ATTN: Very Long! 9/11 & The War on Terror... "The Great Deception"
Sean Williams
"The Great Deception"
Part 1 of a multi-part series (Part 2 airs Jan 28) (Part 3 airs Feb 4)
Transcript of Mon., Jan. 21 2002 Broadcast
What really happened on Sept. 11th? “9/11 -- Part 1.”
For four months I’ve been waiting in vain for the North American
media to pursue questions about the startling events of September
11th. Here’s what I want to know:
The multiple hijackings are unprecedented. The first occurs at 7:45 in
the morning. It’s a full hour before the first plane hits the
World Trade Center. But it’s an hour and 20 minutes -- and after
the second plane hits – that the President allegedly becomes
informed. Think about that.
Then, he gives no orders. Why? He continues to listen to a student
talk about her pet goat. Why?
It’s another 25 minutes until he makes a statement, even as
flight 77 is making a bee-line for Washington, DC.
In the almost two hours of the total drama not a single U.S. Air Force
interceptor turns a wheel until it’s too late. Why? Was it total
incompetence on the part of aircrews trained and equipped to scramble
in minutes?
Well, unlike the U.S. Air Force, I’ll cut to the chase. Simply
to ask these few questions is to find the official narrative frankly
implausible. The more questions you pursue, it becomes more plausible
that there’s a different explanation: namely, that elements
within the top U.S. military, intelligence and political leadership
– which are closely intertwined – are complicit in what
happened on September the 11th.
Why U.S. complicity, you ask?
Well, to stampede public opinion into supporting the so-called war on
terrorism, to justify a war on Afghanistan for a future oil pipeline,
the grab for Middle East oil, big budget increases for the military,
and the general drive for global domination by the American Empire.
I know it sounds incredible.
But here’s some historical context from this book, Body of
Secrets. Its author is James Bamford. Bamford until recently was
Washington Investigative Producer for ABC’s World News tonight
with Peter Jennings. I learned of this book on ABC’s website.
Bamford’s information comes from interviews. With, for instance,
the former dean of the U.S. intelligence community. And from
government documents. It takes 80 pages to list Bamford’s more
than 600 information sources.
Here’s the story. It’s 1962. John F. Kennedy is U.S.
president. Robert McNamara is Secretary of Defence. And Admiral Lyman
Lemnitzer heads the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. The CIA has failed in
its illegal Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
JFK decides, Bamford writes, to back away from military solutions to
the Cuban problem.
But Lemnitzer, the CIA and others at the top remain obsessed with
Cuba. Writes Bamford: “As the Kennedy brothers appeared to
suddenly ‘go soft’ on Cuba, Lemnitzer could see his
opportunity to invade … quickly slipping away. …attempts
to provoke the Cuban public to revolt seemed dead…”
Continues Bamford: “Lemnitzer and the other chiefs knew there
was only one option left that would ensure their war. They would have
to trick the American public and world opinion…”
Lemnitzer comes up with Operation Northwoods.
“We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame
Cuba…casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful
wave of national indignation.”
“We could develop a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami
area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington.”
An elaborate variation: create “an exact duplicate for a civil
registered aircraft…” “At a designated time the
duplicate would be…loaded with…selected passengers, all
boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered
aircraft would be converted to a drone [a remotely controlled unmanned
aircraft]”… “the destruction of (that) aircraft will
be triggered by radio signal.”
The Cubans would be blamed.
Finally, another variation is described by Bamford: “On February
20th, 1962 (John) Glenn was to lift off from Cape Canaveral…on
his historic journey. Lemnitzer “proposed … that should
the rocket explode and kill Glenn, ‘the objective is to provide
irrevocable proof that…the fault lies with (Cuba)…”
“by manufacturing various pieces of evidence which would prove
electronic interference on the part of the Cubans.”
Thus, Bamford notes, “as NASA prepared to send the first
American into space, the Joint Chiefs of Staff were preparing to use
John Glenn’s possible death as a pretext to launch a war.”
The Operation Northwoods plan shows the Pentagon was capable,
according to Bamford, “of launching a secret and bloody war of
terrorism against their own country in order to trick the American
public into supporting a (war on Cuba).”
Can we be sure, therefore, that complicity by the Pentagon in the
events of Sept. 11th is entirely out of the question?
Next week, a more precise look at the events of that fateful day.
And what about bin Laden? I’ll have more on him too. And the
arrests of people named as terrorists around the world.
Sources
USATODAY.com (for animated map of the routes of the four hijacked
airliners). This has been taken off the USA TODAY website.
Body of Secrets, Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security
Agency,From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century, by James
Bamford (author of The Puzzle Palace), hard cover, Doubleday, New
York, 2001, 721 pages, ISBN 0-385-49907-8
**Part II**
What really happened on Sept. 11th? “9/11 -- Part 2.”
Next, more troubling questions. Part 2 in my series of commentaries
about the events of September 11th.
As you’ve heard in the panel discussion, a common explanation as
to why no U.S. military interceptors took to the skies on September
11th until it was too late, is that it was “simple
incompetence.”
Well, let me deal with the “incompetence theory.” By first
taking you back to October 26th, 1999. That is the day the chartered
Learjet carrying golfer Payne Stewart crashes, killing all on board.
This from the official National Transportation Safety Board crash
report:
9:19 a.m.: the flight departs
9:24: The Learjet’s pilot responds to an instruction from air
traffic control
9:33: The controller radios another instruction. No response from the
pilot. For 4 ½ minutes the controller tries to establish contact.
9:38: Having failed, the controller calls in the military. Note that
he did not seek, nor did he require, the approval of the President of
the United States, or indeed anyone. It’s standard procedure,
followed routinely, to call in the Air Force when radio contact with a
commercial passenger jet is lost, or the plane departs from its flight
path, or anything along those lines occurs.
9:54 – 16 minutes later -- the F-16 reaches the Learjet at
46,000 feet and conducts a visual inspection.
Total elapsed time: 21 minutes.
So what does this prove? Well, it proves that standing routines exist
for dealing with all such emergencies, for instance loss of radio
contact. All personnel in the air and on the ground are trained to
follow the routines, which have been fine-tuned over decades, as the
Learjet incident illustrates.
For large scheduled aircraft, tracked throughout on radar, to depart
extravagantly from their flight paths, would trigger numerous calls to
the military, especially after two have hit the World Trade Centre and
now one is speeding toward Washington, D.C.
It flies over the White House, turns sharply and heads toward the
Pentagon. Everyone – and I mean everyone – now knows these
planes are very bad news. It’s been reported on all TV networks
for more than half an hour that this is a terrorist attack.
Now, Andrews Air Force Base is a huge installation. It’s home to
Air Force One, the President’s plane. It’s home base for
two combat-ready squadrons of jet interceptors mandated to ensure the
safety of the U.S. capital. Andrews is only 12 miles from the White
House.
On September 11th the squadrons there were:
The 121st Fighter Squadron of the 113th Fighter Wing, equipped with
F-16s
The 321st Marine Fighter Attack Squadron of the 49th Marine Air Group,
Detachment A, equipped F/A-18s
This information was on the website of the base on September 11th.
[POSSIBLE (cuts)] On September 12th, Andrews chose to update its
website. I find it odd that after the update there’s no mention
of the F-16 and F-18 fighters. The base becomes, according to the
website, home to a transport squadron only.
Yet at 6:30 the evening of September 11th NBC Nightly News, along with
many outlets, reported:
"It was after the attack on the Pentagon that the Air Force then
decided to scramble F-16s out of the DC National Guard Andrews Air
Force Base to fly … a protective cover over Washington, D.C."
Throughout the northeastern United States are many air bases. But that
morning no interceptors respond in a timely fashion to the highest
alert situation. This includes the Andrews squadrons which have the
longest lead time and are 12 miles from the White house.
Whatever the explanation for the huge failure, there have been no
reports, to my knowledge, of reprimands. This further weakens the
“Incompetence Theory.” Incompetence usually earns
reprimands.
This causes me to ask – and other media need to ask – if
there were “stand down” orders.
Next week, bin Laden was a longtime close ally of the CIA, according
to the CIA itself. Why did he suddenly turn against them? Or did he?
Sources
Report by National Transportation Safety Board re crash of chartered
Learjet 26 October 1999,carrying golfer Payne Stewart:
http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/aviation.htm
click on “Aviation,” then “Major
investigations,” then “Aberdeen, South Dakota.”
For commercial aviation flight rules and procedures:
http://www.faa.gov/
What really happened on Sept. 11th? “9/11 -- Part 3.”
Osama bin Laden is not an easy subject. Characterizations of him vary
wildly. The most common, because it’s the official narrative of
cardboard cutout simplicity, is that he’s the world’s
number one villain, the diabolical mastermind behind the events of
September 11th. Another view: Osama is “… the conscience
of Islam.”
Well, globally, Osama is like a Rorschach ink blot. His character and
role morph into what various publics project upon him, based on what
they’re led to believe.
Take books. There’s an adage “You can’t tell a book
by its cover” Maybe so, but you can tell it by its index.
“Bin Laden, the Man Who Declared War on America” is by
Yossef Bodansky, former senior consultant to the Pentagon and U.S.
state department. “Bodansky explains (a) vast global
conspiracy…” it says in the foreword.
The index entries on bin Laden in this 440-page book run almost two
pages. But there are just four references to the CIA, mostly brief and
reveal nothing. Yet the decades-long eight-billion-dollar CIA covert
operation in Afghanistan was also its largest ever, according to
numerous sources, including journalist John Cooley in his book Unholy
Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism.
Contrast the Bodansky book with this one, “Taliban,” by
Ahmed Rashid. He’s a Pakistani journalist who’s covered
Afghanistan for 21 years. In his index are eight entries about bin
Laden and 11 about the CIA.
Now, back to bin Laden. What do most sources agree on? We know bin
Laden is born in Saudi Arabia in 1957. Okay we’re not sure about
the year. His father becomes a close friend of the king, and
“fabulously wealthy.” Bin Laden Corporation becomes one of
the largest construction companies in the Middle East.
In this business you’re dealing with the Pakistani
intelligence—the ISI, Saudi intelligence, the CIA. With his
family’s blessing Osama becomes closely associated with the CIA
in the Afghan war against the Soviets. Bin Laden Corp built major
training camps for the CIA. “In 1986 he helped build the Khost
tunnel complex, which the CIA was funding as a major arms stoage
depot, training facility and medical centre for the
mujaheddin…” At this point bin Laden’s story, like
Stephen Leacock’s horse, “rides madly off in all
directions.”
My questions: Did he turn against the CIA? Maintain ties while making
anti-American statements? Was he manipulated? “Former associates
describe him as deeply impressionable, always in need of
mentors,” Rashid writes.
You’re forced to turn to a larger canvas. As in the final draft
of this to-be-published book “The War on Freedom, Causes and
Consequences of 9-11” by Nafeez Ahmed, executive director of the
Institute for Policy Research & Development in Brighton, England.
He’s an Oxfam campaigner who specializes in writing
international reports on human rights. News of his reports have been
carried by Reuters, Associated Press, The Guardian, The Independent,
the Jewish Chronicle and the London Jewish News.
Ahmed writes that bin Laden is merely a piece in a chess game. The
stakes of the game are the last of the world’s oil reserves and
“…the Bush administration’s “(consolidation of
power) to pursue a drastic unlimited militarization of foreign policy
on a massive and unprecedented scale required by long-standing elite
planning, while crushing domestic dissent and criminalizing legitimate
protest.”
I believe that if we shrink from testing Ahmed’s overview and
accept only the headlines of the day we will fail to see the forest
for the trees.
The USA helped recruit, train and equip thousands of killer mujahideen
in the anti-Soviet war. Ahmed’s book and other evidence shows
the recruiting and training terrorists, including those in al-Qaeda,
has continued for years. The White House “went
underground” with this aid.
This is detailed in the 1993 book “The Outlaw Bank, A Wild Ride
Into the Secret Heart of BCCI.” BCCI stands for Bank of Credit
and Commerce International. It collapsed after exposure of its massive
fraud and corruption. The book’s authors are Jonathan Beaty and
S. C. Gwynne. Beaty was an investigative reporter and senior
correspondent for Time magazine; Gwynne Time’s economics editor
and author of “Selling Money.”
The book reveals the BCCI’s connections with the CIA and
“a Washington coverup that …protected the
BCCI….” The BCCI’s ‘Black Network’
operating in Afghanistan and other countries dealt in “drug
deals and terrorism.” The authors describe what they found as
“a disturbing criminal conspiracy.”
Further evidence of the long and deep involvement of the CIA in
terrorism is found in the 1987 book The Crimes of Patriots, A True
Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA, by Jonathan Kwitny. Kwitny at
the time had been a Wall Street Journal reporter for 16 years.
He wrote that neither the director of the CIA nor the deputy director
“had, in his career, shown any reluctance to shed American or
foreign blood in covert military operations as a means to carrying out
their assignments.” The book details “how some of the
biggest names in American defense and intelligence were involved in an
operation that promoted the dope trade, tax evasion, and gun
running…”
Michael Springmann is a Washington lawyer. He worked for the US State
Department’s foreign service for 20 years. He spent two years as
chief of the visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia. His superiors repeatedly ordered him to issue visas to
unqualified applicants. It was illegal. He protested.
He’s just written this article in the reputable Covert Action
Quarterly of Washington, D.C. and was interviewed by the CBC radio
program Dispatches. “I had not been protesting fraud. What I was
protesting was, in reality, an effort to bring recruits, rounded up by
[the Agency and] Osama bin Laden, to the U.S. for terrorist training
by the CIA.” He details numerous cases.
“The State Department did not run the Consulate in Jeddah. The
CIA did. Of the roughly 20 Washington-dispatched staff there, I know
for a certainty that only three people (including myself) had no ties,
either professional or familial, to any of the U.S. intelligence
services.”
What bugs me to no end is that mainstream media journalists operate as
if these books – written by the most professional of their ranks
– they operate as if these books don’t exist! Fellow
journalists, the dots exist. For goodness’ sake, connect them,
while you can.
There are plenty of what we call in the news biz “pegs.”
Solid current evidence. New dots. But these dots, past and present,
are never connected. Take this November 22nd front page story in The
Globe and Mail. I almost missed the startling information in this
myself because the headline indulges a stereotypical Canadian
self-putdown: us stupid Canadians, we let a terrorist -- one Ali
Mohamed -- get away.
The real story is buried. “Mr. Mohamed … was a U.S. Army
sergeant…but trained bin Laden’s bodyguards.”
What?
“Ali Mohamed was in the Americans’ good
books…” “…Ali Mohamed wasn’t so shadowy
in those days. He was one of their guys.”
A terrorist one of the FBI’s “guys?”
The headline on this story might have read: “FBI Protected Top
al-Qaeda Operative.” And it might well have been the banner.
Ahmed’s own conclusion is that “the documentation…
strongly suggests the United States, or more precisely significant
elements of the U.S. government, military and intelligence, had
extensive foreknowledge of the 11th September attacks, and were in
various ways complicit in those attacks.”
All this and more must be considered when asking “What really
happened on Sept. 11th?”
And bin Laden? Journalist and former Los Angeles Police Department
detective Michael Ruppert quipped recently: “One guess is that
he’s in Switzerland having his nails done.”
Next week, George W. Bush and the Oiligarchy.
Sources
WEB SITES:
www.emperors-clothes.com
Site founder: Jared Israel. I discovered Emperior’s Clothes
about two years ago and have found its facts reliable, its knowledge
of history solid, its analyses prescient. One of the best online
journalism sites imaginable.
URL for the emperors-clothes article on 9/11:
http://www.emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-3.htm
www.copvcia.com
Site founder: Michael Ruppert. I have heard and met Michael Ruppert
and consider him a totally reliable, profound and courageous person.
He’s a former Los Angeles Police Department detective, who saw
with his own eyes CIA agents dealing large amounts of drugs in L.A.
He’s campaigned to expose CIA wrong-doing ever since and this
has led him to a larger, disturbing, picture which we citizens –
anywhere -- must be aware of, to plan a future. His organization is
called From The Wilderness (FTW). That’s also the title of his
publication, available in print and online.
Log in at www.copvcia.com to connect with all subscription and other
information.
BOOKS (by author, alphabetically):
Ahmed, Nafeez Mossaddeq: “The War on Freedom, Causes and
Consequences of 9-11 (draft version),” to be published, 220
pages.
The most complete book I know of, at this time, summarizing the
relevant background and foreground intersecting upon the events of
September 11, 2001.
Bodansky, Yossef: “Bin Laden, The Man Who Declared War on
America,” Forum, 1999, 439 pps, soft cover, ISBN 0-7615-3581-0.
This book is pure propaganda in the worst sense, an example of
sophisticated disinformation. It’s designed to fool people into
thinking they’re getting the lowdown from an insider. A check of
the index’s startling omissions give it away. It’s
well-known that Osama bin Laden has been a key CIA
“asset.” Any book on bin Laden, therefore, should explore
the CIA-bin Laden connection thoroughly. Yet the CIA is barely
mentioned. Omission is a crucial tool of propaganda.
Cooley, John: “Unholy Wars:Afghanistan, America and
International Terrorism,” Pluto Press, 299 pages, soft cover,
ISBN 0 7453 1691 3.
One of the more reliable reporters, from whom Noam Chomsky draws
material. He continues to track developments and his work is worth
watching.
Kwitny, Jonathan: “The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope,
Dirty Money, and the CIA,” W. W. Norton & Company, 1987, 424
pps, hard cover, ISBN 0-393-02387-7.
Kwitny when he wrote this had been a Wall Street Journal reporter for
16 years, and had received the Honor Medal for Career Achievement by
the University of Missouri School of Journalism. The book is well
written, detailed, persuasive and shocking, one of the books concerned
citizens should consider reading to inform themselves of the
deep-rooted lawless and malignant nature and scope of the CIA,
protected by billions of dollars of taxpayer money, secrecy and
political cover under Republican and Democratic administrations.
Rashid, Ahmed: “Taliban,” Yale University Press, 2001, 279
pp, soft cover, ISBN0-300-08902-3.
Rashid’s long experience in Afghanistan, his credentials as a
journalist, and his attempts to connect the historical and current
dots in his region of the world, make his work reasonably credible.
Beaty, Jonathan, and Gwynne, S. C.: “The Outlaw Bank, a Wild
Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI,” Random House, New York, 399
pp, hardcover, ISBN 0-679-41384-7.
At the time they wrote this book, Beaty was an investigative reporter
and senior correspondent for Time magazine, and Gwynne was
Time’s economics editor. This book is as exhaustively documented
as Kwitny’s, and uncovers the same kind of widespread deceitful,
violent, criminal activities by the CIA as does Kwitny. It also
discovers, as does Kwitny, that these illegal and violent activities
are protected by those at the top of the corporate, financial and
political heirarchy.
PERIODICALS:
Covert Action Quarterly (CAQ), Washington, D.C.
Formerly the Covert Action Intelligence Bulletin (CAIB), this
reputable periodical publishes only thoroughly-researched work on the
depredations of the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
Its Winter 2001 issue is titled: “Removing the Veil / U.S.
Intelligence & the Origins of 911.” Articles include Michael
Parenti’s “The Terrorism Totality,” and Michael
Springmann’s “CIA’s Visa Machine.”
Publisher: CovertAction Publications, Inc.
Street address: 1500 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 732, Washington,
DC 20005, USA
Tel.: (202) 331-9763 / FAX: (202) 331-9751
E-mail address: in...@covertactionquarterly.org
"“What Really Happened on Sept. 11th?” Part 4 (the
Oiligarchy)"
Even among those who believe that the war on Afghanistan was part of
the so-called war on terrorism, there’s a fairly wide
recognition that the outcome – the occupation of Afghanistan --
might have something to do with the ambitions of U.S. oil
corporations.
Which brings us to the connection between September 11th and the
Oiligarchy. Let me start with a crash course in globe-oil reality. A
framework little mentioned by the mainstream media.
First, the size and power of Big Oil. “Together, oil and coal
constitute the biggest single industry in history,” writes Ross
Gelbspan in his book, The Heat is On. “Big oil alone does well
over a trillion dollars a year in business.”
Second, we’re at the end of the petroleum era. Total world oil
extraction is peaking. These charts, from Scientific American and
other equally reliable sources, tell the story. And the supply does
not drop off gently.
If you think this industry is rich and powerful now, wait ‘til
the supply is clearly on the wane. At the website www.dieoff.com, you
can learn that “in 1995, Petroconsultants published a report for
oil industry insiders ($32,000 per copy) titled WORLD OIL SUPPLY
1930-2050 which concludes that world oil (extraction) could peak as
soon as the year 2000 and decline to half that level by 2025. Large
and permanent increases in oil prices were predicted after the year
2000.”
Black gold is going to go platinum.
Hey wait, we’ll just switch to other energy sources, right?
Wind, solar, biomass, tidal. Wrong. “All the alternatives in the
world,” writes former U.S. army officer and political analyst
Stan Goff, “cannot begin to provide more than a tiny fraction of
the energy base now provided by oil. This makes it more than a
resource, and the drive to control what's left more than an economic
competition.”
“Most experts agree,” writes Larry Chin in Online Journal,
“that the Caspian Basin and Central Asia are the keys to energy
in the 21st century. …energy expert James Dorian in the Oil &
Gas Journal… “Those who control the oil routes out of
Central Asia will impact all future direction and quantities of flow
and the distribution of revenues from new (extraction).”
In other words a pipeline through, of all places, Afghanistan. Needed
to carry an estimated 5-trillion dollars’ worth of Caspian oil
and gas reserves to markets. A significant detail that surely is not
lost on those in power in the United States. So just who are these
people? Let’s start with the occupant of the Oval Office
himself.
George W. Bush was CEO of Harken Energy.
George Herbert Walker Bush, his dad and the former president, was an
oil man. Now he’s on the board of the Carlyle Group, which is
heavily invested in oil and armaments.
Dick Cheney was Secretary of Defense during Desert Storm. He stepped
down to become CEO of Halliburton Oil. Cashed in 34 million dollars in
Halliburton stock options before taking office as vice president.
Donald Evans, Bush’s Commerce Secretary, was with Colorado Oil.
Zalmay Khalilzad is the Bush-appointed special envoy to Afghanistan.
Khalilzad previously was an aide to the American oil company Unocal.
He drew up Unocal’s risk analysis on its proposed trans-Afghan
gas pipeline.
Khalilzad reports to Condoleeza Rice, Bush’s national security
adviser. When she was a board director of Chevron Corporation, she
served as its principal expert on Kazakhstan, where Chevron holds the
largest concession of any of the international oil companies.
Khalilzad will liaise with the new Afghani leader Hamed Karzai. A
former consultant to Unocal.
You get the idea.
A General Motors president once said: “Structure is strategy in
slow motion.” The structure of this cabinet shows, in my
opinion, the primacy of oil interests.
How does this connect with the events of 9/11? Well, it’s hard
to just invade a country out of the blue, I believe. The perfect
pretext is a so-called war on terrorism – founded firmly, so
far, upon the official narrative of what happened on September 11th.
The psychological trick at the heart of September 11th, by the way, is
that people confuse their compassion for the victims with their
certainty about who the perpetrators are. The public was presented
with instant perpetrators. The trick will most likely continue working
for all future planned invasions – looks as if Iraq is next
– so long as the public remains blindfolded by the media.
9/11 serves the ends of the Oiligarchy. That does not, in itself,
prove a connection between Big Oil and what happened on September
11th. But the fact that it does serve those ends must be taken
together with other evidence. Just part of which is the illegal
importation, training and protection of terrorists on U.S. soil by the
CIA. The much-publicized failure of U.S. intelligence. The failure of
the U.S. Air Force on the day. The inexplicable trades of United and
American Airlines stocks in the days prior. The big economic
difficulties the Bush administration was facing. And the loomingEnron
scandal.
Next week, “The Great Deception,” Part 5.
Sources
BOOK
Gelbspan, Ross, “The Heat Is On -- The High Stakes Battle Over
Earth’s threatened Climate,” 278 pages, Addison-Wesley
Publishing Company, Inc., 1997, ISBN 0-201-13295-8 (hard cover).
Gelbspan has been an editor and reporter at The Boston Globe, The
Washington Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and is the winner of
the Pulitzer Prize. The book lays out the dangers of global warming
and the massive disinformation campaign by the fossil fuel lobby to
obscure the Earth realities that threaten our existence.
WEBSITES
www.dieoff.com
This is another of the sites founded and run by an individual (in this
case Jay Hanson) informed by a single passionate intelligence. On this
site is a tremendous collection of resources about the Earth’s
fast-diminishing resources and what we can and should do about a
fast-approaching “permanent state of emergency,” to borrow
a phrase from Ross Gelbspan (see “Book.”)
www.narconews.com
Click on Issue #14 (Aug. 25 to Oct. 24), scroll down to “The
So-Called Evidence is a Farce,” for the article and transcript
of radio interview by Goff, Stan. Goff is a veteran of 27 years in the
U.S. Army, most of it in the Special Forces, such as the Delta Force.
He served in eight conflict areas around the world and taught military
science for three semesters at West Point. During the U.S. operation
in Haiti his political consciousness was awakened. He wrote a book
about this titled “Deadly Dream.”
Narconews is a dependable site for well-researched information about
the drug trade and therefore about the banking system’s
involvement in money laundering, and corruption in politics, and the
relationship of media to the subject of the drug trade. Narconews
recently (see top of home page) won an historic court case in the
Supreme Court of New York State against a large bank, which states
that freedom of speech on the Internet is as sacrosanct as freedom of
speech in print or in broadcast. (Most media outlets failed to report
about this case.)
www.onlinejournal.com
Sub-titled “Building a New News Media By, Of and For the
Public,” Online Journal, established in 1998, features
well-documented original articles on matters of wide public concern.
"“What Really Happened on Sept. 11th?” Part 5 (What Did
George Bush Know and When Did he Know it?” popularly known as
“The Great Deception.”)"
September 11th has brought mostly unpleasant changes, including
curtailment of civil liberties and threatened perpetual war. All
rooted in the official story of what happened on September 11th.
Namely that one evil man and his network are responsible. And that the
U.S. military, intelligence and political establishments were all
caught totally off guard.
Millions of intelligent people accept this story as their own.
“Any argument about any aspect of the conduct of the war against
terrorism,” as Globe and Mail columnist John Ibbitson puts it,
“must begin with those airplanes smashing into the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon. And then it must stay there and never move
from that spot.”
If it’s that important -- and I agree it is -- then it’s
the duty of the media and of intelligent citizens to inquire about any
anomalies about September 11th. Today’s question: what did
George Bush know and when did he know it on September 11th?
[VIDEO CLIP] David Halton on CBC-TV in a story on the first
anniversary of George Bush's taking office (Bush is seen sitting in a
classroom at
Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida and Andrew Card comes to
whisper in Bush's ear):
TRANSCRIPT: "Bush was first informed of the suicide attack at an
education event in Florida, his face creasing into anxiety. The crisis
transformed his presidency..."
This image, embedded in the official story, has led the world to
believe that when Bush’s chief of staff Andrew Card whispered
into his ear at an elementary school at 9:05 that morning, it was the
first the U.S. president learned that, in his words, America was under
attack. But a growing number of people including the careful
researchers at www.emperors-clothes.com don’t think so. Using
verifiable publicly-available information, Ilarion Bykov and Jared
Israel, an intrepid Canadian, raise questions mainstream media
stubbornly refuse to even acknowledge.
Consider, Bykov and Israel say, the words of journalist John Cochrane,
who was travelling with the president on the morning of September
11th, on an ABC Special Report. Cochrane is speaking to Peter
Jennings:
"Peter, as you know, the president's down in Florida talking about
education. He got out of his hotel suite this morning, was about to
leave, reporters saw the White House chief of staff, Andy Card,
whisper into his ear. The reporter said to the president, 'Do you know
what's going on in New York?' He said he did, and he said he will have
something about it later. His first event is about half an hour at an
elementary school in Sarasota, Florida."
“So Bush knew,” writes emperors-clothes, “about the
first…incident before leaving his hotel.”
Take other evidence. By 8:20, according to its own official report,
the Federal Aviation Authority, the FAA, is fully aware of the
unprecedented emergency in the skies.
As Bycov and Israel point out, “The (president of the United
States)… travels with an entire staff…(including) the
Secret Service, which is responsible for his safety. The members of
this support team have the best communications equipment in the world.
They maintain contact with, or can easily reach, Bush’s cabinet,
the national Military Command Center in the Pentagon, the
(FAA)…”
In other words, around 8:46 at the absolute latest the Secret Service
and the President would have known of all four hijacked airliners and
that one had hit the World Trade Center.
That’s two sets of proofs that question the famous
whisper-in-the-ear at 9:05. Still not convinced? How about the
typically garbled words of the President himself? From the transcript
of a Town Hall session in Orlando, Florida on December 4th:
JORDAN (a third grader): “…how did you feel when you heard
about the terrorist attack?” [applause]
THE PRESIDENT: “Thank you, Jordan. Well, Jordan…I was
sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane
hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself,
and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot…. But I was whisked
off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I was
sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my Chief of
Staff…walked in and said, ‘A second plane has hit the
tower, America is under attack.’ And, Jordan, I wasn't sure what
to think at first.”
Wait a minute! The president tells us he saw the incredible image of
the first plane going in. He went ahead with an easily-cancellable
appointment. Why? He tells us he knew his country was under attack,
yet he continued to listen to a student talk about her pet goat, and
such, for another 25 minutes. Why?
Where can you find that Town Hall transcript? On the White House web
site. Thanks to a viewer on the West Coast for drawing it to my
attention.
In other words, no matter how you cut it, George W. Bush is acting
right here. There are many other facts, equally puzzling. At least for
anyone still clinging to the official story of 9-11. His schedule and
whereabouts had been publicly announced. Why did the Secret Service
not whisk him away for safety’s sake?
Do you think there’s anything here that mainstream media should
follow up? Have you noticed any such follow-up? Do you find this as
incredible as I do? What will it take to snap people out of the
hypnotic trance of the official story and start asking questions?
Maybe you calling an editor and raising hell.
Until the world finds out the truth about what really happened on
September 11th, the world is held hostage to the so-called war on
terrorism. And surely it’s time to recognize that for what it
is: harsh final steps to what the U.S. military terms “full
spectrum dominance.”
Next week the final installment of “The Great Deception:”
Moral and spiritual challenges that arise amidst fear and denial in a
propagandized society.
Sources
www.emperors-clothes.com
Follow the story headings
www.whitehouse.gov
Click “News and Policies,” then “December
2001,” then scroll down (close to the end) to the part of
transcript of the Orlando, Florida town hall that I quote. You can
also listen to the U.S. president in streaming audio.
Part 6 - Conclusion
Transcript of Mon.,Feb 25, 2002 Broadcast
"“What Really Happened on Sept. 11th?” Conclusion (What
Did George Bush Know and When Did he Know it?” popularly known
as “The Great Deception.”)"
Subject: Moral and spiritual challenges amidst fear and denial in a
propagandized society
The editors at the New York Times made the right judgment call, in my
opinion, by playing this story [“Pentagon Readies Efforts to
Sway Sentiment Abroad; Debate over Credibility; New Office Proposes to
Send News or Maybe False News to Even Friendly Lands,” by James
Dao and Eric Schmitt] at the top of their front page recently. Because
a campaign of government deception is a moral issue.
But in a way, these headlines are laughable, including as they do
phrases such as “…readies efforts…?” And
“…proposes to send…false news…?”
Are readers supposed to believe the Pentagon might… start lying?
Those who have seen the documentary The Panama Deception will find
this assumption impossible to swallow. [VIDEO CLIP from “The
Panama Deception,” Jeff Cohen of Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting (FAIR) of New York City, speaking]:
“The U.S. military said 250 civilians were killed. There
isn’t a single credible source in Panama that believes
that’s true, whether it’s ambulance drivers, human rights
monitors, people – doctors who worked in hospitals, neighbours
of bombed-out blocks. It’s just clearly false. That sotry would
be so easy to tell for any journalist worth his or her salt. But
they’re not telling it.”
Back to the Times article. The odd thing about it is that you can go
over it with a divining rod and find that neither the writers, nor
anyone they quote, makes so much as a passing reference to the simple
wrongness of government lying. Not once are the words
“moral,” “morality,” “ethics” or
such, used, let alone “lies” or “lying.”
In my moral book, publishing a story with morality at its heart,
without mentioning the word, is committing the sin of omission.
The story also accepts foolish statements about Saddam Hussein and
prints them with a straight face, as it were. It’s claimed he
“…has a charm offensive going on…’ ”
I don’t know about you, but I’ve noticed the offensive
part but not the charm part.
“ ‘…and we haven’t done anything to counteract
it,’ a senior military official said.”
Well, if you don’t count the U.S. government’s all-out
propaganda campaign against the Iraqi leader for more than a decade,
then I guess this guy’s got a point.
Readers are also misled to focus on side issues such as “public
perceptions,” “strategy,” “possible
illegality” and bureaucratic turf wars. This article –
representing the crème de la crème of U.S. journalism –
symbolizes how disconnected the U.S. media and government have become
from moral questions, one might almost say, from reality.
To give credit where credit’s due the Times ran an editorial
terming the Pentagon’s proposed new Office of Strategic
Influence “Orwellian.” Yet the editorial fails as well to
question the fundamental justness of the Pentagon.
Which brings me to my main point. The less people ask themselves
questions about deceit the more it clears the way for organizations
such as the CIA to continue to receive seemingly unending billions of
dollars. Taxpayer money used to train terrorists, as the CIA
acknowledges it has. To destabilize governments, as former CIA agent
John Stockwell writes in his book In Search of Enemies. And to inject
toxic grey, white and black disinformation into the world’s
information systems, as William Blum spells out in Killing Hope. All
with barely a whisper of dissent.
“The lie,” wrote theologian Andre Dumas, “is
biblically portrayed as ‘the first and most poisonous source of
injustice.’” “Truth telling,” he wrote
“is…absolutely essential to the very life and health of
the whole community.”
Which is at the heart of the Great Deception, about what really
happened on September 11th. For the past five weeks I’ve asked
questions: How could it be that no U.S. Air Force jet interceptors
turned a wheel on September 11th until it was too late? Is it
coincidence that the war on Afghanistan triggered by September 11th
will clear the way for petroleum pipelines of huge interest to the
White House? How to explain the virtual non reaction of President
George Bush immediately following the planes slamming into the World
Trade Center?
These marked-up passages are from my dog-eared copy of a gem of a
book, The Idea of Disarmament, Rethinking the Unthinkable, by Alan
Geyer. Geyer, in 1982, writes: “The nuclear arms race has become
this generation’s severest test of truth. It is zealously
promoted with false words, deceptive jargon, pretentious dogmatics,
hateful propaganda, and arbitrary bars on access to the truth.
“No realm of public policy,” he continues, “is more
corrupted by untruthful speech than national security.”
Today the Big Lie of the so-called war on terrorism – itself
firmly based on the linchpin of the implausible official version of
what happened on September 11th -- is an even more severe test of
truth, in my opinion. Under the banner of the war on terrorism George
W. Bush – with the aid of the media -- zealously promotes
perpetual global war in the service of resource looting and permanent
popularity for himself.
There’s unprecedented militarism. The USA is spending more than
half its budget on wars past, present and future, according to the
Center for Defense Information.
As Christian humanist Geyer writes in words truer today, in my view,
than when written: “Demythologizing has become the indispensable
theological tool of peacemaking: it is the operation empowering the
people of God to understand the stratagems by which inhuman speech
violates the Word of God. Those stratagems include a relentless
outpouring of myths about weapons, strategy, security, enemies,
history, and human nature – from government bureaucracies and
adjunct think tanks and co-opted media and electronic
theologians.”
And in this gem of a book I find the perfect conclusion to this series
about what really happened on September the eleventh, about the Great
Deception, about moral and spiritual challenges amidst fear and
denial.
In the 1930s there was a powerful peace movement. At that time a play
by Viennese poet Stefan Zweig was produced. The play’s principal
character, Jeremiah, bursts forth with these words:
Peace is not a thing of weakness.
It calls for heroism and action.
Day by day you must wrest it from the mouths of liars.
You must stand alone against the multitude, for clamor is always on
the side of the many.
And the liar has ever the first word.
The meek must be strong.
Sources:
BOOKS
Blum, William: Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since
World War II, Black Rose Books, 1998, 457 Pages, soft cover, ISBN
1-55164-096-1
Geyer, Alan: The Idea of Disarmament! Rethinking the Unthinkable, The
Brethren Press, Elgin, Illinois and The Churches’ Center for
Theology and Public Policy, Washington, D.C., 1982, 256 pages, soft
cover, ISBN 0-87187-396-7
Stockwell, John: In Search of Enemies, A CIA Story, W. W. Norton &
Company, 1978, 285 pages, soft cover, ISBN 0-393-00926-2
FILMS
The Panama Deception, 1992, by The Empowerment Project, in association
with Channel Four, London, and Rhino Home Video. Produced by Barbara
Trent, Joanne Doroshow, Nico Panigutti and David Kasper. One of the
best documentaries I’ve ever seen. Greatly relevent to our
future.
NEWSPAPERS
The New York Times, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2002, pages A1 and A10.
Toronto Star, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002, page A24
WWW SITES
Center for Defense Information
http://www.cdi.org/
Dave Badeau
But to think that good people like George Bush would put
money and power ahead of human lives is unthinkable.
Middle:
So don't think about it, or you will be labeled a
conspiracy nut.
End:
In the end I would rather be considered a "conspiracy nut"
than a "Money Worshipper"
I'll see you in Hell GW.
dave
HOD
minimum you should apologize to your comrade fools on this newsgroup that
will certainly consider this fiction to be based on facts...... Konspiracy
Kooks are idiots!
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HOD
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You succeeded!
Herb
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Tempest
Sean Williams wrote:
>
> This could be old news for some. I found it very interesting.
Ponder this:
Sept 11th, 2001 - 10:37AM aboard Air Force One - After President Bush
learned that his wife, Laura, and his two daughters were safe, he asked
jokingly how Barney the family dog was doing. "Nipping at the heels of
Osama Bin Laden" - Chief of Staff Andy Card kidded him.
- Inside 9-11 by news staff of Der Spiegel.
How did Card know bin Laden was responsible only hours after it
happened?
>
> "The Great Deception"
> Part 1 of a multi-part series (Part 2 airs Jan 28) (Part 3 airs Feb 4)
>
> Transcript of Mon., Jan. 21 2002 Broadcast
>
> What really happened on Sept. 11th? “9/11 -- Part 1.”
>
>
> For four months I’ve been waiting in vain for the North American
> media to pursue questions about the startling events of September
> 11th. Here’s what I want to know:
>
--
"I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed...
managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units...Of the
many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as
the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal and
owe equal allegiance to their country."
(Colin Powell’s autobiography, My American Journey, p. 148)
Larry W. Jewell
> Middle:
> So don't think about it, or you will be labeled a conspiracy nut.
Poor defensive little guy, is you feelin' put upon? Too much reality
crowding in on you? Well, too bad.
The reason people get labeled conspiracy nuts is because their
conspiracy theories are nuts. Using fantasy, bad history and outright
lies does not give you much chance for credibility. Applying them on
a grand scale is something only a nut would do. PCness can't save you
on that count.
Larry J
Steve Hiner
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I guess that's why the Repugnants feel they have to slide their ideology in
the backdoors with other non-voting legislation, i.e. 245i! They know the
American public wouldn't buy their bullshit straight up!
I guess that's also why the right-wing and Repugnants ran conspiracy theory
after conspiracy theory on Clinton for 8 years. And other than a private
sexual affair, their theories were as empty as a dry well and it only cost
the taxpayer a mear $70 million to find this out!
Gee, I'm still waiting to see those damaging e-mails Gore was suppose to
have written, before the election! I wonder why those Repugnant conspiracy
theories have never come to light! Because, they were bogus and outright
lies!