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Post by Anwaar on Sept 11, 2006 16:37:02 GMT 4
Who’s winning the war on terror?By Irfan HusainIN a war between nations, victory and defeat are measured in territory won and lost, soldiers killed, and tanks, ships and aircraft destroyed. But in a battle against an idea, success is counted in terms of hearts and minds. Using this measure, who’s winning the “war on terror”? Five years have passed since 9/11, and the conflict rages on. Indeed, this struggle has already lasted longer than the First World War (1914-18), and will soon equal the Second World War (1939-45) in terms of time, if not in lives lost. Just as my generation lived under the shadow of the Cold War, I fear my son’s will have to live with the consequences of 9/11. If the rivalry between Moscow and Washington defined the second half of the last century, the conflict between the West and militant Islam is the ideological battle of our times. While America and its allies have inflicted considerable damage on Al Qaeda’s infrastructure, they have also succeeded in recruiting many young Muslims to its cause. In a recent TV programme in the UK called ‘Is it time to talk to Al Qaeda?’, the presenter came to the conclusion that given the occupation of Iraq, the “war on terror” could not be won, and hence negotiations with Bin Laden should be opened. He based this startling thesis on his conversations with young Muslims in the West as well as in parts of the Islamic world over one year. He found that the war in Iraq had radicalised large numbers of young Muslims, and it was not possible to track them all down. In fact, the invasion of Iraq has been the single biggest mistake the West has made in its war against Al Qaeda and its offshoots. By concentrating its forces in a secular country that was utterly inhospitable to fundamentalism, the coalition has allowed the Taliban to stage a remarkable recovery in Afghanistan. More to the point, by waging a clearly illegal and unjustified war against Iraq, Bush has wantonly forfeited the wave of sympathy America was riding on when the Taliban were toppled in the wake of 9/11. He has also made Iraq a magnet for young jihadis from all over the world. From here, the survivors will return to their countries as battle-hardened veterans. Within America, Bush has squandered much political capital by dragging his country into a war that cannot be won. As American casualties mount, the ruling Republicans face the probability of losing their majority in Congress in the November elections. And at a time of mounting anxiety about the economy, for the Pentagon to be spending hundreds of billions of dollars in an open-ended conflict is increasingly seen as pointless by many American voters. It should be clear to the meanest intelligence that when fighting an amorphous threat like the one coming from Islamic extremists, force alone is not enough. There needs to be an ideological engagement to challenge the appeal people like Bin Laden have for many Muslims. Thus far, we only have Bush’s famous challenge: “Bring ‘em on!” And while western scholars and journalists have explained the attraction of extremism and traced the rise of political Islam, they have not articulated a counterpoint to the fundamentalist agenda. The other conflict that resonates powerfully in the Muslim psyche is the Palestinian struggle for freedom and statehood. The abject misery in the West Bank and Gaza is caused by the Israeli occupation and the open-ended support Israel gets from Washington for its repressive policies. Each time an American-manufactured bomb dropped from an American aircraft killed Lebanese civilians last month, the Muslim world blamed Bush as much it blamed the Israelis. So when English friends ask me why young Muslims in Britain are so angry, I suggest they look at what policies their government is supporting in Iraq and in Palestine. Another fallout from this ongoing war is the loss of personal liberties through various anti-terrorism laws passed in most western countries. Indeed, the erosion of democratic values and traditions has been a major casualty in this shadowy war. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay are permanent stains on America’s human rights record. Phone-tapping and hacking into personal emails are now part of the armoury of all western intelligence agencies. And while these infringements seem a small price to pay for security, they represent a step backwards in the march of personal liberty. How goes the war for the enemy? Bin Laden and his cohorts have taken a fearful hammering, but they are still standing. Despite the loss of several key commanders, they have been able to sustain their operations, albeit at a less ambitious level. But more importantly, their ideology and their message of hate have been planted in impressionable young minds around the world. In a sense, their brand of terror has become a loosely knit collection of franchise operations. Like the fearsome Hydra, as soon as one head is hacked off, another sprouts to take its place. It is this field of dragon’s teeth that brings forth warriors that is the most dangerous aspect of this conflict. Here is an ideology that is removed from territory and individuals. Killing people and capturing land is therefore not going to end the conflict. Against communism, the West had a countervailing ideology in the form of individual freedom and economic liberalism. But against an extreme, literal interpretation of Islam, the West has no answer. While urging moderate Muslims to take the fight to the firebrands, western politicians feel they have no role except to wring their hands and rail against extremism. But clearly, they are failing in their duties: instead of reviewing the policies that inflame the violence, they insist they will not be blackmailed into changing their stance on issues like Iraq and Palestine. In short, they insist there is no connection between their policies and the extremist response. This is to deny the principle of cause and effect. But as long as they continue to be in denial, this war will drag on. Meanwhile, the collateral damage multiplies in terms of anger and bitterness on both sides. Moderates in the western and Muslim worlds are being radicalised. Neutrality is no longer an option. So five years on, we can only conclude that the forces of Islamic extremism are winning. For the West, this is a war that cannot be won. Source : www.dawn.com/weekly/mazdak/mazdak.htm
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Post by Anwaar on Sept 11, 2006 16:52:34 GMT 4
Five years of nothingEditorialFive years have passed since the fateful day when a series of terrorist acts shook the United States and the rest of the world, and changed things possibly forever. The events of September 11, 2001, shook the American psyche and gave power to an American president who till then had been tottering on how to administer a country, which he had won courtesy the US Supreme Court. Since then, galvanised by what happened that day, President Bush embarked on a so-called war against terror, in the process taking a number of far-reaching decisions. The only problem with that was that many of these decisions were ill-advised and short-sighted, and helped only to strengthen the very forces the US has been fighting in this war. Looking back, it would be hard to say whether the years have been spent in something meaningful or constructive. Many would agree that the world is a more dangerous place and that the United States is nowhere close to winning the war against terror. The war, which has no frontiers and which has co-opted many countries, costs America billions of dollars and thousands of lives and yet it is nowhere near coming to any logical conclusion. As far as Al Qaeda is concerned, some of its senior leadership has been caught, but the top two remain on the run while others have filled in the slots left empty by those who have been detained. It would be fair to say that though the terror network has been dispersed and its leaders are on the run it is by no means fully dismantled and continues to pose a real danger. The United States and its allies have fought two wars and conducted hundreds of military operations in a bid to catch Al Qaeda’s top leadership, which is purportedly behind the September 11 attacks. But the unfortunate fact of this is that millions of people, many completely innocent and in countries that had little connection to the 9/11 attacks, have suffered as a consequence. This in turn has lead to increased resentment against the US in different parts of the world, especially the Muslim one. Bound loosely by religion, this one-billion strong community is now looking for common threads after being discriminated against and victimised in the west, particularly the US, and attacked and bombed at home. In that sense, the policies followed by the US government in response to 9/11 have only served to polarise a segment of society — Muslims — that was also living an uncomfortable existence in many western countries. The Muslim communities in such cases have, by and large, tended to veer further to the extreme. There is also a perceptive rise in sympathy for religious causes, which is fine, and extremist organisations, which is not. Different wars and indigenous struggles have been enveloped in the larger war on terror, with the west immediately siding with the non-Muslim side in most instances on the grounds that the Muslim side is being fought by organisations which it considers to be terrorist in nature. In this complex web of wars and struggles, the US has adopted a policy that is overly simplistic and has multiple implications. While conspiracy theorists may argue that with the threat of every terrorist attack the US administrations gets further strengthened, the reality is simpler. The US and its allies have only worsened the situation through their responses to the September 11 attacks. Five years is a long enough time to realise this. The interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan have been nothing short of a disaster. The only silver lining that is now emerging is the growing frustration and impatience among western allies as well as among ordinary citizens of the futility of the enterprise that Messrs Bush and Blair charged into. This is a good time to rethink strategies and also take stock of the price the west and the Muslim world are paying for the war on terror. It is hoped that saner minds will prevail and that after all these years, some constructive and positive initiative will be taken. The premise of this would be that terrorism is something that affects us all, and the war, if any, should be fought in that spirit and not under the ‘us versus them’ philosophy that currently prevails. Source : thenews.jang.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=23559
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Post by Anwaar on Sept 12, 2006 15:52:54 GMT 4
9-11 - THE NEW WHITE-WASH & BUCKETS OF MONEYPART 1 of 2By: Devvy Kidd, September 11, 2006It's hard to believe it's been five years since I was awakened by a phone call (still in California) by a dear friend in San Antonio who told me to turn on the television. For fifteen straight hours in between food breaks, I sat and watched the horror of September 11, 2001, unfold. Every channel including cable (except premium), was giving non stop coverage; all other programming was preempted and no commercials. Millions of words have been written about that day; my columns on 9/11 are archived here. Once I finally got my head of denial regarding 9/11 and like millions of other Americans, I began the painful pursuit of what really happened. My columns on 9/11 contain many links that require dozens, if not hundreds of hours of pouring over everything that is available in the public domain and watching videos. Some ridiculous, others contain reasonable questions that have no official answers, but do provide the viewer with, I believe, a difficult conclusion: rogue elements within our government knew and/or were participants. My columns contain what I feel are credible, well researched sites on this issue after spending hundreds of hours reading through them. Most Americans work for a living and do not have the time to do all this research like I do, so I have attempted to make it as easy as possible for people to begin the research and stay away from the silly stuff. As I have said for the past couple of years, 9/11 is the Achilles Heel of the global masters who intend to dominate the world. Because what's known as the 9/11 Truth Movement continues to grow at a rapid rate, Bush, Rummy and radio and cable talk show hosts as well as the controlled print media, have become more and more shrill in their attacks on average, ordinary people like me who are asking reasonable questions. This is a significant sign, at least to me, that the unseen hand which owns the White House, Congress and the dominant media are very concerned that the fairy tale told by the aforementioned is becoming no longer believable to millions. The admissions by Bush that he is no longer interested in Bin Laden and that Iraq had zip to do with 9/11, hasn't set well with tens of millions of Americans who feel they have been lied to - and they have. This is especially true for military families and active duty soldiers. There is no exit strategy for the unconstitutional invasion of Iraq because Bush's military is busy building some 12 permanent bases in Iraq, expanding the Empire. Heap on top of that, the issue of DU (depleted uranium) being used over in Afghanistan and Iraq, which we know has exposed tens of thousands of our own to the deadly affects of DU (see this important column) and what you have is a very angry people growing angrier by the day. Millions of Americans are demanding a real investigation and public hearings which do NOT deliberately omit the testimony of individuals like Sibel Edmonds who has a DOJ gag order to prevent her from telling what she knows. Now, how do you go about telling the American people that a full investigation has taken place if key individuals have been forbidden to testify or talk? As one panel member said at the Alex Jones summit in LA this past summer: if the government has nothing to hide, then why are they going to such lengths to hide everything? Refusal by the corrupt U.S. Department of Justice to release all the videos of the Pentagon that day (VDOT, the Sheraton and Pentagon gas station) sends up a huge red flag. What are they hiding? It must be something important because DOJ has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep these videos from ever being released to anyone - including family members who have requested copies. The old "national security" excuse has worn itself out and we the people are no longer willing to sit back and swallow lies for the sake of cosmetic patriotism or because the truth is too uncomfortable. I submit to you that there are two important individuals who must be put under oath and questioned. The first is Eric Haney who has stated that Bin Laden was killed in the massive bombing of Tora Bora, Afghanistan on December 15, 2001. I sent e-mail to Haney. He responded in the affirmative that Bin Laden was killed that day. Who is Haney? You can visit his web site: CSM Eric L. Haney, USA (Ret). "For more than twenty years, Command Sergeant Major (retired) Eric L. Haney served in the United States Army's most demanding combat units: As a Combat Infantryman, as a Ranger, and ultimately, as a founding member and eight-year veteran of the Army's super secret counter-terrorist arm, Delta Force." I would venture to guess that Haney has excellent contacts in the military. I'm not the only one who believes Bin Laden is worth more politically alive than dead, but the American people have the right to know the truth. If he is dead, it comes as no surprise that Mr. Bush considers Bin Laden irrelevant because he knows there's no chance of capture. Just keep producing boogie man videos every few months of Bin Laden and a loose knit, scattered bunch of thugs called Al-Qaida to keep the American people scared and willing to foolishly give up their God given rights. The second individual is Maj. Rick Gibney who allegedly is the pilot who shot down Flight 93; see here. The American people, the families of those who died on 9/11 - we the people deserve the truth and Major Gibney should be questioned under oath. There is another option here and that is to file a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain all the flight records on 9/11 for all aircraft stationed at Hector Field, Fargo, North Dakota. This FOIA would have to be filed by an organization with the money to fight it to the highest court because I can tell you from experience, when the government wants to stonewall you and it's their number one priority on FOIAs, they will bury you in legal expenses. If the FOIA provides the documents which clearly show Maj. Gibney and other jets taking off that day and their destination, the next question becomes: did you receive orders to shoot down Flight 93, from whom and did you? This is the way you get to the truth and stop the endless speculation - if you have nothing to hide, that is. 9/11 was a multi-faceted operation. In several columns I did this past January and February (see below), I recapped the possible connection between Enron, the FED, Schwarzenegger, Oregon's water, dead microbiologists and 9/11. Enron - The Smokin' Cannon of 9/11? Related: Arnold's Enron Secret Enron, Cheney, 9/11, Live Hijackers & Dead Microbiologists Enron, 9/11, Lay, Schwarzenegger & Oregon's Water Besides Dick Cheney, was one of the major players in 9/11 Thomas E. White, who was Secretary of the Army at the time of 9/11? Prior to that lofty position, White was Vice Chairman of Enron Energy Services. It is inconceivable to anyone who has researched White that he was not indicted right along with Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. Was White protected from the highest levels - meaning Dick Cheney - and handsomely rewarded for his role in 9/11? I have been diligently trying to keep my columns less than a giant tome, but for one to get a good grasp of the previous statement, I hope you'll bear with me on the length of this one. My friend referred to in Part I of Enron - The Smokin' Cannon of 9/11? has sent me a collection of e-mails requesting I expose more of how White and others have profited from 9/11: "August 7, 2006: Devvy: To find the article on Thomas White's new bonus in Wyoming, go to Google newsstand type in - DKRW ...This is White's new company, all partners are former Enron hierarchy. Then an article will appear titled, 'Enron Money Laundry'. 9/11, Anthrax, Cheney, Enron, etc., all the pieces fit. "8.16.06:. Devvy: Let me remind you of some important facts: When the Lt. Governor in April, 2001, filed suit in State court against Enron, White, who headed the most corrupt component of Enron, after 11 years, suddenly resigns his lucrative position, to become Army Secretary. One should also examine, Robert A. Belfer's liquidation of his vast Enron shares during 2001, and his timing; About two weeks after 9/11, the first Anthrax mailings were sent (from the New Jersey vicinity of "Urban Moving", which turned out to be a Mossad front, if you remember the 'Dancing Israel's' and two of which were formal Mossad agents); "The Anthrax was an unique strain - the Ames variety - which was an exclusive, weaponized version of the ARMY's, patented variety from Utah. After the mailings White was appointed by the Pentagon to be Homeland Security director. Shortly after the mailings, Judith Miller, published the scary book: "Germ." She produced this book, about 10 days after the mailings, which was very much researched. It was impossible to do this research, much less have it published in this short period of time, unless it was planned, for what I believe was the attempt to establish Martial Law (the DOJ could not prosecute anyone for Enron, in the extreme, with a tank sitting in front of it). White, although he headed the most corrupt component of Enron, was NOT prosecuted, NOR even called as a witness. "Judith Miller, as she misled the American People with Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, I believe was used to as a pawn to indoctrinate us to even welcome Martial Law, to protect against Anthrax. I sent faxes off to Miller, the Pentagon, and Ted Koppel (ABC), on how to easily negate Anthrax by a cheaply priced ozone producing machine, which are used in water purification and swimming pools. Thereafter, almost immediately, the Anthrax attacks stopped, and publicity died down. Incredibly too, despite this was biological warfare, the investigation into it was called off ONLY a month after, November, 2001. "The faxes was sent to Miller on a weekend - on the following Tuesday, when his silence, and to spin part of the profits to others who have knowledge and are being given notice that they were coming to their offices, Arthur Anderson, comes in Enron's offices to begin the unlawful shredding of documents. Four former executives of Enron, including Thomas White, are owners of a company named DKRW, which functionally is a clone of Enron, who is seeking government approval of guarantees of funding in Wyoming, Cheney's home state. I believe it is in part to buy silence." Source : www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd210.htm
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Post by Anwaar on Sept 12, 2006 15:54:34 GMT 4
9-11 - THE NEW WHITE-WASH & BUCKETS OF MONEYPART 2By: Devvy Kidd, September 11, 2006Once my friend directed me to DKRW, it soon became apparent to me that Thomas E. White is one shrewd operator - with help from Dick Cheney who many believe is the real president; Bush is just an "acting" one. If you read Michael Ruppert's superb book, Crossing the Rubicon, you will get an excellent education on 9/11, oil, Wall Street and the level of corruption that exists. Whether you agree with Ruppert on peak oil or not, this book is fully supported by hundreds of foot notes. Let's follow the money and see what surfaces. One pipeline string can be found in this excellent recap titled, Pipelines to 9/11. That's the foreign oil time line. On the domestic side, there appears to be a number of operations which coincidentally have the same 9/11 players every time. This is a short quote from a column by Jason Leopold titled Ahnuld, Ken Lay, George Bush, Dick Cheney and Gray Davis: "A month before the Frontline interview and Bush’s meeting with Davis, Cheney, who chairs Bush’s energy task force, met with Lay to discuss Bush’s National Energy Policy. Lay, whose company was the largest contributor to Bush’s presidential campaign, made some recommendations that would financially benefit his company. Lay gave Cheney a memo that included eight recommendations for the energy policy. Of the eight, seven were included in the final draft. The energy policy was released in late May 2001, after Schwarzenegger, Riordan and Milken met with Lay and after the meeting between Bush and Davis and Cheney’s Frontline interview. "The policy made only scant references to California's energy crisis, which Enron was accused of igniting, and did not indicate what should be done to provide the state some relief. Cheney said the policy focused on long-term solutions to the country's energy needs, such as opening up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and freeing up transmission lines. That's why California was ignored in the report, Cheney said. "What’s unknown to many of the voters who will decide Davis’s fate on Oct. 7, the day of the recall election, is that while Cheney dismissed Davis’s accusations that power companies were withholding electricity supplies from the state, one company engaged in exactly the type of behavior that Davis described. But Davis would never be told about the manipulative tactics the energy company engaged. "In a confidential settlement with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, whose chairman was appointed by Bush a year earlier, Tulsa, Okla., based Williams Companies agreed to refund California $8 million in profits it reaped by deliberately shutting down one of its power plants in the state in the spring of 2000 to drive up the wholesale price of electricity in California. "The evidence, a transcript of a tape-recorded telephone conversation between an employee at Williams and an employee at a Southern California power plant operated by Williams, shows how the two conspired to jack up power prices and create an artificial electricity shortage by keeping the power plant out of service for two weeks. "Details of the settlement had been under seal by FERC for more than a year and were released in November after the Wall Street Journal sued the commission to obtain the full copy of its report. Similarly, FERC also found that Reliant Energy engaged in identical behavior around the same time as Williams and in February the commission ordered Reliant to pay California a $13.8 million settlement. "Had the evidence been released in 2001 when Davis accused energy companies of fraud it would have helped California’s case and voters may have viewed the governor more positively. But if FERC were to publicly release the details of the Williams settlement it wouldn't have jibed with Bush's energy policy, which was made public instead in May 2001. It's highly unlikely that Bush, Cheney and members of the energy task force were kept in the dark about the Williams scam, especially since the findings of the investigation by FERC took place around the same time the policy was being drafted." But, what is the real story on Bush, energy and the world's reserves? Dick Cheney knows because with the assistance of comprised federal judges, he has been able to keep the minutes of his meetings secret; Judicial Watch sued to get those records. You and I, mere peons in the eyes of Cheney and his co-conspirators, aren't entitled to the truth, only more fakery and obfuscation. On the domestic side, Public Citizen is another organization digging into White's new venture that grew in financial status to be envied by anyone starting up a new business: "Enron Scammer Thomas White Gets Gov't. Handout by Public Citizen. Buried in the 700-plus page energy bill currently under debate in the U.S. Senate is a provision that provides hundreds of millions of dollars worth of federal loan guarantees for a power project apparently to be built by four former Enron executives. One of the former executives is Thomas White, former head of Enron’s retail and energy trading in California during the energy crisis who later served as President Bush’s Secretary of the Army. "Title XIV, Section 1403(c)(1)(B) of the Senate energy bill provides federal loan guarantees for “a project to produce energy from coal … mined in the western United States using appropriate advanced integrated gasification combined cycle technology that minimizes and offers the potential to sequester carbon dioxide emissions and … shall be located in a western State at an altitude greater than 4,000 feet.” Public Citizen's investigation to find out who this loan would benefit narrowed the answer to just one company: Houston-based DKRW Energy." White made a killing selling his own Enron stock; see chart here. Another e-mail from my friend, enlightens us about the this new White wash and big money: "For your anticipated new article on Thomas White (as applicable to 9/11 & Anthrax), there was a significant development yesterday. Arch Coal Company, out of St. Louis bought 25% of White's new firm DKRW sector in Wyoming for $25,000,000. This means it felt the company was worth 100 million. DKRW, started in January 2002 - one month after Enron filed bankruptcy - by four parties all, including White, in the Enron hierarchy. How does a company, privately held, become worth one-tenth of a billion dollars in only four and a half years? Enron, deja vu, right? "This was a dumb move on their part though. Know why? Arch Coal Company, out of St. Louis, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol ACI). It is thus publicly traded. One could buy only 100 shares, and obtain by minority shareholder rights, a lot of information about DKRW. Anything over 10%, means a "material" ownership, which means that Arch owning 25% of DKRW. DKRW has to show and tell all to an Arch minor shareholder, who in turn could be a royal pain to DKRW. I would like to know if it was such a prudent move for Arch, for its shareholders, to invest 25 million in a company, in which one of its partners has such a sordid past as White, as well as ALL of its owners are ex-Enron top people? "Too, if Arch disclosed that to its shareholders: SEC regs require to disclose the good, the bad, and the ugly. In concert with White, the adjective evil should be added, agreed? It is fairly easy to obtain an attorney, even on a contingency basis, to file a shareholder class-action suit you know, if it did not disclosure such, and no doubt it did not. Arch's stock is owned 97% by institutions. Guess what I want to know? Yes, you guessed it: who they are, and who owns them, or who would benefit by DKRW/Enron II success in Wyoming. The final question though, is why NOW Arch would buy into DKRW? Remember what was been pending in Congress relating to coal guarantees (see Public Citizen's article on DKRW/White recently)." "August 25, 2006. Devvy: This is just after brief investigation. The former long term Chairman of the Board of Arch Coal, and currently main director, is one James R. Boyd. How is that significant? James R. Boyd also is a Board of Director for Halliburton. What does Halliburton do with coal; very little, if anything. Let's try this one out: It is a given, that anyone who sits on Halliburton's Board is close to Cheney. Therefore, Boyd has to be close to Cheney. It is my contention that White engineered 9/11 & Anthrax, in complicity with Cheney. <>White, and who knows who else, has to have their silence bought off in part. A board of director has great many perks and benefits. Cheney could have lobbied to have his buddy Boyd placed on Halliburton's board, to maintain what is helpful to Arch's main man to be in turn helpful to White. The downfall of these guys is their arrogance. I have seen repeated patterns since day one. Look at Wendy Gramm, who sat on Enron's board, who was married to Senator Phil Graham. Graham "coincidentally" retired just prior to 9/11, after about 25 years in Congress, who thereupon became Vice-Chairman of Union Bank of Switzerland, which acquired Enron's trading unit after its demise." In response to the article found here, my friend offers up this: "August 26, 2006. Devvy: I woke up today and an idea popped into my head wondering about linkages between one James R. Boyd (Mr. Big at Arch Coal) and Halliburton. I Googled it, and found the following most interesting article regarding Building 7. This is a very recent article, but the writer deemed Boyd Chairman of the Board of Halliburton, but I think more correcting that should be David J. Lesar, notwithstanding Boyd was/is on the Board. It is interesting further to note that Boyd was only recently appointed to Halliburton's Board; on May 17, 2006. This was perhaps coincidentally the time when Arch Coal company's stock to date peaked. "However, the overall market peaked about then too, so it does not necessarily follow to read that much into the fact that he was appointed on the Board of Halliburton just about the same time as Arch Coal stocks peaked - perhaps...On 7/31/06, Boyd was given an "award of stock" by Halliburton of some 2,965 shares. How much is this "award" worth? At 33 and a half dollars a share, which is just about where the stock of Halliburton was at that day, equates to almost $100,000 ($98,322.50). "Have you ever put together a jig-saw puzzle, which starting out you did not know the ending picture? If so this is similar, as a picture here, if you will, is starting to evolve. You have to think out of the box first though. Think of lusting for power and greed. Remember too Lord Acton's admonition: "Absolute power corrupts absolutely". Thomas E. White was formerly a Brigadier General. He was the first one to make General in fact in his class. His business is war; his business is killing. This means (killing) justify a desired end(s). "Nonetheless, back to the picture that is developing. Cheney and White go way back. Cheney was Secretary of Defense from March of '89 to January '93. White was a Brigadier General, who won a high award for planning in Gulf War I, in which again Cheney was Defense Secretary. Cheney was thus White's superior. Cheney becomes Vice-President and White becomes Army Secretary. Cheney remains White's superior. A news release dated March 1, 2006, states: "U.S. Senator Craig Thomas said the Energy Policy Act of 2005 is being utilized by DKRW to accelerate the start-up of a coal-to-liquid plant in Wyoming...There has been a wonderful amount of cooperation between DKRW and Arch Coal." What does all this really mean? If you examine all the financial inbreeding in this column and the factual data in Ruppert's book, you see a small cabal of individuals who had means, motive and opportunity to orchestrate and carry out 9/11. The common theme is oil, money and the continuing war against the American people as their enemy. The need to keep stripping us of our rights to support a mountain of lies. The majority of the American people will need to continue believing lies because it's more comfortable. The rest of us will continue to fight for a real, open investigation of what really happened five years ago today. Below are some web sites that you will find of interest in the pursuit of truth: * The 9/11 Commission: A Play on Nothing in Three Acts - this is a list of veteran national security experts and personnel who were censored by the 9/11 Omission Commission. * 9/11 Truth: Terrorists and Patriots. This is a short 4 minute video that should be watched by all Americans. * How Could They Plant Bombs in the World Trade Center? It is the links in this short piece that validate the responses. A whole lot of "coincidences." * New WTC Complex Photos Highlight Bizarre Building 7 Collapse * The horrendous damage * 9/11 Controlled Demolition - This is a very well done video that all Americans should watch. Those who seek the truth about 9/11, including yours truly, do so because it is the right thing to do. Not for money, glory or fame, but for truth. While socialists like Bill O'Reilly chant that anyone asking reasonable questions about 9/11 is a Kool Aid drinker, this is the one issue that he and other GOP cheerleaders refuse to touch. I'm sorry, Mr. O and shallow Shawn Hannity. It is our right to know what really happened and we can handle the truth, not more lies. 9/11 was a monstrous, criminal act that slaughtered more than 3,000 human beings. It cries out for the truth and I hope you will be part of this effort to get the truth to your fellow Americans before another 9/11 "terrorist" attack strikes our land and people. For part one click below. Source : www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd211.htm
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Post by michelle on Sept 12, 2006 16:01:34 GMT 4
Rabbi Dov Zakheim: Chief Architect of 9/11 Part1
Part I - Recherché du trillions perdu
Pardon my bebop French, paraphrasing Marcel Proust’s famous novel, Recherché Du Temps Perdu, which is about his childhood memories flashed to life by a piece of tea-soaked toast whose taste reminds him of a childhood cookie. In my case, Recherché du trillions perdu (Remembrance of trillions lost) was triggered by seeing that tidbit Donald Rumsfeld gave us on September 10, 2001: that the Pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion dollars. It had vanished in the rabbit hole and the story was buried the next day under the rubble of 911. Merde.
And in fact Rummy lamented that was $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. One Jim Minnery, a former marine turned whistle-blower, risked his job at the Defense Finance And Accounting Service when he asked about the millions missing from one defense agency‘s balance sheets. Minnery attempted to follow the money, criss-crossing the country looking for clues, only to have his boss look at him and say, “Why do you care about this stuff.” He was reassigned and the booboo written off.
And the memory flashes forward to January 31, 2005, and the Pentagon announces that Rabbi Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon Comptroller, has Misplaced a Trillion Dollars. In fact, al Jazeera (of all news outlets) reported a “General Accounting Office report found Defence inventory systems so lax that the US Army lost track of 56 airplanes, 32 tanks and 36 Javelin missile command launch-units.” How could all this have been lost in my memory? Of course, Rabbi Zackheim resigned, complaining that the pressure of keeping track of all that loot was too much trouble.
Yet this conflicts with other reports saying Dov was the Mastermind Behind 911. In fact, the Stephen St. John Article tells us that Dov Zakheim was chief executive officer of System Planning Corporation’s International Division, that is, yes it’s all coming back now, till President George W. Bush made him undersecretary of defense and comptroller of the Pentagon. In fact, he rose like a star over the Pentagon’s labyrinth of marble hallways, boardrooms, inner and innermost offices.
And if memory serves, before that, from 1985 to 1987, he was under secretary of defense for planning and resources, and held various senior Pentagon posts in the Reagan madhouse. Before that with the Congressional Budget Office. Then on to Corporate VP of Systems Planning Corporation, a high-tech research, analysis, and manufacturing firm, then Chief Executive Officer and President of SPC International, Inc. In 1998, Zakheim, expert in ballistic missiles, worked with the Rumsfeld Commission. And more, yes, he is a long-time Bush crony, policy advisor to Governor Bush in the 2000 campaign theft. Yes, it all comes back.
In fact, in addition to his System Planning Corporation stewardship, he co-authored the now infamous article, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, forces and Resources for a New Century,” published, yes, by The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) in September 2000, exactly a year before 9/11. In his piece, he gave us that now infamous page 51 on which he wrote that “the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing even, like a new Pearl Harbor.” Merde.
I’m aware this is old history but it’s flashing back, saying look at me, don’t forget. SPC produced remote control airborne vehicle technologies, and Zakheim had the Pentagon means to pay for them. Also, System Planning Corporation markets the technology to take over the controls of an airborne vehicle already in flight. For example the Flight Termination System technology could literally hijack the hijackers and land the plane safely wherever it wanted.
The Flight Termination System can be used with the CTS technology that can actually control up to eight vehicles at the same time. Just go to SPC’s site..It’s all there, better than United Flight 93 or Oliver Stone’s sleepy World Trade Center. It all comes back now: the technology developed in the late ‘70s after the first terror hijackings that then got into the wrong hands. And Zakheim’s proximity to what Stephen St. John calls the Command Control Communications Network in DC interwoven with a cousin network of Zionic if not bionic neo-cons. Merde. Je ne suis pas fou. I am not crazy. They are.
And so one is left with that aftertaste of acrid smoke, lingering for months, a huge gray cloud hovering over the WTC ruin, the sharp blue sky of September, the white gold sun ennobling it with an eerie beauty even in catastrophe. One remembers, even when one wishes to forget. But remember we must, over and over, and learn the lesson, or be doomed to live it again. Merde.
Part II - Following Zakheim and Pentagon trillions to Israel and 9-11
Think of this as part two of Recherche du trillions perdu, my Online Journal article on Dov Zakheim, former Bush appointee as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books. That story, as I mentioned, was buried under 9-11’s rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim’s watch.
Yet on May 6, 2004, Zakheim took a lucrative position at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the most prestigious strategy consulting firms in the world. One of its clients then was Blessed Relief, a charity said to be a front for Osama bin Laden. Booz, Allen & Hamilton then also worked closely with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is the research arm of the Department of Defense. So the dark card was shifted to another part of the deck.
Judicial Inc’s bio of Dov tells us Zakheim was/is a dual Israeli/American citizen and an ordained rabbi and had been tracking the halls of US government for 25 years, casting defense policy and influence on Presidents Reagan, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. He is, as I described him earlier, the bionic Zionist. In fact, Judicial Inc points out that most of Israel’s armaments were gotten thanks to him. Squads of US F-16 and F-15 were classified military surplus and sold to Israel at a fraction of their value.
Judicial Inc also points out that Israel, a country of 4.8 million Russian and Polish Jewish émigrés, flies on one of the biggest Air Forces in the world, thanks to Dov. Conflict of interest here? Depends on what you’re interested in. That is, in 2001 Dov was CEO of SPS International, part of System Planning Corporation, a defense contractor majoring in electronic warfare technologies, including remote-controlled aircraft systems, and the notorious Flight Termination System (FTS) technology that could hijack even a hijacked plane and land or crash it wherever.
More from the resume: Wikipedia points out that Zakheim is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2000 a co-author of the Project for the New American Century’s position paper, Rebuilding America’s Defenses, advocating the necessity for a Pearl-Harbor-like incident to mobilize the country into war with its enemies, mostly Middle Eastern Muslim nations.
As to Dov’s hell-raiser lineage, Judicial Inc points out that Grandpa Zakheim was born in 1870, Julius Zakheim (Zhabinka), in the Ukraine, a Russian rabbi who married a relative of Karl Marx. He was a Menshevik/Bolshevik and played a leading role in the 1905 turmoil that paved the way for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The Bolshevik master plan called for the state of Israel, which was chosen for its proximity to the world's oil and an area of religious significance.
Dov’s Father, Rabbi Jacob I. Zakheim was born in 1910 and reared in Poland’s swarm of Zionist hard guys, read assassins and bombers. His Polish town, near Bilaystok, also brought us Yitzhak Shir, and family friends included Menachem Begin and Moshe Arens. Dov’s father was an active member of Betar, formed in 1923 in Riga, Latvia. Its goal was to control the Middle East (and its oil). It was known that the Jewish people needed their own country and they chose Palestine and claimed it a Jewish state “on both sides of the Jordan.”
Betar was in essence a terrorist organization formed because Zionists were sick of being chased from and arrested in country after country. They wanted both a place to escape and a base for their power. Betar joined forces with the Haganah, Irgun, and Stern gangs. With no prospect of a Jewish state in sight, they argued that armed struggle against the British was the only way. Since Britain occupied Palestine and was containing them they went on a blood feast of bombings that killed hundreds of British soldiers. The British pulled out, but the Zionists continue to maul the Arabs to this day.
Dov Zakheim was born in Brooklyn in 1943 and attended exclusive Jewish schools, spent summers in Israel Zionist camps, which trained the Zionists of the future. As to Dov’s formal education, he graduated from Columbia University in 1970 and the University of Oxford in 1972. From 1973 to 75, he attended the London school of Jewish studies, described as a “Harry Potter” type cauldron; among the subjects Jewish supremacy, Advanced Bible, Talmud, Jewish Mysticism, Holocaust, Anglo-Judaica, and Zionism. After, he was ordained a Rabbi. From 1975 to 80, Zakheim was an adjunct professor at the National War College, Yeshiva University, Columbia University and Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
As he stepped into the Reagan administration, he talked them into funding development of the Lavi Fighter at a cost of $3 billion. The Lavi was a total flop and Israel dropped it, though it owed $450 million in contract fees that were cancelled. Israel, according to Judicial Inc, also created a story that China was eager to buy the Lavi. Zakheim convinced Reagan that China had to be sandbagged. Reagan gave Israel $500 million for its lost contracts. Reagan then threw in a wing of F-16’s as a bonus and sign of good will. Do we see a pattern here, personal, familial, career-wise, of over-the-top Israeli advocacy?
Again, during Zakheim’s tenure as Pentagon controller from May 4, 2001, to March 10, 2004, over $3 trillion dollars were unaccounted for. Additionally, military Information was jeopardized and military contractors billed the US for Israeli items: $50 million dollar fighter jets were rated as surplus and the list rolls on. As the scandal of the missing trillion dollars surfaced and Dov resigned, Israel was handed the finest fighter jets in the US inventory while 15 percent of US jets were grounded for lack of parts. In whose best interest was this?
But Zakheim is not alone. He is one of an elite group of Jewish Americans/Israelis who inter-marry and enter government. They and their Christian counterparts are called neocons and their sole purpose is directing US policy. Most of them are dual citizens and few serve in the US military. Think of Paul Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams, Richard Perle, Ben Wattenberg, to mention a few. Whether their motivation is anger at the Muslim world, seen as a religious and territorial enemy, or a deep-rooted reaction to the Holocaust, the culmination of European anti-Semitism, their reactionary militarism becomes a world-threatening force unto itself. Hence our concern.
Dov and the World Trade Center
Perhaps not coincidentally in May 2001, when Dov served at the Pentagon, it was an SPS (his firm’s) subsidiary, Tridata Corporation, that oversaw the investigation of the first “terrorist” attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. This would have given them intimate knowledge of the security systems and structural blueprints of the World Trade Center. From the '90s through 2001, WTC Security was handled by Securacom, a Kuwait-American firm, on whose board Marvin Bush, the president’s brother, sat. After 9/11, Securacom was let go, changed its name to Stratosec, and was delisted from the Stock Exchange in 2002.
According to the SPC website (4), a recent customer at that time was Eglin AFB, located in Florida. Eglin is very near another Air Force base in Florida-MacDill AFB, where Dov Zakheim contracted to send at least 32 Boeing 767 aircraft, as part of the Boeing /Pentagon tanker lease agreement. (5)
As the events of September 11, 2001 occurred, little was mentioned about these strange connections, and the possible motives and proximity of Dov Zakheim and his group. Since there was little physical evidence remaining after the events, investigators were left only with photographic and anecdotal evidence.
There is a photograph of the Flight Termination System module, from their site.(5). Note it has a cylindrical shape, and is consistent with the size and shape of the object observed under the fuselage of flight 175.
The Boeing lease deal involved the replacement of the aging KC-135 tanker fleet with these smaller, more efficient Boeing 767s that were to be leased by Dov Zakheim's group. The planes were to be refitted with refueling equipment, including lines and nozzle assemblies.
(NB: both Flight 175, that hit the South Tower, and Flight 11, that hit the North Tower, were Boeing 767s. Flights 77 and 93 were 757s.)
In the enlargement of flight 175’s photo, we can clearly see a cylindrical object under the fuselage, and a structure that appears to be attached to the right underside of the rear fuselage section.
When seen in comparison, it is obvious that the plane approaching the Trade Center has both of these structures -- the FTS module and the midair refueling equipment, as configured on the modified Boeing 767 tankers. Of particular interest is the long tube-like anomalous structure under the rear fuselage area of flight 175-this structure runs along the right rear bottom of the plane, as it also does on the Boeing 767 refueling tanker pictured.
After considering this information, I am convinced that flight 175, as pictured on the news media and official reports, was in fact a refitted Boeing 767 tanker, with a Flight Termination System attached. Use of this system would also explain the expert handling of aircraft observed in both New York and Washington investigations, which has been officially credited to inexperienced flight school students.
Since the refitted 767s were able to carry both passengers and a fuel load, as shown in this photo, it is likely that the plane designated Flight 175 was in fact a refitted 767 tanker, disguised as a conventional commercial passenger plane.
As shown in this photo of a 767 being serviced, the FTS unit, when in position, would be small and unobtrusive enough to be fairly innocuous (at least to casual observers, such as passengers). The smallest circle indicates the size and position of the anomaly depicted in the photos of Flight 175. The larger circle, which is the size of the engine housing, shows the size of the anomaly in relation to the engine. Note the size and position of the open hatches on the engine housing, which would tend to discredit the widely held theory that the anomaly is an open hatch or cargo door.
As the diagram shows, all flights involved in the events traveled very near many military installations, and appear to have traveled in a manner suggesting guidance and possible transfer of the control of the planes among the bases.
Since the evidence from the World Trade Center site was quickly removed, there is little concrete evidence of the involvement of Dov Zakheim, who has since left his position at the Pentagon. However, the proximity of Eglin AFB to MacDill AFB in Florida and Dov Zakheim's work via SPC contracts and the Pentagon leasing agreement on both of these installations, combined with SPC's access to World Trade Center structural and security information from their Tridata investigation in 1993, is highly suspicious. Considering his access to Boeing 767 tankers, remote control flight systems, and his published views in the PNAC document, it seems very likely he is in fact a key figure in the alleged terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001. CONTINUED.......
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Rabbi Dov Zakheim: Chief Architect of 9/11 Part2Who is Rabbi Dov Zakheim?Graduate of the prestigious London School of Economics (PhD), and the University of Oxford (National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow) Former CEO of Systems Planning Corporation, a highly specialized defense technology company that manufactures a one-of-a-kind remote-piloting system for aircraft, including commercial airliners (see below) Senior Fellow for Asian Studies of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Member of the Task Force on Defense Reform (appointed by Secretary of Defense Cohen) Senior Advisor at the Center for International and Strategic Studies Former Under Secretary of Defense (appointed by George W. Bush) Comptroller of the Pentagon {see [1] below for performance report} Pioneer and prime architect of Project for the New American Century (PNAC), the neo-con cabal that authored Rearming America’s Defenses (RAD), the bible for American global domination [2] Author of “Flight Of The Lavi: Inside A US-Israeli Crisis” (Brassey’s, 1996) Long-time Bush associate, having served as a policy advisor to the governor during the 2000 campaign Columnist for The Jerusalem Post Editorial Board member of Israel Affairs Ordained Rabbi Citizen of the State of Israel [How a citizen of Israel can serve as Comptroller of America’s central defense establishment is a question I shall leave to others for comment. While they ponder this perturbing oddity, perhaps they could also shed light on why every one of the following kingpins of the Bush administration are also Israeli citizens: Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Michael Chertoff, George Tenet, Elliot Abrams, Donald Kagan, Richard Haas, Kenneth Adelman, Edward Luttwak, Robert Satloff, David Frum, David Wurmser, Steve Goldsmith, and Marc Grossman.] [1] “I know Dr. Zakheim has been trying to hire CPAs because the financial systems of the department are so snarled up that we can't account for some $2.6 TRILLION in transactions that exist...” —Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, during testimony before the House Appropriations Committee: Fiscal Year 2002 Defense Budget Request, as given by Secy. Rumsfeld, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh Shelton, and Comptroller Dov Zakheim; on Monday, July 16, 2001. [NB: Dr. Zakheim resigned as Pentagon Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer at the beginning of March when it was revealed that the he is unable to account for the disappearance of $2.6 trillion (it’s unlikely this will receive much coverage in the mainstream media). Zakheim has since taken a lucrative position as a vice president of the mega-consultancy Booz, Allen, & Hamilton (one that also works closely with DARPA). Rabbi Zakheim is also Chief Executive Officer of SPC International Corporation (a subsidiary of the aforementioned remote-flight-control-technology firm), a company that specializes in “political, military, and economic consulting, and international sales and analysis”. In addition, Dr. Zakheim serves as Consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. As the Rabbi’s record clearly shows, he has serious tenure in the US defense establishment: more than 30 years of holding assorted senior positions at the Pentagon.] [2] Dov Zakheim is the co-author of that singularly sinister—and chillingly ominous—statement contained in Rearming America’s Defenses (RAD) re the plan for American global domination [through galvanizing American emotional support for full-scale war against oil-rich Arab states]: "...the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor". The PNAC document also expressly recommends the US should seize Iraq even if Saddam Hussein were deposed through a military coup. [So much for bringing “freedom and democracy” to the people of that country.] The good Rabbi’s involvement with PNAC, his previous directorship of a corporation that manufactures remote control flight systems, and his inability to document how the Pentagon has spent TRILLIONS of American taxpayers’ dollars suggests that real investigations into the crimes of 9/11 and the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq would put Mr. Zakheim near the top of the witness list for interrogation and potential prosecution. SYSTEMS PLANNING CORPORATIONDr. Dov Zakheim was the former CEO of Systems Planning Corporation, a company that designs and manufactures extremely sophisticated control/guidance technology that enables an external operator to fly, and land, aircraft by remote control. One of the company’s principal products is the Command Transmitter System (CTS), a fully redundant, self-contained, solid-state platform capable of providing totally programmable remote flight control capability, including high-precision electronic navigation. The company’s parallel product, the Flight Termination System (FTS), enables system-equipped aircraft to be safely landed on any suitable runway in the world—regardless of the availability of ground-based navigational or landing aids (VOR, ILS, MLS, etc.). Such total independence in all flight regimes is achieved through a variety of ultra-sophisticated space-based technologies, including Mil-spec DGPS (Differential GPS, using extremely precise encrypted military “P” Code transmissions), and is accurate to within one foot of the runway centerline during landing. The CTS/FTS remote-control system is capable of controlling up to 8 airborne vehicles—including airliners—simultaneously from ground-based or airborne (AWACS) positions. [“Coincidence”: Operation Vigilant Guardian, one of five NORAD “war game exercises” underway on the morning of 9/11 and orchestrated by Dick Cheney, involved the simulated hijacking of commercial airliners. At one point during the exercises, while the four “real” hijacked aircraft were airborne, as many as TWENTY-TWO independent radar blips representing “hijacked” aircraft were simultaneously displayed on FAA radar screens along the Eastern seaboard. This, obviously, created total pandemonium. Air traffic controllers who had been advised beforehand by NORAD of the “simulated hijackings”, began frantically calling NORAD to determine which of the twenty-two targets were “real” and which were “exercise.” All indications are that whatever it was that happened to the four real “hijacked” airliners occurred during this purposefully orchestrated melee while the order was given for the US Air Force to “stand down”.] The CTS/FTS system (subsequently improved, tested and implemented by Raytheon) allows specialist ground controllers to listen-in on cockpit conversations on the target aircraft, then take absolute control of its computerized flight control system by remote means and safely land the aircraft at any airport within range. In other words, this technology was designed to empower “law enforcement agencies” to hijack hijackers. [NB: The ground station technology for CTS/FTS was developed by Raytheon under an Air Force contract for the Joint Precision Approach and Landings System (JPALS) program. A government-industry team accomplished the first precision approach/auto-land by a civil aircraft using this system on August 25, 2001 at Holloman AFB, NM. A FedEx Express 727-200 aircraft demonstrated hundred percent system proficiency by executing six full auto-lands using the JPALS ground station.] “HOME RUN”In partnership with Raytheon, System Planning Corporation also supplies CTS/FTS technology to commercial airplane manufacturers for installation in airliners (Boeing: confirmed; Airbus: undetermined, but highly probable given the consortium’s connection to BAE, a US military contractor.) It has been reported that DARPA’s codename for the CTS/FTS system was “Home Run”. Former German Secretary of Defense Andreas Von Buelow may have alluded to foreknowledge of Home Run technology in an interview he gave the German daily "Tagesspiegel" on January 13th, 2002: "There is also the theory of one British flight engineer: according to this, the steering of the planes was perhaps taken out of the pilots' hands, from outside. The Americans had developed a method in the 1970s, whereby they could rescue hijacked planes by intervening into the computer piloting [automatic pilot system]. This theory says this technique was abused in this case [9/11]..." Upon deeper scrutiny this may not appear quite so much a “theory” as might first seem. It’s been reported that the German national carrier Lufthansa, seriously concerned that one of its own aircraft might be “rescued” by the Americans without its authority, had every one of its Home Run-equipped Boeing aircraft stripped of the American flight control computers. It’s reasonable to presume that Herr Von Buelow—the Secretary of Defense and Minister of Science and Technology at the time—would have known all about this mammoth but secretive task (how very clever—and discreet—of Von Buelow to "drop” the information into the middle of an interview about the 9/11 attacks). Lufthansa aircraft (and possibly others) are now effectively impervious to Home Run take-overs, but that is more than can be said for the American aircraft fleet. In order to make Home Run truly effective, it had to be completely integrated with all onboard systems, and this could only be accomplished with a new aircraft design, several of which were on the drawing boards at that time. Under cover of extreme secrecy, the multinationals and DARPA went ahead on this basis and built “back doors” into the new computerized flight control systems. There were two very obvious hard requirements at this stage: 1) a primary control channel for use in taking over the flight control system and flying the aircraft back to an airfield of choice, and 2) a covert audio channel for monitoring flight deck conversations. Once the primary channel was activated, all aircraft functions came under direct ground (or AWACS) control, permanently removing the hijackers and pilots from the control loop. It needs mention that this was not a system designed to “undermine” the authority of the flight crews, but rather, implemented as a “doomsday” device in the event the hijackers began to shoot passengers or crew members, possibly including the pilots. Based on the reasonable assumption that hijackers only carry a limited number of rounds of ammunition, and many modern airliners carry in excess of 300 passengers, Home Run was envisaged as a system that could be used to fly all the survivors to a friendly airport for a safe landing. System ActivationActivating the primary Home Run channel is reportedly fairly straightforward. A transponder, as many readers know, is a combined radio transmitter and receiver which operates automatically—in the case of 9/11, relaying data between the four aircraft and air traffic controllers on the ground. The transmitted signals represent a unique “identity” for each aircraft, essential in crowded airspace to avoid midair collisions—and equally essential for Home Run controllers trying to lock onto the correct aircraft. Once the correct target aircraft is located by radar, the Home Run duplex data bus “piggy backs” the transponder channel and assumes direct control from the ground. This could explain why NONE of the four aircraft sent the special “I have been hijacked” transponder code (7500), despite multiple activation points for this distress transmission on all four aircraft—and despite being flown by combat-hardened ex-fighter pilots. Because the transponder frequency had already been piggy-backed by Home Run, transmission of the special hijack code was rendered impossible. This was the first hard proof that the target aircraft had been hijacked electronically from the ground, rather than by Arab patsies toting box-cutters. The Home Run listening device on the flight deck utilizes the cockpit microphones that normally feed the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), one of two black boxes armored to withstand heavy impact and thereby later provide investigators significant clues to why the aircraft crashed. However, once plugged into Home Run, the CVRs are bypassed, and voice transmissions are no longer recorded on the 30minute continuous-loop recording tape. If Home Run is active for more than thirty minutes, there will therefore be no audible data on the Cockpit Voice Recorders. Crash investigators are said to have recovered the CVRs from the Pentagon and Pittsburg aircraft, and publicly confirmed that both are completely blank. The only possible reason for this is data capture by Home Run, providing the final hard proof that the attack aircraft were hijacked electronically from the ground, rather than by “Arab terrorists”. DiscussionIt is not being suggested that remote circumvention and take-over of the four airliners’ controls is definitely what happened on 9/11. But if this scenario seems improbable, one must necessarily consider the probability of four airliners being taken over simultaneously, casually flown around a large swath of the country for almost two hours under the vigilant eye of NORAD, and then used as missiles—all without a single fighter being scrambled to intercept any of them. Since this is what actually happened, we have no choice but to consider other “implausible” scenarios. And since the official scenario is itself an unsubstantiated—and truly farfetched—"conspiracy theory," other competing scenarios should also receive serious attention. The public’s reluctance to question official doctrine on this matter is a symptom of the societal role for which most of us have been bred and trained: to be ever-faithful hounds, tails thumping the floor as we contentedly slurp the hand of class authority. Such credulity also becomes inevitable when the alternative is so unbearable: if someone in Bush's position is capable of lying to us about something as huge, as gut-wrenchingly horrible as 9/11, then everything we believe about this country—about the nature of civilization itself—might just be childish nonsense. Most people simply don't have the guts to go there. Given a desperate enough need to sustain the childish belief in government-as-benevolent-father, a person will adapt that belief to any circumstance. The behavioral end result can resemble courage; indeed, we are taught to regard it as the DEFINITION of courage. Actually, it's one of cowardice's darkest moments. Even a casual examination of Nazi Germany, where this phenomenon was rampant, will drive this point home. It's almost funny, the way people readily see the threat of technological circumvention presented by Diebold's electronic voting machines, yet when the subject switches to Systems Planning Corporation’s Flight Termination System, which is every bit as real, and to the exactly parallel possibilities it represents vis-a-vis 9/11, they suddenly retreat into profound and combative denial. It's as if a threshold has been crossed into a realm of possibilities too vile to entertain, so they simply don't. Never mind that this country's operatives have been traveling the world, perpetrating similar horrors, for all of the past century. Rather than acknowledge the possibility of a unifying pattern, Joe Sixpack would much rather 'shoot the messenger.' Every so often, such people establish a new high-water mark for cowardice and facultative stupidity, and the present is definitely one of those times. After all, the official 9/11 scenario they cling to with such desperate faith comes from only one source: the Western "intelligence community"—the most brazen, systematic, resourceful, and interlocked association of habitual liars this world has ever seen. As should have been made clear by any number of intelligence scandals over the years, the credibility of this bunch goes past zero into the negative: pending airtight proof, anything they say should be reflexively deemed a lie. You may remember that the FBI also provided the identities of "the 19 hijackers" within hours—information that soon also became quite suspect, especially considering there was NOT ONE Arab name on any of the flight manifests (miraculously, they even found paper passports that had survived fireballs, Arabic flight manuals conveniently left in the trunks of cars, etc., etc.) At least seven of the hijackers are still alive in the Middle East—a pretty good alibi, wouldn’t you say? Several of these ex-suspects had their passports or other IDs stolen from them over the years, and it's entirely possible that all 19 hijackers had stolen identities, meaning they could have come from anywhere—or been absent altogether. Our media were pretty slack about acknowledging this at the time, and since then have dropped this ball entirely. What’s really amazing is that not one mainstream journalist has asked how these 19 alleged hijackers boarded their aircraft when their names were not on any of the passenger manifests. Rather than allow the "intelligence community" to render every detail of our comprehension on this matter, we would be much wiser to carefully identify and discard every assumption they hand us.Source: www.ziopedia.org/content/view/1531/1/
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Post by michelle on Sept 21, 2006 17:53:33 GMT 4
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2006 Awesome new 9/11 website listing public statements of top leaders!www.patriotsquestion911.comA fantastic new website just went live two days ago [9/19/06] listing statements and photos of several dozen top government and military leaders who have gone on record seriously questioning 9/11.
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Post by michelle on Oct 12, 2006 9:35:19 GMT 4
Instructor who doubts 9/11 compares Bush to Hitler8:53 PM Oct 10, 2006 A University of Wisconsin-Madison instructor who has come under scrutiny for saying the US government orchestrated the September 11th attacks compares President Bush to Adolf Hitler in an essay his students are being required to buy. The essay is part of a $20 book of essays from 15 authors, called ``9/11 and American Empire: Muslims, Jews, and Christians Speak Out,'' according to an unedited copy first obtained by a Madison TV station and later by The Associated Press. The book is on the syllabus for the twice-a-week course, ``Islam: Religion and Culture,'' being taught by part-time instructor Kevin Barrett. Only three of the essays are required reading, not including Barrett's essay. In the essay, he says that -- quote -- ``Like Bush and the neocons, Hitler and the Nazis inaugurated their new era by destroying an architectural monument and blaming its destruction on their designated enemies.'' Barrett told The AP today he was comparing the attacks to the burning of the German parliament building, the Reichstag, in 1933. He says he wasn't comparing them as people, but then he added that -- quote -- ``Hitler had a good 20 to 30 IQ points on Bush so comparing Bush to Hitler would in many ways be an insult to Hitler.''UW officials have allowed Barrett to go ahead with teaching the course, limiting his own views to one week and requiring that students be allowed to challenge them. AP Source: c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?j666941452&w=2097245
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Post by michelle on Dec 13, 2006 18:54:50 GMT 4
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Post by DT1 on Dec 15, 2006 11:18:28 GMT 4
While thrash/industrial isn't everyone's cup of tea, I am sending this link along with heartfelt thanks to Ministry... For telling it like it is. Something the Matrix Media refuses to do. www.911blogger.com/node/5035
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Post by michelle on Dec 30, 2006 18:08:41 GMT 4
I thought this was interesting; another ingredient to throw into the "9/11 Stew".....MWhat do the Statue of Liberty and WTC Towers have in common?The Statue of Liberty had to be repaired due to galvanic corrosion in air. Not what most think is possible but in ocean environments, very possible. Normally galvanic corrosion is only a factor in an electrolyte such as sea water and the stern drive on the boat - having steel and aluminum components - erodes, turns brittle and snap - it fails - if electrolytic grounding plates are not installed. """The galvanic reaction between iron and copper was originally mitigated by insulating copper from the iron framework using an asbestos cloth soaked in shellac. However, the integrity and sealing property of this improvised insulator broke down over the many years of exposure to high levels of humidity normal in a marine environment. The insulating barrier became a sponge that kept the salted water present as a conductive electrolyte, forming a crude electrochemical cell as and Volta had discovered a century earlier.""" In 1989 - there were plans to erect scaffolding and disassemble the WTC towers and rebuild them. Cost projection was around $5.6 billion. One of the architects shows up to work one day and the MIB's were there - had confiscated all of the plans, specs, details, etc for WTC. They even confiscated their office cubicles and had tape on the floor outlining where they went.
Reason - the exterior cast aluminum WTC panels had been directly connected to the steel superstructure of the building, thus causing galvanic corrosion. In short, the "life cycle" of the WTC was not 200 - 300 years, more like 30 years or so. The exterior skin of the building - in being aluminum and connected directly to the super structure - was making the building weaker every day. That could explain why there appears to be explosives set only about every 25 floors. Once the failure started, the brittleness of welds, rivets, bolts, etc would fail much easier as the loads became progressively greater on the way down. That same process would also explain why the concrete was "powderized" over time because electrolytic processes weaken concrete too by "debonding" the Portland that causes concrete to bond in the first place. However, bear in mind that the "concrete floors" were not load bearing reinforced concrete. They were supported by what was a weakening by the day superstructure and cross members. There was a 1989 meeting and the folks at the architectural firm Emory Roth, the project architect that took over after the design architects completed the conceptual drawings that had their office, records, plans and specs seized - were told that the $5.6 billion "take it down, rebuild it" project was cancelled and in about "10-12 years" they would "blow it up and start over". Consider that - and consider that NYC and the US Govt could not stand the global embarrassment of being so stupid or negligent that they did not consider the effects of galvanic corrosion on the superstructure. That is structural design 101 in architectural school and why they want architects to take physics and chemistry for Christ's sake. I did. I am an architect by the way, quit practicing in 1988. www.npl.co.uk/ncs/docs/the_electochemistry_of_corrosion_figures www.npl.co.uk/ncs/docs/the_electochemistry_of_corrosion.pdf www.corrosion-doctors.org/Aircraft/galvdefi.htm see bimetallic corrosion to get to the two links above www.corrosion-doctors.org/Landmarks/statue-saddle.htmGuess what?
The fat lady HAS SUNG. You know, the one in New York Harbor with the torch of Liberty and Freedom held high.
I want to find the sick bastard that thought it would be a cute idea to have close to 3,000 in the building and use that as an excuse to go take on a whole new energy policy, war policy, and lining the pockets of just certain people.
I think a Statute of Liberty hanging for that person would be most appropriate. best regards, Patmos Nanotechnologies, LLC Karl W. B. Schwarz President, Chief Executive Officer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also: Galvanic/Dissimilar Metal Corrosion The 9/11 WTC Collapses: An Audio-Video Analysis Source: www.whatreallyhappened.com/wtc_corrosion.html
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Post by DT1 on Jan 7, 2007 12:56:02 GMT 4
Agreed,Michelle. Below is an excellent summary of the facts we have been able to pry from them,courtesy of mindprod.com:Why I think 9/11 Was An Inside JobHere are just a few of the reasons I believe 9/11 was an inside job, primarily masterminded by Dick Cheney with the complicity of George W. Bush. I have ordered them with most important first. This is just a summary.. . No steel frame buildings had ever before in history collapsed either from fires or planes hitting them. They are designed to withstand those hazards. On 9/11 three of them fell, and fell perfectly straight down. Why do you think demolition experts spend weeks planting charges and timing the explosions with millisecond precision? To make sure the buildings implode and fall straight down, just as the three WTC towers did. That perfection does not happen by accident. Further, the timing of the falls are indicative of linear controlled demolitions, not accelerating natural gravitational collapse. An engineering failure of this magnitude would normally demand an exhaustive study as to the mechanism of failure to ensure it never happened again, but all the evidence was quickly whisked away and melted down thus ensuring the cause was never discovered. The 1/3 sized wheels, turbofan and diffuser found at the Pentagon crash are not part of a 757, but of a much smaller military aircraft the A-3 drone. Two civilian defense contractor employees — told to remain silent — say other workers quietly retro-fitted missile and remote control systems onto A-3 jets at Colorado public airport prior to September 11. Bush claims a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon then vaporised, and that is why there was no wreckage, but that is utterly impossible. The titanium used in the 12 tons of engines does not even melt at temperatures reached by mixing jet fuel and pure oxygen much less vaporise. Think about it. Titanium was chosen for the engines because it would not even weaken when subjected to an optimum mixture of jet fuel and air for hours on end during ordinary flight. Further, there were not even broken windows where the engines purportedly hit the Pentagon. And to top it off, photos show no sign of a fuel fire like the ones hitting the two towers. So, according to Bush, not only did the most of the plane vanish, a mysterious shrinking ray made the wheels and turbofans shrink to 1/3 the normal diameter and change into a type used by A-3 military drones. Give me a break! How gullible do you think I am Mr. Bush? Bush is peddling an utterly preposterous lie. It amazing he got away with it so long. See the video Loose Change, part 1 and Loose Change, part 2. So it was an A-3 drone that hit the Pentagon. This is so patently obvious from examining the wreckage that Bush must have know that all along, but decided to lie. The hole in the side of the Pentagon is far too small for Boeing 757 flight 77 to pass through. The wingspan is 124 feet with a fuselage diameter of 13 feet. It is 44 feet from ground to the top of the tail. There was almost no debris, no bodies, no blood, no body parts, no baggage, no wreckage typical of a 757 plane crash, and of course no sheared off wings. Further there was no fire or smoke damage similar to the other two crashes. There should have been. The plane had a similar load of fuel. In contrast, after the shuttle disaster, it was possible to find pieces of the seven astronauts' bodies spread over hundreds of square miles. Some of the rubble appears to belong to a small Global Hawk drone (44 feet long by 15 feet high) including the tiny engine, including a tiny turbofan engine. The Pentagon blatantly lied in its story published by the Washington Post, saying the hole in the Pentagon was five stories high and 200 feet wide. Photos show it is no bigger than 18 feet in diameter. To fit in that tiny hole the wings had to have been sheared off. Where are the wings? Further the Pentagon crash did not show up seismically, because the object that hit was too light. Recall your high school physics. We know object that hit the Pentagon was travelling at 400 mph. mass = energy / velocity2 The low energy of the hit means the object had to have considerably lower mass than a 757. The other two other hits, including another 757, registered seismically. Whatever hit the Pentagon was not nearly heavy enough to be a 757 as the Bush conspiracy theory claims. This is so patently obvious, Bush must have know that all along, but decided to lie. See David Griffin's on-line lecture. This will painlessly give you a brief outline of some of the holes in Bush's story. Griffin has written two books on 9/11. Mike Ruppert's book, Crossing the Rubicon. This book explains exactly how Cheney pulled this off, and provides 700 pages of backup for this admittedly wild-sounding accusation. ... The fact that I knew immediatley made me investigate more thoroughly... There is at this point no doubt in my mind that this was done by our government.In a NutshellSpeaking metaphorically, Bush Jr. slept with the enemy, before, during and after 9-11. Speaking metaphorically, the arsonists (bin Laden & friends) had a dozen meetings with the building owner (Bush Jr.) before the fire (9-11). Bush Sr. and bin Laden Sr. are business partners from way back. They both still work together for defence contractor Carlyle Group. bin Laden met with CIA bigwigs 72 days prior to 911 in Dubai in a hospital. They did not arrest him. Bush asked the FBI to stop its investigation of the bin Laden family prior to 9/11. In the week prior to 9/11 all of Bush's cabinet met with Mahmud Ahmad, the Pakistani ISI head of security, the man who is fingered in bankrolling bin Laden by wiring to $100,000 to the lead hijacker Mohamed Atta. The instant the first plane hit on 9/11 hit Mahmud Ahmad was having breakfast with Representative Porter Goss, R-Sanibel, Senator Bob Graham (D-Florida) and other members of the House Intelligence Committee. As 9/11 unfolded, according to the CBC's Fifth Estate, Bush Sr. dined with bin Laden's brother, Shafig bin Laden at the Ritz Carlton hotel. As 9/11 unfolded, Bush holed up with a bunch of children reading them a story about a pet goat. All planes were ordered to land. No planes were scrambled. Bush did not give the order to fire until after 9/11 was over. bin Laden conveniently left a confession tape behind in Afghanistan and made other public pronouncements of his guilt. The head German security said Al-Qaeda could not possibly have pulled it off. It was far beyond their capability. Bush appointed Thomas Kean as 9/11 investigator. He has business ties with the bin Laden family. Bush invaded Afghanistan without showing any evidence either bin Laden or Afghanistan had anything to do with 9/11. He continues to occupy Afghanistan under a new dictator, Unocal's Hamid Karzai, and they are building a Unocal pipeline through Afghanistan (which is what I originally predicted the war was really all about.) The people are no better off. They have the exact same nightmares, with the addition of rape gangs. To top it off, Afghanistan is now #1 in the world in heroin exporting due to a complete lack of drug enforcement. It would cost only $20 million to totally shut down the heroin trade, but Bush Inc. Red Ink has allowed a staggering 3000 tons to be exported. Bush is now the biggest heroin pusher in America, reviving the drug trade the Taliban had shut down. The UN announced they were exporting 75% of the world's supply, and later ABC news said they were exporting 87% of the world's supply. Bush tries to confuse the American public making them think bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are one and the same. This way he can punish Saddam and let bin Laden off free. What are you to make of all this? It seems that if bin Laden is guilty, then so is Bush. Bush helped whomever did 9/11 by making sure none of the four planes were shot down. I suspect that bin Laden is just a CIA operative, doing his job.
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Post by DT1 on Jan 21, 2007 14:28:27 GMT 4
Follow The Money To the 911 PlayersTime To Acknowledge the Master Planners For Their Skill & Cleverness, However Flawed and Diabolical Exclusive to Rense.comBy Douglas Herman 1-20-7 You have to admire such chutzpah (Yiddish word for audacity). You have to admire, grudgingly, such cold-blooded, calculating cruelty, such amazing vision, however sadistic and criminal. 911 remains a master plan ridden with obvious flaws. The master planners stood to gain TRILLIONS in profits, (although paid in blood money), for their skillful concept carried out like the climax of a suspenseful Hollywood movie. And so five years later, that masterful crime, what I call The Greatest Unsolved Crime of The Century, remains a magician's trick worthy of Satan himself. Consider the targets chosen. The WTC complex was an enormous architectural white elephant filled with asbestos and with far too few tenants. But because the WTC had been built much too big and much too well, the cost of deconstruction, an estimated 15 billion, far outweighed whatever profit an owner might gain from years of ownership. But suppose a buyer stepped forward and purchased the property, with the foresight to realize the towers were targets? And suppose that buyer, possessed insider information about an attack and insured them against such a fate? And suppose that buyer collected when those white elephants crashed to the ground within months? In fact that is exactly what did happen, to the extent of 3.5 billion dollars. Now suppose one of the collapsed structures hadn't even been hit? Instead the nearby 47-story, WTC-7 burst into flame, a suspicious, haphazard fire that raged hours through several key floors long after the twin towers fell. Several of the floors housed Security & Exchange records pertaining to multi-billion dollar investigations. The Los Angeles Times reported on September 17, 2001 that an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 cases were destroyed. They included SEC's major inquiry into the manner in which investment banks divided up hot shares of initial public offerings (IPOs) during the high-tech boom. By destroying the building, the fire and subsequent collapse destroyed the records forever and meant a huge net savings for CEOs and corporations being investigated. Add several hundred millions, perhaps billions to our crime spree so far. Suddenly you realize why 911 occurred. For a twisted sense of globalism certainly, but for greater personal profit assuredly. The master planners, and one need look no further than the PNAC signers and whom they represented, realized that great crimes required great rewards. Not surprisingly, many 911 skeptics focused unnecessarily on those United and American airline Put options. Yet, had they been collected, only a few millions would have been gained. Very likely, some rogue, low level co-conspirator, with pre-knowledge of the master plan, made those Put options but without top level approval. Just one of the many flaws that day. Likewise, the heist of gold bars from vaults far below the WTC complex during the massacre occurring above may have yielded several hundred million more. No one knows. The New York city media, once again as complicit as co-conspirators, chose to ask few embarrassing questions about that crushed truck found weeks later below the WTC or who had loaded it. Once again this may have been another subsidiary operation, another unauthorized plundering by an insider group, like a lone looter who smashes a storefront window and grabs a handful of jewelry during a major earthquake. While hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars, changed hands as nearly 3,000 unlucky Americans died at the WTC bombardment, TRILLIONS of dollars went missing over at the Pentagon. How? Easy. A simple sleight of hand, a sudden explosion and presto, 2.3 trillion of missing money was magically forgotten. Two Trillion. Just like that. Only a day before 911, on September 10, 2001, kindly Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, admitted, during the last peaceful day of terror-free living, that 2.3 trillion of Pentagon money was missing and unaccounted for. What a fortunate thing to happen---a wonderful thing, this 911 attack---wonderful indeed for those who stole/ embezzled/ purloined/ pocketed those trillions. Suddenly "Arab terrorists" had provided a Godsend (Allah be praised), provided a perfect distraction, for generals and general contractors and Fortune 500 corporations and the Pentagon comptroller and the Sec-Def and everyone else it seems---everyone, that is, but the average American or the average Muslim. Imagine if you owned a bank and an investigation determined that you and your relatives had embezzled two trillion dollars from your bank. Newspapers blared the headline: "Two Trillion Missing." But--BUT---before the ink had dried on the tabloids, a nasty group of Islamofascists blew your bank ( or at least the records section) to smithereens. What a lucky break for you and your relatives. What an unlucky break for all those employees killed. But wait! In the following weeks, government inspectors (without investigating further) allowed your bank, encouraged your bank, to collect MORE funds---500 billion more per year---to squander or spend however you felt. Because that is EXACTLY what happened in the 24 hours between the time Rumsfeld admitted the money went missing from the Pentagon and the 911 "terror" attack on the five-sided fortress. Flight 77, or the remote controlled aircraft that blew concentric holes through six walls (airplane parts indicate the latter), slammed into the newly remodeled Army financial management/audit area and the Army personnel offices, one of two main west section offices heavily destroyed in the Pentagon attack. The other section being the Naval Command Center. Casualties were heavy. "Were the auditors who could 'follow the money,' and the computers whose data could help them do it, intentionally targeted, asked Jim Marrs and Barbara Honegger in her Pentagon Attack Papers? "It is worth noting that the Pentagon's top financial officer at the time, Dov Zakheim, who also acknowledged the 'missing' trillions, had a company that specializes in aircraft remote control technology." Curiously, like many top level civilians working at the Pentagon on 911, Zakheim held duel citizenship, US and Israel. When following the money trail, you realize the incalculable billions gained with the conquest of war-torn and impoverished Afghanistan, which depended on a manufactured attack. But rather than find and capture a CIA--created mastermind allegedly responsible for nearly 3,000 deaths, the sole purpose of the attack on Afghanistan appeared to be control of a country for the benefit of an oil pipeline. In the book, "Bin Laden: the Forbidden Truth" by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasique, the authors claim the U.S. tried to negotiate a trans-Afghanistan pipeline deal with the Taliban as late as August, 2001. "We'll either carpet you in gold or carpet you in bombs," negotiators reportedly said. When the pipeline deal fell through, the carpet of bombs followed---beginning with the WTC. If you follow the trillion-dollar money trail throughout 911, you easily see that those who stood to profit the most also occupied key places----military and civilian security systems, oil and gas consortiums, intelligence agencies, US Department of Justice and the US media/ propaganda systems--to make 911 happen and, just as important, to conspire to conceal the crime. The master planners pulled off a perfect plan, despite the obvious flaws. The blood money still flows, overflows, into their vaults and accounts. The planners remain masters of the known universe, unafraid of anyone or anything except perhaps a shadow. Because somewhere, perhaps in the depths of the Pentagon, honorable US officers, patriots like Colonel Bob Bowman, who realize EXACTLY what happened on 911, realize how the USAF was used as an unwitting accomplice on 911, simmer with shame, with resentment, with rage and frustration. One day these honorable men, together with other honorable men throughout this nation, will take legal steps to right the monstrous wrong that was done on September 11, 2001. Godspeed that day. Former USAF non-com, Douglas Herman writes extensively on history and true crime related issues. His recent novel, The Guns of Dallas, examines the JFK assassination in a critical light. Email douglasherman7@yahoo.com
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Post by michelle on Mar 17, 2007 12:31:11 GMT 4
The Confession of Khalid Sheik MohammedThe following might have more reality to it than what we have been told about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession to planning the Sept. 11 attacks and other plots. How the hell would we know what went on at his hearing, it was a closed military hearing. Last Saturday at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval prison in Cuba, Mohammed claimed responsibility for plotting more than 30 attacks and personally beheading American journalist Daniel Pearl. I'm not convinced that it was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who made these astounding claims....all one has to do is a little past news digging, which I've posted below........Michelle Finally - KSM Connects the Dots By John Albanese Created 2007-03-15 14:58 I must profess embarrassment. After 5 years of 9/11 activism KSM’s confession today has brought my world crashing down. After years of paranoid conspiracy theories I must now accept the government’s word that this confession is the genuine bona fide article – the final smoking gun behind 9/11. It is therefore out of respect for our legal system that I will reproduce KSM’s confession here: I, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, being of sound mind and body, un-coerced through torture, and fully enjoying the legal representation and due process afforded me under the constitution of the United States of America, hereby confess to the following crimes associated with 9/11: I confess that in the summer of 2001, I instituted the Visa Express Program in Saudi Arabia which allowed terrorists to enter the United States without even being interviewed by a consular officer. The Visa Express Program was ONLY instituted in Saudi Arabia, and no such privileges were extended to other US allies in Europe or the Middle East – ONLY Saudi Arabia, a country known to have a large population of Muslim fundamentalists hostile to the United States, and loyal to Osama Bin Laden. I confess that when Consular representatives objected to this practice I posed as Richard Armitage (a member of the Project for the New American Century) and wrote a letter in his name defending the practice. Stating: "Unfortunately, the information we have received from Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force so far has been insufficient to permit a consular officer to deny a visa. The information we have received states only that the FTTTF believes the applicants may pose a threat to national security." When a top secret Pentagon program “Able Danger” got wind of known Al Qaeda terrorists residing in Florida, and learned that they were taking flight lessons, they quickly dispatched officers, including Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer, to meet with SOCOM in Florida. I confess that I posed as an ‘unnamed’ two star general who warned Shaffer that he would lose his job if he continued to pursue action on Mohammad Atta. In fact, I ordered him to place yellow stickers over Atta’s face on the large chart Able Danger had prepared identifying the terrorists. I confess that I have destroyed Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s career by placing him on administrative leave, taking his health benefits, pension and salary away – and slapping a gag order on him prohibiting him from talking about the incident. I confess that I infiltrated the 911 Commission and erased all knowledge and references to Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer and Able Danger in their final report. I confess that when known Al Qaeda terrorists arrived in San Diego I posed as a professor of English Abdussattar Shaikh – a known FBI asset – met them at the airport and housed them under my own roof. I possessed a phony diploma from a phony college with known military-intelligence connections. I confess that when the hijackings were underway I prevented the US Airforce from scambling jets to protect Washington DC – despite the nearly 90 minutes warning they received. I confess that I had the Pentagon ‘stand down’ its anti-aircraft batteries, allowing the plane to hit. I confess that I secretly tutored Hijacker Hani Honjour (who could not even fly a single engine Cessna) to fly a wide-bodied jet, with all its modern instrumentation aboard, from Ohio to Washington DC, evading radar and the United States Air Force the entire way, and hitting the Pentagon with pinpoint accuracy, executing a flight maneuver that even experienced pilots claim they would have difficulty executing. I confess that – out of compassion - I arranged for the one section of the Pentagon that was struck to be nearly empty due to renovations (to reinforce walls with blast resistant Kevlar). I confess that I secretly worked with esteemed physicist Stephen Hawking to change the laws of physics and caused 3 buildings in NYC to collapse at near free-fall speed, despite the internally redundant and massive core columns which were unaffected by damage and fire. I confess that I slipped President George W. Bush pharmaceutical grade LSD on the morning of 9/11, causing him to sit enraptured over a pet goat story depicted in a children’s book, despite being told by his chief of staff that “America Is Under Attack.” I confess that I hindered the investigations into Zacarias Mousoui by re-writing and removing key evidence from the subpoena to search his laptop, despite over 70 warnings that he was planning air piracy. I confess that I removed military-grade anthrax from the army’s Ft. Detrick, MD laboratories, and mailed it to liberal democrats in Congress who were threatening to slow down passage of the Patriot Act. I confess that I ordered Dick Cheney’s staff to begin taking the anti-anthrax antibiotic Cipro just days before the first of the anthrax letters were mailed. I confess that I fabricated all the links between Iraq and Al Qaeda and WMDs and 9/11, confusing the American public into launching a catastrophically ill-advised war in Iraq. I confess that I distracted nearly everyone in the chain of command on 911, so that none of them were available to take action on that morning. I confess that I scheduled a meeting between the acting head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Max Clellan, so that he was unaware of the attacks until after the Pentagon was hit. I confess that I forced Donald Rumsfeld to sit inactive at his desk on 9/11 until after the Pentagon was hit. I confess that I made the secret service sit inactive, failing to protect the president and remove him from his Sarasota school photo-op, until after the Pentagon was hit. I confess that I ordered all the top brass in the Pentagon on September 10th to cancel their travel plans for the next day. I confess that I made General Winfield (in charge of the Pentagon war room) request a rookie stand in for him on the morning of September 11th. I had him put this request in on the evening of September 10th. I confess that I ordered multiple simultaneous war games for the morning of September 11th that mirrored the hijackings themselves - confused air traffic controllers. I confess that I ordered multiple drills for the morning of September 11th, including FEMA being pre-placed in Manhattan – and emergency personnel pre-placed in Washington DC preparing for a scenario of a plane hitting the CIA building. I confess that made Donald Rumsfeld address congress at 8am on the morning of 9/11, and warn them that soon something ‘shocking’ would happen soon. I confess that I published the infamous Project For The New American Century document that described the need for a “catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.” I confess that I forced the president to ignore dozens or warnings, including his August 6th presidential briefing entitled, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US” I confess that I forced NORAD to provide 3 timelines of events for that day, all of which have been proven to be inaccurate. I confess that I hindered the president in his attempts to capture Osama Bin Laden for the last 5 years. I confess that I hindered the president in his attempts to rescue people in New Orleans. I confess that I personally signed legislation destroying the United States Constitution – removing civil liberties and due process. I confess that I mesmerized the American media into NOT ASKING QUESTIONS about 9/11. I confess that I placed cointelpro operatives throughout the 911 Truth movement to distract them with tales of holograms, space beams, TVFakery and American Idol. I confess that I killed O.J. Simpson’s wife. I confess that I kidnapped the Lindberg baby. I confess that I am the Zodiac killer. I confess that I fired the fatal headshot in the JFK assassination. Source:www.911blogger.com/node/6928 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let's look back in history and ask the questions: Is Khalid Shaikh Mohammed alive? Because according to The Asia Times on Oct 30, 2002, he is not. So who'd they prop up [torture] to make the confessions?....MichelleA chilling inheritance of terrorBy Syed Saleem Shahzad KARACHI - Ever since the frenzied shootout last month on September 11 in Karachi there have been doubts over whether Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed head of al-Qaeda's military committee, died in the police raid on his apartment. Certainly, another senior al-Qaeda figure, Ramzi Binalshibh, widely attributed as being the coordinator of the September 11 attacks on the United States a year earlier, was taken alive and handed over to the US. The latest information is that he is on a US warship somewhere in the Gulf. Now it has emerged that Kuwaiti national Khalid Shaikh Mohammed did indeed perish in the raid, but his wife and child were taken from the apartment and handed over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in whose hands they remain. Sources close to Pakistani intelligence agents say that the wife, under intense interrogation, has revealed information that is likely to lead to a new crackdown in Pakistan, as well as in Southeast Asia. After the Taliban and al-Qaeda were routed in Afghanistan at the end of 2001, many fled to Pakistan to regroup and set up new cells. One of these, as described in Asia Times Online, From the al-Qaeda puzzle, a picture emerges, was in Karachi, with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed as its head. Despite being tracked by informers within Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who has been described as "probably the only man who knows all the [al-Qaeda] pieces of the puzzle", always managed to remain one step ahead of any raiding parties in the slum areas along the coastal belt of Karachi. However, it was then learned that Shaikh Mohammed had established connections with some local groups, including underworld figures, to entrench his cell. Using highly sensitive equipment, in April a call was tracked to someone by the name of Arif, living in the densely populated southwestern part of the city. Arif spoke to a Tunisian, passing on a message from Shaikh Mohammed. Subsequently, the Tunisian is believed to be the man who rammed a truck laden with explosives into a Jewish synagogue in Djerba in Tunisia in which many French and German citizens died. After this suicide attack, the FBI were onto Shaikh Mohammed in a big way, and, no doubt not entirely without coincidence, on September 11 they decided on a showdown at the apartment of Shaikh Mohammed, his wife and child, in the Defense Housing Authority near Korangi Road. A number of Arabs were also living in the apartment at the time. Initially, the joint ISI-FBI plan was to take Shaikh Mohammed alive so that he could be grilled, especially as he was believed to have knowledge of other al-Qaeda cells in Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and elsewhere. However, as a plainclothed officer climbed the stairs toward the third-floor apartment, a hand grenade was thrown, and he retreated. Reinforcements then arrived, and for the next few hours a fierce gun battle blazed. The FBI, still keen to take Shaikh Mohammed alive, teargassed the area, and a number of people were captured. However, despite instructions to the contrary, a few Pakistan Rangers entered the flat, where they found Shaikh Mohammed and another man, allegedly with their hands up. The Rangers nevertheless opened fire on the pair. Later, the Pakistani press carried pictures of a message scrawled in blood on the wall of the flat, proclaiming the Muslim refrain of Kalma, in Arabic: "There is no God except Allah, Mohammed is his messenger"). An official who was present in the flat at the time of the shooting has told Asia Times Online that the message was written by Shaikh Mohammed with his own blood as his life drained from him. Subsequently, to their surprise, the raiders learned that Ramzi Binalshibh had been netted in the swoop. And nothing further was said of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
But now it emerges that an Arab woman and a child were taken to an ISI safe house, where they identified the Shaikh Mohammed's body as their husband and father. The body was kept in a private NGO mortuary for 20 days before being buried, under the surveillance of the FBI, in a graveyard in the central district of Karachi. The widow subsequently underwent exhaustive interrogation in the custody of FBI officials, during which she revealed details of people who visited her husband, and of his other contacts and plans. News of the death of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was intentionally suppressed so that officials could play on the power of his name to follow up leads and contacts. From this it emerges that, in particular, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was in close contact with the Rabitatul Mujahideen, an alliance formed by Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiyah to act as a central committee for leaders of the various militant groups in Southeast Asia. He was also in touch with dissident groups within the Lashkar-i-Taiba, a Pakistani-based militant group that has been active in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in Indian-administered Kashmir, and another Pakistani militia, the Ansarul Islam. Intelligence officials now believe that through these links a new wave of terror will be unleashed - and officials have already taken the precaution to warn the intelligence agencies of friendly countries to check the lists of all people who have undergone flight training in the past six months: They have been led to believe that another World Trade Center/Pentagon attack is being planned, although not on a target in the US. (©2002 Asia Times Online Co, Ltd. All rights reserved. Please contact content@atimes.com for information on our sales and syndication policies.) Source: www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DJ30Df01.html------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here Senators Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. said allegations of mistreatment by U.S. captors should be taken seriously. It's called TORTURE, Senators, and I guess you can make anyone say anything when you TORTURE them.....Michelle Senators pay heed to prisoner abuse case By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 16, 7:25 PM ET WASHINGTON - Two senators who watched Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confess to planning the Sept. 11 attacks and other plots said Friday that his allegations of mistreatment by U.S. captors should be taken seriously. "To do otherwise would reflect poorly on our nation," Sens. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., and Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record), R-S.C., said in a joint statement. At a closed military hearing last Saturday at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. naval prison in Cuba, Mohammed claimed responsibility for plotting more than 30 attacks and personally beheading American journalist Daniel Pearl. He also gave military officials a written statement alleging mistreatment before arriving at Guantanamo Bay. He had previously been held by the CIA at secret facilities. Levin and Graham acknowledged Friday that they watched the proceedings on a closed circuit television in an adjoining room. The public and press were barred from the session, and the senators' attendance had not been announced. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England also traveled with the senators, and said he was struck by the matter-of-fact way Mohammed described what he had allegedly done. Gates said he doesn't know if Mohammed's stunning claims were all true or an embellishment. When asked if the terror suspect would face the death penalty if found guilty, Gates said he didn't know but, "one might think so." A transcript of Mohammed's hearing, released Wednesday by the Pentagon, refers to a claim he made that he was tortured by the CIA, though he said he was not under duress at Guantanamo when he confessed to his role in the attacks. The CIA has said its interrogation practices are legal, and it does not use torture. "Allegations of prisoner mistreatment must be taken seriously and properly investigated," the senators' statement said. According to the senators, the military officials hearing Mohammed's testimony said the allegations would be submitted to the appropriate authorities. The two senators have battled the Bush administration in recent years on the treatment of the nation's most dangerous terrorism suspects. In 2005, the Bush administration resisted legislation backed by Levin and Graham that banned cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, contending the president needed flexibility when it came to terrorist interrogations. Last year, Congress passed and President Bush accepted legislation that granted prisoners rights such as legal counsel and access to evidence used against them. But the bill curtailed other rights common in civilian courts, including the right to protest one's detention by filing a habeas corpus petition. Levin and Graham said they were impressed with the tribunal's professionalism, but did not rule out further changes to the system. "The true test of the (tribunal) process is not a case in which the detainee admits the allegations against him, it is a case in which the detainee disputes those allegations," the senators wrote. Noting potential legal challenges to the law, they added, "We will continue to review the process and will explore possible ways to improve this process through congressional action." Source: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_go_co/terrorist_confession_senators
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Post by michelle on Mar 22, 2007 13:58:34 GMT 4
The Confession of Khalid Sheik Mohammed
Here Senators Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. said allegations of mistreatment by U.S. captors should be taken seriously. It's called TORTURE, Senators, and I guess you can make anyone say anything when you TORTURE them.....Michelle Michael Otterman: Why CIA abuse is medieval madnessTorture can produce unreliable confessions, while non-coercive methods often reach the truth[/b] March 22, 2007 SINCE medieval times, water-boarding, or forcing water into captives' lungs, has been used to compel prisoners to confess. During the Inquisition, water-boarded prisoners admitted to shape-shifting and cavorting with the devil. Today, terrorism suspects subjected to this medieval torture admit the wildest things too. Just ask 9/11 plotter, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. KSM was bound to a stiff wooden plank at a secret CIA black-site prison. Interrogators tilted one end of the platform so that his head was several inches below his feet. A rag was fixed in his mouth and cellophane was firmly wrapped over his face. Slowly, water was poured over his mouth until he began to gag and lurch. Seconds before he blacked out, interrogators ripped off the plastic and pulled the rag from his mouth, allowing him to briefly catch his breath. After 2 1/2 minutes on the waterboard, CIA officials said he was "begging to confess". He admitted to 31 different plots - nearly every act of terrorism against the US since the early 1990s. While his hand in 9/11 has been independently confirmed, his other claims are less believable. Former CIA field officer Robert Baer told Time: "(KSM) is making things up. I'm told by people involved in the investigation that KSM was present during Wall Street Journal correspondent Danny Pearl's execution but was in fact not the person who killed him. There exists videotape footage of the execution that minimises KSM's role. And if KSM did indeed exaggerate his role in the Pearl murder, it raises the question of just what else he has exaggerated, or outright fabricated." Pearl's father told ABC News in the US the facts "don't match (KSM's) story". Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who knew Pearl well, said: "Anyone who saw the tape of Danny's murder could confess to those details." She added: "From everyone I've talked to in Danny's family there isn't closure ... there's not convincing evidence that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was the killer." KSM has also confessed to attempting to bomb the US's Plaza Bank headquarters prior to his arrest in March 2003. "I was responsible for planning, training, surveying, and financing for the new (or second) wave of attacks against ... Plaza Bank, Washington state," he said during his recent Guantanamo tribunal hearing. This claim is also dubious. Plaza Bank was founded in early 2006. Today, most of KSM's "facts" are inseparable from fiction. Sadly this was avoidable. Rather than stripping him naked, holding him in a dark cold cell for months on end, blasting loud music and strobe lights at him, threatening violence against his two sons, and nearly drowning him, US officials should have used non-abusive techniques proven to build trust. These methods yield reliable evidence. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the US domestic law enforcement agency that must obtain non-coerced evidence that stands up in US courts. Over time, the FBI has developed an array of non-violent interrogation techniques. FBI investigators methodically engage their suspects in conversation, supply incentives, then slowly vet and cross-check the information their suspects reveal. Rather than shave a Muslim's beard and abuse his Koran, they give devout men sweet figs and allow them to pray. The FBI used rapport-building techniques before 9/11 to cultivate relationships with former al-Qa'ida operatives and unravel attacks such as the 1998 East African US embassy bombings. "FBI agents, as officers of the court, know what the rules are," said former FBI interrogator Jack Cloonan to The American Prospect. "We have procedures to follow. We firmly believe in this thing called due process, and do not see it as something passe or something that should be seen as an impediment." After 9/11, FBI methods were sidelined in favour of the CIA's tougher techniques. The decision to drop FBI methods will haunt the US for decades. By using FBI rapport-building methods - not CIA tortures - officials could have come closer to unlocking the truth from suspects such as KSM. According to Yosri Fouda, the only journalist to interview KSM before his 2003 capture, he was a "a power-hungry mastermind" who lived for the spotlight. Likewise, the 9/11 Commission report described KSM as a flamboyant character prone to exaggeration. Given KSM's boastful personality, officials should have known that torture - and its say-anything-to-stop-the-pain qualities - would be the worst way to get accurate intelligence. By torturing him, the Bush administration slammed shut what could have been a window into the al-Qa'ida terror network. Now, the truth will remain hidden from both the US Government and from KSM's victims. Michael Otterman is a visiting scholar at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at University of Sydney and author of American Torture: From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib (Melbourne University Press).Source:www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21423633-7583,00.html
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