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Whole Body Health September/October
National survival requires and demands drastic and immediate changes in American domestic and foreign policies.
Washington politicians must heed the will of the public and divorce themselves from alien lobbies and bankers.
Terrorism must be stopped by immediately reversing suicidal American policies.
America can no longer act as if we are somehow protected from the logical results of the self-destructive policies of our government.
For years, the public in general has unthinkingly gone along with Washington politicians.
The few foresighted thinkers have been ignored or condemned as "extremists."
But the patriots who issued these warning were not extremists. The true extremists have been the fools who have ignored them.
The warning first came from George Washington in his Farewell
Address. He said, as if speaking of today's Israel:
So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducements of justifications. It also leads to concessions, to the favorite nation, of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions, by unnecessary parting with what ought to have been retained and by exciting jealousy, ill will and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld; and it gives to ambitious, corrupted or deluded citizens who devote themselves to the favorite nation, facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption or infatuation.
Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But the jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial, else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of defense against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike for another, cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other.
Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its fool and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interest.The great rule of conduct for us. In regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith: -Here let us stop.
It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world.
In his book, A Republic, Not an Empire, Pat Buchanan precisely warned of "cataclysmic terrorism" facing this nation if we did not mend our foreign policy to the interests of the American people...
And for years, The Spotlight weekly newspaper incessantly warned of the certain dire consequences of America's irresponsible all-out support for Israel.
The events of September 11 tragically fulfilled those prophecies. But there undoubtedly is more to come...
AFTER WE HAVE DEALT WITH THIS TERRORIST THREAT, AMERICAN POLICY MUST BE MENDED TO SUPPORT THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA.
More need not be said. What must be heard now are the voices of millions directed to Washington and to your newspaper and all organs of public opinion demanding that the following be done at once:
1) Our national borders must be sealed. Clearly the Immigration and Naturalization Service is understaffed and not up to the job. The United States Army should do the only thing that it justly exist for - to protect America's borders. Illegal immigrants must be deported...
2) All American troops should be brought home for this job. Because protecting our borders is a small job as compared to protecting the borders of dozens of other countries, most of the Army and the entire National Guard must be demobilized.
3) the U.S. Navy should be brought back to the U.S. from the Persian Gulf, the China sea, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, etc. and stationed to protect the United States. Much of the Navy can also be demobilized.
4) The Army Corps of Engineers is currently building state-of-the-art bases for Israel while American soldiers live and work on domestic bases tath resemble slums. American troops are serving in Israel, Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf, the Balkans, and dozens of foreign nations defending foreign territories while America's borders leak like sieves...
5) As travelers discovered in the aftermath of the catastrophic terrorist attacks, an unwise transportation policy has reduced the nation's passenger rail system to an accident-prone skeleton network that is dangerously dilapidated. While Europeans travel in comfort and safety across their continent at speeds will over 100 miles per hour, American trains average less than 40 mph and do so at great risk.
It is time to get this great nation back on track. We have squandered American blood and treasure on shortsighted global adventures that exclusively benefit the elite multi-national corporations, international bankers and foreign nations but not he American people.
We must avoid more misadventures and demand that American troops be brought home from the open-ended missions of global policing that they have been sent on.
America certainly doesn't need a return to its people and give primary attention to the homefront and rebuild the nation, or, as Washington and Buchanan warned, Liberty and the cause of the Republic will, indeed, fail.
Please use the above as your guidelines and make your views known forcefully and immediately to your congressman, your two senators and your local newspaper(s) and talk shows.
This may be America's last chance to save itself before the
federal government turns this nation into an armed camp with the
government fighting phantoms both here and abroad, trying to control
not merely the whole world but terrorism here at home.
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Odd Occurrences Suggest Mideast Nation Knew of Attack Beforehand. Just Follow the Money & You'll Figure it Out
America's naïve support of the international policies of the plutocratic elite is paving the way to the Global Plantation.
Lawrence Dennis, the great populist theoretician, predicted war in early 1941, simply on his honest observation of economics. War was necessary, he counseled, in order to rejuvenate the periodic failing American economy with huge injections of borrowed Federal Reserve money and to create "prosperity" for Roosevelt and his gang of politicians, bankers and other assorted public spirited journalists and idealists.
Well, you know what happened. Although it was none of our business what Japan did in China, FDR demanded that Japan cease its expansion. In response, Japan struck Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. The America First Committee disbanded on the following day and the wildest spending spree in history began. To cheers from the taxpayers, American men marched off, with flags flying and bands blaring to the music of full employment.
In that war, 292,131 of them died and many times that number were wounded, including this writer, who can testify that few if any of them had the foggiest notion of what they were fighting for although they were all convinced that they were fighting against sin in general.
The so-called "national debt" (the number of dollars that kindly bankers create to lend to the taxpayers who feel it is almost sacrilegious to question why private bankers should be paid constantly-escalating interest on "loans" made from thin air) rose from $42.96 billion to $292.42 billion from 1941 to 1946. Since then, in "peacetime," (never mind the constant state of war we dote on) the "national debt" has risen 20 times that figure and the interest from some $18 billion per year to well over $300 billion in this "peacetime economy," or about $1,500 per taxpayer.
Since 1917, American statesmen have found it necessary to roam widely around the globe in search of sin to correct, as the sinners in Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Iraq, Serbia, Sudan and even Grenada will testify. Every person in the world has been touched by this crusade and millions of them touched so roughly that their moldering bones are the evidence. But America's debt-"prosperity" has fulfilled the requirements of the bankers and politicians with no hindrance from the dumb newspaper-reading taxpayers.
BILLIONS IN NEW TAXES
Although we will not go so far as to say that the horrific disaster of Sept. 11 was plotted by Alan Greenspan, Lehman Brothers and Goldman Sachs, it has indeed fulfilled the traditional purpose and America, once again, is on a war footing, even though this time the enemy appears to be not a nation of millions but a little man presumably cowering in a cave somewhere in Afghanistan. Amid resounding patriotic speeches, flying flags and marching men, the reserves have been called up and - best of all-billions of dollars in new taxes will be laid on the backs of cheering taxpayers to feed the insatiable appetite of the equally happy bankers and their obedient pets in Congress.
Few of the happy folks joining in with this spirited and patriotic acclaim seem to realize that war is the biggest cause of socialism - which Dennis called fascism. War always brings with it bigger and more oppressive government and more bureaucrats with an attitude, many of them heavily armed with the latest in crowd-unfriendly weaponry, including flame throwers, tanks, battering rams, little robots that wheel up to homes and blast them while the bureaucrats hide safely behind steel shields, laser weapons, poison gas and a fearless determination to waste as many recalcitrant citizens as possible in carrying out their patriotic duty for the New World Order.
Few if any wish to name the enemy of this self-destructive
syndrome-it is us. So long as Americans continue to support the
international policies of their betters, so long will their country
continue to go to Hell. No more need be said.
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While the mainstream media has been quick to convict Osama bin Laden for the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, what the national press is not reporting is that at least 13 Israeli nationals have been detained by the FBI for possible involvement.
At least three different groups of Israelis - some of whom may have ties to Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad - were taken into custody after eyewitnesses reported seeing them celebrating in several locations across the river from lower Manhattan in New Jersey. In two cases, the men were reportedly videotaping the initial kamikaze attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
A spokesman at the Embassy of Israel's situation room in Washington told American Free Press that at least 13 Israelis were being held in connection with the attacks.
All of the detained Israelis are connected to Israeli-owned moving companies operating out of New York and New Jersey.
No fewer than 13 of the 75 aliens who had been detained in the week after the attacks are Israeli nationals.
One group was reported to have been in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, another was seen in Liberty Park in Union City, and a third was apprehended on the roof of an Israeli-owned moving company.
According to New Jersey and New York newspapers, two groups of Israelis were stopped in vans belonging to Urban Moving Systems - one group of three and one group of five. Eyewitnesses reported seeing similar groups in Union City and Jersey City, both of which have parks named Liberty - more than five miles apart.
Witnesses reported seeing a group of men, who turned out to be Israelis, celebrating the first attack on the world Trade Center earlier in the day in Union City. Angry witnesses reported the license plate to authorities. The plate was registered to Urban Moving Systems, a truck-rental company based in Weehawken, N.J., according to a FBI spokesperson.
Business records show an "Urban Moving Systems" with offices on West 50th Street in Manhattan and on West 18th Street in Weehawken.
When a local reporter called the moving company, a woman, who refused to give her name, said, "We have no comment."
On Sept, 13, FBI agents searched the Weehawken warehouse, owned by Urban Moving Systems, which employed the men detained by federal officials. The FBI seized computer hard drives and other items.
Three men, seen filming and celebrating as the Twin Towers were struck, were described as "illegal immigrants from the Middle East," and were arrested in a white Chevy van hours after the attacks.
Witnesses say they saw them "cheering" and "jumping up and down" in Liberty State Park in Jersey City after the attack and contacted police. In one report, Paulo Lima of The Record reported on Sept. 12 that five "Israeli tourists" had been arrested as suspected conspirators in the attacks. The five men, who were also stopped in a van on Route 3 in East Rutherford around 4:30 p.m., were being questioned by police but had not been charged.
The five "Israeli tourists" were arrested eight hours after the attacks by police in Bergen County, N.J., who said the men were found carrying maps linking them to the blasts. Sources close to the investigation said the men claimed to be "Israeli tourists" but police had not been able to confirm their identities. Authorities would not release their names.
Sources close to the investigation said they found other evidence linking the Israelis to the bombing plot, according to the report. "There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted," the source said. "It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park (Jersey city)."
Sources also said that bomb-sniffing dogs reacted as if they had detected explosives, although officers were unable to find anything. The FBI seized the van for further testing, authorities said.
The van was stopped as it headed east on Rout 3, between the Hackensack River bridge and the Sheraton hotel. As a precaution, police shut down Route 3 traffic in both directions after the stop and evacuated a small roadside motel near the Sheraton.
East Rutherford officers stopped the van after the FBI's Newark field office broadcast an alert asking surrounding police departments to look for a white Chevrolet van, police said.
After grilling the men and searching the van in vain for explosives, the FBI reportedly turned them over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service for deportation.
In a separate incident, the Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz, reported on sept. 18 that five Israelis, suspected of working for the Mossad, had been arrested for what the FBI described as "puzzling behavior" following the attack.
The five Israelis, who are suspected to have been Mossad agents, were arrested four hours after the attack while filming the smoking skyline from the roof of their company's building. It appears they were spotted by one of the neighbors shouting cries of "joy and mockery." The neighbors called the police and the FBI, according to Ha'aretz.
This gang of five worked for an Israeli-owned "moving company" based in New Jersey and the men are being held in U.S. prisons after being interrogated. The five Israelis were reported to have worked for the Israeli-owned moving company for between two months and two years.
Seven FBI agents later stormed the apartment of one of the Israelis, searched it and questioned his roommate. The Israeli owner of the company, who has U.S. citizenship, was also questioned. Both men were subsequently released.
The families of the five, who asked that their names not be released, said that their sons had been questioned by the FBI for hours, had been kept in solitary confinement for three days, and had been humiliated, stripped of their clothes and blindfolded.
When they finally let my son make a phone call for the first time to a friend in the United States two days ago, he told him that he had been tortured by the FBI in a basement," the mother of one of the suspects told Ha'aretz. "They thought that because he has citizenship of a European country as well as of Israel that he was working for the Mossad."
The five were transferred out of the FBI's facility on Saturday morning and are now being held in two prisons in New Jersey by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. They are charged with illegally residing in the United states and working without permits.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it had been informed by the consulate in New York that the FBI had arrested the five for "puzzling behavior." They are said to have been caught videotaping the disaster and shouting in what was interpreted as cries of joy and mockery.
Witnesses took the license plate number and the FBI sent out a "BOLO,' or "Be On Lookout,' alert on Sept 11.
Vehicle possibly related to New York terrorist attack. White, 2000 Chevrolet van with New Jersey registration with "Urban Moving Systems" sign on back seen at Liberty State Park, Jersey City, N.J., at the time of first impact of jetliner into World Trade Center.
Port Authority police are reported to have nabbed the three as they drove along Rte. 3 in East Rutherford, N.J.
In new Jersey, where officials believe the hijackers received assistance from an accomplice, Newark's FBI spokeswoman Sherri Evanina said five Israeli men were detained late Tuesday after their van was stopped.
Kerry Gill, a spokesman for the immigration service in Newark, said the FBI turned over the individuals to the Immigration and Naturalization Service on Wednesday. He said "they appeared to be Israeli citizens" and all five appear to be deportable.
AFP has received additional reports that one of the largest Israeli-owned moving companies in the area, Moishe's Moving Systems, in Jersey City, has "at least 100" young Israeli men, between the ages of 22 and 35, working in what is described as a "fortress" with covered windows and concertina wire surrounding the premises near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel.
Senior officials from Mossad, the Israeli military intelligence service came to Washington last month to warn the CIA and the FBI that a cell of up to 200 terrorists was planning a major operation in America, according to a report in the London-based Sunday Telegraph on Sept. 17.
Israeli intelligence officials say that they warned their counterparts in the United States last month that large scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on American mainland were imminent.
The Mossad has a long history of penetrating, infiltrating
and often manipulating Middle Eastern terror cells to serve their
own purposes.
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According to both a newspaper in Jordan and Beirut television, thousands of Israelis working at the World Trade Center had the day off when the buildings were destroyed.
Israeli media began mourning the loss of 4,000 Israeli lives in the World Trade Center attack but ceased on learning that only a relatively few showed up, according to Beirut's Al-Manar Television.
"Arab diplomatic sources revealed to the Jordanian al-Watan newspaper that those Israelis remained absent that day based on hints from the Israeli General Security Apparatus, the Shabak, a fact which evoked unannounced suspicions by American officials who wanted to know how the Israeli government learned about the incident before it occurred and the reasons why it refrained from passing on to the U.S. authorities the information it had," the station said.
According to Lucas Brenoowitz, a spokesman at the Israeli Embassy
in Washington, one Israeli citizen was confirmed killed in the
World Trade Center and three more are still missing.
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President Bush's "crusade" against the Taliban of Afghanistan has more to do with control of the immense oil and gas resources of the Caspian Basin than it does with "rooting our terrorism."
Once again an American president from the Bush family is leading Americans down an oil-rich Middle Eastern warpath against "enemies of freedom and democracy."
The focus on religion-based terrorism serves to conceal important aspects of the Central Asian conflict. President Bush's noble rhetoric about fighting for justice and democracy is masking a less noble struggle for control of an estimated $5 trillion of oil and gas resources from the Caspian Basin.
One of the material results of the elder Bush's Desert Storm campaign in 1991 was to secure access to the huge Rumaila oil field of southern Iraq, which was accomplished by expanding the boundaries of Kuwait after the war. This allowed Kuwait, a former British protectorate where American and British oil companies are heavily invested, to double its prewar oil output.
The Trepca mine complex in Kosovo, one of the richest mines in Europe, was seized last year by front companies for George Soros and Bernard Kouchner, two members of the New World Order gang who devastated Serbia.
A similar geopolitical strategy, influenced by Zionist planners, to control the valuable mineral resources of the Caspian Basin underlies the planned aggression against Afghanistan, a Central Asian nation that occupies a strategic position sandwiched between the Middle East, Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
Central Asia has enormous quantities of undeveloped oil resources including 6.6 trillion cubic metters of natural gas, waiting to be exploited.
The former Soviet republics of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are the two major ggas producers in Central Asia.
Today, the only existing export routs from the area lead through Russia. Investors in Caspian oil and gas are interested in building alternative pipelines to Turkey and Europe, and especially to the rapidly growing Asian markets.
India, Iran, Russia and Israel are working on a plan to supply oil and gas to south and southeast Asia through India but instability in Afghanistan is rising a great threat to this effort.
Afghanistan lies squarely between Turkmenistan, home to the world's third largest natural gas reserves, and the lucrative markets of the Indian subcontinent, China and Japan. A memorandum of understanding has been signed to build a 900-mile natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan via Afghanistan, but the ongoing civil war and absence of a stable government in Afghanistan have delayed the project.
Afghanistan was at the center of the so-called "Great Game" in the 19th century when Imperial Russia and the British Empire in India vied for influence. Today, its geographical position as a potential route for oil and natural gas pipelines makes Afghanistan extremely important to energy magnates seeking control of these precious resources.
Enron, a Texas-based gas and energy company, together with Amoco, British Petroleum, Chevron, Exxon, Mobil and Unocal are all engaged in a multi-billion dollar frenzy to extract the reserves of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan, the three newly independent Soviet republics that border on the Caspian Sea.
On behalf of the oil companies, an array of former cabinet members from the elder Bush administration have been actively involved in negotiations with the former soviet republics. The deal makers include James Baker, Brent Scowcroft, John Sununu and, notably, Dick Cheney, now vice president.
Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan are also closely allied with Israeli commercial interests and Israeli military intelligence.
In Turkmenistan, a "former" Israeli intelligence agent, Yosef A. Maiman, president of Merhav Group of Israel, is the official negotiator and policy maker responsible for developing the energy resources of Turkmenistan.
"This is the Great Game all over," Maiman told The Wall Street Journal about his role in furthering the "geopolitical goals of both the U.S. and Israel" in Central Asia.
"We are doing what U.S. and Israeli policy could not achieve - controlling the product," he said.
"Those who control the oil routes out of Central Asia will impact all future direction and quantities of flow and the distribution of revenues from new production," said energy expert James Dorian in Oil & Gas Journal on Sept. 10.
Foreign business in Turkmenistan is dominated by Maiman's Merhav Group, according to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA).
Maiman, who was made a citizen of Turkmenistan by presidential decree, serves as Turkmenistan's "official negotiator" for its gas pipeline, special ambassador, and "right-hand man" for the "authoritarian" President Saparmurad Atayevich Miyazov, a former Politburo member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
The Merhav Group of Israel officially represents the Turkmen government and has brokered all of the energy projects in Turkmenistan, contracts worth many billions of dollars.
Merhav has been contracted to modernize existing natural gas infrastructure and will build new facilities in an oil refinery in the city of Turkmenbashi on the Caspian Sea. Merhav refuses to disclose its sources of financing.
In keeping with Israeli political interests, Maiman's planned pipelines bypass Iran and Russia. Maiman has said that he would have no objection to dealing with Iran, "when and if Israeli policy allows it."
Iran has accused the United States of trying to keep regional pipelines from passing through Iran. Creating a counterbalance to Iran's regional influence was a cornerstone of the Clinton administration, which was concerned that Iran could gain too much control over Caspian exports.
"This is a common interest for the U.S. and Israel," said Dr. Nimrod Novik, vice president of Merhav. "The primary interest is to prevent the development of Turkish strategic dependence on Iran, given the unique emerging strategic relationship between Turkey and Israel."
Russia and Turkmenistan are in a battle to conquer the Turkish gas market, and the supplier that offers the best price will emerge as the winner.
"This is a great race," Maiman says, "Whoever takes Turkey first wins. Whoever comes second will have lean years."
Although the United States needs Russian assistance in its campaign against Afghanistan, when AFP asked Alex Chorine of Caspian Investor what kind of relationship existed between the Russian and Western/Israeli energy companies doing business in the Caspian Basin, Chorine said, "They act as enemies."
One of Maiman's proposed pipelines would bring Turkmenistan's gas and oil to Turkey via Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Maiman's Merhav Group is also involved in a $100 million project that would reduce the flow of water to Iraq by diverting water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to southeastern Turkey.
Israeli officials boast of having "excellent relations" with Azerbaijan, where an Israeli company, Magal Security Systems, has a contract to provide security at Baku airport. Magal is one of several Israeli companies that will"turn Israel into a major player in Azerbaijan" by providing security for the 1,200 mile pipeline taking oil from the Caspian to the Turkish port of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean Sea.
Enron, the biggest contributor to the Bush campaign of 2000, conducted the feasibility study for a $2.5 billion trans-Caspian gas pipeline. Which is being built under a joint venture agreement signed in February 1999 between Turkmenistan and two American companies, Bechtel and General Electric Capital Services.
Maiman acted as the intermediary between the Turkmenistan and the U.S. firms, but won't "his cut" or whether he will receive a stake in the pipeline.
The Merhav Group has hired the Washington lobbying firm Cassidy & Associates and spent several million dollars to "encourage" U.S. officials to push for the trans-Caspian pipeline.
CRITICAL FOR WHOM?
During the Clinton administration, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson and "special adviser to the president" Richard Morningstan promoted the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline, calling it "critical to the economic survival of Turkmenistan."
The relationship between Israel, Turkey and the United States is the major factor for the selection of the Baku-Ceyhan route, which could be extended to bring oil directly to energy-deficient Israel.
Energy experts, however, question the wisdom and expense of this route. Companies are under pressure from the United States and Israel to invest in east-west pipelines, although most companies would prefer cheaper north-south pipelines through Iranian territory, according to WRMEA.
The U.S. firm Unocal was leading a pipeline project to bring Turkmenistan's abundant natural gas through Afghanistan to the growing markets of Pakistan and India, until the turmoil in Afghanistan led them to withdraw from the project in 1998.
The planned pipeline would carry gas from the Turkmen Dauletabad fields, among the world's largest, to Multan in Pakistan, with a planned extension to India. The line from Dauletabad through Afghanistan is planned to transport 15 billion cubic feet of gas per year for 30 years. This pipeline is on hold until the political and military situations in Afghanistan improve.
There is a second Unocal project to build a 1,030-mile oil pipeline called the Central Asian Oil Pipeline Project, which would start at Chardzhou in Turkmenistan linking Russia's Siberian oil field pipelines to Pakistan's Arabian coast. This line could transport 1 million barrels a day of oil from other areas of the former Soviet Union. It would run parallel to the gas line route through Afghanistan and branch off in Pakistan to the Indian Ocean terminal in Ras Malan.
Before the sun set on the apocalyptic day that New York's gleaming twin towers collapsed, the U.S. government had already decided to blame the attack on Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born guerrilla leader, and the Taliban government of Afghanistan which harbored him.
Although the U.S. government did not present evidence in support of its case against bin Laden, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sept. 23, "I think in the near future, we will be able to put out a paper, a document, that will describe quite clearly the evidence that we have linking him to this attack."
When it was reported that the Taliban might turn bin Laden over to face justice, the Bush administration said that surrendering bin Laden would not prevent an American-led attack on Afghanistan.
An international plan to remove the fundamentalist Islamic Taliban from power has been a subject of international diplomatic discussions for months and was reportedly raised by India during the Group of Eight summit in July in Genoa, Italy.
The Indian press reported in June that, "India and Iran will ‘facilitate' U.S. and Russian plans for ‘limited military action' against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don't bend Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime."
The invasion plans described in the Indian press in June may come to pass in October: "Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will lead the ground attack with a strong military back up of the U.S. and Russian. Vital Taliban installations and military assets will be targeted."
The economic reasons for the multinational assault against
the Taliban were explained: "Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan,
and Turkmenistan are threatened by the Taliban that is aiming
to control their vast oil, gas, and other resources by bringing
Islamic fundamentalists into power."
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An organized clique of influential trouble-makers is trying to turn George Bush's cautious plan to punish the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 tragedies into an all-out war on a grand scale.
Secretary of State Colin Powell may be the one will-known figure in the Bush administration who stands in the way of an all-out world war.
While Powell is a strong supporter of President Bush's intent to search out and destroy the terrorists responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington, there are others who are using the new war on terrorism as a guise under which to try to force the American military to carry out a geopolitical agenda that not only represents the interests of a foreign nation - Israel - but which could also be dangerous to America's interests abroad.
Joined by the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff in urging a cautious approach to the crisis, Powell is being confronted inside the Bush administration by a tightly-knit group of hard-driving warmongers trying to run roughshod over the administration's stated policy and determined to subvert it for their own ends.
Amazing light on this internal struggle came in a news report published in The New York Times on Sept. 20 - an item little noticed by most Americans who have been caught up in the massive avalanche of media coverage of personal tragedies and public displays of mourning in the wake of the attacks.
Entitled "Bush Advisers Split on Scope of Retaliation." the article revealed that there is a heavy-handed lobbying campaign - from both within the administration and without - to force the president to not only strike against the "Osama bin Laden network" in Afghanistan, but to also launch an all-out war against a virtually prostrate Iraq.
NOT MENTIONED
What that particular Times analysis did not mention - but which other media sources have since reported - is that the same sources pushing for war against Iraq are also proposing broadening the targets to include the Arab Republic of Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran - a formula for a global conflagration that would unite worldwide followers of the Islamic faith against the United States.
Such a disaster would not only undermine the effort to crush terrorism but would almost certainly spark more terrorism in the months and years ahead.
Leading the charge inside the administration for all-out war is the highly influential deputy secretary of defense, Paul D. Wolfowitz, a veteran figure in the pro-Israel camp in official Washington.
According to the Times Wolfowitz "has continued to press for a military campaign against Iraq that would not only punish [Iraq leader Saddam] Hussein for his past support for terrorism at home and abroad bu would also eliminate the danger he poses to Israel and the West in his quest to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
The Times noted that one senior administration official has said that Wolfowitz has been more "concerned about bombing Iraq than bombing Afghanistan." In other words. Wolfowitz is more concerned about eliminating a perceived threat to Israel than rooting out the terrorists believed responsible for the tragedy of Sept. 11.
In contrast, according to the Times, Secretary of State Colin Powell stands as a roadblock in the path of Wolfowitz and his allies:
During a weekend of intense national security planning, Secretary Powell was said by several officials to have urged caution. He argued that to undertake a broad military campaign, especially including Iraq - whose civilian population draws great sympathy in the Middle East for the suffering it has endured since 1991 - would undermine the support Mr. Bush needs now.
On September 21, The Washington Post echoed The New York Times, in a more circumspect fashion, noting that:
Sources both in and close to the administration said some top officials, most notably Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, are pushing hard for a broader range of targets, including Iraq, even though administration officials say there is little evidence that Iraq was behind last week's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
Other officials, most notably Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, have argued that such military actions would wreck the coalition of countries that Powell and Bush have been trying to construct to aid the fight against terrorism.
The Post added, significantly, that in his Sept. 20 speech to Congress, outlining his plan for rooting out terrorism, "Bush did not mention Iraq once" - a detail that seems to have outraged the Israeli lobby and its partisans inside the Bush administration and in Congress.
In addition, the Post noted that a senior Arab diplomat has warned that administration officials "should not attach their personal agendas to the coalition" and urged them to "keep the focus on legitimate targets." In other words, pro-Israel agitators such as Wolfowitz and others would be advised to stop pressing their parochial agenda upon the American president's efforts to strike out against terrorism.
SPEAK FOR YOURSELF
At one point, according to the Post, Wolfowitz himself spoke apocalyptically about "ending states" that purportedly support terrorism, causing Powell to pointedly respond publicly to Wolfowitz's saying that "I think ‘ending terrorism' is where I would leave it and let Mr. Wolfowitz speak for himself."
Meanwhile, Wolfowitz's allies in the pro-Israel lobby are lending their support to an aggressive and well-funded public relations campaign to undermine the cautious approach adopted by President Bush, Secretary Powell and the leaders of the American military.
Wolfowitz and the hard-line fanatics are determined to use
American military might under the banner of "fighting terrorism"
to destroy any and all nations that stand in the way of Israel's
imperial aims.
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If Osama bin Laden is responsible for the tragic terrorist
acts of Sept. 11, it's worth remembering who helped train and
arm
him in the first place.
Osama bin Laden, a former Saudi citizen, heads a large group of men who are dedicated to terrorism as an answer to their social and economic problems.
There is a very serious question as to why groups of militant Muslims would have the motivation to attack the United States and another important question deals with their origins.
Although the mainline American media does not wish to address it for reasons that should be obvious, there is no doubt whatsoever in the minds of many in the American intelligence and political communities that growing Arab hatred for the United States stems with this country's official support of Israel, the genocidal bombing of Iraq and the U.S. military presence in Saudi Arabia.
Israel has an enormous and growing reservoir of weapons of destruction supplied by the U.S. government.
According to sources, the Israeli military is able to obtain weapons from the Pentagon that are forbidden to other nations. If the desired weapons are not forthcoming, the Israeli government simply alerts its very powerful lobby in Washington and the weapons are promptly delivered.
The Palestinians, however, do not have such weapons or lobby and are reduced to attacking invading tanks with AK-47s, rocks and their hands. Their growing frustration has bred an immense sense of anger at America whom they see as supporting their oppression and death at the hands of their bitterest enemies.
But today's savage and motivated Arab terrorists would be nothing if not for the training, support and the weapons supplied by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Osama bin Laden was recruited by the CIA to fight the Soviet occupation troops in Afghanistan. The budding guerrilla leader was trained and supplied by American taxpayers' dollars.
The Taliban is an extremely conservative Muslim movement stemming from the Mujahideen, Arab "freedom fighters" who brutally fought Soviet incursions into their mountainous homeland.
One of the key players in the bin Laden/Taliban movement is a reclusive millionaire real estate developer, Andrew Evered Allen.
Allen, 49, of the rich suburb of Belevedere-Tiburon, Calif., has acknowledged in recently-surfaced court documents that he was instrumental in the shipping of "supplies" to the Afghans via Pakistan and the training and support of some of the present rulers of Afghanistan.
Allen's court deposition also reveals that elements of the U.S. intelligence community are actively attempting to overthrow the government of Myanmar, or Burma. The military junta, which has ruled the former British colony since 1988, is offensive to the extreme liberal element in the CIA and its overthrow by CIA-sponsored leftists has been planned by Allen and his people.
In his depositions, Allen admitted to his work with certain "dissident" elements in attempting to foment revolt in Myanmar. He has entertained top rebel leaders in his California home and has set up a front organization, the Burma Foundation, as a cover for his activities.
We have seen the damage that Allen and his cohorts have created in Afghanistan. When the Soviet military withdrew, leaving a devastated country behind, the CIA dropped its erstwhile allies and left the mujahideen well-armed but the people in desperate poverty.
ALLEN & IHR
Allen also played a central if secret role in the conspiracy, takeover and emasculation of the once-spirited and globally influential Institute for Historical Review (IHR) and the subsequent successful destruction of the populist weekly newspaper, The Spotlight.
It now turns out that Allen's role in the conspiracy began well before the actual IHR takeover in October 1993.
Allen, who portrays himself to his genteel and rich neighbors as a "liberal Republican," a philanthropist and a bleeding heart humanitarian seems to be some sort of a Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde type.
On the one hand, while portraying himself as a multiracialist and "lover of humanity," Allen, a longtime CIA asset, has embellished his reputation in some quarters as a "racist" by funnelling cash to Tom Metzger, who is considered by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and "experts" like Morris Dees to be the most extreme anti-Semite and racist in the country.
After directing the takeover of the IHR, and supplying funds for the job, Allen was gratefully elected to the board of directors by Mark Weber and his fellow conspirators.
Since then, Allen has bragged that he "started the takeover of the IHR."
Prior to the actual coup, Weber and his co-conspirators Greg Raven and Ted O'Keefe boasted that they had been entertained in Allen's mansion and plotted their conspiracy under his guidance. They were confident that they had the covert backing of a faction inside the CIA. Whether they knew it was the Mossad-allied faction is the only question that remains unanswered.
Weber and his confederates still officially deny that Allen is a CIA asset, but Weber's statements are seldom believed by anyone anymore.
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The unexplained death of Salem, Osama bin Laden's oldest brother, in 1988, brought to an abrupt end a long and intriguing relationship between President Bush and the head of the bin Laden family fortune.
The world now associates the bin Laden name with Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect be hind the terror atrocities of Sept. 11. As President George W. Bush leads an intense international manhunt for Osama, few Americans realize that Osama's eldest brother, Salem, was one of Bush's first business partners.
A photograph from 1971 has surfaced and been printed in English papers showing Osama, age 14, and his brother Salem, age 19, enjoying a summer holiday at the Astoria Hotel in Falun, Sweden. Christina Akerblad, the hotel owner, told the Daily Mail, "They were beautiful boys, so elegantly dressed. Everybody loved them."
Osama embraced Islamic fundamentalism and is now the world's most wanted man. "Salem went on to become a business partner of the man who is leading the hunt for his brother," the Daily Mail's Peter Allen said. "In the 1970s, he and George W. Bush were founders of the Arbusto Energy oil company in Mr. Bush's home state of Texas."
President Bush and the bin Laden family have been connected through dubious business deals since 1977, when Salem, the head of the bin Laden family business, one of the biggest construction companies in the world, invested in Bush's start-up oil company, Arbusto Energy, Inc.
James R. Bath, a friend and neighbor, was used to funnel money from Osama bin Laden's brother, Salem bin Laden, to set up George W. Bush in the oil business, according to The Wall Street Journal and other reputable sources.
Through a tangled web of Saudi multi-millionaires, Texas oilmen, and the infamous Bank of Credit and Commerce International, Bush was financially linked with the bin Laden family until Salem met an untimely end in a freak flying accident near San Antonio in 1988.
The infamous BCCI was shut down in 1991 with some $10 billion in losses.
In June 1977, George W. Bush formed his own oil drilling company, Arbusto Energy, in Midland, Tex.
"Arbusto" actually means "shrub" in Spanish, but the Bush family interpreted it as "bush".Salem bin Laden, a close friend of the Saudi King Fahd had "invested heavily in Bush's first business venture," according to The Daily Mail (U.K.).
Arbusto later became Bush Exploration, when Bush's father became vice president. As the company neared financial collapse in September 1984, it was merged with Spectrum 7 Energy Corp. in an effort to stay afloat.
The 50 investors who propped up the Bush company with $4.7 million were "mainly friends of my uncle" who "did pretty good" in Bush's words, although they lost most of the money they invested in the company. Jon Bush, George's uncle, raised money for Arbusto from political supporters of the Reagan-Bush administration.
"These were all the Bush's pals," family friend Russell Reynolds told the Dallas Morning News in 1998. "This is the A-Team."
The "A-Team" limited partners contributed $4.67 million to various Bush funds through 1984 but got only $1.55 million back in profit distributions, and $3.9 million in tax write-offs.
William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds, two staunch Reagan-Bush supporters, owned Spectrum 7.
Despite his poor track record, the owners made Bush president of the company and gave him 13.6 percent of the parent company's stock.
SURPRISE DEAL
As the hard times continued, Spectrum merged with Harken Energy in 1986. In 1990, Harken received a contract from the government of Bahrain to drill for offshore oil although Harken Energy had never drilled a well overseas or anywhere in water.
"Knowledgeable oil company sources believe that the Bahrain oil concession was indeed an oblique favor to the president of the United States but say that Saudi Arabia (home of bin Laden) was behind the decision," according to The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of the BCCI, by Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwynne.
It raised oil-industry eyebrows when the Persian Gulf state announced it had chosen tiny Harken to explore an offshore site for gas and oil. Bahrain officials said they had no idea President Bush's son was associated with Harken, a claim oil-industry sources ridicule. The Bahrain deal was brokered in part by Arkansas investment banker David Edwards, one of Bill Clinton's closest friends. The Bahrain oil project resulted in two dry holes and Harken energy abandoned the project.
Two months before Iraq invaded Kuwait, on June 20, 1990, the younger Bush sold two-thirds of his Harken stock, 212,140 shares at $4 a share-for a total of $848,560. "That was $318,430 more than it was worth," Dr. Arthur F. Ide, author of George W. Bush: Portrait of a Compassionate Conservative, said. "George W. broke the law to do this since the transaction was an insider stock sale."
Eight days later, Harken finished the second quarter with losses of $23 million and the stock went "into a nosedive" losing 75 percent of its value, finishing the year at a little over $1 a share.
"Like his father who made his fortune in the oil business with the money of others, George W. founded Arbusto with the financial backing of investors, including James R. Bath," said the late James Howard Hatfield, author of a "controversial biography," Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Mak ing of an American President.
Hatfield, 43, was found dead of an apparent prescription drug overdose in a hotel room in Springdale, Ark. on July 18, 2001. Police declined to investigate.
Bath became friends with George W. during their days together in the Texas Air National Guard. Bath "confided that he was an original investor in George Bush Jr.'s oil exploration company," according to The Outlaw Bank.
Bath found investors for Arbusto and "made his fortune" by investing the money of two BCCI-connected Saudi sheiks, Khalid bin Mahfouz and Salem bin Laden. Mahfouz was one of the richest men in the world and a controlling shareholder in BCCI.
Bill White, a former real estate business partner of Bath, said: "He had put up $50,000 to help George, Jr., get started in oil business" at a time when "Bath had no substantial money of his own," according to The Outlaw Bank.
Bath received a 5 percent interest in two Arbusto-related limited partnerships controlled by Bush, although Bush told The Houston Post in 1990 that he had "never done any business" with Bath. However, Bush said Bath was "a lot of fun."
Bath told White that he was in the CIA and that "he had been recruited by George Bush himself in 1976 when Bush was director of the agency . . . he said Bush wanted him involved with the Arabs, and to get into the aviation business."
White contends that the Saudis were using Bath and their huge financial resources to influence U.S. policy during the Reagan and Bush administrations, according to the Houston Chronicle of June 4, 1992. Such representation by Bath would require that he be registered as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice, which he was not.
Shortly after Bush's father was appointed director of the CIA, Salem bin Laden appointed Bath as his business representative in Texas. According to The Houston Chronicle, Salem bin Laden, heir to one of the largest building companies in the Middle East, signed a trust agreement appointing Bath as his Houston representative in 1976.
In 1978 Bath purchased Houston Gulf Airport on behalf of Salem bin Laden. When bin Laden died in 1988, his interest in the airfield passed to bin Mahfouz.
There was also a political aspect to Salem bin Laden's financial activities, which played a role in U.S. operations in the Middle East and Central America during the 1980s, according to Public Broadcasting's Frontline report.
As head of Binladen Brothers Construction (now the Binladen Group), a company that later helped build U.S. airfields during Operation Desert Storm, bin Laden was close to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and "a good friend of the U.S. government," a San Antonio attorney, Wayne Fagan, who represented Salem bin Laden from 1982 to 1988, told the San Antonio Express-News.
When the family patriarch, Sheik Mohammed bin Laden, died in 1968, he left an industrial and financial empire and a progeny of 54 sons and daughters, the fruit of a number of wives. In 1972, Salem bin Laden, the oldest son, took over the estate as his father's successor, with the assistance of several brothers.
With over 40,000 employees, the Bin Laden Group is represented in the major cities of Saudi Arabia and the Arab capitals of Beirut, Cairo, Amman, and Dubai. The company builds highways, housing units, factories, hangars, and military bases, some of which are part of the U.S.-Saudi "Peace Shield" agreement.
The story of the Bush involvement with bin Laden and the BCCI scandal involves "trails that branched, crossed one another, or came to unexpected dead ends," according to The Outlaw Bank.
FREAK ACCIDENT
Salem bin Laden came to an "unexpected dead end" in a Texas pasture, 11 years after investing in Arbusto, when the ultra light aircraft he was flying crashed into power lines near San Antonio on Memorial Day, 1988.
On the morning of May 29, 1988, almost immediately after takeoff, Salem bin Laden's aircraft struck and became entangled in power lines 150 feet high before plunging to the ground.
"He was a very experienced pilot. He was a good pilot. We just can't understand why he decided to go right instead of left," recalled airstrip owner and former Marine Earl May field, who cradled bin Laden, bleeding from the ears.
That day, bin Laden took off in a southeasterly direction into the wind. He surprised onlookers by turning west to ward power lines less than a quarter-mile away.
"Nobody could figure out why he tried to fly over the power lines," said Gerry Auerbach, 77, of New Braunfels, a retired pilot.
Bin Laden had more than 15,000 hours of flight experience.
The police report concluded "freak accident."
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Why is the national press ignoring reports of suspicious materials discovered in upstate New York?
The FBI and state and local police are trying to determine if there is any link between terrorists and a cache of radioactive materials and bomb-making books discovered in upstate New York.
According to reports received by American Free Press, a package containing hazardous radioactive materials and a number of books about bomb making were found at the site of a supposedly vacant house being demolished by public works crews in Utica.
The materials were in a book-sized container that was wrapped in a lead-lined shield and contained vials of un known but apparently radioactive materials. A yellow sticker, marked "radioactive," was on the container.
The public works employees also found a number of books about bomb-making, which a local television broadcast said were in "Arab and Israeli languages."
Police in Utica will not discuss details of the find, which AFP has learned was removed from the scene by federal and state officials.
"They basically put it in a drum within a drum and they will send it to have it tested and find out what it is," Utica Fire Chief Frank Mazza said.
The Utica Department of Public Works employees found the package and books in a section of a garage behind the house located at 1141 Dudley Avenue in the Cornhill section of Utica.
The discovery was reported to the local Utica Daily Press by Bill Schrader, deputy commissioner of public works.
Utica officials said that they believe the house had been abandoned for some time but may have been used recently for shelter by supposed homeless people "or anyone else for that matter."
The Utica area has been the site of several incidents that may have links to terrorist activity since the attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City on Sept. 11.
Just a day after the terrorist attacks Utica police were reported to have stopped four vehicles passing through that were driven by Middle Eastern-appearing people and were covered by dust from the World Trade Center bombing.
The cars may have been heading for the Canadian border about approximately 100 miles north of Utica.
It was also reported to AFP that New York state police radio traffic revealed that a rental van from Ontario Pro vince in Canada had stopped at a repair shop north of Utica and that four persons of apparent Middle Eastern descent, who refused to identify themselves, paid cash for repairs to the vehicle before they continued on their way back north to Canada.
Shop owners called state police and a bulletin was put out for the vehicle, which was stopped by troopers north of Utica along state Route 12, the principal highway through Utica and north to Canada.
The four occupants were detained by police. No additional information
has been provided.
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Some unsettling first-hand observations about what happened in New York City on Sept. 11 contradict what's being reported in the mainstream media.
A longtime New York-based correspondent associated with American Free Press saw and heard things at "Ground Zero" in lower Manhattan which suggests the true story of what happened on that terrible day may be different from what is being reported by the government and the media.
The correspondent, Jeffrey Smith - whose office was just two
blocks from the
World Trade Center (and which was devastated by the rubble) and
who lost several friends and business associates in the disaster
- was on the scene at the time of the attack.
Smith personally saw the second plane impact the building.
"It was strange," he said, "because the plane appeared dark green in color - not a commercial craft at all. Many other observers reported this anomaly."
Correspondents believe that discrepancies in the color of the plane may have been caused by the angle of the sun hitting it causing a shadow effect as well as the panic and the trauma of the moment by all who witnessed the horrifying spectacle.
Smith reports that even after three weeks, the site of the attack is still burning. A wide range of toxic gases including chlorine, is being emitted by the burning of the plastic PVC pipes as well as other chemicals. Firemen are cautious about pouring water on the fire because it could cause the ground to collapse, bringing down other buildings.
One mystery is that television crews and press and civilian photographers (including residents of the area around the World Trade Center) are not being permitted to take photographs from certain angles.
The official law enforcement excuse is that the area is a "crime scene" and is a dangerous area for any non-emergency people to be in, but as even people on the street are constantly taking photographs and videos at crime scenes.
On Sept. 26, CBS correspondent Lou Young, during a midday newscast openly complained about restrictions on angles of photographs being allowed.
He asked in frustration: "What are they afraid we are
going to see?"
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Some hints of who may have had advance knowledge of - and profited from - the terrorist attacks of Sept.11 may be unveiled by an official U.S. inquiry into stock market intrigue prior to the disaster.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a secret investigation into what has been termed a "highly suspicious" and significant flurry of what are called "put" options into American insurance carriers, airlines and other financial institutions just prior to the terrorist attack on Sept. 11.
A "put" option will increase in value if and when the price of a stock drops. This is exactly what happened after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center (WTC). The investigation, which has spread quietly to Canadian financial markets, covers the period from Aug.27 through Sept. 11.
The SEC officially refuses to comment on their investigation and will not make the list of companies public.
The unreleased SEC list contains the following firms: AMR Corporation,
American Express Corp., American International Group, AXA SA,
Band of America Corp., Bank of New York Corp., Bank One Corp.,
Bear Stearns Corp., Boeing Corp., Carnival Corp., Chubb Corp.,
Digna Corp., Citigroup Inc., CNA Financial Corp., Continental
Airlines Inc., Delta Airlines Inc., General Motors Corp., Hercules
Inc., John Hancock financial Services, Inc., L-3 Communications
Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lockheed Martin
Corp., Lone Star Technologies, LTV Corp., Marsh & McLennan
Cos. Inc., MetLife, Inc., Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.,
Northwest Airlines Corp., Progressive Corp., Raytheon Corp., Royal
Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Royal Sun Alliance, Southwest Airlines
Corp., UAL Corp., U.S. Airways Group, Vornado Realty Trust, W.R.
Grace & Co. andXL Capital Ltd.
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Some of the men the FBI claims hijacked planes on Sept. 11 and crashed them into hubs of U.S. finance and defense are still alive.
At least six men the FBI says were part of the ring of 19 hijackers who seized passenger jets with box cutters on Sept. 11 and crashed them into the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon are "alive and well," report Mideast officials.
Information Times, an on-line publication, reported that Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal told the Arabic Press after meeting with President George W. Bush on Sept. 20: "It was proved that five of the names included in the FBI list had nothing to do with what happened."
According to The Orlando Sentinel, the Saudi Arabian embassy confirmed that four of the five mentioned by Al-Faisal -Saeed Alghamdi, Mohand Alshehri, Abdul aziz Alo mari and Salem Alhazmi-are not dead and had nothing to do with the heinous terror attacks in New York and Washington.
Saudi officials at the embassy were un able to verify the whereabouts of the fifth accused hijacker, Khalid Al-Mihdhar. However, Arab newspapers say Al-Mihd har is still alive.
NUMBER SIX
A sixth person on the FBI's list, Saudi national Waleed Alshehri, is living in Casablanca, according to an official with the Royal Air Moroc, the Moroccan commercial airline.According to the unnamed official, Alshehri lived in Dayton Beach, Fla., where he took flight training at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Now he works for a Moroccan airline.
On Sept. 22, Associated Press reported that Alshehri had spoken to the U.S. embassy in Morocco.
The FBI acknowledges that the identities of some of the purported hijackers are still in question because some of the suspects' names on flight rosters had been reported stolen months before the attacks took place.
Why the FBI still lists these men as suspected hijackers who were killed during the terrorist assault remains a mystery.
The following contains the FBI's list of suspected hijackers:
American Airlines No. 77, Boeing 757
1) Khalid Almihdhar-Possible Saudi national
o Possible resident of San Diego, California, and New York
o Alias: Sannan Al-Makki; Khalid Bin Muhammad; Addallah Al-Mihdhar;
Khalid Mohammad Al-Saqaf
2) Majed Moqed-Possible Saudi national
o Alias: Majed M.GH Moqed; Majed Moqed, Majed Mashaan Moqed
3) Nawaf Alhazmi-Possible Saudi national
o Possible resident of Fort Lee, New Jersey; Wayne, New Jersey;
San Diego, California
o Alias: Nawaf Al-Hazmi; Nawaf Al Hazmi; Nawaf M.S. Al Hazmi
4) Salem Alhazmi-Possible Saudi national
o Possible resident of Fort Lee, New Jersey; Wayne, New Jersey
5) Hani Hanjour
o Possible resident of Phoenix, Arizona, and San Diego, California
o Alias: Hani Saleh Hanjour; Hani Saleh; Hani Hanjour, Hani Saleh
H. Hanjour
American Airlines No. 11, Boeing 767
1) Satam M.A. Al Suqami-Possible Saudi national
o Dates of birth used: June 28, 1976; Last known address: United
Arab Emirates
2) Waleed M. Alshehri-Possible Saudi national
o Dates of birth used: Sept. 13, 1974; Jan. 1, 1976; March 3,
1976; July 8, 1977; Dec.
20, 1978; May 11, 1979; Nov. 5, 1979
o Possible residence(s): Hollywood, Florida; Orlando, Florida;
Daytona Beach, Florida
o Believed to be a pilot
3) Wail M. Alshehri
o Date of birth used: Sept. 1, 1968
o Possible residence(s): Hollywood, Florida; Newton, Massachusetts
o Believed to be a pilot
4) Mohamed Atta-Possible Egyptian national
o Date of birth used: Sept. 1, 1968
o Possible residence(s): Hollywood, Florida; Coral Springs, Florida;
Hamburg, Germany
o Believed to be a pilot
o Alias: Mehan Atta; Mohammad El Amir; Muhammad Atta; Mohamed
El Sayed;
Mohamed Elsayed; Muhammad Muhammad Al Amir Awag Al Sayyid Atta;
Muhammad Muhammad Al-Amir Awad Al Sayad
5) Abdulaziz Alomari-Possible Saudi national
o Dates of birth used: Dec. 24, 1972 and May 28, 1979
o Possible residence(s): Hollywood, Florida
o Believed to be a pilot
United Airlines No. 175, Boeing 767
1) Marwan Al-Shehhi
o Date of birth used: May 9, 1978
o Possible residence(s): Hollywood, Florida
o Believed to be a pilot
o Alias: Marwan Yusif Muhammad Rashid Al-Shehi; Marwan Yusif Muhammad
Rashid Lakrab Al-Shihhi; Abu Abdullah
2) Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad
o Possible residence(s): Delray Beach, Florida
o Alias: Fayez Ahmad; Banihammad Fayez Abu Dhabi Banihammad; Fayez
Rashid
Ahmed; Banihammad Fayez; Rasid Ahmed Hassen Alqadi; Abu Dhabi
Banihammad; Ahmed Fayez; Faez Ahmed
3) Ahmed Alghamdi
o Alias: Ahmed Salah Alghamdi
4) Hamza Alghamdi
o Possible residence(s): Delray Beach, Fla.
o Alias: Hamza Al-Ghamdi; Hamza Ghamdi; Hamzah Alghamdi;Hamza
Alghamdi Saleh
5) Mohand Alshehri
o Possible residence(s): Delray Beach, Fla.
o Alias: Mohammed Alshehhi; Mohamd Alshehri; Mohald Alshehri
United Airlines No. 93, Boeing 757
1) Saeed Alghamdi
o Possible residence: Delray Beach, Florida
o Alias: Abdul Rahman Saed Alghamdi; Ali S Alghamdi; Al- Gamdi;
Saad M.S. Al
Ghamdi; Sadda Al Ghamdi; Saheed Al-Ghamdi; Seed Al Ghamdi
2) Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi - Possible Saudi national
o Date of birth used: Oct. 11, 1980
o Possible residence: Delray Beach, Fla.
o Alias: Ahmed Alhaznawi
3) Ahmed Alnami
o Possible residence: Delray Beach, Fla.
o Alias: Ali Ahmed Alnami; Ahmed A. Al-Nami; Ahmed Al- Nawi
4) Ziad Samir Jarrah
o Believed to be a pilot
o Alias: Zaid Jarrahi; Zaid Samr Jarrah; Ziad S. Jarrah; Ziad
Jarrah Jarrat, Ziad Samir Jarrahi
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While the U.S. government and mainstream media refuse to discuss the foreign policies that breed resentment against America in the Islamic world, ignoring these fundamental issues can only perpetuate the conflict.
It was late on Sunday morning when President George W. Bush began his "war against terrorism" by launching 50 cruise missiles and bombing raids on Taliban targets in Afghanistan.
Within hours, Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind behind the terror attacks of Sept. 11, responded with an effective counter-offensive in the war of words. Bin Laden spoke to the world through a taped message broadcast by Al Jazeera, the most widely watched television news channel in the Arab world.
The American mass media portrays bin Laden as "consumed by hatred for the West" and misrepresents his primary political goals of restoring integrity to Saudi Arabia and confronting American abuses in the Middle East.
"Bush and Blair may tell the world they are going to win the 'war against terrorism' but in the Middle East, where Osama bin Laden is acquiring almost mythic status among Arabs, they have already lost," Robert Fisk of The Independent said on Oct. 10. A resident of Cairo told Fisk that Arabs believe America "is trying to kill the one man ready to tell the truth."
Bin Laden, who "is hardly a madman," according to experts, despises the Saudi royal family, which he regards as corrupt surrogates of American rule. In 1998, bin Laden said he expects "for the ruler of Riyadh the same fate as the shah of Iran." Because the Saudi royal family "sells the interests of its own people and betrays the nation," bin Laden said, "They shall all be wiped out."
"The United States is committed to defending the House of Saud against any internal political movement that might want to get rid of it, or perhaps even reform it," Writes Said K. Aburish, author of The Rise, Corruption, and Coming Fall of the House of Saud. The American troops in Saudi Arabia are seen as protecting the royal family, which "is becoming less acceptable by the day," Aburish says. The House of Saud is not unlike the regime of Saddam Hussein, according to Aburish, "People still disappear in the middle of the night in Saudi Arabia; people are imprisoned without being charged; people have no voice in the running of the government, and they have squandered the country's wealth . . . the country is not only broke, they are heavily in debt.
"Saudi Arabia operates in very mysterious ways. . . . We are talking about a closed society ," he said. The royal family is dedicated to keeping the kingdom closed because "outside influences would include calls for human rights, equality, democracy and things of this sort that the House of Saud is not about to tolerate," Aburish said.
The oppressive conditions in the country are causing massive unrest, although due to suppression by the government, Islamic fundamentalism provides the only vehicle for political reform movements-and these are becoming increasingly violent. "Osama bin Laden is the prophet of these movements," Aburish says, whose "number one issue" is that American troops should leave Saudi Arabia, and secondly that "there should be a Muslim Jerusalem where Islamic holy places are protected."
Bin Laden has "developed a stunningly deceptive regional war calculus that stands a reasonable chance of success," according to Paul M. Wihbey of the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies in Washington.
"His strongest belief is that Saudi Arabia can be brought to its knees, the House of Saud deposed," Wihbey says. His "overriding goal" is to return to Saudi Arabia in triumph and put an end to the existing regime.
Support for bin Laden's political program to reform Saudi Arabia comes from all levels of society, Aburish says, including from members of the House of Saud who belong to Islam ic fundamentalist groups.
There is an ongoing power struggle between two competing factions in the Saudi royal family over how to deal with American requests to neutralize bin Laden, Wihbey said. One week after the terror attacks it was reported that the ailing Saudi king, Fahd, had flown to Geneva with a massive entourage and is now in seclusion.
If bin Laden survives and returns to Saudi Arabia, his supporters will greet him as a Mahdi (messiah). This would mark "a dramatically new geopolitical landscape," Wihbey said.
Bin Laden today stands accused by the U.S. government of masterminding the kamikaze terror attacks in New York and Washington although evidence linking him to the crimes has not been presented to the public.
"Neither I nor my organization Al-Qaida is involved in the attacks and the U.S. has traced the attackers within America," bin Laden told the Karachi daily Ummat. "The attackers could be anybody, people who are part of the American system yet rebel against it, or some group that wants to make this century a century of confrontation between Islam and Christianity."
Bin Laden has always carefully denied involvement in terror attacks such as the U.S. embassy bombings saying it is not his job to organize such attacks. His role is "to create awareness about the injustices done by the U.S. to Muslims." He rails against the "corrupting influence of the West" on the Muslim world. "What has the West given the world? A lust for power and a license to loot and plunder the poorer countries," he said in a recent interview with an Arab journalist, as reported in The Washington Times.
"We are against the American system but not the American people. Islam does not allow killing of innocent people, men, women and children even in the event of war," he said to Ummat.
Although bin Laden denied personal responsibility for the terror attacks, in the taped speech, broadcast as Bush began the bombing of Afghanistan, he accused the United States of hypocrisy, murder, and occupation of Islamic lands, articulating widely held grievances which resonate throughout the Islamic and Arab world.
Bin Laden said that the suffering America is "tasting now" is insignificant compared to the humiliation and degradation the Islamic world has suffered for more than 80 years. "Its sons are killed, its blood is shed, its sanctuaries are attacked, and no one hears and no one heeds.
"Millions of innocent children are being killed as I speak. They are being killed in Iraq without committing any sins," bin Laden said about the human toll of the 11 years of U.S.-led sanctions on Iraq.
"Israeli tanks infest Palestine," bin Laden said, "in Jenin, Ramallah, Rafah, Beit Jalla, and other places in the land of Islam, and we don't hear anyone raising his voice or moving a limb.
"To America, I say only a few words to it and its people," bin Laden concluded. "I swear by God, who has elevated the skies without pillars, neither America nor the people who live in it will dream of security before we live it in Palestine, and not before all the infidel armies leave the land of Mohammed, peace be upon him.
"The enmity between us and the Jews," bin Laden said in 1998, "goes far back in time and is deep rooted. There is no question that war between the two of us is inevitable. The leaders in America and in other countries as well have fallen victim to Jewish Zionist blackmail," he said, "They have mobilized their people against Islam and against Muslims. "Our mothers and daughters and sons are slaughtered every day with the approval of America and its support," he said. "And, while America blocks the entry of weapons into Islamic countries, it provides the Israelis with a continuous supply of arms allowing them thus to kill and massacre more Muslims.
"The American government is leading the country toward hell. We say to the Americans as people and to American mothers, if they cherish their lives and if they cherish their sons, they must elect an American patriotic government that caters to their interests, not the interests of the Jews."
Al Jazeera, often called the CNN of the Arab world, reaches 35 million viewers and is the only news organization with a correspondent and direct satellite link in Kabul, the Afghan capital. Secretary of State Colin Powell appealed to the emir of Qatar, where Al Jazeera is based, to stop the flow of information the network was sending from Afghanistan.
Al Jazeera resisted American censorship saying that in order to be seen as credible by its viewers it must show both sides of the conflict. Bin Laden is a party to the conflict and has a point of view that deserves to be heard, a spokesman for the network said.
The Voice of America, however, pulled an interview with Mullah Omar Mohammed, the Taliban leader, following objections from the U.S. deputy secretary of state and senior officials of the National Security Council.
"America controls the governments of the Islamic countries . . . they are in the grip of the United States," Omar said. "America has created the evil that is attacking it. The evil will not disappear even if I die and Osama dies and others die. The U.S. should step back and review its policy. It should stop trying to impose its empire on the rest of the world, especially on Islamic countries."
Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned the American-led attack on Afghanistan as cruelty and a major mistake for the United States and Britain. The government of Iran is opposed to the Taliban but is not assisting in the U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan.
Khamenei said that it was not true that the strikes are part of a campaign against terrorism. "Their real purpose is to expand their [U.S. and U.K.] power and domination," he told a meeting of clerics in Tehran the day after the bombing began.
"What can justify this oppression that will lead to the killing and wounding of people and forcing many innocent Afghans to leave their homes?
"The Americans must know that they might be able to achieve their short-term goals with military strikes," he said. "But they will be hurt in the long run. Without doubt, their acts will bring instability for them."
Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi condemned the attacks and expressed Iran's concerns that such military operation could "provoke extremist reactions."
"We stressed from the beginning that terrorism cannot
be eradicated through military actions," he said at a news
conference the day after the bombing began. "Its causes must
be identified and eliminated."
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Sept. 11 marked a devastating loss for the nation, but shrewd financial speculators with ties to the highest levels of the CIA appear to have profited from the disaster, raising questions about exactly who had prior knowledge of the terrible tragedy.
The day two passenger planes crashed into the World Trade Center ended differently for different people. For some 10,000 children it meant the loss of a mother or father. For millions of Americans it marked the end of normality. For a select group of financial speculators it meant increased profits.
There have been numerous reports of unusual activity in financial markets around the world suggesting prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In Chicago, home of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the largest of the five options exchanges in the nation, brokers and speculators known as options traders wage bets daily about what a stock price will do. In options trades there are winners and losers regardless of the outcome.
The catastrophic events of Sept. 11 were no different; the devastation at the World Trade Center resulted in some speculators winning millions of dollars from options purchased at the CBOE-while others lost their lives.
A $2.5 million winning that resulted when the United Airlines share price fell after two of its planes crashed remains unclaimed more than six weeks after the tragedy.
Investigations into the unusually high number of "put" options, betting that the price of United Airlines (UAL) and American Airlines shares would fall, have revealed that Alex Brown Inc., an investment banking firm, purchased many of these option contracts. Alex Brown Inc. was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now the executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard.
Krongard, 64, former head of Baltimore-based Alex Brown, America's oldest investment bank, joined the CIA three years ago as a counselor to Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet.
Krongard switched careers shortly after helping engineer the $2.5 billion merger of Alex Brown and Bankers Trust New York Corp., gaining $71 million in Bankers Trust stock in the process.
President Bush appointed Krongard executive director of the Central Intelligence Agency on March 26. From February 1998 until March 2001, Krongard served as counselor to the director of central intelligence. Until 1997 Krongard was chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown, having previously worked in various capacities at Alex Brown.
Krongard was quoted on the relationship between Wall Street and the CIA in an article by The Washington Post. If you go back to the CIA's origins during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, Krongard told the Post, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street bankers and lawyers."
OPTIONS SPIKES
Between Sept. 6 and 7, the CBOE saw a dramatic spike in the purchases of put options on United Airlines stock compared to call options.
A "put" option increases in value when the stock price falls, while a "call" option increases if the share price rises. The ratio of "put" options to "call" options was 12 to 1, with 2,372 "put" options purchased, betting that UAL stock would fall compared with 198 "call" options. The winners on these options deals walked away with untold millions of dollars in profits.
On Sept. 10, speculators in Chicago purchased put options on American Airlines, the other airlines involved in the hijackings, at a ratio of 6 to 1 against "call" options. Traders bought 2,258 put options as compared with 374 "call" options the day before the crashes.
There were similar spikes in "put" option contracts on the shares of the investment firms of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. and Merrill Lynch & Co., major tenants of the World Trade Center, occupying 22 floors each, who were both devastated by the terror attacks.
In the three days of trading prior to Sept. 11, Morgan Stanley "put" options spiked dramatically.
According to figures provided by Options Clearing Corp. of Chicago, during the two trading days before the attacks the total number of "put" options jumped to 7,647 compared with a daily average of 2,384 during the month of August. Morgan Stanley's shares fell from $48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the attacks.
Likewise, Merrill Lynch "put" options jumped to 64,445
in the three days before the attacks. On Sept. 10, 28,960 "put"
options were purchased on Merrill Lynch compared with a daily
average of 5,430 during the month of August. Merrill's shares
fell from $46.88 to $41.50.
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The mainstream media is ignoring eyewitness accounts of bombs that exploded inside the World Trade Center before the collapse of the Twin Towers.
Despite reports from numerous eyewitnesses and experts, including news reporters on the scene, who heard or saw explosions immediately before the collapse of the World Trade Center, there has been virtual silence in the mainstream media.
Television viewers watching the horrific events of Sept. 11 saw evidence of explosions before the towers collapsed. Televised images show what appears to be a huge explosion occurring near ground level, in the vicinity of the 47-story Salomon Brothers Building, known as WTC 7, prior to the collapse of the first tower.
Van Romero, an explosives expert and former director of the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at New Mexico Tech, said on Sept. 11, "My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the towers to collapse."
The collapse of the structures resembled the controlled implosions used to demolish old structures and was "too methodical to be a chance result of airplanes colliding with the structures," Romero told The Albuquerque Journal hours after the attack.
Implosions are violent collapses inwards, which are used to demolish buildings in areas of high density, to prevent damage to surrounding buildings. Precision-timed explosives are placed on strategic load-bearing columns and beams to cause the controlled collapse.
Demolition experts say that towers are the most difficult buildings to bring down in a controlled manner. A tower tends to fall like a tree, unless the direction of its fall is controlled by directional charges. The WTC towers "smokestacked" neatly, falling within the boundaries of their foundations.
Skeptics say this could not have happened coincidentally and it must have been caused by strategically placed and precisely timed internal charges. Videotape images may reveal these internal charges precipitating the controlled demolition of the towers and WTC 7.
Romero is vice president of research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, which studies explosive materials and the effects of explosions on buildings, aircraft and other structures, and often assists in forensic investigations into terrorist attacks, often by setting off similar explosions and studying the effects.
After being hit by the aircraft, the twin towers appeared to be stable. Then without warning, at 9:58 a.m. the south tower imploded vertically downwards, 53 minutes after being hit. At 10:28, 88 minutes after being struck, the north tower collapsed.
"It would be difficult for something from the plane to trigger an event like that," Romero said. If explosions did cause the towers to collapse, "It could have been a relatively small amount of explosives placed in strategic points," he said.
"One of the things terrorist events are noted for is a diversionary attack and secondary device," Romero said. Attackers detonate an initial, diversionary explosion, in this case the collision of the planes into the towers, which brings emergency personnel to the scene, then detonate a second explosion.
Ten days after the attack, following criticism of his initial remarks, Romero did an about-face in his analysis of the collapse, "Certainly the fire is what caused the building to fail," he told the Journal on Sept. 21.
The twin towers were struck by Boeing 767's carrying approximately 23,000 gallons of fuel.
However, there is other information that lends credence to Romero's controversial scenario.One eyewitness whose office is near the World Trade Center told AFP that he was standing among a crowd of people on Church Street, about two-and-a-half blocks from the South tower, when he saw "a number of brief light sources being emitted from inside the building between floors 10 and 15." He saw about six of these brief flashes, accompanied by "a crackling sound" before the tower collapsed. Each tower had six central support columns.
One of the first firefighters in the stricken second tower, Louie Cacchioli, 51, told People Weekly on Sept. 24: "I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there were bombs set in the building."
Kim White, 32, an employee on the 80th floor, also reported hearing an explosion. "All of a sudden the building shook, then it started to sway. We didn't know what was going on," she told People. "We got all our people on the floor into the stairwell . . . at that time we all thought it was a fire . . .We got down as far as the 74th floor . . . then there was another explosion."
The accepted theory is that as the fires raged in the towers, the steel cores in each building were heated to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, causing the support beams to buckle.
A lead engineer who designed the World Trade Center Towers expressed shock that the towers collapsed after being hit by passenger jets.
"I designed it for a 707 to hit it," Lee Robertson, the project's structural engineer said. The Boeing 707 has a fuel capacity of more than 23,000 gallons, comparable to the 767's 23,980-gallon fuel capacity.
Another architect of the WTC, Aaron Swirski, lives in Israel and spoke to Jerusalem Post Radio after the attack: "It was designed around that eventuality to survive this kind of attack," he said.
Hyman Brown, a University of Colorado civil engineering professor and the World Trade Center's construction manager, watched in confusion as the towers came down. "It was over-designed to withstand almost anything including hurricanes, high winds, bombings and an airplane hitting it," he said.
Brown told AFP that although the buildings were designed to withstand "a 150-year storm" and the im pact of a Boeing 707, he said the jet fuel burning at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit weakened the steel. Brown ex plained that the south tower collapsed first as it was struck lower with more weight above the impact area.
Brown told AFP that he "did not buy" the theory that the implosion was caused by the fires sucking the air out of the lower floors, which has been speculated.
The contractor who is reported to have been the first on the WTC collapse scene to cart away the rubble that remains is a company that specializes in the scientific demolition of large buildings, Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Baltimore, headed by Mark Loizeaux.
CDI is the same contractor that demolished and hauled away the shell of the bombed Oklahoma City Murrah building, actions that prevented independent investigators from pursuing evidence on leads suggesting that there were bombs set off inside the building.
In February 2000, a federal grand jury indicted Mark Loizeaux, Douglas Loizeaux and Controlled Demolition, Inc. on charges of falsely reporting campaign contributions by asking family members and CDI employees to donate to the campaign of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.).
The Baltimore Sun reported that the illegal contributions allegedly occurred between 1996 and 1998. The Loizeaux brothers and CDI were acquitted in Sept ember 2000.Cleaning up the estimated 1.2 million tons of rubble will reportedly cost $7 billion and take up to a year.
Removing the debris has also been controversial. The police said that some scrap metal has been diverted to mob-controlled businesses rather than the dump where investigators are examining rubble for clues and human remains.
The second plane nearly missed the South Tower, cutting through
a corner. Most of its fuel burned in an outside explosion. However,
this building collapsed first, long before the North Tower, into
which a similar plane entered completely.
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Weather modification here and in Britain has been exposed in some recent detailed reports.
As mysterious "chemtrails continue to crisscross the skies all across America, recent reports shed some light on the use of weather-altering schemes as a weapon of war.
The former Spotlight was the first national newspaper to report on the seeding of the skies of America with chemicals.
Since then various reports have appeared documenting how the U.S. military is conducting experiments to develop means of altering the weather, detecting chemical and biological attacks and enhancing three-dimensional radar by spraying chemicals into the skies from airplanes.
The London Daily Mail has been investigation a British Ministry of Defense (MOD) special project, Operation Cumulus, which was undertaken in the late 1940s and early 1950s to create heavy rain as a means of disrupting enemy military operations.
MOD still will not discuss the special operations project but various participants have come forward in recent months to reveal its details.
While the U.S. military is seeding the skies with chemicals, primarily composed of barium salts, the British military use sodium, magnesium, calcium chlorides and sometimes silver iodide, which was reported to be able to produce downpours for up to 300 miles from the area where the sky was treated.
An Aug. 31 Daily Mail report says Operation Cumulus proved a great success but may have taken a tragic turn on Aug. 15, 1952 when it may have created one of the worst downpours in British history over Lynmouth, located about 120 miles east of London.
British newsmen turned up a 50-year-old tape of a radio broadcast in which Alan Yates, an aeronautical engineer and glider pilot who died this year, described working with Operation Cumulus and spraying large quantities of salt.
"I had been told that the rain had been the heaviest for several years, "Yates said, "and all out of a sky which looked summery." There was no disguising the fact that the seedsman had said he'd make rain and he did.
"Toasts were drunk to meteorology and it was not until the BBC news bulletin [about Lynmouth] was read later on that a stony silence fell on the company," he said.
Today, long-time residents of the area can remember how "a pungent, sulphurous smell filled the air."
"And once the rain began to fall," the British daily reported, "it seemed as though it would never stop."
"In the hills, the moorland streams became raging torrents. That day saw one of the heaviest falls of rain recorded in Britain - 9.1 inches. Water and rock began to crash toward the coast, an estimated 90 million tons in all.
By the time the deluge hit Lynmouth's narrow streets, it had become a wall of water at least 12 feet high.
"The homes of nearly 1,000 residents were wrecked. The High Street was left littered with boulders piled 20 feet high. The search for bodies lasted two weeks.
"The death toll was 35, making it one of Britain's worst flooding disasters..."
The U.S. defense Department, along with other federal agencies, denies conducting "chemtrail" experiments in American skies.
The British government officially states: "The MOD has not and does not conduct cloud-seeding experiments. We trust this settles the matter."
However, to the dozens of residents of the Lynmouth area who
remember the August 1952 afternoon when the skies opened up and
the rain started to fall "as if it would never stop,"
it most likely does not.
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The biological weapons scare has resurrected a cure that could be worse than the condition.
Rising fear as a result of reports that more and more people, including a seven-month-old child, are contracting anthrax by coming into contact with contaminated mail has prompted media outlets to resurrect a controversial - and most likely harmful - vaccine against the biological weapon.
The vaccine was developed in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s and licensed by the federal government in 1970.
However, many of the human guinea pigs, most of whom comprise U.S. servicemen and women, to have been given the vaccine have not fared so well. As a result of the bad publicity, some military personnel have refused to take the six-shot immunization and have been punished.
In 1998, then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen approved a vaccination plan that would have had all military personnel - active and reserve - vaccinated between then and 2005.
But the program ran into trouble.
Only one company, the BioPort Corp., formerly known as the Michigan Biologic Products Institute, produces it.
The reason for the name change is the reorganization of the company due to financial problems and health concerns over how the company was manufacturing its product. These problems were so great, that if the company didn't get the government contract, it was finished.
The government re-upped the contract - despite questions about the dangers and effectiveness of the vaccine.
But the questions about the vaccine remain.
What you may not have heard is that back in May, the highest ranking active duty military officer and the first military doctor to refuse the controversial vaccine are suing the government. The Plaintiffs are a former Air Force major and an Air force physician, both of whom refused to take the mandatory six-shot treatment.
Both have accepted discharges, and the suit is stalled in federal court.
The legal action was filed by then-Maj. Sonnie Bates and Dr. John buck.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district Court in Washington, maintains that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) never authorized the vaccine for use as protection against biological warfare and cites health and safety concerns.
According to papers filed by the plaintiffs' lawyers, the suit seeks a court order that would require the FDA to treat the vaccine as an experimental drug. Such a ruling would mean the military could no longer administer it without informed consent.
"The ultimate purpose of this lawsuit is to open the eyes of the Pentagon and the new administration and have them say, ‘Enough is enough, this has to end,'" said Mark s. Zaid, who is representing Bates and Buck along with co-counsel John J. Michels Jr.
Although some service members have challenged the military's policy on constitutional grounds, Zaid said that this lawsuit was the first targeting the FDA's role in the matter.
Interestingly, since the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United states, the subject of the military's anthrax immunization program has become "sensitive."
The military admitted at the time that approximately 450 members of the U.S. military had refused the shots.
It should be pointed out that there are two types of anthrax infections: through the skin(via a cut, etc.) And through the pulmonary system. The former is less severe and responds well to antibiotics. The latter can be fatal - as it was for a photo editor of a national tabloid newspaper published in Florida.
But both forms are "area denial," as explained above and not "weapons of mass destruction." If they were, then masses would have been destroyed.
Some experts have pointed to a possible connection between the anthrax vaccine and so-called Gulf War Syndrome that many Desert Storm vets suffer from.
Symptoms of the mysterious syndrome include chronic fatigue and respiratory ailments.
BE AFRAID?
Meanwhile, discovery that a child who visited ABC News has contracted the skin form of anthrax and tests showing that the office of the Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), has received anthrax-laced mail bearing the same Trenton, N.J. postmark and date as an anthrax-contaminated letter sent fo NBC news in New York are "reason for increased apprehension" about biological terrorism, according to the mainstream media.
Some in the media have been clamoring for mandatory vaccination program to inoculate Americans against anthrax. However, cooler heads say that is totally unnecessary as the wave of attacks is still limited and the number of prople actually coming down with illness is rather small.
According to published reports, it has been all to common in
recent years for physicians to treat microbial infections with
broad-spectrum antibiotics without bothering to identify the particular
germ involved. "In the case of a bioterrorism agent,"
opined The New York Times it "could prove fatal if the wrong
antibiotic is used or is prescribed for too short a period."
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A new study on children provides more evidence damning fluoridated drinking water.
More than two years ago, I wrote about George Glasser a citizen researcher who blew the whistle on the use of fluorosilicic acid from rock fertilizer processing as the primary source of community water fluoridation.
Up until that time, most of us were under the impression that water fluoridation used sodium fluoride (rat poison) a by-product of aluminum manufacturing. Glasser pointed out that more than 75 percent of water fluoridated in the United States has contained the highly toxic fluorosilicic acid since the late 1970s.
Now, a massive study has come out of young children subjected to fluorosilicic acid fluoridation in communities in New York.
Glasser was the first to stress the excessive toxicity inherent in using the hydrofluorosilicic acid residue that is removed from the industrial pollution control "scrubbers" in the manufacture of phosphate fertilizers. The chemists refer to this material as silicofluorides and have now conclusively shown that the fluoridation material is linked to other heavy metal toxins that are found in drinking water - lead, arsenic, aluminum and cadmium, for example.
In the March 2001 issue of the journal Neuro-Toxicology, a team of researchers led by Dr. Roger Masters of Dartmouth College reported evidence that public drinking water fluoridated with fluorosilicic acid is linked to higher uptakes of lead in children.
After pointing out that since 1992 only about 10 percent of America's fluoridated communities use sodium fluoride and 90 percent use fluorosilicic acid, the researchers stated that about 140 million Americans have this chemical placed in their water.
Researchers also pointed out that sodium fluoride was tested on animals and approved for human consumption, but fluorosilicic acid had not been so tested and approved. The silicofluoride material is referred to as SiF's by the researchers.
The research team has now studied the blood-lead levels in more than 400,000 children in three different samplings. In each case they found a significant link between fluorosilicic acid-treated water(SiFs) and elevated blood levels of lead.
INHIBITS BRAIN ACTIVITY
In the latest study, the blood levels of about 150,000 children ranging in ages from infant to 6 were analyzed.
The samples were collected by the New York State Department of Children's Health from 1994 through 1998. The comparisons included non-fluoridated and fluorosilicic acid-treated communities of similar size, socioeconomic conditions and similar demographic risk factors. After adjusting for confounding factors, the reasearchers concluded that the fluorosilicic acid-treated water was equal to or worse that old house paint as a contributor to elevated blood-lead levels
Dr. Masters said these preliminary findings correlate the fluorosilicic acid water treatment and behavior problems that are due to known effects of lead on brain chemistry.
Additionally, a study in Germany showed the SiFs may inhibit the enzyme, cholinesterase, in the brain which plays a key role in regulating neurotransmitters, or the signals that carry messages through the brain.
"If SiFs are Cholinesterase inhibitors, this means that SiFs have effects like the chemical agents linked to Gulf War Syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome and other puzzling conditions that plague millions of Americans," Masters said. "We need a better understanding of how SiFs behave chemically and physiologically."
Last March, Dr. Masters testified before New Hampshire legislators in favor of The Fluoride Product Quality Control Act. The bill would put the Sifs to a series of tests, and perhaps further research on neurotoxicity and behavior.
"If further research confirms our findings," Masters said, "this may well be the worst environmental poison since leaded gasoline."
The EPA admits it has no data on the health and behavioral effects of SIFs.
"Shouldn't we stop intentionally exposing 140 million Americans to an untested chemical until the risks are extensively and objectively evaluated by independent researchers?" asked Dr. Masters.
And, the final insult: There is no conclusive evidence that
fluoridation of drinking water significantly improves the teeth
of children at all.
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