last
May, Abdela bin Mahfouz owned nearly 12 percent of the stock in Hybridon.
Earlier SEC filings show that another member of the family, Abdulrahman bin
Mahfouz, held stock in Hybridon. Abdulrahman bin Mahfouz is a director of
the National Commercial Bank as well as a board member of Blessed Relief, a
Sudan-based charity, which U.S. officials say served as a front for Osama
bin Laden.
Robert Anderson, chief operating officer of Hybridon, said Yahia bin Laden
and the bin Mahfouz family have been ``loyal stockholders.'' ``We don't
have any issue with the background of the investors. We don't have any
concern,'' Anderson said. ``These families put money in early on . . . they
deal at arms length. I imagine they have a number of investments in the
U.S.'' ``We are a legitimate company which is developing medicine,''
Anderson added. ``We have dedicated scientists doing cancer research, not
anything harmful.''
Hybridon, incorporated in 1990, is one of a handful of companies in the
U.S. developing ``antisense'' technology, which involves the design of
synthetic DNA material to inhibit the body's production of disease-causing
protein. The biggest U.S. company involved in the antisense field, Isis
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is currently working under a $6.6 million research
grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to see if this new technology can
be used to counteract the devastating effects of biological weapons.
Hybridon has an agreement under which it licenses intellectual property to
Isis, but according to Anderson, Hybridon has no involvement in any
research related to germ warfare. ``Currently we don't,'' Anderson said.
``I guess if Isis were successful in some way we would consider it.''
As far as Anderson knows, Hybridon researchers do not work with materials
useful in the development of biological weapons. Anderson said he has never
met Yahia bin Laden in person or spoken with him by telephone. However, he
provided the Herald with a copy of a statement Hybridon received from the
head of the bin Laden family in Saudi
Arabia a few days after the U.S. named Osama bin Laden as the chief suspect
in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C. Signed
by Abdullah A. A. bin Laden, the statement declared the bin Laden family's
``strong denunciation and
condemnation of this tragic incident which has resulted in the loss of
lives of so many innocent men, children and women, which run counter to
our gracious religion and which is repugnant to all religions and humanity.
.. . . We express our condolences to the families and relatives of the
innocent victims.''
Restating a position first announced by the family in 1994, Abdullah bin
Laden also asserted that ``the bin Laden family has no relation at all with
(Osama bin Laden's) acts and conducts.'' The message was delivered to
Hybridon through the Saudi Arabian consulate in the United States. Another
Hybridon stockholder and member of the company's board of directors is
Camille A. Chebeir, whose company, Saudi Economic Development Co., manages
bin Mahfouz family money, which reportedly totals some
$4 billion. Chebeir, the former executive vice president of the bin
Mahfouz's National Commercial Bank, was appointed to Hybridon's board in
1999. According to reports in USA Today and by the Associated Press that
same year, Saudi government officials audited National Commercial Bank and
its founder, Khalid bin Mahfouz, and found that several of the country's
wealthiest businessmen had ordered the bank to transfer more than $3
million to New York and London, where it was placed in the accounts of
Islamic charities, including Blessed Relief. Khalid bin Mahfouz was
reportedly placed under
house arrest after the discovery of the transactions.
Anderson said he is unaware of any alleged financial dealings between the
bin Mahfouz family and Osama bin Laden's organization. Of the bin Laden and
bin Mahfouz stock ownership, Anderson said: ``They have a vote for their
number of shares at the annual meeting. Like any other common stockholder,
they're allowed to vote their shares.
``Surely these people have significant investments in other companies,'' he
added.
``There must be many, many others because these people have vast amounts of
money. Why single out a little company like ours?''
Yahia bin Laden (also spelled Yehia) is one of three brothers who exert the
most control over the Saudi-based Bin Laden Group, according to research by
PBS' Frontline, and he is currently negotiating with Lebanese officials for
a $50 million contract to help rebuild war-torn central town Beirut.http://www.bostonherald.com/attack/investigation/fami09252001.htm
==========================================Man who allegedly helped two hijackers get IDs is charged
By Pete Yost, Associated Press
25 September 2001
The FBI is seeking nearly 400 people for questioning in the terrorist attacks probe while federal prosecutors build a criminal case involving identification cards for five of the hijackers. One man has been charged.
As the investigation moved forward, a Florida bank president said he had been told that one of the men suspected in the Sept. 11 hijackings of four airliners tried to get a loan from the U.S. Agriculture Department to buy a crop dusting plane.
Attorney General John Ashcroft told Congress the FBI had gathered information raising fears that crop dusters could be used in a biological or chemical attack.
In the criminal case, the government said Herbert Villalobos accompanied Abdul Aziz Al Omari and Ahmed Saleh Al Ghamdi to a lawyer's office in Virginia on Aug. 2 to help the two suspected hijackers obtain state identity cards.
When shown photos of the hijackers by the FBI, Villalobos recognized three other suspects "believed to have commandeered American Airlines Flight 77" from Washington Dulles International Airport that crashed into the Pentagon, according to court documents. Villalobos said Hani Hanjour, Salem Al Hazmi and Majed Moqed were at the Arlington, Virginia, office of the state Department of Motor Vehicles on Aug. 2, just as Al Omari and Al Ghamdi were.
"Virginia DMV records ... show that all five men did in fact conduct various transactions relating to Virginia identification cards at the Arlington DMV," said a seven–page affidavit by an FBI agent.
The affidavit did not say whether the five used the IDs to become ticketed passengers aboard the doomed flights, which also crashed in New York City and a field in Pennsylvania.
The FBI says Al Omari was aboard American Airlines Flight 11 that struck the north tower of the World Trade Center.
Al Ghamdi was aboard United Flight 175 that hit the trade center's south tower. Villalobos was charged with unlawfully signing a Virginia residency form for Al Omari.
More than 6,000 people are missing and presumed dead from the attacks, in which Saudi exile Osama bin Laden has been named the leading suspect.
Ashcroft said 352 people have been arrested or detained in the investigation. Another 392 are being sought for questioning.
Robert Epling of Community Bank of Florida said he's been told that Mohamed Atta, one of the suspected hijackers, sought a USDA loan for a crop duster. The USDA is a tenant in the bank.
"We understand he was turned down" at the USDA "and they referred him to us," said Epling. A loan officer at the bank remembered a phone call from someone inquiring about crop dusters, an unusual request because there are so few of the planes left in the area, Epling said. Nothing came of the inquiry.
James Lester, an employee of South Florida Crop Care in Belle Glade, told the FBI that Atta was among the men who in groups of two or three visited the crop dusting firm nearly every weekend for six or eight weeks before the attacks.
Crop dusters weren't the only concern.
In Michigan the president of a truck driving school confirmed two men arrested last week had attended the school and one of them obtained a permit to transport hazardous materials.
Karim Koubriti, 23, and Ahmed Hannan, 33, taken into custody Sept. 17, attended the U.S. Truck Driver Training School in Detroit this summer, said the school's president, Joseph LaBarge. Koubriti passed the state commercial drivers license exam on Aug. 22 and received a permit to transport hazardous materials. Hannan failed the road test, LaBarge said.
Koubriti and Hannan were living in the same Detroit residence as an earlier tenant who also is under arrest in the probe, Nabil Al–Marabh. Al–Marabh also was certified to transport hazardous materials and is licensed to drive trucks and other large vehicles.
Al–Marabh, a former Boston cab driver, was transferred to New York following four days of questioning, FBI spokeswoman Virginia Wright said.
In other developments:
– French anti–terrorist police detained at least two people early Tuesday in connection with a planned attack on the U.S. embassy in Paris and other U.S. interests in France, police officials and French media reported.
–The FAA said it was considering requiring that airline and airport workers' identifications be verified, followed by new checks of employment histories and possible criminal backgrounds. The order on background checks would affect tens of thousands of airport workers who have access to secure locations in airports, such as baggage handlers, food service workers and mechanics. Initially, FAA officials said the order had been given. But late Monday, the agency said it was still considering the idea and hadn't formally acted.
–The Coast Guard is requiring that incoming vessels supply local port officials with the identities of crew members and passengers. "We want to identify individuals and cargos that should not get into the United States," Capt. Mike Lapinski said.
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YOU Paid for the TerrorAs the politicians and pundits scream for the blood of all those who harbor, finance or support terrorism – do not mistake the fact that YOUR money paid for the criminal acts perpetrated on September 11, 2001. How’s that workin’ out for ya? Don’t get squeamish on me. If it weren’t true, I wouldn’t say it. Your government financed the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The only "suspect" named and lined up for eradication in this case is a bought and paid for "former" U.S. intelligence asset named Osama Bin Ladin. Stay tuned, this isn’t even up for debate. It’s a fact. Peter Jennings and his allies in the Palestinian authority know it, George W. Bush and the globalist elite know it, and the entire Intelligence establishment of the United States government knows it. So… Why is this the most important untold story in the world today? The mainstream media and your government representatives are complicit in the mass-murder committed in the attacks that took place on September 11, 2001. They are guilty of harboring and giving aid and comfort to the perpetrators of this heinous act, and, in the long run, they are the very institutions responsible for the carnage. The mainstream media and YOUR representatives could have confessed to their complicity after the Oklahoma City bombing, but they did not. Further anti-terrorism legislation was going to be needed to put a stop to the NON-EXISTANT "homegrown terrorism" threat. The globalists were more than willing to attack the militias and other "right-wing" extremists, but they were intent on avoiding any admission of culpability for the crime.
America is waving the flag for unity while beating the drums of war. America is claiming that "Freedom" was attacked on September 11, 2001. But, Freedom was dead and buried long before September 11th, and the war that the ignorant masses seek will be more horrible than they can even imagine. At the end of all of this, we will have a One-World Government, a Global Apostate Religion and we will join these two abominations with the Global finance system that already controls the money system of the world. You will be forced to take a "mark", without which you will not buy or sell. You will wave your flag and beat your drums in the Globo-fascist world that you have helped to create. And you will bow your knee to Caesar, or you will lose your head for your trouble.
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Bin Laden's family link to Bush
by PETER ALLEN, Daily Mail
n summer 1971, Osama and Salem Bin Laden enjoyed a holiday in Sweden with some of their 55 brothers and sisters.
Yet within a few years, the two teenagers' lives had taken stunningly different turns.
As the world knows to its cost, Osama embraced Islamic fundamentalism and 30 years later was named the world's most wanted man. He is prime suspect in the murder of nearly 7,000 in the worst ever terrorist atrocities in the U.S. earlier this month.
Incredibly, Salem went on to become a business partner of the man who is leading the hunt for his brother. In the 1970s, he and George W Bush were founders of the Arbusto Energy oil company in Mr Bush's home state of Texas.
Photos reveal the brothers on family holiday to the Swedish town of Falun, 150 miles north-west of Stockholm, when Osama was 14 and Salem around 19.
The brothers had recently inherited a fortune from their construction magnate father, Mohammed. He left millions to each of his 57 children by 12 wives after dying in a plane crash in 1968.
Osama and Salem first visited Falun in 1970, arriving in a blue Rolls-Royce flown to Copenhagen by private jet. They liked the town so much they returned with other family members a year later.
Learning that the Bin Ladens, originally from Saudi Arabia, were staying at the Astoria Hotel, a local photographer asked the unusual visitors to pose.
Astoria owner Christina Akerblad said last night: 'They were beautiful boys, so elegantly dressed. Everybody loved them.
'Osama played with my two boys, Anders and Gerk.
'What's happened since is absolutely terrible. The first time I realised Osama had turned into a terrorist was when I saw his photograph in a magazine article about the bombing. He and his brother were such nice boys.'
At that time the brothers both delighted in their enormous wealth. Salem - wearing a polo neck and slacks as he crouches three places from Osama, in jeans and a skinny rib jumper - put a large part of his money into business ventures, including Arbusto Energy.
Mr Bush was not long out of Harvard Business School when he started the company in 1978.
Salem watched it grow into a hugely successful business until his death in a microlight plane crash in Texas in 1983.
As he built his own business empire, Salem Bin Laden had an intriguing relationship with the president-to-be.
In 1978, he appointed James Bath, a close friend of Mr Bush who served with him in the Air National Guard, as his representative in Houston, Texas.
It was in that year that Mr Bath invested $50,000 (about £34,000) in Mr Bush's company, Arbusto. It was never revealed whether he was investing his own money or somebody else's.
There was even speculation that the money might have been from Salem. In the same year, Mr Bath bought Houston Gulf Airport on behalf of the Saudi Arabian multimillionaire. Three years ago, Mr Bush said the $50,000 investment in Arbusto was the only financial dealing he had with Mr Bath.
Last night a White House spokesman was unavailable for comment.
Before his death, Salem was married to Briton Caroline Carey, now 35.
She has never spoken about her brother-in-law Osama, who was disowned by the rest of his family in 1991 when he was expelled from Saudi Arabia for his anti-government activities.
Now living in luxury in a Cairo villa, she has married twice into the Bin Laden family - first to Salem, and now to a younger brother, Khaled. She has a daughter by each brother.
Three years ago a family friend said: 'She first met Salem when she was just a child - no more than five years old.
'He was a friend of the family but at that stage no one would have dreamed that they would end up marrying.
'When they met again as adults, Caroline was 20 and Salem twice her age.
'Salem was the head of the Bin Laden family as the oldest of all the brothers and sisters.
'He was a man with a powerful presence.'
They married and, after his death, Caroline decided to bring up her daughter in Saudi Arabia.
'Caroline was a widow for nearly ten years before deciding to marry Khaled,' said the friend. 'He is one of the younger brothers and very quiet and loving.
'She can never speak publicly about her marriage, or anything else for that matter, or she would be cut off from the family.'
Caroline's father, a retired psychology lecturer from Hampstead, said: 'My daughter is very happy with Khaled. She decided to stay on in Saudi Arabia because she found her family there to be so loving and supportive.'
Yesterday FBI agents swooped on a Boston suburb where around 20 of the wealthy relatives of Bin Laden live. They questioned them at a condominium complex in Charlestown. Agents even began visiting nightclubs to collect credit cards of younger members of the family.
Bin Laden's younger brother Mohammed, who is said to have moved back to Saudi Arabia with his wife and children several years ago, owns a ten-bedroom mansion in nearby Wayland.
Another younger brother, Abdullah, is a 1994 graduate of Harvard Law School. The family has given it £2million in endowments to research Islamic law.
Most of Bin Laden's family have in the past strongly denounced the 44-year-old fugitive, now living in Afghanistan.
The FBI in Boston has long been aware of his extended family and began monitoring their activities after the 1998 terrorist bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa.
The Bin Ladens still run one of the biggest construction companies in the world.
http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/news/article.html?in_article_id=74355&in_page_id=1263
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9/28/01
WALL STREET JOURNAL: BUSH SR. IN BUSINESS WITH BIN LADEN FAMILY CONGLOMERATE THROUGH CARLYLE GROUP
FAMILY HAD RENOUNCED TIES TO TERRORIST SON BUT FAMILY STILL UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION
FATHER OF PRESIDENT SHOULD PULL OUT OF INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING FIRM
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption and abuse, reacted with disbelief to The Wall Street Journal report of yesterday that George H.W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an international consulting firm. The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden family at least twice. (Other top Republicans are also associated with the Carlyle group, such as former Secretary of State James A. Baker.) The terrorist leader Osama bin Laden had supposedly been "disowned" by his family, which runs a multi-billion dollar business in Saudi Arabia and is a major investor in the senior Bush’s firm. Other reports have questioned, though, whether members of his Saudi family have truly cut off Osama bin Laden. Indeed, the Journal also reported yesterday that the FBI has subpoenaed the bin Laden family business’s bank records.
Judicial Watch earlier this year had strongly criticized President Bush’s father’s association with the Carlyle Group, pointing out in a March 5 statement that it was a "conflict of interest (which) could cause problems for America’s foreign policy in Middle East and Asia." Judicial Watch called for the senior Bush to resign from the firm then.
"This conflict of interest has now turned into a scandal. The idea of the President’s father, an ex-president himself, doing business with a company under investigation by the FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is horrible. President Bush should not ask, but demand, that his father pull out of the Carlyle Group," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
"This has the potential of making ‘Billygate’ (Jimmy Carter’s brother’s dealings with Libya) look like small potatoes," added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
See "Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending Due to Ties to U.S. Bank," by Daniel Golden, James Bandler, and Marcus Walker, The Wall Street Journal, 9/28/01http://www.judicialwatch.org/press_release.asp?pr_id=1624
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Why the Bush administration wants war
Statement of the WSWS Editorial Board
14 September 2001In the midst of the hysterical war mongering of the US government and a state-controlled media that knows no shame, it is more than ever necessary to retain not only one’s composure, but also one’s ability to think, analyze, and reason. It is surely appropriate to mourn the terrible loss of life on September 11. But sympathy for the victims, their families and friends should not blind anyone to the fact that powerful sections of the US ruling elite view this tragedy as a welcome opportunity to implement a militaristic agenda that has been in the works for more than a decade.
Modern wars require a pretext, a casus belli that can be packaged to the public as a sufficient justification for the resort to arms. Every major war in which the United States has been involved since its emergence as an imperialist world power—from the Spanish-American War of 1898 to the Balkan War of 1999—has required a catalytic event that inflamed public opinion.
But whatever the nature of such trigger events, they never proved, in the light of sober historical analysis, to be the real cause of the wars that followed. Rather, the actual decision to go to war—while facilitated by the change in public opinion produced by the casus belli—flowed in each instance from more essential considerations rooted in the strategic political and economic interests of the ruling elite.
"War," said von Clausewitz in his oft-quoted aphorism, "is the continuation of politics by other means." This means, in essence, that war is a means by which governments seek to secure political ends they could not achieve peacefully. There is no reason to believe that this profound truth does not apply to the events that are now unfolding in the aftermath of Tuesday’s hijackings and bombings.
The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have been seized on as an opportunity to implement a far-reaching political agenda for which the most right-wing elements in the ruling elite have been clamoring for years. Within a day of the attack, before any light had been shed on the source of the assault or the dimensions of the plot, the government and the media had launched a coordinated campaign to declare that America was at war and the American people had to accept all the consequences of wartime existence.
The policies that are now being advanced—an open-ended expansion of US military action abroad and a crackdown on dissent at home—have long been in preparation. The US ruling elite has been hampered in implementing such policies by the lack of any significant support within the American population and resistance from its imperialist rivals in Europe and Asia.
Now the Bush administration has decided to exploit the public mood of shock and revulsion over the events of September 11 to advance the global economic and strategic aims of American imperialism. He has the full support of a debased media and a Democratic Party that is more than happy to end any pretense of opposition to the Republican right.
On Thursday Bush all but admitted as much, declaring that the atrocity carried out two days before had provided "an opportunity to wage war against terrorism." He went on to say that the conduct of this war would be the focus of his entire administration. Such a declaration of unabashed militarism would have been unthinkable prior to September 11. But the assault on the World Trade Center had, in the parlance of imperialist real politik, created new facts.
Without having begun to seriously investigate, let alone explain, the very strange circumstances surrounding the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the Bush administration and the media have declared that all-out war is the only possible response to these events. This is before the government has even established the political identity of the terrorists, or answered troubling questions about how such an elaborate plot—apparently involving dozens of conspirators operating within the United States—could have gone completely undetected by the FBI, CIA and associated intelligence agencies.
Nor have the Federal Aviation Administration, the Air Force or the FBI explained the failure to issue an alert or attempt to intercept the hijacked airliners as they swerved off course and made for the nerve centers of the US financial and military establishment.
For all the claims of sorrow and sympathy, there could not have been a more timely or fortuitous event for the Bush administration than the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. When George W. Bush awoke on September 11, he presided over an administration in deep crisis. Having come to power on the basis of fraud and the suppression of votes, his government was seen by millions both in the US and around the world as illegitimate.
The very narrow social base of support his administration had in the beginning was rapidly eroding in the face of a deepening economic slump in the US and around the world. Unable to advance any solution to the growth of unemployment and catastrophic losses on the stock market, facing criticism over the evaporation of the budget surplus and the reversal of its pledge not to spend Social Security funds, the administration was showing signs of internal dissension and disarray.
Some three weeks before, on August 20, the New York Times carried a front-page article expressing the fears within ruling circles that world capitalism was descending into a global recession of massive proportions. "The world economy," the Times wrote, "which grew at a raging pace just last year, has slowed to a crawl as the United States, Europe, Japan and some major developing countries undergo a rare simultaneous slump."
The Times continued: "The latest economic statistics from around the globe show that many regional economic powers—Italy and Germany, Mexico and Brazil, Japan and Singapore—have become economically stagnant, defying expectations that growth in other countries would help compensate for the slowdown in the United States.... [M]any experts say the world is experiencing economic whiplash, with growth rates retreating more quickly and in more of the leading economies than at any time since the oil shock of 1973. And this time there is no single factor to account for the widespread weakness, persuading some economists that recovery may be slow in coming.
"‘We have gone from boom to bust faster than any time since the oil shock,’ said Stephen S. Roach, the chief economist of Morgan Stanley, a New York investment bank. ‘When you screech to a halt like that, it feels like getting thrown through the windshield.’"
The Times derisively described the response of the Bush administration to the unfolding crisis: "The Bush administration still puts a relatively bright gloss on the picture." It reported with unconcealed skepticism the White House projection of a sharp upturn in the US economy later this year or in early 2002.
On the same day the Times reported that Ford Motor Co. was preparing to announce more layoffs and quoted CEO Jacques Nasser as saying, "We don’t see any factor that’s going to restore the robustness of the economy" in the next 12 to 18 months.
The Wall Street Journal provided an equally gloomy assessment, writing: "Almost a year after the slump in high tech and manufacturing began, many of the other pillars that have been supporting the economy are starting to weaken. Businesses that started slashing spending on equipment and software late last year are now doing the same on office and industrial real estate...
"Automobile sales, which were surprisingly healthy most of this year thanks to generous incentives and low interest rates, have started to slide.... Since April, most industry groups tracked by the Labor Department have been reducing payrolls.... Construction shaved 61,000 jobs between March and July, the clearest example of the spillover from high tech and manufacturing."
The mood of gloom within business circles turned to near panic last Friday when the Labor Department’s jobless report for August showed a sharp rise in the unemployment rate, from 4.5 percent to 4.9 percent in a single month. Nearly one million jobs were wiped out in August, as job cuts hit every sector of the economy. Faced with the prospect of a collapse in consumer spending, investors rushed to dump their stock holdings. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 230 points, ending the day well below the 10,000 mark.
The economic crisis compounded a host of foreign policy dilemmas confronting the Bush administration. Washington’s policy in Iraq was in a shambles, with sanctions crumbling and the US facing open opposition from France, Germany, Russia and China to its plans for maintaining sanctions and intensifying its vendetta against Saddam Hussein. On this and other major issues the US was finding itself unable to get resolutions through the United Nations Security Council and other international bodies. On a whole host of issues—missile defense, global warming, an international criminal court—the US was in open conflict with most of its nominal allies.
The growth of social protest and anti-capitalist sentiment was expressed in the wave of "anti-globalization" demonstrations, which revealed the extreme isolation of the governments of all the major powers and rising popular discontent over their right-wing policies, seen to be embodied above all in the Bush administration.
But in the aftermath of the September 11 terror attack the Bush administration, aided by a cynical and sophisticated media campaign, has been working to whip up a patriotic war fever that will enable it to overcome, at least temporarily, its immediate problems, while creating the conditions for profound and lasting changes on both the foreign and domestic front.
In the name of national unity, the Democratic Party has given Bush a blank check to wage war, increase military spending and curtail civil liberties. As one commentator aptly put it, "We will be operating as if we have a national unity party. That means alternative voices will be suppressed."
The Washington Post spoke for the liberal establishment in a September 14 editorial calling for the curtailment of democratic and civil rights. Entitled "New Rules," the editorial declared: "[I]f replying to that attack is truly to become an organizing principle of US policy, as we believe it should—if the United States is to undertake the difficult and sustained campaign against those who threaten it—then neither politics nor diplomacy can return to where they were.... This is most of all true as Congress and others discuss the possible need to sacrifice privacy, freedom of movement or other liberties to the needs of domestic security."
Tens of billions of dollars will be pumped into the economy in the form of military and security spending, and to rebuild the devastated sections of New York City. The viability of what remains of the social safety net—Medicare and Social Security—will not be allowed to stand in the way of pursuing the twilight struggle of good versus evil proclaimed by the White House and Congress.
Every restriction on the exercise of US military might and the counterrevolutionary activities of the CIA will be lifted. For years the most reactionary sections of the ruling elite, in the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal and the publications of right-wing think tanks, have been agitating for an end to the "Vietnam syndrome" and calling for the unbridled use of military force to secure the interests of US imperialism. Now they see the opportunity to realize their agenda.
Already leading spokesmen of both parties are demanding the rescinding of the presidential order banning the use of assassinations as a tool of foreign policy. The Democrats have agreed to vote for a resolution giving the White House virtually unlimited authority to go to war against any nation that it claims is aiding or encouraging terrorists. There is little doubt that one of the first targets for a massive bombing campaign, combined with a ground invasion, will be Iraq. But other countries are certain to follow.
As one military officer said on Wednesday, "The constraints have been lifted." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the contemplated military action will "not be restricted to a single entity, state or non-state entity." Georgia Democrat Zell Miller was more blunt in expressing the bloodlust that prevails in government circles: "Bomb the hell out of them. If there’s collateral damage, so be it."
Senator John McCain said the US should "not rule out any force short of nuclear weapons." New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, in a piece entitled "World War III," refused to make such a caveat, writing that while the September 11 attack "may have been the first major battle of World War III, it may be the last one that involves only conventional, non-nuclear weapons."
The American people, at a moment of enormous grief and anxiety, are being told they must accept the prospect of having their sons and daughters sent to distant parts to kill and be killed, to fight an enemy or enemies yet to be named, and at the same time acquiesce to the gutting of their democratic rights.
What they are not being told is that the American corporate and financial elite, in the name of a holy war against terrorism, intends to rain death and destruction on countless thousands of people in order to realize global aims it has long harbored. Can there be any doubt that this crusade for "peace" and "stability" will become the occasion for the US to tighten its grip over the oil and natural gas resources of the Middle East, the Persian Gulf and the Caspian? Behind the pious and patriotic declarations of politicians and media commentators stand the long-cherished designs of American imperialism to dominate new parts of the world and establish global hegemony.
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Bin Laden prepares new attacks SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COMSunday, September 30, 2001
LONDON — Saudi billionaire fugitive Osama Bin Laden is preparing to launch new terrorist attacks over next few weeks, according to information obtained by western intelligence.
Officials said Bin Laden is believed to have ordered his agents in both Europe and the United States to scan targets and prepare spectacular strikes that could resemble those of the Islamic suicide attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11.
Bin Laden's plans have alarmed both London and Washington as well as several European capitals, Middle East Newsline reports. Officials said their concern is based on intelligence information obtained over the last two weeks.
"I understand he is preparing for high-impact terrorist attacks in the coming weeks, if he's able to," British Minister for Europe Peter Hain said. "We've got to track him down. We've got to stop him."
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw agreed. Straw told the British Broadcasting Corp. that Bin Laden is preparing attacks. Western intelligence agencies, he said, do not know Bin Laden's targets.
"There continues to be a risk of them making further attacks," Straw said. "We don't know exactly where. On the one hand none of us wish to raise anxiety in the minds of the public, but we would be complacent and irresponsible not to warn of the risks."
Officials both in London and Washington assess that Bin Laden has hundreds of agents based in Europe and the United States on call for suicide attacks. They said the attacks could be launched even if Bin Laden is killed in a U.S. military campaign against terrorism.
On Sunday, the London-based Observer weekly reported that Britain and the United States would launch an attack on Bin Laden within two days. Other reports said U.S. commandos are already operating in Afghanistan.
Earlier this week a leading Arabic daily reported that Pakistan and the United States have agreed to launch a campaign to overthrow the ruling Afghan Taliban movement within days. The London-based Al Hayat reported on Wednesday that Islamabad and Washington have agreed to cooperate with the northern-based Afghan opposition in a drive to oust Taliban from Kabul. But the newspaper said the Bush administration and Congress do not agree on any military campaign against Taliban.
The newspaper quoted Russian sources as saying that a military campaign against Taliban could begin as early as between Thursday and Saturday. Such a campaign, the sources said, would be used by Russian President Vladimir Putin for a military offensive against Chechen rebels.
The sources said Britain and the United States will probably begin with a massive air attack on Taliban installations in Afghanistan. They said U.S. units have arrived in neighboring Uzbekistan for such an assault and have taken over Dushanbe airport, the largest in Central Asia.
Over the last week, Washington has been consulting with Russia over intelligence estimates regarding the military strength of Taliban. The assessment is that Taliban has about 30 Soviet-era tanks, none of them more modern than either the T-62 or T-55 models.
Taliban is also believed to have between 15 and 20 MiG-21 fighter-jets as well as the Sukhoi-22. Russian sources said Taliban is also said to have a limited arsenal of Scud ground-to-ground missiles and U.S.-made Stinger shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles.
But in Washington, U.S. officials have not ruled out the prospect that Taliban or Bin Laden might use chemical weapons against U.S. troops. The Washington Times reported on Wednesday that Bin Laden has acquired from Russian organized crime groups components for weapons of mass destruction. The newspaper said Bin Laden might also have a nuclear weapons laboratory inside Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, the Pentagon ordered 2,000 more reservists to duty. Later, the House approved a $343 billion defense bill that diverted $400 million in funds from missile defense to counterterrorism efforts. In all, $6 billion has been allocated for counterterrorism. http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_4.html
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[excerpt]
The method described by Gardner is sometimes called
"patient gradualism." By slowly sapping our country’s
sovereignty, globalists can achieve the objective of
empowering the UN to act as a world government without
attracting a great deal of public opposition. But
there is an alternative approach: Using sudden
crises, such as wars, disasters, terrorism, or
similar threats, to scare the public into accepting
a new world order.
See: The UN Is NOT Your Friend
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World's doctors warn of germ warfare risk
Fri Oct 5 00:00:10 2001
APFN
Not sure exactly what's happening here but I wanted to pass the following on
to you......
Please note that a friend of mine is visiting Michigan and passed the
following on to me.
There is an apparent outbreak of Meningitis in Garden City, Michigan (near
Detroit).
Kalamazoo, Michigan has an E-Coli outbreak via the water system.
There have been several calls that stated two men so far have dropped dead
with heart problems in their mid-forties. As far as I know these men had no
known previous heart problems. One more item I would like to mention that I
feel is most important----both of these men in different parts of the country
had blood which came from their mouth during the process of their demise,
Could these men have been misdiagnosed?
Now several articles tell the story of the man in Florida that has been
diagnosed with Pulmonary Anthrax, the weird part is that they say perhaps the
man contracted the anthrax from a creek ---
a lie for sure----Anthrax from the water would cause Gastro- intestinal
Anthrax NOT Pulmonary Anthrax.
The following article from the World Medical Association warns that a few
cases may be seen at clinics--------"This was because the first sign that
any biological attack had been carried out would probably come with the
appearance of a just a few patients at a clinic."
In Florida they are stating that there is "no need to worry"--the case of the
gentleman in Florida is merely an isolated case. Some Miami stations are now
stating that the Lantana, FL man was misdiagnosed. Well------the lies
continue.
Now is the time-please network the outbreaks and pay attention to the
hospitals and drug stores. We do appreciate input.
Here is the article.
World's doctors warn of germ warfare risk
By Richard Waddington
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Medical Association warned Thursday that nations
were not adequately equipped to deal with terrorist attacks using biological
or chemical weapons.
The group, bringing together doctors' associations from 72 countries, said
the threat posed by such weaponry demanded vigilance from all sectors --
governments down to individual physicians.
"The WMA called on governments to acknowledge and act on the extreme danger
of chemical and biological weapons," the association said in a statement
issued at the start of a special three-day meeting of its governing council.
The WMA had been scheduled to hold its annual assembly in New Delhi but the
gathering was called off after the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United
States. A smaller council meeting was convened instead for the French town of
Ferney-Voltaire, near the Swiss border.
Doctors said they were deeply concerned that any future attacks might involve
the use of biological weapons that had the potential to be even more lethal
than last month's assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Some 6,000 people died or are missing and presumed dead after pilots slammed
planes into the landmarks in attacks which the United States says were
orchestrated by Saudi-born Islamic militant Osama bin Laden.
The WMA said a program of education for doctors and health workers was
required in order to ensure they could quickly detect symptoms of a chemical
or biological attack. The WMA also called for greater international
cooperation between health services.
INSIDIOUS RISK
A WMA report presented at the meeting pointed out that any attack with
biological weapons was likely to be insidious rather than instantly dramatic,
with infections possibly spreading for days or even weeks until detected.
"The release of organisms causing smallpox, plague and anthrax could prove
catastrophic in terms of the resulting illnesses and deaths, compounded by
the panic such outbreaks would generate," it said.
"We have to increase our vigilance and improve coordination between military
defense and medical areas," the president of the American Medical
Association, Richard Corlin, told Reuters.
This was because the first sign that any biological attack had been carried
out would probably come with the appearance of a just a few patients at a
clinic.
"We need to ensure that we will be quick off the mark. In dealing with a
biological weapon attack, the key is the speed of the response. This means
quickly identifying that it has taken place," Corlin said.
"The level of readiness is only spotty. I don't think we have in place the
systems needed," he added.
The WMA report noted that advances in biological and genetic research had
made it easier for groups of would-be attackers to obtain weapons of germ
warfare. It was also often difficult to tell the difference between programs
of legitimate medical research and weapons production, it added.
The United States briefly grounded crop-dusting planes following the New York
and Washington attacks on fears they could be used to spread toxic chemicals
or germs.
============================================================It's all about the "O" [Oil] word!
Thu Oct 4 02:17:14 2001
It's all about the "O" word!
The brother of Osama bin Laden, Salem bin Laden was killed mysteriously in 1988 after
his plane, an BAC 1-11, crashed in Texas soon after a meeting concerning an "oil deal"
with George Bush. It is time for the American people to wake up and demand the truth.
http://www.aztlan.net/judwatch.htm
WALL STREET JOURNAL: Bush Sr. in business with bin Laden
family conglemerate through Carlyle Group
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and
prosecutes government corruption and abuse, reacted with disbelief to The Wall
Street Journal report of yesterday that George H.W. Bush, the father of President
Bush, works for the bin Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle
Group, an international consulting firm. The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden
family at least twice. (Other top Republicans are also associated with the Carlyle
group, such as former Secretary of State James A. Baker.) The terrorist leader
Osama bin Laden had supposedly been “disowned” by his family, which runs a
multi-billion dollar business in Saudi Arabia and is a major investor in the senior
Bush’s firm. Other reports have questioned, though, whether members of his Saudi
family have truly cut off Osama bin Laden. Indeed, the Journal also reported
yesterday that the FBI has subpoenaed the bin Laden family business’s bank
records.
Judicial Watch earlier this year had strongly criticized President Bush’s father’s
association with the Carlyle Group, pointing out in a March 5 statement that it was a
“conflict of interest (which) could cause problems for America’s foreign policy in Middle East and Asia.” Judicial Watch called for the senior Bush to resign from the firm then.
“This conflict of interest has now turned into a scandal. The idea of the President’s father, an ex-president himself, doing business with a company under investigation by the FBI in the terror attacks of September 11 is horrible. President Bush should not ask, but demand, that his father pull out of the Carlyle Group,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
“This has the potential of making ‘Billygate’ (Jimmy Carter’s brother’s dealings with Libya) look like small potatoes,” added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
http://www.aztlan.net/judwatch.htm==============================
Pipeline info....
Mon Oct 1 14:54:50 2001
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by the September 11 attack on America. This is a time of deep
sadness and reflection for all of us. We send hope and love to all.
One action you may take is to make a donation to the Red Cross
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protect 30 years of environmental progress from being reversed.
Tree Media Group is supporting a new season of live webcasts for the Council
on Foreign Relations. The first webcast featuring UN Secretary General Kofi
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What Energy Resources Lie in the Caspian Sea Basin?
Mon Oct 1 17:20:52 2001
What Energy Resources Lie in the Caspian Sea Basin?
Proven oil reserves estimates vary between 15 to 40 billion barrels, representing 1.5% to
4% of the world's proven oil reserves. Estimates of proven gas reserves range from 6.7
to 9.2 trillion cubic meters, with perhaps 8 trillion cubic meters of additional reserves,
according to the International Energy Agency. This represents approximately 6-7% of
the world gas reserves.
Estimates of potentially recoverable oil reserves range far higher with the US
Department of Energy indicating a possible total of 200 billion barrels--close to the 269
billion barrels of proven oil reserves already discovered in Saudi Arabia. Many experts
dispute this claim: the International Institute of Strategic Studies sparked a controversy
last spring deriding the US Government estimates.
Although largely skeptical about the US Energy Department figure, experts differ as to
the amount of recoverable energy reserves. Estimates range from 25-35 billion barrels
according to some industry forecasts to possible reserves of 70 billion according to a
report by Wood Mackenzie consultants. Some US companies use a working estimate of
65 billion barrels.
Whatever the most likely estimate, there appears to be a consensus emerging that,
though the area is "unlikely to become another Middle East" or "major competitor
for the Persian Gulf," it could play a "significant role as a marginal supplier" in
"arresting a jump in the price of oil" in a high price environment and diversifying
supply, "much as the North Sea (does) today."
In terms of distribution, the overwhelming bulk of the oil lies in Azerbaijan and
Kazakhstan and, to a far lesser extent, Uzbekistan.
Kazahhstan has over half of the possible oil resources and, according to some
analysts, has the best potential for new discoveries.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Azerbaijan accounted for almost one
half of the world's crude oil production, but lost its leading position even within the
Soviet Union as investment turned to other promising sites. Its oil production lags
behind Kazakhstan, but investment has risen strongly in past years.
On the gas side, Turkmenistan has the world's fourth largest reserves, but Kazakhstan
and Uzbekistan also have appreciable amounts. According to Oil and Gas, Turkmenistan
had "a significant track record as a proven exporter" before the breakup of the Soviet
Union, but has been recently stymied by Russian competition and control over export
links. Its longer term prospects will depend on development of export markets such as
Turkey, Iran and the Far East.
Kazakhstan is actually a net importer of gas and any increased production is likely
to be used to meet domestic demand. Without the development of other routes,
potential gas exports would currently have to traverse Russia and would likely
encounter the same resistance plaguing Turkmen exports.
Uzbekistan is the largest gas producer in Central Asia since the falloff in Turkmen
production, but most is for domestic consumption. Other than modest exports to its
neighbors, its landlocked position means its gas would have to go through more
countries than its Turkmen and Kazakhstan competitors.
Estimates vary as to how fast the area's energy resources can be developed.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects oil production from Kazakhstan,
Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan to reach 1.6 million barrels per day by
2000 and 3.5 million barrels per day by 2010 in a "high case" scenario and 1.4
million in 2000 and 2.8 million in 2010 in a low case scenario.
US Government estimates believe the production could reach as high as 4.5
million b/d by 2010 if political barriers are removed.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies expects Kazakhstan,
Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to reach 3.5 million b/d sometime around 2010.
The Oxford Institute for Energy Studies cautions that the production take-off is
likely to be slow, although they believe it could reach 3.5 million barrels per day by
2010.
By way of comparison, North Sea oil production ended 1997 at 6.1 million barrels per
day; Venezuelan oil production stood at 3.5 million barrels per day in early 1998. Some
analysts contend that in terms of diversifying world oil supplies and providing for extra
energy security, the "payoff" would be much higher if "greater efforts" were made
elsewhere—such Mexico and Russian Siberia—to tap available resources.
IEA forecasts gas production from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and
Uzbekistan reaching 112 billion cubic meters (bcm) by 2000 and 201 bcm by 2010 under
a "high case" scenario and 102 bcm by 2000 and 164 bcm by 2010 under a "low case"
scenario. Caspian gas exporters face stiff competition from a host of other suppliers in
the European gas market while the difficulties of building pipelines eastward through
Afghanistan is not be minimized. Gas prices are also linked to oil in most markets adding
an additional constraint if oil prices remain flat.
http://www.treemedia.com/cfrlibrary/homepage/overview/q1.html
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Government Had Prior Knowledge - Pending 9-11 Attack
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/knowledge.htm===============================
They create the problems, then they provide the solutions.
To gain control first they create a problem then they provide the solution. One way or another the solution always results in more loss of freedom for us and more power for them.
GUNS..... They create the massacres then they want to take away guns.
FIRES..... They start the fires, then come along and make the land inaccessible to us, then they confiscate the land and turn it into parks which later become controlled by the United Nations.
HEALTHCARE........ By creating programs like Medicare they gained control of medicine, because they were making payments that gave them the right to make the rules and get more and more control over doctors, medicines, hospitals and HMOs.
WELFARE...... by creating a welfare state they have more people under their thumb to control while EMPOWERING their system. How much money is allocated each year for a single individual on welfare? And how much of that money is actually seen by the recipient? I think if you do some research, you will find that more money goes BACK to the government then goes to the welfare recipient! CONTROL THE MONEY AND YOU CONTROL THE PEOPLE........ ALWAYS FOLLOW THE MONEY! http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/dove/index.htm
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http://www.nexusmagazine.com/bskies5.html
The failure of government
OKLAHOMA CITY "BOMBING"
By Harry Mason BSc, MSc,
1997
Extracts:
"On the day of the event, I, like many others, watched the CNN
TV feed of the Oklahoma scene. Intriguingly, there were early
reports of missiles being seen coming down vertically into the
building, but these reports never resurfaced."
"An eyewitness located in a car a couple of hundred metres
from ground zero observed a silver-white light flash or beam
coming out of the top of the building, followed by a large
blue-white electrical arcing flash or beam, followed by an
orange-red light flash or beam that shot out from the top of
the building."
"It is my contention that the OKC event was the result of a
double-pronged EM weapon strike that caused the Earth's
dielectric field to erupt up through the building. The building
shook first because of harmonic reaction to the first EM wave
packet which also blew the building's electrical supply and
created the various computer, digital compass and ionising
hot-air effects. Having rocked the building sufficiently, the EM
weapon mode was advanced in a second strike to initiate
atomic-bond rupture and literally blow the building material
apart."
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http://www.nexusmagazine.com/bskies5.html
OKLAHOMA CITY "BOMBING"
By Harry Mason BSc, MSc,
1997
OKC "Bombing" extract from longer article.
(read whole article at above URL)
On 17 April 1995, at a few minutes after 9.00 am, Oklahoma
City was blasted by the "terrorist bombing" of the Alfred P.
Murrah Federal Building. One hundred and sixty eight men,
women and children were killed, and hundreds more were
maimed or injured in this callous attack. The building was
nearly totally destroyed by the explosion, whilst severe
damage was inflicted on adjacent buildings, petering out
at about a one-mile radius from ground zero.
This event was soon blamed upon a "right-wing militia group"
composed of ex-Gulf War veterans utilising an ANFO bomb
composed of from two to five tonnes of ammonium nitrate and
Diesel fuel-oil set up in a hire truck parked in front of the target
building. A robotic Timothy McVeigh was recently convicted
of the OKC "bombing", and his alleged accomplice Terry Nichols
awaits his trial (which is about to commence as this article
goes to press).
On the day of the event, I, like many others, watched the CNN
TV feed of the Oklahoma scene. Intriguingly, there were early
reports of missiles being seen coming down vertically into the
building, but these reports never resurfaced. A survivor with
blood over his face was interviewed about one hour into the
rescue effort. He described how his life had been saved in his
previous domicile in California. When the Murrah Building began
to shake violently he recognised an earthquake, just like those
he had experienced in California, so he dived under his fifth-floor
desk. Some five-to-ten seconds later, a huge explosion demolished
the building around him, but the desk saved his life.
Then came reports that more bombs had been found, and a
utility truck with a small armoured bomb box in its tray was
shown, whilst the FBI's radio delivered a conversation alleging
large drums of mercury fulminate explosive had been found
attached to building support pillars next to the lift shaft.
I became agitated, since I had never heard of earthquake-type
effects hitting a building before a bomb went off, and I knew
mercury fulminate to be an extremely unstable explosive and
very unlikely to have survived a major explosion. Also, the size
of explosive drum reported then and later photographed would
have been far too large to fit in the armoured bomb box that
reportedly drove away with these dangerous prizes.
Explosives experts in Australia, the UK and USA (e.g., the
General Partin report) began to question the nature of the
damage at OKC. The gist of their theses is that low-velocity
explosives like ANFO cannot have demolished so many
support pillars in the strange pattern seen at OKC, since the
blast pressure falls off according to the inverse cube distance
law-yet some near-bomb pillars were still standing, whilst some
further away from the bomb were demolished by the blast.
Their reports generally invoke a need for very-high-velocity
explosives and individual charges attached to certain pillars
inside the building-requiring hours of work to fit out. Personal
friends with experience in mining explosives and Belfast IRA
ANFO terrorist-bomb damage have confirmed these points to
me and have noted that the crater that developed at OKC does
not fit with the truck bomb explanation or the truck's alleged
parking lot position.
Another possible weapon candidate soon surfaced: the
"A-Neutronic" bomb. In this scenario, a mad criminal scientist
(the infamous Michael Riconosciuto, currently serving time in
a US prison), developed for the US Government a new super
-weapon that involved blowing a cloud of chemicals into the air,
charging the cloud with a large excess of electrostatic energy by
means of a small rocket-carried "wire", and then detonating the
resultant "fuel-air" mix to create a small nuclear-type explosion.
I began to collect eyewitness reports and evidence from official
source publications and Internet sites relating to the OKC event.
Then, in late 1996, I visited Oklahoma City and with the help of
local author David Hoffman examined the "bombing" site and
interviewed local witnesses. The outpourings of grief and anguish
present, with messages and wreaths of the victims' relatives and
friends on the targeted building site's protective fences, made me
resolve to give this event my very best analysis to try to deduce
the true nature of this explosive event and thereby help indicate
the real culprits.
Seismic evidence recorded by local seismometers demonstrated
a double-pronged explosive energy event with two nearly identical
three-to-five-second, low-amplitude, multiple wave trains separated
by a null field, occurring over a nine-second interval. USGS
geophysicists argued that these two wave-packets were due to
an initial ground "surface" wave arriving before a secondary wave
that had travelled via deeper reflecting Earth layers, i.e., via the local
basement. Other geophysicists argued that there were two wave-
packets, representing the explosion followed by the building debris
impacting with the ground.
These hypotheses were blown apart by the US Government's
explosive demolition action on the Alfred P. Murrah Building remains,
which failed completely to demonstrate a two-pronged seismic
response that was in any way similar to the original event recordings.
The original and best seismic recordings have been confiscated by
the FBI, along with many other items of evidence such as the City
video-surveillance tapes. Hardly surprisingly, none of this evidence
surfaced in the McVeigh trial.
Along with the evidence of seismic action shaking the building
some five-to-ten seconds prior to any explosion or blast wave
hitting the building, there were several other mysterious
pre-explosion events. A policeman working at his computer
noticed electrical sparks and streamers in the wiring under the
table several seconds before the explosion brought the building
down around him. A woman on an upper floor noted a strong
ionising electrical sensation and hot air-flow entering the windows
several seconds prior to the explosion which blew the same
windows in on her. The lights in the building went out some five
seconds before the explosion. A dictation tape recording made
across the street from the "bombed" building recorded a loud
"click" a few seconds before it recorded the sound of a huge
explosion. This "click" was probably a local electromagnetic
wave spike of considerable intensity.
An eyewitness located in a car a couple of hundred metres
from ground zero observed a silver-white light flash or beam
coming out of the top of the building, followed by a large
blue-white electrical arcing flash or beam, followed by an
orange-red light flash or beam that shot out from the top of
the building. These electrical and light effects took some five
seconds and preceded the actual explosion. (Reports of missiles
may have been mistaken identification of these pre-explosion
energy beams.) They were followed immediately by two explosive
shock waves, one trailing on the other, that propagated out and
away from the base of the building. These waves lifted the ground
and buildings violently upwards. The witness called this the
"lid effect".
Several cars located on the above-ground carpark had
electronic ignition computers completely burnt out by the
event. Two cars had factory-fitted digital magnetic compasses
that were later found to have been thrown out by 180° and 45°
respectively. Many nearby office computers went down with
burnt-out circuit- boards. These facts point strongly to a major
EM pulse having struck the area associated with the explosion.
The local area damage from the OKC event was huge. I cannot
emphasise enough how devastated this area was. I was quite
amazed when I visited the site. Entire blocks of damaged office
buildings had been knocked down due to their shattered state,
some nearly a mile away from ground zero. Large open spaces
were surrounded by boarded-up buildings with no windows,
no roofs, and intensely shattered internal concrete beams and
supporting pillars. I saw the intense damage inside the nearby
newspaper building where internal dividing walls had been
smashed asunder and horizontal three-foot-square reinforced
concrete beams sagged down everywhere. This building had
been built to very high 1930s standards to withstand tornados,
yet it was wrecked. Many buildings had entire windowsills forced
back in with their front brick walls sagging inwards. Nearer to
ground zero, large, one-foot-wide, floor-and-wall reinforcing steel
H-girders were twisted like spaghetti into grotesque shapes
amidst the ruins of entire floors blown away to dust and rubble.
I showed a suite of local damage photos to retired SAS trooper
friends, with experience in IRA ANFO bomb damage. They were
as amazed as I was, and stated categorically that this was no
ANFO damage. They said it would not have mattered how large
an ANFO bomb had been detonated, it could not have caused
the damage seen in the photos and/or described in the US
literature.
Funnily, the FBI released film of ANFO car-bomb test explosions
that show significant fireball or fiery effects from such explosives.
Yet no witnesses have described any fiery explosion or flames -
just strange, pre-explosion light flashes or beams followed by
pure energy waves, with very high plasma-type heat effects
noted on nearby car paint.
It is my contention that the OKC event was the result of a
double-pronged EM weapon strike that caused the Earth's
dielectric field to erupt up through the building. The building
shook first because of harmonic reaction to the first EM wave
packet which also blew the building's electrical supply and
created the various computer, digital compass and ionising
hot-air effects. Having rocked the building sufficiently, the EM
weapon mode was advanced in a second strike to initiate
atomic-bond rupture and literally blow the building material
apart.
No conventional or nuclear explosive, including a so-called
"A-Neutronic" bomb, can cause seismic shaking and electrical
light-energy effects in a structure, seconds before the explosion
blast-wave hits.
Oblique aerial photos of the Murrah Building show two nearly
vertical, tubelike damage forms running through the building.
These represent slightly displaced near-vertical but divergent
beam-pulse orientations, suggesting an orbital platform was
involved in the action.
Any bomb or militia-terrorist character to this event was set
in train by those who hit the building, to ensure that the true
nature of the weapon system and its technology was hidden
from public and possibly other US Government personnel.
This implies that a faction from within the US Government
was responsible. Either that, or the US Government was warned
well in advance that this particular building would be hit that day
by an advanced weapon over which there was no defence-so
it quickly found a patsy and built up a cover story.
"Need-to-know" secrecy policy suggests that there then
entered a cock-up of horrific dimensions. Lower-level personnel
had been searching for a bomb earlier that morning, having
been told that the building was targeted for bombing by
terrorists, but, in failing to find it, they then did not proceed
to evacuate the building. Higher government levels, having
decided to hide the horrible truth from even their own operatives,
had to have a plausible McVeigh militia-type event. The Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms personnel were better served, as were
the Judges in the adjacent court house: they were all warned
to stay away that day.
Secret Service personnel engaged in anti-drug operations were
in their offices which lay in the centre of the damage and were
wiped out by this OKC event. Interestingly, similar terrorist-
bombing events in the past were apparently aimed at the same
anti-drug Secret Service in both the downing of the Lockerbie
Pan Am jumbo and the "bombing" of the New York World Trade
Center. Indeed, it is possible that this entire series of events
is being fought over a drugs empire.
[And/or a G8/Globalist empire?
Michael Irving. World-Action]
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/bskies5.html
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During the Watergate investigation into Nixon administration corruption, a familiar question to witnesses was: "What did the president know and when did he know it?"
A good variation on that question more than a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack is: "What did the government know and when did it know it?"
There's a growing body of evidence that those entrusted and paid by the people to know about threats indeed had some warning, but failed to pass it on to the public.
For instance, according to a report in the London Telegraph, Israeli intelligence agents traveled to Washington in August to warn the FBI and Central Intelligence Agency that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent. The Israelis warned that as many as 200 terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden and Iraq were preparing a big operation.
Now that may not seem like enough information to have prevented the attacks. But that's not all the information that was available to our intelligence agencies – not by a long shot.
The FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies also knew that two of the hijackers were in the country, according to the Los Angeles Times. They were on a terrorist watch list. But the airlines were not notified.
In addition, the FBI and CIA were well aware of bin Laden's plans to hijack U.S. airliners. The plot was uncovered six years earlier in the Philippines when police found detailed information on a laptop computer belonging to a bin Laden operative, Ramsi Youssef. The plan called for hijacking U.S. airliners and crashing them into U.S. buildings including the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
In case the FBI and CIA had just forgotten about Project Bojinka, which I sincerely doubt, they should have received a reminder with the 1999 publication of Yossef Bodansky's book, "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America," in which he spells it out. The original plan called for the hijacking of 11 airliners at once.
In other words, had the FBI and CIA simply added two plus two, the threat of hijackings would have been obvious.
But there was even more.
The FBI had several terrorists under surveillance, according to the Oct. 1 issue of Newsweek. They intercepted communications just prior to Sept. 11 that suggested something very big was about to happen.
Still, there were more clues.
Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested after flight trainers tipped off the feds that he wanted to learn how to fly a 747 but wasn't interested in takeoffs or landings. Zacarias was traveling on a French passport. When contacted, the French government reported that he was a suspected terrorist.
There were even more reasons to be on high alert – and specifically to be thinking about the threat of dramatic hijackings.
The question then is: Were they ignored? And, if so, why?
But there is evidence that the threat wasn't ignored – at least not entirely.
A day after the attack, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Mayor Willie Brown was called eight hours before the hijackings and warned by his security staff not to travel.
On Sept. 27, the London Times reported that Salman Rushdie got a similar warning about avoiding U.S. and Canadian airliners. That warning, said Rushdie, came from no less authority than the Federal Aviation Administration.
Now, you're probably wondering why Willie Brown and Salman Rushdie are more important to the U.S. government than you and me and Barbara Olson. I'm wondering the same thing.
These selective warnings – and I have no doubt there were many more we have not yet heard about – suggest strongly that the FBI, CIA and other federal agencies had the information, knew something big was up, something that involved terrorist attacks on airliners, but failed to disclose the information to the airlines and the flying public in general.
I think heads should roll at the FBI and CIA. I think there ought to be an investigation into what the FAA knew and when it knew it. I think, once again, the federal government has neglected its main responsibility under the Constitution – protecting the American people from attack.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24996
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ARE AMERICANS THE VICTIMS OF A HOAX?
The time has come to stop using the flag as a blindfold, to stop waving our guns and our gods at each other, to take a close look at the facts which have emerged from the attacks on the World Trade Towers and to recognize the very real possibility, indeed probability, that We The People are the victims of a gigantic and deadly hoax.
In a normal terrorist event, the terrorists cannot wait to take credit, in order to link the violence to the socio-political intent of the terrorist organization. Yet the prime suspect in the New York Towers case, ex(?) CIA asset Osama Bin Laden (whose brother is one of George W. Bush's Texas business partners), has issued only two statements regarding the September 11th attacks, and both of those are denials of any involvement.
Huge problems are emerging in the official view of events. It's known that the United States was planning an invasion of Afghanistan long before the attacks on the World Trade Towers. Indeed the attacks on the World Trade Towers perfectly fit the timetable of an invasion by October stated by US officials just last summer.
The 19 names of suspected hijackers released by the FBI don't point to Afghanistan. They come from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates; all across the middle east without a focus in any one region. Indeed, even as the FBI was admitting that its list of 19 names was based solely on identifications thought to have been forged, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saudi Al-Faisal insisted that an investigation in Saudi Arabia showed that the 5 Saudi men were not aboard the four jetliners that crashed in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania on September 11. "It was proved that five of the names included in the FBI list had nothing to do with what happened," Al-Faisal told the Arabic Press in Washington after meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush at the White House. A sixth identified hijacker is also reported to still be alive in Tunisia, while a 7th named man died two years ago!
In a recent development, the BBC is reporting that the transcript of a phone call made by Flight Attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney to Boston air traffic controls shows that the flight attendant gave the seat numbers occupied by the hijackers, seat numbers which were NOT the seats of the men the FBI claimed were responsible for the hijacking!
FBI Chief Robert Mueller admitted on September 20 and on September 27 that at this time the FBI has no legal proof to prove the true identities of the suicidal hijackers. Yet in the haste to move forward on the already planned war in Afghanistan, our government and the FBI (which does not have the best record for honesty in investigations to begin with, having been caught rigging lab tests, manufacturing testimony in the Vincent Foster affair, and illegally withholding/destroying evidence in the Oklahoma Bombing case) are not taking too close a look at evidence that points away from the designated suspect, ex(?) CIA asset Osama Bin Laden.
In particular, the FBI, too busy harassing political dissenters to find spies in its midst, the long rumored mole inside the White House, or plug leaks in high-tech flowing to foreign nations, has willfully and criminally ignored the implications of some vital pieces of information the FBI is itself waving around at the public.
We are being told that this crack team of terrorists, able to breeze past airport security as if it wasn't there, wound up leaving so much evidence in its wake that the bumbling Inspector Clouseau (or the FBI) could not fail to stumble over it. The locations where the terrorists supposedly stayed are so overloaded with damning materials that they resemble less a crimes scene, and more a "B" detective movie set, with vital clues always on prominent display for the cameras.
Yet another problem lies with the described actions of the hijackers themselves. We are being told on the one hand that these men were such fanatical devotees of their faith that they willingly crashed the jets they were flying into buildings. Yet on the other hand, we are being told that these same men spent the night before their planned visit to Allah drinking in strip bars, committing not just one, but two mortal sins which would keep them out of Paradise no matter what else they did. Truly devout Muslims would spend the day before a suicide attack fasting and praying. Not only does the drinking in strip bars not fit the profile of a fanatically religious Muslim willing to die for his cause, but the witness reports of the men in the bars are of men going out of their way to be noticed and remembered, while waving around phony identifications.
Because of the facts of the phony identifications, we don't really know who was on those planes. What we do know is that the men on those planes went to a great deal of trouble to steal the identities of Muslims, and to make sure those identities were seen and remembered, then to leave a plethora of planted clues around, such as crop dusting manuals, and letters in checked baggage (why does a terrorist about to die need to check baggage?) that "somehow" didn't get on the final, fatal, flight.
Fake terror is nothing new. According to recently released files, our government planned Operation NORTHWOODS to stage phony terror attacks against American citizens in the wake of the Bay Of Pigs, to anger Americans into support for a second invasion of Cuba. The plan was spiked by JFK. If our government has ever actually carried out such plans to stage phony terror attacks, the documents have remained classified. But given the reality of Operation NORTHWOODS, or the manner in which FDR maneuvered Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor, one cannot rule out the possibility that, once again, the people of the United States are being lied to by their own government, to manufacture consent for a war of invasion already being discussed with other nations the previous summer.
It is also quite possible, indeed likely, that the United States is being spoofed by a third party to trigger a war. It has happened before. According to Victor Ostrovsky, a defector from Israel's secret service, Mossad, Israel decided to mount a false flag operation designed to further discredit Libya, and provoke the US to attack an Arab nation. A transmitter loaded with pre-recorded messages was planted in Tripoli, Libya, by a Mossad team.
The `Trojan Horse' beamed out fake messages about Libyan-authorized bombings and planned attacks that were immediately intercepted by US electronic monitoring. Convinced by this disinformation that Libya was behind the 1986 bombing of a Berlin disco in which a US soldier died, President Ronald Reagan ordered massive air attacks on Libya, including an obvious- and illegal (under US law) attempt to assassinate Qadaffi himself. Some 100 Libyan civilians were killed, including Qadaffi's two year old daughter. Libyan officials had no idea why they were attacked.
It is worth remembering the motto of the Mossad is, "By way of deception, thou shalt do war."
Whether they were involved in the attacks or not, it cannot be doubted that Israel has benefited from the attacks in New York. While world attention is focused on what the US will do in Afghanistan, Israel has escalated its attacks against Palestinians towns. Israel has repeatedly tried to claim that Palestinians were involved in the New York attacks, hoping to bury the Palestinian cause under the rubble of the World Trade Towers.
Because of the faked IDs and stolen identities, we don't really know who planned the World Trade Towers attacks. We only know who they wanted us to blame.
And we know that the United States has been tricked in the past into bombing someone who did not deserve the attack, and that those who were bombed then embarked on what from their point of view was justified retaliation that culminated over Lockerbie. And while bombs were falling and planes were crashing, Israel was laughing at us that we had been so easily fooled into bombing Israel's targets for them.
Are we being hoaxed again, by Israel, or by our own government, or by both? It's impossible to rule that out. Right now there are a lot of people who want war. Oil companies want Afghanistan's petroleum products. Our corporations want "friendlier" markets. The CIA wants all that opium. And all those war-mongers, with all their greed and agendas, will not hesitate in the least to pour your tax dollars and your children's blood all over Afghanistan, to get those "friendlier" markets, oil, and opium.
Because of the vested interests at work here, American citizens must, more than at any other time in recent history, rely on themselves to decide what is happening in our nation. Too many of those who purport to report the "truth" to us are eager to grab more tax money and more children to pour into a war of invasion, poised at a region which has swallowed up every army that has tried to conquer it since the time of Alexander The Great.
And one more thing. Take a good look at the map of Eurasia and plot out where the United States has military deployments. They march in a straight line through the middle of Eurasia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenia, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan.
The United States is prepared to cut the Russian Federation off from the oil rich middle east, and to control transportation routes from China and India into the Middle East. When Russia realizes that this is the real agenda, that's when "Dubya Dubya Three" will really get going!
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~jdm/Journal/Oct2301.htm
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Hijacker 'given anthrax flask by Iraqi agent'
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001350026-2001372638,00.html
Saddam Hussein
SATURDAY OCTOBER 27 2001
BY DANIEL MCGRORY
INTELLIGENCE agents from Prague to Swansea are uncovering a trail of clues
that point to President Saddam Hussein of Iraq having a hand in al-Qaeda's
terrorist missions.
Iraqi ministers have spent the week protesting Baghdad's innocence to the
United Nations, but will not say why some of its diplomats who met Mohammed
Atta, one of the suspected September 11 hijackers, disappeared from their
European posts after that date.
Nor will Baghdad explain why Saddam's agents were spotted at various times
this year with Atta in Germany, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic.
Many in the Pentagon are sure Saddam helped to orchestrate the simultaneous
hijackings and the anthrax attacks, but President Bush and Tony Blair have
yet to be convinced. To get proof of the Baghdad connection, senior
officials in the Bush Administration even sent a former CIA Director to
Britain on a covert mission.
Intelligence officers in Washington have deliberately leaked the testimony
of an Iraqi defector hiding in Turkey who said that Saddam set up a
terrorist training school on the outskirts of Istanbul to practice
hijacking a Boeing passenger aircraft. The CIA says that it is assessing
the claims.
Meanwhile, a special FBI team sent to Europe to uncover al-Qaeda cells say
that they are studying a report from Prague that anthrax spores were given
to Atta during his last meeting in Prague in April with Ahmed Khalil
Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, the Iraqi consul.
"If it can be shown that Atta was given a flask of anthrax," a Western
intelligence official said, "then the link will have been made with Osama
bin Laden and with Iraq." What is known is that Atta made at least four
visits to the Czech Republic to see Mr al-Ani. Czech intelligence officers
who saw them embrace at Ruzyne Airport admit that they had no idea who the
man greeting Saddam's envoy was. When they were followed to the
headquarters of Radio Free Europe the suspicion was that they may have been
plotting to bomb it.
Yesterday the German newspaper Bild suggested a more sinister motive for
their meetings. The claim, according to Israeli security sources, is that
Atta was handed a vacuum flask of anthrax by his Iraqi contact. From
Prague, it is believed Atta flew to Newark.
From New Jersey, letters laced with anthrax were sent to broadcasters and
politicians in New York, Washington and Florida. Czech officials have been
to Washington to reveal all they know, but they can't question the Iraqi
envoy because Mr al-Ani was deported from Prague in April for "activities
incompatible with his status as a diplomat".
Stanislav Gross, the Czech Interior Minister, confirmed yesterday a meeting
in Prague between Atta and Mr al-Ani just weeks before the envoy was expelled.
US scientists believe the anthrax spores sent to Tom Daschle, the Senate
Majority Leader, had been treated with a sophisticated chemical additive
only three countries can manufacture: Russia, America and possibly Iraq.
Former UN weapons inspectors suggest that Saddam could have helped bin
Laden to get nuclear material. Critics of the Pentagon's view say that
Iraq would not share its nuclear secrets, but might watch for others trying
to buy on the black market.
Italian police say they are investigating how Saddam also used his Embassy
in Rome to foster his partnership with al-Qaeda. One of Saddam's
intelligence agents, Habib Faris Abdullah al-Mamouri, was sent to be the
new headmaster of a school for Iraqi diplomats in Italy. The bogus
headmaster has not been seen in Rome since July, shortly after he also met
Atta. The pair are also said to have been together in Hamburg and Prague.
There is no proof the men were in direct contact, but as one intelligence
source in Madrid said: "They chose a strange time and place to take a
holiday." The Rome daily Il Messaggero, quoting Western intelligence
sources, said of Mr al-Mamouri that "he spent more time pursuing contacts
helpful to the Iraqi regime among fundamentalist Islamic groups than he had
on his supposed teaching duties".
Italian officials say that Mr al-Mamouri held the rank of general in the
Iraqi secret service, and from 1982 to 1990 worked in the Special
Operations Branch forging Baghdad's links with Islamic fundamentalist
groups in Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Gulf and Sudan. He was transferred to
his "teaching duties" in 1998, although all the Iraqi Embassy will say of
his sudden departure is that "he had money problems".
Although Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, and others in his
department are sceptical of Saddam's involvement, there are many
influential figures in US intelligence who claim that Iraq's links with bin
Laden go back to the early Nineties.
Desperate for allies after the Gulf War, Saddam sent Faruq Hijazi, his
secret service director, to Sudan in 1994, where bin Laden then had his
headquarters. The meetings were brokered by Hassan al-Tourabi, the
Sudanese Muslim leader, who was bin Laden's protector. The Sudanese
belatedly offered to show the CIA all they knew about bin Laden and his
visits, to ingratiate themselves back into the international fold, but the
Americans scorned the approach.
The Iraqi connection with bin Laden continued when the terrorist leader
moved to Afghanistan. Mr Hijazi, who is now Saddam's envoy in Turkey,
reportedly met the al-Qaeda leader at his fortified home in Kandahar and in
Kabul.
Mr Hijazi also disappeared from his embassy last month after the first
reports of his meetings with al-Qaeda, and he is believed to have slipped
back into Ankara earlier this week. The Foreign Ministry in Turkey says it
has not been told that the Ambassador had returned, although the Iraqi
Embassy says that he is "resting".
What puzzles Turkish officials is that there are no airport records of his
return.
US Intelligence says Saddam cultivated the relationship with al-Qaeda at
the start of 1998 by inviting the man regarded as bin Laden's deputy -
Ayman Zawahiri - to dine with Taha Yasin Ramadan, the Iraqi
Vice-President. That was such a success that a delegation from al-Qaeda
attended Saddam's birthday celebrations that April, and it was during this
trip that arrangements were made for bin Laden recruits to receive the sort
of advanced weapons training they could not get in their camps in Afghanistan.
The hand-picked bin Laden agents found themselves under the supervision of
Saddam's violent son, Uday, who wanted to conscript some of bin Laden's
skilled fighters into his own militia.
Bin Laden reciprocated by dispatching "400 Afghan Arabs" to Iraq to fight
Kurds.
The most curious attempt to implicate Saddam was in South Wales last month
when James Woolsey, the former CIA Director, is reported to have visited a
Swansea college. The hope was that the testimony of college lecturers and
recollections of former students could be used to convince sceptics in the
US Administration and Downing Street that Saddam has helped to provide
agents to carry out al-Qaeda attacks.
Mr Woolsey, who refuses to give details of his British itinerary, has
always believed that the Iraqi leader masterminded the 1993 terrorist
bombing of the World Trade Centre.
The trip to the Swansea Institute was to establish the true identity of one
of bin Laden's bombers, who claims to have studied computer-aided
engineering in South Wales.
Additional reporting by Roger Boyes in Berlin; Richard Owen in Rome and
Andrew Finkel in Istanbul
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Republic USA
http://www.republicusa.org
From: Steven Pattison stevenpattison@juno.com
Some Got rich off Tragedy
A Select Few Seem to Have Profited from Advance Knowledge of the Terror Attacks on America
Sept. 11 marked a devastating loss for the nation, but shrewd financial speculators with ties to the highest levels of the CIA appear to have profited from the disaster, raising questions about exactly who had prior knowledge of the terrible tragedy. Exclusive to American Free PressBy Christopher Bollyn
The day two passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Center ended differently for different people. For some 10,000 children it meant the loss of a mother or father. For millions of Americans it marked the end of normality. For a select group of fi nancial speculators it meant increased profits.
There have been numerous reports of unusual activity in financial markets around the world suggesting prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In Chicago, home of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the largest of the five options exchanges in the nation, brokers and speculators known as options traders wage bets daily about what a stock price will do. In options trades there are winner s and losers regardless of the outcome.
The catastrophic events of Sept. 11 were no different; the devastation at the World Trade Center resulted in some speculators winning millions of dollars from options purchased at the CBOE-while others lost their lives.
A $2.5 million winning that resulted when the United Airlines share price fell after two of its planes crashed remains unclaimed more than six weeks after the tragedy.
Investigations into the unusually high number of "put" options, betting that the price of United Airlines (UAL) and American Airlines shares would fall, have revealed that Alex Brown Inc., an investment banking firm, purchased many of these op tion contracts.
Alex Brown Inc. was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now the executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard.
Krongard, 64, former head of Baltimore-based Alex Brown, America's oldest investment bank, joined the CIA three years ago as a counselor to Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet.
Krongard switched careers shortly after helping engineer the $2.5 billion merger of Alex Brown and Bankers Trust New York Corp., gaining $71 million in Bankers Trust stock in the process.
President Bush appointed Krongard executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency on March 26. From February 1998 until March 2001, Krongard served as counselor to the director of central intelligence. Until 1997 Krongard was chairman of the inves tment bank A.B. Brown, having previously worked in various capacities at Alex Brown.
Krongard was quoted on the relationship between Wall Street and the CIA in an article by The Washington Post. If you go back to the CIA's origins during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, Krongard told the Post, "the whole OSS was re ally nothing but Wall Street bankers and lawyers."
OPTIONS SPIKES
Between Sept. 6 and 7, the CBOE saw a dramatic spike in the purchases of put options on United Airlines stock compared to call options.
A "put" option increases in value when the stock price falls, while a "call" option increases if the share price rises. The ratio of "put" options to "call" options was 12 to 1, with 2,372 "put" options purchased, betting that UAL stock would fall compared with 198 "call" options. The winners on these options deals walked away with untold millions of dollars in profits.
On Sept. 10, speculators in Chicago purchased put options on American Airlines, the other airlines involved in the hijackings, at a ratio of 6 to 1 against "call" options. Traders bought 2,258 put options as compared with 374 "call" options the day before the crashes.
There were similar spikes in "put" option contracts on the shares of the investment firms of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. and Merrill Lynch & Co., major tenants of the World Trade Center, occupying 22 floors each, who were both dev astated by the terror attacks.
In the three days of trading prior to Sept. 11, Morgan Stanley "put" options spiked dramatically.
According to figures provided by Options Clearing Corp. of Chicago, during the two trading days before the attacks the total number of "put" options jumped to 7,647 compared with a daily average of 2,384 during the month of August. Morgan Stan ley's shares fell from $48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the attacks.
Likewise, Merrill Lynch "put" options jumped to 64,445 in the three days before the attacks. On Sept. 10, 28,960 "put" options were purchased on Merrill Lynch compared with a daily average of 5,430 during the month of August. Merrill 's shares fell from $46.88 to $41.50. H
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