Message: 25
   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.
 

.

So, what're the odds against "coincidence" here?
Billion to one?
 

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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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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

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
 

http://emperors-clothes.com/news/albu.htm
 

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.
 

http://emperors-clothes.com/news/albu.htm

Original posted at
http://www.abqjournal.com/aqvan09-11-01.htm

(C) 2001, 'Albuquerge Journal,'
Reprinted for Fair Use Only
 

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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
 

[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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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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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."