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HARD FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT 9-11








By: Devvy

May 3, 2004

NewsWithViews.com

Millions of words have been written about the attacks on 9-11. There are hundreds of web sites claiming to have the truth about that awful day. The majority seem to be filled with screeching - meaning all the words are in caps and too many shrilly declare "It's the Jews," followed by no less than 20 exclamation points.

The cause of truth is never served by these types of web sites. Quite simply, they are a "turn off" for those of us seeking facts instead of redundant and vituperative thrashings. The Masters of the Game orchestrating global events are the Russian, Chinese and U.S. Communitarian Ruling Classes in pursuit of world domination and to establish communism world wide. People need to separate the bigotry from well documented facts. There are some thoughtful, well presented web sites that have brought forward important, credible facts about that fateful day, i.e. www.fromthewilderness.com

Since 9-11, so many decent, sincere Americans have been trying to sort through the lies, disinformation and outright blarney in an attempt to get answers that our Republic, survivors and families of those murdered that day absolutely deserve. Catherine Austin Fitts, Former Assistant Secretary of Housing under Bush I, recently wrote Condelezza Rice a scathing letter in which Ms. Fitts points out glaring lies regarding Ms. Rice's sworn testimony April 8, 2004 before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Ms. Fitts has no personal or political agenda. She wants what we all want: the truth and to never see another 9-11 on U.S. soil.

Another dedicated and fearless researcher/activist is Patrick Briley. I first came in contact with Pat soon after the slaughter in OKC on April 19, 1995. I found Pat to be intelligent, sincere and dedicated to finding out the truth about who planned and executed the murder of 168 Americans in OKC. His intense research has connected OKC and 9-11 in an understandable manner. Furthermore, this fine man has no political agenda whatsoever. He seeks only the truth and prevention of any more acts of terror on U.S. soil.

For the sake of a little background, Pat has a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering with graduate level course work in nuclear engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois and the Bettis Atomic Power Lab Nuclear Reactor engineering school near Pittsburgh. He was a staff project engineer for Admiral Rickover at Naval Reactors near DC for the design and construction of the nuclear power plant for the Trident (Ohio class) ballistic missile submarine. Additionally, Pat worked with a former Pentagon terrorism advisor and briefed legal counsels for committees of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Intelligence committees on the OKC bombing. He has personally discussed his findings on OKC and 9/11 with the assistant Chief of Staff for the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, as well as a member of the 9/11 Commission staff, Mr. John Roth.

Pat's father worked for Army intelligence and the IG (Inspector General) of the Army. He was in the first graduating class of the OK state Highway patrol and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His grandparents belonged to the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution; Pat is related to Presidents Polk, Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington.



Pat Briley is not some arm chair conspiracy quarterback. Pat hasn't just written letters, he has had extraordinary contact with key players in both the OKC cover-up and the 9-11 investigations. He has dedicated his life to finding all the pieces to the puzzle in order to see those responsible for these heinous acts are punished under the full extent of the law. He and his wife have suffered great hardships and personal peril for his work.

None but the brave

According to Pat, "My wife was told on the morning of the OKC bombing by the wives of two prominent OKC FBI agents (Dan Vogel and John Hersley) that the FBI expected the OKC bombing and that FBI agents were told to stay out of the Murrah building on April 19, 1995 even though 3-4 FBI agents were normally at the building at 9 am sharp and sometimes dropped off children at the Day Care center there, near the time the OKC bombing actually occurred, 9:01-9:02 am. My wife has been threatened with loss of employment several times over a seven year period if she were to go public with her story by several people directly connected to the FBI and we have been told that the FBI agents wives lied to the FBI about what they had told my wife in order to protect their husbands careers. I became involved in the OKC bombing investigation as a result of the bad treatment given my wife over a 7 year period."

Pat recently contacted me about his work on 9-11 and connections to OKC. As I have a great deal of respect for this man, I listened and was greatly disturbed by what his research has uncovered. The single reason Pat contacted me was to solicit my assistance in seeing his research gets wide distribution in an effort to save lives. We are both of the opinion that it's just a matter of time before there will be multiple attacks on soft targets within these united States of America.

It is important for the shadow government to continue to instill fear in the American people so they will continue forfeiting their God-given rights for a false sense of security. As was recently reported, Mr. Bush and his messengers have been all over the country trying to stop the hemorrhaging by cities, counties and states over the Patriot Act. With such massive opposition to Patriot I, things are not going as planned for the global masters in their pursuit to get Patriot II passed and signed into law. Drastic measures usually follow set backs.

As the findings on 9-11 from serious researchers is beginning to resemble a giant mountain, I asked Pat if he could provide me with something manageable that would drive home the point to the American people that there was enough warning that this government could have prevented the attacks, what warnings they ignored and the considerable danger still within our borders.

We have taken some of Pat's key documents and put them into a pdf file for you. These are hard facts with names, dates and places. Simply put: This is information that you won't see on Hannity & Colmes, FOX News, CNN or your local nightly news. The second piece in this pdf file is titled 'Antecedents' which was formally transmitted to, received by and discussed with the 9-11 Commission Staff with the full knowledge of House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office. I have been provided with the proof that Hastert's office received and discussed this report.

It is imperative to get this information to local law enforcement, family friends and colleagues. The FBI knows where these sleeper terrorist cells are operating in these united States, but there is no guarantee they will move to stop them before they strike again as evidenced by the FBI's refusal to act prior to 9-11.

As has been pointed out in previous articles by this writer, there is far more to 9-11 than just religious hatred. One has to look behind the horse and pony show being paraded in front of the American people. Law enforcement from our rural towns to the large metropolitan cities must be made aware of this factual information and the only way they're going to get it is for you to make it available to them whether individually or as a group. If you can't do it personally, print out this pdf file, compose a short, precise cover letter and send it to your county Sheriff and members of your state legislature.

We need to get this done because no one knows exactly where we will be hit next, it's just a matter of when. Everyone, including law enforcement should have as much background information on this cover up as possible. Don't presume your city or town is safe. Less than one month after 9-11, I discovered quite accidentally that a woman living here in Sacramento probably lived in the apartment next door to a terrorist cell.

This woman's neighboring apartment housed three young middle Eastern men who had no furniture, but a casual look into the front door of their apartment revealed stacks of papers, a few chairs and lots of duffle bags. They occupied this apartment for less than six months. Those three men left that apartment on September 11, 2001 have not been seen since. I forced the issue of this woman going to the FBI to make a statement when I found out the details. As it turns out, in one of Pat's reports, I discovered that FBI agents here in Sacramento used Egyptian Ali Mohammed as an informant from 1992 until 1996 while Ali Mohammed participated in AlQaeda operations around the world.

Stay vigilant. Stay alert. Stay alive.

© 2004 Devvy Kidd - All Rights Reserved

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8/10/2005 8:11:00 AM GMT


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Halliburton, the scandal-plagued oil company, that Vice President Dick Cheney used to run, sold an Iranian company key components for a nuclear reactor, Halliburton sources revealed.

Cheney was CEO from 1995 to 2000, during which Halliburton Products and Services set up shop in Iran.

Halliburton, which sells about $40 million a year worth of oil field services to the Iranian Government, was secretly aiding one of Iran’s top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and provided the official's oil development company with the components last April, the sources said.

FARS, one of Iran's many state controlled news agencies reported last month the arrest of several executives of the Oriental Oil Kish Company, which is owned by sons and other relatives of the defeated mullah presidential candidate Hashemi Rafsanjani, saying that the men were involved in widespread corruption of Iran's oil industry, specifically tied to the country's business dealings with Halliburton.

According to a report posted on the Iran Press News website: "They were brought up on charges of economic corruption". “Following the necessary investigations by the judiciary's bailiffs, with warrants from the public prosecutor's office, the case of economic corruption and malfeasance, certain of the authorities of Oriental Kish Oil Company have been arrested and under questioning. The head of the board of directors was also among those detained.”

Halliburton, with a history of violations of U.S. law by conducting business with countries the Bush administration claims are supporting “terrorism”, was working with Cyrus Nasseri, vice chairman of the board of directors of Oriental Oil Kish, on oil and natural gas development projects in Tehran, registered in the United Kingdom and Dubai. Nasseri, a key member of Iran’s nuclear development team, participated in Iran’s nuclear negotiating with the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

According to a report published by the Financial Times: “Nasseri, a senior Iranian diplomat negotiating with Europe over Iran's nuclear program, is at the heart of deals with U.S. energy companies to develop the country's oil industry”.

“A reliable source stated that, given the parameters, the close-knit cooperation and association of one of the key members of the regime's nuclear negotiation team with Halliburton can be an alarm bell which will necessarily instigate the dynamics of the members of the regimes' negotiating committee,” according to the Iran Press News story.

In late July, Nasseri was questioned for passing Iran’s nuclear secrets to Halliburton and receiving $1 million in bribes from the company, Iranian government officials said.

According to Iran Press News, a huge network of oil mafia was uncovered during investigations.

Halliburton sources revealed that the company sold Iran centrifuges and detonators to be used specifically for a nuclear reactor as well oil and natural gas drilling parts for well projects to Oriental Oil Kish.

Halliburton’s business with Oriental Oil Kish first surfaced in January, when the Iranian company said that it gave some contracts of the South Pars natural gas drilling project to Halliburton Products and Services, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Halliburton.

Later on, Halliburton said the South Pars gas field project in Iran will be the its last project in the country, “due to a poor business environment,” according to BBC.

In May and under mounting pressure from lawmakers in Washington, Halliburton decided to end its deals with Nasseri, but continued acting as an advisory capacity to his company.

Currently, the U.S. law doesn’t prohibit foreign subsidiaries from having business with what President Bush calls “rouge” nations as long as the subsidiaries are truly independent of the mother company.

But Halliburton’s Cayman Island subsidiary never did fit that description.

According to a February 2001 report in the Wall Street Journal, “Halliburton Products & Services Ltd. works behind an unmarked door on the ninth floor of a new north Tehran tower block. A brochure declares that the company was registered in 1975 in the Cayman Islands, is based in the Persian Gulf sheikdom of Dubai and is non-American. But, like the sign over the receptionist's head, the brochure bears the company's name and red emblem, and offers services from Halliburton units around the world.”

From Sherman Skolnick:THE POPE'S BANKS IN AMERICA,
THE GIANNINI FAMILY,
and THE AMERICAN CIA--PART ONE
by Sherman H. Skolnick


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The Pope has had at least three banks in America.

What later was called the Continental Bank of Chicago, was founded in Chicago under different names prior to the American Civil War. About the same time as the setting up in 1857 of the Chicago Board of Trade with which the Continental became interwoven. Their transactions were so incestuous,,, how could one tell one from another? Early in its highly corrupt history, the Board of Trade was [and some say, still is] such a gambling hell, that Western Union Telegraph once cut off its wire there, refusing them services.

From early on, the Bank as well as the Board of Trade were supervised by the British and French Rothschilds, jointly with the Pope and the Papal States. And from early on, representatives of both the Vatican and the British monarchy sat on the Board of Continental. Few understand enough about all this to easily conceive of the Pope and the Queeen, together. In the public mind, at best, these are forces of friction.

Traditionally, members of the CBOT were those of the Irish Catholic and some few of the Jewish aristocracy, not your everyday ethnic and religious folk. As strange as it may seem to ousiders, this raucous gang was fully acceptable to and allowed themselves to be supervised by the representatives of the British royal house together with the Vatican.

From the onset, the Rothschilds were instrumental in the grain trading. To those who know a lot about the bloody conflict, called the Civil War in the North and the War Between the States in the South, President Abraham Lincoln's proposed post-war policies were bound to cause problems. The 16th President proposed to bind up the wounds of the Nation and not to be further destructive of the rebellious, now vanquished South. That policy would have permitted the South to as quickly as possible resume production of commodities, such as cotton. But, the Rothschilds, however, had in place speculations, in Chicago and New York, by which they would greatly profit if production would NOT soon resume and cotton prices were high or went higher.

The largest importer of U.S. cotton had been England for monopolistic textile production. And some contend the Civil War was fomented by Great Britain itching to take back the American continent as a British puppet colony,having failed to do so by the War of 1812. States' rights and the slavery issues, some say, were simply a gut-wrenching financial and emotional excuse to smash up the united federal republic.

Secretly involved in the Rothschild speculations to profit from high prices, post-war, were key members of the U.S. Congress. As part of this cabal, the head of what is now called the U.S. Secret Service, Lafayette C. Baker, plotted to create a security vacuum [like later in Dallas, 1963]. at some event where a convenient Southern assassin would be permitted to blow out the brains of Lincoln, the party-spoiler [or John F. Kennedy, who stepped in the face of the Oil Cartel].

To set an example, understood by some, Lincoln was assasssinated on highly Catholic religious Good Friday, a few days after the War ended. A key assassination player fled, and took up refuge in the Vatican. Rothschild agent, August Belmont, and his conspiratorial ring, their speculative positions secured, prospered greatly. Lincoln's surviving son Todd somehow fell in with his father's financial enemies. Very late in life, Todd said as to the papers he had assembled, that if the papers had been known, and revealed earlier, press and railroad owners, those who claimed to be Lincoln's friends, would all have been hung, for they plotted the President's demise. The documents showed how the Continental Bank had handled the finances for the political assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Todd reportedly burned the documents. [Not all of them.]

Amidst the growing bank collapses of the Great Depression, in 1931, the Federal Government through a massive loan, bailed out failing Continental Bank. This was also abou the time that Italian strongman Benito Mussolini bailed out the money-starved Vatican. The events, to some, are related. Thereafter, beholden to the central government, Continental became a convenient link to espionage. Continental allowed its facilities to be used to disguise government paid provocateurs and con-men used to manipulate public opinion. [Resulting in a little known federal court case against Continental in the 1970s. We have the file.

In 1984, again sinking, Continental had some some of its principal owners jump ship about six weeks before its plight become more known. As major owners of its parent holding company, the Vatican and the Queen of England sold THEIR shares before the market price went to almost zero. [I was the first to publicly correctly estimate the run on Continental as 20 billion dollars of flight capital.] A major owner of the bank itself, Walter J. Cummings, Jr., prevented hungry litigators from deluging the federal courts with damage suits against the Bank. Cummings was Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, one step below the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court in Washington hearing very few cases, Cummings' Court was, in effect, the end of the line for most federal litigation from Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, the 7th Federal Circuit. Off the record, Chief Judge Cummings threatened reprisals against lawyers if they brought a flood of damage suits against his Bank.

After all, Judge Cummings was a "man of trust" for the Vatican, safeguarding their interests in his Bank and in his Court. He did NOT disqualify in related litigation. Guess who won in his crooked Court?

Another financial enterprise of the Pope in the U.S. is Bank of America. They have done a fairly good jon to conceal the Vatican ownership. They paid for a puff piece book, called, "Biography of A Bank- The Story of Bank of America N.T. and S.A." by Marquis James and Bessie Rowland James. Published 1954 by Harper & Brothers, and more or less the standard reference work on the bank's history.

They would have you believe that Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association was at the time of the book "the largest bank in the world". Bank mergers now occurring so rapidly, it is hard to say which is NOW the world's largest Bank. They would further have you believe that this money ship, up to 1930 called Bank of Italy, was founded by Amadeo Peter Giannini. And that the Bank was able to spread out all over the world because Giannini was so nice in helping people following the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. They were kept out of being a New York money center bank by the agent and front for the British Monarchy, J.P.Morgan & Company.

By way of that book and the publicity flacks that followed over the years, Bank of America is supposedly owned principally by numerous of their small account holders. A fairy tale supreme. By the 1970s, Bank America, the holding company, was owned principally by the Vatican and the Jesuits, the Pope's clever army who occassionally see fit to rebuff the Pontiff. In the 1970s, the ownership broadened out to include the French Rothschilds, wrongly identified by know-nothings as "Jewish bankers", actually very Pro-Vatican into many joint finances not exactly compatible with ordinary Jews or the State of Israel.

By the early 1990s, Bank America stock was steadily declining. More numerous than the traditional Italian and Sicilian mafia, the Japanese underworld, the Yakuza, bought their way into Bank America, becoming a major joint owner. The Yakuza now owns most every bank headquartered in California. The book "Yakuza" by Dubro and Kaplan, tells a lot about the Japanese mafia. In Osaka, Japan, the Yakuza is actually an adjunct of the local police. According to a discussion by the authors on a radio program, more than half of the new buildings built downtown Chicago in the 1980s are owned by the Yakuza. Later in the 1990s, Bank of America and the Giannini family merged their interests publicly with Continental Bank, although the Chicago-based and San Francisco-based money ships had been more or less joined at the hip privately long before that. The office buildings in which are also housed the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, are reportedly bankrupt because of low occupancy but owned reportedly by the Yakuza.

[Some contend O.J. Simpson was framed up for the two murders because of financial problems developed in enterprises in California he once greatly owned but given, in part, to his ex-wife, Nicole, part of the divorce. Those businesses reportedly were money laundries for the dope traffic controlled by the Yakuza in murderous competition with the Mexican dope gang, the Herreras. OJ once reported to the police that strange orientals were trying to kill him.]

On behalf of the Pope, the Giannini family has operated in the Chicago-area a so-far low-key operation called First National Bank of Cicero. Historically, Cicero has been the mafia enclave adjunct to Chicago's old West Side. A dominant force in with the Gianninis and that Bank has been Bishop Paul Marcinkus, originally running aa Catholic Church in Cicero. Marcinkus went on to become head of the Institute of Religious Works [IOR] commonly called the Vatican Bank. Marcinkus fled the Vatican and took up refuge in Chicago, late in 1991.

Shortly after Marcinkus returned to Chicago, a purported asset for Israeli intelligence, the Mossad, in December, 1991, was found murdered, mafia-style, not far from the First National Bank of Cicero. A U.S. Bankruptcy Court auctioneer who corruptly skimmed off funds from Bankrupt Estates to contribute to Israel, Wallace Lieberman tried to shake down the Giannini family, their bank in Cicero, and related others, threatening to expose their role in the corrupt traffic in illicit gold, arms, radioactive materials, and such; that they acted jointly with the American CIA, the traditional Italian and Sicilian mafia, and Bank of America.

The murder of Lieberman was announced in the heavily pro-Vatican and pro-British monarchy Chicago Tribune, in their edition for Christmas Day, 1991, an ironic twist not lost on everyone. Shortly thereafter, Lieberman's son, Barry, was framed up on U.S. treason charges. Barry Lieberman was supposedly caught in the process of supposedly selling to the State of Israel, certain stolen top U.S. military electronic counter-measure radar secret equipment. Actually, equipment abandoned by U.S. forces in the Iraqi and Saudi desert after the short Persian Gulf War.

With the help of Marcinkus and the Giannini family, an Illinois State Senator, Judy Baar Topinka, from the Berwyn-Cicero area, was elected in 1994, as Illinois Treasurer. On our TV Show in October of that year, she praised the First National Bank of Cicero and former Vatican Bank Chief Marcinkus who she said she knew. She had previously, in some capacity or another, acted as public relations flack for the bank in Cicero. Topinka was re-elected in 1998. So,the former Vatican Bank crooked helped install the woman who is in charge of all the State money of Illinois.

After leaving Chicago, sometime after 1991, Marcinkus took up residence in Sun City, Arizona. Italian authorities have tried repeatedly, to no avail, to force the U.S. to send Marcinkus back to Italy for prosecution for crimes implicating him and the Vatican Bank, the American CIA, and the traditional mafia, in assassination financing, arms smuggling, and illegal trafficking in stolen gold, counterfeit currencies, stolen bond, and radioactive materials. Marcinkus fought off all such attempts to send him back to Italy, by sheltering himself in his Vatican passport, the Vatican, after all, being a separate sovereignty from the Republic of Italy.

Briefly surfacing in December, 1995, was a related scandal. A retired agent of the American CIA, living in Italy with dual U.S.-Italian citizenship, was arrested by the Italian police. Roger D'Onofrio was charged with being implicated with at least ten others in illegal trafficking in stolen gold, stolen bonds, exceptionally good quality counterfeit currencies destabilizing the economies of various countries, and trafficking in osmium nuclear bomb detonators and other radioactive materials. Reportedly implicated with D'Onofrio were a ring that included the former Vatican Bank Chief Paul Marcinkus, the Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain, and the First National Bank of Cicero. Earlier, D'Onofrio had been described by a witness as the CIA's paymaster with the task of making secret payments to CIA assets and business partners.

Other witnesses reportedly contend that D'Onofrio's team were the ones reportedly arranging to poison Pope John Paul 1st who was murdered after only 33 days in office. That Pontiff wanted to stop the Vatican Bank and Marcinkus from dirty business with the American CIA and the traditional mafia.

No coincidence. After Marcinkus returned to Chicago late in 1991, set up in Chicago about the same time was the North American office of the super-secret Catholic organization, Opus Dei. This was done reportedly with the aid of the Archbishop of Milan, Italy.

In August, 1995, we did a taped TV Show, partly on-location, right near the First National Bank of Cicero, pointing out their criminal enterprises with Marcinkus, Topinka, and a confidant of that Bank, John Tarullo who lived nearby. Tarullo was once a member of the London Gold Pool and arranged clandestine shipments of stolen gold for the American CIA and the traditional mafia, as well as other criminal cartels. He was closely aligned with the Archbishop of Milan and, some say, also the Archbishop of Barcelona. [Note: Wallace Lieberman's body was found betweeen the bank and the not faraway residence of Tarullo.] Tarullo was murdered on the day our TV Show was cablecast.

The Vatican has a major interest in a world-wide chain of Hotels and Motels called Ramada. A member of the Giannini family, Steven Belmonte [his mother is a Giannini], has been a top operating official of the chain. According to persistent off the record reports by very well informed law enforcement, Ramada reportedly is in some way implicated in vast money laundering of illicit funds, smuggled gold, and proceeds from the dope and arms traffic. Or, at the very minimum, traffickers and money launders of the same somehow find it convenient if not safe and secure, to meet at various Ramada locations. Why?

Since about 1983, there have been a series of state and federal lawsuits by Joseph Andreuccetti, a Chicago-area caulking contractor. He has contended that First National Bank of Cicero, in combination with other banks and savings & loans, misappropriated tens of millions of dollars of funds, assets, and properties belonging to him. In the process, an extensive real estate development in a western suburb, called Kingspoint Condominiums, owned by him, was stolen by corrupt top IRS offiicals in the Chicago region, for their own personal benefit and not for the Public Treasury. The Acting Inspector General, Robert Cesca, arranged reportedly to cover it up. Cesca has been described by law enforcement personnel, as "the highest ranking mafia representative in the U.S. government".

About 1983, a federal agency parked 58.4 million dollars in federal funds with Household Bank and Household International [described by some as CIA proprietary operations]. This was to make good Andreuccetti's pending claims. About 1988, 50 million dollars of that disappeared, and was secretly transferred to Little Rock,Arkansas, to try to cover up a 47 million dollar S & L embezzlement for which Bill and Hillary Clinton are subject to federal criminal prosecution and upon conviction, federal prison.

Joseph Andreuccetti, a member of the Giannini Family, contends some in the Family want him silenced because of all the details coming out through his extensive litigation about the financial octopus linked to other Giannini family members, former Vatican Bank Chief and crook Marcinkus, the Giannini-linked First National Bank of Cicero, the merger of two corrupt enterprises, Bank of America and Continental Bank, and the involvement of CIA proprietary Household International and Household Bank. Household is the alter ego and successor to the CIA's Nugan-Hand Bank which disappeared in 1980.

Arriving in the fall of 1999 in the Chicago area and closely tracking him, Joseph Andreuccetti contends, has been a "hit" team head, known abroad as "The Sweet Assassin" by the way the killer boss is friendly to his target, kissing the target on the cheek, and then arranging some form of rub-out. This top killer has total immunity, U.S. and Italy, and elsewhere, and has co-ordinated his doings reportedly with the American CIA, primarily in Italy, and with the Italian military intelligence service, SISMI. These efforts are likewise intersected with the operations of Propaganda Due, known as P-2, a super-secret society pledged to overthrowing representative governments and re-instituting Fascism, the Iron Fist. P-2 has members in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., including judges, legislators, journalists, executive department and cabinet members, espionage officials, and civil and military brass. Reported members include former American secret political police chief George Herbert Walker Bush and retired war industry chieftain Alexander Haig, once head of NATO.

WATCH FOR PART TWO, more about all this.

BALANCED VIEW OF POPES",
Part 2
NAZI Popes
by Sherman H. Skolnick 4/20/04


ACHTUNG!
If you have frayed nerves or a weak stomach, you should press DELETE now and take your nerve pills. You may or may not well digest what you read here.

A well-informed author on the topic of the Vatican, is reportedly coming out with a well put together book, showing that the late Pope John Paul 2nd worked for the Nazi Gestapo in Poland during World War Two. He rounded up Polish Resis tance Fighters and turned them over to the Nazis who had them shot, so the book contends. Some. however, survived.

Questions remain, of course. WHY did the author wait so long to come out with this book? Some belatedly contend that secretive German funds(possibly post-war surviving Nazis?) arranged for and financed the clandestine Concl ave that installed Wojtyla as Pope John Paul 2nd. Remember: the Anglo -American Aristocracy financed the rise of Adolf Hitler as a bulwark against the Soviets.

Enforcers for the Vatican are called Jesuits. The head of the Jesuits, although he is NOT a person of color, is nevertheless called the BLACK POPE. Over the centuries, Jesuits, hiding behind royal court types with Jewish names, called hofjuden, sought to control if not topple various European monarchs, most of them Catholics.

So by Royal Order, Jesuits were banished from Spain, France, and a few other places. Hiding behind others, the Jesuits actually went underground, continuing to plot to control Monarchs. In America, the Jesuits have Hollywood hofjuden as a front. Hollywood angers Christians by not showing films about non-Jewish holocausts.

Jesuits also hide behind aristocracy fronts, such as the Council on Foreign Relations, CFR.

In his Inauguration speech in 1841, President William Henry Harrison directly angered the Jesuits. He dared confront the Jesuits and then Pope, by proclaiming:

"We admit of no government BY DIVINE RIGHT, believing that so far as power is concerned, the beneficent Creator has made no distinction among men; that all are on an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern, is upon the expressed grant of power from the governed." (Emphasis added.)

Thirty-five days later, for the benefit if not actually aranged by the Jesuits and the British Monarchy, President Harrison was posioned to death.

All told, SEVEN U.S. PRESIDENTS were assassinated from 1841 to 1963, as orchestrated if not actually arranged by the Jesuits and the British Monarchy. four by gunfire, three by poisoning.

[Visit www.skolnicksreport.com and links on Home Page there, to extensive series, "Overthrow of the American Republic".]

Seldom more publicly mentioned, is that over the last two centuries and more, various Jesuits and Popes have labeled the Declaration of Independence as "wickedness", and that Popular Government, provided by the U.S. Constitution with i ts Bill of Rights is a "satanic instrument".

Are we Americans heading for Nazi doctrines if not actually here already? It is documented beyond dispute, that Prescott S. Bush, Sr., father of George Herbert Walker Bush, and grandfather of George W. Bush, had instrumentally financed the rise of Adolf Hitler.The term Homeland Security is an anglocized version of the abbreviated German term Gestapo.

Adolf Hitler, 1933,, and George W. Bush, 2000, and repeated in 2004, were installed in the highest office of their nation by arbitrary and corrupt powers.

[To understand the role of the corrupted gang of five U.S. Supreme Courrt Justices who installed Bush, December, 2000, in Bush versus Gore, as the occupant and resident of the White House, study the website series, "Coca-Col a, CIA, and the Courts", www.skolnicksreport.com ]

The new Monarch in the Vatican, Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict 16th, was immediately whitewashed by the liars and whores of the oil-soaked, spy-riddled, massive tax-cheating Monopoly Press. They described his past as his father was so Anti-Nazi that he had to move to another town. Actually, Joseph Ratzinger was in the Hitler Youth and his family were apparently pro-Nazi.

Over the many years, Germany repeatedly attacked France. So French Catholics are appalled, if not angered, that Joseph Ratzinger is the first German Pope in over one thousand years.

Before the 1960 Election, John F. Kennedy spoke in Texas to a group of Protestant preachers. He said he is only nominally Catholic and that if elected, he will not bow down for the Vatican. Right there,such a bold statement was J FK's Death Warrant. In 1961, shortly after being Inaugurated, President Kennedy reluctantly went along with a plan left over from the Eisenhower Administration, to attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. The Cuban strongman, Fidel Castro, was a nd is a Jesuit, hiding behind a left-wing label. Castro never disbanded the Catholic Church in Cuba. Under Vatican Canon Law, a Catholic leader of a nation, like JfK, that attacks another Catholic leader and nation, is subject to a Death War rant.

What Catholic countries want a pro-Nazi Pope? South America has many such. Included is heavily Catholic Argentina. Toward the end of World War 2, various Nazi war criminals, using Vatican-supplied passports and disguises, e scaped down the "Ratlines" to Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and elsewhere in South America. German submarines loaded with Nazi gold also arrived in South America. So the children and grand-children of escaped Nazis, with their fortun es, dominate the Catholic Church throughout South America. Pope John Paul 2nd was viciously against so-called liberation theology of some South American and Central American archbishops.who sought to cater to the "shirtless ones". Such Catho lic Church leaders were rooted out, in some instances, assasssinated, apparently on the dictates of Pope John Paul 2nd, ostensibly through his enforcer, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

Centuries ago, at the behest of the Vatican, was the bloody, horrible "The Inquisition". Does it still exist today? Yes, its existence since 1981 was, like centuries ago, to punish "heretics".Its title is now something like Promoting T he Faithful. And who has headed this latter day "Inquisition"? Why, none other than pro-Nazi Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict 16th.

Was it just a coincidence that Joseph Ratzinger was selected as the new Pope, April 19, 2005, a day before Adolf Hitler's birthday?

What is the result of part of the planet going back to rule by Nazis?

More coming. Stay tuned.

Four Star General Fired For Organizing Coup Against Neo-Cons?
Reporter suggests Brynes discovered plan to turn nuke exercise into staged terror attack

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | August 10 2005

The head of Fort Monroe's Training and Doctrine Command, four star general Kevin P. Byrnes, was fired Tuesday apparently for sexual misconduct according to official sources.

Other sources however have offered a different explanation for Byrnes' dismissal which ties in with the Bush administration's unpopular plan to attack Iran and the staged nuclear attack in the US which would provide the pretext to do so.

According to reporter Greg Szymanski, anonymous military sources said that Brynes was the leader of a faction that was preparing to instigate a coup against the neo-con hawks in an attempt to prevent further global conflict.

Indications are that, much like popular opinion amongst the general public, half the military oppose the neo-con's agenda and half support it.

Further revelations were imparted by journalist Leland Lehrman who appeared today on The Alex Jones Show.

Lehrman's army sources, including a former Captain in intelligence, became outraged when they learned that the official story behind 9/11 was impossible.

They told Lehrman that the imminent Northcom nuclear terror exercise based in Charleston, S.C, where a nuclear warhead is smuggled off a ship and detonated, was originally intended to 'go live' - as in the drill would be used as the cover for a real false flag staged attack.

This website has relentlessly discussed similar style drills which took place on the morning of 9/11 and on the morning of 7/7 in London.

"Speculation exists that he had potentially discovered the fact that it was gonna go live and that he was trying to put a stop to it or also speculation indicates that he may be part of a military coup designed to prevent the ridiculous idea of doing a nuclear war with Iran, " said Lehrman.



Lehrman said that other sources had told him all army leave had been cancelled from September 7th onwards, opening the possibility for war to be declared within that time frame.

Northcom officials also admitted to Lehrman that CNN had been using its situation room as a studio.

Earlier this week, Washington Post reported that the Pentagon has developed its first ever war plans for operations within the continental United States, in which terrorist attacks would be used as the justification for imposing martial law on cities, regions or the entire country.

American Conservative Magazine recently reported that Dick Cheney had given orders to immediately invade Iran after the next terror attack in the US, even if there was no evidence Iran was involved.

Government and media mouthpieces have been fearmongering for weeks about how a nuclear attack within the US is imminent.

Now would be the most opportune time for the Globalists to stage a major attack, as it would head off any potential indictments against the Bush administration for their involvement in illegally outing CIA agent Valerie Plame.

While rumors circulating about indictments having already taken place against Bush and Cheney should rightly be treated very carefully, the fact that there is an ongoing criminal investigation into the matter is something that's admitted and shouldn't be viewed as speculation.
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This article below is appearing, I think because, it intensifies the struggle between the Moslem world and the Jewish world, just as the JESUITS want it to happen. Unfortunately, most of the media screams "anti-semetic, and anti-Catholic religious bigotry, to cover-up the misdeeds of Israel or Rome.
It is their psychological weapon to prevent the truth from coming out.

The Bible warns of evil in high places" so we should not be misled.

Americans must wake up to the realities of what's going on inorder to save our Constitution and civil liberties and lives. It's the elites money which is being spent to take more and more of ours away. If we could send them a message, STOP BUYING GOODS THE WEEK BEFORE 911, it will hurt their finances, and we'll have a chance. If we do not as a nation ban together to stop this, MARTIAL LAW IS ON THE HORIZON!



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August 8, 2005

Bush Flees United States for Saudi Arabia as Israel Accelerates Attack Timetable in Continuing Secret War with America, US Prepares For Martial Law

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers

Russian FSB reports circulating today among Intelligence Analysts are reporting that the Saudi Arabia Government has surrounded with Military Forces a large area of their capital city Riyadh, including the United States, British and Russian Embassies, in order to protect the America President George Bush who entered Saudi Arabia last evening with a large contingent of his family members and personal aides.

It is interesting to note in these reports that the American President was accompanied by United States Military Protection Forces instead of the customary contingent of Secret Service Protection Forces, leading some Intelligent Analysts to suspect the American President no longer has confidence in those Secret Service Forces protecting his life.

These reports also state that the American Presidents Saudi Arabia visit is only to last two days and he will stay at the American Embassy which has already announced their closure, but for reasons not related to the true facts, and as we can read as reported by the New York Times News Service in their article titled "U.S. Closes Offices in Saudi Arabia" and which says, "United States diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia will be closed for at least two days in response to possible threats against American buildings, embassy officials said Sunday. No specific details were provided, but a statement posted Saturday on the embassy's Web site warned of "ongoing security concerns in the region, including for seaborne vessels traveling in the southern Red Sea," Reuters reported."

The reasons being speculated upon in the American President fleeing his country have to do with the United States Secret War upon Israel, and whom the American President blames for the September 11, 2001 New York Massacre, and which has taken a most ominous turn with today’s announcement of the resignation of the Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and as we can read as reported by the CBN News Service in their article titled "Israel Facing Shock of Netanyahu Resignation" and which says;

"Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shook up his country's government when he resigned from the cabinet Sunday. He stepped down after the cabinet voted for the forced evacuation of three Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu said, “I think there is a great battle in the world today, between the forces of terror and the forces of freedom. The only way that we can win this battle - anywhere, everywhere - is by confronting terror, and not appeasing it. Appeasement doesn't work. You can try to go around this a hundred times. It just doesn't work.”

This resignation signals a significant shift in the Israeli Criminal Government of the War Criminal Ariel Sharon in that the United States has already signaled its intention to destroy both Sharon and his allies, and as exampled by the United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s last visit to Israel where she warned them of the American Presidents intentions, and as we can read as reported by Israel’s Ynet News Service in their article titled "Rice turns heat on Israel" and which says,

"According to New York Times report, U.S. Secretary of State adopted ‘forceful’ stand in recent dealings with Israeli officials, rejected requests for aid. According to the report, “Rice has been forceful and even abrupt in her dealings with senior Israeli officials, including the Foreign and Defense Ministers, Silvan Shalom and Shaul Mofaz.” According to Israeli officials, on her recent trip to Israel the Secretary of State "ran the meetings with them in their offices, taking control of the agenda and even announcing when they would end,” the New York Times reported."

Particularly upsetting to the Americans has been Israel’s support of China, and who the United States is seeking to neutralize before their seemingly unstoppable power lands on America’s doorstep itself. Toward that end, and under the War Criminal Sharon’s orders, Israel has provided China with massive amounts of sophisticated weapons and expertise their massive American Spying Operation has stolen from the United States Military Forces, and to which the Americans have been greatly alarmed, and as we can read in Israel’s Haaretz News Service report titled “China: Ties with U.S. damaged by quashed Phalcon arms sale" and which says,

"In recent weeks, senior political and security officials have been worrying about the damage to Israel's relationship with the United States created by the quashing of the weapons-sale with China. But what of China-Israel relations? Jerusalem believes relations with China will not suffer from the cancellation of the sale of Phalcon planes and drones. However, Chinese Minister of Information Zhao Qizheng told Haaretz last week: "We are angry about the U.S. interference. This is another example of American hegemony. Clearly, this is a breach of international trade laws. We are also sorry about Israel's decision, and of course it cannot be said that this incident is a positive one in establishing the relationship between the two countries."

Zhao refused to say whether China would demand compensation, but was quick to praise relations between the two countries. Israel says that after Yasser Arafat's death, the attitude of the Chinese Communist party toward Sharon warmed up considerably. China is particularly keen to strengthen economic ties with Israel. Its trade with Israel in 2004 amounted to $2.5 billion, and Bejing would like to see this double by the end of the decade. The clash between China and the U.S. involves more than Israeli weapons sales. Washington is concerned over China's arming itself, its growing economic power, and the weakness of the yuan, which was revaluated at the end of July following U.S. pressure."

In a race against time those American Intelligence and Military Forces still loyal to the American President are furthering destroying Israel’s Massive United States Spying Operation, and as we can read as reported by the American Anti War News Service in their report titled "AIPAC Spy Nest Exposed, New indictments implicate unnamed government officials and reporters" and which says;

"The other shoe has finally dropped in the case of the spy scandal involving the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In addition to five espionage-related charges filed against former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin, two counts of conspiracy to communicate classified information to a foreign power have been lodged against former AIPAC foreign policy director Steve Rosen, and a single count of conspiracy against Rosen's assistant, former AIPAC Iran specialist Keith Weissman. The latest indictment reads like a spy thriller, and, while some of the elements were already known, there is much that is surprising, including the information that Rosen has apparently been under surveillance since at least 1999.

Rosen used AIPAC's resources, both financial and political, to carry out a sophisticated spy operation inside the Pentagon, involving not only Franklin but an entire subterranean network of informants and other assets, government officials who regularly provided information and pushed Israel's agenda inside the administration. AIPAC functioned, in effect, as an organized conspiracy on behalf of a foreign power, a funnel that not only poured money into pro-Israel candidates in both major parties and lobbied furiously on behalf of Tel Aviv, but also operated as a virtual clearinghouse of classified information, laundering it through the media – and, of course, funneling it back to their Israeli handlers.

As the issue of Iran's alleged push to procure nuclear weapons takes center stage, AIPAC's efforts to sway U.S. policy – including stealing and leaking U.S. secrets in the service of their pro-Israel agenda – could not have been exposed at a more opportune time. Franklin's trial is scheduled for Sept. 6, although this new indictment could delay matters, but one thing is clear: When these people are finally brought to trial, it is the War Party that will be put in the dock. All those mysterious government officials, not identified by name in the indictment, will be called to testify under oath: the same goes for reporters who laundered Franklin's ill-gotten secrets. The whole network of Israel Firsters will be pulled up by its roots, and you can expect the high-pitched screams to start shortly."

But to the success of the American President in protecting both himself and his government from Israel still remains in doubt according to Russian Security Analysts, and who cite in their reports the last American President, Richard Nixon, who attempted to fight Israel, and as we can read as reported by the Jewish World Review in their report about the former American President Nixon titled "Remembering Nixon --- the 'anti-Semitic' prez who saved Israel during the Yom Kippur War" and which had said;

"The evidence of that dislike continues to pile up. In 1997, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that White House tapes show that in September 1971 Nixon urged IRS investigations of wealthy Jews who contributed to 1968 Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey and former Maine senator Edmund Muskie. “Bob,” Nixon told adviser Bob Haldeman, “please get me the names of the Jews, you know, the big Jewish contributors of the Democrats.”

Nixon also said that the IRS was going “after [Billy] Graham,” because the agency “is full of Jews, Bob…. That’s about what I think. I think that’s the reason they’re after Graham, is the rich Jews.” After reviewing the newer tape transcripts, Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said they confirmed that Nixon was “an anti- Semite,” having “absorbed every ugly stereotype.”

The parallels between the present American President and President Nixon are not lost either, as both were leaders of the United States during unpopular wars and in their second terms in office began to feel the might of the Israeli owned and controlled Media and Entertainment being used against them.

But where the present American President differs from his predecessor is his apparent willingness to see this Secret War through to its end, even if it means the complete Military takeover of the United States under their provisions of Martial Law, and to which President Bush has already ordered his Military to prepare for, and as we can read as reported by the Washington Post News Service in their article titled “War Plans Drafted To Counter Terror Attacks in U.S." and which says;

"The U.S. military has devised its first-ever war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States, envisioning 15 potential crisis scenarios and anticipating several simultaneous strikes around the country, according to officers who drafted the plans. The classified plans, developed here at Northern Command headquarters, outline a variety of possible roles for quick-reaction forces estimated at as many as 3,000 ground troops per attack, a number that could easily grow depending on the extent of the damage and the abilities of civilian response teams.

The possible scenarios range from "low end," relatively modest crowd-control missions to "high-end," full-scale disaster management after catastrophic attacks such as the release of a deadly biological agent or the explosion of a radiological device, several officers said. Some of the worst-case scenarios involve three attacks at the same time, in keeping with a Pentagon directive earlier this year ordering Northcom, as the command is called, to plan for multiple simultaneous attacks.

The war plans represent a historic shift for the Pentagon, which has been reluctant to become involved in domestic operations and is legally constrained from engaging in law enforcement. Indeed, defense officials continue to stress that they intend for the troops to play largely a supporting role in homeland emergencies, bolstering police, firefighters and other civilian response groups. But the new plans provide for what several senior officers acknowledged is the likelihood that the military will have to take charge in some situations, especially when dealing with mass-casualty attacks that could quickly overwhelm civilian resources."

But to the success of the American President being able to protect the United States from an accelerated timetable of terror attacks it remains doubtful according to Russian Intelligence Analysts who point to the fact of how far Israel’s massive spying operations have penetrated American Intelligence Agencies, and as exampled by a report by the Bella Ciao News Service titled “The Israeli 'Art Students/Movers Mystery' Solved" and which says;

"The presence in the United States of a number of young Israelis, most of whom had specialized military and intelligence backgrounds, in the months prior to 911 is a subject that has received inadequate attention from the major U.S. media and government investigators. The activities of the Israelis fell into two main areas: the casing of the offices and homes of Federal law enforcement officials, U.S. military bases, and other sensitive sites by Israeli “art students” during 2000 and 2001 and the unusual activities of Israeli “movers” around sensitive areas during and after 911. These incidents occurred in tandem with the suspiscious activities of other former Israeli military and intelligence officials in neighboring countries, including Canada and Mexico, after 911. In addition, a number of Israeli intelligence agents were apprehended abroad for passport violations and other illegal activities.

The possibility that the suspicious Israeli activity was linked to the movements of Al Qaeda cells cannot be brushed aside as merely coincidental. For example, a number of the Israelis arrested for suspicious activities involving selling bogus Israeli art and driving moving vans were concentrated in some of the same neighborhoods where a number of the 911 Saudi and other Arab hijackers lived and trained at flight schools.

Two internal U.S. government documents revealed that among the 120 Israeli “art students” who attempted to penetrate the security of dozens of Federal office buildings and who visited the homes of scores of U.S. law enforcement personnel during 2000 and 2001 were some who used addresses and mail drops in southern Florida and Texas near those used by a number of the 911 hijackers. The information came from a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Report drafted in June 2001 on the activities of the art students and a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) list of the hijackers and other terrorist suspects, accidentally released in early October 2001 on a Finnish government web site. The DEA memo specifically stated that the Israelis may have had ties to an “Islamic fundamentalist group.”

To this life and death struggle President Bush has engaged his country in it remains known that the American peoples themselves are not allowed to know these things. But to the type of Israeli Regime they are fighting against the World knows full well, and as one can see by the article by Israel’s Haaretz News Service titled "Israel ranks among most corrupt in West" and which says;

"Israel's regime is one of the most corrupt and least efficient in the Western world. In fact, the only developed country considered more corrupt and less efficient is Italy, according to data published by the World Bank. The World Bank figures are in the public domain, and were republished yesterday by Business Data Israel (BDI)."

Should the current American President fail in his efforts, the words of the Israeli/American (who betrayed their President Nixon, and is the War Criminal Sharon’s closest American advisor) Henry Kissinger, and as reported in the October 28, 1973 New York Times Newspaper, should be learned by all of the American peoples, "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."

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The German Intelligence Report


Original Document including German and English Translation

Original German Document Scan PDF

Source and authenticity of the document

The following document was published in June of 2002. If genuine, it must rank as one of the most remarkable documents in history. It purports to be a top-secret report from the German external intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) prepared with assistance from an internal German intelligence agency, the BfV. Among the most important claims it makes are the following: German intelligence detected plans for an attack by Arab extremists on the United States, to take place on September 10 or 11, 2001. Israel was aware of the plans and wished the attack to take place without hindrance. The German ambassador informed the President of the US of the impending attacks. He thanked the ambassador and said that he already knew. Subsequently, his administration urgently requested the suppression of information on this warning. The report elaborates that among the various reasons for the attack being encouraged by the US administration was a desire to have a pretext to attack Afghanistan to secure a pipeline route for western oil companies to export oil from the Caspian basin. Despite angry denunciations of the authenticity of the report from various quarters, the German government has to the best of our knowledge not issued a denial of its authenticity. Even if it were to do so, the alleged urgent request for secrecy could provide grounds for such a denial. No other effective refutation of the accuracy of the report has been seen by the editors of this website. Consequently, it is presented for what it is worth as a possibly genuine document of immense historical significance.

Fox News Series on Israeli Spying
The above link to the four-part Fox news report on Israeli spying in and on the US does indeed corroborate certain parts of the BND report. Corroborative elements include (among other items) the alleged Israeli tactic of supplying unusable warnings, links to drug-dealing organized crime, and failure to share information supposedly developed on terrorists with the FBI.


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BACKGROUND REPORT ON 9/11/2001

TOP SECRET

On Monday 6, August, 2001, at 17:50, [German] Ambassador Ischinger personally notified the President of the United States that information developed by the Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz [German domestic secret service] as well as the BND [Bundesnachrichtendienst, German foreign secret service] indicated that an attack by a radical Arab group partially based in Germany was to occur on 10-11 September, 2001. The President was at that time in residence at his farm in Texas. Our [the German's] Ambassador was acting in direct response to instructions from Foreign Minister Fischer.

This information was developed from official surveillance of Arab extremist groups operating in the Federal Republic as well as from intercepted communications between the Embassy of Israel and the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Tel Aviv concerning this matter.

The information was "gratefully received" by the US President who stated at the time that he was also aware of the same pending assaults.

Subsequent to these attacks, the office of the US President, through the US Department of State, made an urgent request to the government of the Federal Republic of Germany that no reference whatsoever should be made to the official warnings given by Ambassador Ischinger.

In order to clarify the background of this matter, this Gesamtubersicht [overall survey] of the events leading to the assault was prepared, basing on extracts of reports from our [BND's] foreign stations. Overall, it is evident that the American authorities were aware of the pending attacks. Why they did nothing, is explained in the following.

Background: General Overview

Because of the Bush family's involvement in oil (Zapata Oil Company), many important and wealthy individuals and corporations with oil interests financially supported the Bush political career. Today, the Bush administration is therefore strongly influenced by major American business groups.

The candidate for American Vice President, Richard "Dick" Cheney, had been the Chief Director of the Halliburton Company. This company, based in Dallas, Texas, where Bush was Governor, is the largest oil service company in the world.

Between 1991 and 1997, such important American oil companies as Texaco, Unocal, Shell, BP Amoco, Chevron and Exxon-Mobil became involved with the former Soviet state of Kazakhstan who holds enormous oil reserves. The government of Kazakhstan was eventually paid over $3 billions of corporate money to allow these companies to secure oil rights. At the same time, these companies agreed further to give the sums of 35 billion US Dollar in investments in plant and equipment to the Kazakhstan projects. A confidential project report of said US firms announced that the gas and oil reserves in Kazakhstan would amount to 4 trillion US Dollar.

The United States is not self-sufficient in oil and 50% of their supply is imported from various foreign sources. Some 80% of oil imported to the US comes from OPEC-Countries, the Arabian oil cartel. Because of the unconditional support by American political leaders of the state of Israel, these Arab governments have a very strained relationship with the USA.

A further small percentage of oil imported to the US comes from Venezuela. Just recently, the US government has been attempting to overthrow the government of Chavez with the help of the CIA and replace it with a government "more sympathetic to American oil needs."

A position paper prepared by the office of the later-Vice President Cheney states that the Kazakhstan oil reserves would be "more than sufficient to supply US needs for at least a decade" and would further "reduce American dependence on OPEC."

Unocal Oil Company signed an agreement with the reigning Taliban forces as well as their opponents, the Northern Alliance, in order to permit an oil pipeline to be built through Afghanistan direct through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. by this, the exorbitant rates charged by the Russian to use their pipelines would be avoided. Unocal then opened official offices in Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to facilitate the construction of this oil pipeline.

In December of 1997, official Taliban representatives were in the United States to attend a conference at Unocal headquarters in Texas to discuss the Afghanistan pipeline. These talks failed because the Taliban made what Unocal felt were excessive financial demands.

In 1998, internal strife in Afghanistan and inherent instability in Pakistan reached such levels as to render the pipeline project impossible to execute. In the same year, the Houston, Texas based firm of Enron suggested instead to build a $3 billion oil pipeline parallel to the Russian pipelines, running westwards rather than taking the shorter but more problematic route south.

In a secret memorandum by Cheney, it is stated that the Unocal company was prepared to finance the southern route. According to this, this project would take five years to complete and its annual revenues from the successful completion of this pipeline would approximate $2 billions. however, and this had been the subject of a number of secret American reports, the only thing standing in the way of the construction of the pipeline was the basic opposition of the Afghanistan government and its political supporters.

On May 8, 2001, the US Department of State, in the name of Secretary of State Powell, gave 43 million US Dollars to the Taliban in order to facilitate their cooperation in the pipeline project.

On June 10, 2001, the BND warned the CIA office in the US Embassy to the Federal Republic [of Germany] that certain Arab terrorists were planning to seize American commercial aircraft for use as weapons of destruction against significant American symbols. This was considered a general warning only. The Federal Republic's warning of August 6, however, was specific as to date, time and places of the attacks.

On July 11, 2001, in Berlin, US officials: Thomas Simmons, a former American Ambassador to Pakistan, Lee Coldren, State Department expert on Asian matters, and Karl Inderfurth, Assistant Secretary of State for Asian matter met with Russian and Pakistani intelligence officers. At this meeting, which was under surveillance, it was stated by the Americans that the United States planned to launch military strikes against Afghanistan in October of that year. The purpose of these strikes was to topple the Afghanistan government and the Taliban in order to replace it with a government "more sensitive to the needs of American oil interests."

In mid-August 2001, President of the Russian Federation Putin ordered that the American authorities be warned of pending attacks on government buildings inside the United States. This warning was conveyed to the US Ambassador in Moscow and via the Russian Ambassadors office directly to the US President.

On August 20, the Government of France, through the American Embassy in Paris and their Embassy in Washington, issued a more specific warning. This warning specified the exact date, time and places of the attacks.

On September 11, President Bush and top aides flew to the state of Florida so that the President could speak with children in a kindergarten. Also at that time, Vice President Cheney absented himself from Washington and went to the safety of the Presidential compound in the mountains of Maryland.

It was noted in Washington that Cheney remained sequestered in Maryland for some time and only appeared in public surrounded by heavy security.

The role of the Israeli Mossad in the terrorist attacks

Note: The following two sections are considered to be extremely sensitive due to the special relationship between the Federal Republic [of Germany] and its Jewish citizens as well as the State of Israel. This material is compiled from German and American sources.

During the term of President George HW Bush, the government of Israel made an official, but very secret, request to the American president. This request was to permit agents of the Mossad, Israeli Foreign Intelligence, to enter the United States and conduct surveillance operations against various Arab groups residing in that country.

The stated purpose of this surveillance was to permit Israeli early warning of terrorist plots against their country. Permission for this surveillance was granted with the caveat that the Mossad would have a liaison with the FBI and report any and all finding to that agency.

However, these conditions were not observed. The Mossad not only did not inform the FBI of any of its findings, it is known to have engaged in commerce with several groups of Israeli criminals of Russian backgrounds. These groups were engaged in extensive criminal activities inside the United States, to include the smuggling of the Ecstasy drug. Mossad agents were able to subvert American criminal investigations through their knowledge of American telephone surveillance of such groups.

It is very evident from surveillance conducted against Mossad agents in the Federal Republic as well as interceptions of Israeli diplomatic communication from the Federal Republic to Tel Aviv, that the Mossad has successfully penetrated various extremist Arab groups in both the Federal Republic and the United States.

These investigations disclosed in late May of 2001 that an attack was to be made against certain specified targets in the American cities of Washington and New York. But it was apparent that the Mossad was not only fully aware of these attacks well in advance but actually, though their own agents inside these Arab groups, assisted in the planning and the eventual execution of the attacks.

That the Israeli government was fully aware of these attack is absolutely certain and proven. Diplomatic traffic between the Israeli Embassy in the Federal Republic and the Israeli Foreign Office made it very clear that Minister President Sharon was fully aware of this pending attack and urgently wished that no attempt was made to prevent the attacks.

Although the Israeli officials were instructed to warn the American intelligence community that some kind of an attack might be possible, at no time were the specific dates and targets (known at that time to Israeli officials) to be given to the Americans.

The rationale for this attitude was expressed in a conversation on August 1, 2001, between the Israeli Military Attaché in the Federal Republic to a member of the Israeli General Staff. There it was stated that Israel believed an attack on the continental United States would so inflame American public opinion that they would permit Israel to "cleanse" their state of "Arab terrorists and those who support such terrorists". This "cleansing" was explained as the expulsion of all Arabs, and even Christian groups, from the Palestine area.

American intelligence officials have repeatedly expressed great concern in meeting with our people that the Israeli government, through a company called Amdocs, was able to conduct surveillance of all telephone communications within the United States. It was categorically stated that this Israeli-based firm was given the American contract with 25 of the largest American telephone companies. This contract was granted over the objections and concerns of the American intelligence community.

The official reason given for this extraordinary arrangement that permitted Israeli agencies to observe all highly confidential investigative telephone calls was that the United States has a "special relationship" with the State of Israel and they had requested this.

The Israeli Political Influence in the United States

It should be noted here that the professional Israeli lobby in America is huge in size and is considered even by our American colleagues to be a very powerful and entirely dominant factor in American politics.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is the largest foreign lobby in Washington and fourth most powerful lobby in the country. Other Israeli groups also include the Anti-Defamation League (from whose national offices, along with the Israel Trade Mission and the many Israeli Consulates, many Mossad agents were working,) the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

These groups, in conjunction with Jewish dominated media giants like the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Time- Warner-AOL and their CNN news network, basically control the dissemination of news in the United States. It is therefore almost impossible for any news that would be considered in opposition to Israeli interests to appear before the American public, although such stories are readily available in most European media.

The Role of the Christian Fundamentalists in American Politics

The so-called "Christian Right" consists of Protestant fundamentalists, where the so-called Pentecostals play a dominant role. This is a very fanatical and aggressively missionary denomination that believes in the return of a living Christ to earth and the subsequent elevation of its members to heavenly paradise.

In order for this appearance of Christ to occur, several factors must be in place according to the views of this denomination. In the first place, a number of Jews must convert to Christianity, and, in the second, there must be a rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. As the site of this temple is now occupied by a major Islamic mosque, it will be necessary to destroy this building.

Starting as an Episcopalian, Bush tried other Protestant denominations before joining the Pentecostals. Apart from US President Bush and his Attorney General John Ashcroft, other members of his administration are members of this denomination, too, which is the second largest Christian denomination after the Catholic Church. As a considerable part of the American public sentiment is strongly opposed to religious fanatics, these facts have been kept very quiet.

Bush and his entourage are very strong supporters of the State of Israel because of their belief, that the founding of this nation is viewed as another requirement for the return of Christ. For this reason, Bush unconditionally supports any program put forward by the Israeli government and is a devoted follower and supporter of Sharon, the Israeli right wing extremist Minister President.

Attorney General Ashcroft has stated in a public sermon (he is a lay preacher of the Pentecostal church) that Muslims are "agents of the Anti-Christ" and must be destroyed in the so-called "Battle of Armageddon". According to the beliefs of fundamentalist Christians, this battle will be fought over Israel's existence and will lead to the end of the world and the return of Christ.

It is generally known in Washington that Bush is entirely guided by his religious beliefs and that he has been attempting repeatedly to force his views onto the American public by means of various disguised programs, such as religious control of charities, unconditional support of Israel, and so forth.

Summary and Outlook

The terrorist attacks on American targets were fully known to many entities well in advance. The US President was fully informed as to the nature and exact time of these attacks.

The US government in general and the US President in specific have become subservient to the wishes and plans of the Israeli government. As these plans encompass the removal of the Arab population of Israel and adjoining territories, it is evident that the population of the United States is being pushed into a situation that could easily result in more, and terrible, attacks on their home country.

In view of this possibility, the US authorities are determined to limit any discussion of the 11 September attacks to the official version as it appears regularly in the US media.

It also appears from confidential sources that Bush's plans to attack Iraq are based mainly on a desire on the part of Israel to remove Saddam Hussein. Tel Aviv views Hussein as a real threat and has already attacked that country before.

There is also evidence that if Hussein is toppled by American military forces, the oil resources of Iraq would be put under the control of a consortium of the American oil interests that so avidly support the Bush administration.

Pullach, April 5, 2002



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Commentary by SPINE Intelligence Expert

The document purports to be from the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), which has its headquarters at Pullach, near Munich. It was reportedly delivered to Bill White, of Overthrow.com, at a meeting of the Barnes Review, in Washington DC. The original German document, complete with top secret classification markings and other details, is enclosed for scrutiny and verification. The document may or may not be genuine. It has not been proven to be a forgery. If Ambassador Ischinger did not go to Crawford, Texas, on the date named, nor made telephone contact with the President, then the document may not be truthful. If, on the other hand, Ischinger did telephone President Bush or go to Crawford to speak with him at the time and date mentioned, then the occasion must have been a matter of extreme urgency. It will be possible for someone to verify or refute the facts of Ambassador Ischinger's whereabouts. If the document is genuine, it would go far to explain Germany's reluctance to get involved in the so-called War on Terror, including aggression against the innocent nations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Germany's public silence could well be explained by concern about the extremely sensitive relation of Germany to the state of Israel, and by the horrifying implications this document would have for its relation to its NATO ally, the USA. We offer this document for what it is worth. If anyone can find proof that it is spurious, we welcome such proof. If not, it must remain as a possibly genuine document with truly devastating implications.


 http://physics911.net/germanintel.htm

The German Intelligence Report


Original Document including German and English Translation

Original German Document Scan PDF

Source and authenticity of the document

The following document was published in June of 2002. If genuine, it must rank as one of the most remarkable documents in history. It purports to be a top-secret report from the German external intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) prepared with assistance from an internal German intelligence agency, the BfV. Among the most important claims it makes are the following: German intelligence detected plans for an attack by Arab extremists on the United States, to take place on September 10 or 11, 2001. Israel was aware of the plans and wished the attack to take place without hindrance. The German ambassador informed the President of the US of the impending attacks. He thanked the ambassador and said that he already knew. Subsequently, his administration urgently requested the suppression of information on this warning. The report elaborates that among the various reasons for the attack being encouraged by the US administration was a desire to have a pretext to attack Afghanistan to secure a pipeline route for western oil companies to export oil from the Caspian basin. Despite angry denunciations of the authenticity of the report from various quarters, the German government has to the best of our knowledge not issued a denial of its authenticity. Even if it were to do so, the alleged urgent request for secrecy could provide grounds for such a denial. No other effective refutation of the accuracy of the report has been seen by the editors of this website. Consequently, it is presented for what it is worth as a possibly genuine document of immense historical significance.

Fox News Series on Israeli Spying
The above link to the four-part Fox news report on Israeli spying in and on the US does indeed corroborate certain parts of the BND report. Corroborative elements include (among other items) the alleged Israeli tactic of supplying unusable warnings, links to drug-dealing organized crime, and failure to share information supposedly developed on terrorists with the FBI.


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BACKGROUND REPORT ON 9/11/2001

TOP SECRET

On Monday 6, August, 2001, at 17:50, [German] Ambassador Ischinger personally notified the President of the United States that information developed by the Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz [German domestic secret service] as well as the BND [Bundesnachrichtendienst, German foreign secret service] indicated that an attack by a radical Arab group partially based in Germany was to occur on 10-11 September, 2001. The President was at that time in residence at his farm in Texas. Our [the German's] Ambassador was acting in direct response to instructions from Foreign Minister Fischer.

This information was developed from official surveillance of Arab extremist groups operating in the Federal Republic as well as from intercepted communications between the Embassy of Israel and the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Tel Aviv concerning this matter.

The information was "gratefully received" by the US President who stated at the time that he was also aware of the same pending assaults.

Subsequent to these attacks, the office of the US President, through the US Department of State, made an urgent request to the government of the Federal Republic of Germany that no reference whatsoever should be made to the official warnings given by Ambassador Ischinger.

In order to clarify the background of this matter, this Gesamtubersicht [overall survey] of the events leading to the assault was prepared, basing on extracts of reports from our [BND's] foreign stations. Overall, it is evident that the American authorities were aware of the pending attacks. Why they did nothing, is explained in the following.

Background: General Overview

Because of the Bush family's involvement in oil (Zapata Oil Company), many important and wealthy individuals and corporations with oil interests financially supported the Bush political career. Today, the Bush administration is therefore strongly influenced by major American business groups.

The candidate for American Vice President, Richard "Dick" Cheney, had been the Chief Director of the Halliburton Company. This company, based in Dallas, Texas, where Bush was Governor, is the largest oil service company in the world.

Between 1991 and 1997, such important American oil companies as Texaco, Unocal, Shell, BP Amoco, Chevron and Exxon-Mobil became involved with the former Soviet state of Kazakhstan who holds enormous oil reserves. The government of Kazakhstan was eventually paid over $3 billions of corporate money to allow these companies to secure oil rights. At the same time, these companies agreed further to give the sums of 35 billion US Dollar in investments in plant and equipment to the Kazakhstan projects. A confidential project report of said US firms announced that the gas and oil reserves in Kazakhstan would amount to 4 trillion US Dollar.

The United States is not self-sufficient in oil and 50% of their supply is imported from various foreign sources. Some 80% of oil imported to the US comes from OPEC-Countries, the Arabian oil cartel. Because of the unconditional support by American political leaders of the state of Israel, these Arab governments have a very strained relationship with the USA.

A further small percentage of oil imported to the US comes from Venezuela. Just recently, the US government has been attempting to overthrow the government of Chavez with the help of the CIA and replace it with a government "more sympathetic to American oil needs."

A position paper prepared by the office of the later-Vice President Cheney states that the Kazakhstan oil reserves would be "more than sufficient to supply US needs for at least a decade" and would further "reduce American dependence on OPEC."

Unocal Oil Company signed an agreement with the reigning Taliban forces as well as their opponents, the Northern Alliance, in order to permit an oil pipeline to be built through Afghanistan direct through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. by this, the exorbitant rates charged by the Russian to use their pipelines would be avoided. Unocal then opened official offices in Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to facilitate the construction of this oil pipeline.

In December of 1997, official Taliban representatives were in the United States to attend a conference at Unocal headquarters in Texas to discuss the Afghanistan pipeline. These talks failed because the Taliban made what Unocal felt were excessive financial demands.

In 1998, internal strife in Afghanistan and inherent instability in Pakistan reached such levels as to render the pipeline project impossible to execute. In the same year, the Houston, Texas based firm of Enron suggested instead to build a $3 billion oil pipeline parallel to the Russian pipelines, running westwards rather than taking the shorter but more problematic route south.

In a secret memorandum by Cheney, it is stated that the Unocal company was prepared to finance the southern route. According to this, this project would take five years to complete and its annual revenues from the successful completion of this pipeline would approximate $2 billions. however, and this had been the subject of a number of secret American reports, the only thing standing in the way of the construction of the pipeline was the basic opposition of the Afghanistan government and its political supporters.

On May 8, 2001, the US Department of State, in the name of Secretary of State Powell, gave 43 million US Dollars to the Taliban in order to facilitate their cooperation in the pipeline project.

On June 10, 2001, the BND warned the CIA office in the US Embassy to the Federal Republic [of Germany] that certain Arab terrorists were planning to seize American commercial aircraft for use as weapons of destruction against significant American symbols. This was considered a general warning only. The Federal Republic's warning of August 6, however, was specific as to date, time and places of the attacks.

On July 11, 2001, in Berlin, US officials: Thomas Simmons, a former American Ambassador to Pakistan, Lee Coldren, State Department expert on Asian matters, and Karl Inderfurth, Assistant Secretary of State for Asian matter met with Russian and Pakistani intelligence officers. At this meeting, which was under surveillance, it was stated by the Americans that the United States planned to launch military strikes against Afghanistan in October of that year. The purpose of these strikes was to topple the Afghanistan government and the Taliban in order to replace it with a government "more sensitive to the needs of American oil interests."

In mid-August 2001, President of the Russian Federation Putin ordered that the American authorities be warned of pending attacks on government buildings inside the United States. This warning was conveyed to the US Ambassador in Moscow and via the Russian Ambassadors office directly to the US President.

On August 20, the Government of France, through the American Embassy in Paris and their Embassy in Washington, issued a more specific warning. This warning specified the exact date, time and places of the attacks.

On September 11, President Bush and top aides flew to the state of Florida so that the President could speak with children in a kindergarten. Also at that time, Vice President Cheney absented himself from Washington and went to the safety of the Presidential compound in the mountains of Maryland.

It was noted in Washington that Cheney remained sequestered in Maryland for some time and only appeared in public surrounded by heavy security.

The role of the Israeli Mossad in the terrorist attacks

Note: The following two sections are considered to be extremely sensitive due to the special relationship between the Federal Republic [of Germany] and its Jewish citizens as well as the State of Israel. This material is compiled from German and American sources.

During the term of President George HW Bush, the government of Israel made an official, but very secret, request to the American president. This request was to permit agents of the Mossad, Israeli Foreign Intelligence, to enter the United States and conduct surveillance operations against various Arab groups residing in that country.

The stated purpose of this surveillance was to permit Israeli early warning of terrorist plots against their country. Permission for this surveillance was granted with the caveat that the Mossad would have a liaison with the FBI and report any and all finding to that agency.

However, these conditions were not observed. The Mossad not only did not inform the FBI of any of its findings, it is known to have engaged in commerce with several groups of Israeli criminals of Russian backgrounds. These groups were engaged in extensive criminal activities inside the United States, to include the smuggling of the Ecstasy drug. Mossad agents were able to subvert American criminal investigations through their knowledge of American telephone surveillance of such groups.

It is very evident from surveillance conducted against Mossad agents in the Federal Republic as well as interceptions of Israeli diplomatic communication from the Federal Republic to Tel Aviv, that the Mossad has successfully penetrated various extremist Arab groups in both the Federal Republic and the United States.

These investigations disclosed in late May of 2001 that an attack was to be made against certain specified targets in the American cities of Washington and New York. But it was apparent that the Mossad was not only fully aware of these attacks well in advance but actually, though their own agents inside these Arab groups, assisted in the planning and the eventual execution of the attacks.

That the Israeli government was fully aware of these attack is absolutely certain and proven. Diplomatic traffic between the Israeli Embassy in the Federal Republic and the Israeli Foreign Office made it very clear that Minister President Sharon was fully aware of this pending attack and urgently wished that no attempt was made to prevent the attacks.

Although the Israeli officials were instructed to warn the American intelligence community that some kind of an attack might be possible, at no time were the specific dates and targets (known at that time to Israeli officials) to be given to the Americans.

The rationale for this attitude was expressed in a conversation on August 1, 2001, between the Israeli Military Attaché in the Federal Republic to a member of the Israeli General Staff. There it was stated that Israel believed an attack on the continental United States would so inflame American public opinion that they would permit Israel to "cleanse" their state of "Arab terrorists and those who support such terrorists". This "cleansing" was explained as the expulsion of all Arabs, and even Christian groups, from the Palestine area.

American intelligence officials have repeatedly expressed great concern in meeting with our people that the Israeli government, through a company called Amdocs, was able to conduct surveillance of all telephone communications within the United States. It was categorically stated that this Israeli-based firm was given the American contract with 25 of the largest American telephone companies. This contract was granted over the objections and concerns of the American intelligence community.

The official reason given for this extraordinary arrangement that permitted Israeli agencies to observe all highly confidential investigative telephone calls was that the United States has a "special relationship" with the State of Israel and they had requested this.

The Israeli Political Influence in the United States

It should be noted here that the professional Israeli lobby in America is huge in size and is considered even by our American colleagues to be a very powerful and entirely dominant factor in American politics.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is the largest foreign lobby in Washington and fourth most powerful lobby in the country. Other Israeli groups also include the Anti-Defamation League (from whose national offices, along with the Israel Trade Mission and the many Israeli Consulates, many Mossad agents were working,) the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.

These groups, in conjunction with Jewish dominated media giants like the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Time- Warner-AOL and their CNN news network, basically control the dissemination of news in the United States. It is therefore almost impossible for any news that would be considered in opposition to Israeli interests to appear before the American public, although such stories are readily available in most European media.

The Role of the Christian Fundamentalists in American Politics

The so-called "Christian Right" consists of Protestant fundamentalists, where the so-called Pentecostals play a dominant role. This is a very fanatical and aggressively missionary denomination that believes in the return of a living Christ to earth and the subsequent elevation of its members to heavenly paradise.

In order for this appearance of Christ to occur, several factors must be in place according to the views of this denomination. In the first place, a number of Jews must convert to Christianity, and, in the second, there must be a rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. As the site of this temple is now occupied by a major Islamic mosque, it will be necessary to destroy this building.

Starting as an Episcopalian, Bush tried other Protestant denominations before joining the Pentecostals. Apart from US President Bush and his Attorney General John Ashcroft, other members of his administration are members of this denomination, too, which is the second largest Christian denomination after the Catholic Church. As a considerable part of the American public sentiment is strongly opposed to religious fanatics, these facts have been kept very quiet.

Bush and his entourage are very strong supporters of the State of Israel because of their belief, that the founding of this nation is viewed as another requirement for the return of Christ. For this reason, Bush unconditionally supports any program put forward by the Israeli government and is a devoted follower and supporter of Sharon, the Israeli right wing extremist Minister President.

Attorney General Ashcroft has stated in a public sermon (he is a lay preacher of the Pentecostal church) that Muslims are "agents of the Anti-Christ" and must be destroyed in the so-called "Battle of Armageddon". According to the beliefs of fundamentalist Christians, this battle will be fought over Israel's existence and will lead to the end of the world and the return of Christ.

It is generally known in Washington that Bush is entirely guided by his religious beliefs and that he has been attempting repeatedly to force his views onto the American public by means of various disguised programs, such as religious control of charities, unconditional support of Israel, and so forth.

Summary and Outlook

The terrorist attacks on American targets were fully known to many entities well in advance. The US President was fully informed as to the nature and exact time of these attacks.

The US government in general and the US President in specific have become subservient to the wishes and plans of the Israeli government. As these plans encompass the removal of the Arab population of Israel and adjoining territories, it is evident that the population of the United States is being pushed into a situation that could easily result in more, and terrible, attacks on their home country.

In view of this possibility, the US authorities are determined to limit any discussion of the 11 September attacks to the official version as it appears regularly in the US media.

It also appears from confidential sources that Bush's plans to attack Iraq are based mainly on a desire on the part of Israel to remove Saddam Hussein. Tel Aviv views Hussein as a real threat and has already attacked that country before.

There is also evidence that if Hussein is toppled by American military forces, the oil resources of Iraq would be put under the control of a consortium of the American oil interests that so avidly support the Bush administration.

Pullach, April 5, 2002



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Commentary by SPINE Intelligence Expert

The document purports to be from the German Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), which has its headquarters at Pullach, near Munich. It was reportedly delivered to Bill White, of Overthrow.com, at a meeting of the Barnes Review, in Washington DC. The original German document, complete with top secret classification markings and other details, is enclosed for scrutiny and verification. The document may or may not be genuine. It has not been proven to be a forgery. If Ambassador Ischinger did not go to Crawford, Texas, on the date named, nor made telephone contact with the President, then the document may not be truthful. If, on the other hand, Ischinger did telephone President Bush or go to Crawford to speak with him at the time and date mentioned, then the occasion must have been a matter of extreme urgency. It will be possible for someone to verify or refute the facts of Ambassador Ischinger's whereabouts. If the document is genuine, it would go far to explain Germany's reluctance to get involved in the so-called War on Terror, including aggression against the innocent nations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Germany's public silence could well be explained by concern about the extremely sensitive relation of Germany to the state of Israel, and by the horrifying implications this document would have for its relation to its NATO ally, the USA. We offer this document for what it is worth. If anyone can find proof that it is spurious, we welcome such proof. If not, it must remain as a possibly genuine document with truly devastating implications.


 http://physics911.net/germanintel.htm

New 9/11 Revelations
updated
Guest-blogged by Joseph Cannon UPDATE: As you read the piece below, keep in mind the report by Laura Rozen here . Weldon was peddling claims about the Iranian "threat," using...

Guest-blogged by Joseph Cannon

UPDATE: As you read the piece below, keep in mind the report by Laura Rozen here. Weldon was peddling claims about the Iranian "threat," using information derived from a poor source. I do not think that this fact necessarily discredits what Weldon has to say about ABLE DANGER, since that story has a different source -- one which the New York Times interviewed directly, and apparently found credible.

Two separate sources have revealed startling new information about Mohammed Atta. Taken separately, these
revelations are disturbing. Taken together, they could prove explosive.

As I write, the mainstream media is paying much attention to the first of these revelations, but seems chary of the second. Let's start with the big news:

Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA), Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has revealed that a specialized unit of the DIA, code-named ABLE DANGER (which was being run by the Special Operations Command in Tampa, Florida) had identified Mohammed Atta and other terrorist associates weeks before the presidential election of 2000. Atta was photographed and named as a member of al Qaida.

Although the unit had recommended action against Atta and the cell, a DOD lawyer allegedly nixed the idea, arguing that green card holders deserved the same privacy rights as American citizens. This argument strikes me as highly questionable.

Representative Weldon learned about his operation earlier this year. (I've called his office to find out exactly when, but have yet to hear back from his communications director.) Weldon's source was a former intelligence officer who has requested anonymity in news accounts. He has met with journalists for Government Security News and the New York Times. (See also here and here.)

According to the NYT, the office requested anonymity because "he did not want to jeopardize political support and the possible financing for future data-mining operations by speaking publicly."

His reasoning indicates that Washington has become a very bizarre place indeed. The successful identification of Atta proved the value of "data mining;" the problem was the refusal by DIA higher-ups to act upon the information. Why would discussion of a success story jeopardize future funding for similar operations?

Which brings us back to the more fundamental question: Why did higher-ups at the DOD refuse to share the information with the FBI?



"We were directed to take those 3M yellow stickers and place them over the faces of Atta and the other terrorists and pretend they didn't exist," the intelligence officer told GSN.

DoD lawyers may also have been reluctant to suggest a bold action by FBI agents after the bureau's disastrous 1993 strike against the Branch Davidian religious cult in Waco, TX, said Weldon and the intelligence officer.
This explanation seems particularly dubious when we recall the publicity given to pre-9/11 al Qaida attacks.

Partisans may suspect that presidential politics might have played a role. The 2000 campaign was underway; conceivably, Bush supporters within the DOD may have felt uneasy at the prospect of handing the outgoing Clinton administration a last-minute "win" against Osama bin Laden. Of course, this theory does not explain why the Bush administration took no action against Atta between inauguration and 9/11.

Another key question: Why was this information kept secret from the independent commission looking into the 9/11 tragedy? Although committee members were made aware that ABLE DANGER existed, they were not told about the identification of Atta. Why the secrecy?

Answers to these posers might lurk within the folds of the second story about Atta to come out in recent days...

This is the scandal few want to discuss, although a part of the story has made its way onto Talking Points Memo.
Atta, we should note, plays no role in the story under discussion there.

(What follows may seem like a diversion from our main story, but bear with me. We'll get back to Atta in a minute.)

The focus is on that notoriously shady Republican wheeler-dealer/lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whom Tom Delay considers one of his "closest, dearest friends." (For further background on Abramoff, you can't do much better than this TPM Cafe page.)

Josh Marshall draws our attention to this excerpt from an April 26, 2005 Miami Herald article, which reads like something out of Elmore Leonard:


In 2000, [Gus] Boulis sold [casino boat company] SunCruz to a partnership of Washington-based businessmen, including Jack Abramoff, the now infamous lobbyist who was surreptitiously funneling Indian casino millions to key congressmen, including the supposedly anti-gambling Republican leader, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay. A congressional inquiry revealed that Abramoff, then vice chairman of SunCruz, used SunCruz casino money to bring staffers of key Republican congressional leaders to the 2001 Super Bowl.

Meanwhile, Boulis claimed that Abramoff and Adam Kidan had shorted him $23 million. There were reports of fisticuffs between Boulis and Kidan. Kidan took out a restraining order to keep Boulis away.

The restraining order became moot on Feb. 6, 2001, when Boulis was gunned down in a mob-style hit. The murder was never solved.

SunCruz, meanwhile, foundered into bankruptcy. Abramoff sued Kidan for the $60 million he claimed the deal cost him.
I cite this story to establish the links between Abramoff, powerful Republicans, and a milieu which will remind most readers of The Sopranos.

Casino ships are largely unregulated; by definition, they operate largely outside the borders of the United States. Boulis, the unfortunate previous owner of SunCruz, was under investigation for using his operation as a front for money laundering and other illegal activities.

Another party involved in money laundering was Osama bin Laden and his associates.

On September 26, 2001, Associated Press writer Vickie Chachere reported that FBI agents probing Atta's connections had turned their attention to SunCruz casinos -- then owned by Abramoff:


SunCruz Casinos has turned over photographs and other documents to FBI investigators after employees said they recognized some of the men suspected in the terrorist attacks as customers... Names on the passenger list from a Sept. 5 cruise matched those of some of the hijackers...
Since Abramoff used SunCruz to provide services to Republicans (we may safely presume that the Super Bowl junket wasn't the only occasion), I'd very much like to see that September 5, 2001 passenger manifest. Who was on the boat with the terrorists?

Several sources have noted that al Qaida operatives had a strange penchant for haunting casinos -- and few investigators believe that their purpose was gambling. For example, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on November 4, 2001 that Atta and two other 9/11 terrorists took mysterious side trips to Las Vegas, in June and August; FBI investigators suspected that they may have been involved in the passing of counterfeit bills.

The Toronto Star of September 20, 2002 reported that members of al Qaida were arrested in Buffalo, New York, for participation in a money laundering scheme centered at the Casino Niagara.

We have excellent reason to suspect that a similar scheme prompted Mohammed Atta to hop aboard Jack Abramoff's SunCruz ship.

If -- and based on the current state of evidence, we must stress the word "if" -- if further evidence links Mohammed Atta to G.O.P.-friendly shady operators, then many lingering questions may find an answer. Among those questions: Why was the ABLE DANGER team told to steer clear of Atta?




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HAS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AIDED COMMUNIST CHINA'S SUPPORT OF GLOBAL TERRORISTS?








By: Devvy

August 19, 2004

NewsWithViews.com

Back in May, I did a column to introduce the research of Patrick Briley. His bio can be found there as well as an important pdf file on 9-11. Please be mindful that pdf files can be frustratingly slow to load, but the link does work and everyone is encouraged to read this important, well documented information.

Pat has continued his research and providing valuable pieces to the puzzle regarding America's foreign policy and decisions germane to 9-11 and the dangerous situation America finds herself in almost three years later. My only request is that readers put aside their political party loyalty and let us all concentrate on provable facts and documentation. Our priority is the safety and security of this Republic, not some political party and corrupt, career politicians. This series of articles is being presented in interview format.

Q: Pat, you feel that President Bush and some of his cabinet members have been disingenuous about the war on terror because of this administration's refusal to recognize a key player in global terrorism. Could you please give us some of the facts you have uncovered over years of intense research and data collection on this issue?

Pat: China is the leading backer of terror nations (Iran, Syria, North Korea) and terror groups (AlQaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Taliban etc) in the world giving them money, intelligence, training, safe haven, clandestine communications and computer equipment, WMD technologies and weapons, nuclear materials, and ballistic missiles. Yet, Bush and CFR National Security Adviser, Condelezza Rice, neither say nor do anything adequate enough to publicly expose Communist China's role in backing global terrorism.

A war on terrorism that does not include Communist China cannot be a legitimate or a successful war on terrorism.

Instead of trying to stop Chinese backing of AlQaeda and terrorist groups and nations, Bush and Rice have rewarded the Chinese by deliberately facilitating the out sourcing and in sourcing of more US high tech and manufacturing jobs to Chinese workers and by allowing and/or promoting the transfer and sale of sensitive US military (nuclear) and cutting edge, economically significant technology to China (smart bomb guidance systems).

Bush and Cheney recently publicly promoted and aided the sale of US nuclear reactor technology to Beijing. Bush and Rice not only have betrayed US jobs, weapons and technologies to China, but they have also undermined the US ally and defense treaty holder, Taiwan, by publicly telling Taiwan it should not have held its national independence elections in advance of the elections.



Q: Most people know the story of the Trojan Horse. For those who might not remember, the term comes from a story in Homer's Iliad, in which the Greeks give a giant wooden horse to their foes, the Trojans, ostensibly as a peace offering. Big mistake. After the Trojans drag the horse inside their city walls, Greek soldiers sneak out of the horse's hollow belly and open the city gates, allowing their compatriots to pour in and capture Troy. Would you say that the same thing is happening right now here in America, how so and is anyone in Washington, DC taking the necessary steps to stop the take over of this country?

A: Last year the FBI reported that 3000 Chinese front companies have remained set up in the US under GW Bush, after Clinton and China gate, to steal US military and industrial technologies. Bush has not carried out the recommendations of the Republican backed COX Report (China gate) to stop Chinese espionage at US military contractors and national labs (including nuclear legacy codes)

Condi Rice worked with a Communist Chinese military espionage spy at Stanford according to research and articles by journalist Charles R. Smith. GW Bush's uncle is the President of the phony US China Chamber of Commerce. Rice has falsely said publicly that China is no threat! Does this explain why Bush and Rice efforts have ended up helping themselves and Communist China while harming the US?

This pattern of Bush betrayal of the US national and economic security to China and other nations who back terrorists did not start with GW Bush. It started with his father, HW Bush who illegally and directly helped give Iraq US WMD materials, equipment and WMD technologies in the 1980s.

HW Bush also helped give the Chinese US nuclear reactor technology during the 1980s as part of the Peace Pearls program with China. According to allegations by the father of the neutron bomb, Sam Cohen, GW Bush also helped give US neutron bomb technology to China. Now it is possible for China to give a grapefruit sized mini neutron bomb (a WMD!) - which the Chinese have successfully tested - to a terrorist to use against the US. US ballistic missile defense technology came into the possession of the Communist Chinese during the Reagan Bush and the HW Bush administrations at a time when HW Bush was giving US scientists unprecedented and strongly insecure access and travel opportunities to Communist China.

Q: Those are pretty strong words, Pat. Can you give us some solid facts on how such treachery was pulled off? For example, one particular lawsuit that may have produced substantive documents during the discovery part of a trial so that the American people could see hard proof of how they are being hoodwinked and placed in harms' way?

A: GW Bush personally blocked Notra Trulock's Federal 2003 lawsuit against Chinese espionage agent Win Ho Lee to cover up the fact that HW Bush and Reagan policies had actually facilitated Win Ho Lee's transfer US nuclear legacy codes to the Chinese. There is similar evidence to support Sam Cohen's allegation that US neutron bomb technology was also transferred to China under HW Bush using the same mode, namely letting US Chinese scientists have "special privileges" to travel to China unsupervised and to have Chinese assistants at US national labs that had no security clearances.

Advanced computer tech transfers to China by GW Bush in 2001-2002 have given China the capacity to build bigger and better nukes with the computerized US nuclear design legacy codes that HW Bush policies facilitated Chinese scientists, like Wen Ho Lee at US nuclear labs, in giving to China.

The "Peace Pearls" program was started in 1988 by HW Bush and Reagan to aid China in acquiring US nuclear and missile technology and equipment. China also sold Chinese ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads to Saudi Arabia in 1988.

HW Bush illegally gave Pakistan US nuclear warhead and missile technology and this explains why GW Bush and Rice are avoiding telling Congress and America ALL about China and Pakistani nuclear warhead proliferation to AlQaeda, Iran and Syria and Libya.

Historically China has always tried to steal from its enemies, blackmail, intimidate and threaten them, and use military surrogates like North Korea, Iran, Syria and now AlQaeda terrorists to weaken and destabilize to have its way in the world. Communist China has found help in the failed and harmful policies of GW Bush, HW Bush, Rice and Cheney.

Coming in Part II: Illegal weapons sales and U.S. participation

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It has been reported piecemeal in the media over the past ten years that at least 17 men besides Terry Nichols and McVeigh’s neighbor, Michael Fortier, spoke to Timothy McVeigh about attacking a federal building before the OKC bombing. The reports show that all of these men had well established ties before the OKC bombing to one or more of the federal agencies, DEA, FBI, BATF, CIA, DOJ, and the US State Department. The 17 men include Roger Moore, Melvin Lattimore, James Rosencrans, Peter Ward, Tony Ward, Kevin McCarthy, Peter Langan, Sean Kenny, Ronald Greisacher (Laycock), Robert Jacques, Gary D. Hunt, Al Hussain Hussaini (Iraqi), Andreas Strassmeyer, Anas Siddiqy, Asad Siddiqy, Mohammed Chafti, Dave Holloway.

An analysis of the FBI and DOJ conduct to suppress evidence and witnesses in the OKC bombing case reveals a consistent pattern of actions designed to hide from the public and the courts and Congress that these 17 men had provocateur and/or informant roles that contributed to the OKC bombing, roles that included encouragement, training, providing explosive materials and in some cases assisting McVeigh in OKC at the scene of the bombing.

All of these men are known to have been seen by witnesses with McVeigh and are considered John Doe suspects by the public and witnesses. Yet the FBI and DOJ have insisted that McVeigh and Nichols had no help from John Doe participants and formally closed the OKC bombing case in early May 2005. OKC FBI senior case agent Jon Hersley has also insisted in his book “Simple Truths” and on the recent Fox News Special about the OKC bombing that McVeigh and Nichols had no help from John Doe suspects.














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HARD FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT 9-11








By: Devvy

May 3, 2004

NewsWithViews.com

Millions of words have been written about the attacks on 9-11. There are hundreds of web sites claiming to have the truth about that awful day. The majority seem to be filled with screeching - meaning all the words are in caps and too many shrilly declare "It's the Jews," followed by no less than 20 exclamation points.

The cause of truth is never served by these types of web sites. Quite simply, they are a "turn off" for those of us seeking facts instead of redundant and vituperative thrashings. The Masters of the Game orchestrating global events are the Russian, Chinese and U.S. Communitarian Ruling Classes in pursuit of world domination and to establish communism world wide. People need to separate the bigotry from well documented facts. There are some thoughtful, well presented web sites that have brought forward important, credible facts about that fateful day, i.e. www.fromthewilderness.com

Since 9-11, so many decent, sincere Americans have been trying to sort through the lies, disinformation and outright blarney in an attempt to get answers that our Republic, survivors and families of those murdered that day absolutely deserve. Catherine Austin Fitts, Former Assistant Secretary of Housing under Bush I, recently wrote Condelezza Rice a scathing letter in which Ms. Fitts points out glaring lies regarding Ms. Rice's sworn testimony April 8, 2004 before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Ms. Fitts has no personal or political agenda. She wants what we all want: the truth and to never see another 9-11 on U.S. soil.

Another dedicated and fearless researcher/activist is Patrick Briley. I first came in contact with Pat soon after the slaughter in OKC on April 19, 1995. I found Pat to be intelligent, sincere and dedicated to finding out the truth about who planned and executed the murder of 168 Americans in OKC. His intense research has connected OKC and 9-11 in an understandable manner. Furthermore, this fine man has no political agenda whatsoever. He seeks only the truth and prevention of any more acts of terror on U.S. soil.

For the sake of a little background, Pat has a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering with graduate level course work in nuclear engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois and the Bettis Atomic Power Lab Nuclear Reactor engineering school near Pittsburgh. He was a staff project engineer for Admiral Rickover at Naval Reactors near DC for the design and construction of the nuclear power plant for the Trident (Ohio class) ballistic missile submarine. Additionally, Pat worked with a former Pentagon terrorism advisor and briefed legal counsels for committees of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Intelligence committees on the OKC bombing. He has personally discussed his findings on OKC and 9/11 with the assistant Chief of Staff for the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, as well as a member of the 9/11 Commission staff, Mr. John Roth.

Pat's father worked for Army intelligence and the IG (Inspector General) of the Army. He was in the first graduating class of the OK state Highway patrol and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His grandparents belonged to the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution; Pat is related to Presidents Polk, Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington.



Pat Briley is not some arm chair conspiracy quarterback. Pat hasn't just written letters, he has had extraordinary contact with key players in both the OKC cover-up and the 9-11 investigations. He has dedicated his life to finding all the pieces to the puzzle in order to see those responsible for these heinous acts are punished under the full extent of the law. He and his wife have suffered great hardships and personal peril for his work.

None but the brave

According to Pat, "My wife was told on the morning of the OKC bombing by the wives of two prominent OKC FBI agents (Dan Vogel and John Hersley) that the FBI expected the OKC bombing and that FBI agents were told to stay out of the Murrah building on April 19, 1995 even though 3-4 FBI agents were normally at the building at 9 am sharp and sometimes dropped off children at the Day Care center there, near the time the OKC bombing actually occurred, 9:01-9:02 am. My wife has been threatened with loss of employment several times over a seven year period if she were to go public with her story by several people directly connected to the FBI and we have been told that the FBI agents wives lied to the FBI about what they had told my wife in order to protect their husbands careers. I became involved in the OKC bombing investigation as a result of the bad treatment given my wife over a 7 year period."

Pat recently contacted me about his work on 9-11 and connections to OKC. As I have a great deal of respect for this man, I listened and was greatly disturbed by what his research has uncovered. The single reason Pat contacted me was to solicit my assistance in seeing his research gets wide distribution in an effort to save lives. We are both of the opinion that it's just a matter of time before there will be multiple attacks on soft targets within these united States of America.

It is important for the shadow government to continue to instill fear in the American people so they will continue forfeiting their God-given rights for a false sense of security. As was recently reported, Mr. Bush and his messengers have been all over the country trying to stop the hemorrhaging by cities, counties and states over the Patriot Act. With such massive opposition to Patriot I, things are not going as planned for the global masters in their pursuit to get Patriot II passed and signed into law. Drastic measures usually follow set backs.

As the findings on 9-11 from serious researchers is beginning to resemble a giant mountain, I asked Pat if he could provide me with something manageable that would drive home the point to the American people that there was enough warning that this government could have prevented the attacks, what warnings they ignored and the considerable danger still within our borders.

We have taken some of Pat's key documents and put them into a pdf file for you. These are hard facts with names, dates and places. Simply put: This is information that you won't see on Hannity & Colmes, FOX News, CNN or your local nightly news. The second piece in this pdf file is titled 'Antecedents' which was formally transmitted to, received by and discussed with the 9-11 Commission Staff with the full knowledge of House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office. I have been provided with the proof that Hastert's office received and discussed this report.

It is imperative to get this information to local law enforcement, family friends and colleagues. The FBI knows where these sleeper terrorist cells are operating in these united States, but there is no guarantee they will move to stop them before they strike again as evidenced by the FBI's refusal to act prior to 9-11.

As has been pointed out in previous articles by this writer, there is far more to 9-11 than just religious hatred. One has to look behind the horse and pony show being paraded in front of the American people. Law enforcement from our rural towns to the large metropolitan cities must be made aware of this factual information and the only way they're going to get it is for you to make it available to them whether individually or as a group. If you can't do it personally, print out this pdf file, compose a short, precise cover letter and send it to your county Sheriff and members of your state legislature.

We need to get this done because no one knows exactly where we will be hit next, it's just a matter of when. Everyone, including law enforcement should have as much background information on this cover up as possible. Don't presume your city or town is safe. Less than one month after 9-11, I discovered quite accidentally that a woman living here in Sacramento probably lived in the apartment next door to a terrorist cell.

This woman's neighboring apartment housed three young middle Eastern men who had no furniture, but a casual look into the front door of their apartment revealed stacks of papers, a few chairs and lots of duffle bags. They occupied this apartment for less than six months. Those three men left that apartment on September 11, 2001 have not been seen since. I forced the issue of this woman going to the FBI to make a statement when I found out the details. As it turns out, in one of Pat's reports, I discovered that FBI agents here in Sacramento used Egyptian Ali Mohammed as an informant from 1992 until 1996 while Ali Mohammed participated in AlQaeda operations around the world.

Stay vigilant. Stay alert. Stay alive.

© 2004 Devvy Kidd - All Rights Reserved


















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OKC - What Really Destroyed the Building? Part 1


How The Government Lies About Social Security Part 1

How the IRS Lies to Employers About Withholding


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How The IRS Violates Its
Own Code


IRS Makes Chilling Proclamation
The Carnage of Uninsured Motorists

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HARD FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT 9-11








By: Devvy

May 3, 2004

NewsWithViews.com

Millions of words have been written about the attacks on 9-11. There are hundreds of web sites claiming to have the truth about that awful day. The majority seem to be filled with screeching - meaning all the words are in caps and too many shrilly declare "It's the Jews," followed by no less than 20 exclamation points.

The cause of truth is never served by these types of web sites. Quite simply, they are a "turn off" for those of us seeking facts instead of redundant and vituperative thrashings. The Masters of the Game orchestrating global events are the Russian, Chinese and U.S. Communitarian Ruling Classes in pursuit of world domination and to establish communism world wide. People need to separate the bigotry from well documented facts. There are some thoughtful, well presented web sites that have brought forward important, credible facts about that fateful day, i.e. www.fromthewilderness.com

Since 9-11, so many decent, sincere Americans have been trying to sort through the lies, disinformation and outright blarney in an attempt to get answers that our Republic, survivors and families of those murdered that day absolutely deserve. Catherine Austin Fitts, Former Assistant Secretary of Housing under Bush I, recently wrote Condelezza Rice a scathing letter in which Ms. Fitts points out glaring lies regarding Ms. Rice's sworn testimony April 8, 2004 before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Ms. Fitts has no personal or political agenda. She wants what we all want: the truth and to never see another 9-11 on U.S. soil.

Another dedicated and fearless researcher/activist is Patrick Briley. I first came in contact with Pat soon after the slaughter in OKC on April 19, 1995. I found Pat to be intelligent, sincere and dedicated to finding out the truth about who planned and executed the murder of 168 Americans in OKC. His intense research has connected OKC and 9-11 in an understandable manner. Furthermore, this fine man has no political agenda whatsoever. He seeks only the truth and prevention of any more acts of terror on U.S. soil.

For the sake of a little background, Pat has a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering with graduate level course work in nuclear engineering from Northwestern University in Evanston Illinois and the Bettis Atomic Power Lab Nuclear Reactor engineering school near Pittsburgh. He was a staff project engineer for Admiral Rickover at Naval Reactors near DC for the design and construction of the nuclear power plant for the Trident (Ohio class) ballistic missile submarine. Additionally, Pat worked with a former Pentagon terrorism advisor and briefed legal counsels for committees of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Intelligence committees on the OKC bombing. He has personally discussed his findings on OKC and 9/11 with the assistant Chief of Staff for the Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert, as well as a member of the 9/11 Commission staff, Mr. John Roth.

Pat's father worked for Army intelligence and the IG (Inspector General) of the Army. He was in the first graduating class of the OK state Highway patrol and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His grandparents belonged to the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution; Pat is related to Presidents Polk, Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington.



Pat Briley is not some arm chair conspiracy quarterback. Pat hasn't just written letters, he has had extraordinary contact with key players in both the OKC cover-up and the 9-11 investigations. He has dedicated his life to finding all the pieces to the puzzle in order to see those responsible for these heinous acts are punished under the full extent of the law. He and his wife have suffered great hardships and personal peril for his work.

None but the brave

According to Pat, "My wife was told on the morning of the OKC bombing by the wives of two prominent OKC FBI agents (Dan Vogel and John Hersley) that the FBI expected the OKC bombing and that FBI agents were told to stay out of the Murrah building on April 19, 1995 even though 3-4 FBI agents were normally at the building at 9 am sharp and sometimes dropped off children at the Day Care center there, near the time the OKC bombing actually occurred, 9:01-9:02 am. My wife has been threatened with loss of employment several times over a seven year period if she were to go public with her story by several people directly connected to the FBI and we have been told that the FBI agents wives lied to the FBI about what they had told my wife in order to protect their husbands careers. I became involved in the OKC bombing investigation as a result of the bad treatment given my wife over a 7 year period."

Pat recently contacted me about his work on 9-11 and connections to OKC. As I have a great deal of respect for this man, I listened and was greatly disturbed by what his research has uncovered. The single reason Pat contacted me was to solicit my assistance in seeing his research gets wide distribution in an effort to save lives. We are both of the opinion that it's just a matter of time before there will be multiple attacks on soft targets within these united States of America.

It is important for the shadow government to continue to instill fear in the American people so they will continue forfeiting their God-given rights for a false sense of security. As was recently reported, Mr. Bush and his messengers have been all over the country trying to stop the hemorrhaging by cities, counties and states over the Patriot Act. With such massive opposition to Patriot I, things are not going as planned for the global masters in their pursuit to get Patriot II passed and signed into law. Drastic measures usually follow set backs.

As the findings on 9-11 from serious researchers is beginning to resemble a giant mountain, I asked Pat if he could provide me with something manageable that would drive home the point to the American people that there was enough warning that this government could have prevented the attacks, what warnings they ignored and the considerable danger still within our borders.

We have taken some of Pat's key documents and put them into a pdf file for you. These are hard facts with names, dates and places. Simply put: This is information that you won't see on Hannity & Colmes, FOX News, CNN or your local nightly news. The second piece in this pdf file is titled 'Antecedents' which was formally transmitted to, received by and discussed with the 9-11 Commission Staff with the full knowledge of House Speaker Dennis Hastert's office. I have been provided with the proof that Hastert's office received and discussed this report.

It is imperative to get this information to local law enforcement, family friends and colleagues. The FBI knows where these sleeper terrorist cells are operating in these united States, but there is no guarantee they will move to stop them before they strike again as evidenced by the FBI's refusal to act prior to 9-11.

As has been pointed out in previous articles by this writer, there is far more to 9-11 than just religious hatred. One has to look behind the horse and pony show being paraded in front of the American people. Law enforcement from our rural towns to the large metropolitan cities must be made aware of this factual information and the only way they're going to get it is for you to make it available to them whether individually or as a group. If you can't do it personally, print out this pdf file, compose a short, precise cover letter and send it to your county Sheriff and members of your state legislature.

We need to get this done because no one knows exactly where we will be hit next, it's just a matter of when. Everyone, including law enforcement should have as much background information on this cover up as possible. Don't presume your city or town is safe. Less than one month after 9-11, I discovered quite accidentally that a woman living here in Sacramento probably lived in the apartment next door to a terrorist cell.

This woman's neighboring apartment housed three young middle Eastern men who had no furniture, but a casual look into the front door of their apartment revealed stacks of papers, a few chairs and lots of duffle bags. They occupied this apartment for less than six months. Those three men left that apartment on September 11, 2001 have not been seen since. I forced the issue of this woman going to the FBI to make a statement when I found out the details. As it turns out, in one of Pat's reports, I discovered that FBI agents here in Sacramento used Egyptian Ali Mohammed as an informant from 1992 until 1996 while Ali Mohammed participated in AlQaeda operations around the world.

Stay vigilant. Stay alert. Stay alive.

© 2004 Devvy Kidd - All Rights Reserved


Attorney General Ashcroft ordered OKC FBI agent Dan Vogel not to testify or make public statements about what the FBI did with evidence concerning ME terrorist involvement provided to the FBI by Jayna Davis in 1999.
Citing national security grounds, a three judge panel of the tenth circuit court of appeals in Denver refused to order the US government to turn over evidence of US foreknowledge of a ME terror connection to the OKC bombing. The evidence was summarized in a Writ of Mandamus filed by McVeigh defense attorney, Stephen Jones in March 1996.
It is troubling that the man who brought McVeigh’s Iraqi helper to OKC is former CIA director Woolsey, the same man who vetted Jayna Davis’ book on the OKC bombing, “The Third Terrorist”. It is even more troubling when one considers that fact that the 13 year Florida monitoring of professor Sammy AlArian’s terrorists and the recruitment operation with Roger Moore, McVeigh, William Northrup, the FBI and Israeli intelligence was known to the CIA and therefore should have been known to the CIA director at the time, James Woolsey.
It is troubling that the man who brought McVeigh’s Iraqi helper to OKC is former CIA director Woolsey, the same man who vetted Jayna Davis’ book on the OKC bombing, “The Third Terrorist”. It is even more troubling when one considers that fact that the 13 year Florida monitoring of professor Sammy AlArian’s terrorists and the recruitment operation with Roger Moore, McVeigh, William Northrup, the FBI and Israeli intelligence was known to the CIA and therefore should have been known to the CIA director at the time, James Woolsey.
Respected Republican leader and journalist Kenneth Timmerman reported in his January 2004 article “Dana Rohrabacher's Troubling Friends” that Rohrabacher has ties to radical Muslims connected to terrorism. Timmerman has written several articles and a book warning of Rohrabachers, GW Bush's and Carl Rove's strong connections via Grover Norquist to terrorist individuals and organizations including but not limited to CAIR, the American Muslim Council, and AlQaeda backers like Khalid Mahfouz, professor Sammi AlArian, and Mr. Alamoudi

Although Timmerman writes of Rohrabacher's blind spot when it comes to Muslim backed terrorist groups, it is potentially much worse than that. Anything that Rohrabacher would learn from investigators about ME terrorist and FBI collusion with ME terrorists in the OKC bombing could be minimized by Rohrabacher to limit damage to himself and to his colleagues-those Republican Congressman and Senators (during the Clinton administration) who had oversight responsibility over the FBI and CIA, had foreknowledge of ME connections to OKC, and covered up the OKC bombing operation.
The public should be gravely concerned that officials in the US government used provocateurs in the OKC bombing, failed to warn the public, failed to stop the bombing, and have taken illegal measures to continue covering up these failures and the use of provocateurs.

CHERTOFF CREATED TERROR PRETEXTS FOR US POLICE STATE






Patrick Briley
February 21, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

Michael Chertoff, President Bush’s nominee for the next head of the Homeland Security agency was confirmed by a vote of the full Senate on February 15, 2005.

Chertoff is the replacement for Tom Ridge. Bush’s first choice for head of Homeland Security, New York’s former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, was forced to withdraw when serious allegations were raised about his possible improprieties. If the facts presented in this report are seriously investigated and properly acted upon, Michael Chertoff should be immediately removed and face criminal charges. This could be another fiasco for Bush just as the nomination of Bernard Kerik proved to be.

Bush and Congress certainly should not have entrusted Chertoff with being the head of the Homeland Security Agency. Chertoff is a grave thread to the lives, welfare and freedoms of the American people.

Chertoff has had a rapid rise to power as an appointee of Presidents HW and GW Bush. First, as a U.S. attorney in New Jersey (1990-1994), then as assistant Attorney General at the DOJ criminal division heading up the investigation of 9-11 (2001-2003), and now, most recently as a federal judge in Philadelphia (March 2003 to present). Chertoff also helped write many of the controverisal portions of the PATRIOT Act and other new laws that even conservative Republicans believe are unecessary police state infringements of the Bill of Rights and Consititutional guarantees of US citizens. Chertoff also was consulted by the CIA about torture and renditions of terror suspects to other countries for torture.

This report presents a study of Michael Chertoff’s role in the 1993 WTC bombing, the OKC bombing and the 9-11 terrorist attacks as well as Chertoff’s coverup of FBI and DOJ foreknowledge and provocation of these attacks. The information in the report strongly implicates Chertoff in intentionally helping create and provoke these terrorist acts and terror funding in order to provide a pretext for much of the controversial police state provisions in laws which Chertoff has helped write. Chertoff’s unethical and criminal roles and conduct revealed in this report raises grave concerns that Chertoff, as head of Homeland Security, would further attempt to impose a US police state and continue to use illegal, unconstitutional and immoral tactics against the America people. The recently enacted National ID card provisions to be finally determined and enforced by the Homeland Security agency under Chertoff are likely to be those of a Russian style police state as revealed in this report.

A Chicago Tribune article “Trading Privacy (Freedom) for Security” dated April 21, 1995, two days after the OKC Bombing, carried quotes by Admiral Studeman, the acting Director of CIA who had been appointed by HW Bush. Studeman stated that the OKC Bombing indicated “ the true globalization of the terrorist threat.” In other words, Studeman tried to create the public impression that the OKC bombing was the result of global terrorist efforts, not just those of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

The title of the article “Trading Privacy (Freedom) for Security” quoting Admiral Studeman belied the past and future attempts of HW Bush, GW Bush and their appointee, Michael Chertoff, to push for loss of freedoms to fight terrorism (PATRIOT Act flaws and FISA court violations by Ashcroft and Chertoff).

In the immediate aftermath of 9-11 former President GHW Bush publicly advocated suspension of the US Constitution and violation of laws by the DOJ and CIA and FBI agents inside the US to allow domestic spying on Americans. This is what Presidents GHW Bush and GW Bush and Chertoff have had in mind all along when they intentionally helped create the terror pretexts they have used to illegally and immorally trade American freedoms and privacy for a false sense of security.

1993 WTC Bombing

The FBI planted and paid Emad A. Salem in New York and New Jersey to act as an agent provocateur, to recruit, organize and encourage Muslims to bomb the World Trade Center (WTC) in 1993. From March through June 1993 Mr. Salem recruited seven Muslims from the Abu Bakr mosque in Brooklyn and the al-Salaam mosque in Jersey City, where the Muslim cleric Sheik Abdel Rahman preached to incite violence in his terrorist cell. Salem had known Rahman from Egypt. Salem used the seven men to scout targets, plan tactics and obtain chemicals and parts for bombs. Salem also worked in the operation with a Sudanese man named Siddig Ali who was a follower of Abdel Rahman. The plans of the Salem and Rahman group also included bombings of United Nations headquarters in Manhattan and several other buildings, bridges and tunnels in New York

The FBI supplied a safe house for Salem’s group in Queens. At the WTC trial US prosecutors and attorneys acknowledged Mr. Salem's role in organizing the safe house activities, but told the jury "he was merely providing an opportunity" to people who already wanted to commit crimes. According to tapes played at the trial, the FBI and US Attorneys clearly were shown to have intentionally used Salem as a provocateur.

Michael Chertoff was the US Attorney appointed by HW Bush and retained by Bill Clinton for New Jersey from 1990-1994. As US Attorney for New Jersey Chertoff was deeply involved with the 1993 WTC bombing sting operation using FBI monitoring of the Abdel Rahman and Salem’s recruited cell members at the Al Salaam mosque in Jersey City. The US Attorney from New York who worked with Chertoff to prosecute the 1993 WTC bombing case was Patrick Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is also conducting the federal grand jury investigating the illegal outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, the wife of Ambassador Wilson who investigated claims of uranium acquisition by Iraq. Chertoff and Fitzgerald were fully aware of the statements made by prosecutors admitting that the FBI intentionally had provided the safe house for Salem terrorist recruits.

Federal trial testimony and tapes revealed that when Salem was asked to assemble the bomb for the WTC, Salem went to the FBI to ask that harmless powder be used to avoid deaths. But FBI and US Attorneys involved essentially cut Salem off and the WTC was bombed killing people in 1993. Testimony by two of Salem’s FBI agent handlers, Mr. Anticev, and Mrs. Nancy Floyd, confirmed that their FBI supervisors intentionally refused the agents and Salem’s pleas to render the WTC bomb harmless.

Three years after the 1993 WTC bombing, Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who prosecutors said helped mastermind the 1993 bombing, was also convicted. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef’s uncle and an engineer trained in the US, was named by the FBI and DOJ as another mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing and the 9-11 attacks. There is evidence known to the FBI and Chertoff that also shows Khalid Mohammed was behind the planning for the OKC bombing with Terry Nichols. Khalid Mohammed was captured in 2003 in Pakistan. Khalid has since been tortured by the CIA with methods reviewed by Alberto Gonzales and Michael Chertoff at DOJ, according to published statements by US authorities, to extract details of Khalid’s role in the 1993 WTC and OKC bombings as well as being the architect for the 9-11 attacks.

Three of the men Salem recruited at the Brooklyn Abu Bakr mosque were allowed by the FBI and US Attorneys to go free and roam the streets. They were Anas and Asad Siddiqy and Mohamed Chafti. They later were seen very close to the OKC bombing in April 1995 with Timothy McVeigh. These three men were arrested on the day of the OKC bombing and then released after intervention by the FBI, DOJ and CIA. The FBI 302 reports of their arrest were kept hidden from the public in the office of FBI OKC bomb task force inspector Danny Defenbaugh until the reports were found and released in early 2001. The witness to the three men in OKC being with McVeigh, Debbie Burdick, was intimidated and coerced by FBI agent Odom to not talk about her eyewitness account during and after OKC bombing federal trials. FBI agent Odom was working with DOJ prosecutors in Denver at the federal trials of McVeigh and Nichols when Odom called Burdick.

It seems that Khalid Mohammed and Ramzi Yousef had kept in contact with the Siddiqys because a letter from Khalid to the Siddiqys was found on Ramzi’s computer when confiscated by the FBI and CIA in the Philippines in January 1995. Plans for the OKC bombing and the 9-11 style attacks were also found on the same computer shortly after Khalid and Ramzi had met in the Philippines with the other OKC bombing participant, Terry Nichols.

Former Egyptian army sergeant Ali Mohammed was captured and tried in 1998 for his role in the 1993 WTC and the Tanzanian and Kenyan embassy bombings. Ali Mohammed trained the Middle Eastern recruits of the FBI and Chertoff’s provocateu, Emad Salem, in bomb making and planting skills for the 1993 WTC bombing. When finally arrested Ali Mohammed was carrying training manuals on how to build and plant bombs in public buildings. Ali Mohammed has also written training manuals along with Mohammed Atef for bin Laden and AlQaeda.

Ali Mohammed worked for US Special Forces, the CIA and then the FBI all while Ali was close to bin Laden and Dr. Ayman Zawahiri and Khalid Mohammed. In fact with the knowledge of the FBI, Ali Mohammed squired Zawahiri and Khalid around the US and in Oklahoma City in March­April 1995 to survey terror targets and set up terror underground networks.

Although convicted, the details of Ali Mohammed’s plea bargain and detention arrangements with Attorney General Reno are still secret. Ali Mohammed knows a great deal about US sting operations of the FBI, the CIA and US attorneys.

Abdul Rahman Yasin was another bomb maker in the 1993 WTC bombing who lived in Jersey City. FBI agents picked up Yasin after the WTC bombing and had Yasin retrace for the FBI where and how the WTC bomb had been built in New York and New Jersey. Yasin had acid burns on his legs and jeans from the bomb making efforts. With the full knowledge and approval of the US Attorneys involved in the case, Yasin was set free and encouraged to leave the US. Yasin left and went to Iraq where reporter Leslie Stahl later interviewed Yasin in 2000. Stahl did a documentary on the story and also interviewed US Attorneys who acknowledge that they had agreed to release Yasin to go to Iraq.

The credit card of another FBI informant, Melvin Lattimore, was used to purchase the bomb making materials for bomb makers Salem, Yasin and Ramzi Yousef. This information was disclosed during testimony of a BATF agent at a felony gun violation trial in OKC for Lattimore in 2001. Lattimore was also seen helping McVeigh, Iraqi agents and the three 1993 WTC suspects/informants in OKC- the Siddiqys and Chafti-during the 1995 OKC bombing operation. Lattimore is a Black Muslim from St. Louis. Lattimore was also 20th 9-11 hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui’s roommate in Norman OK while he attended the Airman flight school on instructions from Khalid Mohammed. Lattimore was also visited in Norman, OK apartments by two other 9-11 hijacker pilots, AlHazmi and AlShehhi. Lattimore, like the Siddiqys and Chafti, is still free to roam America’s streets this very day.

Attorney Lynne Stewart had been representing Muslim cleric Abdel Rahman for the 1993 WTC bombing until Stewart was indicted based on DOJ wiretaps (approved by Ashcroft and known to Chertoff) of Stewart’s conversations with Rahman. The indictments alleged that Stewart had passed critical information to Rahman’s terrorist supporters while Rahman was in prison.

On February 10, 2005 Lynne Stewart was convicted of two of the original four charges against her. Stewart and her defense attorney Michael Tigar plan to appeal and strongly claim that Stewart did not knowingly break any laws if any and that the wiretaps of her are an infringement of attorney-client privilege. The Stewart appeals case will likely revolve around whether or not the charges she was convicted of were valid and whether or not the wire taps used in her case were in fact legal or constitutional. The judge in her case threw out two of the more serious charges against Stewart in 2003.

During the wiretaps of conversations between Rahman and Lynne Stewart, the FBI and DOJ and especially Chertoff and Ashcroft could have learned of information communicated to Lynne Stewart by the Muslim cleric Abdel Rahman revealing possibly incriminating details of how the FBI and DOJ knew in advance of the 1993 WTC bombing through monitoring of Rahman’s cell with FBI informants and paid provocateurs that included the bomb maker Salem and very possibly the Siddiqys, Mohammed Chafti and Melvin Lattimore.

Chertoff was directly involved in the prosecution of the Moussaoui case and sought to limit the testimony of AlQaeda leaders, bin Alshibh and Khalid Mohammed to such an extent that the federal judge in the case threatened to throw out the case and moved to severely restrict if not kill the government’s continuance of the case. Chertoff may have sought to limit the testimony of Khalid Mohammed in the Moussaoui case in part because of torture of Khalid ratified by DOJ attorneys but also because Khalid would be in a position to describe facts pointing to FBI and DOJ foreknowledge information of the 1993 WTC, the OKC and the 9-11 attacks. Chertoff handled the appeal of the DOJ case against Moussaoui in the 4th Circuit court of Appeals now before the Supreme Court. Chertoff with Ashcroft’s and now Alberto Gonzales’ help may likewise be trying to stifle this type of information from coming out in the Rahman case by the wiretapping and indictment of Lynne Stewart.

Since Chertoff was the US attorney in New Jersey fully aware of FBI monitoring of Rahman’s cell with informants and at a mosque in New Jersey, it is entirely possible that even Chertoff would not want incriminating information brought out by Lynne Stewart in Rahman’s trial. The complete story of the roles of Chertoff and Fitzgerald and other US Attorneys with Ali Mohammed, Emad Salem, Yasin, the Siddiqys, Chafti, Melvin Lattimore, and others is one that the DOJ, FBI and Chertoff, Ashcroft and now Gonzales do not want exposed in a federal trial of Rahman represented by Lynne Stewart.

Protecting Terror Financiers and Nuclear Arms Traffickers

Dr. Magdy Elamir, a prominent Egyptian neurologist from Jersey City, was sued by New Jersey for skimming over $16 million from an HMO he operated.

According to a June 20, 2000 article in “The Record” of Bergen County, New Jersey, Michael Chertoff was the defense attorney for Dr. Magdy Elamir.

The lawsuit alleged that Dr. Elamir "caused more than $5.7 million to be paid by wire transfers to unknown parties where the beneficial owner of the account is unknown.”

An August 2002 Dateline NBC reported that bin Laden funded the HMO owned by Dr Elamir and the money skimmed from the HMO by Dr. Elamir was transferred overseas to fund bin Laden terror activities. The Dateline story was based on intelligence documents furnished by the chairman of the House International Relations Committee Ben Gilman, R-New York. Dr. Elamir also funded the Jersey City Al Salaam mosque led by Muslim cleric Abdel Rahman and his terror cell who helped carry out the 1993 WTC bombing. Recall that while US attorney for New Jersey from 1990 to 1994 Michael Chertoff knew of the FBI use of Emad Salem as a provocateur associated with the Al Salaam mosque and Abdel Rahman.

Dr. Elamir also owned MRI centers in New Jersey including Paterson New Jersey where 7 of the known 9-11 hijackers lived. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission revoked his license. It has been reported that Elamir personnel at the MRI centers had unlicensed and untrained access to nuclear materials. Michael Chertoff not only defended Dr. ElAmir against the New Jersey HMO fraud case but Chertoff also weighed in to publicly assert that nuclear licensing requirements may not have applied to Dr. Elamir’s MRI centers.

As the result of a federal sting operation named Diamondback, between the fall of 1998 and June 2001, a group of Middle Eastern men including Dr. Magdy Elamir and his brother Mohamed Elamir were named as suspects seeking to arm Osama bin Laden by trying to buy millions of dollars of weapons including stinger missiles and components for nuclear bombs, nuclear bomb triggers and weapons grade plutonium.

Dateline NBC aired two documentaries on the Diamondback sting operation: “On the trail of arms merchants” (August 2002) and “Stinger missile sting operation” (March 2003).

One of the men in the arms deal sting, Raja Ghulam Abbas, a Pakistani ISI agent, was inexplicably allowed to return to Pakistan.

Two others named in the illegal arms deal were the US citizens Dr. Magdy Elamir and Dr. Elamir’s brother, Mohamed Elamir, an engineer and a US citizen. A federal agent who was conducting the Diamondback sting was told at one point by federal authorities to not pursue with Mohamed Elamir where the arms to be procured in the deal were going.

After Michael Chertoff took over the DOJ criminal division in June 2001, no DOJ charges were filed against Dr. Magdy Elamir or Mohamed Elamir for their role in trying to buy nuclear weapons for bin Laden in New Jersey. There also was no adequate effort made to apprehend the Pakistani ISI agent Raja Abbas. Because the Diamondback case was handled as a criminal case rather than a counter terrorism case, Chertoff was also in a position to control and limit prosecution and arrests in the Diamondback case so that Magdy Elamir and Mohamed Elamir would not be charged or go to trial.

Dr. Magdy Elamir has not been arrested by the FBI nor charged or prosecuted by the DOJ under Chertoff even though the intelligence documents provided by Congressmen Gilman show that Dr. Elamir funneled millions of dollars from fraudulent HMO and MRI companies to fund terrorist activities for cleric Abdel Rahman in the 1993 bombing and also for bin Laden.

With no arrest, no charges filed against and no prosecution of Mohamed Elamir or of Dr. Magdy Elamir in the Diamondback case, Michael Chertoff was also able to avoid being publicly implicated in court as having known the details of Mohamed’s brother’s (Dr Magdy ElAmir) activities to skim HMO funds and transfer the funds to bin Laden AND to the Al Salaam mosque of Abdel Rahman used to carry out the 1993 WTC bombing during the FBI and Chertoff directed sting operation with provocateur Emad Salem, Ali Mohammed, Melvin Lattimore, the Siddiqys, and others.

It is ironic that Chertoff was a defense attorney for likely terrorist Dr. Elamir just as Lynne Stewart was a defense attorney for a terrorist advocate, Abdel Rahman, who was caught in a sting operation mounted by Chertoff and FBI provocateurs who were intentionally not stopped from carrying out the WTC bombing. While Stewart has been indicted on disputed and thrown out charges using highly questionable wiretaps known about and possibly authorized by Chertoff, Chertoff has yet to be asked to explain his improprieties, conflicts of interest and immorality for helping to promote the 1993 WTC bombing and for not having Chertoff’s client Dr. Elamir and his brother Mohammed Elamir adequately investigated and charged when Chertoff was head of the criminal division of DOJ.

Coptic Christian citizens of America should no longer trust the FBI and Michael Chertoff at Homeland Security for protection now that a Coptic Christian family in New Jersey connected to the Egyptian based Al Salaam mosque has been murdered in their own home by Muslim extremists. The Coptics from Egypt had been working to convert Muslims to Christianity at the Al Salaam mosque of Egyptian cleric Abdel Rahman, the same mosque that had been supported by the Egyptian bin Laden terror backer, Dr. Magdy Elamir who was protected by Chertoff. Some of the Christian Coptics recruiting Muslims as Christian converts at the Al Salaam mosque also likely had been informants to the FBI about terror activities at the mosque at the time Chertoff and the FBI were using Emad Salem and the mosque to carry out the 1993 WTC bombing.

A similar group of Coptic Christians from Egypt in OKC had been informants to the FBI concerning ME and Iraqi suspects. Some of these suspects turn out to actually have been FBI informants and provocateurs in the OKC bombing. But now that they have seen what has happened to their Coptic brothers in New Jersey, they now should know that they too could be murdered, especially since it is also now known that the FBI and Chertoff betrayed the Coptics’ good efforts to help and try to provide information that could have been used to stop and prosecute many more of those involved the 1993 WTC and 1995 OKC bombings. But this information was not used because the FBI and DOJ Attorneys like Chertoff did not want to publicly expose their knowledge of the use of FBI provocateurs in both attacks.

9-11 Hijackers

9-11 hijacker Mohamed Atta was known to his friends and associates in Cairo and Hamburg by exactly the same name as Dr. Elamir’s brother, namely, Mohamed El Amir. Atta’s father, an attorney in Cairo, is also named Mohamed El Amir. Dateline NBC reported that Magdy’s brother, Mohamed El Amir was an engineer in Cairo, Egypt, the same place that Mohamed Atta also studied engineering.

Atta shares the same surname as Dr. Magdy Elamir and the exact same name as Magdy’s brother Mohamed Elamir.

The FBI stated in a September 27, 2001 press release that Mohamed Elamir was an alias of Atta’s.

The 9/11 Commission Report indicated that Mohamed Elamir Atta visited at least seven other 9-11 hijackers living in an apartment in Paterson, New Jersey, the location of one of Dr. Magdy Elamir’s MRI centers publicly defended by Michael Chertoff:

“Within a few weeks, Hanjour, Hazmi, and several other operatives moved to Paterson and rented a one-room apartment. When their landlord later paid a visit, he found six men living there-Nawaf al Hamzi, now joined by his younger brother Salem, Hanjour, Moqed, probably Ahmed al Ghamdi, and Abdul Aziz al Omari; Hazmi’s old friend Khalid al Mihdar would soon join them.”

9-11 Drugs, Arms Trafficking and Terror Funding

Attorney General Ashcroft put Chertoff in charge of the entire DOJ investigation of the 9-11 attacks. Chertoff may well have known of the connections of Mohamed Elamir Atta, Mohamed Elamir, and Dr. Magdy Elamir in New Jersey with each other and the 9-11 hijackers, possibly even before the 9-11 attacks.

The New Yorker described Chertoff’s role in the 9-11 investigation on November 5, 2001:

“Since the September 11th terrorist attacks, Chertoff’s office has become the funnel for what is probably the most important criminal investigation in American history, as prosecutors and F.B.I. investigators pour in to seek the boss’s approval. …For day-to-day decisions, Chertoff has the last word…”

Chertoff intentionally squelched and covered up Saudi financing and money laundering, drug and arms trafficking, and terror ties to 9-11 as identified by Ms. Indira Singh and by FBI translator Sibel Edmonds. As part of this ongoing cover-up, Chertoff would have known of and likely been involved in the decision by Attorney General Ashcroft to place a rare state secrets gag order on Sibel Edmonds.

Indira Singh was a business associate of a Saudi financed US company, the Ptech Corporation having terror ties to bin Laden and the 9-11 attacks. Indira Singh independently corroborated Sibel Edmonds’ assertions of drug trafficking, money laundering and arms trafficking ties of US officials and business entities, Saudis and US Air Force officers to the 9-11 attacks. Singh identified that one of these entities was the Ptech Corporation.

Indira Singh’s and Sibel Edmonds’ evidence and allegations point directly to DOJ criminal cover-up by Ashcroft and by Michael Chertoff when Chertoff was head of the DOJ criminal division. Although Ashcroft placed Edmonds under a DOJ gag order, Singh gave testimony to the 9/11 Citizens' Commission, Sept 9, 2004 in New York. Singh read an open letter from Edmonds, and added, "what I have uncovered in Ptech connects with some of the things that she has discovered. Sibel is not allowed to disclose content but she can ask me questions. I know some of the things that she mentioned there connect directly to what I discovered."

Despite Indira Singh’s and Sibel Edmond’s testimony, their testimony was intentionally left out of the commission’s final report as a result of the Bush administration.

Federal judge Reggie Walton is the judge used by Ashcroft and Bush to uphold the DOJ’s gag order on Edmonds and block Sibel Edmond’s testimony about corrupt US officials involved in money laundering, drug trafficking, arms trafficking tied to the 911 attacks, AlQaeda, and the Turkish American council. GW Bush and Ashcroft were also involved in having federal judge Reggie Walton block the lawsuit filed against Iraq by 20 OKC bombing victims. Evidence in the OKC bombing case exposed the FBI and DOJ’s foreknowledge and use of the same provocateurs and informants in the OKC bombing that had also worked with Chertoff during the 1993 WTC bombing­ Melvin Lattimore, Anas and Assad Siddiqy and Mohammed Chafti , the recruits of Emad Salem for Chertoff and the FBI.

Ptech was a Boston software firm financed by Saudi businessman Yassin Al-Qadi, a key financial backer of Osama bin Laden. Ptech's clients included many federal governmental agencies, including the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Naval Air Command, Congress, the Department of Energy, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, NATO, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service and even the White House.

Ptech was an outside contractor with strong terrorist ties that was in a position to have infiltrated and sabotaged and taken advantage of information from government computer systems vital on 9-11. Ptech was in the FAA building for two years before 9/11. Ptech worked on interoperability of the FAA with NORAD and the Air Force during emergencies like 9-11. Ptech had the opportunity to know intimate procedures at FAA and NORAD, to add or change software, and to mine databases in a way that may have helped the 9-11 hijackers and planners. In October 2001 the chief financier of Ptech Corporation, Yassin Al-Qadi was formally designated as a terrorist financier under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Al-Qadi was also a key financial backer of Osama bin Laden. The Bush administration delayed investigating Ptech after October 2001. A government investigation did not start until August 2002 when a Boston WBZ-TV investigation called attention to Ptech.

WBZ-TV started its investigation based on reliable and accurate information given to WBZ-TV about Ptech’s terror connections by the Ptech business associate Indira Singh.

Federal authorities told WBZ-TV not to air the story in September 2002 because it would jeopardize their investigation and would threaten national security. But Joe Bergantino, the WBZ-TV reporter who did the story, has said he now believes the government's demand to hold off on the story was instead a pretext.

Ptech whistleblowers initially went to FBI agents in 2001, but the whistleblowers say that the FBI and DOJ (Chertoff’s criminal division) did nothing adequate to respond and investigate. Then the whistleblowers went to US Customs agents working under operation Greenquest and these agents finally raided Ptech in December 2002 after the Bush DOJ and FBI deliberately waited, delayed and stalled for a year and a half. The impedance, delay and stalling by the FBI and DOJ however continued after the Customs raid on Ptech as the FBI then stepped in and unsuccessfully tried to take control of the case.

In October 2001, Chertoff was appointed head of Operation Greenquest, a multi-agency initiative to target sources of funding for terrorist organizations, according to a U.S. Customs Service press release. Chertoff told the Associated Press on Oct. 25, 2001 that, “The lifeblood of terrorism is money, and if we cut the money we cut the blood supply.”

But this is an exceptionally hypocritical statement given Chertoff’s legal defense of Dr. Magdy Elamir and Chertoff’s knowledge that Dr. Elamir was sending money skimmed from a New Jersey HMO to bin Laden and to the terrorist cell of Abdel Rahman at the Al Salaam mosque whose members Chertoff had used to blow up the WTC with Emad Salem and the FBI in 1993. But just as bad, and perhaps even more hypocritical if not corrupt, is the fact that while also head of Greenquest, Chertoff, the DOJ and FBI impeded and sabotaged the efforts of Customs agents investigating Ptech and the very agents who had set up Greenquest in the first place! Former U.S. Customs chief Robert Bonner created Operation Greenquest just after the September 11 terror attacks to be a high-profile federal task force targeting the financiers of Al Qaeda and other international terrorist groups. But as noted, in October 2001, Chertoff was appointed head of Operation Greenquest. When the Customs task force was folded into Homeland Security, the FBI and DOJ (criminal division and 9-11 team headed by Chertoff at the time) demanded that the White House instead give the FBI and DOJ total control over Greenquest and the Ptech investigation.

Homeland Security officials accuse the FBI (and DOJ) of intentionally sabotaging Greenquest investigations by Customs and Homeland security agents by not turning over critical information to their agents and obfuscating FBI failure to actively pursue terror finance cases. “They [the FBI] won’t share anything with us,” said a Homeland Security official. “Then they go to the White House and they accuse us of not sharing … If they can’t take it over, they want to kill it.”

What further bolsters Homeland Security officials assertions of deliberate FBI and DOJ (Chertoff) sabotage of the Ptech investigation is the fact that even after WBZ-TV finally ran its story on Ptech and after the Greenquest raid, there still have to this date been no charges or indictments against Al-Qadi or anyone else connected with Ptech.

On May 13, 2003 John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge stepped into the cover-up by Chertoff and Bush by signing a "Memorandum of Agreement” between DOJ and Homeland Security, formally taking control of the Ptech investigation from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), giving it to the FBI and DOJ, and further giving the FBI unprecedented unilateral control of all terrorist-financing investigations and operations. According to the memorandum, "all appropriate DHS leads relating to money laundering and financial crimes will be checked with the FBI."

Chertoff and the FBI strongly impeded and obstructed the US Customs and Homeland Security operation Greenquest investigating the Saudi, Ptech and other terror money sources for 9-11. The DOJ, Chertoff and FBI were given control of the Ptech investigation and Greenquest based on the agreement signed by Ridge and Ashcroft. To make doubly sure that nothing is done by the backdoor by Homeland Security to reveal the DOJ and FBI sabotage and cover-up of the Ptech investigation and other Saudi backing of terror finances, Chertoff has now been put in place at Homeland Security to replace Tom Ridge.

FBI and DOJ (Chertoff) sabotage of terror funding investigations does not just end with Ptech and Greenquest. It is even more disturbing that no charges or indictments have been made against bin Laden terror financier Al-Qadi when one considers the fact that the 1998 FBI operation Vulgar Betrayal confiscated over $1.4 million in terror funds part of which were directly linked to Saudi Arabian businessman Yassin Al-Qadi long before his role at Ptech came up. Investigators believe Al-Qadi provided as much as $3 billion to the AlQaeda terrorist network up until the Vulgar Betrayal investigation.

Chicago FBI agent Robert Wright over the objections of FBI intelligence officers initiated the criminal investigations under Vulgar Betrayal. Wright has said FBI intelligence types did not want their probes of terrorist suspects interrupted or ended by the suspects' arrests for criminal activities. Wright further has stated that FBI management "intentionally and repeatedly thwarted and obstructed" his attempts to expand the investigation to ARREST other terrorists and seize their assets.

Wright staked his reputation and career on his complaints against FBI management when he wrote a memo 91 days before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks warning that Americans would die as a result of the FBI’s failure to adequately pursue investigations of terrorists living in the country. Wright held a news conference after the 9-11 attacks with his attorney David Schippers to air his complaints. Wright indicated that 9-11 could have been avoided if the FBI had allowed Wright to continue his criminal investigations and arrest known Hamas terrorists and terrorist financiers that Wright was investigating for over four years.

Wright’s attorney, David Schippers was the legal counsel for the House managers during the trial of Clinton in the US Senate. Ashcroft and DOJ attorneys like Chertoff have repeatedly and aggressively rebuffed Schippers’ and Wright’s attempts to correct the problems identified by Wright at the FBI and DOJ that led in part to 9-11.

In response to Wright’s news conference, John Collingwood, assistant director of the FBI's office of public and congressional affairs, sent a letter to Schippers in May 2002 that explicitly told Wright not to disclose the contents of Wright’s memo - in writing or verbally - to anyone not approved by the FBI. The Collingwood letter also contained what Wright and his attorneys considered an intimidating threat.

Hamas cells in the US that were investigated by FBI agent Robert Wright of Chicago and FBI agents in Florida and OKC for years before 9-11 are part of the terror underground railroad/network set up in the US in 1995 by Khalid and Ali Mohammed and Zawahiri to work with Iraqis, AlQaeda, Hezbollah, Islamic for terror activities in the US. This was fully known to the FBI, CIA, Ashcroft, Gonzales and Chertoff and is the result of White House approved corrupt policy of intentionally permitting known terror groups to operate for years in the US, to track them allegedly for intelligence purposes, without getting them off the streets even NOW. This policy practiced by Chertoff, the FBI, the DOJ and the Clinton and Bush White Houses strongly contributed to the 1993 WTC and 1995 bombings as well as the 9-11 attacks.

Chertoff may really in fact know where terrorist money was/is coming from and going via semi-legit organizations, terror business operations possibly like Ptech, Saudi financiers, drug trafficking, and money laundering via banks infiltrated by US intelligence and US criminal elements. But Chertoff has tried to steer Congress away from learning what he knows by publicly trying to persuade the Senate Banking Committee (looking into the terrorists’ money trail in the aftermath of 9-11) into believing it is not possible to know in sufficient detail:

"Frankly, we can't differentiate between terrorism and organized crime and drug dealing."

“These groups don't hold themselves independently: They work with one another. Terrorists get engaged in drug activity. They have relationships with organized crime."

These statements by Chertoff to Congress sound eerily like the assertions and allegations of Indira Singh and Sibel Edmonds because they are based on the same evidence- evidence that Chertoff, Gonzales, Ashcroft and GW Bush are trying to cover-up and hide and that Singh and Edmonds are trying to expose to save America from corruption.

Protecting Bush and Saudi Terror Backers

GW Bush ordered the FBI (and DOJ) to stop investigating all Saudi business and money ties to terrorists as soon as Bush became President in early 2001. Ever since becoming President Bush has used Chertoff in more instances than just the Ptech case to make sure the Saudi terror backer ties to 9-11 and to Bush were hidden before, during and after 9-11. Here is an excerpt from a speech given by John Loftus, a former Deputy US Attorney, in August 2004 that describes the effect of Bush orders to lay off investigations of Saudi backers of terrorism:

“So I had all my friends in the FBI and CIA send in these files. I said, “Why haven't you prosecuted this guy (Saudi financial terror backer)?...“We'd love to. We've tried to prosecute him but we were told we couldn't touch him because he gets all of his money from the Saudis, and we are all under orders not to do anything to embarrass the Saudi government.”

John Loftus was a US prosecutor and has been a longtime lawyer for whistleblowers in the American intelligence community.

GW Bush had ties to the companies in the US funneling Saudi money to AlQaeda via HolyLand Foundation and InfoCom in Dallas, which also ran a website for Iraq and was represented by close Bush friends and attorneys at Akin and Gump (law firm known for representing drug dealer king pins). Saudi Royal banker Khalid Bin Mahfouz was on the board for both of these companies. Mahfouz was involved with GW and HW Bush in the BCCI scandal, and Harken and Arbusto oil companies. Mahfouz was a defendant in a trillion dollar lawsuit by 9-11 families and he has been linked to financing of the bombing of the USS Cole.

InfoCom and HolyLand were raided by the FBI on Sept 5, 2001, just 6 days before 9-11 and at the time Michael Chertoff was head of the DOJ criminal division. A federal grand jury under the control of Chertoff was conducting a grand jury investigation for InfoCom and Holyland at the time.

The FBI’s OKC Bomb task force inspector Danny Defenbaugh was tracking the AlQaeda front organizations in Dallas connected to these companies for several years prior to 2001 as SAC of the Dallas FBI office. Defenbaugh was tracking the AlQaeda financiers like at Holyland and InfoCom and AlQaeda members including bin Laden’s personal secretary El Hage using Dallas police officers. In early 2001 the FBI 302 reports showing the arrest and release but involvement of three men in the OKC bombing were found hidden in Defenbaugh’s office. Emad Salem had recruited the same three men for the FBI and Chertoff to help carry out the 1993 WTC bombing. They were Anas and Asad Siddiqy and Mohammed Chafti who had rented a car in Dallas and were fleeing to Dallas when they were arrested in Dallas the day of the OKC bombing The Siddiqys continued to work with Khalid Mohammed after the 1993 WTC bombing on the plans for the OKC bombing and for the 9-11 attacks. This was known to the FBI and CIA and likely Chertoff going back to 1995 and also may have had a bearing on the raid of InfoCom and HolyLand just 6 days before 9-11 in Dallas.

Because InfoCom and HolyLand Foundation were allowed to operate by the FBI and DOJ for years with known terror connections and ties to Bush and the Saudis friend of Bush, and because no indictments of Bush business associate Mahfouz and Bush attorneys representing these companies were ever handed down, there is a very strong suspicion that any evidence that the federal Grand jury may have gotten from the FBI raid on the companies just before 9-11 was redacted, manipulated or slanted by Chertoff and the DOJ to protect the FBI, DOJ, Bush, the Saudis and Khalid Mahfouz. Was evidence also confiscated from these companies that implicated Bush, the FBI, DOJ, CIA and Chertoff in prior knowledge and possible provocation of the 9-11 attacks, provocation like was done in the 1993 WTC bombing by Chertoff and the FBI??

It is very conceivable Ashcroft, Chertoff, Gonzales and the FBI have now likely scrubbed any evidence seized at InfoCom and HolyLand that might have been incriminating to the FBI, DOJ, Bush, the Saudis and Bush attorneys.

GW Bush and HW Bush have a long history of dealing with Saudi terror backers and Saudi financing via BCCI connections to James Bath, Saudi Khalid Mahfouz, and FBI director Robert Mueller while he was at DOJ.

Besides Khalid Mahfouz, GW Bush has had long standing ties to terrorist backer Sami Al Arian. GW Bush met with Al Arian several times and took campaign contributions from him when Bush had been previously warned by the Secret Service that Al Arian was a terrorist

Sami Al Arian and his terror cell group in Florida was investigated and tracked by the FBI in Florida for over 13 years before Al Arian was arrested after 9-11. Al Arian and his group were associated with the OKC bombing, the 9-11 attacks and funding of the terrorist groups, Hamas, AlQaeda and Islamic Jihad.

Al Arian and his terror cell in Florida were tracked but intentionally and knowingly allowed to operate in Florida by Chertoff, the FBI and DOJ as enablers for AlQaeda, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Florida for years. FBI and Israeli intelligence agents jointly monitored Al Arian’s group in Florida for over 13 years and information gleaned from the group was passed on to the FBI office in OKC warning them of an attack on OKC’s federal building three days before the OKC bombing. This joint operation and the information it developed was available to and likely known to Chertoff while he was head of DOJ’s criminal division.

Chertoff and Porter Goss directly assisted Bush in keeping the 28 missing pages out of the 9-11 Congressional report. According to public statements by Senators Bob Graham and Richard Shelby, these 28 missing pages referred directly to the Saudi money, drug and arms trafficking ties to 9-11 and GW Bush. The missing pages also refer in part to the InfoCom and Holyland Foundation case as well as the allegations of Sibel Edmond, Indira Singh and FBI agent Robert Wright about Ptech and its bin Laden, AlQaeda financier, Yassin Qadi. They also refer to Saudi funding of 9-11 hijacker pilots AlMhidhar and AlHazmi while living in an apartment provided by an FBI informant and provocateur in San Diego, Abdusattar Sheikh.

The DOJ, Chertoff and the FBI directly prevented FBI agents from testifying at the 9-11 Congressional hearings. The agents were in a position to testify about their tracking of 9-11 hijacker terrorists AlMhidhar and AlHazmi and their monitoring of the Saudi money connections to the these hijackers. Porter Goss and his director, James Lewis, helped Bush, Ashcroft and Chertoff cover-up and impede the 9-11 Congressional investigation while Goss was Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation of the 9-11 attacks. My attorney Mike Johnston and I had direct communications with James Lewis during the Lewis and Goss cover-up in the 9-11 Congressional hearings and report. Now as head of the CIA, Goss is in a position like Chertoff to perpetrate and cover up more terror pretexts as an excuse for laying the groundwork for a police state in America.

Using Nazi Trained Muslim Brotherhood Terrorists

The CIA, the DOJ, the FBI and US Presidents including HW Bush, GW Bush and Clinton, have used Nazi and German (West and East-STASI) trained and backed members of the Muslim Brotherhood for decades for operations in the US, the ME, Afghanistan and Israel according to a public speech entitled ” Muslim Brotherhood, Nazis and Al Qaeda” given by John Loftus in Israel in August 2004. As a former US prosecutor with the DOJ’s Nazi-hunting unit, Loftus was granted access to classified CIA and NATO archives.

Many of the participants known to the CIA, FBI and DOJ (Chertoff) who carried out the 9-11 attacks, the OKC and the 1993 WTC bombing were members of the Muslim Brotherhood who also had prior and distinct connections to the CIA and German intelligence. Khalid Mohammed, Mohammed Elamir Atta and FBI informant Melvin Lattimore were all members of the Muslim brotherhood with prior FBI and CIA connections. Khalid Mohammed and Mohammed Atta were funded first by Iraq and Sadam Hussein and the Muslim Brotherhood, then by bin Laden.

Al Fatah (Melvin Lattimore was the North American recruiter for Al Fatah), PLO, PLFP and Hamas and even AlQaeda are all direct out growths of the CIA used, supported, nurtured and preserved elements of the Nazi based Muslim brotherhood going back to World War II.

9-11 hijacker Mohammed Atta was funded by Saddam Hussein and Pakistan directly through the Muslim Brotherhood according to documents reported on in late 2003 by Scott Wheeler of Insight magazine.

Phoenix FBI agent Ken Williams and other FBI agents were authorized by Janet Reno to make payments to Hamas in the US to track Hamas operations but nothing was done about Hamas at the time or for years afterwards.

The FBI tracked and monitored Hamas operations in Florida and OKC connected to the OKC bombing and the 9-11 attacks for over 13 years but did nothing about Hamas.

Hamas cells in the US that were investigated by FBI agent Robert Wright of Chicago and FBI agents in Florida and OKC for years before 9-11 are part of the terror underground railroad/network set up in the US in 1995 by Khalid and Ali Mohammed and Zawahiri to work with Iraqis, ALQaeda, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad for terror activities in the US. This is fully known to the FBI, CIA, and Chertoff and is part of the corrupt and arrogant policy of letting known terror groups to operate for years in the US without getting them off the streets even NOW. The White House, the FBI and CIA wrongly think they have enough control of these groups "to keep anything bad from happening with a 99% certainty" (quote from Dale Watson on PBS documentary in 2003).

Chertoff, the DOJ, the FBI and the CIA knew and covered up the fact they knew that an East German STASI agent (members still in the new republic of Germany) helped train the Hamburg cell of Mohammed Atta, AlShehhi and Ziad Jarrah. Terrorists Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Mohammed were likely trained by terrorist Abu Nidal for Iraq and by Egyptian CIA and FBI operative Ali Mohammed The FBI intentionally helped populate three Abu Nidal terror cells in the US in 1995 according to Congressional testimony by FBI director Louis Freeh. While acting as the assistant Attorney General of the DOJ, Chertoff played a major role in reformulating U.S. anti-terrorism policy. Chertoff was one of the chief architects of Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act, also known as the International Money Laundering Abatement and Financial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001.

PATRIOT Act and Police State

Chertoff did in fact help write the many objectionable "sunset" parts of the PATRIOT Act that Gonzales wants restored when they expire because they have proclaimed (as an excuse) that the US is in a never-ending, perpetual war with terrorism. They want to suspend the US Constitution in favor of military law at the event of another major terror attack just as General Tommie Franks has publicly warned.

Chertoff not only helped develop illegal and unconstitutional police laws for a US police state at DOJ, but Chertoff now, as Homeland Security Chief will carry out these same police state laws. Chertoff will willingly carry out and extend the perverted legal umbrella legalese excuses provided in the Alberto Gonzales memo that proclaimed Bush, as President, is above the law during an unending, self-declared war on terrorism.

Further evidence of Chertoff’s desire to establish a US police state is provided by the fact that Chertoff will be using ex-KGB and STASI chiefs to work under Chertoff at Homeland Security. The Foreign Press Foundation reported on December 16, 2004 that the Chertoff-led US Homeland Security agency had hired Soviet secret service KGB chief, General Yevgeni Primakov, as well as the ex-boss of the East German intelligence, Marcus Wolfe.

Political “Favors”

It is clear that Chertoff’s rapid rise to the position of Homeland Security Director is in part because of Chertoff’s willingness to help illegally, immorally and intentionally provoke and not try to stop the 1993 WTC, the 1995 OKC and 9-11 attacks. Chertoff has deliberately used these intentionally orchestrated attacks to provide the pretexts to falsely justify writing unconstitutional laws and lay the groundwork for a US police state. But his rise is also attributable to Chertoff’s willingness to do unethical political and legal favors for those who put him in his new position.

When Chertoff was named by Bush to head the Justice Department’s Criminal Division it was reported that Chertoff had squelched an indictment of New Jersey Senator Torricelli as a reward for Torricelli’s support of key Bush legislation the Democratic Party leadership opposed.

Nick Acocella, editor of the New Jersey based “Politifax”, has said that at the height of the Torricelli scandal, and while Chertoff was U.S. attorney, Acocella saw Torricelli and Chertoff embrace and huddle at a South Jersey banquet. Normally a federal prosecutor like Chertoff would have been expected to keep a safe distance from Torricelli since Torricelli was the target of criminal investigations making headlines in the New Jersey media.

Of course, one should not forget that Chertoff was also the US prosecutor investigating and controlling the outcome of the investigations into Whitewater and the Vince Foster death, cases that raised serious questions about both Democratic and Republican corruption and criminal behavior in high places.

Respected columnist Robert Novak reported in a January 2005 column

Unyielding Chertoff that as head of the DOJ criminal division in 2001, Chertoff had been calling the shots to have Presidential Executive privilege invoked and to deny materials requested in 13 subpoenas by the House Government Reform Committee concerning the FBI’s shocking misuse of the mob in Boston decades earlier including a time period when former President HW Bush was running the mob and CIA affiliated Boston Fruit Company (1963). In one case an innocent man went to prison on murder charges because of lies told by an FBI informant. Two of the FBI’s undercover men, including the notorious Whitey Bulger, committed murder without being charged.

Novak wrote that Novak had listened to Chertoff at a 2001 Christmas party explain why Chertoff was for using executive privilege. Novak heard Chertoff argue that there never was any need for the executive branch to grant demands for documents from the legislative branch. During Chertoff’s last year at DOJ, Chertoff was frequently the man who rejected requests for documents. The watchdog organization Judicial Watch provided substantial evidence of IRS harassment, but Chertoff made the decision to not investigate the Clinton administration’s alleged misuse of Internal Revenue Service scrutiny on critics of Bill Clinton. The watchdog organization Judicial Watch had provided substantial evidence of IRS harassment that Chertoff chose to disregard.

Judicial Watch raised concerns (Chertoff’s Crimes ) again about Chertoff during the Senate confirmation hearings for Chertoff’s nomination to the federal Circuit Court. In May of 2003, Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman and President Tom Fitton presented Senate Judiciary Committee members with a detailed chronology of alleged Justice Department misuse of organized crime operatives by the FBI and other U.S. government agencies in the District of New Jersey while Mr. Chertoff served as the U.S. Attorney there from 1990 to 1994. It was a scenario very reminiscent of the Boston FBI and mob scandal that Chertoff had tried to stonewall in 2001. Senators Leahy and Hatch announced an investigation into the matter three days later but the inquiry only consisted of asking Chertoff about the charges, which Chertoff denied. Chertoff was then quickly confirmed as a federal judge.

Larry King had Bill Maher on and asked him what he thought about

Karl Rove: "TREASON"

The Pope: He said the Pope was publishing his e-mail address, after so long going without technology, and thought Lap Tops were Altar Boys

Cindy Sheenhan: "The President should talk to her"

Bill will be on HBO Friday nights.

Larry, It was very funny. Much better than the Cowboy.
Cow for coward. What do you think of Arab countries seeing a President not able to talk to a woman, Mr. President?

We were warned in 2002 also about Mossad "creating "Al Queda cells in Palestine. But the necons and Zionists involved had this story squelched.


This article appears in the December 20, 2002 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
Mossad Exposed in Phony
`Palestinian Al-Qaeda' Caper
by Michele Steinberg and Hussein Askary
The United States government has been provided with concrete evidence that the Israeli Mossad and other Israeli intelligence services have been involved in a 13-month effort to "recruit" an Israeli-run, phony "al-Qaeda cell" among Palestinians, so that Israel could achieve a frontline position in the U.S. war against terrorism and get a green light for a worldwide "revenge without borders" policy. The question: Does the United States have the moral fiber to investigate?

Evidence of the Israeli dirty tricks burst onto the public scene on Dec. 6, when Col. Rashid Abu Shbak, head of the Palestinian Preventive Security Services in the Gaza Strip, held a press conference revealing the details of the alleged plot, as his agency had put the pieces together. The revelations undermine the "big lie" that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has used to justify new brutal attacks on Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and other occupied areas. Sharon claimed on Dec. 4 that Israeli intelligence had "hard evidence" of al-Qaeda operations in the Gaza Strip. Now, the top Palestinian leadership has shown the United States and other nations how Israeli intelligence entities were creating that al-Qaeda link!

American leader Lyndon LaRouche, a Democratic Presidential pre-candidate in 2004, commented that these revelations, if confirmed, could be "of strategic importance" in stopping the American, British, and Israeli warhawks pushing for a Middle East war, beginning with an invasion of Iraq. A war would justify the Sharon government's plan to annihilate the very idea of a Palestinian state. LaRouche warned that if institutions of the American Presidency and the international community successfully block an American pre-emptive war on Iraq, the biggest danger would be that a "mega-terror" attack, blamed on Palestinians, or an "Iraqi-linked" al-Qaeda, would be staged by Israel's ruling Jabotinskyite fanatics, to put the war back on the agenda.

News about the Mossad-run attempt to create an al-Qaeda cell came when well-informed intelligence sources based in Washington had already told EIR that there are many doubts about the Mossad's hasty declaration that "al-Qaeda" had been responsible for the Nov. 28 attack on a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, where three Israelis were killed, and the failed rocket attack on an Israeli chartered jet that was departing from Mombasa airport. There was no identification of the bombers within the first five days of the incident, the sources pointed out, yet Sharon's government ministers went on an immediate propaganda rampage announcing worldwide revenge (see article in this section). Authorities in Kenya also denied the al-Qaeda link. But the usefulness of blaming al-Qaeda, for the Israeli right, was palpable, when Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Kenya attacks "a golden opportunity" to prove to the United States that Bush's war on terrorism, and Israel's war with the Palestinians is the same thing. Netanyahu's faction has violently rejected the Palestinian Authority's revelations, and so far, the American and European press have followed suit, despite the dramatic nature of these charges, and the documents that the Palestinians have provided to the international press.

Chronology of the Revelations
On Dec. 7, the British news service, Reuters, the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, and Qatar-based Al-Jazeera TV network, all reported that the Palestinian Authority had accused the Mossad of creating a phony al-Qaeda cell in the Gaza Strip. Ha'aretz reported, "the head of Palestinian Preventive Security" in the Gaza Strip, Col. Rashid Abu Shbak, said on Dec. 6, "that his forces had identified a number of Palestinian collaborators who had been ordered by Israeli security agencies to 'work in the Gaza Strip under the name of al-Qaeda.' He said the investigation was ongoing and evidence would be presented soon." Al-Jazeera TV added that the Palestinian authorities had arrested a group of Palestinian "collaborators with Israeli occupation" in Gaza, involved in the operation.

Reuters' reporter Diala Saadeh, under the headline, "Palestinians: Israel Faked Gaza al-Qaeda Presence," quoted a number of Palestinian Authority (P.A.) senior officials, including President Yasser Arafat, who told reporters at his West Bank Ramallah headquarters, that Sharon's claims of al-Qaeda operations in Palestinian territories "is a big, big, big lie to cover [Sharon's] attacks and his crimes against our people everywhere." P.A. Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo detailed the case: "There are certain elements who were instructed by the Mossad to form a cell under the name of al-Qaeda in the Gaza Strip in order to justify the assault and the military campaigns of the Israeli occupation army against Gaza."

Palestinian officials promised to provide detailed evidence, and did so on Dec. 8, in a press conference addressed by Colonel Shbak, and by Palestinian Minister for Planning and International Cooperation Nabil Shaath. Shbak told the international representatives that, "Over the past nine months, we've been investigating eight cases in which Israeli intelligence posing as al-Qaeda operatives recruited Palestinians in the Gaza Strip." Colonel Shbak said that 3 men were under arrest, and 11 had been released. He explained that those released had voluntarily provided information going back to May 2002, about the contacts that had been made asking them to operate as an "al-Qaeda" group. The alleged al-Qaeda recruiters were traced to Israeli intelligence, said Colonel Shbak. He detailed incidents, some of which were described in official documents, of cell phone calls and e-mails, where Palestinians were asked to "join al-Qaeda." Shbak said, "We investigated the origin of those calls, which used [wireless phone] roaming, and messages, and found out they all came from Israel," reported the publication, IslamOnline. He said that the potential "recruits," had been given money and weapons, "although most of these weapons did not even work." He also noted that the money for these targetted Palestinians "was transferred from bank accounts in Jerusalem or Israel."

Minister Shaath announced at the press conference that the P.A. had "handed ambassadors and consuls of the Arab and foreign countries, documents revealing the involvement of the Israeli intelligence in recruiting citizens from Gaza Strip in a fake organization carrying the name of Qaeda." He said the ploy was intended "to create a new excuse to escalate the aggression on Gaza Strip."

The international community was jolted again on Dec. 10, when Colonel Shbak held another press conference and the Preventive Security Agency presented the Mossad's potential recruiter himself to the international media. According to reports in the Arabic press in Dubai, London and Ramallah, the man appeared in disguise (for security reasons,) and was identified only as "Ibrahim," but explained in great detail that he was one of the "key recruiters" for the potential cell. He said the story started in October 2001, when, after he sent his photo and mobile phone number to a "contact page" in a Jerusalem magazine, he was contacted by a person calling himself "Youssef," and nicknamed "Abu Othman." After building up a personal relationship with "Ibrahim," and telling him how much he resembled his own son, who had been killed, Youssef sent him $2,000, and began encouraging the Gaza man—who appeared to be in his early 20s—to become a more observant and practicing Muslim.

In May 2002, five months after the initial contact, said Ibrahim, Youssef "told me frankly, 'you are a good candidate to work for us in the company of Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda group.' " This Youssef also claimed to have already created an al-Qaeda cell inside Israel. Ibrahim said that he then approached the Palestinian security services and told them about the transactions with Youssef, and that the security services asked him to continue the communications, which they would monitor. He said that the specific instructions were that Ibrahim was to announce through a communiqué—directly from Gaza—that al-Qaeda claimed credit for a bombing attack, or attacks, that Youssef indicated his network was about to carry out in Israel. Ibrahim stressed that the man also said that he (the Mossad officer) "had the capability to carry out major bombing operations inside Israel, but that the al-Qaeda group in Gaza should claim responsibility for the attack and no other group." In an interview with the London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat, after the press conference, Ibrahim stated, that "the man told him that mega military operations will be conducted inside Israel, and that these operations would be announced through Ibrahim." This would mean that as soon as he gets the signal after a major terrorist act against Israeli civilian targets, Ibrahim and his group would send a communiqué to the press or a videotape, similar to the ones sent by bin Laden to Al-Jazeera, claiming responsibility for the attack.

Ibrahim was also asked to gather specific information for Youssef about a number of persons in Gaza, some of them known to be members of Hamas. When asked why he wanted this information, Youssef said, "I want them to join al-Qaeda." At that point, Palestinian security services cut off the "Ibrahim-Youssef" contact, because it was becoming too dangerous.

At the same press conference, Colonel Shbak said direct money payments "transferred from Israel," had been received by five out of the eight Palestinians who have been giving information to the Preventive Security Agency about this operation. Shbak also explained that his agency traced and obtained a number of telephone numbers, registrations, and bank receipts for money transferred to some of those persons.

Now, said Shbak, the United States and a number of international intelligence and security organs had been supplied with documents and evidence refuting the Israeli allegations about Palestinian connections to al-Qaeda. "These documents prove without any doubt that the ones who are behind this alleged al-Qaeda group are the various Israeli intelligence organizations," Shbak added. He told Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah daily that the "Americans have not responded yet to the documents ... as provided by the Palestinian Preventive Security agency."

The 9/11 Cover Story
The question is whether the U.S. government and other governments will take up the evidence given to them. It is well established that several top Cabinet officials in the current Sharon caretaker government, including Sharon himself, have a long, jaded history of staging precisely these kinds of "countergang" operations, using Israeli covert operatives and Arabs tortured and brainwashed in Israeli jails and recruited as false-flag terrorists. Sharon, Mossad chief Moshe Dagan, and Gen. Effie Eitam are proponents of such dirty-war tactics. As EIR reported in several extensive articles on the Hamas organization, that terrorist capability was actually created by Ariel Sharon and the Israeli right wing, for the purpose of supplanting Yasser Arafat and the organizations of the Palestine Liberation Organization (see EIR, Dec. 6).

Even more to the point, the Osama bin Laden authorship of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has been a cover story from the first moments the media began reporting it as fact. Interviewed on the morning of Sept. 11 as the attacks were unfolding, LaRouche made clear that the breadth and sophistication of these attacks showed that it was "an inside job," involving U.S. military and intelligence operatives capable of defeating or neutralizing all existing and backup security systems. Bin Laden was named as the culprit, explains LaRouche, because his name provided entry into the policy of a Clash of Civilizations against Islam, which right-wing neo-conservatives in the Bush Administration have as their goal. LaRouche has also pointedly asked when Osama bin Laden stopped being an American agent—a reality that the "Islamic card" networks of Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Iran-Contra financiers of the Afghansi mujahideen, want to bury. It must also be asked, when did al-Qaeda stop working for British intelligence? EIR has documented that British foreign intelligence, MI6, worked closely with so-called Islamist terrorist groups safe-housed in Britain, to destabilize Arab and Muslim nations, in the geopolitical service of Her Majesty's government, and an Anglo-American imperial faction.

As recently as November, this coverup of British/U.S. covert support for terrorism continued, with the case of David Shayler, a former MI5 agent who was sentenced to six months in jail for disclosing "government secret information." Shayler told London Guardian reporter Martin Bright that MI6 hired one of Osama bin Laden's closest collaborators—Anas al-Liby, who remains on the U.S. government's Most Wanted List, with a reward of $25 million for his capture—to assassinate Libya's Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi in 1996. Bright, who could not publish the article in the Guardian, but did so in the Pakistani daily, The Dawn, on Oct. 30, received a gag order from the British Attorney General, threatening him with prison, if he publishes any more information from Shayler.

With this background in mind, the public revelations about the Mossad attempts to set up al-Qaeda cells, could have strategic consequences for the discredited Sharon government—and even more broadly for the Clash of Civilizations zealots covering up the truth about Sept. 11. The Palestinian revelations could become the "straw that broke the camel's back," in this dirty war.

These are from  http://www.arcticbeacon.com/page/page/1518131.htm
Law Abiding Ohio Resident And Korean War Veteran Has Authorities Illegally Swarm On His Property Just Hours After He Called President Bush A Liar On A Local AM Radio Station
Although Doug Stout, 77, won't pin illegal entry on his property to his harsh comments about Bush, but says one thing for sure "I don't smoke pot and everybody in town knows it." After hovering over his property with a helicopter, officers then swarmed on his land, looked at some shrubbery and then left without any explanation.
August 13, 2005

By Greg Szymanski



Don Stout looked up into the Midwestern sky one afternoon two weeks ago and saw a strange helicopter flying over his five-acre piece of land in rural Albany, Ohio.



Before he knew what happened, the 77-year-old long-time resident, law-abiding citizen and Korean War veteran had eight law enforcement officials swarm on his property, checking the place out for marijuana.



Never before having a run-in with the law, Stout said the heavy-handed looking group of law enforcement thugs “came and went without saying a word” after suspiciously looking at a large bush on his property not in the slightest bit resembling a pot plant.



“I’ve been here since 1994 and everybody’s knows me including the sheriff. I never smoked marijuana and they know it, but I think they just like terrorizing people,” said Stout in a telephone conversation from his rural home, adding he still hasn’t received an answer from anyone why law enforcement officials invaded his privacy and entered his land without a proper search warrant.



“It scared the hell out of me as eight or ten men swarmed my place. I was weeding my garden and the next thing you know, they were on my property, looked at this bush and left without saying a word. It was ridiculous, but the sheriff, the deputy sheriff and the game warden all raided my place for no reason and I am still looking for an explanation.”



Although Stout can’t pinpoint why authorities entered his property without a warrant, earlier that day he aired his strong opinions against President Bush, calling him an outright liar, on a free speech and truth-telling talk radio show on the popular WAIF AM770 local radio station.



Stout said he has been calling in regularly voicing his anti-Bush opinions, saying people in rural Ohio are finally starting to wake up to lies, deceit and treachery imposed on the American people by what he calls a “lying dog of a President.’



“I think he and the rest of his buddies are corrupt, down right crazy and Bush should be impeached plain and simple for lying to the people about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,” said the former Korean War veteran, who lashed out at Bush for going to war illegally and in the process killing thousands of innocent civilians, including more than 1,700 GI’s.



“I think George Bush is a liar and is personally responsible for the deaths of many good young men in order that his rich buddies could profit from this illegal war.”



Considering himself a “true American” who honorably fought for his country and drove a Greyhound bus for many years, the plain speaking Bush critic thinks America is in a crisis and at the brink of martial law at the hands of government tyrants bent on destroying the country from within.



“I think we have lost this country and many people feel it’s too late and feel helpless about doing anything about it,” said Stout. “I am pretty outspoken about a lot of things and it wouldn’t surprise me if another terrorist hits us harder than 9/11, putting the country under a state of emergency and martial law while at the same time taking the heat off Bush.



“This reminds me of Nazi Germany. The people are being fed propaganda and in turn the dollar is going to hell as are the rest of our freedoms. I don’t think we should give up our freedoms in order to be safer, when all the government is trying to do is take us over from within.



“The Founding Fathers would have never stood for what is going on and would have thrown Bush and his buddies out on their ears. I think the people of Ohio are starting to wake up and I do not intend to stop talking about how I feel on that talk radio show.”



Besides the strange raid on Stout’s property, the radio station giving the thumbs up to air the controversial truth-telling radio program in the traditionally conservative heartland also has reported mysteriously having its transmitter knocked out on two occasions from “two mysterious bolts of lightening.”



Housewife Lauren Dowling, another avid WAIF listener and unofficial promoter of the truth-telling show that schedules many of the guests for broadcaster Sharon Elliot and station owner Joe Edwards, isn’t pointing fingers but said this week from her rural home that the two “bolts of lightening” in the last six weeks was very unusual.



Although Elliot and Edwards have been airing a controversial show from their station headquarters in Nelsonville, Ohio, radio for quite some time, it hasn’t been until recently that they decided to bring on even more controversial figures like anti-establishment broadcaster Alex Jones and others to talk the traditionally mainstream audience at WAIF.



“And Maureen Jones just came on the other day educating people about fluoride in the water, which was very interesting,” said Dowling, adding calls have been coming in from all over the South East quadrant of Ohio, including parts of West Virginia about the station that has small town roots but a large broadcast reach.



“I thought it was time the people of our community heard the truth from people like Alex Jones, who by the way, probably shocked a few listeners, but had a very important message which has been basically censored by the mainstream press.



“I’m just an average Mom, giving out a common sense dose of the truth to these arrogant leaders.

.

Besides Jones, WAIF is scheduling for future morning shows other alternative broadcasters and activists basically silenced in rural America by the Bush propaganda machine and a cooperative press.



Plans also include interviewing many people who have had their voices silenced about 9/11, especially eye-witness, victims and journalists who have struggled hard to wake up a sleeping country.



“It’s never too late and people around here are starting to open their hearts and minds, tuning in to listen and participate,” added Dalling.



And Stout, who many people in the community believe had his civil rights violated by law enforcement officials for voicing his regularly on WAIF, had one last message to President Bush before getting to the bottom of why officials illegally swarmed down on his private property:



“I don’t intend to trade of security for my rights as an American. I believe we need to take our country back from these thugs and brown shirts before or jobs, our financial security and our lives are taken away from us right before our very eyes.



“I want the American people to know that a lot of other people here in Ohio feel like I do and also know the election was stolen by Bush. He is losing popularity because a lot of people over here are finally starting to see through his lies, lies that are costing young American lives every day this illegal war continues.”

FBI Confiscates Personal Property Of Former U.S. Army Corporal Who Blew Whistle On 1976 Government funded "Perfect Terrorist Plan" To Topple Twin Towers
Timothy McNiven says he has been harassed by the FBI and now had DOD card taken without a warrant ever since trying to alert the American people about the government's prior knowledge of 9/11.
July 31, 2005


By Greg Szymanski



A former U.S. Army corporal who blew the whistle on a 1976 government funded study to topple the Twin Towers using jetliners, Arab terrorists and box cutters on July 6 had four FBI agents threaten to "tear his apartment apart" if he didn't turn over his legally obtained Department of Defense ID card.



Timothy McNiven, who said he was threatened and harassed by agents in the hallway outside his Bellingham, WA., apartment, claims to be a part of a military unit stationed in Strasbourg, Germany, during the 1970s, assigned the task to brainstorm "the perfect terrorist plan" and what turned out to be the exact same scenario that took place at the WTC on 9/11.



McNiven said his military unit's 9/11-like assignment, lasting over six months and funded by Congress under the guise of airline safety preparedness, proves the government had "plenty of foreknowledge" about possible airline attacks at the WTC.



He even suggested what seemed like a harmless military airline safety study may have been used later to perfect a way to bring down the WTC in order to create another Pearl Harbor like event to facilitate a world wide climate of war.



And since 9/11, McNiven has tried in every way possible to alert the American people about his unit's mock military assignment, creating even more suspicion of the government's hand in 9/11, by first creating a web site and then telling his story in March to The American Free Press and The Arctic Beacon news web cast.



McNiven's accusations about the hidden purpose behind the Congressional study are also included in a signed affidavit as part of a 9/11 related federal conspiracy (RICO) lawsuit filed against President Bush and others in 2004 by Philadelphia attorney Phil Berg.



The publicized version of the study, commissioned by Congress, was to identify security lapses and submit corrective measures to lawmakers," said McNiven. "However, the real purpose of the study was to brainstorm how to pull off a terrorist attack using the exact same 9/11 scenario."



To back up his story, he passed a credible lie detector test, the same type of credible test taken by Daniel Ellsberg and other famous whistle blowers as well as providing many names of the men his unit who also participated in the mock WTC assignment.



McNiven claims, however, since going public and being a part of the law suit, his efforts have been met with government indifference, outright harassment and constant FBI monitoring, the July 6 FBI visit to his Bellingham home another example.



"Our commanding officer back in 1976, Lt. Michael Teague, gave our unit of about 100 a direct order and assignment to brainstorm how to bring down the Twin Towers using jetliners and even box cutters," said McNiven this week from his apartment in Bellingham about the study commissioned to C-Battery 2/81st Field Artillery, U.S. Army, stationed in Strasbourg, Germany.



"I remember Lt. Teague changed the scenario from a 100 story building to the Twin Tower, acting on specific orders from unknown superiors. He then said it was very strange to be asked to devise a plan to blow up your own home town as he was from New York.



"But as I watched the Twin Towers really collapse on the morning of September 11th, I realized I was watching the very same thing we devised in the 1976.



McNiven recalls at first Lt. Teague demanded strict silence regarding the assignment, but later took him aside, giving him a direct order to "never stop alerting the American people" about the government's obvious hand in working on a plan to bring down the Twin if it ever really happened.



"I still feel I am under this direct order and have no intention of disobeying it," said McNiven, adding he still feels his active military duty has not ended due to 9/11.





Regarding the FBI visit to McNiven's home on July 6, a spokesperson from the Bellingham, WA., office confirmed agent Lance Boyer and three others confiscated McNiven's DOD card outside his apartment on the date mentioned, but refused to comment further about the nature, legality or purpose for taking his personal property.



The FBI spokesperson added that his property was taken without a proper warrant, McNiven claiming he only gave it up after being "threatened and harassed" by the four agents in the hallway outside his apartment.



"Agents did go to Mr. McNiven's home and did take his ID card, but that's all we can say right now," said the Bellingham FBI spokesman several hours after the incident occurred.



Although the FBI refused to elaborate, McNiven said he has been singled-out, intimidated and harassed for going public about the mock 1976 "perfect terrorist plan."



"This visit was not to get information but to harass me. I got a reply from the ACLU and they said that I had a legal case but they did not have the resources to take it on," he said.



"In May 2004, I wrote to several FBI offices asking them to do some research for me and to help find the members of C-Battery 2/81st FA, US Army, the men who also worked on the 1976 mock terrorist study. I have kept a copy of the email to the FBI and this is the reason why they I think they showed up."



McNiven said in the past he has tried to relocate many of his former unit members, years ago finding one member, Sgt. Riggs, who was reluctant to talk since Riggs claimed he and his family members had already experienced death threats over going public about the 1976 airline safety study.



Elaborating further on the FBI visit, McNiven recalls in detail facts indicating agents had been tracking his movements for at least a year.



"We started talking in the hallway of my apartment and they asked me if I was a federal agent and I said yes I had an ID to prove it. We walked to my room and I showed them my DOD ID card," said McNiven.



"Then we talked a little more, with one guy doing the questioning, and then two of the other guys started to make smart-ass comments, one of these guys being Agent Boyer."



He said the agents then insisted on seeing his ID card again, McNiven giving it to Agent Boyer but then ripping it out his hand after the agents questioned the validity of his identification.



"One of the Hispanic agents then began to threaten me, saying if I did not give them my ID that they would go and get a bunch of Bellingham Police and come back and tear my place apart," said McNiven.



"So I gave them the ID after, although asking for a receipt, which they gave me. It was strange, though, they knew about my trip to the Pentagon in August 2004 and the letter I sent to the personnel office, which they asked me if the Bellingham Police had come to talk to me about and I said they hadn't.



"I told them that the only people I had ever contacted about getting a new DOD card, as I used to work under cover for them but recently stopped, were lawyers like Gerry Spence, DOD personnel and Federal Judge Coughenour from the Seattle Federal Court. I also gave them the envelope and letter that came along with the ID, saying that it was a federal judge who helped me get this ID in the first place."



McNiven said the FBI has not returned his DOD card or has not contacted him since the July 6 incident, saying he believes they are "waiting for my next move" which McNiven said will be made before a court of law.



Regarding the validity of his DOD affiliation, McNiven said he went through the proper official channels, needing to renew his ID card last year in order to officially carry out his orders given to him by Lt. Teague as a result of 9/11.



McNiven added he is no stranger to DOD as he worked in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an undercover agent on several drug related government investigations.



"A DOD card is a government agency ID just like any other, in this case giving me authority for my military mission to alert the American people about the 1976 plan to topple the Twin Towers," said McNiven.



"I also have the authority to arrest on federal charges like treason or espionage and through Interpol for crimes against humanity and war crimes, which were recently expanded when the International Criminal Court went into effect."



At the time of the FBI visit, McNiven had also just sent the first installment of a proposed book about his life and participation in the 1976 mock terrorist assault on the Twin Towers to an editor of First Amendment Publishing affiliated with The American Free Press.



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Why then have Presidents not come out for the development of other sources of energy, with full financial backing of exploring alternative sources of energy. The PANC Zionists, are central to Zionist Israel. Only through hige amounts of foreign aid to Israel, and military backing can Israel keep expanding. The deal to get out of Gaza was probably agreed on for committment to attack Iran.

This President and his family all have business ties in the Middle east, and have used the Military route to increase their own investments, even using the CIA to make friends by killing off their own relatives.
See these two articles Aug 14. It was the" Saudi connections that Bush wanted to hide, and Ascroft did not let the truth out about the "middle eastern connection= Israelies and Arabs) in WTC 1, Oaklahoma and 911.


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Dear Dr. Kareem…

Saudi Arabia has investments in the United States that form 6 percent of the whole American economy. It’s like they’re feeding a snake that will one day bite them back.

Other Arab countries have more investments in America, if these Arab countries stop oil for one year and withdraw all their money from the United States and Britain, both countries will collapse like house of cards.

Ali from USA



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Dear Ali,



The U.S.-Saudi relationship is one of America’s most important, and complex connections in the Middle East. I was told that during the period between January-May 2005, Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil producer and exporter, supplied the United States with 1.5 million barrels of crude oil per day, 15% of U.S. crude oil imports.



And this arises a very important question: To what extent is the U.S. economy dependant on Saudi Arabia?



In 2002, when diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and the United States came under increasing strain following September 11 attacks, Saudi investors decided to withdraw tens of billions of dollars from the United States, which dealt a sledgehammer blow to the U.S. economy.



At that time some bankers estimated that "high net worth Saudi individuals" had invested $500 billion to $700 billion in the U.S. economy.



Concerns over such huge Saudi investments in the U.S. started to arise in the 1970s, when Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members began accumulating much wealth and investing in the United States.



The Saudi investments in the United States are swiftly growing, and Saudi citizens have control over a large percentage of the U.S. economy.



Much more importantly, Saudi Arabia's exports to the U.S. last year amounted to 98.4 billion riyals, an increase of 13.6 per cent over 2003.



Saudi Arabia has allocated a huge portion of its global investments to the United States, and thas's what enabled the U.S. to finance ongoing trade deficit.



But the fact that various Saudi businessmen are buying large pieces of American corporations and real estate is starting to worry the American public, thinking of the gloom fate the U.S. economy would face if Saudi Arabia decided one day to withdraw its money from the country.



Would the U.S. go bankrupt if Saudi Arabia withdrew its investments from the country?



Only U.S. politicians and economists can answer this question.



Sheikha Sajida

Replying on behalf of Dr. Kareem





saudi arabia has 1 trillion in stocks and 1 trillion in bank




The Emir of Qatar a close friend of the United States and Mr. Bush. He had help from the CIA for disposing of his father.

Does anybody remember the story about the "small" oil firm in Texas that George Bush made bankrupt? Well, a few years before it went bankrupt, Bush won a contract for Oil Sea digging off the Qatari coast, beating Exxon, Mobil Texaco, and other oil firms from around the world.

How did a "small" oil firm win such a prestigious job when it was obvious from the start that Bush’s "small" firm never had the experience or capability to do or finish the job?

The "big" oil firms around the world lobbied for this prestigious job and failed and got beat by a small oil firm that had no capacities of doing a job so huge.

Anonymous



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Dear Anonymous,

Let’s first define the American interests in the Middle East, particularly in the region’s oil resources. To what extent is the U.S. interested in the Middle East oil? Well, that depends largely on the domestic need of energy in the U.S., Bush’s administrations’ desire to maintain access to foreign supplies, and the need for control of those sources of raw material by major U.S. oil firms.

The growing U.S. interest in Third World nations should be taken into consideration when trying to explain America’s foreign policy towards regarding several countries, whose leaders are famous for their alliance to the United States.

It is a well-known fact that Emir Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani seized control of the country from his father Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani in 1995, with the help of the CIA.

Since the 1800s, Qatar has been ruled by the Al Thani family. It was transformed from a poor British protectorate into an independent state with significant oil and natural gas revenues.

Qatar’s oil sources form the cornerstone of the country’s economy and account for 70% of its total revenue. With oil revenues majorly increasing since 1973, Qatar has moved out of the ranks of the world's poorest countries.

And this explains the U.S. interest and attempts to have strong ties with Qatar, and clear evidence that oil is the driving force behind the U.S. policy in the Middle East, and not Washington’s claims of “fighting terrorism”

Sheikha Sajida
Replying on behalf of Dr. Kareem


 http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/article_full_story.asp?service_id=9305

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The U.S., backed by Israel, claims that Iran is covertly trying to produce nuclear weapons


The U.S. President George W. Bush yesterday raised the possibility of using the military option against Iran after it announced resuming its nuclear energy program, Reuters news agency said today.

Bush said on the Israeli television that the U.S. would use force as last resorts to press Tehran permanently abandon its nuclear programme.

“The United States and Israel are united in our objective to make sure that Iran does not have a” nuclear weapon, Bush said during the Israeli television interview.

“All options are on the table,” Bush said in the interview broadcast on Saturday.

Asked if that included the use of force, Bush, speaking at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, replied: “As I say, all options are on the table. The use of force is the last option for any president and you know, we’ve used force in the recent past to secure our country.”

“It's difficult for the commander-in-chef to put kids in harm's way. Nevertheless, I have been willing to do so as a last resort in order to secure this country and to provide the opportunity for people to live in free societies. ”

Iran rejected a European Union offer of political and economic incentives in return for suspending its nuclear programme, and reopened uranium conversion facilities at its Isfahan plant on Aug. 8, restarting its uranium enrichment program.

The U.S., backed by Israel, claims that Iran is covertly trying to produce nuclear weapons, but Iran has a affirmed that its nuclear program is solely aimed at producing electricity.

On Thursday, the governing board of the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) unanimously called on Iran to stop sensitive atomic work.

French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Friday that negotiations were still possible with the Islamic republic only if it agreed to suspend its nuclear activities.

The next step would be on Sept. 3 when IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei reports on Iran’s activities, Douste-Blazy added.

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Dear Dr. Kareem…

Saudi Arabia has investments in the United States that form 6 percent of the whole American economy. It’s like they’re feeding a snake that will one day bite them back.

Other Arab countries have more investments in America, if these Arab countries stop oil for one year and withdraw all their money from the United States and Britain, both countries will collapse like house of cards.

Ali from USA



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Dear Ali,



The U.S.-Saudi relationship is one of America’s most important, and complex connections in the Middle East. I was told that during the period between January-May 2005, Saudi Arabia, the world's leading oil producer and exporter, supplied the United States with 1.5 million barrels of crude oil per day, 15% of U.S. crude oil imports.



And this arises a very important question: To what extent is the U.S. economy dependant on Saudi Arabia?



In 2002, when diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and the United States came under increasing strain following September 11 attacks, Saudi investors decided to withdraw tens of billions of dollars from the United States, which dealt a sledgehammer blow to the U.S. economy.



At that time some bankers estimated that "high net worth Saudi individuals" had invested $500 billion to $700 billion in the U.S. economy.



Concerns over such huge Saudi investments in the U.S. started to arise in the 1970s, when Saudi Arabia and other OPEC members began accumulating much wealth and investing in the United States.



The Saudi investments in the United States are swiftly growing, and Saudi citizens have control over a large percentage of the U.S. economy.



Much more importantly, Saudi Arabia's exports to the U.S. last year amounted to 98.4 billion riyals, an increase of 13.6 per cent over 2003.



Saudi Arabia has allocated a huge portion of its global investments to the United States, and thas's what enabled the U.S. to finance ongoing trade deficit.



But the fact that various Saudi businessmen are buying large pieces of American corporations and real estate is starting to worry the American public, thinking of the gloom fate the U.S. economy would face if Saudi Arabia decided one day to withdraw its money from the country.



Would the U.S. go bankrupt if Saudi Arabia withdrew its investments from the country?



Only U.S. politicians and economists can answer this question.



Sheikha Sajida

Replying on behalf of Dr. Kareem

Forward from ROSE KING:

THE GUN IS LOADED!

The push is on!!!

Today 8-12-05, a day before the 13th, we still see the barrage of dis/mis-info that is regurgitated daily upon our poor world full of mis-guided lemmings by the lying media. The Gun is loaded for bear and we the people of the once great nation of a once was a united states of America are the bear. The efforts to keep of the real issues from being uncovered are as plain as day. The trigger is ready to pull. This is so easy to see by those that know which by the way, are becoming more and more in number everyday.

There is a great concentrated effort to distort truth and derail all attempts to bring the crime families to justice. The bushes are in their dug out ready to make a play for world domination, the rats and dirty workers are in place for another planed gov sponsored mass murdering event in some to be another poor victim community of America any day now. They know the hounds of Justice are catching up to them and they know what is at stake if they are caught and hung out to dry like they all so rightly deserve.

But the real question is, do they know everyone knows that if ANYTHING happens anywhere in this nation, the bush crime family and Co are the first bunch of perpetrators of yet another crime EVERYONE will look for no matter how deep they go or where they hide? What they don’t know is this will be their unplanned and total undoing. This will be the beginning of the End of the anti-Christ. They will be fastening the noose of real justice around their own throats and would probably not save themselves even if they were told how to. They forget God is on Our side?

And because the real Creator God of Love, Justice, Brotherly Love, Truth, Faith, Compassion, Hope, Righteous Morals, Charity, Upstanding Ethics, Life, Integrity, Equality, and Fairness does teach us to be all these things in our daily level walk in life, we are all still praying for you babylon to change your course of self-destruction. You are in enough trouble already.

We pray you do the right thing that will really begin the new way. We pray you cease and desist immediately in your continuing diabolical Nazi World domination plans to try and elude justice by creating another 911-type mass murdering gov sponsored event. We pray you see that escape from Justice is not going to be in your near future. It may however be as with we all, your escape when you leave the flesh in which you are to be admonished to know, justice is awaiting for you there on the other side also. You All will Pay the Piper eventually!

Stand up like the men you pretend to be and face your accusers. Stand up to the truth that comes now to judge you. It is your only chance. Yes, this is the only way to begin on your own path to salvation because the people will be your judges and God will guide! Stand in your truth now or perish in the pit of lies later. Truth is the door to Salvation!

Those that walk in their truth every day in the best human way possible, perfection only belonging to God, will walk in our perseverance to endeavor to save a Nation that is not just a country, but the very representation of freedom and liberty. Without a free America, there will be no free world. There will be no spirituality or further growth of this world. It will begin its fall to total destruction. Hey babylon, does total destruction mean anything to you?

This is a call to all the true Brother and Sister Soldiers of Light. Come forth now with your double edged swords of Truth and Justice. Come from the bottom rungs of the Pyramidal scheme and stop being their “useless idiots” as the drool above call you. Come as you were instructed and take up your swords to do battle against those that behold ignorance as god. Come to battle against those that are purposely obstructing real Truth and Justice.

Is it not every man’s self honor to stand up for what they believe? Well man, do you believe in Ignorance as your foundation, or the Truth of the Square and Level? Ignorance will tell you the square is imperfect. The time is come to cleanse the Temple! To long has it been rent with the wonderful 1776 disease! You stand now with real Truth and Justice, or you will also perish as the pyramid falls down upon you all.

The Rats continue to jump ship everyday for the real fact that they have been found out and the race has always been between the forces of babal pulling another 911 pre-planed event, or the righteous standing up in the Name of the Law and enforcing the common Law by arresting those that are guilty of all the treasonous acts against this country. Do the Righteous thing! Please!!! In the name of your futures, please prepare Brother Jack Lamb’s Operation Vampire Killer and Arrest processes.

Prepare for a nuclear attack they say. Or, fear, fear, fear!! The vamp up to keep the attention off the real problems and issues are the mass deception weapons being used, and we are all sick and tired of it! The real issues to be acted upon are the 911 scam, and maybe more important, the crashing economy. The coming depression! They plan to create the crash, depression, and war all over again like what came before WW I and II. Can’t we collectively learn that war does not work? Can’t we learn that from history? Do we have to go through another cycle of war profiteering at the cost of God knows how many millions again? Will the corruption continue as a way of life for Americans?

There are answers to resolve all the insanity and chaos plans. God guides.

Enact the Lincoln Banking system NOW.
Dissolve all foreign held debts by all the Illuminati banksters.
Bring home ALL American military forces and resources immediately.
Close the borders.
Bring to Justice ALL the corrupt politicians and greedy self centered corporate leaders. (Like there is a difference)
Eliminate all genetically and chemically contaminated food and water systems.
Bring forth the modern disease curing medicines.
Immediately eliminate and put up for firing squads ALL MEDIA dis/mis-informing liars and gatekeepers.
Eliminate all corrupt senators and congress members and elect temporary honest and righteous God fearing community leaders.
Base all trade on gold backed currency. There is plenty of Gold in the Colorado Mountains to build a wall six feet high and three feet thick all around our borders.
Create food co-ops and farmers markets while promoting a program that encourages everyone to have gardens.
Use the hidden technologies NOW to get OFF fossil fuel dependence that includes free energy for ALL using Tesla technologies.
Make Ron Paul President until the next election. (If we have one)

These are just a few beginning ideas. Add to this list and pass it on if you would like to. Let the battle cry be "Family and Community" and remember that God has blessed this nation. If we throw it away, whoa unto us and not oh Israel. We want God back in America NOW!!!!

May it be also be introduced now to the net these ideas to be passed all around while it is free.

Whereas, Let it be known; We the Free Minded People of the World do make these choices for who We ALL would most like to see Indicted by a U.S. Grand Jury right NOW before they pull off another 911 type gov sponsored Event to bring on Martial Law thus ending our freedoms forever:

All Illuminati bankers to be found upon investigations.
The bush crime family starting with daddy, mommie, and w.
Richard Cheney
Condosleza Rice
Carl Rove Both
Attorney Generals Ashcroft and Gonzalez.
The entire Cabinet and all administration officials and underlings not mentioned here now.
All the corrupt judges.
Arnold Swartzneger for plotting to overthrow the USA and his crony backer Rothschild/red shield.
All corrupt and known traitors in the Senate and Congress. All corrupt media owners and lowerlings that are gov gatekeepers and mis-informing liars.
The main liars, bill o’rielly, sean hanity, and all the other lying faces.
All corrupt CFR and Bildaberger members world wide.
Every corrupt and known satanic false spiritual leader with known illuminati ties.
All corrupt local law enforcement leadership and supporting military attorneys.

Add to the List above if you wish and pass around to all your lists^

May God guide the righteous and help us all.

De Oppressso Libre!

ROSE KING

ROSE is one of the great internet writers and we should all listen and take heed of these words.

Jay

Israel has used chemical weapons against Palestianians
 http://www.vtjp.org/report/overview.htm

Do you want your tax monies going to Israel?
They do have the Nukes for defense that is enough!

Judge makes big mistake: Jack Abramoff released on 2.25 million dollar bond

 http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/12/abramoff/index.html?section=cnn_latest

 http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?field=Enews&id=3682
US Organization Calls for Boycotting Israel

DALLAS, August 11, 2005, (WAFA)- US organization adopted resolution calling for boycotting Israeli goods and imposing sanctions on the Israeli Government for its against-law policies.
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At their national convention, held recently in Dallas, Texas members of Veterans for Peace (VFP) voted overwhelmingly to approve a "Resolution on Economic Support for Justice and Peace in Palestine." In support for the call by more than 170 Palestinian political parties, unions, associations, coalitions, and organizations for such economic actions,The VFP called for boycotting, divesting, and other actions against economic activities that support Israel's continued occupation and colonization of Palestinian lands and the denial of fundamental human rights to Palestinians both in Israel and in the occupied territories, according to the VFP convention.
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It also urged its members and chapters to work actively to support such boycotts, divestment, and economic actions which seem to them best calculated to bring about a change in Israeli government policy for the benefit of both the Israeli and Palestinian people.
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It affirmed that such actions should be continued until such time as the Government of Israel complies with international law and the universal principles of human rights.
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On July 9, 2005, more than 170 Palestinian political parties, unions, associations, coalitions, and organizations have called upon international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel similar to those applied to South Africa in the apartheid era.


. 2/26/93 - First WTC attack. Terrorist Omar Abdel Rahman's al Qaeda group declares war on the US, albeit to nobody's knowledge. 6 dead, 1042 wounded
2. 6/25/96 - Khobar Tower bombings. 20 dead, 372 wounded.
3. August, 1998 - Terrorist suicide attacks on US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya. 225 dead, over 4000 wounded
4. October, 2000 - Terrorist suicide attack on USS Cole. 17 dead, 39 wounded

Almost 300 dead and 5500 wounded from al Qaeda terrorist attacks. There were others, but these were most of the bigger ones. And what did Clinton do? He sent some terrorists to jail and sent over some cruise missiles that did nothing. We were at war already and the Clinton administration did nothing!!! Maybe a few threats, but nothing of significance. Even the Able Danger unit that started in 1998 and had targeted Atta, his administration had it disbanded just as he left office.

This is what Clinton left Bush on 1/20/2001 after 8 years in office, along with an illegal Palestinian intifada created by double-crossing terrorist Yasser Arafat. A bureaucratic nightmare at the Pentagon and a CIA too impotent to protect us. The US was at war with al Qaeda and the only ones who knew it was al Qaeda!!! Was Bush hamstrung by Clinton? You bet he was!!!

Enter the 9/11 Commission and who's on it? Jamie Gorelick, Clinton's Deputy Attorney General who, along with Janet Reno, totally de-balls the intelligence capabilities and cooperation of the DoD, the CIA, and the FBI. Richard Clarke comes on and is a media darling saying how he tried oh so hard to get the Bush administration on board with all of the terrorists that needed to be watched.

At the same time, former members of Able Danger tells either Commission members or staffers (it's not exactly known yet) about their findings, twice. Other people said intelligence showed that Atta met in Prague with Iraqi government officials. The Commission pooh-poohed all of this since the Commission members said it didn't fit in with their facts. More on this later. And Sandy "Burglar" Berger steals classified documents and destroys some of them, nobody (but Berger) knows exactly what.

Even though Rep. Weldon brought Able Danger up on the House floor in June, the story truly broke this week. First, Commission members denied Able Danger said anything, then admitted that some had gotten and ignored the Able Danger information. That's because Able Danger's data DIDN'T FIT THE FACTS AS THE 9/11 COMMISSION SAW THEM!!! Sound familiar?

And here is what all this means.

1. The findings of the 9/11 Commission of what happened on 9/11 should be thrown out and a Congressional Commission, led by Curt Weldon, set up to look into all the data, old and new, especially the Able Danger data.
2. The meeting of Mohammed Atta with Iraqi government officials in Prague, thus linking the Iraqi government (that is, Saddam Hussein) to 9/11 and dismissed by the 9/11 Commission, needs to be reexamined.
3. The meetings between Iraqi officials and the government of Niger (linking Saddam Hussein with the attempt to purchase WMDs) needs to be reexamined. British intelligence still believes these meetings took place and dismissing this because of the now-discredited 9/11 Commission is a failed argument.
4. Who were the DoD lawyers that stopped Able Danger from passing their data to the FBI? Are they still at the Pentagon? (If so, they should be dishonorably discharged and arrested and tried for 3000 counts of involuntary manslaughter and other charges.)
5. Sandy Berger should be arrested and put on trial for treason.
6. Jamie Gorelick should be investigated for possible conflict-of-interest charges as related to her involvement as a 9/11 Commissioner and covering up any wrongdoing by Bill Clinton.
by Ray McGovern

Whatever plans Dick Cheney and his neo-conservatives may have had to conjure up a nuclear threat from Iran as "justification" for military action have been sharply undercut by some timely leaks to the Washington Post. In a redux of President George W. Bush's spin on the "grave and growing" danger from Iraq, Cheney protégé and newly appointed U.N. Ambassador John Bolton is on record warning that Iranian "deception" must not be allowed to continue much longer: "It will be too late. Iran will have nuclear weapons."

Not for ten more years, report sources close to the U.S. intelligence community in yesterday's lead story in the Post . Several government officials with access to the most recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran have told journalist Dafna Linzer of its main judgments. By doing so, Linzer's sources seem determined not to sit idly by as our country is misled once again into a war favored only by "neo-conservatives" in Washington and their counterparts in the far-right Likud government in Israel who share a vision of remaking the map of the Middle East. from Common Dreams
U.S. lowers expectations for Iraq
White House shedding ‘unreality’ of pre-war goals, official says
U.S. Marines man a machine gun while on patrol Friday in Fallujah, Iraq. Bush administration officials say the U.S. has been forced to reassess the level of stability that can be achieved before U.S. troops are drawn down.
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By Robin Wright and Ellen Knickmeyer

Updated: 11:32 p.m. ET Aug. 13, 2005
The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.

The United States no longer expects to see a model new democracy, a self-supporting oil industry or a society where the majority of people are free from serious security or economic challenges, U.S. officials say.

"What we expected to achieve was never realistic given the timetable or what unfolded on the ground," said a senior official involved in policy since the 2003 invasion. "We are in a process of absorbing the factors of the situation we're in and shedding the unreality that dominated at the beginning."

Bush: ‘We're helping Iraqis succeed’
Administration officials still emphasize how much they have achieved despite the postwar chaos and escalating insurgency. "Iraqis are taking control of their country, building a free nation that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself. And we're helping Iraqis succeed," President Bush said yesterday in his radio address.

Iraqi officials yesterday struggled to agree on a draft constitution by a deadline of tomorrow so the document can be submitted to a vote in October. The political transition would be completed in December by elections for a permanent government.


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But the realities of daily life are a constant reminder of how initial U.S. ambitions have not been fulfilled in ways that Americans and Iraqis once anticipated. Many of Baghdad's 6 million people go without electricity for days in 120-degree heat. Parents fearful of kidnapping are keeping children indoors.

Barbers post signs saying they do not shave men, after months of barbers being killed by religious extremists. Ethnic or religious-based militias police the northern and southern portions of Iraq. Analysts estimate that in the whole of Iraq, unemployment is 50 percent to 65 percent.

Goals for democracy scaled back
U.S. officials say no turning point forced a reassessment. "It happened rather gradually," said the senior official, triggered by everything from the insurgency to shifting budgets to U.S. personnel changes in Baghdad.

The ferocious debate over a new constitution has particularly driven home the gap between the original U.S. goals and realities after almost 28 months. The U.S. decision to invade Iraq was justified in part by the goal of establishing a secular and modern Iraq that honors human rights and unites disparate ethnic and religious communities.

But whatever the outcome on specific disputes, the document on which Iraq's future is to be built will require laws to be compliant with Islam. Kurds and Shiites are expecting de facto long-term political privileges. And women's rights will not be as firmly entrenched as Washington has tried to insist, U.S. officials and Iraq analysts say.

"We set out to establish a democracy, but we're slowly realizing we will have some form of Islamic republic," said another U.S. official familiar with policymaking from the beginning, who like some others interviewed would speak candidly only on the condition of anonymity. "That process is being repeated all over."

CONTINUED
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8942482/

Now is this the real intention of the adminbistration or just a political attempt to save many Republican seats from being destroyed in the next election? Public opinion is against the war, is this merely a political tactic that will turn around the day after elections. My guess is it is, because President Bush has a lying habit. He is covering up the Biggest lie, this government is heading for fascism: at the DELIGHT OF THE JESUITS!

Here is proof of the Catholic Church's history of extermination. Now the Jesuits still take their oath, they have divided the world up into "Provincials, and they train their followers to follow orders from their superiors. They are infiltrated into the United Nations, their University at Georgetown, in Washington produces people who work for their causes.

Mr.. Phelps, expert on Jesuits claim they control the secret services of the countries, and they are backed by our banking interest and oil industrials, Rockefellers, Bush etc,
So it is imperative that more Americans are aware of their agenda! It is highly unlikely the Current Pope will disband the order, as so many Popes did in the Past and were killed. The Jesuits are in control of the black ops, engaged in drugs, money laundering and world wide assassinations. They are masters of starting wars between opposing groups. Reread the Pike letter to the Pope.

Just as Zionists hide behind "anti-Semitism, Jesuits cry out "anti-Catholic bashing. "

These are the facts presented to you, if you followed the links of this article, you'll have to agree this is a reality. The future of the world, depends on your actions.

Excerpt from www.worldnetdaily.com:
 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45674
I'm also encouraged by Benedict XVI, who seems to have inherited John Paul It's humility as well as his loyalty to foundational doctrines. On Jan. 22, 1998, when he was still a cardinal and the grand Inquisitor (yes!) of the Roman Catholic Church, he declared that their archives (4,500 large volumes) indicate a death toll of 25 million killed by the Catholic Church for being "heretics." And likely two-thirds of the original volumes are lost. That kind of honesty will help relations (though there is no basis for uniting the RCC with Bible-believing Protestant churches).

On the downside, Catholics still persecute Protestants worldwide much more than vice versa, they don't know their Bibles as well, and they are far more apt to have a syncretistic faith mixed with native religions. As a result, their annual growth rate (1.24 percent) barely keeps up with world growth as a whole. In fact, on any given Sunday in Latin America, you'll now find more Protestants in church than Catholics. The typical Catholic is also less likely to be a born-again Christian. If "born-again" confuses you, it means someone who, meeting a cement truck head-on, would go to Heaven instead of Hell. Ironically, the current popularity of that phrase sprang from the title of Chuck Colson's autobiography, and was thought up by his Catholic wife as they were sitting in a Catholic mass!

But the worst of the Catholic Church's problems is their added-on doctrines and customs. "Megashift" lists 56 of them, ranging from quirky (kissing the pope's foot, begun in 709) to damaging (indulgences sold for forgivene$$ of $in$, 1190) to horrendous (the current drive to declare Mary as co-redemptrix along with Christ – spearheaded by Vox Populi Mariae Mediatrici, whose petition to John Paul II was signed by millions of Catholics, including 40 cardinals, 480 bishops, and Mother Teresa. Mel Gibson also supports the movement, as did John Paul himself. (To be fair, they state that "co-redemptrix" does not imply deity.)

This comment is from Conyer's blog: It shows that the elite now in control of Congress, and the administration are following a philospher, Leo Straus, who believes "the end justifies the means" and is backed by "universal fascists banking interests" This explains why we are reading reports from Wayne Madsen about US dealings with neoNazi political and clandenstine groups wanted by the Italian government for assassinations, abd terror.


This article appears in the July 4, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
LaRouche Targets the DLC:
'Protection Racket for Cheney'
by Jeffrey Steinberg and Edward Spannaus
The burning questions in Washington and in world capitals today are: Why hasn't Vice President Dick Cheney, the leading chicken-hawk behind the suicidal perpetual-war push of the Bush Administration, been forced to resign yet—even after he has been implicated in the use of known forged documents to manipulate Presidential and Congressional support for the Iraq War? And why are the neo-conservatives still able to wield influence over the policies of the Bush Administration—as events on the ground in Afghanistan and Iraq veer toward chaos and a growing body-count of American GIs, as the direct result of their fantasy forecasts about invading Americans soldiers being greeted as "liberators?"

The answer was given recently by Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche: "The only reason Dick Cheney has not been forced to resign," LaRouche said in a statement issued June 25 by his LaRouche in 2004 Presidential campaign organization, "is because those Democrats who are under control of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) gang, are more enthusiastic supporters of the neo-conservatives than the Republicans. As long as leading Democratic candidates are not willing to buck the Democratic National Committee group that's under DLC manipulation, they are not morally qualified to run for the office of the Presidency. If they can't recognize a swindle as obvious as that being pulled off by the group of which Cheney is the head, they don't have the qualifications to be President."

The evidence of Cheney's lies about alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction—impeachable lies which he told to manipulate the President and the Congress into going for war—is well documented on LaRouche's website, and in a series of recent EIR exposés. Cheney was directly behind promoting the discredited Niger "yellow cake" story, about Saddam Hussein's alleged efforts to obtain uranium precursor from the African state. Investigations of Cheney's and several agencies' actions, including the Office of Special Plans inside Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's policy shop, are under way. Yet, so far, the Democrats—other than LaRouche, and a pathetically small handful of Congressional stalwarts, such as Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), Sen. Jay Rockefeller (W.Va.) and Rep. Henry Waxman (Calif.)—have refused to press the issue effectively.

LaRouche observed that traditional Republicans are, in their own terms, already in a revolt against the neo-cons, as reflected in the activities of the circles of Brent Scowcroft, certain military-intelligence groupings, and some traditional conservative organizations. Former Nixon White House General Counsel John Dean, a pivotal figure in the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, has written a series of scathing editorial pieces in recent weeks, declaring that Vice President Cheney's performance in the Niger document hoax is far more an impeachable offense than anything Nixon did. Dean had earlier singled out Cheney as an insurrectionist against the Constitution, for his failure to disclose his corrupt collusion with his former company, Halliburton, and other oil sector firms, when he headed President Bush's energy task force at the start of the current Administration.

General Scowcroft, the former National Security Advisor to President George H.W. Bush ("Bush 41") and the current head of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), is leading a probe into how the Niger forgeries were slipped into President Bush's Jan. 28, 2003 State of the Union address; the panel will also probe related issues of wild spinning of intelligence assessments.

Sources in Washington, briefed on LaRouche's assessment of the role of the Democratic Leadership Council, have confirmed, in detail, that the DLC is stacked with neo-conservative ideologues, who maintain deep personal ties to some of the leading Bush Administration war-mongers. One source singled out the Pentagon's secretive Office of Special Plans (OSP), the disinformation shop headed by Abram Shulsky, as a particular hotbed of collusion with the DLC. Shulsky's team of spinmeisters passed unvetted intelligence, largely received from the discredited Iraqi National Congress and from a parallel Israeli "OSP" inside the office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, to Rumsfeld, who used the disinformation to counter assessments coming from the traditional U.S. intelligence community: CIA, DIA, NSA, and the State Department. In effect, the Shulsky team conducted "information warfare," against President Bush!

EIR can confirm the OSP-DLC links. Abram Shulsky launched his career under the tutelage of Roy Godson, son of a leading AFL-CIO International Department counterinsurgent, Joseph Godson; and he first got into the "intelligence business" as a staffer for DLC poster-boy Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan in the late 1970s, eventually becoming staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and, later, of PFIAB.

But one of the strongest DLC links to the war party inside the Bush Administration, first exposed by EIR, goes directly to the Office of the Vice President, where Cheney's chief of staff and chief national security advisor, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, served for over a dozen years as the attorney for Israeli Mafia boss Marc Rich. DLC founding financier and chairman, hedge fund operator Michael Steinhardt, is a longtime business partner and political ally of Rich, and worked closely, albeit in secret, with Libby, to get Rich pardoned, by a bamboozled President Bill Clinton, from a tax evasion and "Trading With the Enemy" conviction.

The DLC, founded in the mid-1980s, is, above all, a "Trojan Horse" penetration into the Democratic Party, on behalf of some of the leading "Synarchist"—i.e., universal fascist—banking circles on Wall Street. The DLC's Synarchist patronage is personified by Felix Rohatyn, the banker from Lazard Brothers who is also a board member of the DLC.

A virtual treasure-trove of World War II U.S. military intelligence documents and Congressional hearing records, currently being reviewed by a team of EIR historians and analysts, reveals that Lazard Brothers was at the center of the Synarchist network of pro-fascist financial institutions, along with the French Banque Worms and the J.H. Stein Bank of Cologne, Germany, owned by Nazi SS Death's-Head Gen. Kurt von Schröder. This international network of fascist bankers, centered out of the Basle, Switzerland Bank for International Settlements (BIS), assured that key American and European multinational corporations and banks, involved in raw materials and war production, maintained "business as usual" on both sides of the Allied-Axis conflict throughout the war, and evaded prosecution at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals.

If the neo-con coup within the Bush Administration is to be overthrown, the DLC must be stopped. And no one is better qualified to lead the cleanout of the Democratic Party—of what Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) called the "second Republican Party"—than LaRouche. LaRouche's unique leadership role in this fight is perhaps best reflected by the fact that, in recent weeks, he has been the subject of blistering attacks from the leading "Synarchist" financial journals of Wall Street, the City of London, and Switzerland, for his exposure of the late Leo Strauss, the German universal-fascist philosopher, as the "Godfather of the Neo-Conservatives."

Project Democracy
In diagnosing the DLC-Cheney collusion, LaRouche has traced the past 30 years' problem with both political parties back to Samuel Huntington's book Crisis of Democracy—written for the May 1975 Kyoto meeting of the Trilateral Commission, which launched the "Project Democracy" drive, to capture both the Democratic and Republican parties, from the top down, for Synarchist bankers' fascism. One prominent author, Bertram Gross, described this in his 1980 book Friendly Fascism, as "fascism with a democratic face."

In the 1970s, the neo-conservatives in the Democratic Party—including Huntington—grouped themselves into the Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM). Its two leading lights in Congress were Democratic Senators Henry "Scoop" Jackson (Wash.) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (N.Y.). The late Cold Warrior and fanatically pro-Israel Jackson remains the model for the DLC crowd today. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.) declares that he is proud to be identified as a " 'Scoop' Jackson Democrat." The DLC's bimonthly magazine, Blueprint, touts Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona as another would-be Scoop Jackson. Former Al Gore campaign manager Donna Brazile recently co-authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled "What Would Scoop Do?" boasting her own identification with the Jackson-Moynihan roots.

Brazile, in fact, personifies the subversive operations of the DLC gang, which is an integral part of the neo-conservative network that has penetrated and perverted both the Republican "Party of Lincoln" and the Democratic "Party of FDR," to the point that any party member or elected official who invokes either of the two great American Presidents in any substantive way, is branded a dinosaur and targetted for "the LaRouche treatment" of slander and isolation. The DLC, in its mission statement by Straussians William Galston and Elaine Kamark, published several years ago in the inaugural issue of Blueprint, declared that their goal is the total elimination of the Franklin Roosevelt legacy from the Democratic Party.

During the 2000 Presidential campaign, when Brazile was Al Gore's and Joe Lieberman's campaign manager, she forged a tight, albeit behind-closed-doors alliance with George Bush's Republican rival, John McCain. The DLC lovefest with McCain has never ended, to the point that McCain's "Bull Moose" third-party campaign chief, Marshall Whitmann, frequently writes for the DLC's Blueprint; and McCain, himself, was given prominent op-ed space in the January/February 2003 Blueprint. When DLC "strategists" Al From and Bruce Reed penned a campaign memo for the same issue of Blueprint, titled, "What It Takes To Win the White House," they addressed the document to "Democratic Candidates for President," with a "CC: to John McCain."

The Lieberman-McCain collusion was widely exposed during the Summer of 2002 in a series of EIR Special Reports, revealing how the "Bull Moose" duo were the driving force behind the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, and the subsequent neo-con drive to blackmail President Bush into going to war against Iraq. The blackmail threat? That McCain and Lieberman would run a 2004 third party "Bull Moose" campaign to shatter the Bush family's dream of securing G.W. a second term. In February 2002, McCain and Lieberman had traveled to the annual Wehrkunde global security conference in Munich, Germany, with Bush Administration leading neo-cons Richard Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz—the most powerful Strauss disciple in Washington today—to declare that war on Iraq was a done deal.

Many in Washington acknowledge, however, that the circulation of several hundred thousand copies of the EIR McCain-Lieberman exposés played a vital role in postponing that Iraq war into March 2003, by which time the entire neo-conservative "war party" had come under intense public scrutiny, restricting their ability to operate in secrecy within the bowels of the Bush national security bureaucracy. Had the Democratic Party not caved in to the DLC, the Iraq War would likely have been stopped altogether.

The Boys With Brazile
Beyond her role as match-maker of the Lieberman-McCain political marriage, DLC madam Brazile's most astonishing collusion with the panoply of radical right-wing Christian Zionists, wannabe imperialists, and neo-cons involves her ongoing membership on the Board of Advisors of a recently incarnated Project Democracy outfit, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), created post-9/11 to provide "bipartisan" support to the war on terrorism. The directors of the FDD are Steve Forbes, publisher of Forbes magazine and former Republican Party Presidential pre-candidate; former Congressman and Bob Dole Vice Presidential running-mate Jack Kemp; and Dr. Jeane Kirkpatrick, the Reagan Administration United Nations Ambassador and founder of Social Democrats USA. The two "Distinguished Advisors" to the group are former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and R. James Woolsey, the former CIA Director. Both Gingrich and Woolsey are on Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board, along with Richard Perle, and are unabashed advocates of a broad war against Islam—what Woolsey promotes as "World War IV," in articles prominently displayed on the FDD website.

Brazile's other Advisory Board colleagues include rabid Christian Zionist Gary Bauer, Center for Security Policy neo-con wildman Frank Gaffney, Weekly Standard editor and American Enterprise Institute Strauss-disciple William Kristol, and Richard Perle, until recently the chairman of Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board. Among the Foundation's staff are former Republican National Committee official and FDD President Clifford May; and Stephen Schwartz, author of a recent hysterical diatribe against Saudi Arabia, The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud From Tradition to Terror, and a former employee of George Soros' Open Society Institute.

Brazile's commitment to deliver the Democratic Party over to the "war and empire" faction was best demonstrated in her "What Would Scoop Do?" May 21 Wall Street Journal op-ed, co-authored with Timothy Bergreen, a former State Department functionary who recently launched a DLC front group, Democrats for National Security. The two wrote that "Democrats have yet to fully comprehend the new reality of the post-Sept. 11 world. While most Americans viewed the war in Iraq through the prism of the Twin Towers attacks, many prominent Democrats still seem not to grasp the profound sense of insecurity that so many people feel in our country.... The American people agree with us on many vital issues—but they believe that we Democrats are weak and indecisive when it comes to standing up to dictators and terrorists and when it comes to the primary responsibility of government: defending the nation.... If voters continue to see us as feckless and effete they will not listen to our message next year and they will re-elect Mr. Bush."

This summarized a speech Brazile gave on May 17 at a Washington conference of another Scoop Jackson spawn, now closely allied with the DLC: the Social Democrats USA. SDUSA, a 1972 splinter from the Socialist Party of Norman Thomas, backed Jackson's 1972 and 1976 failed Presidential bids, and many of its leading lights then led the neo-con migration into the GOP in 1980, landing top posts in the Reagan Pentagon. They were pivotal in the formal launching of Project Democracy, the global covert operation to make the world "safe for democracy and free trade," which had been first demanded in Huntington's 1975 Crisis of Democracy. While speaking of "democracy," Huntington actually called for a new authoritarianism "with a democratic face," to deal with the looming global financial and economic crises and the consequences of the drive for a "post-industrial" paradigm shift. Key to that was the co-opting of the Democratic and Republican parties as instrumentalities for a new totalitarianism at home, and imperial wars abroad.

SDUSA was fully on board with McCain, Lieberman, Wolfowitz, Perle, and Cheney, in pushing President Bush to cave in to the war party and invade Iraq. On Feb. 25, it sent a letter to the President, which began, "We write because we share the view that it is essential to bring Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq to an early end. Broad and bi-partisan support at home—not simply passive assent—must be sought for this objective." The signators stated, "We must act alone if that proves necessary, but first we must do all we can to win allies." The letter praised Bush's British war partner: "We believe that a significant body of opinion can be persuaded of the view argued by Prime Minister Tony Blair: 'Ridding the world of Saddam would be an act of humanity.' A clear statement of your plan for supporting democracy and human rights in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East will help us all reach out to those who are open to this truth."

The letter was signed by 53 prominent neo-cons, not all of them SDUSA members. Among the most significant: Charles Fairbanks, a lifetime personal friend and protégé of Paul Wolfowitz, and co-author, with Perle and Doug Feith, of the 1996 "A Clean Break" study for Benjamin Netanyahu; Hillel Fradkin, who replaced Elliott Abrams as head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and is another disciple of Leo Strauss; Bruce P. Jackson, founder and director of the liberal imperialist lobby, Project for the New American Century; Robert Kagan, alter ego to William Kristol, and a second-generation Straussian; Penn Kemble, founder of SDUSA and a central player in the Reagan era Iran-Contra fiasco, as head of the Project Democracy money conduit, Prodemca; Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, the think-tank of the DLC, and the editor-at-large of the DLC's Blueprint; Clifford May, the president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Constantine Menges, Hudson Institute war fanatic and former Reagan NSC staffer; Michael Novak, the resident right-wing heretical Catholic at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI); New Republic publisher and co-owner (with DLC bankroller Michael Steinhardt) Martin Peretz; Nina Shea, Freedom House activist; R. Emmett Tyrrell, editor-in-chief of the American Spectator; Ben Wattenberg, SDUSA founder and leading first-generation neo-con ideologue at AEI; and R. James Woolsey.

A May 19 article in the Conrad Black and Steinhardt-owned New York Sun quoted Penn Kemble, the SDUSA founder, at the Washington conference: "We're not committed to the Democratic Party." Sun reporter Ira Stoll wrote that in an interview after his speech, Kemble had said that he was "holding out the possibility that Republicans might embrace elements of the Social Democratic program ... pointing out that he had voted for Ronald Reagan and that other Scoop Jackson Democrats had become Republicans. He said that Bush Administration figures such as the deputy secretary of defense, Paul Wolfowitz, were in tune with the Social Democrat agenda of promoting freedom and democracy abroad."

Show Me the Money
In short, SDUSA and the DLC are fully in bed with the Cheney-led neo-imperial gang inside the Bush Administration—guilty, as charged, by LaRouche.

As the result of this collusion, the DLC is now the proud recipient of large amounts of corporate cash, including big infusions, since "Bush 43" took office, from one of the biggest sources of funding for the Gingrich-led "Conservative Revolution." In October 2000, the DLC held a corporate fundraising event bankrolled by Koch Industries, the largest privately held oil company in America, and a big source of funding of the Cato Institute and every other New Right think-tank in Washington. The guru of the event was Richard Fink, director of political projects of Koch Industries and a board member of both the Koch family's charitable foundations and the DLC's think-tank, the Progressive Policy Institute. Joining Fink on the planning committee for the big corporate fundraiser were Robert P. Hall III, another Koch Industries exec, and Michael Lewan, a lobbyist for Enron and other mega-corporations, and the former chief of staff of Joe Lieberman, during his first term in the Senate. Lewan brought Lieberman to the attention of the DLC, shortly after the former Connecticut Attorney General beat incumbent Republican Lowell Weicher with a large infusion of cash from the William F. Buckley family of right-wing Republicans, and from even more radical right-wing Cuban exiles in Miami, Florida.




Why are we at war?

The Lieberman-McCain collusion was widely exposed during the Summer of 2002 in a series of EIR Special Reports, revealing how the "Bull Moose" duo were the driving force behind the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act, and the subsequent neo-con drive to blackmail President Bush into going to war against Iraq. The blackmail threat? That McCain and Lieberman would run a 2004 third party "Bull Moose" campaign to shatter the Bush family's dream of securing G.W. a second term. In February 2002, McCain and Lieberman had traveled to the annual Wehrkunde global security conference in Munich, Germany, with Bush Administration leading neo-cons Richard Perle and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz—the most powerful Strauss disciple in Washington today—to declare that war on Iraq was a done deal.

source: Executive Intelligence Review / Lyndon LaRouche



Larouche deserves to be heard: The DLC is a big part of the problem and must be dealt with!

"Shulsky's team of spinmeisters passed unvetted intelligence, largely received from the discredited Iraqi National Congress and from a parallel Israeli "OSP" inside the office of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, to Rumsfeld, who used the disinformation to counter assessments coming from the traditional U.S. intelligence community: CIA, DIA, NSA, and the State Department. In effect, the Shulsky team conducted "information warfare," against President Bush!

EIR can confirm the OSP-DLC links. Abram Shulsky launched his career under the tutelage of Roy Godson, son of a leading AFL-CIO International Department counterinsurgent, Joseph Godson; and he first got into the "intelligence business" as a staffer for DLC poster-boy Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan in the late 1970s, eventually becoming staff director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and, later, of PFIAB.

But one of the strongest DLC links to the war party inside the Bush Administration, first exposed by EIR, goes directly to the Office of the Vice President, where Cheney's chief of staff and chief national security advisor, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, served for over a dozen years as the attorney for Israeli Mafia boss Marc Rich. DLC founding financier and chairman, hedge fund operator Michael Steinhardt, is a longtime business partner and political ally of Rich, and worked closely, albeit in secret, with Libby, to get Rich pardoned, by a bamboozled President Bill Clinton, from a tax evasion and "Trading With the Enemy" conviction."

Remember Donna Brazille is not concerned with any kind of vote fraud! She is a DLC traitor, who handed over any assemblence of democracy or ethics to the neo-cons.

Tell me again why anyone, should continue to support these kind of fake democrats in a world that has issued wars based on complete lies.


Leading the march to war: DLC

From left to right: U.S. Sen. Tom Carper is vice chairman of the DLC; U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is chair of the DLC's "American Dream Initiative; Al From is founder and CEO of the DLC; Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is chairman of the DLC; (Not pictured: Bruce Reed is DLC president; Pennsylvania State Representative Jennifer Mann is chair of the DLC's State Legislative Advisory Board (SLAB); Columbus (OH) Mayor Michael Coleman is chairman of the DLC's Local Elected Officials Network.)

DLC - Democratic Leadership Council


DLC and SDUSA: The March To War

On Feb. 25, it sent a letter to the President, which began, "We write because we share the view that it is essential to bring Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq to an early end. Broad and bi-partisan support at home—not simply passive assent—must be sought for this objective." The signators stated, "We must act alone if that proves necessary, but first we must do all we can to win allies." The letter praised Bush's British war partner: "We believe that a significant body of opinion can be persuaded of the view argued by Prime Minister Tony Blair: 'Ridding the world of Saddam would be an act of humanity.' A clear statement of your plan for supporting democracy and human rights in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East will help us all reach out to those who are open to this truth."

The letter was signed by 53 prominent neo-cons, not all of them SDUSA members. Among the most significant: Charles Fairbanks, a lifetime personal friend and protégé of Paul Wolfowitz, and co-author, with Perle and Doug Feith, of the 1996 "A Clean Break" study for Benjamin Netanyahu; Hillel Fradkin, who replaced Elliott Abrams as head of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and is another disciple of Leo Strauss; Bruce P. Jackson, founder and director of the liberal imperialist lobby, Project for the New American Century; Robert Kagan, alter ego to William Kristol, and a second-generation Straussian; Penn Kemble, founder of SDUSA and a central player in the Reagan era Iran-Contra fiasco, as head of the Project Democracy money conduit, Prodemca; Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, the think-tank of the DLC, and the editor-at-large of the DLC's Blueprint; Clifford May, the president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Constantine Menges, Hudson Institute war fanatic and former Reagan NSC staffer; Michael Novak, the resident right-wing heretical Catholic at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI); New Republic publisher and co-owner (with DLC bankroller Michael Steinhardt) Martin Peretz; Nina Shea, Freedom House activist; R. Emmett Tyrrell, editor-in-chief of the American Spectator; Ben Wattenberg, SDUSA founder and leading first-generation neo-con ideologue at AEI; and R. James Woolsey.

Full article here:
'Protection Racket for Cheney'



DLC: About the House New Democrat Coalition

The New Democrat Coalition was formed in 1997 by Congressmen Cal Dooley (D-CA), Jim Moran (D-VA), and Tim Roemer (D-IN) to establish an ideological home in the U.S. House of Representatives for the New Democratic movement started by the Democratic Leadership Council in the late 1980's and led nationally by President Bill Clinton in the 1990's.

In February of 2005, The New Democrat Coalition (NDC) announced that Rep. Ellen Tauscher (CA) will serve as the new chair of the organization. The organization was previously guided under the leadership of three co-chairs, Reps. Jim Davis (FL), Ron Kind (WI), and Adam Smith (WA). For the first time, the New Democrats will have a PAC to support both New Democrat incumbents and challengers. The NDC will now have four principle leaders: Rep. Tauscher as chair, Reps. Kind and Artur Davis (AL) as co-chairs, and Rep. Smith will serve as PAC chair.

For a complete list of House New Democrat Coalition members, use the New Dem Directory.

(Select "House New Democrat Coalition" from the "New Dem Organization" pull-down menu and click "Search.")

DLC - House Members

DLC: About the Senate New Democrat Coalition

Senators Evan Bayh (IN), Bob Graham (FL), Mary Landrieu (LA), Joe Lieberman (CT) and Blanche Lincoln (AR) founded the Senate New Democrat Coalition (SNDC) in the spring of 2000 to provide a unified voice in the U.S. Senate for progressive ideas, mainstream values, and innovative, market-based policy solutions.

In just over a year, the SNDC has quickly become the strongest and most unified Democratic group in the Senate. With long-time leaders like John Breaux (LA), and a strong class of freshman from the class of 2000 -- including Jean Carnahan (MO), Tom Carper (DE), Ben Nelson (NE), Bill Nelson (FL) and Debbie Stabenow (MI) -- the SNDC's ranks have expanded to 20 members.

For a complete list of Senate New Democrat Coalition members, use the New Dem Directory. (Select "Senate New Democrat Coalition" from the "New Dem Organization" pull-down menu and click "Search.")

DLC - Senate Members




Who are they following?

Paul Wolfowitz and Lynn Cheney's adoration of Leo Strauss:

Many neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz are disciples of a philosopher who believed that the elite should use deception, religious fervor and perpetual war to control the ignorant masses.

Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception

Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception

By Jim Lobe, AlterNet. Posted May 19, 2003.


Many neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz are disciples of a philosopher who believed that the elite should use deception, religious fervor and perpetual war to control the ignorant masses.

This article appears in the July 4, 2003 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.


What would you do if you wanted to topple Saddam Hussein, but your intelligence agencies couldn't find the evidence to justify a war?

A follower of Leo Strauss may just hire the "right" kind of men to get the job done – people with the intellect, acuity, and, if necessary, the political commitment, polemical skills, and, above all, the imagination to find the evidence that career intelligence officers could not detect.

The "right" man for Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, suggests Seymour Hersh in his recent New Yorker article entitled 'Selective Intelligence,' was Abram Shulsky, director of the Office of Special Plans (OSP) – an agency created specifically to find the evidence of WMDs and/or links with Al Qaeda, piece it together, and clinch the case for the invasion of Iraq.

Like Wolfowitz, Shulsky is a student of an obscure German Jewish political philosopher named Leo Strauss who arrived in the United States in 1938. Strauss taught at several major universities, including Wolfowitz and Shulsky's alma mater, the University of Chicago, before his death in 1973.

Strauss is a popular figure among the neoconservatives. Adherents of his ideas include prominent figures both within and outside the administration. They include 'Weekly Standard' editor William Kristol; his father and indeed the godfather of the neoconservative movement, Irving Kristol; the new Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Stephen Cambone, a number of senior fellows at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (home to former Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle and Lynne Cheney), and Gary Schmitt, the director of the influential Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which is chaired by Kristol the Younger.

Strauss' philosophy is hardly incidental to the strategy and mindset adopted by these men – as is obvious in Shulsky's 1999 essay titled "Leo Strauss and the World of Intelligence (By Which We Do Not Mean Nous)" (in Greek philosophy the term nous denotes the highest form of rationality). As Hersh notes in his article, Shulsky and his co-author Schmitt "criticize America's intelligence community for its failure to appreciate the duplicitous nature of the regimes it deals with, its susceptibility to social-science notions of proof, and its inability to cope with deliberate concealment." They argued that Strauss's idea of hidden meaning, "alerts one to the possibility that political life may be closely linked to deception. Indeed, it suggests that deception is the norm in political life, and the hope, to say nothing of the expectation, of establishing a politics that can dispense with it is the exception."

Rule One: Deception

It's hardly surprising then why Strauss is so popular in an administration obsessed with secrecy, especially when it comes to matters of foreign policy. Not only did Strauss have few qualms about using deception in politics, he saw it as a necessity. While professing deep respect for American democracy, Strauss believed that societies should be hierarchical – divided between an elite who should lead, and the masses who should follow. But unlike fellow elitists like Plato, he was less concerned with the moral character of these leaders. According to Shadia Drury, who teaches politics at the University of Calgary, Strauss believed that "those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality and that there is only one natural right – the right of the superior to rule over the inferior."

This dichotomy requires "perpetual deception" between the rulers and the ruled, according to Drury. Robert Locke, another Strauss analyst says,"The people are told what they need to know and no more." While the elite few are capable of absorbing the absence of any moral truth, Strauss thought, the masses could not cope. If exposed to the absence of absolute truth, they would quickly fall into nihilism or anarchy, according to Drury, author of 'Leo Strauss and the American Right' (St. Martin's 1999).

Second Principle: Power of Religion

According to Drury, Strauss had a "huge contempt" for secular democracy. Nazism, he believed, was a nihilistic reaction to the irreligious and liberal nature of the Weimar Republic. Among other neoconservatives, Irving Kristol has long argued for a much greater role for religion in the public sphere, even suggesting that the Founding Fathers of the American Republic made a major mistake by insisting on the separation of church and state. And why? Because Strauss viewed religion as absolutely essential in order to impose moral law on the masses who otherwise would be out of control.

At the same time, he stressed that religion was for the masses alone; the rulers need not be bound by it. Indeed, it would be absurd if they were, since the truths proclaimed by religion were "a pious fraud." As Ronald Bailey, science correspondent for Reason magazine points out, "Neoconservatives are pro-religion even though they themselves may not be believers."

"Secular society in their view is the worst possible thing,'' Drury says, because it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, precisely those traits that may promote dissent that in turn could dangerously weaken society's ability to cope with external threats. Bailey argues that it is this firm belief in the political utility of religion as an "opiate of the masses" that helps explain why secular Jews like Kristol in 'Commentary' magazine and other neoconservative journals have allied themselves with the Christian Right and even taken on Darwin's theory of evolution.

Third Principle: Aggressive Nationalism

Like Thomas Hobbes, Strauss believed that the inherently aggressive nature of human beings could only be restrained by a powerful nationalistic state. "Because mankind is intrinsically wicked, he has to be governed," he once wrote. "Such governance can only be established, however, when men are united – and they can only be united against other people."

Not surprisingly, Strauss' attitude toward foreign policy was distinctly Machiavellian. "Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat," Drury wrote in her book. "Following Machiavelli, he maintained that if no external threat exists then one has to be manufactured (emphases added)."

"Perpetual war, not perpetual peace, is what Straussians believe in," says Drury. The idea easily translates into, in her words, an "aggressive, belligerent foreign policy," of the kind that has been advocated by neocon groups like PNAC and AEI scholars – not to mention Wolfowitz and other administration hawks who have called for a world order dominated by U.S. military power. Strauss' neoconservative students see foreign policy as a means to fulfill a "national destiny" – as Irving Kristol defined it already in 1983 – that goes far beyond the narrow confines of a " myopic national security."

As to what a Straussian world order might look like, the analogy was best captured by the philosopher himself in one of his – and student Allen Bloom's – many allusions to Gulliver's Travels. In Drury's words, "When Lilliput was on fire, Gulliver urinated over the city, including the palace. In so doing, he saved all of Lilliput from catastrophe, but the Lilliputians were outraged and appalled by such a show of disrespect."

The image encapsulates the neoconservative vision of the United States' relationship with the rest of the world – as well as the relationship between their relationship as a ruling elite with the masses. "They really have no use for liberalism and democracy, but they're conquering the world in the name of liberalism and democracy," Drury says.

Jim Lobe writes on foreign policy for Alternet. His work has also appeared on Foreign Policy In Focus and TomPaine.com.



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"So while journalists and commentators engagingly debated the fate of the rubble of the Jewish settlements following the limited Israeli withdrawal, whether the extremists will claim control over Gaza or if Mahmoud Abbas has what it takes to ‘reign in the militants,’ a more relevant debate was almost completely cast aside: will Israel become less of an occupier after a few thousand settlers are relocated to a less vulnerable spot with their pockets full of cash (nearly a million dollars per family, a cost that will eventually be paid by American tax payers)?

It’s important to recall that Sharon’s disengagement was Israel’s response to George W. Bush’s road map, which was hypothetically approved by both Israel and the PA in June 2003. As ‘painful’ as the disengagement was, it was Sharon’s only dramatic escape from being bogged down by any kind of mutual commitment, by deadlines, by reciprocity and ultimately a dynamic political process. Israel does what Israel sees best. That’s the bottom line."
Not surprisingly, Strauss' attitude toward foreign policy was distinctly Machiavellian. "Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat," Drury wrote in her book. "Following Machiavelli, he maintained that if no external threat exists then one has to be manufactured (emphases added)."

"Perpetual war, not perpetual peace, is what Straussians believe in," says Drury. The idea easily translates into, in her words, an "aggressive, belligerent foreign policy," of the kind that has been advocated by neocon groups like PNAC and AEI scholars – not to mention Wolfowitz and other administration hawks who have called for a world order dominated by U.S. military power. Strauss' neoconservative students see foreign policy as a means to fulfill a "national destiny" – as Irving Kristol defined it already in 1983 – that goes far beyond the narrow confines of a " myopic national security."

Zionism is not the presiding belief to establish one government, one land for the jews: IE Israel

Zionism is the presiding, continuing belief to establish one world government for the jewish, IE: it may only be inclusive of jewish or zionist doctrine, and that control of the economic policy.

One world dominated by ISRAEL, or the people of ISRAEL's zionist doctrine.

This is not to be confused with the apartheids, the israeli citizens or thousands of others that rally against zionism.

It is best represented by news reports such as this one.

"That the British Government knew in advance that blasts would occur is not open to rational doubt. Within hours of the explosions, Israeli Army Radio was reporting that “Scotland Yard [London police headquarters] had intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred.” This report, repeated by IsraelNN.com, added that “the Israeli Embassy in London was notified in advance, resulting in Foreign Minister Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel room rather than make his way to the hotel adjacent to the site of the first explosion, a Liverpool Street train station, where he was to address an economic summit.” This report is attributed to “unconfirmed reliable sources.” At around the same time, the Associated Press issued a wire asserting that “British police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before Thursday’s explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the city,” according to “a senior Israeli official.” This wire specifies that “just before the blasts, Scotland Yard called the security officer at the Israeli Embassy to say that they had received warnings of possible attacks….”"

Scotland Yard Knew in Advance

And by history reports such as this
The Zionism Trinity: Manipulation of the mass

Now the Mossad chief and Minister of Sharon's government knew of attacks in London beforehand. They simply let them pass by.....as though it was nothing.

The policy of these spies in our government has been escalating since early 1996, and at times before that. In those years, there were walls behind the "FBI and CIA" which had these people in talks.

The Mossad influenced enough of government, including bribery and brainwashing using so called "american front groups" to de-stabilize the entire defense department. Sibel Edmonds in the FBI picked up on conversations between them, and between Turkish dignitaries which confirm corruption and bribery charges.

Most of these corruption charges were ongoing, and included moles in the very CIA. Then the reasoning for letting 9/11 hijackers go, such as Mohammed Atta and hundreds of other Mossad spies could be explained as simple "administrative oversight".

A blind walking Gorilla can't have any sight at all, and thus no oversight required.

And that means they could do their crimes in plain view of everyone, without any problem of getting caught. Under tabloid distortions, "blame the other" phenomenons and other common tactics, the Mossad government weakened our entire infrastructure to the point of regression.

The blind leading the blind, and this is why their plan was a success.

Bush is not a zionist.
The creators of DLC are zionists.
Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and their brothers are all zionist israelis. Their deputies like Libby, Weismann, Harold Rhode, John Bolton, Steve Rosen and Franklin are all zionists and Likud spies.

Their friends like Cheney, Rove, Ashcroft, Norquist, Pelosi, Lieberman, Wurmser, Novak, Hastert, Rumsfeld, Santorum and others are all pawns for the ongoing charade.

Particularly Cheney and Wurmser are bloodsucking corporatists, believing in Zionism and the neccesary focus of one world government. Which would abolish "anti-zionism" forever.

Michael Ledeen and his group are Mossad agents who wrote out a policy to destroy anti-zionism.

They came out in the worst way ever seen for 10 years, claiming Cindy believes the government is run by Israel linked to Likud spies and she is a traitor. Sheehan struck a nerve and got right to the core of the problem, as she must have, because they never label their enemies traitors until they themselves have been permanently outed. She guts them to pieces over the lies, and they savagely attack her own son as a "traitor" openly defiant of Israel.

In their home-estate, they persecute and torture all members of Palestine who disrupt their borders. Every member who has ever stolen oil or been trouble is either killed or tortured. Likewise they wrote the torture policy, for the new secret prisons all over the USA would use. By torturing their prisoners with Mossad like severity, they think the message is sent to never oppose the zionist movement.

With red blood they enforce this and hinge the likes of Rumsfeld to stick to the code. With a fast unraveling press, and threads breaking and falling the curtain has fallen on them. We can be free to call them who they are: SPIES and foreign national TRAITORS. As the more they fight back, the more they're exposed before all.


The Usual Suspects
In further probing of the Cheney-led drive for a pretext to bomb Iran, EIR has confirmed that the same cast of neo-con characters who led the disinformation campaign against Iraq, in the run-up to the March 2003 invasion, have been tasked to carry out the same effort, this time targetting the regime in Tehran. Furthermore, while some media have portrayed the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last month as President of Iran as the trigger for the new war push, the truth is that the campaign was launched, in earnest, within days of the November 2004 dubious re-election of Bush and Cheney.

In November 2004, Dr. Jerome Corsi, a leading player in the Karl Rove-inspired dirty-tricks apparatus known as Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, suddenly emerged as the new head of the Iran Freedom Foundation (IFF), promoting regime change in Tehran. Corsi was touted by Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) as being the driving force behind the Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2005, which calls for $10 million in funds to be handed out to Iranian dissident groups. Corsi had co-authored the Rove-inspired propaganda book Unfit To Serve, smearing Bush's Democratic Presidential rival John F. Kerry over his military service in Vietnam. In March 2005, Corsi published another propaganda book, Atomic Iran, peddling scare stories about Iran's imminent possession of nuclear bombs.

From May 15 to May 18, Dr. Corsi led an "Iran Freedom Walk" from Philadelphia to Washington, where a rally was addressed by neo-con Richard Perle, and where Corsi was congratulated, in a written statement, by Dick Cheney.

In April 2005, Regnery Publishing, Inc. released another fractured-fairy-tale propaganda piece, promoting pre-emptive war on Iran, this one by Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.). Sources familiar with the book report that Weldon was snookered by ex-CIA Director and leading neo-con war party operative James Woolsey, and self-proclaimed "universal fascist" Michael Ledeen, into buying fake intelligence, pushed through a former Iranian minister under the Shah, who has more recently been a business partner of discredited Iran-Contra gun dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar. Representative Weldon concealed the identity of his high-level "source," referring to him only as "Ali." But "Ali" was soon identified as Fereidoun Mahdavi, a former commerce minister, who fled Iran shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and never looked back.

In an interview with The American Prospect's Laura Rozan, Mahdavi professed shock and outrage that his "information" had formed the basis for Weldon's shrill book. He confirmed that all of the information he passed on to the Congressman had, in fact, originated with Ghorbanifar, a notorious disinformationist, and Iran-Contra ally of the Washington neo-cons. Weldon's saga with "Ali," as recounted in his book, Countdown to Terror—The Top-Secret Information That Could Prevent the Next Terrorist Attack on America ... And How the CIA Has Ignored It, began in March 2003, at the very moment that the Bush-Cheney regime was about to launch its Iraq invasion.

In late June of this year, Kenneth Timmerman, a propagandist for the neo-cons and for right-wing Israeli circles around former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, published another book, Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown With Iran, which makes a string of preposterous claims, all based on information provided by the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, an Iranian exile group on the U.S. State Department's list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Timmerman asserted that: Iran was behind the 9/11 attacks; Iran is safehousing Osama bin Laden inside the country; and Iran has all of the elements to produce nuclear weapons, and possibly provide them to terrorist cells already infiltrated into American cities.

When the Timmerman book was published, the Washington Times ran three days of excerpts, along with an editorial touting the book and calling for action against Iran.

If all of this sounds remarkably similar to the propaganda run-up to the Iraq invasion of March 2003, that's because it is. The same Michael Ledeen/Richard Perle/Dick Cheney circles that brought you Operation Iraqi Freedom, are aggressively pushing war against Iran. But this time, with 170,000 American troops bogged down in Iraq, Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, et al. are now pushing their decade-old plan to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes.


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Backlash Builds Against Cheney's 'Guns of August' - LaRouche EIR

Newsweek
Aug. 22, 2005 issue - The Justice Department played hardball last week with former superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, in part because of concerns he might flee to Israel. Hours before Abramoff was indicted on fraud charges in Miami last Thursday, FBI agents tried to arrest him at his Maryland home. But he'd already left for Los Angeles. Agents tracked him down on his cell phone and ordered him to surrender to the local FBI office. When Abramoff did, later that day, he was handcuffed, thrown into jail, then released last Friday on a $2.2 million bond.

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Abramoff's treatment contrasted with that given his codefendant, Adam Kidan, who was allowed to show up in court on his own. A senior Justice official says one reason was that some of Abramoff's friends and former colleagues have moved to Israel. "There was concern he could relocate to another country," says the official, who asked not to be identified because the matter involves a pending case. Neal Sonnett, Abramoff's lawyer, called the Feds' tactics "mean-spirited," and says his client is fully ready to show up in court to refute the charges, which involve an allegedly phony $23 million wire transfer to buy a fleet of casino boats.

Another possible reason for the Feds' stance: to pressure Abramoff to cooperate in a broader, D.C.-based probe that could touch members of Congress and Bush administration officials. The probe centers on tens of millions in allegedly inflated lobbying fees Abramoff collected from Indian gaming tribes. But that's not all that's under scrutiny. A lawyer for another client, Tyco International, tells NEWSWEEK that it's turned over to Justice evidence alleging Abramoff defrauded it with a lobbying campaign against legislation to bar federal contracts to U.S. companies, like Tyco, headquartered in overseas tax havens. Tyco, based in Bermuda, paid $1.7 million to Abramoff's firm in 2003 and 2004—plus $1.5 million for a "grass roots" campaign to gin up opposition to the effort among Tyco's domestic suppliers. The Tyco official who hired Abramoff is the firm's general counsel, Tim Flanigan, a former White House lawyer nominated by President Bush for deputy attorney general. Tyco lawyer George Terwilliger says the firm "was a victim of a rip-off." Abramoff, he says, recommended the $1.5 million be paid to Grassroots Interactive, a group that allegedly did little work and later diverted funds for other purposes. Grassroots is "controlled" by Abramoff, says Nathan Lewin, a lawyer for Tyco's registered agent. Abramoff's former law firm has agreed "in principle" to repay the $1.5 million, says a source close to Tyco who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter.

Abramoff, who raised more than $100,000 for Bush's re-election, allegedly told Flanigan he'd lobby White House aide Karl Rove on behalf of Tyco, says the source close to the company. Rove, whose secretary formerly worked for Abramoff, has "never spoken to [Abramoff] about any of his clients," says a White House spokeswoman. An Abramoff spokesman and his former law firm declined to comment.

—Michael Isikoff

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Ex-Lobbyist Is Focus of Widening Investigations

By Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 16, 2004; Page A19


Former powerhouse lobbyist Jack Abramoff and public relations entrepreneur Michael Scanlon are the focus of widening investigations this summer, one by Congress and the other a criminal probe involving five federal agencies.





A criminal task force of investigators from the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department's public integrity section, the National Indian Gaming Commission and the Interior Department inspector general's office is looking into payments Abramoff and Scanlon received from an array of clients, including 11 wealthy Indian tribes that operate gambling casinos, according to officials familiar with the investigation.

In Congress, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee has set a deadline of this week for responses to subpoenas it has issued. Congressional staff members from the Indian Affairs Committee and the Commerce Committee have spent five months gathering documents and interviewing tribal members and others in preparation for a public hearing in September, officials said.

Government sources and people who have been interviewed said the twin investigations are examining tens of millions of dollars in fees that Abramoff and Scanlon received from clients, including, in Abramoff's case, a number of foreign entities. Investigators also are looking into ties the two have to members of Congress, into campaign donations and into whether criminal or tax codes were violated in the work they contracted to do or by the fees they collected, the sources said.

The Washington Post reported earlier this year that Abramoff, who is well-connected to conservative Republicans in the White House and Congress, and Scanlon, a former spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), received more than $45 million in lobbying and public affairs work from four newly wealthy tribes in the past three years. Those fees rival what some of the biggest corporate interests in the country pay to influence public policy.

The fees and $2.9 million in federal political contributions Abramoff advised the tribes to make, two-thirds of it to Republicans, have led to battles in some tribes. Some tribe members question why their leaders approved such payments.

Abramoff also directed tribes to donate to several obscure foundations that appear to have no connection to Indian concerns, including a think tank in Rehoboth Beach, Del., set up by Scanlon.

The revelations led to Abramoff's ouster in March from Greenberg Traurig, the law firm where he led one of Washington's most successful lobbying groups. Greenberg Traurig said it acted after Abramoff "disclosed to the firm for the first time personal transactions and related conduct which are unacceptable to the firm."

Lawyers for Abramoff and Scanlon declined to comment this week on the investigations.

Congressional investigators learned in March that Scanlon or organizations he was associated with paid Abramoff $10 million, an arrangement that was not known to the tribes or to Greenberg Traurig. Abramoff, who must publicly disclose lobbying fees, urged the tribes to hire one of Scanlon's public relations firms, often for much higher amounts than Abramoff's firm was receiving. Those public relations fees did not have to be disclosed under federal lobbying rules.

In an interview earlier this year, Abramoff denied having any financial stake in Scanlon's business.

Federal law permitting Indian gambling requires that the proceeds be spent to benefit the tribe, but regulators in Washington do not normally become involved in monitoring the money that closely. "Nobody is tasked to see where all the dollars get spent," said Philip N. Hogen, chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission.

Hogen declined to comment on the investigations of Abramoff and Scanlon. But he said federal agencies have formed a working group to more closely coordinate criminal investigations that have arisen out of Indian gambling over the past six months.

"This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns," he said. "This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets."

Indian gambling, officials said, has grown from a $100 million-a-year industry in 1988 to a $16 billion industry today.

Ernst Weyand, an official in the FBI's Indian Country investigative unit, said his office is working closely with organized-crime investigators. Officials in various agencies said the new working group makes it easier for federal investigators to take on larger and more complex investigations.

One person who has been interviewed by the FBI in connection with the investigation of Abramoff and Scanlon said the areas of interest ranged from foreign lobbying clients to billing practices involving the tribes and whether there were efforts to illegally fix tribal elections. He also said the FBI is looking at the relationship Abramoff and Scanlon and their firms had with some members of Congress.


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Abramoff Indicted in Casino Boat Purchase
Lobbyist, Associate Charged With Fraud

By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 12, 2005; Page A01

MIAMI, Aug. 11 -- Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a business partner were indicted by a federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, charged with five counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy in their purchase of a fleet of Florida gambling boats from a businessman who was later killed in a gangland-style hit.

Abramoff, 46, was arrested in Los Angeles in the late afternoon and was expected to be taken before a U.S. magistrate there on Friday. He was indicted along with Adam Kidan, the former owner of the Dial-a-Mattress franchise in Washington. Kidan, 41, of New York City, will surrender to the FBI here by Friday morning, his attorney, Martin I. Jaffe, said in a written statement.



Jack Abramoff, right, listens to attorney Abbe Lowell on Capitol Hill last year. (By Dennis Cook -- Associated Press)

Abramoff Lobbying Questioned
Lobbyists, Clients Undeterred by Scandal
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Tribal Money Linked to GOP Fundraising
Lobbyist, Firm Sued By Indians Over Fees
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Parties Bicker Amid Abramoff Inquiry
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Five years ago, while he was still one of the capital's most prominent Republican lobbyists, Abramoff, with Kidan and former Reagan administration official Ben Waldman of Springfield, Va., took over SunCruz Casinos. The company operated a fleet of gambling boats from as many as 11 ports in Florida. Although the indictment does not detail the effort, Abramoff leveraged his connections with members of Congress to advance the SunCruz deal, according to interviews and thousands of documents, court records and e-mails filed in related bankruptcy cases.

Abramoff's spokesman in New York, Andrew Blum, declined to comment, referring calls to Abramoff's Miami attorney, Neal Sonnett, who did not return calls. Kidan said in a statement that he had cooperated with investigators, adding: "I did nothing wrong and these allegations are totally unfounded."

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Jack Abramoff
The friend Tom DeLay can't shake.
By James Harding
Posted Thursday, April 7, 2005, at 3:36 PM PT




Bad company

Where to begin examining the extraordinary career of Jack Abramoff? His work trying to secure a visa for the great Zairian kleptocrat Mobutu Sese Seko, perhaps, or the bilking of an estimated $66 million out of Native American tribes, clients he described as "monkeys," "troglodytes," and "idiots"? Or his leadership of a 1980s think tank financed, unbeknownst to him apparently, by the intelligence arm of South Africa's apartheid regime?

No, the chapter of our man's story that matters most at the moment begins with a toast given by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay during a New Year's trip they both took to Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands in 1997. "When one of my closest and dearest friends, Jack Abramoff, your most able representative in Washington, D.C., invited me to the islands, I wanted to see firsthand the free-market success and the progress and reform you have made," DeLay said before an audience of Abramoff's clients in the islands' garment industry—whom, upon his return to Washington, he helped win an extended exemption from federal immigration and labor laws.

The most salient fact about Abramoff these days is that he may prove DeLay's undoing. The House majority leader has so far commanded extraordinary, tight-lipped loyalty from the Republican ranks in Congress in the face of scandals detailed here. But precedent is not on his side. Newt Gingrich's political demise was a slow death by a thousand cuts. Today there is already plenty of speculation in Washington that the White House is wavering about DeLay: As much as the president prizes loyalty, he is intolerant of sleaze and impatient with damaging distractions from his agenda. "Within six months, Karl will force him out," a senior administration official from the first term says, speaking, of course, of Karl Rove. At least one conservative redoubt, the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, has already thrown open the door. Mr. DeLay has "an unsavory whiff that could have GOP loyalists reaching for the political Glade if it gets any worse," the paper wrote last

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GOP Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff and His Closest Allies

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Jack Abramoff: Under investigation by the Justice Department, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, the IRS, the Department of the Interior, and the FBI.



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Aug. 27, 2004



FBI Probes Pentagon Spy


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The FBI believes it has "solid" evidence that the suspected mole supplied Israel with classified materials that include secret White House policy deliberations on Iran.


The FBI investigation is headed by Dave Szady. (Photo: CBS)



(CBS) CBS News has learned that the FBI has a full-fledged espionage investigation under way and is about to -- in FBI terminology -- "roll up" someone agents believe has been spying not for an enemy, but for Israel from within the office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon.

60 Minutes Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports the FBI believes it has "solid" evidence that the suspected mole supplied Israel with classified materials that include secret White House policy deliberations on Iran.

At the heart of the investigation are two people who work at The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington.

The FBI investigation, headed up by Dave Szady, has involved wiretaps, undercover surveillance and photography that CBS News was told document the passing of classified information from the mole, to the men at AIPAC, and on to the Israelis.

CBS sources say that last year the suspected spy, described as a trusted analyst at the Pentagon, turned over a presidential directive on U.S. policy toward Iran while it was, "in the draft phase when U.S. policy-makers were still debating the policy."

This put the Israelis, according to one source, "inside the decision-making loop" so they could "try to influence the outcome."

The case raises another concern among investigators: Did Israel also use the analyst to try to influence U.S. policy on the war in Iraq?

With ties to top Pentagon officials Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, the analyst was assigned to a unit within the Defense Department tasked with helping develop the Pentagon's Iraq policy.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been made aware of the case. The government notified AIPAC today that it wants information about the two employees and their contacts with a person at the Pentagon.

AIPAC told CBS News it is cooperating with the government and has hired outside counsel. It denies any wrongdoing by the organization or any of its employees.

An Israeli spokesman said, "We categorically deny these allegations. They are completely false and outrageous." The suspected spy has not returned repeated phone calls from CBS News.


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We now know that the Niger story involved the forgery of documents by a man with ties to Italian military intelligence, and that moreover Italian military intelligence has ties to Michael Ledeen, Harold Rhode and Lawrence Franklin, pro-Likud Neoconservatives, two of whom had high-level positions in the Pentagon and all three of whom were tightly networked with the American Enterprise Institute. Franklin (a Neoconservative Catholic) is being investigated for spying on the US for Israel. The nexus of Italian military intelligence, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and the Neoconservatives in the Pentagon suggests a network of conspiracy aimed at dragging the US into wars against Iraq and Iran. The Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq after the war was in some significant part staffed by young people who had initially applied to work at the Joe Wilson was sent to Niger by the CIA in response to a request by Dick Cheney that they investigate the story of the Iraq uranium purchases, and he came to the (correct) conclusion that the whole idea was implausible given the structure of the industry in Niger, which was heavily under the control of European companies. The Neoconservatives around Dick Cheney, including Scooter Libby and John Hannah, were highly commited to the Niger uranium story as a casus belli against Iraq, and were furious when Wilson revealed that he had shown it false in spring of 2002. They were convinced that the CIA was behind this strike at their credibility, and that Valerie Plame had been the one who managed to get Wilson sent. That is, in their paranoid world, Wilson's honest reportage of the facts was a CIA plot against the Iraq War and perhaps against the Neoconservatives around Cheney and in the Pentagon.

It has been being leaked for many months now that the FBI believes the leak came from persons in Cheney's circle, possibly John Hannah and/or Scooter Libby. The FBI could well be ready to move in the case. But I have been told that it has orders from the White House to back off until later this fall.

There has likewise been no arrest of Franklin, though one was expected by now. This is not, as the Neoconservatives and their supporters in the press are beginning to allege, because the case against Franklin is weak. Rumors are flying in Washington that the FBI found a whole cache of classified documents in his house. If this is true, it was illegal for him to keep them there. We know that the evidence against Franklin was so air tight that Franklin was turned by the FBI, and was attempting to gather incriminating evidence against other Neoconservatives on their behalf. At some point the FBI as a courtesy let Franklin's boss, Douglas Feith, know of their investigation, and apparently soon after the story was leaked to the press.

Is it possible that Franklin hasn't been charged yet not because the case is weak, but because the White House does not want to anger the powerful AIPAC lobbying organization just before an election, and does not want to risk alienating Neoconservative voters in swing states like Florida? Indeed, isn't it likely that the Franklin investigation was leaked to the press by persons in the Pentagon who feared they were under investigation, and who knew very well that such a story leaked in late August before the election would get the investigation squelched or much delayed?
 http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050809/bigger_than_aipac.php

Bigger Than AIPAC
Robert Dreyfuss
August 09, 2005


Robert Dreyfuss is a freelance writer based in Alexandria, Va., who specializes in politics and national security issues. He is a contributing editor at The Nation, a contributing writer at Mother Jones, a senior correspondent for The American Prospect, and a frequent contributor to Rolling Stone. His book, Devil's Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, will be published by Henry Holt/Metropolitan Books in the fall.

Important new details of the U.S.-Israeli espionage case involving Larry Franklin, the alleged Pentagon spy, two officials of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, and an intelligence official at the Embassy of Israel emerged last week. Two AIPAC officials—who have left the organization—were indicted along with Franklin on charges of "communicat[ing] national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it." In plain English, if not legal-speak, that means spying.

But as the full text of the indictment makes clear, the conspiracy involved not just Franklin and the AIPAC officials, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, but at least several other Pentagon officials who played intermediary roles, at least two other Israeli officials, and one official at a "Washington, D.C. think tank." It's an old-fashioned spy story involving the passing of secret documents, hush-hush meetings and outright espionage, along with good-old-boy networking.

But the network tied to the "Franklin case"—which ought to be called the "AIPAC case," since it was AIPAC that was really under investigation by the FBI—provides an important window into a shadowy world. It is clear that by probing the details of the case, the FBI has got hold of a dangerous loose end of much larger story. By pulling on that string hard enough, the FBI and the Justice Department might just unravel that larger story, which is beginning to look more and more like it involves the same nexus of Pentagon civilians, White House functionaries, and American Enterprise Institute officials who thumped the drums for war in Iraq in 2001-2003 and who are now trying to whip up an anti-Iranian frenzy as well.

Needless to say, all of this got short shrift from the mainstream media when it was revealed last week.

Needless to say, all of this got short shrift from the mainstream media when it was revealed last week.

The basic facts of the case have been known for a while. Lawrence Anthony Franklin, a Department of Defense official, was caught red-handed giving highly classified papers to two officials, Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, of AIPAC—in part, concerning U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq and the war on terrorism. But from the carefully worded indictment, it is clear that a lot more may have been going on. All in all, along with revealing tantalizing new information, the indictment raises more questions than it answers. To wit:

First, the indictment says that from "about April 1999 and continuing until on or about August 27, 2004" Franklin, Rosen and Weissman "did unlawfully, knowingly and willfully conspire" in criminal activity against the United States. So far, no one has explained what triggered an investigation that began more than six years ago. But it reveals how long the three indicted conspirators and "others, known and unknown to the Grand Jury," engaged in such criminal activity. In any case, what appeared at first to be a brief dalliance between Franklin and the two AIPAC officials now—according to the latest indictment, at least—spans more than five years and involves at least several other individuals, at least some of whom are known to the investigation. What triggered the investigation in 1999, and how much information has FBI surveillance, wiretaps and other investigative efforts collected?

Second, the indictment makes it absolutely clear that the investigation was aimed at AIPAC, not at Franklin. The document charges that Rosen and Weissman met repeatedly with officials from a foreign government (Israel, though not named in the indictment) beginning in 1999, to provide them with classified information. In other words, the FBI was looking into the Israel lobby, not Franklin and the Defense Department, at the start, and Franklin was simply caught up in the net when he made contact with the AIPACers. Rosen and Weissman were observed making illicit contact with several other U.S. officials between 1999 and 2004, although those officials are left unnamed (and unindicted). Might there be more to come? Who are these officials, cited merely as United States Government Official 1, USGO 2, etc.?

Third, Franklin was introduced to Rosen-Weissman when the two AIPACers "called a Department of Defense employee (DOD employee A) at the Pentagon and asked for the name of someone in OSD ISA [Office of the Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs] with an expertise on Iran" and got Franklin's name. Who was "DOD employee A"? Was it Douglas Feith, the undersecretary for policy? Harold Rhode, the ghost-like neocon official who helped Feith assemble the secretive Office of Special Plans, where Franklin worked? The indictment doesn't say. But this reporter observed Franklin, Rhode and Michael Rubin, a former AEI official who served in the Pentagon during this period and then returned to AEI, sitting together side by side, often in the front row, at American Enterprise Institute meetings during 2002-2003. Later in the indictment, we learn that Franklin, Rosen and Weissman hobnobbed with "DOD employee B," too.

Fourth, Rosen and Weissman told Franklin that they would try to get him a job at the White House, on the National Security Council staff. Who did they talk to at the White House, if they followed through? What happened?

Fifth, the charging document refers to "Foreign Official 1," also known as FO-1, obviously referring to an Israeli embassy official or an Israeli intelligence officer. It also refers later to FO-2, FO-3, etc., meaning that other Israeli officials were involved as well. How many Israeli officials are implicated in this, and who are they?

Sixth, was AEI itself involved? The indictment says that "on or about March 13, 2003, Rosen disclosed to a senior fellow at a Washington, D.C., think tank the information relating to the classified draft internal policy document" about Iran. The indictment says that the think tank official agreed "to follow up and see what he could do." Which think tank, and who was involved?

The indictment is rich with other detail, including specific instances in which the indicted parties lied to the FBI about their activities. It describes how Franklin eventually set up a regular liaison with an Israeli official ("FO-3") and met him in Virginia "and elsewhere" to communicate U.S. secrets.

It is an important story, arguably one that has greater implications for national security than the scandal involving the churlish outing of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame. So far, at least, the media frenzy attending to the Plame affair is matched by nearly total silence about the Franklin-AIPAC affair? Can it be true that reporters are more courageous about pursuing a story that involves the White House than they are about plunging into a scandal that involves Israel, our No. 1 Middle East ally?





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Third, Franklin was introduced to Rosen-Weissman when the two AIPACers "called a Department of Defense employee (DOD employee A) at the Pentagon and asked for the name of someone in OSD ISA [Office of the Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs] with an expertise on Iran" and got Franklin's name. Who was "DOD employee A"? Was it Douglas Feith, the undersecretary for policy? Harold Rhode, the ghost-like neocon official who helped Feith assemble the secretive Office of Special Plans, where Franklin worked? The indictment doesn't say. But this reporter observed Franklin, Rhode and Michael Rubin, a former AEI official who served in the Pentagon during this period and then returned to AEI, sitting together side by side, often in the front row, at American Enterprise Institute meetings during 2002-2003. Later in the indictment, we learn that Franklin, Rosen and Weissman hobnobbed with "DOD employee B," too.

Fourth, Rosen and Weissman told Franklin that they would try to get him a job at the White House, on the National Security Council staff. Who did they talk to at the White House, if they followed through? What happened?

Fifth, the charging document refers to "Foreign Official 1," also known as FO-1, obviously referring to an Israeli embassy official or an Israeli intelligence officer. It also refers later to FO-2, FO-3, etc., meaning that other Israeli officials were involved as well. How many Israeli officials are implicated in this, and who are they?

Sixth, was AEI itself involved? The indictment says that "on or about March 13, 2003, Rosen disclosed to a senior fellow at a Washington, D.C., think tank the information relating to the classified draft internal policy document" about Iran. The indictment says that the think tank official agreed "to follow up and see what he could do." Which think tank, and who was involved?

The indictment is rich with other detail, including specific instances in which the indicted parties lied to the FBI about their activities. It describes how Franklin eventually set up a regular liaison with an Israeli official ("FO-3") and met him in Virginia "and elsewhere" to communicate U.S. secrets.

It is an important story, arguably one that has greater implications for national security than the scandal involving the churlish outing of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame. So far, at least, the media frenzy attending to the Plame affair is matched by nearly total silence about the Franklin-AIPAC affair? Can it be true that reporters are more courageous about pursuing a story that involves the White House than they are about plunging into a scandal that involves Israel, our No. 1 Middle East ally?





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Sixth, was AEI itself involved? The indictment says that "on or about March 13, 2003, Rosen disclosed to a senior fellow at a Washington, D.C., think tank the information relating to the classified draft internal policy document" about Iran. The indictment says that the think tank official agreed "to follow up and see what he could do." Which think tank, and who was involved?

The indictment is rich with other detail, including specific instances in which the indicted parties lied to the FBI about their activities. It describes how Franklin eventually set up a regular liaison with an Israeli official ("FO-3") and met him in Virginia "and elsewhere" to communicate U.S. secrets.

It is an important story, arguably one that has greater implications for national security than the scandal involving the churlish outing of undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame. So far, at least, the media frenzy attending to the Plame affair is matched by nearly total silence about the Franklin-AIPAC affair? Can it be true that reporters are more courageous about pursuing a story that involves the White House than they are about plunging into a scandal that involves Israel, our No. 1 Middle East ally? http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0907-12.htm

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Published on Tuesday, September 7, 2004 by Juan Cole
AIPAC Spy Case Involves Intelligence on Iranian WMD
by Juan Cole

James Gordon Meek reports that both FBI investigations of leaks from the Pentagon concern in part secret US intelligence on Iranian weapons of mass destruction programs. The FBI suspects that this intelligence was leaked to AIPAC and the Israelis on the one hand, and to Ahmad Chalabi on the other. Chalabi in turn is suspected of passing the information on to Tehran, playing the role of double agent. Although the FBI seems to be keeping the two inquiries separate, there is strong circumstantial evidence that there was a behind-the-scenes connection between Chalabi and the Israelis. That is, the information circuit may have been ingrown among the Neoconservatives, the Israelis and Chalabi's people.

It should be noted that Chalabi, the Neoconservatives, and Israel's Likud Party were allied in wanting to get up a US war against Iraq. But they were divided on the next stage, which was to get Washington to attack Iran, as well. Chalabi hates Saddam, but as an Iraqi Shiite has strong ties to Tehran, so he was not actually on board with Stage Two, and may have helped derail it, for which he is now hated in some Neoconservative circles.

The reasons for the iron lock AIPAC has on US congressional Middle East policy is covered by Eric Fleischauer of the Decatur Daily. He writes


' Members of a lobbying group accused of channeling classified information from an alleged spy in the Pentagon to the Israeli government were instrumental in putting an Alabama congressman in office.

A probe by the FBI targeted Larry Franklin, a senior analyst in a Pentagon office dealing with Middle East af-fairs. Officials accused him of providing classified information about Iran's nuclear program to two officials employed by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee . . .

The major beneficiary of pro-Israel campaign contributions in this state has been U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, D-Birmingham.

According to an estimate by the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics, Davis received $206,595 in pro-Israel contributions in advance of the 2002 election. This despite the fact he was not an incumbent, and despite the fact his five-term incumbent opponent, Earl Hilliard, was also a Democrat.

Even under the conservative CRP estimate, Davis' 2002 pro-Israel receipts were more than double his total contributions from his previous try at Hilliard's seat, in 2000.

Seventy-six percent of Davis' contributions during the 2002 election cycle came from outside Alabama, most from New York City.
AIPAC is not a political action committee and does not give out money itself. But it is a sort of central coordinating committee that tips Jewish American organizations as to where it thinks campaign contributions neeed to go. Because a lot of wealthy individuals contributed to Hilliard as individuals, the true amount AIPAC directed his way was probably double the conservative estimate above. Fleischauer writes, "Davis' receipts skyrocketed. By May 15, 2002, Davis was up to $446,821. Of the 517 individual contributions to Davis in the weeks surrounding the fundraisers, only four came from Alabamians."

The reason for AIPAC's New York-based raid on an Alabama congressional race? Davis's opponent in the Democratic primary, Earl Hilliard, took a more even-handed position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than AIPAC would stand for.

Fleischauer writes of Hilliard,


' He said Tuesday he believes pro-Israel money won Davis the 2002 election. The congressman-turned-lobbyist said his main concern is that pro-Israel money tends to crowd out the voice of Arab countries, a result he said could eventually lead to more wars in the Middle East. '
It ought to be illegal for congressional contests to be interfered with to this extent by money from another state. The technique of targeting congressmen for un-election has given enormous power to all single-issue lobbies, and not just AIPAC. But Hilliard is entirely correct that AIPAC's activities do contribute to bloodshed in the Middle East. By arranging for the far rightwing Likud coalition to have a free hand in dispossessing millions of Palestinians, AIPAC contributes to the hatred for the United States in the Muslim world that breeds terrorism against US citizens.

There is a long hit list of US politicians who were insufficiently obsequious toward the policy of Israeli hawks in the Occupied Territories, whom AIPAC helped unseat by encouraging donations to their opponents. The Charles Percy case became legendary in Congress, and discouraged senators and congressmen from taking on AIPAC.

Juan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan  http://www.juancole.com/




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August 15, 2005
Bush Against the Generals
Iran, the White House, and the purge of the military
by Justin Raimondo
The tipping point against this immoral, ill-conceived and in-every-way disastrous war seems to have been reached, as hundreds – and soon to be thousands – of Gold Star Mothers and sympathizers march against the war in Crawford, Texas. Popular support for George W. Bush's Napoleonic foreign policy has plummeted to its lowest point ever. "Like the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President George W. Bush may be the last person in the United States to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over," avers Frank Rich:

"'We will stay the course,' he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man? A president can't stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won't stay with him. The approval rate for Bush's handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in last weekend's Newsweek poll – a match for the 32 percent that approved President Lyndon Johnson's handling of Vietnam in early March 1968.'"

The war against Ba'athist Iraq may be over, but the war against the mullahs of Iran is just beginning. What else are we to make of the president's recent interview with Israeli public television:

"When asked if the use of force was an alternative to faltering diplomatic efforts, Bush said: 'All options are on the table.' 'The use of force is the last option for any president. You know we have used force in the recent past to secure our country,' he said in a clear reference to Iraq. 'I have been willing to do so as a last resort in order to secure the country and provide the opportunity for people to live in free societies,' he added."

A "last resort"? Don't make me laugh. The Bushies came to Washington all primed up to invade Iraq: 9/11 gave them the excuse they needed to carry out their plan – a plan, by the way, not limited to the conquest of Iraq. The confluence of the president's pronouncement with news of Vice President Dick Cheney's recent request that the military come up with a plan to attack the Iranians – using nuclear weapons – as a response to a terrorist attack in the U.S., should send a good-sized shiver down your spine, dear reader, as it does mine.

Frank Rich believes Bush "can't stay the course when his own citizens" refuse to go along, but that is nonsense: he can and will do exactly as he pleases. The constitutional provision assigning exclusively to Congress the power to declare war has long been a dead letter, killed by Harry Truman when he sent U.S. troops to Korea. Aside from a few old-fashioned conservative Republicans, the peoples' elected representatives uttered hardly a peep of protest. Just as Congress – aside from a few isolated, and heroic, cases – will stay silent today. As long as the Democratic party is successfully neutered on foreign policy issues by the neocon-influenced Democratic Leadership Council, the War Party will encounter no opposition on that front.

The political groundwork for an assault on Iran has already been laid, as Joshua Kurlantzick points out in an excellent piece in Vanity Fair magazine, and these preparations ought to evoke in us an eerie sense of déjà vu: the same playbook is being used as was followed in Iraq, even including a mysterious (and, in this case, uniquely kooky) group of exiles funneling fake "intelligence" to the war hawks in the Pentagon.

You say Chalabi, I say Rajavi – let's call the whole thing off!

As the president of the United States cowers in his ranch, afraid to meet with a 48-year-old mother who wants to know why her son had to die, he hurls anathemas at Tehran and gathers his hosts for fresh conquests. Bush can safely ignore Congress – not that they'll give him any trouble – and he can tell the chauffeur to speed up when he passes Cindy Sheehan on the way to a fundraiser for the Republican War Machine. However, he can't safely ignore the grumbling of his generals – who may be just short of joining the Crawford peace camp, along with a few divisions from the North American Command. Bush has just slapped down the top American commander in Iraq, General George Casey, for daring to suggest that troop reductions were in the offing. The London Telegraph reports:

"The top American commander in Iraq has been privately rebuked by the Bush administration for openly discussing plans to reduce troop levels there next year, The Sunday Telegraph has learned. … Gen George Casey, the U.S. ground commander in Iraq, was given his dressing-down after he briefed that troop levels – now 138,000 – could be reduced by 30,000 in the early months of next year as Iraqi security forces take on a greater role."

If the troops are going into Iran – or, as some say, Syria – then bringing them home is out of the question. Is the president facing an officers' rebellion as he ratchets up the rhetoric against Tehran?

The firing of General Kevin Byrnes, allegedly for "adultery" – even though he's already been separated from his wife – a few months before he's due to retire, is awfully suspicious in this context: General Byrnes reportedly made an enemy of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for opposing the Rumsfeldian "transformation" of the military into a more "flexible" instrument of the Bush Doctrine and the neocons' imperial vision. In essentially firing a four-star general – a vicious act of retribution that certainly bears the personal stamp of the chimp-in-chief – the White House engaged in a preemptive strike against the War Party's enemies in the military. This is no doubt a sore spot for the White House: opposition from American's military leaders to the Iraq adventure made headlines in the run-up to war, and their continuing objection to this administration's policy of unconstrained aggression was summed up in the remark of a retired general to the Washington Times: "The Army is just too small for what they want it to do."

General Eric Shinseki, the former chief of staff of the Army, dared face down Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz in estimating "several hundred thousand" U.S. troops as the required size of an Iraq occupation force – and was forced into retirement. Now Casey has been rebuked and is presumably on the way out, while Byrnes has been purged, along with no one knows how many others. It's the night of the long knives in the Pentagon, as the War Party cleans out suspected dissidents from the top ranks of the military and prepares for the next move on the Middle Eastern chessboard.

It doesn't matter if the majority of Americans overwhelmingly oppose the president's war plans, just as long as organized opposition can be effectively neutralized. Is a housewife from Vacaville threatening to show up the president as a coward and a liar? Then smear her and make her the issue – anything to divert attention away from the president's own cowardice and the monstrous immorality of his foreign policy. Is a four-star general standing in the way of the neocons? Then smear him, too, on trumped-up charges and haul him out of his office in disgrace. Is the antiwar movement beginning to gain momentum? Then bring out the smear artists and begin a media campaign of demonization.

The regime has a two-note strategy: fear and smear. This summer, they're firing with both barrels, and we can expect the noise level to rise appreciably as we approach the fourth anniversary of 9/11 – the catalytic event that catapulted us into this Bizarro World, where up is down, all morals are inverted, and we live in a "democracy" where a war opposed by a clear majority is about to be escalated, not ended.

If I were president in such a world, I, too, would be nervous about opposition to my crazed war policy emanating from the military. In Bizarro America, after all, anything might happen – including uniformed generals leading the antiwar movement.

Finally taking seriously their sworn duty to defend the Constitution, will they take up their positions next to Cindy Sheehan and march on the president's Crawford compound? We can dream, can't we? Who knows, but in Bizarro America, it just might happen, and wouldn't that be a sight to see? The final rout of the chickenhawks, as they meet their Waterloo!


 http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3521September 8, 2004
Neoconservatism and Espionage
AIPAC Spy Scandal: Crimes of the 'Clean Break' Gang
by Justin Raimondo
These are bad times for Israeli spy operations. It wasn't enough that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was outed, last week, as a major supplier of U.S. secrets to Tel Aviv: on Monday, Israel's spy satellite – meant to keep an eye on Iran's nuclear ambitions – went kaput on lift-off. Measured in time, money, and diplomatic blowback, the loss of the satellite is a hard blow to the Jewish state – but the AIPAC affair could deliver a knockout punch to one of Washington's most powerful, and feared, lobbying groups. Not only that, it could also destroy the neoconservative wing of the Republican foreign policy establishment by demonstrating, in a court of law, the key link between neoconservatism and espionage.

Attempts to minimize the damage, mostly conducted in the pages of the Jerusalem Post, and the New York Times – which has published "news" stories on the subject consisting almost entirely of the neocons' outraged denials – have so far downplayed the significance of the documents allegedly given to AIPAC officials by Pentagon analyst Lawrence A. Franklin, and then passed on to Israel. The Amen Corner always refers to a draft of a presidential directive on Iran, and then goes on to scoff at the seriousness of the alleged transmission: everybody does it, goes the argument, and what are some "draft" policy papers between such good friends? No notice is ever taken of the "other documents" frequently mentioned, albeit in passing, in various news accounts. But what are we talking about, here: secret codes? The names of American agents abroad? America's war plans in Iraq? It could be any or all of the above.

Also ignored is the timeline of the investigation: top administration officials, including National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, were reportedly briefed on the inquiry in 2001, shortly after Bush was sworn into office. In order to carry on the kind of surveillance FBI agents were conducting, they had to go to a special judge sitting in a special court and give some indication that the nation's interests were seriously at risk – and, remember, this was conceivably before the "PATRIOT" Act was passed, when a higher standard of probable cause was the rule.

This is quickly burgeoning into a spy scandal that goes far beyond the activities of Franklin. The investigation, if it isn't murdered in its crib by a Republican hack prosecutor, will dwarf the infamous Jonathan Pollard spy case in terms of sheer scope – and the damage done to America's national security.

Just how deep the investigation into Israel's spy operations in the U.S. goes is indicated in a recent piece by Jason Vest and Laura Rozen, in The American Prospect, which describes the FBI's recent visit to Stephen Green, an expert on Israeli-American relations:

"As Green spoke with investigators, he realized the agents were investigating far more than Franklin.

"'Larry Franklin's name never came up, but several others did,' he said."

The FBI had sought out Green on account of a fascinating piece he'd written in February, and published in Counterpunch, the excellent newsletter put out by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, which detailed the security problems encountered over the years by major neoconservative figures such as Richard Perle, and his protégé, suspected Israeli mole Dr. Stephen Bryen, as well as the self-styled Machiavellian Michael Ledeen, and – higher on the totem pole – Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who, in 1978, was the subject of an investigation into whether he gave classified documents on the sale of U.S. weapons to an Arab government to an AIPAC conduit, who then passed them on to Israel.

The Bryen and Wolfowitz investigations were quietly dropped, along with a similar inquiry into the loyalties of Douglas Feith, a hard-line neoconservative comrade and currently the head of the Pentagon's policy shop, where Franklin works. In 1972, as a Middle East analyst in the Near East and South Asian Affairs section of the National Security Council, Feith was fired because, as Green put it,

"He'd been the object of an inquiry into whether he'd provided classified material to an official of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. The FBI had opened the inquiry."

According to Green, his visitors "were extraordinarily well-informed" and very focused:

"It was apparent they've been at this for awhile, I asked them if there was a current reason for them asking questions about things that go back over 30 years, and they sort of looked at each other and said, 'Yes, it's a present issue,' but wouldn't say specifically what. Though they did ask very specific questions about one individual in particular."

Ledeen's Israeli connection, as the chief go-between with Israel in the Iran-Contra affair, is well-known, but his storied history didn't prevent employment as a "consultant" to the Office of Special Plans.

Vest and Rozen report that the agents never brought up Franklin's name: they wanted to know about Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Ledeen, and Bryen. Another node of interest: the Pentagon's "Office of Special Plans," which is widely credited with funneling enough phony "intelligence" into the White House to expose its occupant to the charge of being a world-class liar. "The only name that didn't come up was Larry Franklin," avers Green.

If the antecedents of AIPAC-gate can be traced back across a span of some 25 years or so, then our sense of déjà vu is further heightened by the circumstances in which Franklin was caught red-handed trying to hand over classified documents to Israeli agents in the presence of an AIPAC employee. As part of a larger investigation, the FBI was listening in on the AIPAC-Mossad meeting at a Washington, D.C., eatery when Franklin walked in on the proceedings "out of the blue" with his awkward offer. Confronting Franklin with the evidence of his treachery, the feds turned him and used him to scope out the deep roots of Israel's secret underground in U.S. policymaking circles.

The only difference with the Bryen case is that this AIPAC-Mossad luncheon was probably held at one of the Imperial capital's finer institutions of higher dining, the kind frequented by Gucci-wearing Washington lobbyists and the higher-priced politicians. In 1978, Bryen met his Mossad contacts at the Madison Hotel Coffee Shop, where he was overheard – by Michael Saba – offering classified documents to an Israeli Embassy official, Zvi Rafiah, described by Green as the Mossad station chief in Washington. Green also notes that Bryen would not agree to take a polygraph test, but Saba readily agreed and passed with flying colors.

The sense of deja-vu gets stronger as we contemplate the first indications that the investigation is being killed. As Saba puts it:

"In 1978, the conversation that I overheard in the restaurant and the subsequent reporting of what was said to the FBI, led to an investigation of that government employee, Stephen Bryen, and a recommendation from the FBI investigators that the matter be brought before a grand jury with charges of espionage for Israel. That case was then mysteriously dropped."

The agents doing the field work on the Franklin investigation were reportedly eager to make arrests, but were stopped by Attorney General John Ashcroft, who put GOP hack Paul McNulty in charge of the case: McNulty moved quickly to nix the plan to go to a grand jury or file a complaint. Apparently, he'll go after such national scourges as OxyContin before he'll lift a finger to go after spies. But the investigation continues, and, given the latest developments, it looks like the bloodhounds have picked up the scent of treason and are relentlessly following it to the source. The Washington Post reports:

"FBI counterintelligence investigators have in recent weeks questioned current and former U.S. officials about whether a small group of Iran specialists at the Pentagon and in Vice President Cheney's office may have been involved in passing classified information to an Iraqi politician or a U.S. lobbying group allied with Israel, according to sources familiar with or involved in the case. In their interviews, the FBI agents have also named two Israeli diplomats stationed in Washington and asked whether they would be willing recipients of sensitive intelligence, the sources added."

The Defense Policy Board – until recently chaired by accused thief and neocon guru Richard Perle – and the office of Dick Cheney are also being scrutinized for evidence of penetration by Israel's fifth column. David Wurmser, a prominent neoconservative writer and publicist, a specialist on Iran who serves as Cheney's principal deputy assistant for national security affairs, is also of interest to investigators. The Post reports:

"'The initial interest was: Do you believe certain people would spy for Israel and pass secret information?' said one source interviewed by the FBI about the defense officials."

The Post also notes that the suspects in this case "have strong ties to Israel," including, in the case of Wurmser, Feith, and Perle, joint authorship of a 1996 policy paper for then-Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," that called for regime change not only in Iraq but throughout the Middle East. The idea, back then, was that Israel would accomplish this, all on its own. Over the years, however, the plan apparently evolved: instead of Israel accomplishing a regional transformation all by its lonesome, Tel Aviv would manipulate Washington into paying the price in treasure and casualties. The Clean Breakers were instrumental in helping to bring this about. But did they also commit acts of espionage in the process?

If so, then their policy prescriptions will be seen in a new light. Why did the Wolfowitz-Perle-Feith Axis of Israel inside the Pentagon argue so consistently and relentlessly for a policy of "Iraq, Delenda Est"? As of this moment, 1001 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq so far. What did they die for? As I put it in an op ed published in USA Today, in February of last year:

"Our troops will be fighting a proxy war in Iraq, and beyond, not to protect U.S. citizens from terrorist attacks, but to make the world safe for Israel. When the dead are buried, let the following be inscribed on their tombstones: They died for Ariel Sharon."

The neocons' defenders characterize the investigation as a case of political persecution, an act of factional warfare carried out by the CIA and the Brent Scowcroft-Republican realists against their neoconservative rivals. But the Clean Break Gang and their willing accomplices did more than just argue on behalf of Israel's cause. If the scope of the present investigation into AIPAC is any indication, over a period of many years the Clean Breakers acted like a coherent and disciplined cell, implanted in the very heart of the U.S. government. Stealing our secrets and feeding us lies, this cabal operated a two-way transmission belt of treason – subverting our efforts to go after the real perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and diverting attention and resources to the war against Israel's enemies, the Ba'athist regimes in Baghdad and Damascus, and the mullahs of Tehran.

While the neocons appear to have been given a platform by that bastion of liberalism, the New York Times, to give their defense in the framework of "news" articles that impart very little new information, the usual suspects have not been heard to defend AIPAC too loudly. Michael Ledeen is his usual voluble self, demanding to know why, if the charges have any substance, they haven't arrested anyone. Does this mean he'll join with Rep. John Conyers, who has called for McNulty to be taken off the case, so we can finally see somebody in handcuffs? Conyers has suggested handing it over to the prosecutors in the Valerie Plame case, headed up by Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald. That way, the accused will have their day in court, and the neocons will be blessed with what every political movement of any consequence eventually acquires: an ample supply of martyrs.

Aside from Ledeen, however, and pro-forma denials by the Israelis and AIPAC, the response to the AIPAC espionage caper on the part of Israel's most vehement champions – a numerous crew of ordinarily loquacious pundits, such as Charles Krauthammer, George Will, and Clifford May, etc. – has been an uncharacteristic silence. Bill Safire managed to get off one very weak volley, in the context of a column in the Sunday Times about the election:

"Retiring Senator Bob Graham, whose failure to dissociate himself from Pat Buchanan's anti-Israel screed on 'Meet the Press' yesterday will not help Democrats in Florida, complains that Kerry's campaign is 'still a little out of focus.'"

But Buchanan did not engage in any sort of "screed," "anti-Israel" or otherwise. Here is what he said:

"We also need to investigate whether there is a nest of Pollardites in the Pentagon who have been transmitting American secrets through AIPAC, the Israeli lobby, over to Reno Road, the Israeli embassy, to be transferred to Mr. Sharon. Now, I did not know until this weekend's stories in The Washington Post that this is exactly what is being talked about; that certain individuals over there in Mr. Feith's shop or beneath him have been transmitting these secrets.

"Now, the FBI have been asking questions. There are no conclusions. No one should assume guilt on anyone's part. But if this has been going on, Tim, we are getting dangerously close to the T-word. And I would urge the president of the United States to get out in front of this, to take this investigation away from Mr. McNulty and give it to Patrick Fitzgerald and let them look into it because if the president can – I'm sure the president has no involvement in this. But questions have been raised, and this is not something on the Internet. This is The Washington Post doing this, moving all this around, and so I think there clearly needs to be an investigation."

All I know is what I read in the papers: "No one should assume guilt on anyone's part." This is an "anti-Israel screed" only in the upside down world of Bizarro Bill Safire.

By giving the Clean Break Gang the benefit of a doubt Pat is being generous to a fault: given their record, and the circumstantial evidence gathered so far, they hardly deserve it.

On the same program, Newt Gingrich defended the neocons, if you call this a defense:

"I think that it is very worrisome that some security people, whether they're at the CIA or the FBI, are trying to destroy careers by leaking to the press allegations that are untrue. You may have just noticed, by the way, that Ahmed Chalabi, after a six-month campaign by Ambassador Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority, Ahmed Chalabi was just cleared, something which didn't get quite the same coverage as all of the vicious and dishonest charges.

"Now, if what we're seeing is a strategy of smearing people out of public life by using the FBI and the CIA, I think that's something the Congress should investigate. If somebody's guilty, fine, arrest them, indict them, convict them. But to have people who are supposed to be in charge of security out smearing people, I think makes one worry about the protection of individual liberty and the protection of individual innocence in this society."

But the publicity surrounding the investigation was not a plus for the investigators, as the Post reports:

"Several law enforcement officials have said in recent days that the FBI had initially considered making rapid arrests in the Franklin probe when it became clear that news of the investigation was about to become public last week. But, these officials said, prosecutors urged caution, arguing that investigators needed more time to gather evidence and assess the case."

Whoever leaked this case wasn't rooting for the investigators, but was alerting the other members of the spy nest, allowing them time to scurry to safety – perhaps to Israel – and, in any case, cover their tracks. It was, as Laura Rozen speculated, a "controlled burn," a preemptive strike designed to obstruct and abort the ongoing investigation before arrests could be made.

Gingrich doesn't answer any of the charges, he merely asserts they are "untrue." But how does he know that? Does he have access to the wiretaps, the surveillance records, the transcripts of bugged conversations between AIPAC employees, Israeli embassy officials, and whomever, going back over two years? The FBI does, and they must know something Gingrich doesn't know. So this is not an honest response from Gingrich. The only really direct response of any consequence, apart from "Well, why don't you arrest them, then?", comes from errant paleoconservative John Derbyshire, commenting on the National Review "blog":

"The paleocon websites – yep, you bet I read them – have been going nuts over this story of an Israeli spy in the DoD.

"This strikes me as disingenuous. I have always assumed that every country – including friendly ones – spies on the US govt to whatever degree it can get away with. The value-added of having some advance, unauthorized insight into US govt policy discussions is tremendous. Foreign governments, friendly or otherwise, would be fools not to do all they can to get insights into US policy. "

Here is someone who thinks other countries would be "fools" not to engage in espionage against the United States. Isn't there something on the citizenship application form about approving of treason? It's amazing that they let Derbyshire, an immigrant from Britain, into the country, let alone made him a citizen.

As a writer for a magazine that smeared several prominent antiwar conservatives and libertarians, including Buchanan, Robert Novak, and Lew Rockwell – as well as a few minor ones, including myself – as "Unpatriotic Conservatives," the statement that the activities of the AIPAC cabal amount to "having some advance, unauthorized insight into US government policy discussions" is … breathtaking.

If he were elected prime minister of somewhere-or-other, Derbyshire breezily assures us, he would immediately expand his country's program of spying on the United States, and would be "furious" if one were not already in place. He gives voice to the hard-core Likudnik view of America's relationship with Israel, while supposedly conveying an ostensibly neutral value-free stance:


"For Israel, whose actual existence as a nation might depend on US policy (as in fact it did in 1973), there is no excuse at all not to spy on the US. An Israeli government that did not spy on the US would be in very serious dereliction of its duty towards its citizens."

Translated into colloquial American, this means: Screw the U.S. We'll spy on them if we must, and we'll be the proper judges of that. Every country pursues its own interests. But the only problem is that Israel's supporters have made the point, over and over again post-9/11, that the interests of Israel and the U.S. are identical. AIPAC-gate proves that this is a lie: Israel treats its main benefactor – and practically its lone friend in the world – as if it were a mortal enemy. But then again, given Derbyshire's recognition that we hold Israel's life in our hands, this hostility is understandable: such an over-dependence can only breed resentment, contempt, and, inevitably, a sense of betrayal. No matter how much aid we give, and how unconditional our support, it's never enough: not enough to stave off the rising tide of Arab nationalism, not to mention the demographic tide rising to engulf the Jewish state in an Arab sea.

So what should we do? According to Derbyshire:

"Of course, if we catch someone spying for a foreign power – whether friendly or not – we should throw the book at him. We are entitled to do everything we can to protect our national secrets, and need not apologize to anyone for that. But that is just the other side of the game.

"To throw up your hands in horror on learning that some friendly country is spying on the US is preposterous. Unless, of course, you have a heavy emotional investment in the notion that lots of very senior administration officials owe their true primary allegiance to that country..."

A "friendly country"? A country that not only spied on us, but also set up a covert intelligence cell within the highest councils of the U.S. Government and colluded with them to lie us into war – this is a friendly country? This is precisely what the British did during World War II, as Thomas E. Mahl, author of Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44, documents, but as an American citizen, albeit of British ancestry, and a conservative to boot, no doubt Derbyshire doesn't approve of that. Although one could understand why he might: but why make the same sort of exception for Israel? Just asking.

A country that passed secrets to Iran, via its agents, Chalabi and AIPAC, endangering American lives on the battlefields of Iraq – what kind of "friendship" is that?

Horror is the proper response to treason of this kind, and the only sort of "emotional investment" required is an emotional attachment to one's own country, as well as an abiding concern for its security in this, the age of terrorism. Furthermore, it is absurd to speculate on subjective interpretations of to whom or what the traitors in our midst felt allegiance. We cannot know what they felt, only what they did. Whether the spying for Israel was done to advance the neoconservative cult of power, or the cult was a front for Israeli interests pure and simple, is a question one must leave to future scholars of the subject. Just as academic specialists ponder the question of what motivated Alger Hiss, and wonder who promoted Peress, tomorrow's AIPAC-ologists will debate the point raised by Derbyshire, which is interesting – but irrelevant to our purposes.

What matters to us here at Antiwar.com, and the reason we've been covering this story so comprehensively, is that it validates what we have been saying all along about the neocons, and Israel's operational role in the propaganda campaign that led to the invasion of Iraq. AIPAC-gate further delegitimizes an already unpopular war, and could help block the War Party's moves to incite more armed conflicts throughout the region. Before we resolve, finally, to get out of Iraq, and out of the Middle East, where we never belonged in the first place, we're going to have to fully comprehend and appreciate the key link between neoconservatism and espionage.

The whole neoconservative movement is an act of subversion: of our republican virtues, of the moral character of our people (see Abu Ghraib), and the conservative movement itself. That top neocons in government have been exposed as foreign agents only confirms that their agenda of "national greatness," neo-imperialism, and perpetual war is un-American through-and-through and to the core.

It also confirms our worst suspicions about the "mainstream" conservatives over at National Review, including Derbyshire: that they all too often act as fellow travelers in treason, excusing and exculpating the worst excesses of Israel's lobby in America, while offering the neocons a platform to slime true conservatives and principled libertarians of the right.

As Ledeen conducts seances in the pages of National Review, complaining to the mad ghost of James Jesus Angleton that Israel's spy nest is being subjected to the tortures of "McCarthyism," and David Frum denounces the investigation as an anti-Semitic plot (presumably carried out by neo-Nazis in the FBI), one has to ask: Why this knee-jerk anti-American response to the actions of our government, which, after all, is only trying to protect us?

Who are the "unpatriotic conservatives" now?

And it isn't just the conservatives. While The Hill newspaper reports that Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), House majority whip, has announced that the House "probe" of AIPAC-gate will start "with a record of confidence" in AIPAC, House Democratic whip Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.), gave a statement that echoes the worst excuse-making of Ledeen, Frum, and her old adversary Gingrich:

"'AIPAC has played a pivotal role in ensuring the strength of the special relationship between the United States and Israel,' she said. 'AIPAC is a dedicated advocate for Israel, educating our nation's leaders about opportunities to assist our democratic ally in the Middle East. I am proud to have worked closely with AIPAC and its leaders to support Israel as it works to defeat terrorism and strives toward a just and lasting peace.'"


This craven catering to a group that has effectively acted as a fifth column, and stands credibly accused of being an accomplice to crimes including espionage, is an outrage. What's even worse: AIPAC activists are flooding the Congress with calls, and letters, in a massive campaign to drop the charges, obstruct justice, and engage in damage control. The problem is that damage to American interests is not their concern: it's all about Israel.

When both parties are complicit with treason, what is to be done? Thank god for Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), who seems to be one of the few true patriots left in Congress, who is calling attention to the possibility of a cover-up.. The people must rise up and act if this treason is to be ended.

We can stop the cover-up, but only if we act now. Get on the horn and call your congressional representatives: your two senators as well as the member of the House from your congressional district.

Let it not be said that, when it came time to speak up and defend the country from treason, only traitors could find words to defend their co-conspirators. Call, write, and make your voice heard. And be polite. Simply ask why the investigation seems to have been hampered, not helped, by the intervention of John Ashcroft. And ask why is it that Israel is given the sort of leeway that no country can afford to give another – without necessarily answering your own question. Be polite, but, by all means, feel free to point out that if the "A" in AIPAC stood for Arab, one wonders if members of Congress would be so quick to give a group of accused spies their imprimatur.

 http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3521– Justin Raimondo

September 8, 2004
Neoconservatism and Espionage
AIPAC Spy Scandal: Crimes of the 'Clean Break' Gang
by Justin Raimondo
These are bad times for Israeli spy operations. It wasn't enough that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was outed, last week, as a major supplier of U.S. secrets to Tel Aviv: on Monday, Israel's spy satellite – meant to keep an eye on Iran's nuclear ambitions – went kaput on lift-off. Measured in time, money, and diplomatic blowback, the loss of the satellite is a hard blow to the Jewish state – but the AIPAC affair could deliver a knockout punch to one of Washington's most powerful, and feared, lobbying groups. Not only that, it could also destroy the neoconservative wing of the Republican foreign policy establishment by demonstrating, in a court of law, the key link between neoconservatism and espionage.

Attempts to minimize the damage, mostly conducted in the pages of the Jerusalem Post, and the New York Times – which has published "news" stories on the subject consisting almost entirely of the neocons' outraged denials – have so far downplayed the significance of the documents allegedly given to AIPAC officials by Pentagon analyst Lawrence A. Franklin, and then passed on to Israel. The Amen Corner always refers to a draft of a presidential directive on Iran, and then goes on to scoff at the seriousness of the alleged transmission: everybody does it, goes the argument, and what are some "draft" policy papers between such good friends? No notice is ever taken of the "other documents" frequently mentioned, albeit in passing, in various news accounts. But what are we talking about, here: secret codes? The names of American agents abroad? America's war plans in Iraq? It could be any or all of the above.

Also ignored is the timeline of the investigation: top administration officials, including National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, were reportedly briefed on the inquiry in 2001, shortly after Bush was sworn into office. In order to carry on the kind of surveillance FBI agents were conducting, they had to go to a special judge sitting in a special court and give some indication that the nation's interests were seriously at risk – and, remember, this was conceivably before the "PATRIOT" Act was passed, when a higher standard of probable cause was the rule.

This is quickly burgeoning into a spy scandal that goes far beyond the activities of Franklin. The investigation, if it isn't murdered in its crib by a Republican hack prosecutor, will dwarf the infamous Jonathan Pollard spy case in terms of sheer scope – and the damage done to America's national security.

Just how deep the investigation into Israel's spy operations in the U.S. goes is indicated in a recent piece by Jason Vest and Laura Rozen, in The American Prospect, which describes the FBI's recent visit to Stephen Green, an expert on Israeli-American relations:

"As Green spoke with investigators, he realized the agents were investigating far more than Franklin.

"'Larry Franklin's name never came up, but several others did,' he said."

The FBI had sought out Green on account of a fascinating piece he'd written in February, and published in Counterpunch, the excellent newsletter put out by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, which detailed the security problems encountered over the years by major neoconservative figures such as Richard Perle, and his protégé, suspected Israeli mole Dr. Stephen Bryen, as well as the self-styled Machiavellian Michael Ledeen, and – higher on the totem pole – Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who, in 1978, was the subject of an investigation into whether he gave classified documents on the sale of U.S. weapons to an Arab government to an AIPAC conduit, who then passed them on to Israel.

The Bryen and Wolfowitz investigations were quietly dropped, along with a similar inquiry into the loyalties of Douglas Feith, a hard-line neoconservative comrade and currently the head of the Pentagon's policy shop, where Franklin works. In 1972, as a Middle East analyst in the Near East and South Asian Affairs section of the National Security Council, Feith was fired because, as Green put it,

"He'd been the object of an inquiry into whether he'd provided classified material to an official of the Israeli Embassy in Washington. The FBI had opened the inquiry."

According to Green, his visitors "were extraordinarily well-informed" and very focused:

"It was apparent they've been at this for awhile, I asked them if there was a current reason for them asking questions about things that go back over 30 years, and they sort of looked at each other and said, 'Yes, it's a present issue,' but wouldn't say specifically what. Though they did ask very specific questions about one individual in particular."

Ledeen's Israeli connection, as the chief go-between with Israel in the Iran-Contra affair, is well-known, but his storied history didn't prevent employment as a "consultant" to the Office of Special Plans.

Vest and Rozen report that the agents never brought up Franklin's name: they wanted to know about Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Ledeen, and Bryen. Another node of interest: the Pentagon's "Office of Special Plans," which is widely credited with funneling enough phony "intelligence" into the White House to expose its occupant to the charge of being a world-class liar. "The only name that didn't come up was Larry Franklin," avers Green.

If the antecedents of AIPAC-gate can be traced back across a span of some 25 years or so, then our sense of déjà vu is further heightened by the circumstances in which Franklin was caught red-handed trying to hand over classified documents to Israeli agents in the presence of an AIPAC employee. As part of a larger investigation, the FBI was listening in on the AIPAC-Mossad meeting at a Washington, D.C., eatery when Franklin walked in on the proceedings "out of the blue" with his awkward offer. Confronting Franklin with the evidence of his treachery, the feds turned him and used him to scope out the deep roots of Israel's secret underground in U.S. policymaking circles.

The only difference with the Bryen case is that this AIPAC-Mossad luncheon was probably held at one of the Imperial capital's finer institutions of higher dining, the kind frequented by Gucci-wearing Washington lobbyists and the higher-priced politicians. In 1978, Bryen met his Mossad contacts at the Madison Hotel Coffee Shop, where he was overheard – by Michael Saba – offering classified documents to an Israeli Embassy official, Zvi Rafiah, described by Green as the Mossad station chief in Washington. Green also notes that Bryen would not agree to take a polygraph test, but Saba readily agreed and passed with flying colors.

The sense of deja-vu gets stronger as we contemplate the first indications that the investigation is being killed. As Saba puts it:

"In 1978, the conversation that I overheard in the restaurant and the subsequent reporting of what was said to the FBI, led to an investigation of that government employee, Stephen Bryen, and a recommendation from the FBI investigators that the matter be brought before a grand jury with charges of espionage for Israel. That case was then mysteriously dropped."

The agents doing the field work on the Franklin investigation were reportedly eager to make arrests, but were stopped by Attorney General John Ashcroft, who put GOP hack Paul McNulty in charge of the case: McNulty moved quickly to nix the plan to go to a grand jury or file a complaint. Apparently, he'll go after such national scourges as OxyContin before he'll lift a finger to go after spies. But the investigation continues, and, given the latest developments, it looks like the bloodhounds have picked up the scent of treason and are relentlessly following it to the source. The Washington Post reports:

"FBI counterintelligence investigators have in recent weeks questioned current and former U.S. officials about whether a small group of Iran specialists at the Pentagon and in Vice President Cheney's office may have been involved in passing classified information to an Iraqi politician or a U.S. lobbying group allied with Israel, according to sources familiar with or involved in the case. In their interviews, the FBI agents have also named two Israeli diplomats stationed in Washington and asked whether they would be willing recipients of sensitive intelligence, the sources added."

The Defense Policy Board – until recently chaired by accused thief and neocon guru Richard Perle – and the office of Dick Cheney are also being scrutinized for evidence of penetration by Israel's fifth column. David Wurmser, a prominent neoconservative writer and publicist, a specialist on Iran who serves as Cheney's principal deputy assistant for national security affairs, is also of interest to investigators. The Post reports:

"'The initial interest was: Do you believe certain people would spy for Israel and pass secret information?' said one source interviewed by the FBI about the defense officials."

The Post also notes that the suspects in this case "have strong ties to Israel," including, in the case of Wurmser, Feith, and Perle, joint authorship of a 1996 policy paper for then-Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," that called for regime change not only in Iraq but throughout the Middle East. The idea, back then, was that Israel would accomplish this, all on its own. Over the years, however, the plan apparently evolved: instead of Israel accomplishing a regional transformation all by its lonesome, Tel Aviv would manipulate Washington into paying the price in treasure and casualties. The Clean Breakers were instrumental in helping to bring this about. But did they also commit acts of espionage in the process?

If so, then their policy prescriptions will be seen in a new light. Why did the Wolfowitz-Perle-Feith Axis of Israel inside the Pentagon argue so consistently and relentlessly for a policy of "Iraq, Delenda Est"? As of this moment, 1001 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq so far. What did they die for? As I put it in an op ed published in USA Today, in February of last year:

"Our troops will be fighting a proxy war in Iraq, and beyond, not to protect U.S. citizens from terrorist attacks, but to make the world safe for Israel. When the dead are buried, let the following be inscribed on their tombstones: They died for Ariel Sharon."

The neocons' defenders characterize the investigation as a case of political persecution, an act of factional warfare carried out by the CIA and the Brent Scowcroft-Republican realists against their neoconservative rivals. But the Clean Break Gang and their willing accomplices did more than just argue on behalf of Israel's cause. If the scope of the present investigation into AIPAC is any indication, over a period of many years the Clean Breakers acted like a coherent and disciplined cell, implanted in the very heart of the U.S. government. Stealing our secrets and feeding us lies, this cabal operated a two-way transmission belt of treason – subverting our efforts to go after the real perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and diverting attention and resources to the war against Israel's enemies, the Ba'athist regimes in Baghdad and Damascus, and the mullahs of Tehran.

While the neocons appear to have been given a platform by that bastion of liberalism, the New York Times, to give their defense in the framework of "news" articles that impart very little new information, the usual suspects have not been heard to defend AIPAC too loudly. Michael Ledeen is his usual voluble self, demanding to know why, if the charges have any substance, they haven't arrested anyone. Does this mean he'll join with Rep. John Conyers, who has called for McNulty to be taken off the case, so we can finally see somebody in handcuffs? Conyers has suggested handing it over to the prosecutors in the Valerie Plame case, headed up by Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald. That way, the accused will have their day in court, and the neocons will be blessed with what every political movement of any consequence eventually acquires: an ample supply of martyrs.

Aside from Ledeen, however, and pro-forma denials by the Israelis and AIPAC, the response to the AIPAC espionage caper on the part of Israel's most vehement champions – a numerous crew of ordinarily loquacious pundits, such as Charles Krauthammer, George Will, and Clifford May, etc. – has been an uncharacteristic silence. Bill Safire managed to get off one very weak volley, in the context of a column in the Sunday Times about the election:

"Retiring Senator Bob Graham, whose failure to dissociate himself from Pat Buchanan's anti-Israel screed on 'Meet the Press' yesterday will not help Democrats in Florida, complains that Kerry's campaign is 'still a little out of focus.'"

But Buchanan did not engage in any sort of "screed," "anti-Israel" or otherwise. Here is what he said:

"We also need to investigate whether there is a nest of Pollardites in the Pentagon who have been transmitting American secrets through AIPAC, the Israeli lobby, over to Reno Road, the Israeli embassy, to be transferred to Mr. Sharon. Now, I did not know until this weekend's stories in The Washington Post that this is exactly what is being talked about; that certain individuals over there in Mr. Feith's shop or beneath him have been transmitting these secrets.

"Now, the FBI have been asking questions. There are no conclusions. No one should assume guilt on anyone's part. But if this has been going on, Tim, we are getting dangerously close to the T-word. And I would urge the president of the United States to get out in front of this, to take this investigation away from Mr. McNulty and give it to Patrick Fitzgerald and let them look into it because if the president can – I'm sure the president has no involvement in this. But questions have been raised, and this is not something on the Internet. This is The Washington Post doing this, moving all this around, and so I think there clearly needs to be an investigation."

All I know is what I read in the papers: "No one should assume guilt on anyone's part." This is an "anti-Israel screed" only in the upside down world of Bizarro Bill Safire.

By giving the Clean Break Gang the benefit of a doubt Pat is being generous to a fault: given their record, and the circumstantial evidence gathered so far, they hardly deserve it.

On the same program, Newt Gingrich defended the neocons, if you call this a defense:

"I think that it is very worrisome that some security people, whether they're at the CIA or the FBI, are trying to destroy careers by leaking to the press allegations that are untrue. You may have just noticed, by the way, that Ahmed Chalabi, after a six-month campaign by Ambassador Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority, Ahmed Chalabi was just cleared, something which didn't get quite the same coverage as all of the vicious and dishonest charges.

"Now, if what we're seeing is a strategy of smearing people out of public life by using the FBI and the CIA, I think that's something the Congress should investigate. If somebody's guilty, fine, arrest them, indict them, convict them. But to have people who are supposed to be in charge of security out smearing people, I think makes one worry about the protection of individual liberty and the protection of individual innocence in this society."

But the publicity surrounding the investigation was not a plus for the investigators, as the Post reports:

"Several law enforcement officials have said in recent days that the FBI had initially considered making rapid arrests in the Franklin probe when it became clear that news of the investigation was about to become public last week. But, these officials said, prosecutors urged caution, arguing that investigators needed more time to gather evidence and assess the case."

Whoever leaked this case wasn't rooting for the investigators, but was alerting the other members of the spy nest, allowing them time to scurry to safety – perhaps to Israel – and, in any case, cover their tracks. It was, as Laura Rozen speculated, a "controlled burn," a preemptive strike designed to obstruct and abort the ongoing investigation before arrests could be made.

Gingrich doesn't answer any of the charges, he merely asserts they are "untrue." But how does he know that? Does he have access to the wiretaps, the surveillance records, the transcripts of bugged conversations between AIPAC employees, Israeli embassy officials, and whomever, going back over two years? The FBI does, and they must know something Gingrich doesn't know. So this is not an honest response from Gingrich. The only really direct response of any consequence, apart from "Well, why don't you arrest them, then?", comes from errant paleoconservative John Derbyshire, commenting on the National Review "blog":

"The paleocon websites – yep, you bet I read them – have been going nuts over this story of an Israeli spy in the DoD.

"This strikes me as disingenuous. I have always assumed that every country – including friendly ones – spies on the US govt to whatever degree it can get away with. The value-added of having some advance, unauthorized insight into US govt policy discussions is tremendous. Foreign governments, friendly or otherwise, would be fools not to do all they can to get insights into US policy. "

Here is someone who thinks other countries would be "fools" not to engage in espionage against the United States. Isn't there something on the citizenship application form about approving of treason? It's amazing that they let Derbyshire, an immigrant from Britain, into the country, let alone made him a citizen.

As a writer for a magazine that smeared several prominent antiwar conservatives and libertarians, including Buchanan, Robert Novak, and Lew Rockwell – as well as a few minor ones, including myself – as "Unpatriotic Conservatives," the statement that the activities of the AIPAC cabal amount to "having some advance, unauthorized insight into US government policy discussions" is … breathtaking.

If he were elected prime minister of somewhere-or-other, Derbyshire breezily assures us, he would immediately expand his country's program of spying on the United States, and would be "furious" if one were not already in place. He gives voice to the hard-core Likudnik view of America's relationship with Israel, while supposedly conveying an ostensibly neutral value-free stance:


"For Israel, whose actual existence as a nation might depend on US policy (as in fact it did in 1973), there is no excuse at all not to spy on the US. An Israeli government that did not spy on the US would be in very serious dereliction of its duty towards its citizens."

Translated into colloquial American, this means: Screw the U.S. We'll spy on them if we must, and we'll be the proper judges of that. Every country pursues its own interests. But the only problem is that Israel's supporters have made the point, over and over again post-9/11, that the interests of Israel and the U.S. are identical. AIPAC-gate proves that this is a lie: Israel treats its main benefactor – and practically its lone friend in the world – as if it were a mortal enemy. But then again, given Derbyshire's recognition that we hold Israel's life in our hands, this hostility is understandable: such an over-dependence can only breed resentment, contempt, and, inevitably, a sense of betrayal. No matter how much aid we give, and how unconditional our support, it's never enough: not enough to stave off the rising tide of Arab nationalism, not to mention the demographic tide rising to engulf the Jewish state in an Arab sea.

So what should we do? According to Derbyshire:

"Of course, if we catch someone spying for a foreign power – whether friendly or not – we should throw the book at him. We are entitled to do everything we can to protect our national secrets, and need not apologize to anyone for that. But that is just the other side of the game.

"To throw up your hands in horror on learning that some friendly country is spying on the US is preposterous. Unless, of course, you have a heavy emotional investment in the notion that lots of very senior administration officials owe their true primary allegiance to that country..."

A "friendly country"? A country that not only spied on us, but also set up a covert intelligence cell within the highest councils of the U.S. Government and colluded with them to lie us into war – this is a friendly country? This is precisely what the British did during World War II, as Thomas E. Mahl, author of Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44, documents, but as an American citizen, albeit of British ancestry, and a conservative to boot, no doubt Derbyshire doesn't approve of that. Although one could understand why he might: but why make the same sort of exception for Israel? Just asking.

A country that passed secrets to Iran, via its agents, Chalabi and AIPAC, endangering American lives on the battlefields of Iraq – what kind of "friendship" is that?

Horror is the proper response to treason of this kind, and the only sort of "emotional investment" required is an emotional attachment to one's own country, as well as an abiding concern for its security in this, the age of terrorism. Furthermore, it is absurd to speculate on subjective interpretations of to whom or what the traitors in our midst felt allegiance. We cannot know what they felt, only what they did. Whether the spying for Israel was done to advance the neoconservative cult of power, or the cult was a front for Israeli interests pure and simple, is a question one must leave to future scholars of the subject. Just as academic specialists ponder the question of what motivated Alger Hiss, and wonder who promoted Peress, tomorrow's AIPAC-ologists will debate the point raised by Derbyshire, which is interesting – but irrelevant to our purposes.

What matters to us here at Antiwar.com, and the reason we've been covering this story so comprehensively, is that it validates what we have been saying all along about the neocons, and Israel's operational role in the propaganda campaign that led to the invasion of Iraq. AIPAC-gate further delegitimizes an already unpopular war, and could help block the War Party's moves to incite more armed conflicts throughout the region. Before we resolve, finally, to get out of Iraq, and out of the Middle East, where we never belonged in the first place, we're going to have to fully comprehend and appreciate the key link between neoconservatism and espionage.

The whole neoconservative movement is an act of subversion: of our republican virtues, of the moral character of our people (see Abu Ghraib), and the conservative movement itself. That top neocons in government have been exposed as foreign agents only confirms that their agenda of "national greatness," neo-imperialism, and perpetual war is un-American through-and-through and to the core.

It also confirms our worst suspicions about the "mainstream" conservatives over at National Review, including Derbyshire: that they all too often act as fellow travelers in treason, excusing and exculpating the worst excesses of Israel's lobby in America, while offering the neocons a platform to slime true conservatives and principled libertarians of the right.

As Ledeen conducts seances in the pages of National Review, complaining to the mad ghost of James Jesus Angleton that Israel's spy nest is being subjected to the tortures of "McCarthyism," and David Frum denounces the investigation as an anti-Semitic plot (presumably carried out by neo-Nazis in the FBI), one has to ask: Why this knee-jerk anti-American response to the actions of our government, which, after all, is only trying to protect us?

Who are the "unpatriotic conservatives" now?

And it isn't just the conservatives. While The Hill newspaper reports that Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), House majority whip, has announced that the House "probe" of AIPAC-gate will start "with a record of confidence" in AIPAC, House Democratic whip Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.), gave a statement that echoes the worst excuse-making of Ledeen, Frum, and her old adversary Gingrich:

"'AIPAC has played a pivotal role in ensuring the strength of the special relationship between the United States and Israel,' she said. 'AIPAC is a dedicated advocate for Israel, educating our nation's leaders about opportunities to assist our democratic ally in the Middle East. I am proud to have worked closely with AIPAC and its leaders to support Israel as it works to defeat terrorism and strives toward a just and lasting peace.'"


This craven catering to a group that has effectively acted as a fifth column, and stands credibly accused of being an accomplice to crimes including espionage, is an outrage. What's even worse: AIPAC activists are flooding the Congress with calls, and letters, in a massive campaign to drop the charges, obstruct justice, and engage in damage control. The problem is that damage to American interests is not their concern: it's all about Israel.

When both parties are complicit with treason, what is to be done? Thank god for Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), who seems to be one of the few true patriots left in Congress, who is calling attention to the possibility of a cover-up.. The people must rise up and act if this treason is to be ended.

We can stop the cover-up, but only if we act now. Get on the horn and call your congressional representatives: your two senators as well as the member of the House from your congressional district.

Let it not be said that, when it came time to speak up and defend the country from treason, only traitors could find words to defend their co-conspirators. Call, write, and make your voice heard. And be polite. Simply ask why the investigation seems to have been hampered, not helped, by the intervention of John Ashcroft. And ask why is it that Israel is given the sort of leeway that no country can afford to give another – without necessarily answering your own question. Be polite, but, by all means, feel free to point out that if the "A" in AIPAC stood for Arab, one wonders if members of Congress would be so quick to give a group of accused spies their imprimatur.

– Justin Raimondo





NOTE: THESE PEOPLE LEAD TO ASHCROFT: THese people in the FBI had brakes put on them to clean the streets of the of the real terrorists, even hiding Oklahoma Middle eastern connections, Israelis, Arabs, etc. connections in the bombing case. The old Lone nuts case used again.

Prominent Chicago Judicial Watch Dog Claims U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens In Chicago To Mediate Resolution Concerning Grand Jury Indictments Against Bush And Other High-Level Officials
Sherman Skolnick, the long time 'judge buster' and advocate for judicial honesty, claims Newsweek story will hit news stands Monday, claiming Bush will fire Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Skolnick also contends Bush has been given two options: either resign or stop the grand jury.
August 7, 2005

By Greg Szymanski



Sherman Skolnick, a long time Chicago ‘judge buster’ with a 40 year history of investigating judicial criminality, today confirmed his sources claim U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is in Chicago looking for a way to “prevent a national catastrophe” by mediating the dilemma caused by the recent grand jury indictments against President Bush and other high-level officials.



Skolnick claims a ‘true bill’ has been voted by the grand jury, indicting Bush and others for perjury and obstruction of justice, as well as naming U.S. Supreme Antonin Scalia and William Rehnquist as un-indicted co-conspirators.



Skolnick adds the indictments have been suppressed from the public due to the sensitivity of issues involved, similar to way indictments against Richard Nixon were suppressed during Watergate.



Speaking from his Chicago home, Skolnick said Justice Stevens is in town for a speech but also arrived to try and work out a deal in the country’s best interests, considering the gravity and sensitivity of a sitting President being indicted.



“Stevens is in town to try an arbitrate a solution,” said Skolnick, who has known him since the early 1960’s when Stevens served as special counsel to an investigating commission into one the biggest judicial bribery scandals in U.S. history based in large part on Skolnick’s investigative work.



In the 60s bribery scandal, Skolnick provided crucial testimony substantiating bribery charges against the Illinois Supreme Court, catapulting Skolnick to national prominence as a judicial watchdog and Stevens eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court.



According to Skolnick’s sources, Bush has been given two distinct choices in the wake of the impending release of the indictments suppressed from public view, either to resign or stop the grand jury process, his sources telling him that Bush said ‘if he takes the fall for this, he’ll cause a financial disaster in the process.”



Skolnick also said Newsweek went to press Saturday at 6pm with a story to hit news stands Monday regarding the zealous Chicago Special Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation that started in 2003. Fitzgerald's probe began by looking into the Valerie Plame-CIA leak, but spilled over into more damaging issues involving Bush and others, including the 2000 Presidential elections, the war and Iraq and even the administration’s handling of 9/11.





Recently on his website www.skolnicksreport.com and www.cloakanddagger.de he posted an article titled "Bush and Co. Face Prosecution," where he gave a detailed look at the recent grand jury proceedings going on in Chicago and indictments handed down against Bush.



"One or more of the grand juries have concluded their probe and have voted True Bills, Federal Criminal indictments, against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, "Scooter" Libby, Condoleeza Rice, and Theodore B. Olson; and several media people not previously mentioned in the monopoly press as implicated," wrote Skolnick.



"Shown also as un-indicted co-conspirators are two Judges on the U.S. Supreme Court, William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, who are among the "Gang of Five" also in Bush versus Gore. Because of the horrendous consequences involved, the indictments are suppressed and there may be an extended delay until they appear on the Chicago Federal Court open records.



Also, last week investigative reporter Tom Flocco reported that Fitzgerald's grand jury voted out "true bills" or federal criminal indictments against President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former CIA Director George Tenet, Presidential Senior Advisor Karl Rove, Presidential Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Vice-Presidential Chief of Staff I. "Scooter" Libby, imprisoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller and Vice-Presidential Senior Advisor Mary Matalin.



However, the U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago, through its media spokesman, Randall Sanborn, refused comment on any aspect of the grand jury proceedings, but high-level and credible legal observers claim suppression of grand jury indictments is not unusual, especially when dealing with matters concerning the national interest such as the Nixon indictments during Watergate and now Bush.



Although Flocco is taking considerable heat for running the story and today retracted a follow-up story adding more details about Bush’s alleged response to hearing about the indictments, Skolnick is standing by the facts behind his own version of the indictments, saying he was unaware of Flocco’s situation.



"I expected to be a called a liar on this one for sometime after my story appeared, but the truth will come out," said Skolnick after his original story on Friday appeared.



Independent of the grand jury investigation, Skolnick has privately been investigating for the last five years the illegal nature of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2000 certification of Bush as President .



In his most recent article, he wrote:



"For several years we have been researching and investigating bribery and other malign influences used to procure from a Five-Judge majority of the U.S. Supreme Court the arbitrary and corrupt ruling, December, 2000, installing by way of the case of Bush versus Gore, a fictitious president into the Oval Office.



"A tiny portion of our investigation of the High Court corruption, without mentioning us at all by name, became the subject of a lengthy story in Vanity Fair Magazine, October, 2004 issue. Following this was a forty minute segment about this on the Terri Gross Show on National Public Radio.



"Risking their future career, some of the law clerks of the Dissenting four judges in Bush versus Gore reportedly stole private secret records of the “Infamous Five” showing the malign influence worked on the Judges in installing Bush. Instead of investigating the five High Court Judicial criminals, Homeland Security and the FBI have been threatening and inflicting harm on the dissenting four High Court Judges and their brave law clerks."



For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com.



Greg Szymanski

FBI Confiscates Personal Property Of Former U.S. Army Corporal Who Blew Whistle On 1976 Government funded "Perfect Terrorist Plan" To Topple Twin Towers
Timothy McNiven says he has been harassed by the FBI and now had DOD card taken without a warrant ever since trying to alert the American people about the government's prior knowledge of 9/11.
July 31, 2005

By Greg Szymanski



A former U.S. Army corporal who blew the whistle on a 1976 government funded study to topple the Twin Towers using jetliners, Arab terrorists and box cutters on July 6 had four FBI agents threaten to "tear his apartment apart" if he didn't turn over his legally obtained Department of Defense ID card.



Timothy McNiven, who said he was threatened and harassed by agents in the hallway outside his Bellingham, WA., apartment, claims to be a part of a military unit stationed in Strasbourg, Germany, during the 1970s, assigned the task to brainstorm "the perfect terrorist plan" and what turned out to be the exact same scenario that took place at the WTC on 9/11.



McNiven said his military unit's 9/11-like assignment, lasting over six months and funded by Congress under the guise of airline safety preparedness, proves the government had "plenty of foreknowledge" about possible airline attacks at the WTC.



He even suggested what seemed like a harmless military airline safety study may have been used later to perfect a way to bring down the WTC in order to create another Pearl Harbor like event to facilitate a world wide climate of war.



And since 9/11, McNiven has tried in every way possible to alert the American people about his unit's mock military assignment, creating even more suspicion of the government's hand in 9/11, by first creating a web site and then telling his story in March to The American Free Press and The Arctic Beacon news web cast.



McNiven's accusations about the hidden purpose behind the Congressional study are also included in a signed affidavit as part of a 9/11 related federal conspiracy (RICO) lawsuit filed against President Bush and others in 2004 by Philadelphia attorney Phil Berg.



The publicized version of the study, commissioned by Congress, was to identify security lapses and submit corrective measures to lawmakers," said McNiven. "However, the real purpose of the study was to brainstorm how to pull off a terrorist attack using the exact same 9/11 scenario."



To back up his story, he passed a credible lie detector test, the same type of credible test taken by Daniel Ellsberg and other famous whistle blowers as well as providing many names of the men his unit who also participated in the mock WTC assignment.



McNiven claims, however, since going public and being a part of the law suit, his efforts have been met with government indifference, outright harassment and constant FBI monitoring, the July 6 FBI visit to his Bellingham home another example.



"Our commanding officer back in 1976, Lt. Michael Teague, gave our unit of about 100 a direct order and assignment to brainstorm how to bring down the Twin Towers using jetliners and even box cutters," said McNiven this week from his apartment in Bellingham about the study commissioned to C-Battery 2/81st Field Artillery, U.S. Army, stationed in Strasbourg, Germany.



"I remember Lt. Teague changed the scenario from a 100 story building to the Twin Tower, acting on specific orders from unknown superiors. He then said it was very strange to be asked to devise a plan to blow up your own home town as he was from New York.



"But as I watched the Twin Towers really collapse on the morning of September 11th, I realized I was watching the very same thing we devised in the 1976.



McNiven recalls at first Lt. Teague demanded strict silence regarding the assignment, but later took him aside, giving him a direct order to "never stop alerting the American people" about the government's obvious hand in working on a plan to bring down the Twin if it ever really happened.



"I still feel I am under this direct order and have no intention of disobeying it," said McNiven, adding he still feels his active military duty has not ended due to 9/11.





Regarding the FBI visit to McNiven's home on July 6, a spokesperson from the Bellingham, WA., office confirmed agent Lance Boyer and three others confiscated McNiven's DOD card outside his apartment on the date mentioned, but refused to comment further about the nature, legality or purpose for taking his personal property.



The FBI spokesperson added that his property was taken without a proper warrant, McNiven claiming he only gave it up after being "threatened and harassed" by the four agents in the hallway outside his apartment.



"Agents did go to Mr. McNiven's home and did take his ID card, but that's all we can say right now," said the Bellingham FBI spokesman several hours after the incident occurred.



Although the FBI refused to elaborate, McNiven said he has been singled-out, intimidated and harassed for going public about the mock 1976 "perfect terrorist plan."



"This visit was not to get information but to harass me. I got a reply from the ACLU and they said that I had a legal case but they did not have the resources to take it on," he said.



"In May 2004, I wrote to several FBI offices asking them to do some research for me and to help find the members of C-Battery 2/81st FA, US Army, the men who also worked on the 1976 mock terrorist study. I have kept a copy of the email to the FBI and this is the reason why they I think they showed up."



McNiven said in the past he has tried to relocate many of his former unit members, years ago finding one member, Sgt. Riggs, who was reluctant to talk since Riggs claimed he and his family members had already experienced death threats over going public about the 1976 airline safety study.



Elaborating further on the FBI visit, McNiven recalls in detail facts indicating agents had been tracking his movements for at least a year.



"We started talking in the hallway of my apartment and they asked me if I was a federal agent and I said yes I had an ID to prove it. We walked to my room and I showed them my DOD ID card," said McNiven.



"Then we talked a little more, with one guy doing the questioning, and then two of the other guys started to make smart-ass comments, one of these guys being Agent Boyer."



He said the agents then insisted on seeing his ID card again, McNiven giving it to Agent Boyer but then ripping it out his hand after the agents questioned the validity of his identification.



"One of the Hispanic agents then began to threaten me, saying if I did not give them my ID that they would go and get a bunch of Bellingham Police and come back and tear my place apart," said McNiven.



"So I gave them the ID after, although asking for a receipt, which they gave me. It was strange, though, they knew about my trip to the Pentagon in August 2004 and the letter I sent to the personnel office, which they asked me if the Bellingham Police had come to talk to me about and I said they hadn't.



"I told them that the only people I had ever contacted about getting a new DOD card, as I used to work under cover for them but recently stopped, were lawyers like Gerry Spence, DOD personnel and Federal Judge Coughenour from the Seattle Federal Court. I also gave them the envelope and letter that came along with the ID, saying that it was a federal judge who helped me get this ID in the first place."



McNiven said the FBI has not returned his DOD card or has not contacted him since the July 6 incident, saying he believes they are "waiting for my next move" which McNiven said will be made before a court of law.



Regarding the validity of his DOD affiliation, McNiven said he went through the proper official channels, needing to renew his ID card last year in order to officially carry out his orders given to him by Lt. Teague as a result of 9/11.



McNiven added he is no stranger to DOD as he worked in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an undercover agent on several drug related government investigations.



"A DOD card is a government agency ID just like any other, in this case giving me authority for my military mission to alert the American people about the 1976 plan to topple the Twin Towers," said McNiven.



"I also have the authority to arrest on federal charges like treason or espionage and through Interpol for crimes against humanity and war crimes, which were recently expanded when the International Criminal Court went into effect."



At the time of the FBI visit, McNiven had also just sent the first installment of a proposed book about his life and participation in the 1976 mock terrorist assault on the Twin Towers to an editor of First Amendment Publishing affiliated with The American Free Press.



For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com.



Greg Szymanski

Prominent Chicago Judicial Watch Dog Claims U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens In Chicago To Mediate Resolution Concerning Grand Jury Indictments Against Bush And Other High-Level Officials
Sherman Skolnick, the long time 'judge buster' and advocate for judicial honesty, claims Newsweek story will hit news stands Monday, claiming Bush will fire Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. Skolnick also contends Bush has been given two options: either resign or stop the grand jury.
August 7, 2005

By Greg Szymanski



Sherman Skolnick, a long time Chicago ‘judge buster’ with a 40 year history of investigating judicial criminality, today confirmed his sources claim U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is in Chicago looking for a way to “prevent a national catastrophe” by mediating the dilemma caused by the recent grand jury indictments against President Bush and other high-level officials.



Skolnick claims a ‘true bill’ has been voted by the grand jury, indicting Bush and others for perjury and obstruction of justice, as well as naming U.S. Supreme Antonin Scalia and William Rehnquist as un-indicted co-conspirators.



Skolnick adds the indictments have been suppressed from the public due to the sensitivity of issues involved, similar to way indictments against Richard Nixon were suppressed during Watergate.



Speaking from his Chicago home, Skolnick said Justice Stevens is in town for a speech but also arrived to try and work out a deal in the country’s best interests, considering the gravity and sensitivity of a sitting President being indicted.



“Stevens is in town to try an arbitrate a solution,” said Skolnick, who has known him since the early 1960’s when Stevens served as special counsel to an investigating commission into one the biggest judicial bribery scandals in U.S. history based in large part on Skolnick’s investigative work.



In the 60s bribery scandal, Skolnick provided crucial testimony substantiating bribery charges against the Illinois Supreme Court, catapulting Skolnick to national prominence as a judicial watchdog and Stevens eventually to the U.S. Supreme Court.



According to Skolnick’s sources, Bush has been given two distinct choices in the wake of the impending release of the indictments suppressed from public view, either to resign or stop the grand jury process, his sources telling him that Bush said ‘if he takes the fall for this, he’ll cause a financial disaster in the process.”



Skolnick also said Newsweek went to press Saturday at 6pm with a story to hit news stands Monday regarding the zealous Chicago Special Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation that started in 2003. Fitzgerald's probe began by looking into the Valerie Plame-CIA leak, but spilled over into more damaging issues involving Bush and others, including the 2000 Presidential elections, the war and Iraq and even the administration’s handling of 9/11.





Recently on his website www.skolnicksreport.com and www.cloakanddagger.de he posted an article titled "Bush and Co. Face Prosecution," where he gave a detailed look at the recent grand jury proceedings going on in Chicago and indictments handed down against Bush.



"One or more of the grand juries have concluded their probe and have voted True Bills, Federal Criminal indictments, against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, "Scooter" Libby, Condoleeza Rice, and Theodore B. Olson; and several media people not previously mentioned in the monopoly press as implicated," wrote Skolnick.



"Shown also as un-indicted co-conspirators are two Judges on the U.S. Supreme Court, William Rehnquist and Antonin Scalia, who are among the "Gang of Five" also in Bush versus Gore. Because of the horrendous consequences involved, the indictments are suppressed and there may be an extended delay until they appear on the Chicago Federal Court open records.



Also, last week investigative reporter Tom Flocco reported that Fitzgerald's grand jury voted out "true bills" or federal criminal indictments against President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former CIA Director George Tenet, Presidential Senior Advisor Karl Rove, Presidential Chief of Staff Andrew Card, Vice-Presidential Chief of Staff I. "Scooter" Libby, imprisoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller and Vice-Presidential Senior Advisor Mary Matalin.



However, the U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago, through its media spokesman, Randall Sanborn, refused comment on any aspect of the grand jury proceedings, but high-level and credible legal observers claim suppression of grand jury indictments is not unusual, especially when dealing with matters concerning the national interest such as the Nixon indictments during Watergate and now Bush.



Although Flocco is taking considerable heat for running the story and today retracted a follow-up story adding more details about Bush’s alleged response to hearing about the indictments, Skolnick is standing by the facts behind his own version of the indictments, saying he was unaware of Flocco’s situation.



"I expected to be a called a liar on this one for sometime after my story appeared, but the truth will come out," said Skolnick after his original story on Friday appeared.



Independent of the grand jury investigation, Skolnick has privately been investigating for the last five years the illegal nature of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2000 certification of Bush as President .



In his most recent article, he wrote:



"For several years we have been researching and investigating bribery and other malign influences used to procure from a Five-Judge majority of the U.S. Supreme Court the arbitrary and corrupt ruling, December, 2000, installing by way of the case of Bush versus Gore, a fictitious president into the Oval Office.



"A tiny portion of our investigation of the High Court corruption, without mentioning us at all by name, became the subject of a lengthy story in Vanity Fair Magazine, October, 2004 issue. Following this was a forty minute segment about this on the Terri Gross Show on National Public Radio.



"Risking their future career, some of the law clerks of the Dissenting four judges in Bush versus Gore reportedly stole private secret records of the “Infamous Five” showing the malign influence worked on the Judges in installing Bush. Instead of investigating the five High Court Judicial criminals, Homeland Security and the FBI have been threatening and inflicting harm on the dissenting four High Court Judges and their brave law clerks."



For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com.



Greg Szymanski

Excuse me I thought Neil Bush the President's brother was head of Security at the World Trade center? Can someone clarify this?


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Close Informant And Friend Of Former FBI Agent John O'Neill, Killed on 9/11, Tells How FBI Higher-Ups 'Shut Him Down' Letting 9/11 Happen
Janet Parker was helping O'Neill get close to a known terrorist kingpin in the months preceeding 9/11, but says FBI officials did everything in their power to block O'Neill.
August 16, 2005

By Greg Szymanski



A Seattle woman who was a close informant of former FBI agent and Al Qaeda hunter John O’Neill during the crucial months prior to the 9/11, said they both provided vital information in an attempt to stop the attack but were blocked by officials in the New York and Washington bureaus every step of the way.



The informant’s earth shattering revelations and hard evidence, including names, dates, locations, motives and sordid dealings of known terrorists, may once and for end all speculation that the FBI overtly tried to thwart O’Neill’s investigation, as well as even show authorities worked closely, assisting known terrorists in bringing about 9/11 as well as other previous terrorist attacks.



The detailed information, never released publicly and provided to the Arctic Beacon and the American Free Press, clearly shows, according to the informant, a plot in the FBI by O’Neill’s boss, Tom Picard and others higher-up in the chain of command to block O’Neill just when he may have been able to gum up the works, mainly from contacts made by the Seattle informant with a major Al Qaeda cell operating on the East Coast.



Seattle veterinarian and long time friend and informant of O’Neill, Janet Parker, 53, said O’Neill was stopped by his bosses only months prior to 9/11 from getting a wire tap on a major cell leader, Shadrack Manyathella, who had close ties with Ali Mohammad, a suspected CIA double operative and Mohammad Atta, the alleged 9/11 ring leader.



“His own bureau blocked him every step of the way, but John wanted me to bate Shadrack and get as much information as possible,” said Parker in an extended telephone conversation from her Seattle home this week, concerning several telephone conversations with the alleged terrorist thug in the months preceding 9/11.



“Shadrack was anxious to get me into his organization, since I was considered a valuable asset as a veterinarian. Also, he wanted me to marry another one of his friends named Mohammad, I think so he could get him citizenship papers and a passport.”



During July 2001, O’Neill and Parker communicated numerous times, sharing vital information and trying to determine the best way to uncover Shadrack’s plans, as O’Neil told Parker “something big was in the works and coming down soon.”



Although O’Neill was working non-stop, day and night, to connect the dots and pin down Shadrack and the intentions of other terrorists, traveling back and forth from Europe and Yemen about the USS Cole bombing as well as trying to stop future attacks.



However, Parker said during this time O’Neill also became very despondent and depressed by the lack of cooperation he was getting from FBI headquarters.



Parker, who first became associated with O’Neill more than 30 years ago in other FBI-related investigations, said O’Neill had even traveled to France, deciding to work with French intelligence, instead of his own bureau, since they were more cooperative and Shadrack often communicated to other terrorist cells, located in all parts of the world, in French.



“You have to understand that John and I had known each other for a long time. We shared a lot of information, not only about Shadrack, Al Qaeda and what turned out to be 9/11, but also about the Boston FBI scandal which I was involved in, when various FBI agents were jailed for corruption and about 19 informants like myself were brutally murdered,” said Parker, adding O’Neill protected her identity in that case and probably saved her life, allowing her to run for her life and start over again in Seattle. “I remember once when my foster daughter was visiting, I think in February, 2001, I overheard talk about airplanes and the World Trade Center.



“But concerning John, he was ambitious and maybe that was his downfall, but he was also skilled, talented and completely dedicated to stopping terrorism. He did pressure me over the years and put me in difficult spots, but I would fight back at times, reminding him I was only a volunteer.



“However, since we both knew my inside connection with Shadrack was extremely important, concerning both the bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen and what turned out to be 9/11, I tried to help any way I could until we both realized we were working alone with no assistance from higher-ups in the FBI.”



Parker also sadly recalls during the crucial months before 9/11, O’Neill telling her that “someone higher-up” had blocked attempts to wire tap Shadrack, refused to let him return to Yemen, mysteriously deleted all his files at FBI New York headquarters and then finally relegated him to a desk job, far away from the front lines of terrorism.



“John was devastated when this happened, telling me how frustrating it was to know that something big was coming down but not be able to do anything about it due to lack of cooperation by his own bureau,” said Parker, adding O’Neill told her in the later part of July 2001 that he had already planned to leave the FBI but was unsure of his next move.



“Although John would keep sensitive details from me for ethical reasons and also in order to protect my life, never specifically mentioning names, I think, as does his long time partner Valerie James, it was his direct boss, Tom Picard, who was acting on orders from higher-ups, all of them together trying to stifle John’s investigation. I am not really sure why but the only conclusion I can draw is that they wanted to let 9/11 play out and John and I were getting in the way.”



During the month of August 2001, Parker lost contact with O’Neill, who resigned under pressure in late August, taking a cushy job handed to him on silver platter as head of security at the World Trade Center. According to Parker, O’Neill never really wanted to leave the FBI and would have preferred staying in the intelligence field for another agency, but was lured away to the WTC job over money, being offered $350,000 in comparison to his $100,000 FBI salary.



What happened next is well-documented, as O’Neill was killed inside the Twin Towers on 9/11, after officially starting work on Sept. 10, a coincidence never been fully investigated but filled with suspicion, some saying he was set-up and others brushing his death aside as mere coincidence.



“The last time I talked with John was Sept 8, 2001. He wasn’t with the FBI, but was still somehow actively pursuing Shadrack and Al Qaeda,” said Parker. “John was