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Date:
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 01:48:23 +0200
From:
"Mario Profaca" <Mario.Profaca@zg.tel.hr>
Subject: "Criminal
insider trading lead directly into the CIA's highest ranks"
SUPPRESED DETAILS OF
CRIMINAL INSIDER TRADING
LEAD DIRECTLY INTO
THE CIA's HIGHEST RANKS
CIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
"BUZZY" KRONGARD
MANAGED FIRM THAT HANDLED
"PUT" OPTIONS ON UAL
http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/krongard.html
by
Michael C. Ruppert
[C COPYRIGHT, 2001,
Michael C. Ruppert and FTW Publications,
www.copvcia.com. All
Rights Reserved. - May be reprinted or distributed for
non-profit purposes
only.]
FTW, October 9, 2001
- Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S.
media, there is abundant
and clear evidence that a number of transactions in
financial markets indicated
specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the
September 11 attacks
on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case
of at least one of
these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize
unclaimed -- the firm
used to place the "put options" on United Airlines
stock was, until 1998,
managed by the man who is now in the number three
Executive Director
position at the Central Intelligence Agency. Until 1997
A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard
had been Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown.
A.B. Brown was acquired
by Banker's Trust in 1997. Krongard then became, as
part of the merger,
Vice Chairman of Banker's Trust-AB Brown, one of 20
major U.S. banks named
by Senator Carl Levin this year as being connected to
money laundering. Krongard's
last position at Banker's Trust (BT) was to
oversee "private client
relations." In this capacity he had direct hands-on
relations with some
of the wealthiest people in the world in a kind of
specialized banking
operation that has been identified by the U.S. Senate
and other investigators
as being closely connected to the laundering of drug
money.
Krongard (re?) joined
the CIA in 1998 as counsel to CIA Director George
Tenet. He was promoted
to CIA Executive Director by President Bush in March
of this year. BT was
acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1999. The combined firm is
the single largest
bank in Europe. And, as we shall see, Deutsche Bank
played several key
roles in events connected to the September 11 attacks.
THE SCOPE OF KNOWN INSIDER
TRADING
Before looking further
into these relationships it is necessary to look at
the insider trading
information that is being ignored by Reuters, The New
York Times and other
mass media. It is well documented that the CIA has long
monitored such trades
- in real time - as potential warnings of terrorist
attacks and other economic
moves contrary to U.S. interests. Previous
stories in FTW have
specifically highlighted the use of Promis software to
monitor such trades.
It is necessary to
understand only two key financial terms to understand the
significance of these
trades, "selling short" and "put options".
"Selling Short" is the
borrowing of stock, selling it at current market
prices, but not being
required to actually produce the stock for some time.
If the stock falls
precipitously after the short contract is entered, the
seller can then fulfill
the contract by buying the stock after the price has
fallen and complete
the contract at the pre-crash price. These contracts
often have a window
of as long as four months.
"Put Options," are contracts
giving the buyer the option to sell stocks at a
later date. Purchased
at nominal prices of, for example, $1.00 per share,
they are sold in blocks
of 100 shares. If exercised, they give the holder
the option of selling
selected stocks at a future date at a price set when
the contract is issued.
Thus, for an investment of $10,000 it might be
possible to tie up
10,000 shares of United or American Airlines at $100 per
share, and the seller
of the option is then obligated to buy them if the
option is executed.
If the stock has fallen to $50 when the contract
matures, the holder
of the option can purchase the shares for $50 and
immediately sell them
for $100 - regardless of where the market then stands.
A call option is the
reverse of a put option, which is, in effect, a
derivatives bet that
the stock price will go up.
A September 21 story
by the Israeli Herzliyya International Policy Institute
for Counterterrorism,
entitled "Black Tuesday: The World's Largest Insider
Trading Scam?" documented
the following trades connected to the September 11
attacks:
-
Between September 6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options Exchange saw
purchases of 4,744
put options on United Airlines, but only 396 call
options. Assuming that
4,000 of the options were bought by people with
advance knowledge of
the imminent attacks, these "insiders" would have
profited by almost
$5 million.
-
On September 10, 4,516 put options on American Airlines were bought
on the Chicago exchange,
compared to only 748 calls. Again, there was no
news at that point
to justify this imbalance;. Again, assuming that 4,000 of
these options trades
represent "insiders," they would represent a gain of
about $4 million.
-
[The levels of put options purchased above were more than six times
higher than normal.]
-
No similar trading in other airlines occurred on the Chicago
exchange in the days
immediately preceding Black Tuesday.
-
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the
World Trade Center,
saw 2,157 of its October $45 put options bought in the
three trading days
before Black Tuesday; this compares to an average of 27
contracts per day before
September 6. Morgan Stanley's share price fell from
$48.90 to $42.50 in
the aftermath of the attacks. Assuming that 2,000 of
these options contracts
were bought based upon knowledge of the approaching
attacks, their purchasers
could have profited by at least $1.2 million.
-
Merrill Lynch & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade
Center, saw 12,215
October $45 put options bought in the four trading days
before the attacks;
the previous average volume in those shares had been 252
contracts per day [a
1200% increase!]. When trading resumed, Merrill's
shares fell from $46.88
to $41.50; assuming that 11,000 option contracts
were bought by "insiders,"
their profit would have been about $5.5 million.
-
European regulators are examining trades in Germany's Munich Re,
Switzerland's Swiss
Re, and AXA of France, all major reinsurers with
exposure to the Black
Tuesday disaster. [FTW Note: AXA also owns more than
25% of American Airlines
stock making the attacks a "double whammy" for
them.]
On September 29, 2001
- in a vital story that has gone unnoticed by the
major media - the San
Francisco Chronicle reported, "Investors have yet to
collect more than $2.5
million in profits they made trading options in the
stock of United Airlines
before the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks, according
to a source familiar
with the trades and market data.
"The uncollected money
raises suspicions that the investors - whose
identities and nationalities
have not been made public - had advance
knowledge of the strikes."
They don't dare show up now. The suspension of
trading for four days
after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out
quickly and claim the
prize before investigators started looking.
". October series options
for UAL Corp. were purchased in highly unusual
volumes three trading
days before the terrorist attacks for a total outlay
of $2,070; investors
bought the option contracts, each representing 100
shares, for 90 cents
each. [This represents 230,000 shares]. Those options
are now selling at
more than $12 each. There are still 2,313 so-called "put"
options outstanding
[valued at $2.77 million and representing 231,300
shares] according to
the Options Clearinghouse Corp."
".The source familiar
with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex.
Brown, the American
investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as
the investment bank
used to purchase at least some of these options." This
was the operation managed
by Krongard until as recently as 1998.
As reported in other
news stories, Deutsche Bank was also the hub of insider
trading activity connected
to Munich Re. just before the attacks.
CIA, THE BANKS AND THE
BROKERS
Understanding the interrelationships
between CIA and the banking and
brokerage world is
critical to grasping the already frightening implications
of the above revelations.
Let's look at the history of CIA, Wall Street and
the big banks by looking
at some of the key players in CIA's history.
Clark Clifford - The
National Security Act of 1947 was written by Clark
Clifford, a Democratic
Party powerhouse, former Secretary of Defense, and
one-time advisor to
President Harry Truman. In the 1980s, as Chairman of
First American Bancshares,
Clifford was instrumental in getting the corrupt
CIA drug bank BCCI
a license to operate on American shores. His profession:
Wall Street lawyer
and banker.
John Foster and Allen
Dulles - These two brothers "designed" the CIA for
Clifford. Both were
active in intelligence operations during WW II. Allen
Dulles was the U.S.
Ambassador to Switzerland where he met frequently with
Nazi leaders and looked
after U.S. investments in Germany. John Foster went
on to become Secretary
of State under Dwight Eisenhower and Allen went on to
serve as CIA Director
under Eisenhower and was later fired by JFK. Their
professions: partners
in the most powerful - to this day - Wall Street law
firm of Sullivan, Cromwell.
Bill Casey - Ronald
Reagan's CIA Director and OSS veteran who served as
chief wrangler during
the Iran-Contra years was, under President Richard
Nixon, Chairman of
the Securities and Exchange Commission. His profession:
Wall Street lawyer
and stockbroker.
David Doherty - The
current Vice President of the New York Stock Exchange
for enforcement is
the retired General Counsel of the Central Intelligence
Agency.
George Herbert Walker
Bush - President from 1989 to January 1993, also
served as CIA Director
for 13 months from 1976-7. He is now a paid
consultant to the Carlyle
Group, the 11th largest defense contractor in the
nation, which also
shares joint investments with the bin Laden family.
A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard
- The current Executive Director of the Central
Intelligence Agency
is the former Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown
and former Vice Chairman
of Banker's Trust.
John Deutch - This retired
CIA Director from the Clinton Administration
currently sits on the
board at Citigroup, the nation's second largest bank,
which has been repeatedly
and overtly involved in the documented laundering
of drug money. This
includes Citigroup's 2001 purchase of a Mexican bank
known to launder drug
money, Banamex.
Nora Slatkin - This
retired CIA Executive Director also sits on Citibank's
board.
Maurice "Hank" Greenburg
- The CEO of AIG insurance, manager of the third
largest capital investment
pool in the world, was floated as a possible CIA
Director in 1995. FTW
exposed Greenberg's and AIG's long connection to CIA
drug trafficking and
covert operations in a two-part series that was
interrupted just prior
to the attacks of September 11. AIG's stock has
bounced back remarkably
well since the attacks. To read that story, please
go to http://www.copvcia.com/stories/part_2.html.
One wonders how much
damning evidence is necessary to respond to what is now
irrefutable proof that
CIA knew about the attacks and did not stop them.
Whatever our government
is doing, whatever the CIA is doing, it is clearly
NOT in the interests
of the American people, especially those who died on
September 11.
end
Michael C. Ruppert
P.O. Box 6061-350,
Sherman Oaks, CA 91413
(818)788-8791 * fax(818)981-2847
mruppert@copvcia.com
C COPYRIGHT 1998, 1999,
2000, 2001
MICHAEL C. RUPPERT.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
.
From spynews@yahoogroups.com:
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 19:56:46
-0700
From: "Dave Hartley" <dave@localcomputermart.com>
Subject: CIA exec-director managed firm that
handled WTC-related "insider trading" options against UAL
So, what're the odds against "coincidence"
here?
Billion to one?
Dave Hartley <dave@localcomputermart.com>
http://www.localcomputermart.com
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284
Tri-Cities Computer (TN)
|Asheville Computer (NC)
423-952-0983 or 877-245-3362
|(828)285-0240
$9.95 internet http://www.federalisp.com/?page=ispsignup
What a coincidence...
-Bob Dodds
CIA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR "BUZZY" KRONGARD
MANAGED FIRM THAT HANDLED "PUT" OPTIONS
ON UAL
by Michael C. Ruppert [© COPYRIGHT,
2001, Michael C.
Ruppert and FTW Publications, www.copvcia.com.
All Rights
Reserved. - May be reprinted or distributed
for non-profit
purposes only.]
FTW, October 9, 2001 -
A September 21 story by the Israeli Herzliyya
International Policy
Institute for Counterterrorism, entitled
"Black Tuesday: The
World's Largest Insider Trading Scam?" documented
the following
trades connected to the September 11 attacks:
- Between September
6 and 7, the Chicago Board Options
Exchange saw purchases of 4,744 put options on United
Airlines, but only 396 call options... Assuming that 4,000
of the options were bought by people with advance knowledge
of the imminent attacks, these "insiders" would have profited
by almost $5 million.
- On September 10,
4,516 put options on American Airlines were
bought on the Chicago exchange, compared to only 748 calls.
Again, there was no news at that point to justify this imbalance;
... Again, assuming that 4,000 of these options trades represent
"insiders," they would represent a gain of about $4 million.
- [The levels of
put options purchased above were more than six times
higher than normal.]
- No similar trading
in other airlines occurred on the Chicago exchange
in the days immediately preceding Black Tuesday.
- Morgan Stanley
Dean Witter & Co., which occupied 22 floors of the
World Trade Center, saw 2,157 of its October $45 put options bought
in the three trading days before Black Tuesday; this compares to an
average of 27 contracts per day before September 6. Morgan
Stanley's
share price fell from $48.90 to $42.50 in the aftermath of the
attacks.
Assuming that 2,000 of these options contracts were bought based
upon
knowledge of the approaching attacks, their purchasers could have
profited by at least $1.2 million.
- Merrill Lynch &
Co., which occupied 22 floors of the World Trade
Center, saw 12,215 October $45 put options bought in the four
trading
days before the attacks; the previous average volume in those shares
had
been 252 contracts per day [a 1200% increase!]. When trading
resumed,
Merrill's shares fell from $46.88 to $41.50; assuming that 11,000
option
contracts were bought by "insiders," their profit would have been
about
$5.5 million.
- European regulators
are examining trades in Germany's Munich Re,
Switzerland's Swiss Re, and AXA of France, all major reinsurers with
exposure to the Black Tuesday disaster. [FTW Note: AXA also owns
more than 25% of American Airlines stock making the attacks a
"double
whammy" for them.]
On September 29, 2001 - in a vital story that
has gone unnoticed by the
major
media - the San Francisco Chronicle reported,
"Investors have yet to collect
more than $2.5 million in profits they made
trading options in the stock of
United
Airlines before the Sept. 11, terrorist attacks,
according to a source
familiar with
the trades and market data.
"The uncollected money raises suspicions that
the investors - whose
identities
and nationalities have not been made public
- had advance knowledge of the
strikes." They don't dare show up now. The
suspension of trading for four
days
after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out
quickly and claim the prize
before investigators started looking.
"... October series options for UAL Corp.
were purchased in highly unusual
volumes three trading days before the terrorist
attacks for a total outlay
of
$2,070; investors bought the option contracts,
each representing 100 shares,
for 90 cents each. [This represents 230,000
shares]. Those options are now
selling at more than $12 each. There are
still 2,313 so-called "put" options
outstanding [valued at $2.77 million and
representing 231,300 shares]
according
to the Options Clearinghouse Corp."
"...The source familiar with the United trades
identified
Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown,
the American investment banking arm of German
giant Deutsche
Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase
at least some of these
options..."
As reported in other news stories, Deutsche
Bank was also the hub of insider
trading activity connected to Munich Re.
just before the attacks.
The firm used to place the "put options" on
United Airlines stock was,
until 1998, managed by the man who is now
in the number three Executive
Director position at the Central Intelligence
Agency. Until 1997 A.B.
"Buzzy" Krongard had been Chairman of the
investment bank A.B. Brown.
A.B. Brown was acquired by Banker's Trust
in 1997. Krongard then became,
as part of the merger, Vice Chairman of Banker's
Trust-AB Brown, one of
20 major U.S. banks named by Senator Carl
Levin this year as being
connected to money laundering. Krongard's
last position at Banker's Trust
(BT) was to oversee "private client relations."
In this capacity he had
direct
hands-on relations with some of the wealthiest
people in the world in a kind
of specialized banking operation that has
been identified by the U.S. Senate
and other investigators as being closely
connected to the laundering of drug
money.
Krongard (re-?) joined the CIA in 1998 as
counsel to CIA Director George
Tenet. He was promoted to CIA Executive Director
by President Bush in
March of this year.
BT(Krongard@Banker'sTrust) was acquired by
Deutsche Bank in 1999.
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9.13.01 AF
INTEL SOURCE: PRO-BUSH
GOVERNMENT FACTIONS
ABSOLUTELY
BEHIND TUESDAY'S
MASS DEVASTATION
Please send as far and
wide as possible.
Thanks, Robert Sterling,
Editor, The Konformist
http://www.konformist.com
** URGENT **
PLEASE FORWARD
AS FAR AND WIDE AS
POSSIBLE
9.13.01
AF Intel source: pro-Bush gov't factions
'absolutely' behind
Tuesday's mass devastation!
"The enemy is very
much within"
--------------
TOP_VIEW has just conducted
a brief yet immeasurably
important phone interview
-- set up by a trusted and totally
reliable intermediary
already known to us -- with an Air
Force Reserve intelligence
specialist.
The interview was carried
out this evening, over two days
after the incredible
death and devastation that took place
in New York City and
Washington D.C.
Our Air Force source
told us his superiors had activated
him at about 10 AM
Tuesday morning.
He absolutely refused
to permit us to record the conversation,
even though he was
speaking into some kind of electronic
gizmo that substantially
altered the sound of his voice; making
him sound like Darth
Vader with a serious chest cold. Some
portions of his statements
were unintelligible, and he refused
to repeat several of
these. Although this source was somewhat
taciturn and close-lipped,
for the most part he was cooperative
in terms of giving
us enough time to transcribe what he was
saying. Overall what
is stated plainly and unequivocally is of
absolutely paramount
importance for every single person in
this nation and the
world: certainly among those of us who
value our inalienable
human rights and liberties and want
them to remain un-imperiled,
un-abrogated and unabridged.
TOP_VIEW: We'd like
to hear what you have to say
about the events on
Tuesday. First of all, I assume you
have knowledge of the
events that goes above and
beyond what the public
is being told by the media
and the government?
INTEL SOURCE: That's
quite correct.
TOP_VIEW: Can you --
are you able and willing to
relay this information
to us?
INTEL SOURCE: Well,
that depends. Some of it.
You're going to publish
this?
TOP_VIEW: On the Internet.
INTEL SOURCE: It's
essential that nothing which
could possibly be used
to identify myself or
" ** " (our intermediary)
is made public.
TOP_VIEW: We totally
understand. Completely.
That's exactly how
it will be, and --
INTEL SOURCE: You've
known " ** " a long time?
TOP_VIEW: For about
6 years, sir.
INTEL SOURCE: So...
he'll vouch for you?
(Chuckles)
Fire away.
TOP_VIEW: Well... it's
becoming increasingly clear
that certain federal
government sectors had prior
knowledge of the destruction
carried out on Tuesday.
Would you concur with
this?
INTEL SOURCE: (unintelligible)
TOP_VIEW: Excuse me?
I didn't understand you.
INTEL SOURCE: Never
mind.
TOP_VIEW: Is it true
that our government knew what
was going to happen?
INTEL SOURCE: You could
say that. Actually there are
certain (pause) groups
in our government who pretty
much ran the whole
show.
TOP_VIEW: Are you saying
that there was cooperation
and collaboration between
elements of our government
and the perpetrators?
INTEL SOURCE: No. What
I'm saying is that these groups
(within the federal
government - TV) were the perpetrators
of the action, right
down the line from top to bottom.
TOP_VIEW: This is really
incredibly shocking, what
you're saying here.
Did I understand correctly, that
you say elements of
the federal government were
the prime force behind
these so-called terrorist
attacks Tuesday?
INTEL SOURCE: That's
correct. Absolutely.
TOP_VIEW: God, what
a horrifying thing to come
to grips with! What
is your feeling about this sir, and
exactly why are you
even talking to us about this?
Are you positive about
what you're saying?
INTEL SOURCE: (laughs)
What should I answer first?
I would never make
this kind of statement without
being fully certain
it was factual. My own feeling is
that it's completely
sickening. It's repugnant and
unacceptable and I'm
completely opposed to what
was done. But it's
true and we all have to deal with it.
There are forces within
our government who are
completely determined
to change the structure of
our society at the
most basic level, and these are
the kind of things
they're going to be doing to
make sure that (fundamental
changes in our
society) happens.
TOP_VIEW: What's going
on in the military right
now with regard to
what's occurred? Do many military
higher-ups know this,
and if so what's their position?
INTEL SOURCE: (unintelligible)
TOP_VIEW: Excuse me?
INTEL SOURCE: I said
some do know and some don't.
Some wouldn't believe
it, just like many citizens wouldn't
believe it. There are
certainly lots of conflict going on at
the upper levels of
the military right now between
people aware of the
true facts.
TOP_VIEW: What about
yourself?
INTEL SOURCE: I consider
myself to be a patriotic
American who believes
strongly in the Constitution.
I'll do whatever is
in my power to uphold and defend
those principles, and
so will many others.
TOP_VIEW: Well that's
something I wanted to get to.
The primary motivation
for an atrocity of this magnitude
would seem to be to
soften up the country for some
serious curtailment
of civil liberties, in the name of
protecting us from
such "terrorist" attacks. I've likened
it to Hitler's burning
of the Reichstag in Germany.
INTEL SOURCE: That's
a good comparison.
(Unintelligible)...
one of the main reasons the action
was carried out Tuesday.
There's also other agendas
having to do with control
of the Middle East oil fields,
and things related
to that (issue).
TOP_VIEW: Well, are
people such as yourself in any
way prepared to, or
able to, oppose these forces?
INTEL SOURCE: Speaking
for myself, I'd say there's
a lot I'm prepared
to do and will do. Speaking to you
is one of those things.
And there are many more like me.
TOP_VIEW: Now, how does
the attack on the
Pentagon figure into
this whole thing?
INTEL SOURCE: I can't
discuss that at all.
TOP_VIEW: Can you some
time in the future?
INTEL SOURCE: Maybe.
I think I'll need to sign
off here soon.
TOP_VIEW: Is there anything
else in particular
you'd care to say,
any advice or whatever?
INTEL SOURCE: I'd say
that our way of life is facing
the biggest threat
in our history, and the enemy
is very much within.
VERY MUCH WITHIN.
TOP_VIEW: So it boils
down to: what happened
on Tuesday was an inside
job?
INTEL SOURCE: Absolutely.
All the way down the
line and to a much
higher level than most of you
could ever imagine.
There's a very intense struggle
going on within our
government like I said.
TOP_VIEW: It's a struggle
we're all involved in, sir.
INTEL SOURCE: That's
quite true.
TOP_VIEW: It seems very
clear to me that the
Bush administration
was way involved in the attacks.
Would that be correct?
They obviously want to bring
about the exact kind
of fundamental social
restructuring that
you mentioned.
INTEL SOURCE: It's
a good bet. Right now,
it's best we cut this
short.
TOP_VIEW: Good night
and thank you
very much for speaking
with us.
----------------
This concluded our short
but vastly significant
interview with a patriotic
Air Force intelligence officer.
Folks, we've heard it
from the proverbial horse's
mouth. Americans are
in the most critical struggle
in our entire history,
and the enemy is a deceptive,
malevolent and indeed
demonic force deeply
ensconced within the
very fabric and structure
of our federal government,
and which also infests
even our news and information
sources, our
entertainment, our
schools and workplaces and
many other aspects
of our life and our society.
As our source stated:
"the enemy is very much within."
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Subject: WTC
UFO possibly black helicopter
Date sent:
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 20:45:17 -0500
Greetings, All:
Kent Steadman has
done a superlative job of putting many of the pieces
of the puzzle together for us. What
follows are direct links to his webpage
at http://cyberspaceorbit.com. His
e-mail is bardsquill@aol.com. Thank you
Mr. Steadman!
Randy Kitchur
>
>http://cyberspaceorbit.com/blhelo.jpg
(Compare
the black helicopter image
>at the Pentagon with the speeding image
in link below.)
>
>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34238,00.html#video
9/11/01: East Angle
>- Second Plane Hits Tower (If this is indeed
a black helicopter in the
>image, the implications are truly staggering.)
>
>http://www.therevelation.50megs.com/cgi-bin/i/Animation2.gif
(Note the
>silver cylinder or discoid object to the
right of the frame. A monitoring
>UFO or merely distant aircraft? This
thould be easily verifiable one way
>or the other through official FAA records.)
>
>"In the councils of government, we must
guard against the acquisition of
>unwarranted influence, whether sought or
unsought, by the
>military-industrial complex. The potential
for the disastrous rise of
>misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of
>this combination endanger our liberties
or democratic processes. We should
>take nothing for granted."
>
>VIDEO: Farewell address by former U.S. President
(and General) Dwight
>Eisenhower, January 17,1961.
>http://cseti.homesite.net:7071/ramgen/ike.rm
< ROMERO SAID THAT IF HIS SCENARIO
IS CORRECT, THE DIVERSIONARY ATTACK
WOULD HAVE BEEN THE COLLISION OF
THE PLANES INTO THE TOWERS >
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EXPLOSIVES PLANTED IN TOWERS,
NEW MEXICO TECH EXPERT SAYS
[Posted 14 September 2001]
By Olivier Uyttebrouck - Journal Staff Writer
Televised images of the attacks on the World
Trade Center
suggest that explosives devices caused the
collapse of both
towers, a New Mexico Tech explosion expert
said Tuesday.
The collapse of the buildings appears "too
methodical" to
be a chance result of airplanes colliding
with the structures,
said Van Romero, vice president for research
at New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology.
"My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that
after the
airplanes hit the World Trade Center there
were some
explosive devices inside the buildings that
caused the
towers to collapse," Romero said. Romero
is a former
director of the Energetic Materials Research
and Testing
Center at Tech, which studies explosive materials
and
the effects of explosions on buildings, aircraft
and
other structures.
Romero said he based his opinion on video
aired on
national television broadcasts. Romero said
the collapse
of the structures resembled those of controlled
implosions
used to demolish old structures.
"It would be difficult for
something from the plane to trigger an event
like that,"
Romero said in a phone interview from Washington,
D.C.
Romero said he and another Tech administrator
were on
a Washington-area subway when an airplane
struck the
Pentagon. He said he and Denny Peterson,
vice president
for administration and finance, were en route
to an office
building near the Pentagon to discuss defense-funded
research programs at Tech.
If explosions did cause the towers to collapse,
the
detonations could have been caused by a small
amount
of explosive, he said. "It could have
been a relatively small
amount of explosives placed in strategic
points," Romero
said. The explosives likely would have been
put in more
than two points in each of the towers, he
said.
< ROMERO SAID THAT IF HIS SCENARIO
IS CORRECT, THE DIVERSIONARY ATTACK
WOULD HAVE BEEN THE COLLISION OF
THE PLANES INTO THE TOWERS >
The detonation of bombs within the towers
is consistent
with a common terrorist strategy, Romero
said. "One of the
things terrorist events are noted for is
a diversionary attack
and secondary device," Romero said. Attackers
detonate
an initial, diversionary explosion that attracts
emergency
personnel to the scene, then detonate a second
explosion,
he said. Romero said that if his scenario
is correct, the
diversionary attack would have been the collision
of the
planes into the towers.
Tech President Dan Lopez said Tuesday that
Tech had
NOT been asked to take part in the investigation
into the
attacks. Tech often assists in forensic
investigations
into terrorist attacks, often by setting
off similar
explosions and studying the effects.
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Further Reading:
1) Rick Rozoff takes a critical look at Washington's
response
to Tuesday's tragedies in 'Bush's Press Conference:
Into the
Abyss' at http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/rozoff/abyss.htm
2) While Washington points to Osama bin Laden
as "suspect # 1"
in yesterday's horrific violence, the truth
is not being told to the
American people: 'Washington Created Osama
bin Laden' by
Jared Israel can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/madein.htm
3) If one looks carefully, one can find in
the Western media
evidence that bin Laden has been involved
- on the U.S.-backed
side - in Kosovo, Bosnia and now Macedonia.
Can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/binl.htm
4) Bin Laden was propelled into power as part
of the U.S.
drive to create an Islamist terrorist movement
to crush the
former Soviet Union. See, the truly amazing
account from
the 'Washington Post,' 'Washington's Backing
of Afghan
Terrorists: Deliberate Policy.' at
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/anatomy.htm
5) Head of Russian Navy says official scenario
couldn't have
happened. See 'Russian Navy Chief Says Official
9-11 Story
Impossible' at http://emperors-clothes.com/news/navy.htm
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INFORMATION TIMES: http://www.InformationTimes.com
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[4,000 Jews Did Not Go To Work At World Trade
Center On Sept.
11]
AL-MANAR Television Special Investigative
Report
http://www.manartv.com
Beirut, Lebanon - Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.manartv.com/html/engmiddle.html
4,000 Israeli Employees in WTC Absent the
Day of the Attack
With the announcement of the attacks at the
World Trade Center
in New York, the international media, particularly
the Israeli
one, hurried to take advantage of the incident
and started
mourning 4,000 Israelis who work at the two
towers. Then
suddenly, no one ever mentioned anything
about those Israelis
and later it became clear that they remarkably
did not show up
in their jobs the day the [four passenger
aircraft hijacking and
crashing] incident [at the World Trade Center,
Pentagon and
Pennsylvania] took place [on Tuesday, September
11, 2001].
No one talked about any Israeli being killed
or wounded in the
attacks. Arab diplomatic sources revealed
to the Jordanian
al-Watan newspaper that those Israelis remained
absent that day
[Tuesday, September 11, 2001] based on hints
from the Israeli
General Security Apparatus, the Shabak, the
fact which evoked
unannounced suspicions on American officials
who wanted to know
how the Israeli government learned about
the incident before it
occurred, and the reasons why it refrained
from informing the
U.S. authorities of the information it had.
Suspicions had increased further after Israeli
newspaper Yadiot
Ahranot revealed that the Shabak prevented
Israeli premier Ariel
Sharon from traveling to New York and particularly
to the city's
eastern coast to participate in a festival
organized by the
Zionist organizations in support of the "Israel".
Aharon Bernie,
the commentator at the newspaper, brought
up the issue and came
up with a negative conclusion, saying "no
answer". He then asked
about the clue behind the Shabak's position
in preventing
Sharon's participation, and again without
giving an answer.
Bernie added that Sharon, who was delighted
for having his
speech on top of the festival agenda, asked
the head of the
organization to mediate and convince the
Shabak to change its
position, but his attempts were in vein.
The next day after
Sharon's secretary officially announced that
Sharon would not
participate the incident [at the World Trade
Center] took place.
For its part, the Israeli Ha'aretz newspaper
revealed that the
FBI arrested five Israelis four hours after
the attack on the
[World Trade Center] Twin Towers while filming
the smoking
skyline from the roof of their company's
building. The FBI had
arrested the five for "puzzling behavior".
They are said to have
been caught videotaping the disaster in what
was interpreted as
cries of joy and mockery.
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Al-Manar TV Contact Info:
http://www.manartv.com/html/contact.html
About Al-Manar Television
http://www.manartv.com/html/about.html
Al-Manar Television, a Lebanese TV station,
aims to preserve the
Islamic values and to enhance the civilized
role of the Arab and
Islamic Community. Political, cultural and
social affairs are of
special importance o the station's programs.
Most important is
the struggle against Zionism/racism. In its
course of work,
Al-Manar TV focuses on live talk shows and
dialogue programs in
which it makes sure to bring out different
thoughts and beliefs
in addition to the participation of the viewers
in the
dialogues. The Al-Manar TV station was licensed
by the
Government of Lebanon in 1997.
INFOTIMES INTERNET-WEB LINKS:
FBI Arrests 5 Israeli-Jews After U.S. Terrorist
Attacks
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1053
Did Israel Attack the Pentagon and World Trade
Center?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1032
U.S. Military Could Be Behind The Sept. 11
Terrorist Attacks
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1048
'FBI's Dead Hijacker' is Alive and Lives in
Saudi Arabia
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1049
Peter Arnett's Interview of Usama bin Laden
http://www.flinet.com/~politics/jihad/jihad.htm
Robert Fisk Talks with Osama bin Laden
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=archive&s=fisk_wtc_19980921
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/laden.htm
U.S. Government is the World's Largest Terrorist
Organization
http://geocities.com/americanterrorism/Amerikan_Terrorism.html
Civilized World Should Oppose U.S.-Israeli
Terrorism
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1036
Racism Against Arabs and Muslims on the Rise
in America
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1033
James Bamford's New Book: "Body of Secrets"
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/home.html
"Body of Secrets" by James Bamford
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/25/nsa
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA)
http://www.nsa.gov
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
http://www.cia.gov
U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
http://www.fbi.gov
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CAVEAT LECTOR - FROM MOSSAD:
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/09/
Israeli security issued urgent warning
to CIA of large-scale terror attacks
By David Wastell in Washington and Philip
Jacobson in Jerusalem
(Filed: 16/09/2001)
ISRAELI intelligence officials say that they warned
their counterparts in the United States last month
that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible
targets on the American mainland were imminent.
The attacks on the World Trade Centre's twin
towers and the Pentagon were humiliating blows to
the intelligence services, which failed to foresee
them, and to the defence forces of the most
powerful nation in the world, which failed to deflect
them.
The Telegraph has learnt that two senior experts
with Mossad, the Israeli military intelligence service,
were sent to Washington in August to alert the CIA
and FBI to the existence of a cell of as many of 200
terrorists said to be preparing a big operation.
"They had no specific information about what was
being planned but linked the plot to Osama bin
Laden and told the Americans that there were
strong grounds for suspecting Iraqi involvement,"
said a senior Israeli security official.
The CIA has said that it had no hard information that
would have led to the prevention of the hijacking,
but the FBI said it believed that cells operating
within America and totalling at least 50 terrorists
were behind last week's devastating hijacks; the
names of new suspects are being added to the list
daily.
America's intelligence agencies are being widely
blamed for their failure to predict the attacks, or
anything like them, and for not discovering any of
the terrorist cells before the hijackings on Tuesday.
Some of those who took part had lived in the US for
months, or even years.
Evidence that a clear Israeli warning was delivered
to American authorities, but ignored, would be a
further blow to the reputation of the CIA, which is
under fire for its failure last week.
An administration official in Washington said: "If this
is true then the refusal to take it seriously will mean
heads will roll. It is quite credible that the CIA might
not heed a Mossad warning: it has a history of being
overcautious about Israeli information."
For years, staff at the Pentagon joked that they
worked at "Ground Zero", the spot at which an
incoming nuclear missile aimed at America's defences
would explode. There is even a snack bar of that
name in the central courtyard of the five-sided
building, America's most obvious military bullseye.
This weekend, five days after that target was struck
with devastating effect by a hijacked plane, the
joking has stopped.
It is far from certain that any military commander
would have had the courage to recommend shooting
down a passenger airliner, even in the
unprecedented circumstances of last Tuesday.
For three of the four airliners hijacked last week,
however, the question did not even arise. Two pairs
of combat fighters were scrambled into action but
did not get near enough to shoot any of them down.
Norad, the command headquarters in Colorado
responsible for defending all of North America from
air attack, was notified of the first hijack at 8.38am
and six minutes later two F-15 fighter jets were
ordered into the air from Otis airforce base on Cape
Cod.
Before they could take off, however, the first
hijacked airliner crashed into the World Trade
Centre's north tower at 8.46am. Six minutes later
the two military jets were airborne, but when the
second hijacked airliner hit the south tower shortly
after 9am they were still 70 miles from Manhattan.
The only successful action against the hijackers was
taken by passengers of the fourth airliner, whose
heroic decision to fight back led to its crashing into
the fields of Pennsylvania.
The reason lies in the strict distinction America
draws between civil and military power, combined
with the fact that until last week nobody had
confronted the possibility that a terrorist hijacker
might turn kamikaze pilot.
Although Norad has its own radar system to track
aircraft over the US, its prime task is to watch for
hostile aircraft approaching America from outside.
"We assume anything originating in US airspace is
friendly," said a spokesman.
For the same reason, the 20 or so American fighter
planes on permanent full alert in case of a suspect
intruder, were deployed at half a dozen bases in the
likeliest flightpaths of an attack from the former
Soviet Union, several hundred miles from New York
or Washington DC.
All aircraft flying over American airspace are
monitored and controlled by a network of 20
regional Federal Aviation Authority air traffic control
centres, backed up by individual airport control
towers. Military aircraft under Norad control can
intervene with domestic traffic only if called on for
help by their civilian colleagues.
That is what happened on Tuesday, but in no case
was there apparently enough time after the FAA's
warning for fighter planes to reach the hijacked
airliners.
More puzzling, there were 45 minutes between air
traffic controllers losing contact with the third
airliner, which took off from Dulles airport just
outside Washington, and its crash on to the
Pentagon.
At that point, however, the aircraft was still flying on
its intended course westwards. It may not have
been until later, possibly after a passenger's mobile
phone call to the Justice Department, that the civil
authorities finally twigged what was happening.
It was not the military but civilian air traffic
controllers at Washington's Reagan National Airport
- tipped off by their colleagues at Dulles - who
alerted the White House to the fact that an
unauthorised jet was flying at full throttle towards it.
As shaken White House staff began a frantic
evacuation, the aircraft banked, performed a 270
degree turn and sailed past lines of aghast drivers
on expressways to crash explosively into the west
side of the Pentagon.
If the airliner had approached much nearer to the
White House it might have been shot down by the
Secret Service, who are believed to have a battery
of ground-to-air Stinger missiles ready to defend the
president's home.
The Pentagon is not similarly defended. "We are an
open society," said a military official. "We don't have
soldiers positioned on the White House lawn and we
don't have the Pentagon ringed with bunkers and
tanks."
It emerged last night that two F-16 fighters took off
from Langley airforce base in Virginia just two
minutes before the American Airlines Boeing 767
crashed into the Pentagon, again too late to have a
chance of intercepting.
Only the fourth hijacked airliner, which was less than
30 minutes from Washington when it crashed, might
have been successfully intercepted: air traffic
controllers at a regional centre in Nashua, New
Hampshire, told a Boston newspaper that at least
one F-16 fighter was in hot pursuit, and defence
officials confirmed that the fighters already launched
from Langley were on their way to intercept the
flight when passengers apparently took matters into
their own hands.
Deep inside the Pentagon, in the hardened bunkers
of the National Military Joint Intelligence Centre,
senior officials were said to be "stunned" by the
terrorists' achievement.
Within minutes of the attack American forces around
the world were put on one of their highest states of
alert - Defcon 3, just two notches short of all-out
war - and F-16s from Andrews Air Force Base were
in the air over Washington DC.
A flotilla of warships was deployed along the east
coast from bases in Virginia and Florida, with two
aircraft-carriers to help protect the airspace around
New York and Washington DC. Off the west coast, a
further 10 ships put to sea to take up station close
to the shore.
Extra Awacs aerial reconnaissance aircraft were sent
aloft to ensure that nothing other than military
aircraft flew in American airspace - a home-grown
version of the "no-fly zones" enforced for many
years over Iraq. For much of the rest of the week,
the unsettling roar of F-15 and F-16 fighters
patrolling the skies high above America's biggest
cities replaced the usual rumble of commercial
airliners.
On Friday, in a tacit admission that America must in
future be better prepared, Donald Rumsfeld, the
Defence Secretary, announced that fighters were
being put on a 15-minute "strip" alert at 26 bases
nationwide.
There was anger among politicians at what many
saw as the failure of the intelligence services, and
some officials on Capitol Hill began canvassing
support for a move to force George Tenet, the
director of the Central Intelligence Agency, originally
appointed by Clinton, to step aside.
James Traficant, a Democratic congressman from
Pennsylvania, said that for years Congress had
poured billions of dollars of largely unscrutinised
funding into America's intelligence services, "yet we
learnt of every one of these tragedies from Fox
News and CNN"- two television channels. Senator
Richard Shelby, a Republican member of the Senate
intelligence committee, said it was "a failure of great
dimension".
There are moves to address one severe shortcoming
noted by many critics: the CIA's reliance on
technological rather than "human" means to gather
information, and its weakness as a means of finding
out what Osama bin Laden is up to.
During the Clinton administration, Congress banned
the CIA from recruiting as a paid informer anyone
with a criminal record or who was guilty of human
rights violations. James Woolsey, another former CIA
director, said: "Inside bin Laden's organisation there
are only people who want to be human rights
violators. If you don't recruit them then you don't
recruit anyone."
ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
>
> SAB Commentary 9/13/2001 stock brokers
view of tragic bombing
>
> StocksAtBottom.com
>
> September 13, 2001
>
> The World has just changed
>
> New York is physically devastated; our
spirit is alive and well. As a
> society we have now been enlisted in the
international war against
> terrorism. This war has been going on certainly
since the Jewish State
> of
> Israel was created in the 1948- 1949
period.
>
> Why the building collapsed
>
> As many as 5,000 to 10,000 people may have
died in the destruction of
> the
> twin 110 story towers. They will never
be recovered due to the heat
> involved. Those two buildings were among
the best built structures in
> history. When I was very young, I remember
studying them. They were
> built
> to withstand 200-mph winds from a
hurricane. The steel girders were
> placed
> three feet apart, which is why the
windows are narrow. Current
> buildings
> have girders placed seven to ten
feet apart.
>
> The buildings were built to take the impact
of an airplane crashing
> into
> it. What they can not take is the heat.
With over 24,000 gallons of
> burning aviation fuel streaming through
the structure, the temperatures
> were in the range of 2,000 to 2,200
degrees. Contrary to what the press
>
> has been stating, the steel did not
melt. Steel melts at 2700 degrees.
> It
> did lose stiffness. At 500 degrees,
steel softens, at 1200 degrees it
> loses stiffness. The connectors that
connect the beams went first, then
>
> the beams connecting the steel columns
went. The columns buckled. When
> the
> buckling took place, the weight above
just came down vertically. Each
> floor cascaded on the floor below.
This accounts for why the floors
> came
> down vertically, as opposed to why the
building did not topple over on
> its
> side. It was gravity in the end. The way
the building is designed is if
>
> there is a fire, it is believed that firefighters
will dampen the steel
>
> with water in the first hour. This insures
that the steel does not have
> a
> chance to lose stiffness. It normally takes
up to three hours before
> the
> stiffness is effected. In this case the
temperature went to 2000
> degrees,
> so it took an hour for the steel to give
way.
>
> The Investigation
>
> Our government has by now pretty much determined
who, and what is
> behind
> these acts of war. The people involved
took zero efforts to hide their
> trail. The one thing our investigative
agencies are superb at doing, is
> putting the manpower into a Hercules
type effort to audit the trail.
> They
> already know who the actual killers
were. They know from their credit
> card
> files, what their spending habits
for the last year looked like. They
> include what restaurants they ate
in, and what they bought. The trial
> will
> take them right to the source. The
telephone records will take them
> right
> to the people and the country involved.
>
> In addition what is not normally known
in our country, is that all
> (that's
> 100%) of all telephone calls going out
of this country, and coming into
>
> this country are recorded on giant supercomputers
in Fort Meade,
> Maryland.
> This is under the control of the National
Security Agency. The computers
>
> listen to the first minute, where
key words are monitored. This means
> if
> people talk about bombs, money laundering,
murder, terrorism, etc., the
>
> conversation is then listened to
completely. The terrorists who
> perpetuated these acts would have
notified their superiors in foreign
> countries as to their status. Death leaves
many trials. The trails are
> being followed.
>
> The President was targeted
>
> The President knows he was targeted, and
so was Air Force One. Had
> President Bush been in the Oval Office
on Tuesday morning, either the
> plane
> hitting the Pentagon, or the plane that
crashed near Pittsburgh would
> have
> targeted the President. When you consider
that the plane that hit the
> Pentagon probably had only a 100-foot
corridor to make the angle to hit
> a
> building that was only a 100 feet
high, there is a good chance of
> success
> against the White House.
>
> For years our country has had missiles
stationed across the street from
>
> the White House on the roof of the Executive
Office Building (EOB).
> There
> is a tunnel that goes from the White House
to the EOB. When President
> Nixon was in office, he used to traverse
the tunnel and spend most of
> his
> day working in the EOB. This is because
the Oval Office is very small.
> As
> I recall, it is 17 to about 20 feet
across. It is actually tiny by
> comparison to a lot of offices; you
may have been in.
>
> The problem with the missiles on the roof
of the EOB is it takes time
> to
> launch them. In addition, how quickly would
a technician react and shoot
>
> down a civilian airliner, without know
for sure that he was about to
> witness a terrorist act. Time and
culture is on the side of the
> terrorist.
>
> It would seem prudent that the President
is probably not working out of
>
> the Oval Office at the moment, and even
for the foreseeable future. Our
> country spends in excess of $ 450 million
per year for executive
> protection
> for the President. Air Force One
cost over $ 400 million to build.
> There
> are two of them, which are both custom
designed 747's, that are given
> "white glove' treatment. This means
all maintenance schedules are cut
> in
> half. This means if you change your
car oil every 3000 miles, they
> would
> change it every 1500 miles. We take
a lot of caution in guarding a
> President. The results of a terrorist
killing a President are
> unimaginable.
>
> In 1963, America lost a President to terrorism.
Subsequent to that act,
>
> President Johnson, took whatever steps
were necessary to see to it that
> no
> foreign country was implicated in President
Kennedy's death. President
> Johnson made a decision that it was not
worth fighting a war over. He
> knew
> that it could be settled another
way. President Kennedy's brother
> Robert
> Kennedy, knew that he could not make
a move until he himself was freely
>
> elected to the Presidency himself.
This, he tried to do in 1968 before
> falling prey to assassination himself.
>
> The Response
>
> America must respond, and respond quickly
because Americans will demand
>
> it. It will not be easy. First of all,
my friends tell me that
> Afghanistan
> has nothing to attack. The city of Kabul
is a waste of time. There's
> nothing there.
>
> If we are going to attack the military
organization of an individual
> terrorist, we will have to do it on the
ground, with Special Forces
> units.
> We have the ability. We will now test the
will.
>
> In addition, these organizations can not
operate without State support.
>
> Our government will have to attack a major
country to truly root out
> the
> terrorists. There have been numerous claims
about the potential failure
> of
> American intelligence including the FEB
and CIA regarding this tragedy.
> This is non-sense. Electronic surveillance
including sky satellites
> would
> not have detected this.
>
> Human intelligence would not catch this
either. In order to penetrate
> the
> inner circle of radical terrorist organizations
they make you prove
> your
> loyalty by having you murder an innocent
victim. This is something that
>
> Americans will not do, and American sponsored
individuals would not be
> permitted to do this either. As a society
we have to find another way,
> and
> we will.
>
> There are also concerns as to whether not
there were other terrorist
> teams
> involved, aside from the four that succeeded.
There may have been teams
>
> that did not make it onto the airplanes,
or back up teams, or other
> teams
> that did make it onto planes but were diverted
because the FAA shut down
>
> all air travel within minutes of the 2(superscript:
nd) building being
> taken out.
>
> A President always tries to stay slightly
ahead of the American people
> and
> then lead from that position. At this point
it clear that the people
> want
> action. The President will have to move
quickly and sharply to stay in
> front of the curve on this one, and he
will.
>
> Economic Consequences
>
> There have been 22 events in the United
States that in some shape or
> fashion resemble what we are going through
right now. When the markets
> reopened after these events, the average
decline was five to seven
> percent.
> On average, within weeks, the markets
recovered their losses, and were
> in
> the plus column.
>
> In our opinion absent a nuclear weapon
hitting this country, the
> markets
> will be basically unaffected. The only
time the stock markets in this
> country were truly closed for a long period
was during the onset of
> World
> War I. The market was closed for
four and one half months during that
> period. You will remember that the
banks and the exchanges were closed
> for
> a bank holiday during the beginning
of Franklin Roosevelt's term. There
>
> were also several days during World
War II.
>
> There were a large number of securities
firms with offices in the World
>
> Trade Centers. Years ago, I knew Bernard
Cantor. Bernie created a firm
> called Cantor Fitzgerald, a major bond
trading firm. He was a wonderful
> character that assembled the world's greatest
collection of sculptures.
> Over 200 of these sculptures are
on display at the Brooklyn Museum. An
> entire separate collection is housed
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
> on
> Fifth Avenue in New York. Bernie's
firm is on the 102(superscript: nd)
> floor of the World Trade Center.
It was wiped out in the destruction.
> He
> had hundreds of employees. I understand
less then 10 percent survived.
> Morgan Stanley had 3500 people working
in the building. Hopefully most
> of
> them got out.
>
> Our banking system is intact. Years ago,
this nation planned for a
> nuclear
> attack, and the banking industry also planned.
All banking transactions
>
> are processed in an initial location, with
a collateral system
> operating
> in another location. This means that if
your brokerage firm was in the
> Trade Center then the transactions were
probably also processed
> simultaneously across the river in
New Jersey. What we are telling you
> is
> that business is intact. The American
economy is intact.
>
> The Federal Reserve System has pumped $
50 plus billion into the
> American
> economy in the last 48 hours. The Fed has
also lent Europe over $ 50
> billion to prop up the European banks.
We are okay.
>
> Conclusion
>
> Like previous generations we are being
tested, and we shall pass the
> test.
> The character of our people has not changed.
It never does. The genes
> of
> the people that fought at the Alamo, that
survived the death march of
> Bataan, that marched through Europe
to Berlin, inhabit all of us. It
> also
> inhabits the immigrants today that
become Americans. There is something
>
> very special about coming to America
today. It is the same specialiness
>
> that our forefathers created in this
country. It does not change. It
> has
> not changed in 200 years, and probably
won't in the next 200 years.
>
> We are quick to respond, and respond we
will. We spilled blood in lower
>
> Manhattan on Tuesday. We may spill more
blood. In the end, we have
> always
> carried the day, and the end will be the
same this time as well. Talk to
>
> your children; explain to them that there
are bad people in the world.
> There always will be, and we will
ferret them out, and do what it is we
>
> have to do. Our lives will not change
that much. We are too big, and
> too
> rich. We have lost 10,000 precious
lives, and affected 100,000 others.
> Every American of good character
will unite with their President. There
>
> are no Democrats or Republicans in
this situation, only Americans. Hang
> in
> there; believe in the innate goodness
of your country. Our response is
> going to very strong. The Pentagon is lining
up the dominos as we write
>
> this.
>
> Your Friends At
> StocksAtBottom.com
>
CAVEAT LECTOR - FROM TOPVIEWER
9.16.01
-- Hijackers trained by US - NAVY
LINK SURFACES
INSIDE JOB.
- - - - - - - -
http://www.msnbc.com/news/629529_asp.htm?0cb=-81924124
Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at
U.S. Bases
The Pentagon has turned over military
records on five men to the FBI By
George Wehrfritz, Catharine Skipp and
John Barry NEWSWEEK
Sept. 15 -- U.S. military sources have
given the FBI information that
suggests five of the alleged hijackers
of the planes that were used in
Tuesday's terror attacks received training
at secure U.S. military
installations in the 1990s.
THREE OF THE alleged hijackers listed
their address on drivers licenses
and car registrations as the Naval
Air Station in Pensacola, Fla.--known
as the "Cradle of U.S. Navy Aviation,"
according to a high-ranking U.S.
Navy source.
Another of the alleged hijackers may
have been trained in strategy and
tactics at the Air War College in Montgomery,
Ala., said another
high-ranking Pentagon official. The
fifth man may have received language
instruction at Lackland Air Force Base
in San Antonio, Tex. Both were
former Saudi Air Force pilots who had
come to the United States,
according to the Pentagon source. But
there are slight discrepancies
between the military training records
and the official FBI list of
suspected hijackers--either in the
spellings of their names or with
their birthdates. One military source
said it is possible that the
hijackers may have stolen the identities
of the foreign nationals who
studied at the U.S. installations.
The five men were on a list
of 19 people identified as
hijackers by the FBI on Friday.
The three foreign nationals
training in Pensacola appear to
be Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmad
Alnami, who were among the
four men who allegedly
commandeered United Airlines Flight
93. That flight crashed into rural
Pennsylvania. The third man who may
have trained in Pensacola, Ahmed
Alghamdi, allegedly helped highjack
United Airlines Flight 75, which hit
the south tower of the World Trade
Center.
Military records show that the three
used as their address 10 Radford
Boulevard, a base roadway on which
residences for
foreign-military flight trainees are
located. In March 1997, Saeed
Alghamdi listed the address to register
a 1998 Oldsmobile; five months
later he used it again to register
a second vehicle, a late model Buick.
Drivers licenses thought to have been
issued to the other two suspects
in 1996 and 1998 list the barracks
as their residences.
NEWSWEEK visited the base early
Saturday morning, where military police
confirmed that the address housed foreign
military flight trainees but denied
access past front barricades.
Officials at the base confirmed that
the FBI is investigating the three
students.
Robert Sterling
Editor, The Konformist
http://www.konformist.com
Please send as far and wide as possible.
Thanks,
Robert Sterling
Editor, The Konformist
http://www.konformist.com
http://www.konformist.com/911/911.htm
http://www.konformist.com/911/who-had-most-to-gain.htm
Who had the most to gain?
All of us who has ever seen a rerun of Columbo,
read an Agatha
Christie novel, or seen any TV crime drama
has heard that question
when trying to figure out the most likely
suspect of a murder.
Well it looks like five thousand people were
just murdered. So ask
the question. Well? For starters it's
certainly not the hijackers.
They lost their lives. What about the
people that are supposedly
behind them, like Osama bin Laden?
It would seem not.
Some terrorist acts may give the perpetrator
some street cred:
blowing up a mid-air flight like the Pan
Am flight over Lockerbie
Scotland which was linked back to Libya,
blowing a hole in the USS
Cole, blowing up a couple of US embassies
in some backwater country
like Tanzania. You can make a name for yourself
in your little region
of the world and know that the US will definitely
try to catch you,
but it's only going to try so hard.
But anyone would have to realize that committing
an act so horrifying
in size and audacity is sure to commit the
US to not rest until it
has your head on a stick. It's like
a gang member who will try to
improve his gangsta rep by shooting a local
cop, but knows better
than to try to assassinate the president.
Decide for yourself what it means or doesn't
mean but the ones who
benefit the most from this incident are those
in the Bush
administration.
Fact: The economy was likely to enter recession.
Rightly or wrongly
the public tends to place blame for economic
downturns on whichever
president is in office at the time.
Well now if the economy heads
south, it's not their fault! It's this horrible
tragedy of course
that's shaken people's confidence!
Fact: The Bush administration had "nothing
to do". No cause. The
President was reading to school children
when the planes hit. (He
couldn't have been too busy with affairs
of state). Bush himself
has said that this has now become "the focus
of (his)
administration" They have found their
issue, their cause to rally
around, and their issue to campaign for reelection
on in 3 years.
Fact: Declaring a "war on terrorism" is like
declaring a war on vice.
It is endless and can be used indefinitely
as an excuse to push
through whatever agendas they may have like
the missile defense
shield, increased defense spending, or whatever.
Fact: The label "terrorist" is a very easy
one to apply. Especially
so the label "harboring" a terrorist.
And we now are finding out
the "enemy is among us" (here in the US).
This sounds an awful lot
like the Red Scare of the 50's where the
excuse of routing out the
invisible communists was used to abuse people's
civil rights and
intimidate anyone and everyone opposed to
the administration or US
policy. Today we look back and
condemn that as "McCarthyism" but
are we so clear sighted about what's right
in front of us now?
Fact: Congress just approved a FORTY BILLION
"relief aid package"
with little to no oversights on how Bush
gets to spend it. That's
Billion with a "B". And this is not
just for disaster clean up and
aid to the victims. It's also for the "ongoing"
war Bush has told us
to expect and "increasing our intelligence
capability". Well what
does that include exactly? Reading all emails?
Eavesdropping on our
phone calls? Who knows because they don't
have to say. Congress has
given the money in the heat of emotion with
little or no conditions.
Fact: Congress will have to go along with
just about anything the
President's administration wants that can
be tied in to this
disaster. Any representative or senator that
dissents will
look "unpatriotic" if they say no.
This is very dangerous. The
founders created three branches of government
so that no one branch
would have too much power. One of those is
the judicial branch and we
saw what the Supreme Court did this most
recent election. Many legal
experts say it was unprecedented that they
ruled to hand the election
results to Bush rather than say they had
no business deciding it and
were unduly influenced by the fact that many
of the justices were
appointed by Bush Sr. So that's one
branch that seems not to be
performing its role of providing checks and
balances. And now the
other branch, Congress, is cow towed too.
Fact: This sudden disaster sure seems to have
taken many people's
attention off the fact that this President
won the election under
very fishy circumstances in Florida (where
his brother is governor).
Boy that sure is a big help.
Does this prospect seem horrendous? Too incredible
to imagine? Well
it's happened before. A great fire destroyed
a huge part of Rome. The
emperor Nero blamed it on the Christians
and used it as an excuse to
persecute them and this cause helped the
unpopular emperor
consolidate his political power and rally
patriotic Rome around him.
Historians generally feel that Nero himself
probably had the fire
set. In the 1930's the Reichstag (the
German building where their
representatives met...like our Capitol building)
burned down. Hitler
blamed it on the "communists among them"
and used it to rally a
patriotic Germany around him, consolidating
his political power and
to persecute his political enemies.
People generally agree there is
enough evidence to believe the Nazis themselves
set fire to the
building for just this purpose.
It's very likely the Roman citizens could
never imagine their own
Emperor setting fire to their own city, and
the same with the
Germans. And that is exactly why it worked.
After the bombing of the Federal Building
in Oklahoma City in 1995,
people who suggested people in the government
were behind it looked
like conspiracy nuts. Even today there seems
little motivation to
that idea. Unless it was a test. A smaller
scale test to see how the
public would react. And to extrapolate how
they might react to
something much bigger in the future.
Back to the suspects: Shortly after
the attacks a rental car was
found in the parking lot of Boston's Logan
airport. Inside was the
Koran and an instructional video tape on
how to fly airliners. Even
some of the news anchors reporting this live
seemed to say what an
obvious plant this seemed like! It's
just not plausible that the
perpetrators would be watching a video the
day before the attack. It
seems they'd have learned how to fly the
plane well before then. If
they didn't have it down by the day before
something's wrong.
And it also doesn't make sense to leave such
obvious evidence behind.
It might if the attackers/backers planned
on taking credit for it.
But they haven't. Just the opposite. Everyone
is denying it. So if
they didn't want to get blamed for it, wouldn't
they be a little more
careful about leaving behind such obvious
evidence?
On Saturday, just days after the attack, they
announced that in the
rubble of the trade center they found one
of the terrorist's
passports. We all saw that fireball! The
fire was so hot it turned
the steel of the building into hot liquid
molten metal. But his
passport survived? And it was found
even though they had only gone
through 20,000 tons of debris out of a total
of 1.4 million tons? In
other words they only scratched the surface
of the ruins and there it
was? It's like reaching out and taking a
pinch from the haystack and
lo and behold! There's the needle!
Something about all of this just doesn't smell
right. Does that
seem unpatriotic? Un-American? Well this
country has a long tradition
of healthy Yankee skepticism and asking about
what might really be
going on, what we're not being told rather
than falling lockstep
behind whatever slogans and rhetoric government
leaders are feeding
the public like the masses do in totalitarian
countries.
So now might be the time to use our heads
and try to look beyond the
superficial.
Real Americans are not afraid of debate, of
different ideas, of free
thought. So pass this email along and let
people discuss it. If
millions of people passed along the email
hoax of that phony
Nostradamus "prediction" then we owe it to
ourselves to share with
each other something that is actually relevant.
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-Caveat Lector-
This video clip shows an unknown
explosion of some kind that hit an unknown
building BEFORE either tower collapsed.
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/towerblast.html
Could this be what the unknown object
in the FOX video hit? Was it a
missile? A jet? Please
check out the FOX video. Go to this link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34238,00.html#video
Scroll to "Video - The Attack" and
click on "East Angle - Second Plane
Hits Tower." Between five and ten seconds
after the second plane hits,
SOMETHING comes down from the top left to
the lower right. This has been
completely and unbelievably unreported and
could be one of the most important
news stories in all of this. The absence
of reporting on it is also a
fascinating news story in and of itself.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=94433
Bush did not heed several warnings of attacks
Intelligence
By Andrew Gumbel
17 September 2001
George Bush's administration was warned repeatedly
that a devastating attack
on the United States was on its way, including
a State Department advisory as
late as 7 September, but either failed to
read the signals or was unable to
follow up on intelligence tips in time to
prevent last Tuesday's onslaught on
the country.
Evidence from countless sources has surfaced
in the past few days, suggesting
that the "colossal failure of intelligence"
described by several senior
politicians was not entirely the result of
ignorance. In the three weeks
before the attack, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation was actually looking
for two suspected associates of Osama bin
Laden who turned out to be among
the 19 suicide hijackers.
That search was part of a pattern of alarm
signals sounding in intelligence
circles from late August onwards. Around
the time the FBI was receiving its
tip-off about the two men, one of whom was
wanted for another suspected bin
Laden operation – the bombing of the USS
Cole in Aden harbour last October –
security was abruptly heightened at the World
Trade Centre with the
introduction of sniffer dogs and systematic
checks on trucks bringing in
deliveries. No explanation has been given
for this measure.
Also in late August, Mr bin Ladenboasted in
an interview with the
London-based newspaper al-Quds al-Arabi that
he was planning an
unprecedentedly large strike against the
United States.
Then, four days before calamity struck, the
State Department sent out a
worldwide advisory, repeating warnings it
first made in May that "American
citizens may be the target of a terrorist
threat from extremist groups with
links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida organisation".
The reason for the new
advisory was a heightened concern over military
bases in Japan or Korea.
Although these were clearly not the targets
most at risk, the very fact that
the State Department chose to put out an
advisory was a sign that "something
was cooking", according to the former secretary
of state George Shultz, who
received a copy at his private offices in
San Francisco.
"I have no idea what intelligence lies behind
the warning," Mr Shultz told
the San Francisco Chronicle, "but they put
this out because they had some
sort of intelligence." There is nothing new
about the fear that Mr bin Laden
and his organisation might strike against
the United States at any time.
Particularly since the simultaneous bombing
of the US embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania in August 1998, a crime the United
States has laid squarely at Mr
bin Laden's door, there have been repeated
alerts leading to the temporary
evacuation of American government buildings
overseas.
The night after the attacks on New York and
Washington, Senator John Kerry of
Massachusetts told CNN that the CIA believed
it had thwarted an attack by Mr
bin Laden's acolytes as recently as August.
He gave no further details.
Aside from the general threat, however, there
seems to have been some
misreading of the evidence at hand. Over
the weekend, for example, the
director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Robert Mueller, said he had
been taken entirely by surprise by the revelation
that a number of last
Tuesday's hijackers had received pilot training
in the United States. "If we
had understood that to be the case, we would
have, perhaps one could have,
averted this," he said on Saturday.
And yet, during the trial earlier this year
of four defendants charged with
involvement in the 1998 embassy bombings,
it emerged that two suspected
contacts of Mr bin Laden's, Essam al Ridi
and Ihab Ali Nawawi, had received
pilot training in Texas and Oklahoma. Mr
al-Ridi, a naturalised US citizen of
Egyptian origin who testified that he had
bought a military aircraft at Mr
bin Laden's request and flown it to Sudan,
had been in contact with federal
authorities since 1998. That would suggest,
contrary to Mr Mueller's
statement, that the FBI had solid information
about the pilot-training scheme
for three years.
There is also mounting evidence that the Bush
administration, preoccupied
with its "Son of Star Wars" missile defence
system to guard against rogue
nuclear, biological or chemical attacks from
overseas, did not give
sufficient weight to the demonstrably more
pressing threat of low-tech
guerrilla attacks.
Last January, just after Mr Bush took office,
a bipartisan commission chaired
by former senators Gary Hart and Warren Rudman,
issued a warning that "the
relative invulnerability of the US homeland
to catastrophic attack" was
coming to an end.
The report said: "A direct attack against
American citizens on American soil
is likely over the next quarter century."
A series of 50 recommendations was
made, including a greater reliance on human
intelligence rather than
espionage equipment and the creation of a
new domestic security agency
marshalling the forces of the CIA, immigration,
the border patrol, the Coast
Guard and the FBI.
Rather than accept the report, which was unanimously
approved by all seven
Republicans and seven Democrats involved
in its drafting and which led to the
introduction of congressional legislation
advocating the creation of a
National Homeland Security Agency, the Bush
administration chose to put it to
one side and work out its own strategy from
scratch.
Senator Hart said he sat tearing his hair
out last week while he watched the
scenes of carnage and destruction unfold
on his television set, feeling that
his warnings had not been taken with the
appropriate seriousness. "We
predicted it," he said forlornly.
Subj:
Re: [CTRL] CNN disinformation?
Date: 16/09/01 5:49:54 PM Pacific Daylight
Time
Caveat Lector-
I hate to point out the obvious, but doesn't
this whole
WTC thing seems to be like it's a mossad
operation to
others?
I have no proof, of course, but the economics
and the
reverse-engineering of the logics of the
whole events
point to this conclusion.
1) Israel has been very well prepared in that
the
current and ex-prime ministers have been
very well available
and have been talking on international television
about this
incident from the moment it started.
2) The below news is very beneficial to Israel
3) Israel benefits the most from this incident
politically
4) They have the resources to do something
like this
5) Their politicians don't care about killing
innocent people
6) They have done it before to the Americans
(Sinking one of their ships)
7) The Mossad recruit palestinians for suicide
missions and kill the
volunteers before they commit a bombing ->
a short extention would be to
use them for their own benefit by having
them do suicide attacks in the
US to gain support for their policies in
the middle east, and have US
attack the neighboring arab countries threatening
Israel.
8) Osama has denied responsibility, yes he
is "implicated" somehow by
the evidence.
9) Osama would not seem to benefit from this
politically
or economically, or gain any support by doing
this in the
Arab countries, as has been made clear
10) Iraelis' claim to have warned USA before
hand...
etc. etc. etc.
Tons of coincidences and reportings of facts
about this
whole incident in the news.
Israel is very prominently playing this for
all it's
worth, and seems incredibly very well prepared.
Of course, this does not mean that they had
anything to do with it.
I'm just pointing out that they are getting
the biggest benefit,
together with the military-industrial and
spy-complexes of the USA.
Certainly a nice conspiracy theory? ;-)
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, [anton.raath] wrote:
> :- anybody could confirm the following?
>
> The authenticity of the "Palestinians celebrating
footage dates back to
> 1991" meme has been hotly debated on the
Net over the last few days, and
> last I heard nobody reputable was able
to confirm that CNN was faking it.
> Personally, I take CNN reports with a pinch
of salt, but this might just be
> a little too obvious to be true.
>
> For more speculation on this topic, there's
a discussion at Plastic:
> http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/15/0020252&mode=thread
>
> A!
-Caveat Lector-
From: surfingtheapocalypse.com:
From My Inbox:
To the editors/webmasters/owners of
your respective news sites, now is
probably the time to hover over privacy.org
and sites like it as UFOs
hover over mutilated cattle; news respecting
systematic attempts to
crush civil liberties is appearing
rapidly now. For example:
Senate OK's Warrantless Internet Surveillance
in new Anti-Terrorism Act
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,46852,00.html
Carnivore Installation Disco Fever,
Both ISPs and "Tier-1 Carriers"
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,46747,00.html
GLOBAL Prohibition of No-Backdoor Encryption?
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,46816,00.html
Civil Liberty the Next Casualty?
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46784,00.html
ISPs Aid FBI In Terrorist Search
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7141812.html
Privacy Trade-Offs Reassessed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21207-2001Sep12.html
FBI Looking To Internet For Terrorism
Clues
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/018876.htm
Terrorism Bills Revive Civil Liberties
Debate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28636-2001Sep14.html
Activist Groups on Lookout for Erosion
of Civil Liberties
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-091401legal.story
>>
San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sept 2001
EARLY WARNING
State Department memo warned of terrorist
threat
Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross, Chronicle Staff
Writers
Friday, September 14, 2001
©2001 San Francisco Chronicle
Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz
said yesterday that he was
"startled" by a little-noticed State Department
memo that was issued a week
ago and warned that Americans "may be the
target of a terrorist threat."
The memo, issued just four days before the
attacks on New York and
Washington, identified the threat as coming
from "extremist groups with
links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization."
"I have not idea what intelligence lies behind
the warning," Shultz said,
''but they put this out because they had
some sort of intelligence."
Shultz, who served as secretary of state under
President Reagan, said he
received a copy of the Sept. 7 "worldwide
warning" in his San Francisco
office on the day before the fatal attacks.
The memo addressed concerns for
Americans overseas and made no mention of
any possible attack on U.S. soil.
Reached last night, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
said this was the first
she had heard anything about the State Department
warnings.
"Everyone should have been (alerted), but
then you would have to ask
whether they would have known what to look
out for," Feinstein said.
"Of course," Feinstein said, "today is a
different world, and I think a lot
of things are going to change.
"Bin Laden's people had made statements three
weeks ago carried in the Arab
press in Great Britain that they were preparing
to carry out unprecedented
attacks in the U.S.," she said. "Whether
that was the derivation of this
(State Department ) bulletin, I don't know."
The warning dealt primarily with military
bases in Japan and Korea.
But as Shultz pointed out, the mere fact
that a warning was issued
indicates that "something was cooking."
And indeed, in the one-page alert, the State
Department said it had
received information in May 2001 "that American
citizens may be the target
of a terrorist threat from extremist groups
with links to Osama bin Laden's
al Qaeda organization."
"Such individuals have not distinguished between
official and civilian
targets," the report said, adding, "As always,
we take this information
seriously. U.S. Government facilities worldwide
remain on heightened alert."
"They had some sort of rumbling of something,"
Shultz said, "even if they
didn't pinpoint it in the right direction."
U.S. State Department representative Julie
Reside in Washington downplayed
the significance of the bulletin yesterday,
saying it was only the latest
in a series of "periodically" issued public
warnings by the department.
Reside said warnings are available to media
organizations and on the state
department's Web page.
"If it was based on intelligence, we cannot,
of course, provide any
details, " Reside said.
It's not the first time this year that the
bin Laden organization was
mentioned in a "worldwide caution." The first
warning came in May, and was
later updated on Sept. 7 to include the threats
to U.S. military personnel
in Asia.
Officials at San Francisco International Airport
said they weren't aware of
the State Department warning - but someone
in the airport security section
knew of it and passed word of the warning
onto Mayor Willie Brown when he
called to check on the status of flight he
was planning to take to New York.
"I didn't give it much thought at the time,"
Brown said. "It wasn't until
after the attacks that I even remembered
the call."
Whether U.S. military installations around
the world were aware of the memo
and took extra precautions is a bit unclear.
Department of Defense
spokesman Glenn Flood said his agency would
have received a copy of the
bulletin. But, he added, "There was no order
from the Pentagon for every
base to go on heightened alert, because that's
up to the commands in each
theater, and some are on alert anyway."
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher
made mention of the bulletin at
a routine -- and sparsely attended -- media
briefing last Friday. He
explained that the department was revising
a June 22 notice to include
warnings about threats to the military in
Japan and Korea and "to ensure
that the general American public is aware
of this potential danger to their
safety."
Boucher declined to say whether the threat
in Asia was directly linked to
bin Laden.
E-mail Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross at matierandross@sfchronicle.com.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/14/MN92245.DTL&type=printable
Subj: NY
Times Confirms Air Defense FAA Coverup
Date: 15/09/01 1:10:44 PM Pacific Daylight
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The New York Times has published an article
confirming the air defense
problems tragically illustrated by Tuesday's
acts of war against this
country, and confirming that the FAA was
well aware that airliners had been
hijacked PRIOR to the crashes into the World
Trade Center towers and the
Pentagon but fighters were not scrambled
in time for some reason. See this
link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/national/15CONT.html
The article reveals that "The Federal Aviation
Administration has officially
REFUSED TO DISCUSS ... the SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
on Tuesday morning, saying
these are part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's
inquiry."
WHAT???? You mean that 10,000 of our
citizens can be slaughtered in
coldblood and the FAA can REFUSE TO DISCUSS
EVEN WHAT HAPPENED?????
This is absolutely contemptible. This
is the response of a bunch of
CRIMINALS TAKING THE 5th.
At what level of carnage would the FAA finally
relent and DISCUSS THE
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS leading to the carnage?
Would it take 100,000 dead? How
about 1 million dead? Would maybe at
70 million dead -- one-fourth of the
U.S. population -- as in a nuclear war, would
the FAA finally relent and
DISCUSS THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS that led to
such a holocaust?????
The article goes on to discuss the military-civilian
system of air traffic
control set up in the 50's (I had traced
it to 1952 via ADC histories in
researching the UFO air defense issue).
It claims these are "provisions for
close communications between civilian [FAA]
and military [NORAD] traffic
officials." But it looks to me like
the 1950's system of minute-by-minute
coordination between CAA/FAA and ADC/NORAD
of air traffic information to
identify all flights has broken down.
There doesn't seem to be a continuous
flow of instantaneous electronic air traffic
data to NORAD. Instead, someone
at FAA, a human, has to DECIDE to notify
NORAD. The data apparently (I don't
_know_ for sure) doesn't automatically appear
on NORAD display screens. Or
if it does, NORAD doesn't task computers
to track and pay attention to air
target data unless and until the FAA singles
out traffic for attention.
The excuse that this was unprecedented, they
were taken by surprise, didn't
know what to do about civilian airliners
hijacked as weapons of war, etc., is
just POPPYCOCK. Ever heard of Pearl
Harbor???? It was UNPRECEDENTED, a
SURPRISE, an ACT of WAR. Later in the
war we had SUICIDE KAMIKAZE bombers.
The CIA was set up in 1947 to warn against
and to prevent future Pearl
Harbors. The rules of engagement for
fighter interception of Unidentified
Targets, as we've seen from UFO incidents,
has never been so EFFETE and
CONFUSED.
If the target was behaving peculiarly or entered
a Restricted Zone (remember
the Washington National Airport UFO incidents
of July 1952?) the targets were
INTERCEPTED. At the very least fighters
could have pinpointed the airliners,
followed their headings and alerted ahead
where the airliners seemed to be
going, especially American Flight 77 which
reportedly flew around the White
House and the Capitol prior to plunging into
the Pentagon.
In the Wash Nat UFO incidents we saw there
was a delay in scrambling fighters
because the runway at Andrews AFB was closed
for repairs and the F-94's had
to come from Dover AFB in Delaware over 100
miles away. Has NO ONE IN AIR
DEFENSE LEARNED ANY LESSONS from 1952????
I thought they had and that in
part at least it was recognized that the
comprehensive system of CAA-ADC
communication was going to solve such problems,
though in 1952 it was
realized that it would take a few years before
the system would be fully up
and running. And THAT was in the days
before computers and satellites. What
excuse do we have today?
Echelon Warned US & Israeli Intel
Hijacked Planes
>
Were To Be Weapons
>
By Ned Stafford
>
BizReport.com
>
9-14-1
>
> U.S. and
Israeli intelligence agencies received warning signals at
> least three
months ago that Middle Eastern terrorists were
> planning
to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack
> important
symbols of American and Israeli culture, according to a
> story in
Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).
>
> The FAZ,
quoting unnamed German intelligence sources, said that
> the Echelon
spy network was being used to collect information
> about the
terrorist threats, and that U.K. intelligence services
> apparently
also had advance warning. The FAZ, one of Germany's
> most respected
dailies, said that even as far back as six months
> ago western
and near-east press services were receiving
> information
that such attacks were being planned.
>
> Within the
American intelligence community, the warnings were
> taken seriously
and surveillance intensified, the FAZ said.
> However,
there was disagreement on how such terrorist attacks
> could be
prevented, the newspaper said.
>
> Echelon is
said to be a vast information collection system capable
> of monitoring
all the electronic communications in the world. It is
> thought to
be operated by the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia
> and New Zealand.
No government agency has ever confirmed or
> denied its
existence. However, an EU committee that investigated
> Echelon for
more than a year just last week reported its belief that
> the system
does exist.
>
> The EU committee
said that Echelon sucks up electronic
> transmissions
"like a vacuum cleaner," using keyword search
> techniques
to sift through enormous amounts of data.
>
> The FAZ,
in its news story, described the system as covering the
> whole world
with 120 satellites. The newspaper also said Israeli
> intelligence
had collected information indicated that Arab terrorist
> groups planned
to hijack planes in Europe to use as weapons to
> attack targets
in Tel Aviv and other coastal cities in Israel.
>
> Because of
increasing concerns of plane hijackings, Israel has
> tested a
new x-ray machine at the Tel Aviv airport, the FAZ said.
> The machine
capable of detecting all known explosive elements,
> even if only
in small quantities, the newspaper said.
>
> The FAZ said
that German intelligence fears that in coming days
> planes will
be hijacked in Europe and the Near East, and that
> there is
no sure way to protect against it.
>
> http://www.bizreport.com/article.php?art_id=2137&width=800
>
> NFORMATION TIMES: http://www.InformationTimes.com
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THE INDEPENDENT (London, UK)
http://www.independent.co.uk
Monday, 17 September 2001
'Suicide Hijacker' is an Airline Pilot
Alive and Well in Jeddah
Suspects
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=
94438
[FBI LIST OF 19 HIJACKERS by Syed Adeeb
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1040
]
By ROBERT FISK in Beirut
A man named by the U.S. Department of Justice
as a suicide
hijacker of American Airlines flight 11,
the first airliner to
smash into the World Trade Centre, is
very much alive and
living in Jeddah.
Abdulrahman al-Omari, a pilot with Saudi Airlines,
was
astonished to find himself accused of hijacking,
as well as
being dead, and has visited the U.S.
consulate in Jeddah to
demand an explanation.
None has so far been forthcoming. It is possible
that the
hijacker adopted Mr. al-Omari's identity
but, if he had been
using the same false name while training
as a pilot in the U.S.,
he would presumably have been uncovered.
That is not the only error on the [FBI] list
of hijackers. The
name of Ziad Jarrah, identified as the
pilot-hijacker of United
Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania,
was misspelt
"Jarrahi". He was a Lebanese whose family,
living in the Bekaa
Valley, spoke to him just two days before
his death but who
still refuse to believe that he was involved.
Mr. al-Omari's first name, Abdulrahman,
was later given out by
the U.S. authorities as "Abdulaziz" but there
can be little
doubt that it referred to the pilot who lives
in Jeddah. The
Americans described him as a father of four
and Mr. al-Omari
does have four children, all of whom live
with him and his
family in Saudi Arabia's second city. He
has refused to talk to
reporters and, in the words of one prominent
Saudi journalist,
"is one nervous guy".
INFOTIMES INTERNET-WEB LINKS:
'FBI's Dead Hijacker' is Alive and Lives in
Saudi Arabia
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1049
FBI LIST OF 19 HIJACKERS by Syed Adeeb
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1040
U.S. Military Could Be Behind The Sept. 11
Terrorist Attacks
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1048
James Bamford's New Book: "Body of Secrets"
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/home.html
"Body of Secrets" by James Bamford
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/25/nsa
U.S. Government is the World's Largest Terrorist
Organization
http://geocities.com/americanterrorism/Amerikan_Terrorism.html
Civilized World Should Oppose U.S.-Israeli
Terrorism
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1036
Racism Against Arabs and Muslims on the Rise
in America
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1033
Did Israel Attack the Pentagon and World Trade
Center?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1032
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Website
http://www.nsa.gov
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INFORMATION TIMES: http://www.InformationTimes.com
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[U.S. Military Could Be Behind The Sept.
11 Terrorist Attacks]
THE BALTIMORE SUN (Maryland, USA)
http://www.sunspot.net
Originally published April 24, 2001
http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.md.nsa24apr24.story
New Book on NSA Sheds Light on Secrets
U.S. terror plan called Cuba invasion pretext
By Scott Shane and Tom Bowman (Sun Staff)
WASHINGTON - U.S. military leaders proposed
in 1962 a secret
plan to commit terrorist acts against Americans
and blame Cuba
to create a pretext for invasion and the
ouster of Communist
leader Fidel Castro, according to a new book
about the National
Security Agency.
"We could develop a Communist Cuban terror
campaign in the Miami
area, in other Florida cities and even in
Washington," said one
document reportedly prepared by the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. "We
could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay
and blame Cuba," the
document says. "Casualty lists in U.S. newspapers
would cause a
helpful wave of indignation."
The plan is laid out in documents signed by
the five Joint
Chiefs but never carried out, according to
writer James Bamford
in "Body of Secrets." The new history of
the Fort Meade-based
eavesdropping agency is being released today
by Doubleday.
NSA regularly picks up the conversations of
suspected terrorist
financier Osama bin Laden, says Bamford,
and has monitored
Chinese and French companies trying to sell
missiles to Iran. He
provides new details about an Israeli attack
on a Navy
eavesdropping ship in 1967, suggesting that
the sinking was
deliberate. And he reveals the loss of an
"entire warehouse"
full of secret cryptographic gear to the
North Vietnamese in
1975, at the end of the Vietnam War.
Bamford, a former investigative reporter for
ABC News who wrote
"The Puzzle Palace" about the NSA in 1982,
said his new book is
based mostly on documents obtained through
the Freedom of
Information Act or found in government archives.
"NSA never
handed me any documents," he said. "It was
a question of
digging."
He said he was most surprised by the anti-Cuba
terror plan,
code-named Operation Northwoods. It "may
be the most corrupt
plan ever created by the U.S. government,"
he writes.
The Northwoods plan also proposed that if
the 1962 launch of
John Glenn into orbit were to fail, resulting
in the astronaut's
death, the U.S. government would publicize
fabricated evidence
that Cuba had used electronic interference
to sabotage the
flight, the book says.
A previously secret document obtained by Bamford
offers further
suggestions for mayhem to be blamed on Cuba.
"We could sink a boatload of Cubans en route
to Florida (real or
simulated). ... We could foster attempts
on lives of Cubans in
the United States, even to the extent of
wounding in instances
to be widely publicized," the document says.
Another idea was to
shoot down a CIA plane designed to replicate
a passenger flight
and announce that Cuban forces shot it down.
Citing a White House document, Bamford writes
that the idea of
creating a pretext for the invasion of Cuba
might have started
with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the
last weeks of his
administration, when the plan for an invasion
by Cuban exiles
trained in the United States was hatched.
Carried out in April
1961, soon after Kennedy became president,
the Bay of Pigs
invasion proved a fiasco. Castro's forces
quickly killed or
rounded up the invaders.
Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, chairman of
the Joint Chiefs,
presented the Operation Northwoods plan to
Kennedy early in
1962, but the president rejected it that
March because he wanted
no overt U.S. military action against Cuba.
Lemnitzer then
sought unsuccessfully to destroy all evidence
of the plan,
according to Bamford.
Lemnitzer and those who served with him in
1962 as chiefs of the
nation's military branches are dead. But
two former top Kennedy
administration officials said yesterday that
they were unaware
of Operation Northwoods and questioned whether
such a plan was
ever drafted.
"I've never heard of Operation Northwoods.
Never heard of it and
don't believe it," said Theodore Sorenson,
Kennedy's White House
special counsel. "Obviously, it would be
totally illegal as well
as totally unwise."
Robert S. McNamara, Kennedy's defense secretary,
said: "I never
heard of it. I can't believe the chiefs were
talking about or
engaged in what I would call CIA-type operations."
Bamford writes that besides the Joint Chiefs,
then-Assistant
Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze also favored
"provoking a
phony war with Cuba."
"There may be a piece of paper" on Northwoods,
said McNamara. "I
just cannot conceive of [Nitze] approving
anything like that or
doing it without talking to me."
The book contains many other revelations in
its detailed account
of NSA, the biggest U.S. intelligence agency
and Maryland's
largest employer, with more than 25,000 personnel
at Fort Meade,
site of its global eavesdropping efforts.
Among them:
In recent years, NSA has regularly listened
to bin Laden's
unencrypted telephone calls. Agency officials
have sometimes
played tapes of bin Laden talking to his
mother to impress
members of Congress and select visitors to
the agency.
In the late 1990s, NSA tracked efforts by
Chinese and French
companies to sell missile technology to Iran,
particularly the
C-802 anti-ship missile. The eavesdropping
led to U.S. protests
to the Chinese and French governments.
When U.S. troops evacuated Vietnam in 1975,
"an entire warehouse
overflowing with NSA's most important cryptographic
machines and
other supersensitive code and cipher materials"
was left behind.
It was the largest compromise of such equipment
in U.S. history,
Bamford writes, but the agency still has
not acknowledged it.
When Israeli fighter jets attacked the NSA
eavesdropping ship
USS Liberty in the Mediterranean in 1967,
killing 34 Americans
and wounding 171, an NSA aircraft was listening
in and heard
Israeli pilots referring to the American
flag on the ship. U.S.
officials, including President Lyndon Baines
Johnson, decided to
forget the matter, Bamford writes, because
they did not want to
embarrass Israel. To this day, Israeli officials
say their
forces mistakenly attacked the U.S. ship.
Bamford says the reason for the strike was
Israel's desperate
effort to cover up its attacks on the Egyptian
town of El Arish
in the Sinai. The Liberty was sitting offshore
and the Israelis
feared that the ship would detect the operation,
which included
the shooting of prisoners.
Yesterday, an NSA spokesperson questioned
a point made in the
book about the USS Liberty.
"We do not comment on operational matters,
alleged or otherwise;
however, Mr. Bamford's claim that the NSA
leadership was
`virtually unanimous in their belief that
the attack was
deliberate' is simply not true," the spokesperson
said.
When he wrote "The Puzzle Palace" in 1982,
Bamford was attacked
by some NSA officials, who said his revelations
gave the Soviet
Union and other U.S. adversaries too much
information on the
secret agency. One former director referred
to him as "an
unconvicted felon."
With the end of the Cold War, the agency has
been less guarded.
NSA's current director, Air Force Lt. Gen.
Michael V. Hayden,
has granted a number of interviews. Hayden
"cracked the door
open a tiny bit," said Bamford, partly to
burnish NSA's public
image and correct misconceptions.
[Sun staff writer Laura Sullivan contributed
to this article.
Copyright © 2001, The Baltimore Sun
- http://www.sunspot.net ]
INFOTIMES EDITOR's NOTE: James Bamford is
the author of The
Puzzle Palace, a national bestseller when
it was first published
and now regarded as a classic. He was until
recently Washington
Investigative Producer for ABC's World News
Tonight with Peter
Jennings and has written investigative cover
stories for The New
York Times Magazine, The Washington Post
Magazine and the Los
Angeles Times Magazine. He lives in Washington,
DC.
Praise for James Bamford's first examination
of the National
Security Agency, The Puzzle Palace: "There
have been glimpses
inside the NSA before, but until now no one
has published a
comprehensive and detailed report on the
agency Mr. Bamford has
emerged with everything except the combination
to the director's
safe."
-- New York Times Book Review.
Bamford's new book "Body of Secrets" went
on-sale on April 24,
2001 in the USA.
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/home.html
INFOTIMES INTERNET-WEB LINKS:
U.S. Military Could Be Behind The Sept. 11
Terrorist Attacks
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1048
James Bamford's New Book: "Body of Secrets"
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/bamford/home.html
"Body of Secrets" by James Bamford
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2001/04/25/nsa
U.S. Government is the World's Largest Terrorist
Organization
http://geocities.com/americanterrorism/Amerikan_Terrorism.html
Civilized World Should Oppose U.S.-Israeli
Terrorism
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1036
U.S. Government Must Stop its Barbaric Terrorism
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1033
Did Israel Attack the Pentagon and World Trade
Center?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1032
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Website
http://www.nsa.gov
Sent four days before the terrorist act
in NY:
From: Michael Novick [mailto:part2001@usa.net]
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: CIA predicts globalization will
cause breakdown in Pakistan
CIA Report Predicts Globalization May Cause
'Breakdown' in Pakistan
By T.C. Malhotra
CNSNews.com Correspondent
September 07, 2001
New Delhi (CNSNews.com) - A Central Intelligence
Agency report calls the
Pakistani government a "hybrid regime, not
democracy," and it predicts that
globalization could cause an eventual economic
and political breakdown in
the country.
"Globalization means there could be breakdowns
in bigger, developed, urban
places where the United States may not be
able to intervene," the CIA report
said.
"Pakistan is the best current example of
this because it seems to encompass
the worst of everything," the report continued.
The report, called
"Reshaping Geopolitical Trends," was released
in Washington on Wednesday.
Regional analysts in New Delhi explained
that the "breakdowns" mentioned by
the CIA would stem from growing inequality
in certain parts of the world.
"With growing globalization, there is bound
to inequalities among regions in
the world and also among regions within a
particular country," said New
Delhi-based analyst, Rahul Banerjee. "That
is why it is necessary that a
strong and democratic form of government
is in place in any country if
tensions due to inequalities are to be avoided.
Unfortunately, this is not
the case in Pakistan, where a military government
is ruling the country,"
said Banerjee.
The CIA report said the government of Pakistan
is likely to remain comprised
of military and democratic elements - a hybrid
regime that will be called
"democratic" only for the sake of stability.
Pakistan's military ruler, Gen Pervez Musharraf
, recently announced a
roadmap for restoring democracy in the country
by October of next year, but
the military influence is not expected to
wane.
According to analyst Rahul Banerjee, the
CIA report predicts that
globalization will cause increased unemployment
in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
"Globalization entails free movement of goods
and services across countries.
Consequently, in a country such as Pakistan
where there is a weak production
base of goods, items produced in foreign
countries are likely to replace
inferior quality goods [produced domestically].
"This will result in widespread unemployment
as profit margins of domestic
companies come down and they eventually close
shop. Terrorism therefore will
turn out to be a form occupation for many
youths," Banerjee said.
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Subject:
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My mom heard the same from a friend who's
son was called back to the
Navy on Tuesday, September 11th under strict
security at 5 AM (almost
four hours before WTC)--so your info is confirmed.
Subject: Time
sequence series of WTC UFO photos
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CAVEAT LECTOR - Sept 17, 2001
Cui Bono? Who is responsible for all of
this?
by Monzer Zimmo
Regardless of disagreements on American foreign
policies, most media
outlets seem to have accepted the theory
that the horrible events of
September 11, 2001 resulted from American
foreign policies. The basic
premise in this theory is that victims, or
enemies, of American foreign
policies committed the terrorist attacks
on American targets. Let us
see if that basic premise withstands the
test of reason.
Those horrifying acts were committed with
a high level of
sophistication, in terms of planning, coordination,
and accuracy of
execution. Such sophistication suggests
that those who dreamed up the
attacks must have also considered the consequences
of their plot. They
must have also calculated who would benefit
from their actions.
Consider the volume of resources, level of
training, intelligence
gathering capabilities, and the pragmatic
cold calculating ruthless
minds behind such operation. Then consider
whether it is reasonable to
accept that the perpetrators did not think
of consequences and did not
calculate who would benefit from their acts.
Something is missing from
this picture.
The perpetrators of those unspeakable crimes
must have intended to
benefit from them. They must have calculated
the outcome and must have
considered the possible reactions of the
American public. More
importantly, those criminals must have carefully
put in place diversion
tactics to focus public attention on someone
else other than them; and
preferably their enemies.
All media outlets seem to be focusing their
reporting on Arab or Muslim
"suspects". No one is examining the
possible beneficiaries of those
criminal acts. No one is considering
the possibility that those
horrible crimes were not reactions to American
foreign policies, but
deliberate acts to firmly position such policies
in a certain direction.
No one is searching for a party who has the
sophistication, the means,
the intelligence gathering capabilities,
the motivation, the opportunity
to benefit, the media manipulation skills,
and the burning desire to
divert world attention from its own actions
against innocent civilians
under its occupation. No one is suspecting
a party that is eager to
obtain a license to oppress the people it
occupies as it wishes and with
impunity. No one is considering the
possible, direct or indirect,
involvement of the state of Israel!
Source:
by courtesy & C 2001 Monzer Zimmo <mailto:editor@mediamonitors.net>
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