Rumsfeld Uses ABC to Turn War on Terrorism into Prime Time Entertainment
Donald Rumsfeld, we hear, is all excited about a new "State
TV" venture that will intentionally blur the line between
reality and entertainment for Americans by selectively - very, very
selectively - glamorizing war. ABC is colluding with the Pentagon to
produce a 13-part series that will "profile" military
folk. The venture has outraged nearly everyone except the most
jingoistic rightwingnuts. Real journalists were not allowed to cover
the war, yet a made-for-TV commercial entertainment team IS? What
could be sicker than that? Only the fact that this show is being
produced by the DISNEY "Get 'em while they're young"
NETWORK. What America will see in this show will be exactly - and
absolutely ONLY - what Rumsfeld and the rest of the Bush machine
wants them to see. So, whatever they decide to call it,
"Reality TV" it most certainly WON'T be. Remember that
movie "Wag the Dog?" Compared to this, that was mild!
http://www.reuters.com/printerfriendly.jhtml?type=
...demdaily news, 2/26/02 The 'Shallow Throat' Documents: A Pre-9/11 Bush & Co. Scenario (Fiction?)
"The Bush Administration seemed to have everything so well
coordinated after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. How, many wondered,
could they have put the whole shebang together so quickly? We may
never know all the details, but recently some minutes of a
pre-9/11 Bush inner-cabinet meeting have come our way, from
someone inside the Administration. We're not at liberty to reveal
that mole's identity, but the job held by this person -- whom
we'll call 'Shallow Throat' -- includes access to important papers
and thus the undated transcript below, believed to have been
recorded in July or August of 2001, could well be authentic."
So writes Bernard Weiner, playwright, poet, and political
scientist.
Global Eye -- Mud Pack"Axis of evil" speech not a mistake - follow the money
Friday, Feb. 15, 2002. Page XXIV
By Chris Floyd
enemies, having engaged in the mutual slaughter of more than a million
of their people in the last two decades, and that an "axis"
containing those two countries is about as likely as a Bush-Gore
ticket in 2004. Surely, said the reasoners, Bush knows that North
Korea's bizarre and broken-down Stalinist hellhole poses no threat to
the United States -- which can track Pyongyang's every military move
and destroy any missile before it leaves the factory, much less
reaches the launch pad. If North Korea had any missiles that could
reach the United States, that is. Which it doesn't, of course.
Why mince words? Bush is a war profiteer on a vast, historic scale, a
man with only one animating principle: the aggrandizement of his own
pampered self and his elitist clique. This greed compromises every
action taken by his regime -- because they all result in profits for
his gang. Another example: Bush puts U.S. bases in Central Asia; Dick
Cheney's Halliburton gets the construction contracts; Daddy's Carlyle
Group supplies the weaponry; Dub's buds in the oil bidness get
protection for their new pipelines.
Thus every strategic decision is turned to private profit, muddying
the waters of America's moral purpose -- and risking more disaster for
its people.
.... TomB, 2/17/02 (Top)A White Knight Talking BackwardsSPY CASE IN CANADIAN COURTS SUGGESTS US NAVAL OFFICER HAD FOREKNOWLEDGE OF 9-11 by Michael C. Ruppert [Copyright 2002, Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications, http://www.copvcia.com/, all rights reserved. May be reposted, reprinted or distributed for non-profit purposes only when this statement appears with the text.] TORONTO, [Filed January 25, 2002, and Revised January 28, 2002] – EDITORIAL NOTE: In our original story we indicated that the note written by Delmart “Mike” Vreeland had been sealed in court records. We based this on a misreading of Canadian press stories. In fact, the warning of the World Trade Center attacks, written by Vreeland on either August 11th or 12th has been introduced into open evidence in Vreeland’s case in Toronto. Using court records in our possession, FTW has scanned the document and it is available for viewing in this story. We apologize for the error. Following is a revised story which we feel is the best way to present this important information in context.] ---------- Delmart Edward “Mike” Vreeland, an American citizen whose claims to being a US Naval Lieutenant assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) are being increasingly corroborated in open court, has been in a Canadian jail since December 6, 2000. On August 11 or 12 of 2001, the date is uncertain, after trying to verbally alert his Canadian jailers to the coming World Trade Center attacks, he wrote down key information and sealed it in an envelope which he then had placed in jailers’ custody. This event is not disputed by Canadian authorities. The letter specifically listed a number of targets including The Sears Towers, The World Trade Center, The White House, The Pentagon, The World Bank, The Canadian parliament building in Ottawa and the Royal Bank in Toronto. A chilling sentence follows the list of targets, “Let one happen. Stop the rest!!!” When the envelope was opened on September 14th it set off alarms in the US and Canada. The US wants Vreeland back in the States on a Michigan warrant for credit card fraud – using his own credit card. Vreeland, convinced that a return to the US means certain death, wants to stay in Canada in a witness protection program. His lawyers Rocco Galati and Paul Slansky, two former Canadian prosecutors, agree with Vreeland’s assessment. They should. Both have been the victims of harassment and threats including dead cats hung on porches and car windows smashed out in car burglaries. The position of the United States government, as represented by Crown Solicitors in Toronto, is that all of this is nonsense. Vreeland, says the Navy, was discharged as a Seaman after a few months of service for unsatisfactory performance in 1986. He has never had anything to do with intelligence according to 1200 pages of Navy records filed in Toronto Superior Court. “How is it,” says Galati, “that the Navy says that he was only in the service a few months and then send us a 1200 page personnel file? Some of the entries are obvious forgeries or alterations and the sanitizing of his records was done so hurriedly that some dates of medical exams in the 1990s were left intact.” In a January 10, 2002 tactic worthy of Perry Mason, with the greatest possible risk to his client if it failed, attorney Slansky got the judge to agree to let him call the Pentagon from open court. Using a speaker phone, in front of at least six witnesses, Slansky first dialed directory information and got a number for the Pentagon switchboard. Then, calling that number he asked the Department of Defense operator to locate the office of Lt. Delmart Vreeland. Within moments the operator had confirmed Vreeland’s posting, his rank as a Lieutenant O-3, his room number and given Slansky his direct-dial number. All of this is a part of the court record. On January 17, as this writer sat in the courtroom, another mind-numbing event occurred. As Vreeland sat shackled in a corner, closely flanked by two guards, the Crown Solicitor sought to debunk Vreeland’s assertions that he had been assigned to travel to Moscow to review and retrieve highly technical and classified documents pertaining to Russian and Chinese efforts to counter the proposed US “Star Wars” missile defense system. [Ed note: FTW believes this to be a cover story.] “Why,” said the Crown Solicitor, “would the US choose, in a case involving some of the most highly technical intelligence, a random seaman with training in the tool and die field.” The point that someone discharged in 1986 with no special training and rank would be sent to review technical documents sounded reasonable – assuming that Vreeland’s background was as the Solicitor argued. The reasonableness vanished a few moments later as the Crown Solicitor argued that Vreeland, who has been in jail and without access to a computer for thirteen months, had somehow cracked the Pentagon’s personnel records and inserted his name, an office number, and telephone extension into the Pentagon database. No one except for Vreeland and attorney Galati seemed to notice the contradiction. The Crown Solicitor ventured further through the looking glass by then arguing that Vreeland, having certain papers in his possession at the time of his arrest, had memorized Russian and Albanian documents and then had translated them from memory. Vreeland doesn’t speak Russian or Albanian. The judge, noticing this stretch of credibility, asked the Solicitor to restate the point. The argument then became that Vreeland had an unnamed colleague go to an unspecified web site, print Russian and Albanian documents for him, and then used foreign language dictionaries to translate them. Vreeland’s extradition process could take years and his time in jail has not been easy. There have been threats, illnesses and his every move is watched. Galati and Slansky wonder how long his psyche will hold up. The history of jailhouse deaths of key witnesses leans heavily in favor of Vreeland’s belief that he could be killed at any moment. His apparent strategy is to not reveal any accurate Top Secret material to either his lawyers or the press, hoping that his silence will provide him with some support from US clandestine services. This a standard approach taken in dozens of similar cases researched by FTW in the past They include the cases – well known in research circles – of William Tyree and Michael Riconosciuto. Tyree has been jailed on a questionable murder conviction since 1979 and Riconosciuto on a variety or drug-related charges since the early 1990s. Both men have been directly connected to CIA and other intelligence operations by official documents. “We don’t need to know and we don’t want to know the secret details, “says Galati. “They’re not necessary for us to do the job of keeping our client alive and in Canada. He faces a special danger in the US because he has also been an informant against an organized crime family in Michigan where the criminal charges originate. The most he is facing there is two years but we believe he might not live for two days in that system.” Additional press reports indicate that Vreeland’s intelligence work was connected to drug smuggling – a much more likely reason for his trip to Moscow. And the history of the relations between Naval Intelligence and the mafia is documented as far back as the Second World War when ONI officers made deals with convicted mafia don Lucky Luciano and his lieutenant Vito Genovese to protect New York docks and assist with the subsequent Allied invasion and occupation of Italy. Mike Vreeland is one man who, in a rational world, could totally expose the complicity of the US government in the attacks of September 11th. No one has disputed what he wrote and stuffed into that envelope. In a rational world that would be the most pressing and public inquiry of all. The two questions remaining are whether Vreeland will live and whether or not he will ever tell what he knows. That may be a mutually exclusive proposition. FTW has retained the services of freelance journalist Greta Knutsen in Toronto to report on developments in this critical case for our subscribers. Important updates will be posted and sent out via subscriber bulletin to our readers as they become available. [The Warning Written by Mike Vreeland Before 9-11]
In an report on the Carlyle Group, Red Herring writes, "The
federal government has already approved a $40 billion supplemental
aid package to the current budget, $19 billion of which is headed
straight to the Pentagon. Some ... is likely to find its way into
Carlyle's coffers. The Bush administration isn't afraid to mix
business and politics, and no other firm embodies that penchant
better than the Carlyle Group. Walking that fine line is what
Carlyle does best. We may not see Osama bin Laden's brothers at
Carlyle's investor conferences any more, but business will go on as
usual for the biggest old boys network around. As Mr. Snow puts it,
'Carlyle will always have to defend itself and will never be able to
convince certain people that they aren't capable of forging murky
backroom deals. George Bush's father does profit when the Carlyle
Group profits, but to make the leap that the president would base
decisions on that is to say that the president is corrupt.'" IS
THERE ANY DOUBT?
(Top)'The Day Reagan Was Shot' Will Air on Showtime
"Richard Crenna and Richard Dreyfuss star in this riveting
behind-the-scenes account of the chaos following the 1981
assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. When it becomes
clear that President Reagan (Crenna) has been seriously injured, the
White House is thrown into disarray, with ambitious General Alexander
Haig (Dreyfuss) assuming control. When Russia appears to be deploying
nuclear missiles, Haig's grab for power will have serious
consequences."
Incredibly, the Houston Post and the AP reported at the time that Neil Bush was to have dinner with Scott Hinckley -- the brother of shooter John Hinckley -- the night after the shooting. And Hinckley Sr was a top campaign contributor to Bush Sr.'s 1980 campaign. (Enter 'bush hinckley' at a search engine such as Google). Will the film even mention these facts? Airtimes: Showtime (regular) Monday, 1/07/02 at 10 PM ET/PT and Tuesday, 1/15/02 at 12:00 AM ET/PT. http://www.showtimeonline.com/movies/movies_product.cfm?
(Top)What A Coincidence?
From a Buzzflash editorial: "After a several day public relations
buildup, the Bush administration released an incriminating videotape
of Osama bin Laden today. Why did they go through a clearly strategic
delay in letting the public see the tape? BuzzFlash believes that the
timing of the release was calculated to minimize coverage of two other
announcements on Thursday: Bush formally stated that he will pull out
of the ABM treaty, and he also claimed executive privilege on
information sought Congress. By creating a heightened curiosity about
the video, the Karl Rove PR machine followed the classic Hollywood
publicity technique of building up excitement for a movie to draw
record crowds to the opening night." http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/2001/12/121301_
(Top)Did bin Laden have help from U.S. friends?AN INTRIGUING new book, just published in France, details the curiously amicable relationship between the regime of U.S. President George W. Bush and Afghanistan's Taliban, a relationship that turned hostile only after the terror attacks of Sept. 11. Ben Laden: La Verité Interdite (Bin Laden: The Forbidden Truth) is written by former French spook Jean-Charles Brisard and journalist Guillaume Dasquie. Both are said to be plugged into the murky world of intelligence. During his time with French intelligence, Brisard was regarded as something of an expert on bin Laden's finances.The nub of their argument is that the Bush regime's attitude toward
the Taliban - and even to bin Laden - was driven by the new president's
fixation on energy. A stable regime in Afghanistan would allow
construction of an oil and gas pipeline from the former Soviet republics
in Central Asia to Pakistan and the sea. And initially, Washington's
best bet for a stable regime in Afghanistan was the Taliban. ... More Bush Sr, The Carlyle Group, the Saudi Royals, and the Bush family
"The Fahd regime was a major financial backer of the Reagan
Administration's [$32 million for Iran-Contra] and of its successful
proxy war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union…Working through
[Iran-Contra player] Prince Bandar, they have contributed hundreds of
millions of dollars to charities and educational programs here...At
the end of last year, Halliburton, the Texas-based oil-supply business
formerly headed by Vice-President Dick Cheney, was operating a number
of subsidiaries in Saudi Arabia...When the Saudis were confronted by
press reports that some of the substantial funds…may actually have
gone to Al Qaeda and other terrorist networks, they denied any
knowledge of such transfers. The intercepts, however, have led
many in the intelligence community to conclude otherwise. The Bush
Administration has chosen not to confront the Saudi leadership over
its financial support of terror organizations and its refusal to help
in the investigation." http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?011022fa_FACT
From the archives of the Nation: "Carlyle has extensive interests
in Saudi Arabia, and it has been pursuing a deal in partnership with
SBC, the telecommunications giant (which owns Southwestern Bell,
Ameritech, Pacific Telesis and Cellular One), to acquire about 25
percent of the Saudi phone system. Accompanied by several Carlyle
execs, Bush and Major--the leaders of the alliance that pushed Saddam
Hussein out of Kuwait in 1991--were out to win friends and influence
Saudis on behalf of Carlyle. (Bush, Major and the Carlyle officers
also made a stop in Kuwait.) A day or two after the short session with
the Prince [Abdullah], Bush and Major were whisked by the Carlyle
team, headed by Carlyle founder David Rubenstein, a former Carter
White House aide, to the city of Jeddah. They spent four hours on a
yacht cruising the Red Sea with Saudi business officials and then
attended a swank party at a private residence, again hobnobbing with
prominent Saudis." http://past.thenation.com/issue/000327/0327corn.shtml
....JK, 11/17 (Top)If you think US officials and power brokers couldn't/wouldn't slaughter innocents to advance their own private interests, then read this:US foreign policy has not changed since Vietnam and, potentially, it is more dangerous The other day,
an Indonesian friend took me to his primary school where,in October
1965, his teacher was beaten to death, suspected of being a communist.
The murder was typical of the slaughter of more than a million people:
teachers, students, civil servants, peasants. Described by the CIA as
"one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century", it
brought to power the dictator Suharto, the west's man. Within a year of
the bloodbath, Indonesia's economy was redesigned in America, giving
western capital access to vast mineral wealth, markets and cheap labour.
What has since emerged is evidence of the extent to which American
officials designed the bloodbath. More... More on bin Laden / CIA / Saudi connectionU.S. benevolence toward bin Laden continued almost up to Sept. 11. A few days ago Le Figaro reported that in July bin Laden underwent kidney treatment at an American hospital in Dubai. While there he met with a CIA agent. Bin Laden was treated by Dr. Terry Callaway, a specialist in kidney stones and male infertility. "During the hospital stay, the local CIA agent, known to many in Dubai, was seen taking the main elevator of the hospital to go to bin Laden’s hospital room," Le Figaro reports. "A few days later, the CIA man bragged to a few friends about having visited bin Laden." A couple of days after the publication of this story, the CIA agent was identified as Larry Mitchell. The CIA vehemently denies the allegation, as does the Dubai hospital, though not, so far as one can gather, Callaway. The story may be nonsense, but it is uncomfortably specific about names and dates. Moreover, Le Figaro can hardly be dismissed as a leftist anti-American rag. Last week, the BBC current affairs program Newsnight reported that, prior to Sept. 11, the FBI had been told to back off from investigating the terrorist connections of one of bin Laden’s relatives, Abdullah bin Laden. According to The Times of India, Abdullah was linked to "‘the Saudi-funded World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a suspected terrorist organization,’ whose accounts have still not been frozen by the US treasury ‘despite being banned by Pakistan some weeks ago and India claiming it was linked to an organization involved in bombing in Kashmir.’" The Guardian reports: "FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11." The FBI had investigated WAMY but closed its files in 1996 "before any conclusions could be reached." Given the extent and sordidness of the U.S. connection with bin Laden stretching back over 20 years, one would have thought a reexamination of U.S. foreign policy might be in order in light of Sept. 11. The U.S. had backed bin Laden because the Islamist and secessionist terrorism that he sponsored served to destabilize states and to bring them under U.S. control. Osama bin Laden was the price of empire.... More See also: Gaping
Holes in the 'CIA vs. bin Laden' Story
Reasons Why "White Collar Terrorists" & not bin Laden Are To Blame for "America's New War" and the Impending World War IIII submit the following article to you for your information.
I don't know what to think about it. It seems to sum up all of
the conspiracy theories I've heard to date. It's almost too bizarre,
but I think you should post it as part of your archiving
project. The less we're told by official sources, the more
we search the fringes for information that fills the gap between the
truth and the propaganda we are fed daily on TV and in the News.
....
Reasons Why "White Collar Terrorists"
& not bin Laden Are To Blame for "America's New
War" and the Impending World War III
1) The "terrorist" attacks were completely
predictable and, in fact, predicted. Forewarnings were issued by many
patriotic and heroic individuals to government and military officials
well in advance of Sept. 11, 2001. For instance, in August, Dr. Garth
Nicolson, Ph.D., and his wife Nancy Nicolson, Ph.D., among the world's
most esteemed Mycoplasma researchers and Gulf War Syndrome
investigators, reported to Pentagon officials that they had confirmed
intelligence that on Sept. 11, 2001 a terrorist strike against the
Pentagon would be made. Their sources included individuals in key
intelligence positions, the mob, and one high level African diplomat.
Their "information was passed on to the Director of Policy of the
Department of Defense, the Inspector General of the US Army Medical
Corps and the National Security Council," Dr. Nicolson wrote.
"Unfortunately, it was ignored."
Likewise, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, the award-winning
author of the prophetically titled book, "Death in the Air:
Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare," http://www.tetrahedron.org
; http://www.prophecyandpreparedness.com
) released three months before the attacks on Washington and New York,
correctly predicted such a first strike on New York. For three years,
based on government documents and intelligence reports, he had been
warning "Metropolis" residents, "It's time to
move."
2) On Friday, September 7, Florida Governor, Jeb Bush,
brother to the President, issued an Executive Order in which members
of the Florida National Guard were activated, "for the purpose of
training to support law- enforcement personnel and
emergency-management personnel in the event of civil disturbances or
natural disaster." Perhaps the president and his brother received
Dr. Nicolson's warnings or were the source of the warnings?
3) On Sunday night, September 17, 2001 CBS's
"60-Minutes" revealed that President Bush's close associates
had suddenly, and inexplicably, sold all their airline stock just days
before the terrorist attacks. The story was completely overlooked by
mainstream newspapers thereafter.
4) FEMA sent the Urban Search and Rescue Team to New York City THE NIGHT BEFORE the attacks occurred! One FEMA official, Mr. Tom Kennedy told Dan Rather on Sept 11, "We're currently one of the first teams that was deployed to support the City of New York in this disaster. We arrived on late Monday night [that is, on September 10, the NIGHT BEFORE] and went right into action on Tuesday morning." 5) Osama bin Laden and his band of "Terrorists" could not have pulled off the "sophisticated" operation of four simultaneous air hijackings, and precision directed attacks, without the support of one or more "intelligence organizations." This was the expert testimony provided by past CIA Afghanistan operations director and bin Laden's American intelligence aficionado, Milt Bearden, interviewed by Dan Rather on September 12, 2001. In fact, when pressed by Dan Rather to endorse the theory of bin Laden's culpability, Mr. Bearden stated, "if they didn't have an Osama bin Laden, they would invent one." 6) On October 31, 2001, the French daily "Le Figaro" reported that Osama bin Laden had met with a high-level CIA official in July 2000. At that time, bin Laden was already being sought for trial for his involvement in two U.S. embassy bombings and the U.S.S. Cole attack. The meeting was held in bin Laden's private suite in a Dubai hospital. Though he was eligible for elimination, according to President Bill Clinton's intelligence findings, on July 14th he was let go and left Dubai on his private jet. 7) Every expert in the field of terrorism, up until Sept. 11, 2001, routinely explained the fact that certified terrorist organizations operate in an effort to garner worldwide attention and support for their political cause (s). In the case of pro-Palestinian terrorist organizations, their attacks had been traditionally against American military facilities and personnel. This was obviously neither the intent nor outcome of the attacks on the World Trade Center. 8) For weeks preceding September 11, 2001 international opinion regarding Israel and the United States had plummeted to an all-time low. Alternatively, pro- Palestinian attitudes had rapidly increased to an all-time high, particularly following the United Nations Conference on Racism wherein the U.S. and Israel had been chastised for their racist policies. Any intelligent pro-Palestinian terrorist group, such as Osama bin Laden's legions, or intelligence organization(s) supportive to the Palestinian cause, would not have jeopardized the significant gains achieved at that time. 9) Osama bin Laden took his direction and money from the CIA for ten years. During this time, approximately $5 billion was funneled to his organization through black op budgets into CIA operation known as Maktab al-Khidamar-the MAK. It is clear, as a MAK mercenary army leader, bin Laden's fortune vastly increased during that time. It is said that, "Once in the CIA, always in the CIA." Could this be one of the intelligence organizations about which Milt Bearden was speaking? (See #5 above.) 10) On Tuesday evening September 12, 2001 previous Secretary of Defense for the Clinton administration, William S. Cohen, explained to CBS News anchorman Dan Rather, that the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were an aberration. He fully expected there to be a full-scale deployment of biological and chemical "weapons of mass destruction" very soon. This reinforced his earlier statements as Defense Secretary that a five-pound bag of anthrax bacteria in the hands of terrorists would likely cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. We were particularly vulnerable to this "immanent" threat, he said. Many critical military observers considered these statements treasonous. Reason? At no time in American military history has a top level official broadcast internationally the country's greatest attack vulnerability. In effect, his statements were akin to giving anti-Americans their marching orders. 11) A sincere U.S. Government, truly concerned about the health and safety of American citizens, would be doing everything in its power to advance public health and educational policies for biological and chemical attack preparedness. Instead, such critical policy and advice has been left entirely to independent, often ill- trained, "experts," at best, and special interests and media producers at worst. The mainstream media has completely neglected the simple things people can do to guard loved-ones, such as natural medicines (e.g.,garlic) to ward off infections such as anthrax.
12) In July 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) endorsed one
single largely untested and highly risky antibiotic, Bayer
Corporation's Cipro, for anthrax prophylaxis and treatment. Following
September 11, 2001 demand for this drug skyrocketed 1,000 percent,
according to Peter Jennings in an ABC News report broadcast September
27. Pharmacies charged $700 per person for a mere two-month supply of
Cipro. It is well established that far less expensive antibiotics,
including the penicillins and tetracyclines, are highly effective
against Anthrax. The Bayer Corporation during and following World War
II had been blacklisted by the U.S. Government for being the principle
profiteer, in partnership with the Rockefeller Standard Oil Company,
for funding the Third Reich, their terrorist organizations, and
Germany's war machine.
13) During the first week of October, the media heralded a bizarre
anthrax outbreak at the National Enquirer near Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida. By October 11, three cases of reported "criminal"
anthrax infections had occurred. This form of anthrax--a classic
biological weapon strain--is not easily acquired. It is distributed
mainly by the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) of Rockville,
Maryland. The curator there is Dr. Joshua Lederberg, who is also the
president of Rockefeller University. Preceding the Gulf War, the U.S.
Congressional Record (May 25, 1994, commonly called the "Don
Riegle Report") exposed the ATCC for shipping to Sadam Hussein's
Ministry of Higher Education and the Ministry of Trade, nineteen
shipments of various strains of Bacillus Anthraces from 1978 to 1988.
14) According to investigators at the FBI, the Enquirer anthrax attack
was not likely done by typical "terrorists," but rather one
or more "criminals." For what motive? Obviously, whoever did
this had a motive, and had access to weapons grade anthrax. That
virtually leaves typical blue-collar "criminals" out
entirely since skill in handling and shipping live anthrax would be
required for this crime. The fact that, of all places, America's
bestselling tabloid was first attacked, then other mainstream media
outlets, speaks volumes about the criminal motive. Since no one has
claimed responsibility for this act, they obviously did not do it for
personal publicity. Obviously, then, the attack was a white collar
crime by one or more "white collar bioterrorist(s)."
At least one Rockefeller-linked U.S. biological weapons official, Dr.
Lederberg, and Rockefeller-partnered Corporation, Bayer (aspirin) that
largely financed the Third Reich, and Hitler's rise to power, had
obvious white- collar (financial) motives for these contemporary
"terrorist" attacks. This deserves critical consideration
and further investigation.
15) On October 1, 2001, Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz sent the FBI, as well
as half the members of the U.S. Congress, an urgent request to
investigate this matter. (See: http://www.tetrahedron.org
"Apocalypse Prevention Project") Included in this letter was
the following statement concerning the links between contemporary
terrorist organizations, the global neo-Nazi movement, and possible
Bayer Corporation involvement:
The Bayer Company [also linked to AID-virus contaminated blood
products during 1980 investigations] evaded U.S. Government controls
during and following the holocaust in which millions of mostly Jewish
people were used as experimental subjects in medical atrocities
overseen by I.G. Farben's president Hermann Schmitz, who also
directed the German-multinational Bayer A.G.
Of urgent pertinence to the FBI's current investigation into
terrorism's money trail, a recent investigation into terrorist group
funding, issued by The Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee (OBIC)
directed by Representative Charles Key, found "Neo-Nazi figures
have actually been implicated in Middle Eastern special weapons
procurement and terrorist activity." For example, the group
reported, "since the 1960s, an old Swiss Nazi named Francois
Genaud has reportedly masterminded several airplane hijackings for the
PLO." The now defunct "Odessa" organization, the
post-war successor to Hitler's S.S., according to OBIC, "had
numerous documented meetings with representatives of various Arab
organizations; and, during the early 1980s, a Neo-Nazi named Odfried
Hepp attacked several U.S. military installations in Germany with
bombs. Hepp was later found to have been financed by Al Fatah."
Hepp, OBIC reported, did his Ph.D. on "Neo-Nazi/PLO bombings of
U.S. housing, cars and military facilities in Germany." Given
these facts alone, an FBI investigation into this matter is critical.
I am also contacting congressional leaders at this time urging an
immediate U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation into the
FDA's "advisory committee" that sponsored the unprecedented
sole endorsement of Bayer's Cipro for anthrax. Nowhere in the
Physician's Desk Reference (2000) is it claimed that Cipro is
especially indicated for anthrax. In fact, Bacillus anthracis is not
even mentioned. What is mentioned is that, "although effective in
clinical trials, ciprofloxacin is not a drug of first choice in the
treatment of presumed or confirmed pneumonia secondary to
Streptococcus pneumoniae." This organism, like anthrax, is an
aerobic gram-positive microbe. (Likewise, Bacillus anthracis causes
pneumonia in the form of commonly terminal hemorrhagic
bronchopneumonia.) Furthermore the PDR states: "WARNINGS- THE
SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CIPROFLOXACIN IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS AND
ADOLESCENTS (LESS THAN 18 YEARS OF AGE), PREGNANT WOMEN, AND LACTATING
WOMEN HAVE NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED." Alternatively, numerous
bioweapons experts have consistently recommended far less costly and
time- tested antibiotics to fight anthrax, including the natural and
synthetic penicillins, erythromycin, cephalosporins, and the
tetracyclines.
As with Dr. Nicolson's forewarning to military leaders concerning the
Sept 11 Pentagon attack, the above urgent request by Dr. Horowitz for
FBI investigation into this matter, to date (Nov. 5, 2001) has gone
ignored. This strongly suggests, if not evidences, a conspiracy within
our own government-a conspiracy of silence at minimum.
16) Aaron Swirski, one of the architects of the World Trade Center,
said they designed the towers to withstand airplane collisions.
"I designed it for a 707 hit, he said." The collapse
of the buildings came as a complete "shock" to him and his
colleagues.
Van Romero, a demolition expert, former director of the Energetic
Materials Research and Testing Center, and current vice present for
research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology said that
the manner in which the twin towers collapsed, resembled those of
controlled implosions used in planned demolition. "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," Romero said.
ABC News interviewed people who had escaped "ground zero" on
September 11, 2001. One unidentified man said: "We were stuck on
the stairs for a while. I came down from the 85th floor. When we were
just about to leave the building, there was a blast." A woman's
testimony followed: "I got stuck on the stairs. When we got to
the lobby there was a blast," she said.
17) On September 11, 2001 President Bush was is Sarasota, Florida,
"In Sarasota, Fla. "reading to children in a classroom at
9:05 a.m. when his chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispered into his
ear, according to the Associated Press (Sept. 12). The president
briefly turned somber before he resumed reading. . . .[Next] President
Bush listened to 18 Booker Elementary School second- graders read a
story about a girl's pet goat . . . before he spoke briefly and
somberly about the terrorist attacks." Many are curious as to why
the "Commander-in- Chief" of the U.S. took about a half-hour
before he responded to the national security urgency, or even
addressed the tragedies.
18) The New York Times reported on September 15, 2001 that Pentagon
officials had been tracking the second two hijacked planes for almost
an hour following the WTC attacks because they simply "didn't
know what to do." Regarding the plane that crashed into
Pennsylvania "Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, said
. . . that the Pentagon had been tracking that plane and could have
shot it down if necessary; it crashed about 35 minutes after the
Pentagon crash."
Many are wondering why, if they could have shot that plane down, did
they not shoot the plane down that flew into the Pentagon?
19) Vice President Dick Cheney was interviewed on Sept. 12, 2001. When
asked where he was when he learned of the attacks, many were surprised
to learn that he was alerted by his secretary who was "watching
television" in his Washington, D.C. office. In essence, though
the FAA had known at least four planes were veering far off their
course, while the Pentagon, too, had been tracking at least two of the
hijacked planes, Mr. Cheney received his initial intelligence report
by way of television through his clerical secretary.
20) "Drugs and terrorism go hand in hand," wrote
investigative journalist and retired LAPD officer Michael C. Ruppert
(http://www.copvcia.com) "Conveniently ignored in all of the
press coverage since the tragic events of Sept. 11," Mr. Ruppert
wrote, "is the fact that on May 17 Secretary of State Colin
Powell announced a gift of $43 million to the Taliban as a purported
reward for its eradication of Afghanistan's opium crop this February.
That, in effect, made the U.S. the Taliban's largest financial
benefactor according to syndicated columnist Robert Scheer writing in
The Los Angeles Times on May 22."
21) "Now as US military action will replace the Taliban
government and fresh crops will be planted in Afghanistan," Mr.
Ruppert continued, "the slack in cash flow will assuredly be
replaced by dramatically increased opium production in Colombia; the
revenues from that effort being needed to maintain the revenue streams
into Wall Street. Prior to the WTC attacks, credible sources,
including the U.S. government, the IMF, Le Monde and the U.S. Senate
placed the amount of drug cash flowing into Wall Street and U.S. banks
at around $250-$300 billion a year."
22) Mr. Ruppert also revealed that an Executive Director at the
CIA named A. "Buzzy" Krongard is suspected of Wall Street
profiteering from foreknowledge of the Sept 11 attacks. Formerly with
Bankers Trust catering to the world's wealthiest clients of the
Deutsch Bank. (The Deutsche Bank is heavily implicated in Dr.
Len Horowitz's book Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism, and Toxic
Warfare released in June, 2001) In 1999, Mr. Krongard left Deutsch
Bank for his present high-level job in the CIA. Enormous quantities of
"Put" options were handled through the Deutsche Bank, which
allowed the options buyers to earn profits in the event the value of
airline stocks went down. The appearance of advance knowledge of
Sept. 11 is so strong that to date
$2.5 Million of the $20 Million in profits earned on those unusual
trades, remains unclaimed, possibly by Mr. Krongard, or other
affiliates of the CIA.
23) Many journalists have reported that the bombing of Afghanistan,
allegedly intended to punish the Taliban for affiliations with Bin
Laden, is simply a cover for that government's reneging of support for
an oil pipeline through Afghanistan from the vast Caspian Sea oil
fields. Sept. 11, provided a great excuse to pursue this
petrochemical, economic, and "national security" objective.
24) On December 20, 1997, the national newspaper CONTACT: The Phoenix
Project, published an interview on anthrax biowarfare threats and
vaccinations in which Dr. Leonard Horowitz was asked "about the
government's pressure to vaccinate [using the anthrax vaccine] and the
bioweapons scare tactics, etc." He responded: "Look at the
motive behind the persuasion, and what is it? They're preparing to
blame it on the Muslims, Christian patriots, and militia groups. The
militia groups are already dysfunctional because they're penetrated by
agitators."
This is precisely what followed in the wake of the 9-11 attacks.
Muslim groups were blamed for the 9-11 attacks. Christian patriots
were blamed for the anthrax mailings. Militia groups were entirely
silenced and even implicated. And false patriotism in which Americans
welcome the destruction of basic constitutional liberties with CIA
command over the entire U.S. military and Government has come to pass.
25) On October 31, 2001 the American people and U.S. Constitutional
freedoms were attacked, not by the Taliban government or Muslim
terrorists, but by CDC officials who advanced the "Model State
Emergency Health Powers Act" that will force masses of people
suspected of exposure to broadly-defined "infectious
diseases" and biological weapons into concentration camp-like
holding facilities for drugging, vaccination, and quarantine, without
any viable legal recourse.
26) The entire 9-11 tragedy and subsequent threats to U.S. national
and global securities fits far too perfectly with standard
Machiavellian theory to be overlooked. This ongoing practice-the
"problem/reaction/solution" agenda of precisely
"managed chaos"-appears to be standard operating procedures
for oligarchs historically bend on developing a "New World
Order." Sadly now for the American people, as it has been for the
Third World, this effort includes killing approximately half of the
world's current population.
For more information, review the following websites:
Cover-up or Complicity of the Bush Administration?The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) in the September 11 Attacks
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Pakistan's chief spy Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad "was in the US
when the attacks occurred." He arrived in the US on the 4th of
September, a full week before the attacks. He had meetings at the
State Department "after" the attacks on the WTC. But he also
had "a regular visit of consultations" with his US
counterparts at the CIA and the Pentagon during the week prior to
September 11.
What was the nature of these routine "pre-September 11 consultations"? Were they in any way related to the subsequent "post-September 11 consultations" pertaining to Pakistan's decision to cooperate with Washington. Was the planning of war being discussed between Pakistani and US officials? On the 9th of September while General Ahmad was in the US, the leader of the Northern Alliance Commander Ahmad Shah Masood was assassinated. The Northern Alliance had informed the Bush Administration that the ISI was allegedly implicated in the assassination. The Bush Administration consciously took the decision in "the post September 11 consultations" with Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad to directly "cooperate" with Pakistan's military intelligence (ISI) despite its links to Osama bin Laden and the Taliban and its alleged role in the assassination of Commander Masood, which coincidentally occurred two days before the terrorist attacks. Meanwhile, senior Pentagon and State Department officials had been rushed to Islamabad to put the finishing touches on America's war plans. And on the Sunday prior to the onslaught of the bombing of major cities in Afghanistan (October 7th), Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad was sacked from his position as head of the ISI in what was described as a routine "reshuffling." In the days following General Ahmad's dismissal, a report published in the Times of India, revealed the links between Pakistan's Chief spy Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad and the presumed "ring leader" of the WTC attacks Mohamed Atta. The Times of India article was based on an official intelligence report of the Delhi government that had been transmitted through official channels to Washington. Quoting an Indian government source Agence France Press (AFP) confirms in this regard that: "The evidence we [the Government of India] have supplied to the US is of a much wider range and depth than just one piece of paper linking a rogue general to some misplaced act of terrorism." The revelation of the Times of India article has several implications. The Indian intelligence report not only points to the links between ISI Chief General Ahmad and terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta, it also indicates that other ISI officials might have had contacts with the terrorists. Moreover, it suggests that the September 11 attacks were not an act of "individual terrorism" organised by a separate Al Qaeda cell, but rather they were part of coordinated military-intelligence operation, emanating from Pakistan's ISI. The Times of India report also sheds light on the nature of General Ahmad's "business activities" in the US during the week prior to September 11, raising the distinct possibility of ISI contacts with Mohamed Atta in the US "prior" to the attacks on the WTC, precisely at the time when General Mahmoud and his delegation were on a so-called "regular visit of consultations" with US officials. In assessing the alleged links between the terrorists and the ISI, it should be understood that Lt. General Ahmad as head of the ISI was a "US approved appointee". As head of the ISI since 1999, he was in liaison with his US counterparts in the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Pentagon. Also bear in mind that Pakistan's ISI remained throughout the entire post Cold War era until the present, the launch-pad for CIA covert operations in the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Balkans The existence of an "ISI-Osama-Taliban axis" was a matter of public record. The links between the ISI and agencies of the US government including the CIA are also a matter of public record. The Bush Administration was fully cognizant of Lt. General Ahmad's role. In other words, rather than waging a campaign against international terrorism, the evidence would suggest that it is indirectly abetting international terrorism, using the Pakistani ISI as a "go-between". The Bush Administration's links with Pakistan's ISI --including its "consultations" with General Ahmad in the week prior to September 11-- raise the issue of "complicity". While Ahmad was talking to US officials at the CIA and the Pentagon, ISI officials were allegedly also in contact with the September 11 terrorists. In other words, according to the Indian government intelligence report, the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks had links to Pakistan's ISI, which in turn has links to agencies of the US government. What this suggests is that key individuals within the US military-intelligence establishment might have known about the ISI contacts with the September 11 terrorist "ring-leader" Mohamed Atta and failed to act. Whether this amounts to the complicity of the Bush Administration remains to be firmly established. The least one can expect at this stage is an inquiry. What is crystal clear, however, is that this war is not a "campaign against international terrorism". It is a war of conquest with devastating consequences for the future of humanity. And the American people have been consciously and deliberately misled by their government. Whether this amounts to the complicity of the Bush Administration remains to be firmly established. And the American people have been consciously and deliberately misled by their government. Ultimately the truth must prevail. The falsehoods behind America's war against the people of Afghanistan must be unveiled. .... BernieW,11/7/01 (Top)IF CIA AND THE GOVERNMENT WEREN’’T INVOLVED IN THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS WHAT WERE THEY DOING?Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away by Michael C. Ruppert FTW, November 2, 2001 –– 1200 PST -- On October 31, the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official - presumably the Chief of Station. The meeting, held in bin Laden’’s private suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U.S. embassies and this year’’s attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden was eligible for execution according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton before leaving office in January. Yet on July 14th he was allowed to leave Dubai on a private jet and there were no Navy fighters waiting to force him down. It gets worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing crucial events both before and after the September 11th suicide attacks, which have been blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in their execution. It also makes clear that the events which have taken place since September 11th are based upon an agenda that has little to do with the attacks. One wonders how these events could have been ignored by the major media or treated as isolated incidents. Failing that, how could skilled news agencies avoid being outraged, or at least even just a little suspicious?
Now, let’’s go back to the October 31 story by Le Figaro –– the one that has Osama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai this June. The story says that, ""Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama Bin Laden received visits from many family members [There goes the story that he’’s a black sheep!] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of status. During this time the local representative of the CIA was seen by many people taking the elevator and going to bin Laden’’s room. ""Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends about having visited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources, this CIA agent visited CIA headquarters on July 15tth, the day after bin Laden’’s departure for Quetta…… ""According to various Arab diplomatic sources and French intelligence itself, precise information was communicated to the CIA concerning terrorist attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including its own territory.""…… ""Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence officers in a meeting with French intelligence officers] requested from their French peers exact details about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Laden through Dubai banking institutions], without explaining the exact nature of their inquiry. When asked the question, ""What do you fear in the coming days?’’ the Americans responded with incomprehensible silence.""…… ""On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that had been put together between the CIA and its ""Islamic friends"" over the years. The meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with ‘‘a certain American policy.’’"" Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with hospital staff that bin Laden had been there as reported, stories printed on November 1 contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports were untrue. On November 1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the CIA flatly denied that any meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin Laden at any time. In the most ironic twist of all, FTW has learned that Le Figaro is owned by the Carlyle Group, the American defense contractor which employs George Bush Sr., and which had as investors –– until they sold their stake on October 26 - the bin Laden family. Who do you believe? In coming stories FTW will prove to you that this war, which according to Dick Cheney, may not end in out lifetimes, has been in the works for at least four years. Mike Ruppert [©© COPYRIGHT 2001, All Rights Reserved, Michael C.
Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com.
May be copied and distributed for non-profit purposes only.] (Top)The Pentagon has hired a PR firm to spin the war"The Pentagon has hired a PR firm to spin the war... Rendon Group,the firm in question, previously was used by the CIA to write good
things about the Iraqui rebels. According to Con Vaitas, when Kuwait
was overrun by the Iraquis back in 1990, another such firm was hired
by Poppy Bush, which enabled him to tell us more than once that 'a
young Kuwaiti girl got up in Congress and gave a tearful report of
seeing Saddam's goons throwing babies out of humidicribs [Whatever
those are.] so they could take the equipment back to Iraq.' Con
Vaitsas went on to report that 'it was later discovered that she was
the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador and hadn't been anywhere near
Kuwait at the time. It was made up with the assistance of an American
public relations company.' If Con Vaitsas is correct, let's hope
Bush, Jr.'s Pentagon PR firm turns out to be a bit more
trustworthy."
The CIA's Wall Street connectionsFAULKNER: On September 29, The San Francisco Chronicle reported that
investors had yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made
trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept 11
terrorist attacks. The uncollected money raises suspicions that the
unidentified investors had advance knowledge of the attacks. The
securities and exchange commission is investigating high levels of short
sales and purchases of "put" options, on the stocks of United
Airlines and American Airlines in the three business days before the
attacks. Short sales and put options are bets that a stock will fall in
price. Why Not A Real War On Terrorism?"Would that there were, in fact, a strong fight being made against terrorism, against fundamentalist theocracies, against all the cynical leaders who murder innocent people to achieve their aims. Would that the result in Afghanistan showed any likelihood of being a more just and decent government, supported by international aid to provide education, medical care, and a decent standard of living. Would that this effort would expand into a worldwide commitment to avoid targeting civilian populations, and to bring those who do so to justice. Unfortunately, nothing of that sort is even being proposed by the people leading this war." So writes Elijah Wald in TomPaine.com. http://tompaine.com/history/2001/10/12/index.html Is Iraq Behind The Anthrax Outbreaks? Or Is This A Pretext For Gulf War II?"American investigators probing anthrax outbreaks in Florida and New York…have named Iraq as prime suspect as the source of the deadly spores. Their inquiries are adding to what US hawks say is a growing mass of evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved, possibly indirectly, with the 11 September hijackers. If investigators' fears are confirmed - and sceptics fear American hawks could be publicising the claim to press their case for strikes against Iraq - the pressure now building among senior Pentagon and White House officials in Washington for an attack may become irresistible...The hawks winning the ear of President Bush is assembled around Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, and a think tank, the Defence Policy Advisory Board, dubbed the 'Wolfowitz cabal'." Contrary to earlier reports by CNN, "in America a letter sent from Malaysia to a Microsoft office [in Reno, Nevada] was found to contain traces of anthrax." http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story al Group Blasts
Papa Shrub on Bin Laden Link
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