oc: The Pentagon attack was a frameup by criminal US leadership. This site establishes that a fighter jet hit the Pentagon as Flight 77 flew over.
Everyman
where I will no longer be posting. -- Dick Eastman a.k.a. Everyman,
Mister
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Several articles below:
Cholera suspected in Baghdad, Basra, Hilla but no medical means of
confirming. This means new markets opening for American
pharmaceutical companies. Will neo-cons rush to buy stock with extra
from reduced taxes?
3 reports - "Doctors suspected hundreds of the children had cholera
and typhoid, but with no labs fully working, and most United Nations
health workers having fled, hard-pressed physicians said they could
only treat the cases, not confirm them."
1. Fears capital on verge of cholera epidemic - Sydney Morning Herald
2. Search for Water Continues in S. Iraq - Seattle pi
3. Iraq Diaries: "Why, why, why?" -- (April 18, 2003) Iraq Peace Team
Fears capital on verge of cholera epidemic
Associated Press
April 24 2003
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/23/1050777306292.html
While the Iraqi capital comes to terms with the end of war more than
80 per cent of the city remains in darkness after three weeks without
power and running water. Doctors have now reported the first suspected
cases of cholera and typhoid.
Between 50 and 60 per cent of the children brought into the Al-Iskan
children's hospital in Baghdad were suffering from dehydration and
diarrhoea caused by bad sanitation and water, Ahmed Abdul Fattah, the
hospital's assistant director said.
Doctors suspected hundreds of the children had cholera and typhoid,
but with no labs fully working, and most United Nations health workers
having fled, hard-pressed physicians said they could only treat the
cases, not confirm them.
Coalition damage and confusion largely caused the power crisis,
workers said - fighting snapped a fuel line to the key plant, and
destroyed the central office that co-ordinates the grid.
At the children's hospital, doctors were praying for their overworked
cluster of generators to hold on. "Without them, these babies - 100
per cent, would face death," Dr Fattah said of premature infants in
incubators.
Other wards held dozens of listless children, many suffering from
stomach infections caused by unclean water, draining fluids from their
bodies. "An epidemic," Dr Fattah said.
With clinics citywide depleted by looting, volunteers at Sunni and
Shiite mosques were also treating typhoid and cholera cases out of
clinics set up in mosque offices.
The lights went off in Baghdad in the first week of April as bombs
fell and frightened workers abandoned their posts, often staying at
home to guard them against robbers.
City residents had left their light switches turned on waiting for
electricity to return.
And for some parts of west Baghdad it happened late on Tuesday and
= yesterday, sending men into the street to fire AK-47s in relief.
Tuesday, April 22, 2003 · Last updated 11:16 p.m. PT
Search for Water Continues in S. Iraq
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&slu
g=Iraq%20Seeking%20Water
By TINI TRAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
BASRA, Iraq -- They crowd by the hundreds along the muddy banks of a
sludge-colored canal, hands outstretched to fill containers with
foul-smelling water gushing from a broken pipe.
All day comes the parade: old men pushing carts piled high with metal
tins, women carrying plastic washtubs, and children on rickety
bicycles loaded with barrels.
Two weeks after British forces took control of Iraq's second-largest
city, water still remains out of reach for many of Basra's 1.3 million
residents, forcing some to resort to desperate measures.
In some cases, people take home water straight from the murky Shatt
Al-Arab River. In another central neighborhood, residents used
Kalashnikovs and hammers to break fist-sized holes in a drainage pipe
that led from a hospital.
"Of course we worry that the water is dirty, but we have no other
choice," said Fadila Mahmoud, her black chador flapping in the breeze
as she trudged down the dirt lane carrying two plastic jugs brimming
with water. "We have had no running water since the war started."
The already aging water-treatment system shut down last month after
coalition air attacks knocked out power to the city. Technicians from
the International Committee of the Red Cross succeeded in repairing
back-up generators for the plant as a stopgap measure.
But in the past week, British engineers have only been partially
successful in restoring the city's electricity, because looters have
continued vandalizing power substations.
About 60 percent to 70 percent of the city's water system is now
operational, said Andres Kreusi, head of the ICRC delegation in Basra.
That still leaves tens of thousands of residents without an adequate
supply of water.
"The prewar situation in Iraq was far from good. You had 40 percent of
the population, mostly in rural areas, who never had access to water,"
he said. "But the war has only aggravated this."
Every day, British forces have been sending out water trucks - guarded
by tanks - that fan out into Basra and nearby towns. Throngs of people
swarm around them.
Relief agencies have also begun sending small shipments of water
across the border from Kuwait, but the demand has outstripped the
supply, straining a system greatly weakened by more than a decade of
sanctions.
"This is a problem that is 12 years in the making. The water situation
cannot be solved with just the tankers. You need to deal with the
long-term infrastructure needs," Kreusi said.
Hospital officials worry that the desperate consumption of dirty water
could start epidemics of cholera or other diseases.
So far, there have been no confirmed reports of such diseases, but
doctors at Basra General Hospital say they are getting increasing
numbers of patients complaining of diarrhea and gastrointestinal
problems.
"We have already begun seeing many cases of diarrhea and there are
other symptoms that suggest cholera, but here we don't have a way to
test that," said Dr. Nadeem Rahim.
In the short term, for those with enough money to buy it, bottled
water is now available in the market, but prices have skyrocketed -
from about eight cents to $2.40 for a 1 1/2-quart bottle.
With no paying jobs left in the city, most people cannot afford that,
which means a daily, often frustrating, search for free water. A drive
around the city quickly shows hundreds of people crouching along
trash-strewn river banks, waiting for their turn.
"Sometimes, you can see dead bodies of dogs in the water. But when you
are desperate, what else can you do?" said Sajda Ma'atuq, 57, a former
kindergarten administrator, as she stood near one makeshift watering
hole.
Her family of seven takes turns going in search of water. Ma'atuq has
the morning shift, heading out with a giant metal washtub on her head.
When she is lucky, she finds a water tanker parked alongside the dirt
roads. Otherwise, she heads toward one of the broken pipes that her
entire neighborhood gets water from. Jutting out of a brick wall just
inches above a filthy brown river, the metal length of pipe has small
holes where the water gushes out.
Standing alongside her 18-year-old son, Ma'atuq hands her tub to
several boys standing waist-deep in the water.
"We hate doing this, but we have no choice. The war has left us like
beggars," she said.
©1996-2003 Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Iraq Diaries: "Why, why, why?" -- (April 18, 2003)
http://www.people-link.org/news/showupdates.php?upid=739
Cathy Breen,
Iraq Peace Team, 17 April 2003
I awoke to the penetrating smell of human sewage. Later downstairs the
smell of rotting food from the hotel waste assaulted me. Yesterday as
Cynthia and I walked over to the Al Dar hotel to visit with folks
there we had to walk through the sludge of human waste at one point. A
short time later I was down in the lobby with two friends from NGOs
who are in relief work. They expressed some of their concerns to me.
On the bright side some of the local clinics are up and running they
said, but medications for conditions such as hypertension and diabetes
are no longer available. Under the previous government, people would
come on a monthly basis to receive these drugs. Additionally Iraq had
an excellent system for control of serum and other products before
distribution. This system is no longer in effect, and our friends are
very worried about contaminated goods being distributed and
used. They are in desperate need for equipment to test these products.
We have heard that cholera has erupted in Hilla, which needs to be
confirmed. We spoke about the emergency situation here in Baghdad of
electricity, waste, sewage and potable water. They told us of an area
called
Abu Ghraib, a large dairy farming area with the government's milk
factories nearby. During the conflict the farmers and their livestock
were caught in the middle of Iraqi and US army fighting. Many
civilians together with their livestock were reportedly killed, and
now the stench of rotting flesh is unbearable. They had heard that the
area is being bulldozed.
We decided to meet later in the day as these friends had meetings to
get to. After consulting with Kathy, it seemed a good idea to walk
over to the Military Operational Services, which are based in the
Palestine hotel only a stones throw away. We had to pass through the
Coalition Force's control right in front of our hotel, showing ID and
being frisked. At the control center we spoke first with a Staff Sgt.
who told us that Lt. Cnl. Van Nordiem was out and unavailable. As we
sat down to wait, Major Frank Simone came over to speak with us. He
explained that the priorities they are working on are: Medical,
Electrical, Sewage and Water, Law Enforcement, Oil and
Telecommunications. They are trying to identify local leaders within
each functional area, form communities in each area and get people
back to work.
Upon questioning, he seemed to be aware that the electricity grid in
Baghdad is intact and that it is the high velocity lines which were
hit and need to be attended to. No, he didn't know if or when these
will be repaired. I asked him what was being done about the sewage and
garbage disposal in the meantime, an emergency situation that could
explode into a health crisis of epidemic proportions at any moment. He
didn't know, moreover he was unable to advise us as to how we could
get this information. A nice guy, he said that they were working 20
hours a day. For him this seemed to be a satisfactory answer. As we
left the hotel, we ran into journalists from the U.S. that we know and
challenged them to follow up on and confirm the cholera and the
bulldozing stories.
After returning from the Military Operations Center I was overjoyed to
find our friend Prof. Saad Al Hassani in the lobby with Cynthia. We
had been able to sit in on his modern drama class on more than one
occasion in the past. We were able to sit together unrushed and catch
up on the last few weeks. His family is safe and living with
relatives, as their own house is unlivable due to a missile, which hit
next to their house. His son Ali who stopped talking during the Gulf
war and whose subsequent stuttering required years of treatment, seems
to be doing alright, as is their younger son Yassar, 13 years old.
Lamia, his wife and also a university teacher have not fared as well.
The bombing and now the occupation have taken their toll on her. She
cannot bear the presence of foreign troops in her beloved country.
She wants to leave the country, and it seems that for her own
emotional and
psychological well being she should. Saad on the other hand is
determined to stay on with his students. He broke down more than once
as he told us about the "total destruction of the university." He told
us that his books, all
his memories, and his students' theses have gone up in smoke. "They
burned
the national library too." Like many others, he is struggling deep
within
himself to understand how this destruction can be happening. He too is
asking the question "why, why, why?" He said, "The people who are
doing this are not Iraqis, at least not the Iraqi people that we
know." He said that it was all "too big for him," that he has no words
to express his rage, his "absolute anger." Saad has found work with
MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Co.) and NBC as a translator. He told us
yesterday that he and others from NBC had barely escaped with their
lives when they visited the Mustanceria University to see the
destruction there. After they had viewed the burning and trashing of
the University, masked "hooligans" approached them with knives and
machine guns. They retreated hastily to their car just in time to
avoid being jumped.
The anguished stories of his recent experiences poured out. He and a
friend witnessed dead soldiers lying on the ground. One had a grenade
in his hand, another a machine gun. Stepping over the dead bodies were
men coming out of a building, their arms laden with looted goods.
"Picture it," he said, "men defending their country while others were
pillaging it." He also related having watched a U.S. medical officer
operate in open air on an Iraqi man with a shotgun wound to his leg.
After packing up his surgical equipment, the doctor and Saad spoke
together at length. The doctor told him that he was going to leave as
soon as possible. He couldn't reconcile the idea of being the cause of
injury and destruction and then trying to repair the wounds.
Later in the afternoon Kathy and I were able to drive out to visit
Amal. As we drove through the city we saw crowds of people standing
around banks that had been recently ravaged. Torn money was strewn in
the streets. Mohammed, our taxi driver and friend said almost
matter-of-factly as we passed one bank "That is my bank."
At the home of Amal's two woman friends where she is currently staying
- first her home was damaged by the bombing and remains uninhabitable,
and then her craft shop was completely stripped bare by looters - we
found her inconsolable. She said that it is only her writing now that
keeps her from taking her life. We were grateful that our presence
seemed to give all of these dear friends the opportunity to vent their
anger, tears and despair.
====================
Privatization of museums and entrepreneurial street hawking of porn
and
liqour mark progress toward Iraq's integration with global economy
(Soon they'll be just like us.)
Will someone tell me what are the CIA are doing with all those little
Afganistani boys at Guantanamo? What can they possibly know that
would make
it worthwhile to kidnap them and shut them away without protection of
law
and where no one can see what is happening to them, communicate with
them,
inquire after them, or learn their identities?
You just tell me that, Mr, Drug-smuggling,
9-11-mass-murder-frameup-complicit CIA man!
----------
Here are news items from
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
US detains children at Guantanamo Bay --The US military has admitted
that
children aged 16 years and younger are among the detainees being
interrogated at its prison [concentration] camp in Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.
GIs Arrested in $1M Swag Snag --Four GIs have been arrested for trying
to
steal nearly $1 million of the $700 million in cold cash found hidden
on the
grounds of several estates in Baghdad, Army officials said yesterday.
Chalalabi Iraqi force members arrested for looting --Fighters are part
of
group supported by Pentagon --U.S. troops arrested fighters of the
U.S.-backed Free Iraqi Forces yesterday after they were found looting
abandoned homes of former members of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Post-war reconstruction contracts and grants --Washington officials
estimate
that the reconstruction programme for Iraq could cost more than
$100bn, the
biggest since the Marshall plan to rebuild post-war Europe. Initial
contracts worth $900m are being awarded through the US Agency for
International Development.
Released Shi'ite Leader, US Worse than Hussein --A prominent Iraqi
Shiite
cleric, saying he was detained and beaten by US forces, charged that
American methods were "worse" than those employed by the ousted regime
of
Saddam Hussein.
Cholera, typhoid suspected in Baghdad, lights on for lucky few
--Baghdad
celebrated the beginning of the end Tuesday of a devastating
3-week-old
power outage. But more than 80 percent of the city remained in
darkness -
and doctors reported the first suspected cases of feared epidemics of
cholera and typhoid, with no clean water yet running.
Muslim Rivals Unite Against US Occupation --Tens of thousands of
Muslims,
protesting against losing their position in Iraqi society staged their
first
public show of force Friday, April 18, 2003. They marched through the
streets of Baghdad, protesting the U.S. military occupation, and
demanded a
Muslim state without distinction between Sunnis and Shiites.
A television news engineer for Fox cable news network faces smuggling
charges after attempting to bring into the United States 12 stolen
Iraqi
paintings, monetary bonds and other items, federal officials said
Wednesday.
Was There a Deal Between Saddam and Bush? --by Sam Hamod "Saddam
didn't blow
any bridges, didn't use any of the 100s of airplanes he had, didn't
set any
major oil wells on fire, his troops left thousands of weapons, rounds
of
ammunition, tanks, armored vehicles behind and never used them in
battle.
Something is strange in this 'war.' ...How is it that the thieves who
invaded the Museum of Antiquities had keys, knew where many treasures
were
secretly hidden and stole only the genuine pieces, not the copies of
originals that were in other museums?"
Bush bars UN weapons teams from Iraq --The United States will not
permit
United Nations weapons inspectors to return to Iraq, saying the US
military
has taken over the role of searching for Saddam's weapons of mass
destruction.
US, Britain differ on new UN inspections --An apparent split emerged
yesterday between American and British officials over whether United
Nations
weapons inspectors should return to Iraq, as a top British diplomat
signaled
his support for inviting the UN team to help uncover Iraq's suspected
weapons of mass destruction and a US official expressed continued
American
opposition to opening up the hunt.
Banishing Hans Blix (The New York Times) "Having won a military
victory in
Iraq without the support of the United Nations, the Bush
administration now
seems determined to search for Baghdad's unconventional weapons
without help
from Hans Blix and his team of international inspectors. That is too
bad.
The hunt for these weapons would be aided by the presence of
independent
experts, and the credibility of any discoveries would be much enhanced
if
they were confirmed by the U.N."
Case for war built on fake reports, claims Blix --The chief United
Nations
weapons inspector, Hans Blix, has questioned the intelligence used by
the
United States and Britain to justify attacking Iraq for concealing
weapons
of mass destruction.
===================================
Privatization of museums and entrepreneurial street hawking of porn
and
liqour mark progress toward Iraq's integration with global economy
Soon they'll be just like us.
Will someone tell me what are the CIA are doing with all those little
Afganistani boys at Guantanamo? What can they possibly know that
would make
it worthwhile to kidnap them and shut them away without protection of
law
and where no one can see what is happening to them, communicate with
them,
inquire after them, or learn their identities?
You just tell me that, Mr, Drug-smuggling,
9-11-mass-murder-frameup-complicit CIA man!
----------
Here are news items from
http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
US detains children at Guantanamo Bay --The US military has admitted
that
children aged 16 years and younger are among the detainees being
interrogated at its prison [concentration] camp in Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.
GIs Arrested in $1M Swag Snag --Four GIs have been arrested for trying
to
steal nearly $1 million of the $700 million in cold cash found hidden
on the
grounds of several estates in Baghdad, Army officials said yesterday.
Chalalabi Iraqi force members arrested for looting --Fighters are part
of
group supported by Pentagon --U.S. troops arrested fighters of the
U.S.-backed Free Iraqi Forces yesterday after they were found looting
abandoned homes of former members of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Post-war reconstruction contracts and grants --Washington officials
estimate
that the reconstruction programme for Iraq could cost more than
$100bn, the
biggest since the Marshall plan to rebuild post-war Europe. Initial
contracts worth $900m are being awarded through the US Agency for
International Development.
Released Shi'ite Leader, US Worse than Hussein --A prominent Iraqi
Shiite
cleric, saying he was detained and beaten by US forces, charged that
American methods were "worse" than those employed by the ousted regime
of
Saddam Hussein.
Cholera, typhoid suspected in Baghdad, lights on for lucky few
--Baghdad
celebrated the beginning of the end Tuesday of a devastating
3-week-old
power outage. But more than 80 percent of the city remained in
darkness -
and doctors reported the first suspected cases of feared epidemics of
cholera and typhoid, with no clean water yet running.
Muslim Rivals Unite Against US Occupation --Tens of thousands of
Muslims,
protesting against losing their position in Iraqi society staged their
first
public show of force Friday, April 18, 2003. They marched through the
streets of Baghdad, protesting the U.S. military occupation, and
demanded a
Muslim state without distinction between Sunnis and Shiites.
A television news engineer for Fox cable news network faces smuggling
charges after attempting to bring into the United States 12 stolen
Iraqi
paintings, monetary bonds and other items, federal officials said
Wednesday.
Was There a Deal Between Saddam and Bush? --by Sam Hamod "Saddam
didn't blow
any bridges, didn't use any of the 100s of airplanes he had, didn't
set any
major oil wells on fire, his troops left thousands of weapons, rounds
of
ammunition, tanks, armored vehicles behind and never used them in
battle.
Something is strange in this 'war.' ...How is it that the thieves who
invaded the Museum of Antiquities had keys, knew where many treasures
were
secretly hidden and stole only the genuine pieces, not the copies of
originals that were in other museums?"
Bush bars UN weapons teams from Iraq --The United States will not
permit
United Nations weapons inspectors to return to Iraq, saying the US
military
has taken over the role of searching for Saddam's weapons of mass
destruction.
US, Britain differ on new UN inspections --An apparent split emerged
yesterday between American and British officials over whether United
Nations
weapons inspectors should return to Iraq, as a top British diplomat
signaled
his support for inviting the UN team to help uncover Iraq's suspected
weapons of mass destruction and a US official expressed continued
American
opposition to opening up the hunt.
Banishing Hans Blix (The New York Times) "Having won a military
victory in
Iraq without the support of the United Nations, the Bush
administration now
seems determined to search for Baghdad's unconventional weapons
without help
from Hans Blix and his team of international inspectors. That is too
bad.
The hunt for these weapons would be aided by the presence of
independent
experts, and the credibility of any discoveries would be much enhanced
if
they were confirmed by the U.N."
Case for war built on fake reports, claims Blix --The chief United
Nations
weapons inspector, Hans Blix, has questioned the intelligence used by
the
United States and Britain to justify attacking Iraq for concealing
weapons
of mass destruction.
Everyman
> This thread continues the messages in the old "Oceans911" thread --
> where I will no longer be posting. -- Dick Eastman a.k.a. Everyman,
> Mister
I R A Q v s . CFR - BUSH - NEO CON SCORECARD:
___________________ IRAQ _____________ CFR-BUSH-NeoCONS __
Employed Biological Terror Weapons
No Anthrax,* SARS?**
Caught falsifying evidence in Iraq Inspection
No Yes
Caught in lies regarding caches of illegal weapons hidden in Iraq
No Yes
Connection with bin Laden and Family
No Yes
Previous knowledge of 9-11 attack
No Yes
Stood to gain $ billions from a global war on terror
No Yes
Previous connections with Atta
No Yes***
Withholding information regarding 9-11 involvement
No Yes
Cooperating with world community on inspections
Yes No
In contact with bin Laden in hospital room months prior to 9-11****
No Yes
Able to explain too-small hole in wall of Pentagon on 9-11-01****
No No
Able to explain too-short killer jet in Pentagon security video
No No
Responsible for failure to intercept three jets hitting major
strategic landmark targets the last over Washington DC
No Yes
Actively resisting an investigation of 9-11 on every front
No Yes
Consolidating political power and propaganda hold following 9-11
No Yes
Tied to corporations selling munitions and to investment
banks that traditionally lend money to governments that
fight wars
No Yes
Stigmatizing those who sought to exhaust all peaceful means
before going to war as "aiding the enemy," as "against us"
as "morons," "pukes," and "fuckwits"
No Yes
Gaining in plunder as an outcome of the aftermath of 9-11
No Yes
Caught faking videos of bin Laden to bolster unbelieved claims?
No Yes
Actively cooperating with the secret intelligence network of
a national leader indicted for war crimes by the international
courts
No Yes*****
Dick Eastman
* Traced to US military stockpiles
** Two different Russian labs say that SARs
is a military-use synthetic virus, a hybred
of measles and mumps.
*** Atta has been linked, by Hopsicker, to an
international educational exchange program
affiliated with Henry Kissinger
****
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/
***** Sharon for the atrocities in Lebanon that he
permitted and fostered.
Everyman
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contents:
1. Leaked document exposes pro-Israel lobby's manipulation of US
public
2. Excerpts from critical e-list discussions (must read -- mostly
sean mcbride)
3. Israel's Likud and U.S. Fundamentalists
4. We won't stop in Iraq - Richard Pearle
5. American to oversee Iraqi oil industry
6. Reform Club moves to expel friend of Holocaust denier
7. US Implicated In Planned Theft Iraqi Antiquities
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25 April 2003
Leaked document exposes pro-Israel lobby's manipulation of US public
Introduction by Ali Abunimah (E I)
The Electronic Intifada has obtained, and today publishes in full,
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1395.shtml
a document prepared for pro-Israel activists by the public relations
firm The Luntz Research Companies and The Israel Project. The document
spells out the tactics that Israel and its US advocates should use to
maintain support for Israel and its hardline policies.
The document, entitled "Wexner Analysis: Israeli Communication
Priorities 2003," counsels pro-Israel advocates to keep invoking the
name of Saddam Hussein, and to stress that Israel "was always behind
American efforts to rid the world of this ruthless dictator and
liberate their people." Despite his solid support for Israel and Ariel
Sharon, the document warns pro-Israel advocates not to compliment or
praise President Bush. At the same time it acknowledges that Yasser
Arafat has been a great asset to Israel because "he looks the part" of
a "terrorist." The installation of Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian prime
minister, and potential replacement for Arafat, comes "at the wrong
time," because he has the potential to improve the image of the
Palestinians, and that could put the onus on Israel to return to
negotiations. The document advises supporters of Israel to appear to
affect a "balanced" tone, but admits that in arguing for Israel's
policies, the illegal "settlements are our Achilles heel," for which
there is no good defense.
The document was commissioned by the Wexner Foundation, a private
foundation that funds, among other pro-Israel initiatives, "Birthright
Israel," a program that pays for young American Jews to take free
trips to Israel. The Israel Project is an initiative of pro-Israel
organizations, political consultants and businesspeople. The Luntz
Research Companies is a leading public relations and opinion research
firm.
Here is some of the key advice the document provides to Israel and its
advocates:
# "Iraq colors all. Saddam is your best defense, even if he is dead.
The worldview [of] Americans is entirely dominated by developments in
Iraq. This is a unique opportunity for Israelis to deliver a message
of support and unity at a time of great international anxiety and
opposition from some of our European "allies." For a year - a SOLID
YEAR - you should be invoking the name of Saddam Hussein and how
Israel was always behind American efforts to rid the world of this
ruthless dictator and liberate their people."
# "The fact that Israel has remained relatively silent for the three
months preceding the war and for the three weeks of the war was
absolutely the correct strategy - and according to all the polling
done, it worked. But as the military conflict comes to a close, it is
now time for Israel to lay out its own "road map" for the future which
includes unqualified support for America and unqualified commitment to
an ongoing war against terrorism."
# "It DOES NOT HELP when you compliment President Bush. When you want
to identify with and align yourself with America, just say it. Don't
use George Bush as a synonym for the United States. Even with the
destruction of the Hussein regime and all the positive reactions from
the Iraqi people, there still remains about 20% of America that
opposes the Iraqi war, and they are overwhelmingly Democrat. That
leaves about half the Democrats who support the war even if they don't
support George Bush. You antagonize the latter half unnecessarily
every time you compliment the President. Don't do it."
# ""SECURITY" sells. Security has become the key fundamental principle
for all Americans. Security is the context by which you should explain
Israeli need for loan guarantees and military aid, as well as why
Israel can't just give up land. The settlements are our Achilles heel,
and the best response (which is still quite weak) is the need for
security that this buffer creates."
# Download the document now [PDF format, 40K]
http://electronicIntifada.net/artman/uploads/luntzwexneranalysis.pdf
©2000-2003 electronicIntifada.net unless otherwise noted.
The Electronic Intifada offers information about the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
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Excerpts from critical e-list discussions
1. What you post about the NSA releasing the communication intercepts
to this judge who thinks the whole thing was an
accident is interesting. Below there are tons of people who believe
like myself that the attack was deliberate. Imagine the Israeli power
over the mass media of the UNITED STATES that could suppress this
FALSE FLAG OPERATION for so long.
Those who doubt that our government and the ISRAELI government would
conspire to kill thousands of Americans to provoke support for their
war policies need to view the video LOSS OF LIBERTY!!
Thirty five years ago when ISRAEL "captured" the Palestinian lands
being fought over today the ISRAELI and UNITED STATES government
conspired to sink the USS LIBERTY and blame it on the EGYPTIANS to
galvanize support for their war crimes for greed!!
These criminal governments were willing to kill more than a thousand
US young servicemen to achieve their goals then. They were prepared
to kill 3,000 on 9-11-2001. How many more of their own are they
willing to kill to cover up what they have done?
Brian Downing Quig
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2. Here we have the wide angle view of the "Iraqi people tearing
down Saddam's statue" that was broadcast all over the world. Only the
Iraqis were trucked in from the UNITED STATES and the whole affair was
staged with all the world's journalists in the PALESTINE HOTEL looking
on and knowing it is all a fraud and still reporting it as if it is a
spontaneous demonstration of support for the COALITION!! What LOW
LIFE LYING MASS MURDERING SCUM the professional liars in the CORPORATE
MASS MEDIA are!! Is there no lie they will not peddle to the gullible
public?
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3. "I think you want to discredit the real conservatives by continuing
to use the "slick trick" (your words) of linking their (Perle's)
program to conservatism"
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Understanding Messianic Totalitarianism
Messianists are world domination freaks, and they can come from any
ethnic or ideological group, secular or religious -- Marxists,
Muslims, Jews, Christians, etc.
Furthermore, world domination obsessives from all these groups often
cooperate with one another in pursuit of their mutual aims. This is a
highly volatile and unstable conspiracy. I think there is a great deal
of internecine conflict and backstabbing going on, and that under the
right circumstances they are fully capable of annihilating one
another. .... Look at what happened to the German and Italian branches
of the conspiracy in World War II -- I doubt that they went into the
war with the expectation of being soundly crushed. ..... I don't
believe that religionists are any more guilty of producing messianic
totalitarians than secularists. And, in fact, religionists often
offer more principled resistance to totalitarians than secularists.
When you get down to the bottom of totalitarianism you find nothing
especially impressive or mystical -- just infantilism of the most
obnoxious variety. Messianic totalitarians basically are socially
retarded creatures who believe they have an innate right to get their
way perfectly on everything. They crave absolute gratification and
absolute control. They are big babies, squalling infants, even when
they are murdering millions. Everything is me, me, me -- cosmic
narcissism. They always justify their aggressive and predatory
behavior on the grounds that they are motivated by the desire to
improve and perfect the world. .... The aroma of messianic
totalitarianism hangs heavily over this current administration.
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"Nearly all the founding Zionists were Marxists of varying ideological
stripes. The Jabotinskyites, of course, were, and are, unabashed
fascists. All of them are quintessential examples of messianic
totalitarians."
If you define "messianic" as being an aggressive effort to control the
world without reference to any particular religion, I can agree
wholeheartedly with the statement. .... We know that communists and
socialist are totalitarian Marxists and now you have admitted that the
fascists are as well. So what we have is an apparently disparate
grouping of collectivists all striving for the mother of all
collectives, world government. Should we then be surprised that our
U.S. government considers Russia (and before that the USSR), China and
Israel as strategic partners?
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a major branch of the CFR, appear to be strongly opposed to Likud and
Ariel Sharon, while supporting Israel generally.
Not every billionaire in the world is obsessed with the messianic
destiny of Israel, although quite a few of them seem to be. It is a
mistake to lump all billionaires together in the same political group.
As for the terms neoconservative, Jabotinskyite, etc. -- these are the
accepted terms for people who are knowledgeable about world politics.
The terms don't carry any positive or misleading meanings for me -- I
know precisely what the terms mean, based on reading the most
influential writings of the founders of these movements. I've
actually read Jabotinsky's writings, and several biographies of the
man.
For me, "neoconservative" is an exceedingly ugly word indeed, and
something that is radically opposed to libertarian conservatism.
There are various near synonyms one could use -- Likudnik, etc. But
anyone who pays attention to world politics knows that
"neoconservative" has nothing to do with "conservative."
"Neoconservatism" is a con game run by power-hungry fascists and
ethnic obsessives.
3
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Andrew and Leslie Cockburn discuss Harari here:
Cockburn, Andrew and Leslie Cockburn. Dangerous Liaison: The Inside
Story of the U.S.-Israeli Covert Relationship.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060921455/
Iran-Contra exposed many Octopus operations to public view, although
the big media assiduously failed to follow up on most of the
revelations or to connect the dots. The official Iran-Contra
investigation was mostly a cover-up endeavor.
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How many members of Skull & Bones are multibillionaires who control an
international network of big media and influential think tanks? I've
asked for the list before, and still would be curious to see it if
anyone can produce it.
With regard to High Times: it would be interesting to conduct a
content analysis of the publication regarding articles related to
Israel -- before Forcade's death, and after. I may even get around to
doing it in an informal way. Was there a drop-off in the articles
that the Israeli government might find to be annoying after his
suicide? It wouldn't surprise me.
We know now that Israel basically is in the business of destroying or
murdering anyone who annoys it. The black ops that were formerly
hidden are now out in plain view for the entire world to see.
=================
When you try to smear anyone who strongly disagrees with
Jabotinskyites like Ariel Sharon, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and
Douglas Feith as a "rabid hater of Israel," you are playing right into
the hands of neoconservatives. In fact, using the anti-Semitism smear
that way to cover their tracks is one of their favorite tactics.
Neocons are not primarily Trotskyites or Stalinists -- all of that is
a *subset* of their brand of militant Jabotinskyite Zionism and Jewish
ethnic cultism.
Neocons certainly do not represent "the Jews" or "the Israelis,"
although they confuse matters by often claiming to do so.
Commentary is the fountainhead of neoconservative thought. You can
read it here:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/
I've been reading it for quite a few years. Israel is the focus of
its obsessions, as you can easily confirm for yourself. Basically
these folks are quite ready to bully, imprison or murder anyone who
gets in their way -- this is why they are so closely associated with
the Octopus. They are interested in achieving absolute power by
whatever means are available.
Whenever Oliver North or Richard Secord mentioned "The Enterprise,"
you could almost substitute the term "the Octopus." Follow the money
back to the financial sources of the Enterprise, and you are pretty
much at the top of the food chain.
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I am not a LaRouchie, and have never knowingly had contact with any
LaRouchies. I am allergic to cults and movements of all kinds.
I had never seen any material from Executive Intelligence Review until
it started turning up in Google searches on the Internet. I have been
impressed by the quality of research and insight in these articles.
To me, this is what conspiracy research should be all about: nailing
down the facts about secret politics. ... I know for a certainty
from many independent and reliable sources that most of the statements
in that article are truthful. One can quickly verify their truth
simply by doing some quick net searching in Google, FindArticles,
LexisNexis, Dialog, etc.
==========
It's no wonder that the Octopus went to extraordinary lengths to try
to destroy LaRouche. I don't expect to see similar efforts against
High Times obvious reasons.
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So LaRouche is NOT an Octopus op, but HIGH TIMES is?
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High Times was founded in 1974 by Tom Forcade and, like much of the
counterculture, was immediately infested by a nest of informers and
police agents. After discovering himself surrounded through FOIA
requests, Forcade committed suicide.
===============
I am anything but a LaRouchite -- I'm not even sure I understand what
LaRouchism is. But some of these articles in Executive Intelligence
Review represent the very best conspiracy research available in the
world today. It's no wonder that the Octopus went to extraordinary
lengths to try to destroy LaRouche. I don't expect to see similar
efforts against High Times, Nexus, Art Bell, Matt Drudge or similar
operations, for the obvious reasons. The Octopus strongly encourages
conspiracy theorizing and fantasizing which leads public attention
away from real conspiracies.
Do you have any insights about neoconservatism and Jabotinskyism you'd
like to share? (It was the main topic of this thread.) You've been
largely silent about the role of the Wolfowitz/Perle/Sharon cabal in
the Bush administration, which is the biggest conspiracy story of the
last two years.
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http://www.larouchepub.com/eirtoc/2002/eirtoc_2946.html
25-Year `Shotgun Marriage' of Israel's Likud and U.S. Fundamentalists
Exposed
by Scott Thompson and Jeffrey Steinberg
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The Jerusalem Report magazine, on Nov. 18, published a lengthy opinion
column by Gershom Gorenberg, assailing those in Israel who are
promoting an alliance with American "Christian fundamentalists," like
Rev. Pat Robertson and Rev. Jerry Falwell. Gorenberg warned that
"conservative evangelicals' 'love' for Israel is rooted in their
theology.... It sees Jews as spiritually blind for rejecting Jesus.
But it also regards Israel's existence as heralding the end of
days—when Jews will die or at last convert and Jesus will return."
Gorenberg singled out Jerusalem's Jabotinskyite Mayor Ehud Olmert and
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein as two of the biggest promoters of the wedding
of the Israeli radical right with the American Christian
fundamentalists. Olmert has established a series of new organizations,
many of which serve as pipelines of Christian Zionist cash into the
Jerusalem Likud party apparatus. The One Jerusalem organization, the
New Jerusalem Foundation, and the Jerusalem Prayer Team are but three
of the outfits that Olmert has personally sponsored, since being
elected as the Mayor of the city. Olmert's local Jerusalem booster in
all these efforts is Rabbi Eckstein, who worked for decades for the
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL), before establishing the
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews in the 1980s.
The issue of this pipeline of dirty money into the radical right in
Israel is a particularly pressing one now, with elections to the
Knesset (parliament) scheduled for Jan. 28, 2003. In a recent
discussion with an American journalist, Gorenberg confirmed that the
so-called "philanthropies" provide a vehicle for illegal flows of
foreign money into electoral campaigns. Donors to the charities are
often "tapped" to provide additional funds to candidates for office.
Gorenberg reported that, while the practice is illegal in Israel, it
is as common as the sale of bootlegged booze in Chicago at the height
of Prohibition. No "good guy" can be elected to office in Israel
without dipping into the trough of foreign cash, he lamented.
Jerusalem Prayer Team, Keyes, and Moonies
In his Jerusalem Report piece, Gorenberg zeroed in on the Jerusalem
Prayer Team, whose leading members include Robertson, Rev. Mike Evans,
and Tim LaHaye, author of the bestselling "Left Behind" novels about
life on Earth after the Rapture, in which the Jews are subject to a
new Holocaust or convert to Christianity. According to Gorenberg,
"Evans' book Jerusalem Betrayed asserts that an apocalypse is near, in
which rivers of blood will flow in Israel—and urges readers to pray
for that to happen."
In return for opening the doors of Jerusalem to this gang of heretics,
Olmert has been lucratively rewarded. On Oct. 15, 2002, according to
Gorenberg's account, Olmert appeared at a fundraising dinner for
Jerusalem in San Diego, organized by the Mission Valley Christian
Fellowship. Olmert walked away with $500,000 from the $1,000 a plate
dinner. On the same U.S. tour, Olmert had first showed up in
Washington for a Christian Coalition revival meeting at the Convention
Center, which culminated with a "Christian Solidarity With Israel"
rally, addressed by Olmert, Robertson, House Majority Whip Tom DeLay
(R-Tex.), Rep. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) and former Ambassador Alan
Keyes. Keyes' presence at the Robertson rally was of particular
significance, given that he has been deeply involved, for years, in
the Reverend Moon Unification Church apparatus, which, as EIR has
recently exposed, is the leading dirty-money channel for the entire
worldwide radical rightist network—including the Jabotinskyites in
Israel.
Gorenberg concluded his essay with a warning: "I reached Zvi Raviv,
director general of the New Jerusalem Foundation by phone in San
Diego. He said he'd come back to town to heal the rift between the
Jewish community and the church. Listening to him, I had to respect
his dedication to Jerusalem's welfare. But when he said, 'As far as is
known to me, Pat Robertson doesn't have a controversial connotation
today,' I also had to conclude there's more he needs to know. And
there's more that Ehud Olmert, or for that matter some American Jewish
leaders, need to consider than the immediate payoff before they appear
on the same stages or sign on the same ads as the Christian Right.
This romance wasn't made in heaven."
Marriage, Likud Style
The marriage was, indeed, not made in heaven. But it is rapidly
approaching a 25th anniversary.
From the moment that the Likud party government took power in Israel
in 1977, a top priority of the Jabotinskyites was the forging of a
long-term strategic partnership with leading Christian fundamentalists
in America, who were profiled as susceptible to a rabidly pro-Israel
theology. In 1978, the Israeli Ministry of Religious Affairs sponsored
the publication of a book, American Fundamentalism and Israel: The
Relation of Fundamentalist Churches to Zionism and the State of
Israel, by Yona Malachy. The book was an in-depth profile of four
major Christian fundamentalist denominations in America—the Seventh
Day Adventists, the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Pentecostalists, and the
Premillennial Dispensationalists (the Darbyites).
It is unclear whether Malachy, who is since deceased, was aware that
he was producing the profile study that would help launch a nearly
25-year alliance between the most fanatical of the right-wing Greater
Israel proponents—the followers of Vladimir Jabotinsky, whom Israel's
founding Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion denounced as "Vladimir
Hitler"—and a collection of American fundamentalist Christians, whose
own theology promoted the extermination of the Jews. Malachy clearly
documented the ideology of the Darbyites, quoting from John Walvoord,
who founded their Dallas Theological Seminary in 1924, and, in 1962,
wrote in his book, Israel in Prophecy, that "it seems that Israel is
to be the special object of Satanic hatred." After "Jacob's Troubles"
(i.e., Armageddon, or, in Darbyite lingo, the war of Gog and Magog),
"only 144,000 Jews will survive.... Heart-rending as it may be to
contemplate, the people of Israel who are returning to their ancient
land, are placing themselves within the vortex of this future
whirlwind which will destroy the majority of those living in the land
of Palestine." The Malachy project had the backing of the newly
installed Likud government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, which,
soon after the book's publication, invited Rev. Jerry Falwell to
Israel, for the first of many visits. Some leading figures in the
Zionist wing of the American establishment helped underwrite the
Malachy effort. Funding for the study came from the Jacob Blaustein
Fund for American Studies, one of the 50 largest tax-exempt
foundations in the U.S.A. The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation is
a major funder of the Tannenbaum Center for Interreligious
Understanding, which lists, among its corporate sponsors: Joseph E.
Seagram & Sons, the liquor business founded and owned by the organized
crime-rooted Bronfman family; and Soros Fund Management of
mega-speculator George Soros.
After a series of visits to Israel in 1979 and 1980, Jerry Falwell
became a leading proponent of the political alliance between the
Israeli radical right and the American Christian fundies. In gratitude
for his pledge to work for permanent Israeli annexation of "Judea,
Samaria, and Galilee" (i.e., the West Bank) and the rebuilding of the
Third Temple of Solomon on Jerusalem's Temple Mount—where two of the
holiest sites in Islam now stand—Falwell received a "gift" of a Lear
jet from the Begin government. Harry Zvi Hurwitz, who today heads the
Begin Center in Jerusalem, defended the early Begin-Falwell love
affair, on the grounds that Begin had told him back in 1981, that
Israel "did not have too many friends."
'Christian' Blessing for Beirut Massacres
In 1981, two Begin emissaries, Joseph Churba and Rabbi David Z.
Ben-Ami, arranged a series of meetings between the Israeli Prime
Minister and leading American Christian fundamentalists. According to
Rabbi Ben-Ami, who is today the head of the Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania-based American Forum for Jewish-Christian Cooperation, he
and Churba interviewed Falwell, Rev. Pat Robertson, and Terry
Riesenhoover, head of the American Temple Mount Foundation, and set up
meetings with the three Christian Zionists and Prime Minister Begin.
During the same visit to the United States, Begin held a separate
meeting with 20 Christian evangelicals in Texas, hosted by
Pentecostalist Rev. Mike Evans, who runs the Mike Evans Ministry in
Euless, Texas.
The same year, Begin made the first of numerous appearances at the
International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem. He had helped launch
this Christian Zionist outpost by giving the former Chilean Embassy
building in Jerusalem to a group of European and American
evangelicals, led by Jan Willem van der Hoeven, a wartime Dutch Nazi
collaborator (see EIR Nov. 15, 2002, "The International Christian
Embassy in Jerusalem and Its Terrorist Connections"). At one Christian
Embassy event in Jerusalem, Begin addressed an audience of 1,000
evangelicals at the Diplomat Hotel in Jerusalem.
In September 1982, when then-Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon
sent tanks into Lebanon and orchestrated the massacres at the Sabra
and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps, Begin arranged for Falwell to
lead a delegation of American Christian evangelicals to the front
line. Again, Hurwitz, Begin's liaison to the Christian Zionists,
defended the decision, as necessary to offset the "bad propaganda"
that the massacres had generated in the United States and Europe.
The entire initiative between Begin and the Christian Zionists had the
full blessing of Rabbi Eckstein and the ADL. In 1983, Eckstein left
his ADL post and formed the International Fellowship of Christians and
Jews in Chicago. But Rabbi Ben-Ami confirmed in recent interviews that
the early 1980s effort to wed the Likud to the Falwell "Christian"
apparatus in America was boosted by Eckstein, who continues to be a
pivotal player today—based in Jerusalem. Eckstein himself confirmed
that he launched the marriage between America's Christian Zionists and
the Likud in the late 1970s, while Jimmy Carter was still President,
arranging some of the very first visits by American evangelicals to
the Holy Land. In the 1980s, Eckstein directed "Operation Brainstorm,"
which involved a series of visits to Israel by leading "Christian
Broadcasters." By 1985, the Christian Broadcasters—the televangelists
who ran scores of television and radio ministries all over the
Southern and Western states of America—had launched the annual prayer
breakfast for Israel in Washington, D.C.
Rabbi Eckstein confirmed that, by the late 1980s, he had forged a deep
alliance with Pat Robertson and the director of Robertson's Christian
Coalition, Ralph Reed. Today, Eckstein and Reed co-chair the "Stand Up
for Israel" front. It mobilizes the American evangelical apparatus to
support the expansionist policies of the most radical Likudniks and
other even more extremist parties in Israel, like the Moledet party,
which advocates the annexation and "ethnic cleansing" of the West Bank
and Gaza Strip of all Palestinians.
In 2000, Eckstein moved permanently to Israel, although he still
retains many ties to the American evangelicals. In 1994, he played a
pivotal role in founding another Christian Zionist front, the National
Unity Coalition for Israel (NUCI), which brings together the most
right-wing elements of the Jewish community in the United States and
the Falwell-Robertson-Evans evangelical networks. The founder of NUCI
is Esther Levins of Kansas City, Missouri. Levins claims that NUCI
consists of more than 200 Jewish and evangelical groups—all united
behind the idea of the permanent annexation of the West Bank and Gaza,
to form a Biblical "Greater Israel."
Until his appointment as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy in
the current Bush Administration, Douglas Feith served as director of
NUCI.
Blackmailing the President
EIR exclusively revealed that NUCI organized a July 31, 2001 meeting
of leading American Likudniks and Christian Zionists at the White
House, with President Bush's official liaison to the religious
communities, Tim Goeglin. Goeglin got his White House post courtesy of
Gary Bauer, who is one of the leading figures in the Christian Zionist
network. The NUCI delegation included representatives of Falwell,
Robertson, Rev. Elwood McQuaid, Rev. Ed McAteer, Zionist Organization
of America head Morton Klein, and Americans for a Safe Israel head
Herb Zweibon. The group openly threatened to stage an evangelical
revolt against President Bush, unless he threw his support 100% behind
Israeli Prime Minister Sharon and his serial war crimes against the
Palestinians. Incredibly, the delegation had lunch at the Israeli
Embassy just prior to the White House session, where they strategized
with the Israeli Ambassador.
Several weeks later, NUCI staged an event at the National Press Club
in Washington, which distributed excerpts from Samuel Huntington's
book The Clash of Civilizations, promoting a war to the death between
the West and the Islamic and Confucian civilizations—a new Thirty
Years religious war, to be launched in the heartland of Eurasia; and
propaganda films by Steven Emerson attacking the Muslim community in
the United States as terrorists. Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) made a
guest appearance at the NUCI event, along with Frank Gaffney, the head
of the Center for National Security, which was the successor
organization to Joseph Churba's International Security Council
following Churba's death in 1996.
The Oct. 14-15, 2002 Christian Coalition "rally for Israel" in
Washington, attended by Jerusalem Mayor Olmert, signalled that the
White House blackmail paid off. President Bush sent official greetings
to the rally, which featured a host of speakers denouncing the idea of
any kind of Palestinian state in the West Bank or Gaza Strip. This,
though officially, the Bush Administration is the first American
administration to formally endorse the idea of a "two-state solution"
to the Israel-Palestine conflict. As the rally was occurring, the
White House was vetting a six-page policy paper, drawing out a
"road-map" for the creation of a fully sovereign Palestinian state by
the end of 2005. This was soundly denounced by several of the rally
speakers:
Olmert: "As you all know, we are in the middle of a very vicious and
brutal war which is waged by Yasser Arafat and his gang against
innocent people in the heart of our city."
Pat Robertson: "We should not ask Israel to withdraw from the
so-called occupied territories, we should stand by them and fight.
Jerusalem is the eternal, indivisible capital of the state of Israel
and it must not be divided."
Rep. Tom DeLay, the new House Majority Whip: "The dangers confronting
Israel are enormous. I saw it for myself. I've been to Masada. I've
toured Judea and Samaria. I've walked the streets of Jerusalem and
I've stood on the Golan Heights.... And you know what? I didn't see
any occupied territory. What I saw was Israel."
Knesset Member Benny Alon, of the racist Moledet party, read from the
Book of Numbers: "When you [Moses and the Jews] have crossed the
Jordan into the land of Canaan, you must drive all the inhabitants of
the country before you.... If you do not drive the inhabitants of the
country before you, then those you have spared will be barbs in yours
eyes and thorns in your side."
An Election Fix?
Sources in Israel confirm that "Likud Prince" Olmert, who recently
endorsed Ariel Sharon's bid for the Likud chairmanship in the Nov. 28
primaries—in return for a senior cabinet post—has spent almost half
his time in the United States in the past year, harvesting cash for
the Israeli right wing. On June 10, 2002, Olmert spoke in Irving,
Texas at a Jerusalem Prayer Summit, along with Robertson, Evans, and
Tim LaHaye.
As far back as April 9, 2000, the Jerusalem Post had reported that
Olmert's New Jerusalem Foundation had failed to register as a charity
in Israel, a violation of the law. Opposition members of the Jerusalem
City Council told the Jerusalem Post that they "fear the Mayor has
been using it ... to raise funds for his own political needs." The
same article reported that Olmert claimed that the New Jerusalem
Foundation had raised $4.5 million, which was deposited in "city
banks." He did not specify how the funds were being spent, other than
to admit that there were 80 projects being bankrolled by the
donations, all of which come from outside of Israel.
Indeed, the New Jerusalem Foundation has been registered with the
American Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)3 tax-exempt
organization, since December 1999! The U.S. organization is registered
in the State of New Hampshire, but has no address in the United
States, no offices, and no governing board. All the money flows
directly to the offices of Olmert's front groups in Jerusalem.
Are these "Jerusalem" charities actually pipelines for cash from the
United States into the Likud? There is strong evidence to suggest
precisely that. On Jan. 9, 2001, the Jerusalem Post reported that
Israel's State Comptroller Eliezer Goldberg had accused the Likud of
violating Israel's campaign finance laws, by staging nominally
charitable rallies linked to a certain "party or candidate." Goldberg
was reacting to a rally in Jerusalem the previous day—sponsored by
Olmert's One Jerusalem Fund. Speakers, besides the Mayor, included;
Natan Sharansky, who would soon become a cabinet minister in the
Sharon government; Ron Lauder, heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics
fortune, then-President of the Conference of Presidents of Major
Jewish American Organizations, and a major financial backer of Sharon;
and Yehiel Leiter, the director of One Jerusalem and the former
spokesman for the Yesha Council, the governing body of the Jewish
settlements in the occupied territories. The event was ostensibly a
rally in support of the settlers, and was wholly bankrolled by funds
from overseas. But the event was really a flagrant campaign rally for
Sharon, who was elected Prime Minister less than a month later.
The Jerusalem Post coverage of the January 2001 event also highlighted
another unregistered Israeli "charity" linked to the radical right—the
One Israel Fund. Also a registered as a 501(c)3 charity in the United
States, the One Israel Fund raises tax-exempt money in America,
earmarked for the purchase of bulletproof vests and other
"life-saving" equipment for the Jewish settlers.
Show Me the Mooney
Sources in Israel and Washington have recently confirmed to EIR that
the Sharon apparatus is on an all-out drive to line up tens of
millions of dollars in foreign funds, to bolster the Likud election
campaign. A U.S. source confirmed that the entire Christian Zionist
apparatus is prepared to pull out all the stops for a Likud
victory—particularly since the Nov. 19 Labor Party primary elected
Maj. Gen. Amram Mitzna (Reserves), the current Mayor of Haifa, as the
party chairman and lead candidate in the Jan. 28 elections. Mitzna has
vowed to conclude a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority
within a year of his election, or unilaterally withdraw all Israeli
forces from the Gaza Strip and almost all of the West Bank, effecting
a "peace through separation." He would shut down the Jewish
settlements wherever the Israeli Defense Forces was pulled out.
Clearly this flies in the face of the Greater Israel Biblical
fanaticism of the Christian Zionists in America and the Jabotinskyites
in Israel. Will the Likud attempt to steal the elections through a
massive infusion of illegal cash from their deep pockets in America?
This raises another vital question, posed in EIR on Nov. 15: Will
Unification Church—"Moonie"—money be used to heist the Israeli
elections for Sharon or Netanyahu? Continuing investigations by an EIR
investigative team have confirmed that the Unification Church and its
vast global network of front companies, money-laundering facilities,
and "charitable" fronts, have been lurking in the background and
foreground of the Jabotinskyite-Darbyite alliance from the very
outset.
It was Moonies who arranged the 1981 Israel-fundamentalist link-up in
the first place. Joseph Churba and Rabbi David Ben-Ami—the two
emissaries of Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who arranged the very
first meetings in America between Begin, Falwell, Robertson, and
Riesenhoover—were both on the Moonie payroll, at the time that they
did the advance work for the Israeli leader. Churba's International
Security Council was a Moonie front, part of the CAUSA International
operation of Moon's controller, Col. Bo Hi Pak. Likewise for Rabbi
Ben-Ami's American Forum for Jewish Christian Cooperation. Ben-Ami has
been a regular on the Moon front-group circuit, since no later than
his 1981 efforts on behalf of Begin. As recently as Sept. 14, 2002,
Rabbi Ben-Ami was a prominent speaker at the Moonie sponsored
"Muslim-Christian Interfaith Ceremony for Healing and Reconciliation,"
a Rev. Sun Myung Moon mass wedding at the Manhattan Center in New York
City, "commemorating the anniversary of 9@nd11."
On July 3, 2002, Rabbi Ben-Ami was a featured participant in the
"Stand For Family, Save the Nation, Save the Next Generation" event at
the Sheraton National Hotel in Washington, sponsored by the Moonie
Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP).
The continuing links between the Moonies, with their nearly bottomless
flow of offshore dirty money, and the radical right wing in Israel,
run far deeper than the Ben-Ami and earlier Churba ties. The entire
Christian Zionist apparatus—from Falwell, to Bauer, to LaHaye—is now a
subsidiary of the Moon financial empire, dating back to the late 1980s
bailout of Richard Viguerie, and the 1994 takeover by Moon of the
entire Falwell televangelist and "Christian education" empire.
The IIFWP sponsored a conference in Córdoba, Spain from Aug. 19-22,
1999, on "Jewish-Muslim Encounters." Among the speakers was Col. Yigal
Carmon, whom the Moonie handouts described as "President, The Middle
East Media Research Institute, Former Advisor to the Israeli Prime
Minister." Indeed, Carmon is a former military-civilian governor of
the West Bank territories under then-Defense Minister Sharon, a career
Israeli Army Intelligence officer, and an intimate collaborator of
Steve Emerson, Daniel Pipes, Meyrav Wurmser, and ex-FBI Deputy
Director Oliver "Buck" Revell. Carmon's MEMRI is a propaganda front
for Israeli intelligence, which distributes translations of selective,
inflammatory material from the Arab media, to the U.S. Congress,
Executive branch, and the media.
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Why do you object to me using the word "neocons," when the neocons
themselves describe themselves as "neoconservatives," and when they
have taken near total control over the Bush administration?
Also, the neocons are not simply "Trotskyites" -- they combine the
worst features of both Nazism and Stalinism.
They are primarily Jabotinskyites -- militant Zionists of a certain
flavor: messianic, fundamentalist, racist, fascist, totalitarian,
militaristic, etc. They possibly represent the most destructive
political strain in world history, fusing, as they do, the worst of
everything from both the secular and religious worlds.
I fail to see much connection between these Jabotinskyites and the
Rockefellers -- they despise one another. The kind of billionaire who
supports the neocons is more likely to be an Irving Moscowitz or
Michael Steinhardt than a David Rockefeller or Ted Turner.
The neocons see the United Nations as an impediment to their quest for
world domination. They are global unilateralists, not
multilateralists. Unilateralists aspire to be absolute global
dictators, without even going through the motions of seeking
democratic assent.
In my opinion you need to rethink your anti-NWO world model -- it's
oversimplified. There is a power in this world that is far more
sinister than the CFR, although I fully admit that it tries to
manipulate the CFR, sometimes successfully.
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The Octopus is a global international coalition and network of
sociopaths who will commit any crime to increase their wealth and
power. In fact, they seem to enjoy committing crimes for their own
sake, apart from the material payoffs. Running scams on the masses
provides them with a thrill unlike any other.
The neocons are intimately hooked into the most vicious side of the
billionaire community. There are billionaires who strongly oppose
them on principled grounds.
As far as I know, Ted Turner and Bill Gates do not regularly order
assassinations and mass murder across the globe, nor are they
ideological fascists or racists. Nor did they build their careers
solely on outright financial manipulation and fraud. Please -- I
don't agree with every thought, policy or action of Turner or Gates.
But do you see Turner and Gates agitating relentlessly for World War
IV? Not every billionaire in the world shares the same agenda as
Rupert Murdoch and his gang of bloodthirsty plutocrats.
The neocons, like Nazis and Bolsheviks, are pure evil. They are much
more dangerous than either Nazis or Bolsheviks because they
manipulatively conceal their true totalitarian values and objectives
under the cover of traditional American pro-democratic rhetoric. In
truth, they despise democracy. They are attempting to destroy
democracy in the United States and all around the world.
Their barrage of deceptions and lies begins with their slick trick of
linking their program to conservatism through the term
"neoconservatism." In fact, they resemble Stalinists much more than
conservatives. They are turning the United States into a hybrid of
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Neocons have absolutely nothing to
do with traditional conservatism. They have destroyed whatever is
good about the political right in America. They are more fanatical in
their brutal statism than any liberal.
It is predictable that down the road we will see a massive backlash in
American political life against neoconservatism from the right, the
left and the middle, once a critical mass of Americans begins to
realize what the neocons (and neolibs) are really up to. The neocons
and their backers will suffer the same fate as Hitler and Mussolini
and their followers.
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2Alice (UK) writes:
With the knives out for Gorgeous George (Galloway) a few things make
me think the discoveries and timings just a little suspicious.
A bit like the hijacker passport found in the ashes of WTC the files
on Galloway have survived fires and looting to be found by the none
other than the Telegraph ["the Queen's" strongly zionist newspaper ].
Did the Iraqi's also have files on it's pre 1991 friends and the
British and US companies who supplied them with weapons and materials
whose names were so carefully blacked out of the document [by the US]
Iraq gave to the UN?
The Telegraph owned by Conrad Black is part of the Hollinger Group
which also owns the Jerusalem Post - Richard Perle a director of the
Hollinger Group and said to be "close" friend of Black.
The Telegraph's shares are doing badly a rise in sales would no doubt
help. The Telegraph was prime supporter of invading Iraq. It's pro
Israel view of the Middle East is no secret. Read articles by Black's
wife Barbara Amiel if in doubt.
Tony Blair is influenced by his Middle East advisor Lord Levy [Lord
after the 1997 election] prime fundraiser for the Labour Party was
fundraiser for Barak has a luxury villa in Tel Aviv and his son Daniel
worked for Israeli Justice Minister Beilin.
Occupation of Iraq and the side-lining of Syria put Israel in a more
powerful and expanded position in the Middle East.
Was it all for oil or Israel maybe both... two birds with one stone?
One other puzzle the Lord Chancellor is to investigate the Mariam
Appeal because "a member of the public" complained Galloway was
funding travel etc rather than giving all the money to children. What
if a "member of the public" complains that the Tony Blair is using
public money for personal gain to jaunt around the world [sometimes
taking his family along for a holiday] to promote illegal attacks on
civilians. Of course not! :)
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I T E M #
http://www.news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=475832003
We won't stop in Iraq - Richard Pearle
Margaret Neighbor
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PENTAGON adviser Richard Perle, a key architect of the US-led drive to
topple Saddam Hussein, told a French newspaper that Washington had not
run out of countries to target as part of the war against terrorism.
"The military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq are part of
efforts to fight against terrorism," Mr Perle told Les Echos.
"We are not going to stop there. We shall continue to fight against
countries who harbour terrorists and develop weapons of mass
destruction."
He said the UN Security Council was ill-suited to dealing with such
threats and should be reformed.
He also asked whether France, which led the anti-war lobby and ensured
Washington could not get United Nations approval for its assault on
Iraq, should be allowed to stay in the NATO alliance without being
part of its military structure.
"The Security Council was created to manage classic crises, such as
Germany invading Poland or France with divisions of Panzer tanks," he
said.
"This institution is incapable of dealing with the toughest problems
of our time, such as the fight against terrorism or proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction."
It was time to consider revising the UN's charter, he added, noting
such a task would be "extraordinarily complex".
Meanwhile, Ted Turner, the man who built CNN television, yesterday
accused the media mogul Rupert Murdoch of promoting the war in Iraq.
"He's a warmonger," Mr Turner said in an evening speech to the
Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. "He promoted it."
Fox News Channel, owned by Mr Murdoch, has been the most popular US
cable news network during the conflict, trumping AOL Time Warner's
CNN, which Mr Turner started more than two decades ago and came to
prominence with its blanket coverage of the 1991 Gulf war.
©2003 scotsman.com
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,943910,00.html
April 26, 2003
American to oversee Iraqi oil industry
David Teather
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The US is preparing to install an American chairman on a planned
management team of the Iraqi oil industry, providing further
ammunition to critics who have questioned the Bush administration's
agenda in the Middle East.
The administration is planning to structure the potentially vast Iraqi
oilindustry like a US corporation, with a chairman and chief executive
and a 15-strong board of international advisers.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, it has lined up the
former chief executive of the US division of Royal Dutch/Shell, Philip
Carroll, to take the job of chairman.
Large scale decisions on investment, capital spending and production
are likely to need the approval of the advisory board, which will act
like a board of directors. The day-to-day management team will be
vetted by US officials and is likely to be made up of existing and
expatriate Iraqi oil officials.
The structure is likely to anger opponents of the administration who
argue that the US is wielding too much power in Iraq.
By involving non-Iraqis, the US could also expose itself to the
accusation that it is attempting to take control of the industry and
open the door to foreign investment by major western oil companies - a
perception the Bush administration is keen to avoid.
The Middle East has, since the early-to-mid-1970s, largely closed the
door on foreign oil firms - but contracts have been awarded to
engineering and construction firms such as Bechtel, which was recently
handed a $600m (£380m) commission in Iraq by the US Agency for
International Development.
US and Iraqi engineers have resumed modest oil production in the south
of the country, in fields close to Basra.
The other major field in the north, near Kirkuk, has yet to be
restarted, but is expected to begin pumping oil in the next few days.
The Basra fields produced 60% of Iraq's pre-war production of around
2.5m barrels a day.
The US is pushing for an end to economic sanctions to allow the oil to
be freely exported.
A handful of Iraqi oil officials have been attempting to restore some
order to the country's energy infrastructure and have been meeting
regularly with the US military in Baghdad. The US has been eager to
get the cooperation of the skilled Iraqi oil administration, but an
attempt to impose a structure on the industry with outside involvement
could cause friction.
The oil minister in the ousted Saddam regime, Amer Mohammed Rasheed,
is on the US's most-wanted list.
Iraq, with 112bn barrels of proven reserves, is second only to Saudi
Arabia, and has the potential to become a superpower in the oil
industry. Experts believe that with billions of dollars of investment
in the nation's crippled infrastructure it could produce up to 6m
barrels a day within five or six years. There are believed to be 200bn
barrels of probable reserves.
The oil beginning to pump in Iraq is being used for domestic purposes.
Once exports are up and running again, US and British officials have
said the aim is to put the proceeds into a fund to pay for the
reconstruction of Iraq. But details of the fund, including who would
administer it, have been scant.
The new management team and part of the advisory board are expected to
be named next week. The chief executive would play a similar role to
the former oil minister and would represent Iraq at meetings of Opec,
the organisation of oil exporting nations. The position of vice
chairman is expected to be filled by Fadhil Othman, who led Iraq's oil
marketing group before Saddam came to power 24 years ago.
Thamir Gadhban, a senior oil ministry official working to restore
order to the industry in Baghdad, told the Journal that he expected
the chief executive to come from the ranks of the existing hierarchy.
"The Iraqi oil industry is not a new one, and there are experienced
people in the ministry of oil and its organisations," he said.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003
Reform Club moves to expel friend of Holocaust denier
By Ian Burrell
Media and Culture Correspondent
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A former fashion model who married into aristocracy is facing
expulsion from one of Britain's most historic private clubs over
accusations of anti-Semitism.
Lady Renouf of Kensington, the former wife of the late New Zealand
financier Sir Frank "The Bank" Renouf, has been described as "unfit"
to be a member of the Reform Club, in Pall Mall in London.
The Reform was established 160 years ago as a bastion of liberal and
progressive thought. Past members have included the writers Henry
James, H G Wells, E M Forster and Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle.
But not all literary figures are welcome. Lady Renouf's decision to
invite to the club David Irving, the historian who was denounced by a
High Court judge in 2000 as a racist, an anti-Semite and a falsifier
of history, had already caused outrage among many fellow Reform
members.
Lady Renouf, who is in her fifties, has maintained that Irving has a
right to freedom of speech. But an article published in The
Independent on Sunday this month, highlighting her
presence at an American conference of extreme right-wingers,
may mean she has finally to bid farewell to the Reform. The article,
written by Johann Hari, recounted his meetings with Lady Renouf at
the Irvine Marriott Hotel in Orange County, California, where the
conference took place last summer.
She told Hari:
"People act as though Judaism is just another religion like
Christianity or Islam. It's not. It's a creed of domination and racial
superiority."
She said she was "firm friends" with Irving and had for two and a
half months attended every day of the court case where the historian
sued the American academic Deborah Lipstadt,
after she denounced him as a "Holocaust denier". Irving spectacularly
lost the case and was landed with costs of about £2m.
When Lady Renouf said goodbye to Hari in the hotel lobby she told him:
"It's so good to see that so many young people are getting involved in
our movement and seeing the truth about the Jews."
THE Reform Club has a reputation for tolerance. But this was seen as
a step too far and signatures were collected for a requisition for
expulsion.
Lady Renouf grew up in Australia as Michele Mainwaring and she was
crowned Miss Newcastle, New South Wales, in 1968. Her current
interests include acting and studying "the psychology of religion".
When she met Sir Frank she told him she was "Countess Griaznoff", the
ex-wife of a Russian nobleman.
They quickly married, in 1991, when the financier was 72 and she was
44. She stated on her marriage certificate that her father was dead.
But during their six-week honeymoon in Australia, Sir Frank learnt
that he did have a father-in-law after all -- a New South Wales truck
driver called Arthur. Michele and Sir Frank got divorced. But Michele
kept her title.
With her looks, her name and her quirky academic interests, Lady
Renouf became a prominent figure on London's intellectual party
circuit. But her world could unravel next month when the Reform Club's
general committee meets to consider her expulsion.
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US Implicated In Planned Theft Iraqi Antiquities
Ann Talbot
WSWS.org
4-20-3
As the full extent of the looting of Iraq's National Museum in
Baghdad emerges, it becomes clear that there was nothing accidental
about it. Rather it was the result of a long planned project to
plunder the
artistic and historical treasures that are held in the museums of
Iraq.
Had the National Museum of Iraq been looted by poor slum dwellers it
would have been crime enough, and the responsibility would have
rested with the American administration that refused, despite
repeated warnings, to provide for the security of Baghdad's cultural
buildings.
Once the museum staff were able to communicate with the outside
world, however, it became apparent that the looting was not random. It
was the work of people who knew what they were looking for and
came specially equipped for the job.
Dr. Dony George, head of the Baghdad Museum, said, "I believe they
were people who knew what they wanted. They had passed by the gypsum
copy of the Black Obelisk. This means that they must have been
specialists. They did not touch those copies."
Speaking on Britain's Channel 4 News, he told Dr. John Curtis of the
British Museum that among the artifacts that have been stolen are the
sacred vase of Warka, a 5,000-year-old golden vessel found at Ur,
an Akkadian statue base, and an Assyrian statue. It was, said Dr.
Curtis, "Like stealing the Mona Lisa."
It was only almost a week after the museum was originally looted that
Dr. George was able to alert archaeologists worldwide to what had been
stolen. The American military authorities had made no effort
to prevent the objects leaving Baghdad or to put in process an
international search for the stolen artifacts.
The US reluctance to act cannot be explained by any lack of warning.
Professional archaeologists and art historians had told the Pentagon
of the danger of looting beforehand. Dr. Irving Finkel of the
British Museum told Channel 4 that the looting was "entirely
predictable
and could easily have been stopped."
The museum was the victim of a carefully planned assault. The thieves
who took the most valuable material came prepared with equipment to
lift the heaviest objects, which the staff could not move from
the galleries, and had keys to the vaults where the most valuable
items were stored. Not since the Nazis systematically stripped the
museums of Europe has such a crime been committed.
The US online publication of BusinessWeek magazine reiterated the
theme of premeditation and conspiracy in the looting of Iraq's museums
in an April 17 article headlined "Were Baghdad's Antiquity Thieves
Ready?" The article carries the subtitle: "They may have known just
what they were looking for because dealers ordered the most important
pieces well in advance."
BusinessWeek writes: "It was almost as if the perpetrators were
waiting for Baghdad to fall to make their move. Gil J. Stein, a
professor of archaeology at the University of Chicago, which has been
conducting digs in Iraq for 80 years, believes that dealers ordered
the most important pieces well in advance. 'They were looking for
very
specific artifacts,' he says. 'They knew where to look.'"
Since the last Gulf War in 1991 Iraqi antiquities have flooded onto
the market from the museums that were looted then and from
archaeological sites that have been attacked with bulldozers. At such
locations ancient statues have been sawed apart so they could be
exported.
This plundering of Iraq's cultural heritage has only whetted the
appetite of collectors who are already responsible for looting Far
Eastern, Latin American and Italian archaeological sites. With the
collapse of global stock markets, works of art and antiquities have
come to be regarded even more highly as a secure investment, fuelling
an already huge underground market.
The illegal trade in antiquities is thought to be as lucrative as
drugs trafficking, to which it is often linked. According to a report
by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, "The Trade in
illicit Antiquities: the Destruction of the World's Archaeological
Heritage," produced in 2001, London and New York are the main markets
for this trade. Switzerland, which allows an art work that has been in
the country for five years to be granted a legal title, is a key
trans-shipment point.
Professor Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, director of the McDonald
Institute at Cambridge, told a press conference at the report's launch
that the trade continued because "The government is in the pocket of
the art market, which wants to keep the flow of antiquities." He
added, "It's a scandal."
As news of the latest looting broke, the Labour government of British
Prime Minister Tony Blair organised a hasty press conference in the
British Museum, at which Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell promised
official support to protect Iraqi antiquities.
Even as she spoke, the National Library of Iraq was being looted.
Home to rare, centuries-old illuminated copies of the Koran and other
examples of Islamic calligraphy, as well as irreplaceable historical
documents from the Ottoman Empire, the building was set on fire,
destroying an untold number of texts.
Reporter Robert Fisk, who saw the flames, ran to get US marines in an
attempt to save some of the collection, but they refused to help. Fisk
wrote in the Independent, "I gave the map location, the precise name
in Arabic and English. I said the smoke could be seen from three miles
away and it would take only five minutes to drive there. Half an
hour later, there wasn't an American at the scene and the flames were
shooting 200 feet into the air."
After the fate of Baghdad museum, it can only be concluded that the
generalised looting and arson at the library served to cover up a more
systematic crime, in which select manuscripts were stolen for wealthy
collectors. In the process they connived in the burning of
books-another Nazi practice.
The role of the ACCP
In the aftermath of these two devastating attacks on culture,
attention has focused on the activities of the American Council for
Cultural Policy. Even the British press that works under some of the
toughest libel laws in the world has been willing to suggest that the
ACCP may have influenced US government policy on Iraqi cultural
artifacts.
The ACCP was formed in 2001 by a group of wealthy art collectors to
lobby against the Cultural Property Implementation Act, which attempts
to regulate the art market and stop the flow of stolen goods into
the US. It has defended New York art dealer Frederick Schultz, who
was convicted under the National Stolen Property Act, and opposes the
use of the 1977 US v. McClain decision as a legal precedent in cases
concerning the handling of stolen art objects.
In the McClain case a US judge accepted that all pre-Columbian art or
jewellery brought into the US without the express consent of the
Mexican government was stolen property. Mexican law regards all
archaeological artifacts as state property and bans their export.
Mexico is one of a number of countries that has such legislation.
Ashton Hawkins, a leading art lawyer and founder of the ACCP, regards
such legislation as "retentionist". He has condemned the
archaeologically rich "source" countries for attempting to protect
their archaeological sites and museums by such measures, and has
argued that under the Clinton administration such "retentionist"
policies came to dominate US government policy.
Hawkins has his sights set on the great Middle Eastern museums. He
has called for the Egyptian antiquities that are held in the Cairo
Museum to be dispersed. "I would like to propose," he said, "that the
Cairo Museum offer museums around the world the opportunity to
acquire up to 50 objects for their collections. In return, the museums
would make a very substantial contribution for the construction of the
new museum under the Giza plateau-$1 million each, for example."
The ACCP's inaugural meeting took place at the Fifth Avenue apartment
of Guido Goldman, a collector of Uzbek textiles. Among those present
were Arthur Houghton, the former curator of the Getty Museum at Malibu
in California, which is notorious for displaying works of suspicious
provenance. Hawkins himself retired in 2000 as vice president of the
trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, an institution
that, according to its own former director,
Thomas Hoving, holds many artifacts looted from Etruscan tombs.
Before the war began, the ACCP met with Pentagon officials, declaring
their great concern for Iraqi antiquities. What that concern means is
evident from the remarks of William Pearlstein, the group's treasurer,
who also describes Iraqi laws on antiquities as "retentionist". The
ACCP deny that they want Iraqi laws changed, but the looting of the
museum and library will effectively circumvent that problem if US law
on stolen art objects and archaeological material can be changed.
Professor John Merryman of Stanford Law School and a member of the
ACCP has called for a "selective international enforcement of export
controls" in US courts. In other words, it should be perfectly
legitimate to import the objects looted from Baghdad if a US court
chooses not to recognise Iraqi legislation.
Merryman set out the organisation's principles in a 1998 paper in
which he argued that the fact that an art object had been stolen did
not in itself bar it from lawful importation into the US.
He went on to claim, "The existence of a market preserves cultural
objects that might otherwise be destroyed or neglected by providing
them with a market value. In an open, legitimate trade cultural
objects can move to the people and institutions that value them most
and are therefore most likely to care for them" ( International Law
and Politics, vol. 31: 1).
This is a self-justifying argument that reeks of hypocrisy. Wealthy
collectors can now point to the chaos on the streets of Baghdad, the
looting of the museum and the burning of the library as evidence that
the Iraqis are unable or unwilling-too poor or too ignorant-to look
after their treasures, which would be better housed in American
museums or private collections.
The ACCP's ideas represent the interests of particularly rapacious
sections of the US ruling class, who operate on the principle that
everything-even an object of priceless artistic or scientific value-is
defined by its "market value".
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End of excerpt -- I've had to cut this short for newsgroup readers --
the rest of the article can be found here:
http://wsws.org/articles/2003/apr2003/loot-a19.shtml
Mister
2. More on Jabotinsky -- neo-con-zionism's key ideologist
==================
AHMED CHALABI'S CHECKERED PAST
By Christopher Bollyn
When Gen. Abdul Karim Qasim ousted the Iraqi monarchy of King Faisal
II in July 1958, many Iraqis, like the family of Ahmed Chalabi, which
had enjoyed close ties with the monarchy, were forced to flee the
country.
Today, Chalabi is the man behind the self-declared government that has
come to power in Baghdad.
Chalabi, a non-practising Shia, is reportedly a close friend of the
late Shah of Iran, the former Crown
Prince Hassan of Jordan and Col. Oliver North of the Reagan
Administration, according to a recent paper on Chalabi for the South
Asia Analysis Group titled "Ahmed Chalabi: The Janos Kadar of Iraq" by
B. Raman, a Indian intelligence expert.
The head of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), Chalabi comes from an
aristocratic Shiite family that was connected to the monarchy of
Faisal. The Iraqi monarchy had been installed by the British when
they created the Iraqi state after the first World War.
Chalabi's father was a member of the Faisal's Council of Ministers and
president of the senate nominated by Faisal and set up to provide the
Iraqi monarchy with a democratic facade.
The Chalabi family fled to Jordan when King Faisal II was overthrown
in 1958 by Qasim's group of army officers who had allegedly acted in
collusion with the Iraqi Communist Party.
Years later, Chalabi amassed a great deal of wealth as a banker in
Jordan. However, in 1989, Chalabi was
found guilty of embezzlement and fraud in a military court in Jordan
and was sentenced to 22 years. Chalabi reportedly fled Jordan in the
trunk of a car with over $20 million.
It was alleged that during his association with the bank Chalabi
embezzled nearly $70 million and stashed it in secret Swiss bank
accounts.
The financial improprieties that Chalabi was found to have been
directly involved in led to the collapse the Jordanian bank he
directed, Petra Bank.
At the time of its crash, Petra was the third-largest bank in Jordan,
and the Jordanian government was
forced to pay out $200 million to depositors who faced the loss of
their savings.
In 1992, Mr Chalabi was tried in absentia and sentenced by a Jordanian
court to 22 years jail on 31
charges of embezzlement, theft, misuse of depositor funds and currency
speculation.
A report by Arthur Andersen subsequently found that Chalabi's Petra
Bank's assets had been overstated by
some $200 million. Many of the bank's bad loans were to Chalabi-linked
companies in Switzerland and Lebanon.
A detailed 500-page Technical Committee Report was subsequently
compiled for the Jordanian military attorney-general on June 10, 1990.
In the report Chalabi was named as being the man at Petra Bank who was
directly responsible for "fictitious deposits and entries to make the
income ... appear larger."
To this day, Chalabi insists that the charges were politically charged
and the fact that there has never been formal extradition attempts
prove the case was not genuine.
Chalabi is considered by experts to be a long-time collaborator with
the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) at the Pentagon.
After fleeing Jordan, Chalabi went to Europe and founded the INC in
1992 at a meeting of some
anti-Saddam Hussein exiles held in Vienna, Austria. James Woolsey, who
became the Director of the CIA under President Bill Clinton, made
Chalabi's INC the cutting-edge of the CIA's operations against Saddam
Hussein. Chalabi allegedly became Woolsey's blue-eyed boy and the INC
became the most favored recipient of CIA funds meant for the overthrow
of Saddam, according to Raman.
In the 1980s, when he was associated with the Petra Bank, Chalabi, who
was allegedly helping the Mossad, the Israeli external intelligence
agency, used to visit Israel secretly. During those visits, he became
close to the late Albert Wohlstetter, who is reputed to be "a
godfather of the neoconservative movement in the US," according to
Raman.
Chalabi had met Wohlstetter during his student days at the University
of Chicago, Raman wrote, but the
friendship became close only after their meetings in Israel. Through
Wohlstetter, Chalabi became acquainted with Richard Perle, who was
Under-Secretary of Defence for international-security policy under
President Reagan, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, both of whom served
under President Ronald Reagan.
Perle, as chief of the Defence Policy Advisory Board, has been a
strong supporter of Chalabi, but the CIA and the State Department have
serious reservations about him. Chalabi's criminal past
notwithstanding, Chalabi is today being presented as the possible head
of an interim Iraqi authority to provide an Iraqi face for what is
likely to become an extended U.S. military occupation of Iraq.
"He is tipped to occupy an important post in the US occupation regime
in Baghdad to create a new Iraqi
intelligence agency, which would be loyal to the USA and protect its
national interests," Raman wrote.
On April 16, two close associates of Chalabi said they had been
elected mayor and governor of Baghdad by tribal and religious chiefs
acting with the consent of the U.S. government.
INC General Jaudat Obeidi who, prior to his return to Iraq, had
reportedly lived in exile in Oregon claimed he had been selected
mayor of Baghdad. And, with a massive media entourage, Mohammed Mohsen
Zubeidi, proclaimed himself governor of a new interim administration
for Baghdad.
A spokesman for the U.S. Marines in Baghdad denied that the United
States
has recognized anyone to head up a new Iraqi government.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=31508
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canadian intel re jabotinsky
(...)
12. Canada and the Middle East
The accession of the hardline Netanyahu government is likely to add
further to the marginalization of the multilateral Refugee Working
Group, "chaired" by Canada since its inception in 1992 and Canada's
major claim as a diplomatic participant in the peace process. Five
multilateral working groups were put in place in Moscow in January
1992 to complement the work of the bilateral negotiations begun in
Madrid in October 1991. The US and Russia formally "chair" the
overall multilateral diplomatic effort, but additional "gavel
holders" were designated for three of the five working groups which
report back to the overall Steering Committee chaired by the US and
Russia.28 Few would dispute that the refugee question was the most
sensitive of these multilateral fora. Israel initially opposed the
establishment of this group, and the US pushed Canada as the "gavel
holder" because Canada was considered more likely to be acceptable to
Israel than any other state. Israel boycotted the initial session in
May 1992 in Ottawa because Palestinian representation included exile
Palestinians, those most attuned to the whole refugee issue.
Marc Perron, the Canadian Assistant Deputy Minister for Africa and
the Middle East, held the gavel for the first six sessions of the
Refugee Working Group: Ottawa (May and October 1992), Oslo (May
1993),29 Tunis (October 1993), Cairo (May 1994), and Antalya
(December 1994). At the final session, he presented a "vision paper"
to break the deadlock which had developed early in the sessions
between the Israelis and the Palestinians on handling the refugee
issue.30 With the Oslo agreement, responsibility for much of the
refugee issue was transferred to the bilateral talks between the PLO
and Israel, with the issue of those Palestinians displaced by the
1967 war to be discussed in a Quadripartite Committee of the PLO,
Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and the 1948 refugee question postponed to
the final status talks, which only began in May 1996. The Refugee
Working Group had concentrated on a limited set of "humanitarian"
issues: data on refugees (assigned to Norway as "shepherd", job
creation (assigned to the US), public health (assigned to Italy),
economic development (assigned to the European Union), child welfare
(assigned to Sweden, and family reunification (assigned to France).
Perron concentrated on trying to improve conditions in Palestinian
refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan.31 The most sensitive issue was
that of family reunification, under which Israel considered
applications from spouses, children and dependents to rejoin
Palestinians with residence rights in Israel and the Occupied
Territories. Limited success was obtained here, as Israel did agree
to increase the quota from 1,000 families to 2,000 per year on
return. The Israeli preference was for Palestinian refugees to be
absorbed outside the country. The Palestinian preference was to deal
with the political issue of the right of Palestinians to self-
determination, which would give the some 2.5 million Palestinian
refugees (40% of the total Palestinian world population) a choice of
return to a Palestinian state. Of all the issues remaining between
the Palestinians and the Israelis--Jerusalem, settlements, water,
borders, and refugees--the Israeli government and public was least
forthcoming on the refugee question,32 which made Canada's leadership
role very difficult indeed.
At the seventh session of the RWG, held in Geneva in December 1995,
the gavel had passed to Andrew Robinson, former Canadian Ambassador
to Jordan, after Perron had moved on as the new Canadian ambassador
to Mexico. Here Canada presented the concept of "adaptation" as the
guideline for the continuing work of the RWG. Under the terms of the
Oslo II agreement, Israel had acknowledged that some 38,000
Palestinian refugees from 1948 had returned to the new autonomous
area as officials and families of the new Arafat administration.
Indeed Arafat himself was a 1948 refugee who had returned to Gaza.
Registration for the new Palestinian election list allowed the
Palestinian Authority to accept many residents who would have earlier
been considered "illegal" by the Israeli army. Although still
requiring prior Israeli approval, the Palestinian Authority has the
right to grant permanent residency to investors, spouses and children
of residents, and others for humanitarian reasons of family
reunification.
Under these circumstances, "adaptation" emphasized the need to help
absorb the returning Palestinians as well as the some 6,000 released
Palestinian prisoners and the 2,000 which Canada brought back to Gaza
from "Canada Camp" on the Egyptian side of the border. Canada also
put considerable emphasis on building up the institutional capacity
of the Palestinian Authority and Palestinain non-governmental
organizations. On the external side, Robinson led RWG inspections of
Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan, but there was no
breakthrough on the strong opposition of the Lebanese government to
integration of the some 300,000 Palestinians remaining in camps under
deteriorating conditions.
The Netanyahu guidelines say the Israeli government is opposed to the
further return of any Palestinians west of the Jordan River, which
suggests an end to the very limited progress made under Oslo II. The
Israelis may well want the RWG to help with its program for dealing
with the refugee question as integration and absorption beyond the
land of Israel, but without progress on the political front, there
will be little enthusiasm for further multilateral consultations as
well as growing divisions between the Europeans and the Americans on
how to keep up the Madrid experiment.
Canada has played a significant role in assistance to the
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, promising in November 1995 a
contribution of $70 million over five years. This overlaps with
Canada's earlier commitment of $55 million over the period 1994-98,
of which $45 million was an existing commitment. Much of this aid is
still funnelled through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestinians, which moved its headquarters from Vienna to Gaza in
July 1996.33 Canada provided $7 million to the Holst Peace Fund for
equipment and salaries of the Palestinian Authority, $4.8 million for
water and sewage improvements in Gaza, $1.5 million to the World Bank
for international expert advisers to the Authority, $1 million for
water policy, and $1.2 million for training NGO administrators.
Overall, Canada is helping fund 44 projects, which substantially
target Palestinian refugees.
A team of 12 Canadian observers, including 6 Liberal MPs, monitored
the Palestinian elections on 20 January 1996. Overall, they gave a
positive evaluation, citing the genuine enthusiasm of the Palestinian
voters. On the key issues, Canada "supports the security, well-being,
and rights of Israel as a legitimate, independent state", but it
"does not recognize permanent Israeli control over the territories
occupied in 1967 (the Golan Heights, the West Bank, East Jerusalem
and the Gaza Strip) and opposes all unilateral actions intended to
predetermine the outcome of negotiations, including the establishment
of settlements in the territories and unilateral moves to annex East
Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Canada considers such actions
contrary to international law and unproductive to the peace process".
On these issues, Canada remains closer to the European Union than to
the United States which, under the Clinton administration, has moved
substantially away from this international consensus to unilateral
support of Israeli positions, particularly on Jerusalem, the
settlements, and Palestinian refugees. Operation Grapes of Wrath in
Lebanon in April, 1996 severely tested the degree of Canadian and
American support of Israeli actions. The initial Canadian reaction
was one of diplomatic balance, deploring violence, and saying
Canada "strongly supports the security and well-being of Israel",
while "it also supports the independence, sovereignty, and
territorial integrity of Lebanon". There was no reference to support
for UNSC resolution 425 of 1978 which required Israeli withdrawal
from Lebanon. Following the attack on Qana, Prime Minister
Chretien "deplored the attack which has also injured a number of
Fijian UN peacekeepers", and supported diplomatic efforts to bring an
end to the exchange of attacks. Canada then announced $470,000 in
emergency humanitarian aid for the 450,000 Lebanese displaced by the
Israeli attacks. Lebanese Canadians demonstrated outside Parliament,
and a special session of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs
and International Trade on 25 April 1996 heard a series of protests
from Lebanese Canadian organizations. The Arab communities in Canada
have become more involved in political campaigns in recent years and
now appear to have a wider audience among Members of Parliament than
in earlier years where the pro-Israel lobby, the Canada-Israel
Committee (CIC) exercised predominant influence.
The CIC had a major success in the year in pushing ahead with a
Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement, which was to have been signed
during a visit by Israeli Prime Minister Peres in April 1996, but was
postponed due to the Israeli election campaign.34 The assassination
of Prime Minister Rabin and the Israeli elections deepened the
divisions in the Canadian Jewish community on the peace process. Just
days before the Rabin assassination, former Prime Minister Begin told
a large, enthusiastic audience in a Montreal synagogue that Rabin's
overtures to the Palestinians were "a crime", the Oslo accord was "a
document of appeasement", and the need to "do everything in our power
to replace this government". Stephen Cohen, director of the Montreal-
based Institute for Middle East Peace, complained that in Canada "we
have one camp that is opposed to the peace process and a community
leadership that is lukewarm and unenthusiastic about it".35 The two
major English-language publications in Israel are owned by Canadians:
the pro-Likud Jerusalem Post whose editor-in-chief has become
Netanyahu's media adviser is owned by the Vancouver-based Hollinger
Corporation of David Radler and Conrad Black, and the pro-peace
biweekly Jerusalem Report by Charles Bronfman of Montreal.
The year ended with Ottawa condemning new American legislation to
punish foreign companies investing in the oil industry in Iran and
Libya. The legislation was similar to the Helms-Burton law punishing
foreign companies for operations in Cuba. Canadian two-way trade with
Iran in 1995 was $551 million and $70 million with Libya.
Everyman
example" by pro-war ministers to keep others in line.
2. Fw: Good-bye NYC. Hello, Kuala Lumpur: "Whoever knows the tao of
changes knows the action of the gods -- even to assist the gods
themselves"
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I T E M # 1 :
Anti-war member of Parliament, George Galloway, being made "an
example" by pro-war ministers to keep others in line.
The intelligent woman's guide:
Martha to Alice (from a UK political information yahoogroup list):
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Yes, Alice.
To dot the i's with regard to your question " Was it all for oil or
Israel maybe both... two birds with one stone?"...
All the evidence points to the vision of Perle/Rumsfeld/Wolkowitz/Rice
& the White House being military dominance via Israel over a Near East
where the major states (Iraq, Syria, and someday Iran if one can't
bring back the Shah, Turkey being as yet so locked into the US/Israeli
alliance by its military as not to need knee-capping but clearly that
pesky "civil society" will need cutting back there too in due course,
specially if it might transpire that someday Turkey might enter a
meaningful EU) are ground into chaos and cultural and economic ruin.
A good job was done already on Palestine & Lebanon, the smaller
sophisticated players --HK Jordan long having been little more than a
useful buffer-creation. It appears that the clutch in WashDC (and
around Blair) think of government as government of the "economy", i.e.
a relation of their men (think of our PPP) to companies &
resources, with population (at home and abroad), the earlier object of
modern government rendered invisible as much as possible save as
consumers. Iraq -- after the destruction of all public institutions of
that formerly one-party state -- offers a laboratory created to try to
put that vision of government into effect, possible with a US/UK press
that will allow the extraordinary suffering of the mass of the Iraqi
population in the coming months to remain almost entirely invisible.
Suffering through disease and poverty doesn't make a saleable "story"
anyway, just another Africa-like presence making the man on the street
potentially uncomfortable for being implicitly at fault for a
government which to which he feels linked only by nationalism.
Re Galloway, a man who almost alone held meetings in Parliament
calling for the lifting of sanctions on Iraq and who certainly alone
linked Iraq & Palestine in his Emergency Committee Iraq-Palestine
since the beginning of the 2nd intifada. A public investigation of
the Mariam Fund (and the unmentionable second Committee!) is also
useful to collect for UK/US/Israeli intelligence the names of all the
domestic UK persons or groups who contributed to Galloway's work.
When I had asked my clean Iraqi opposition friends what they knew of
GG, they'd said that GG had once been too close to a regime-friendly
lawyer in London but as soon as GG learned of the lawyer's contacts,
GG had backed off & made efforts to stay generally reasonably clean.
That's all I know & while gorgeous George has made some major errors
of judgement (viz crowing too loudly when riding the crest of public
opposition to the war last summer and doubtless other slips over his
political history) the last thing I'd ever believe is the slew of
doctored documents being provided the press at the present moment.
They are out to smear him and all those who worked for the causes he
would speak for, almost alone (save Tony Benn, Diane Abbott, and the
London MP Cohen and a few brave other folk).
MM
---
Dear Alice,
Last month I came across a reference to 'Queen's Regulations' said to
be governing the legality of actions by our armed forces. There was
the mention that individual soldier does not have a duty to obey an
illegal order. Can you throw some light on what the 'Queen's
Regulations' are? (re message: Galloway may be tried as a traitor)
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Sunday Herald
27 April 2003
'Now I'm certain ... all these documents are forged'
Allegations that George Galloway received $10m from Saddam have
convinced
the Glasgow MP that he's the victim of a conspiracy. He explains why
to
Westminster Editor James Cusick
http://www.sundayherald.com/33356
Accused of pocketing $10 million over 10 years in the payroll of one
of history's most hated dictators, most politicians would be on the
verge of a breakdown. But for George Galloway the allegations
published in a Boston newspaper at the end of a momentous week 'came
as a slight relief', ending, he claimed, the lingering doubts that
'maybe someone inside the Iraqi regime itself was pretending to be
doing things in support of me and making off with the cash'.
In a script worthy of John le CarrZ or Len Deighton, reports last week
suggested Iraqi spy masters, the Iraqi president, senior Iraqi
politicians, an Iraqi general, the president's son and Middle East
businessmen had all created a mesh of covert financial intrigue which,
if true, will destroy Galloway.
Documents found in Baghdad's bombed foreign ministry and published
last Tuesday by The Daily Telegraph claimed the Glasgow MP had
effectively been on Saddam Hussein's payroll for a decade and had been
given a slice of oil-for-food earnings totalling £375,000.
Days later a Boston newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor (CSM),
dwarfed the Telegraph's 'scoop' by claiming documents found in a house
belonging to Saddam's son Qusay, showed payments totalling $10m paid
to Galloway from 1992 to this year. In the CSM report, Qusay's
accounts department is told by him to 'issue the check and deliver to
Mr George Galloway -- do this fast and inform me'.
Learning the full content of the CSM report, Galloway says this has
moved the case against him 'from tragedy to farce', adding: 'I'm now
clear. I am the target of a systematic campaign of forgery.'
Before the arrival of the $10m allegations, Galloway's initial belief
that all the Telegraph's documents were forgeries was beginning to
slip. He was coming round to the idea that he may have been set up
from the inside, and had begun backtracking, considering that the
Telegraph's material may have been genuine.
No longer. The CSM account puts Galloway in Iraq in 1992, lists
meetings with Qusay Hussein, and talks of issued cheques. Claiming the
report is a farce, he adds : 'It talks of cheques. But the whole point
of sanctions is
that Iraq has no banking facilities. The only way of cashing a cheque
is to go to a bank in one of the presidential palaces, so why bother
with the cheque? And I never set foot in Iraq till 1993. No-one had
heard of me in Iraq in 1992.'
Should it come to court, Galloway's libel action may become one of the
most high-profile cases in legal history. If his holiday home in
Portugal feels like 'a besieged fortress', as he said, he better get
used to the idea. In a
telephone interview lasting almost an hour and a half , Galloway
reveals that he understands his personal future, his political career,
every aspect of his life, public and private -- will be laid bare. All
his energy and all
his campaigning will go on hold. The bottom line? If he doesn't tell
it straight from now, he'll be destroyed.
He says: 'I now face a long and tedious process of putting together my
case [he intends to sue The Daily Telegraph and will seek leave in the
High Court in London to pursue the CSM outside the jurisdiction of
British courts]. And will that hamstring me politically? Of course it
will.'
His case preparations, he adds, are not going to begin in Iraq. ' All
the people I knew in government in Iraq are either dead or under
American custody or missing.'
Galloway -- often referred to as the MP for Baghdad Central -- had, he
admits, access to core figures in Saddam's government. He now admits
he may have been in Iraq on Boxing Day in 1999.
The Telegraph's document-based account highlights a memorandum from
the chief of Iraqi intelligence, the Mukhabarat. It outlines a meeting
between Galloway and an Iraqi spy. Galloway 'detailed his campaign
plans for the year ahead', according to the account. The contact then
wrote to his superior that Galloway 'needs continuous financial
support from Iraq.'
Galloway's old passport is at his home in Streatham. It won't be hard
for him to verify, but he believes he 'spent Christmas day with Tariq
Aziz', the former Iraqi foreign minister who last week surrendered
himself to US authorities in Baghdad. The two men attended mass in the
capital's Roman Catholic cathedral. Christmas lunch at Aziz's home
followed, and a party was held that night.
The implication? If Galloway wanted more cash, he could go straight to
the top -- Aziz, even Saddam himself, and not bother with intelligence
minions.
Galloway says the British government was aware of where he spent that
Christmas and with whom. He says he privately told Peter Hain, the
then minister at the Foreign Office for Middle East affairs, and
suggested opening a channel of dialogue as a means of resolving the
Iraqi crisis. 'Hain agreed we should start such a dialogue.' A month
later, according to Galloway, Hain had begun briefing journalists that
Galloway was 'close' to Tariq Aziz.
In another of the Telegraph's documents found in the foreign ministry,
a letter has Galloway identifying his 'representative in Baghdad on
all matters concerning my work with the Mariam Appeal or the Emergency
Committee in Iraq'. Galloway's intermediary was Fawaz Zureikat. In the
Telegraph letter Zureikat is quoted as effectively pleading for a
Galloway pay rise.
So was Zureikat using Galloway's name for financial gain for himself?
'No, I never for a minute suspected he would have. [Zureikat] was a
very prominent person in Iraq long before he met me. He'd been doing
business in Iraq since 1986. He had no need of me to make him a bigger
man.'
Galloway recalls that Zureikat had once shared a prison cell in Syria
with Tariq Aziz, the implication being that the two men share a common
bond and that Zureikat 'does not need George Galloway'. But Galloway
did use the financial help of Zureikat, a man he met through his
Jerusalem-born wife, Dr Amineh Abu-Sayyad, a relative of the
Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. Galloway separated from his first
wife in 1987, and divorced 12 years later. He married Sayyad in 2000 .
The two years before his second marriage will be central to the
dissection of Galloway's financial affairs. The investigation that
promises to be a key part of the libel case concerns a child lying in
a Baghdad hospital
suffering leukaemia. In 1998 Galloway launched a public appeal to
bring the child, Mariam Hussein, to Britain for specialist treatment.
He claimed uranium-tipped weapons used during the Gulf war in 1991 had
been a contributory cause to her illness. The high- profile campaign
promised to first save Mariam then with residual funds help others in
the same situation.
However, from an initial humani tarian appeal Galloway appeared to
change its nature into a highly politicised anti-sanctions campaign.
And because Galloway had never registered it formally as a charity,
there was no public scrutiny of its books.
Now both the attorney-general's office and the Charity Commission have
Mariam under the microscope.
The questions are clear enough: did Galloway steer it well clear of
formal charitable status to avoid financial scrutiny? And was it used
to deliver money from Zureikat that came directly from the Iraqi
regime?
Galloway is adamant: 'It was always a political campaign from the very
beginning. It was not charitable, it was humanitarian.' He says it was
'preposterous' to claim he never wanted the accounts made public.
'Look at the press treatment when we brought Mariam back. Everyone was
accusing me of politically campaigning. No-one was saying, 'Look
there's George Galloway bringing this girl back for charitable
purposes.''
Zureikat also claims he never traded in oil and never received any
Iraqi money that was supposed to be channelled to Galloway.
But openness there will be, especially during the dissections that
will legally accompany the libel case. Galloway seems prepared. 'Every
single journey [to Middle East countries and beyond made in connection
with the Mariam anti-sanctions campaign] now being referred to as a
revelation, has been systematically registered in the House of Commons
register year after year. And there had not been a whisper of
complaint.'
So where did the money inside the campaign come from? Galloway admits
that 'not many people gave money' and the 'vast bulk' came from only
three sources, one being Zureikat.
He delivers the arithmetic: 'Around £500,000 came from the United Arab
Emirates. Saudi Arabia gave £100,000 and, of the total, £900,000 --
the bulk -- came from Zureikat.'
Zureikat, based in Jordan, was recently arrested along with other
prominent businessmen who had financial links with Saddam Hussein's
regime. He has since been released.
The traditional paranoia of the left emerges when Galloway tries to
explain why he didn't want the Mariam accounts out in public display.
'Just like the Socialist Worker Party would not publish its accounts
to the Institute of Directors, or open its books to the Daily Mail,
neither would we, we are not obliged to.' That privacy will now go.
'In the libel case,' he promises, 'every jot and tittle will be in
front of the judge.'
Despite some reports to the contrary, Galloway says Mariam is still
being supported. 'She still gets all her medicine, her house, her
clothes, her education, her special blind needs [she recovered from
the leukaemia, but it left her without sight] her family get fed and
clothed, and in addition to all of that she gets $100 a month -- which
is three times the average Iraqi wage.'
Asked if there was anyone involved in the running of the appeal who
received money from the Iraqi government, Galloway is clear: 'No,
never.'
Privacy for Galloway's own finances will also soon go. Asked if he
would open all his accounts, he says: 'Don't accentuate the 'all'.
I've only got one account in Britain [held at the Co-operative Bank in
Glasgow] and one
holiday account in Portugal which contains Û500. There are no hidden
accounts in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the Bahamas or the Virgin
Islands.'
On his own assets, he admits only two properties. A house in Streatham
in London bought in 1996 for £220,000, with a mortgage of £290,000
(recently valued at £500,000). His home in Burgau on the Algarve cost
£82,000 when bought in 1998. It has a mortgage of £76,000 (recently
valued at £125,000). 'I have no other houses.'
He drives an N-registration Mercedes (bought from MP Jimmy Wray) and
has an N-registration Range Rover kept in Portugal.
He admits to owning one share in a company called AVL Media, described
in the Companies House register as a 'motion picture and video
production/radio and television activities/news agency activities'.
AVL's director is Ron McKay, a journalist (and occasional Sunday
Herald contributor) and long-term friend of Galloway's. McKay's other
broadcasting venture is ATV (Arab Television), a London-based
satellite channel that
filmed and distributed the worldwide rights to the pre-war interview
conducted in Baghdad between Tony Benn and Saddam Hussein.
Profit ATV made from that interview has been kept private. Industry
sources say that global media interest could have delivered a
multi-million pound profit. McKay in a newspaper interview says the
figure is below £500,000.
AVL Media is listed with a book value of £35,320. Galloway says: 'I've
never made a penny from AVL.' He admits to two salaries: one from
being an MP (£50,000 a year) and another from a weekly column in the
Mail on Sunday, 'which last year gave me £82,000'. He adds: 'I don't
own anything else. There is no cafZ in Cuba or anywhere else.'
On the Pakistan-sponsored London-based newspaper, East, which Galloway
helped set up and staff, he claimed to have 'never received a penny'.
An extensive investigation by BBC Newsnight into East -- focusing on
'lobbying'
money totalling £360,00 -- eventually determined that despite suspect
judgement by Galloway, he received no money for his own benefit.
Similarly, an investigation into the charity War on Want by the
Charity Commission in 1991 found 'mis management' during the period
when Galloway was general secretary. The report said Galloway lacked
'expertise in crucial areas', had mingled his own funds with the
charity funds, and had failed to keep separate accounts. But the
charity's own investigation cleared Galloway, saying he had repaid the
money spent on his own, rather than the charity's business.
These two episodes highlight Galloway's ability to both get into deep
water and to get out of it unscathed.
This time, the allegations against him are on a different scale. He
says: 'Michael Foot [the former Labour leader] called me, offering his
full support. He said he cannot remember, and he is an old man, any
politician who has ever been more gravely libelled.
'Foot was smeared by Sunday Times as a Soviet agent,' recalls
Galloway. 'And going back to the Zinoviev letter [a 1924 British
intelligence forgery that destroyed the re-election chances for Ramsay
MacDonald's Labour-led government], people on the left have been
smeared in this way.'
Galloway adds: 'Forgery is salient to the entire Iraq issue,
everything from the so-called dossier, to fake invoices for uranium
from Niger, now discredited and under investigation by the UN.'
If so, is there more to come? 'Frankly,' shrugs Galloway. 'I don't
know what will come next -- illicitly marrying a camel ... who knows?'
©2002 smg sunday newspapers ltd. no.176088.
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I T E M # 2 :
From: Everyman
To: Worl...@topica.com ; Senhor San
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2003 8:35 AM
Subject: Good-bye NYC. Hello, Kuala Lumpur: "Whoever knows the tao of
changes knows the action of the gods -- even to assist the gods
themselves"
The World Almanac, even back in 1990's did not list the worlds tallest
buildings. Only the tallest U.S. buildings are listed, listing even
several of the tallest found in each state.
The tallest building in the world, actually two buildings -- the shape
of an eleven -- is Petronas Tower (1 & 2) in Kuala Lumpur. It is 88
stories, which is strange, since Sears Tower, 29 feet shorter, is 110
stories high, the same number as the former World Trade Center towers.
Numerology -- big in the oriental mind. The Jin Mao building in
Shanghai is also 88 stoiries high. In the I Ching, book of changes,
claiming to reveal to reveal the meaning of events in the universe and
imparting wisdom in nature and the actions of men, so that he is able
to meet every event in the right way and even aid the gods in
governing the world. "Whoever knows the tao of changes knows the
action of the gods." In this system the "eight signs" signs
constitute "each a small completion" -- the eight signs are the eight
primary trigrams and each hexagram is made up of two trigrams -- each
of the 64 hexagrams can change into another through the appropriate
movement of one or more lines in the 8-based configuration.
"When we continue and go further and add to the situations all their
transitions, all possible situtations on earth are encompassed. It
reveals tao and renders nature and action divine. Therefore with its
help we can meet everything in the right way, and with its help can
even assit the gods themselves."
Skyscrappers, each of 110 stories are destroyed in New York City,
after two twin skyscrapers are built in Kuala Lumpur. New York City
has been hollowed out of production and growth and vitality for many
decades, its tallest remaining building planned and paid for in the
1920's, before the revolutionary coup of Mr. Baruch known (but not
really known at all) as the Great Crash and the Great Depression and
the New Deal. Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia, that ancient world capital
of piracy and South Pacific sea supremacy, itself a cradle of highly
technical civilizations still unexamined -- a land of beautuiful
unspoiled people, low crime, great beauty and wonderful weather, apart
from a typhoon once in a while -- perhaps no longer a problem now that
clandestine weather modification can even change the course of the
Southern Pacific currents -- and Malaysia ( 32 percent Chinese,
major languages: Malay, English, Chinese) was one of the "Asian
Tigers" that in the last decade just underwent a major financial
bust!!! But don't you know what that really means??!!! It means that
the worlds globalist fininciers are done "growing the place" and now
they have used their control of the world's currencies through the
network of central banks they control -- to make it impossible for
Malaysians to meet their debt obligations -- causing foreclosures,
evictions -- a great changing hands of all the assets lately built up
in Malaysia. (That, after all, is how great piracy is done these
days, isn't it?) In other words, the globalists have taken over
Malaysia and are moving in -- just as, low and behold, the United
States is utterly destroyed by a well-planned economic depression ,
with every "ordinary" American worked to the bone, drowning in debt,
with no prospect for a future (lacking capital to realize any of their
dreams -- the industrial capital of the us having been sent elsewhere
-- because the ruling elite -- who are always internationalists --
are ready to move again -- just as they moved from Venice to
London and from London to New York City (remember all that
intermarrying of British and American stock that came with the rule of
the Robber Barons after the US Civil War (which war -- and the
ruthless "reconstruction" made many of today's ruling elite families
-- the civil war representing the end of the Jeffersonian and
Jacksonian political ideas of America, even more than the emancipation
of the slaves (that the Northern shippers brought to the South for
sale, always remember.)
Just thinking. But if "11" is the important number for the globalist
elites, there is an "11" building in Malaysia and it is 88 stories
tall -- and the climate is much more conducive to the happiness of
multi-billionaires than is Park Ave or even the fanciest suburbs of
Connecticut, New Hampshire etc.
I don't expect to convince anyone of anything -- but do keep this in
the back of you mind as you look for patterns in unfolding events.
That's what I do.
Dick Eastman
Yakima
Dick Eastman
look instead at this list of Who's Who of the British Secret State. (1989):
http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb04/ME
Otherwise:
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YALE'S SKULL & BONES SOCIETY MEMBERS
By Eric Samuelson, J.D.
I am presently researching a biography on David Rockefeller. An overview of
the book will soon be sent to a New York City agent for circulation among
all the major publishing houses. Among the topics that will be covered is
the role of British USA Round Table member Rep. Wayne Hays (Demo-Ohio) in
"killing" the Reece Committee investigation of tax-exempt foundations, the
disappearance of the research on the Rockefeller-funded Kinsey studies and
the "disposal" threats made to Reece Investigator Norman Dodd by a lobbyist
for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
In 1986, Hoover scholar Antony C. Sutton published his "magnum opus" -
AMERICA'S SECRET ESTABLISHMENT: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ORDER OF SKULL AND
BONES. In his preface Sutton said he had been given an eight-inch batch of
documents which was "nothing less than the membership lists of an American
secret society. Glancing through the sheets it was more than obvious -- this
was no ordinary group. The names spelled Power with a capital P." Throughout
the book Sutton hinted at even deeper revelations he would make in books to
come. However, the full list never was published by Sutton. In making
inquiries of those who knew Sutton, I was told that he had become exiled in
his own country. For months I searched the Web looking for a list of the
members of Skull and Bones. At long last, a notebook was given to me which
required the use of a magnifying glass to make out the names. So, the
following semi-final list is about 97% accurate. It opens the door to the
Bones realm at a time that one of their own is now hitting the campaign
trail for the Republican presidential nomination.
For about the past ten years I have been studying secret elite groups. The
average person has almost no knowledge of them and there are very few
sources of information. These secret groups include the Bilderbergers, the
Council on Foreign Relations, The Knights of the Garter, The Knights of
Malta, The 33rd Degree Masons, the Rhodes Scholars, The Skull and Bones and
the Trilateral Commission. What is needed is a historical roster of the
membership of each of these groups.
The list that follows is only the first of an upcoming series of historic
exposes of these secret societies. If you have any biographical information
on any of these individuals, your sharing will be appreciated and
reciprocated. Any suggestions or corrections appreciated.
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SURNAME GIVEN NAME
S&B YEAR
Abbe Frederick Randolph 1848
Abbott John S.C.
Aberg, Jr. Donlan Vincent 1952
Abrams Peter Mark 1983
Acheson David Campion 1943
Acheson Dean (Disputed) (Scroll and Key Society?)
Ackerman Stephen H. 1957
Acosta John Sidney 1921
Adams Charles Edward 1904
Adams Charles Hemmenway 1866
Adams Frederick Baldwin 1862
Adams Frederick Baldwin 1900
Adams, Jr. Frederick Baldwin 1932
Adams George Webster 1904
Adams Lewis G. 1920
Adams Mason Tyler 1899
Adams Stephen 1959
Afeiju Bernard I. 1967
Ahlbrandt, Jr. Roger S. 1963
Aiken Edwin Edgerton 1881
Aitchison William 1848
Albritton Paul Berem 1978
Aldis Owen Franklin 1874
Aldrich Malcolm Pratt 1922
Alexander Eben 1873
Alexander William DeWitt 1855
Alexander William Felix 1851
Ali Mehdi Raza 1965
Allen Arthur Dwight 1901
Allen Arthur Huntington 1873
Allen Calvin Durand 1913
Allen Charles E. 1958
Allen Daniel 1926
Allen Frederick Winthrop 1900
Allen Henry Elisha 1924
Allen John DeWitt Hamilton 1876
Allen Parker Breese 1919
Allen Walter 1863
Allen William Palmer 1880
Allen, Jr. Archibald J. 1945
Allen, Jr. Clarence Emir 1913
Alling, Jr. Charles Booth 1947
Allison Samuel Perkins 1847
Allison, Jr. Robert Seaman 1930
Ames Allan Wallace 1918
Ames Sullivan Dobb 1899
Amundson John Arnold 1880
Anderson Edwin Alexander 1835
Anderson Thomas Hill 1951
Andrews John Wolcott 1876
Andrews, Jr. Edward W. 1945
Andrews, Jr. John Wallingford 1870
Andrie Paul James 1984
Anthony Benjamin Harris 1886
Appel George Frederick Baer 1924
Ardrey Rushton L. 1925
Arms Charles Jesup 1863
Arnot John Hulett 1885
Arnot Matthias Hollenback 1856
Arras, Jr. Robert E. 1969
Asburn Frank Davis 1925
Asch Victor Henderson 1967
Ashenfelter Alan Thompson 1975
Ashforth Albert Blackhurst 1929
Ashley Thomas William Ludlow 1948
Austen David E. 1931
Austin Roy Leslie 1968
Austin Samuel Monroe 1980
Avery Benjamin F. 1914
Avery Charles Hammond 1875
Aycrigg II William Anderson 1942
Ayeroff Frederick Charles 1974
Babcock Henry Harper 1853
Babst James Anthony 1971
Back Samuel H. 1962
Backus Joseph Willes 1846
Bacon Leonard
Badger Paul Bradford 1911
Badger Walter Irving 1882
Bailey Philip Horton 1897
Baker Richard Wheeler 1913
Baldridge Howard Malcolm 1918
Baldwin George William 1853
Baldwin Henry DeForest 1885
Baldwin Roger Sherman 1847
Baldwin Sherman 1919
Baldwin Simeon Eren 1861
Ball David George 1960
Banks Howard D. 1956
Bannard Henry Clay 1869
Bannard Otto Tremont 1876
Baran Mark R. 1978
Barasch Alan Sidney 1973
Baratte Julius Adolphus 1843
Barge Richard Mason 1974
Baribault Richard P. 1949
Barker George Payson 1856
Barlett John Knowlton 1838
Barlett Philip Golden 1881
Barnes Pearce 1874
Barnes William Deluce 1907
Barnes William Henry Lienow 1855
Barney Danford Newton 1881
Barnum William Milo 1877
Barr, Jr. Richard J. 1936
Barres Herster B.D. 1932
Barry William Taylor Sullivan 1841
Bartholemy Alan Edmund 1942
Bartholomew Dana Treat 1928
Bass James Edward 1982
Basset II Barton Bradley 1949
Bassi Keith Alan 1978
Bates Emmert Warren 1932
Bates Samuel Henshaw 1833
Bayard Thomas Francis 1890
Bayne Hugh Aiken 1892
Bayne Thomas Levingston 1847
Bayne-Jones Stanhope 1910
Beach John Campell 1833
Beach John Sheldon 1839
Beane, Jr. Frank Eastman 1960
Beard Anson McCook 1895
Beard William Mossgrove 1896
Beaumont George Anson Oliver 1834
Becket G. Campbell 1923
Becket Peter Logan 1963
Beckley John Werle 1860
Beebe William 1873
Beers Henry Augustin 1869
Begg William Reynolds 1893
Beirne Christopher James 1840
Belin Gaspard d'Andelot 1939
Bell Richard Dobbs Spaight 1844
Bell William Tompkins 1942
Bellinger Alfred Rammond 1917
Bellis Jon Michael 1974
Bellis Tedric Lawrence 1973
Beman Henry DeWitt 1851
Bench Edward C. 1925
Bender Kenneth Arthur 1975
Benedict Theodore Hudson 1840
Bennetto John 1887
Benninghoff Harry Bryner 1954
Benoit, Jr. Charles Edward 1965
Bent Joseph Appleton 1865
Bentley Edward Manross 1880
Bentley Edward Warren 1850
Benton Joseph Augustine 1842
Berger, Jr. George Bart 1928
Berlin Gasper
Berry Coburn Dewees 1868
Bertron Samuel Reading 1885
Best Geoffry D.C. 1964
Biddle Thomas Bradish 1839
Bigelow Albert 1852
Bigelow Walter Irving 1877
Biglow Lucius Horatio 1908
Biglow, Jr. Lucius Horatio 1948
Bingham Charles Tiffany 1928
Bingham Egert Byron 1863
Bingham Jonathan Brewster 1936
Birgen Robert Richards 1968
Bisaro Larry R. 1974
Bishop Noah 1833
Bissel Arthur Douglas 1867
Bissel Wilson Shannon 1869
Bissell George Thomas 1961
Bissell William Truesdale 1925
Bissell, Jr. Richard M.
Blackman Charles Seymour 1857
Blackman Samuel Curtis 1854
Blaine Walker 1876
Blair Edwin Foster 1924
Blair James Grant 1925
Blair William McCormick 1907
Blake Dexter B. 1937
Blake Edward Foster 1858
Blake Eli Whitney 1857
Blake Henry T. 1848
Blake Henry Taylor 1848
Blake, Jr. Gilman Dorr 1945
Blakely Marvin 1977
Blakeslee Henry Clay 1852
Blanchard Jerred Gurley 1939
Blattner Robert William 1976
Bliss Charles Miller 1852
Bliss Robert 1850
Bliss William Root 1850
Blodgett George Reddington 1884
Blue Linden S. 1958
Boasberg III James Emanuel 1956
Bockrath, Jr. Richard C. 1961
Bockstoce John R. 1966
Bodman William Camp 1959
Boies Charles Alred 1860
Boltwood Edward 1860
Boltwood Edward 1892
Boltwood Thomas Kast 1864
Booth Samuel Albert 1884
Booth Wilbur Franklin 1884
Borden Matthew Chaloner Durfee 1864
Borne David Lyle 1963
Bottum Elisha Slocum 1876
Boulos (Bouliaratis) William M. 1947
Bouscaren Michael Frederic 1969
Bowers Lloyd Wheaton 1879
Bowle, Jr. William Carter 1961
Bowles Henry Thornton 1899
Bowles John Eliot 1935
Bowman Ralph David 1957
Boyd Francis T. 1912
Boyden Henry Paine 1864
Bradford Amory Howe 1934
Bradford Arthur Howe 1905
Bradford Timothy McFall 1967
Bradley Charles Harvey 1921
Brand James 1866
Brandegee Augustus 1849
Brandegee Frank Bosworth 1885
Brandt John Henry 1962
Breed Edward Andrews 1844
Breen J. Gerald 1950
Bremmer Samuel Kimball 1886
Breslau Jonathan 1982
Brewster Benjamin 1882
Brewster Chauncey Bunce 1868
Brewster Walter Rice 1921
Brewster IV James Henry 1962
Brickell James Noaille 1845
Bridgman John Cloyse 1885
Brinsmade Horatio Walsh 1851
Brinton Daniel Garrison 1858
Brisrin John Ball 1846
Bristol Louis Henry 1859
Brodhead Henry 1859
Bronson David Bennet 1947
Bronson James Davis 1926
Brooke Frederick Hiester 1899
Brooke George Clymer 1897
Brooke, Jr. Frederick H. 1937
Brooks Henry Stanford 1885
Brooks James Wilton 1875
Brooks John Edward 1865
Brooks Peter Moody 1983
Brooks Tristam Anthony 1982
Brooks Walter 1877
Brown Alexander 1896
Brown Alexander Lardner 1869
Brown Christopher Walworth 1968
Brown George Clifford 1966
Brown Henry Armitt 1865
Brown Hubert Sanford 1861
Brown Jamot 1899
Brown John Mason 1856
Brown Joseph Venen 1842
Brown Robert Nelson 1979
Brown Samuel Taylor Glover 1944
Brown Walter Henderson 1945
Brown William Scott 1970
Brubaker James Robert 1977
Brubaker John Kim 1976
Bruce Donald 1906
Bryan James Taylor 1971
Bryan, Jr. L. Thomas 1955
Buchanan Thomas Walter 1889
Buck III Charles Henry 1969
Buckland Joseph Payson 1857
Buckley Christopher Taylor 1975
Buckley Fercus Reid 1952
Buckley James Lane 1944
Buckley, Jr. William Frank 1950
Buckner Mortimer Norton 1895
Bulkey Jonathan Ogden 1923
Bulkey Tuzar 1865
Bull Cornelius Wade 1863
Bullock Stanton B. 1981
Bumstead Nathaniel Willis 1855
Bundy Frederick McGeorge 1921
Bundy Harvey Hollister 1909
Bundy Hollister 1909
Bundy McGeorge 1940
Bundy William Putman 1939
Bunnell Phil W. 1927
Burch Robert Boyd 1909
Burke III James Eugene 1975
Burke, Jr. Charles Clinton 1937
Burkus Gregory James 1982
Burnham Curtis Field 1840
Burpee Charles Winslow 1883
Burpee Lucien Francis 1879
Burr William Shedden 1834
Burr II Charles B. 1962
Burrell Joseph Dunn 1881
Buritt Edwin Authur 1915
Buritt John
Bush Derek C. 1967
Bush George Herbert Walker 1948
Bush George Walker 1968
Bush James S. 1922
Bush Jonathan J. 1953
Bush Prescott Sheldon 1917
Bushnell Samuel Clarke 1874
Bushnell William Benedick 1865
Butler Francis Eugene 1857
Butler John Haskell 1863
Butterworth Frank Seiler 1895
Buttles Albert Barnes 1842
Cable Benjamin Stickney 1895
Caldwell Samuel Smith 1933
Calhoun Governeur 1891
Callahan Hugh Andrew 1899
Came Charles Green 1849
Camp Arthur Goodwin 1907
Camp Clinton 1850
Camp Stuart Brown 1900
Camp Walter 1880
Campbell Alan Barnette 1919
Campbell Charles Soutter 1909
Campbell Gavin Elliott 1982
Campbell James 1849
Campbell James Alexander 1882
Campbell Kimberly C. 1981
Campbell Treat 1878
Campbell William Harvey Wilson 1856
Cangelosi Russell Joseph 1972
Capozzalo Douglas Daniel 1976
Capron Paul 1960
Capron Samuel Mills 1853
Carey John 1945
Carlin, Jr. William John Carr
Carlisle James Mandeville 1901
Carlsen Ray Allen 1957
Carlsson Mats Erik 1981
Carpenter George Boone 1902
Carpenter Robert John 1859
Carter Charles Francis 1878
Carter Edwin Osgood 1837
Carter Frederic Dewhurst 1919
Carter Lyon 1915
Carter Walter Frederick 1895
Case George Bowen 1894
Case, Jr. Philip Benham 1970
Caskey Taliaferro Franklin 1865
Casscells Christopher Dyson 1976
Cassel John A. 1958
Caukins, Jr. George Peck 1943
Caulkins John Erwin 1948
Cerveris Michael Ernest 1983
Chadwick George Brewster 1903
Chafee John Hubbard 1947
Chamberlain Daniel Henry 1862
Chamberlain Leander Trowbridge 1863
Chamberlain Robert Linton 1861
Chambers William Lyon 1843
Chandler William Henry 1839
Chandrasekhar Ashok Jai
Chapin Charles Frederick 1877
Chapin Lebeus C.
Charney Charles Meigs 1865
Chase Henry 1850
Chauvenet William 1840
Cheney Clifford Dudley 1898
Cheney Frank Dexter 1900
Cheney Howell 1892
Cheney Philip 1901
Cheney Ronald Lawton 1958
Cheney Russell 1904
Cheney Thomas Langdon 1901
Cheney Ward 1896
Cheney, Jr. Knight Dexter 1892
Chester Carl Thurston 1875
Chibundu Maxwell O. 1980
Child Calvin G.
Child Linus Mason 1855
Childs Starling Winston 1976
Chimenti Norman Victor 1962
Chin Mnu
Chittenden George Hastings 1939
Choa Christopher James 1981
Chouteau Rene Auguste 1942
Christian Henry Hall 1901
Cirie John A. 1964
Clark Albert Barnes 1864
Clark Alexander Ray 1895
Clark Avery Artison 1909
Clark Charles Hopkins 1871
Clark Douglas Wells 1972
Clark Gerald Holland 1965
Clark Harold Terry 1903
Clark J. Bruce 1978
Clark Stephen Edward 1965
Clark Thomas W. 1961
Clark William Judkins 1948
Clark, Jr. R. Inslee 1957
Clarke Thomas Slidell 1875
Clarke William Barker 1849
Claude, Jr. Abram 1952
Clay Alexander Stephens 1964
Clay Cassius Marcellus 1918
Clay Green 1859
Clay Jesse Loring 1963
Clay Lowell Melcher 1939
Clay Timothy J. 1965
Clucas Lowell Melcher 1939
Cobb Henry Nitche 1855
Cochran Thomas 1904
Cochran Thomas 1894
Coe Edward Benton 1862
Coe Robert Elmer 1872
Coffin Edmund 1866
Coffin Henry Sloan 1897
Coffin James 1868
Coffin William Sloane 1949
Coffin, Jr. William Sloan 1949
Coffing Churchill 1834
Coggins Daniel Seton 1964
Cogswell John M. 1961
Cohen Kenneth Saul 1968
Cohen Robert Lewis 1974
Coit Joshua 1853
Coit William 1837
Coke, Jr. Henry C. 1926
Cole Hamilton 1866
Coleman John Caldwell 1881
Colgate Henry Auchincloss 1913
Collier Samuel (Sam) Carnes 1935
Collin Frederick 1871
Collin William Welch 1877
Colt LeBaron Bradford 1868
Colton Henry Martin 1848
Colton Willis Strong 1850
Condit Albert Pierson 1850
Condit Charles 1848
Condit Stephen 1856
Connelly, Jr. William James 1948
Connick Andrew Jackson 1952
Connick Louis 1945
Connor Lemuel Parker 1845
Connor William Gustine 1845
Connors David Michael 1974
Connors James Joseph 1959
Converse George Sherman 1850
Conway, Jr. Joseph Leo 1981
Cook Robert Johnston 1876
Cook II George 1945
Cook III George 1948
Cooke Eldridge Clinton 1877
Cooke Francis Judd 1933
Cooke James Barclay 1893
Cooke John Parick 1959
Cooke Robert Barbour 1936
Cooke Walter Evans 1895
Cooley Harlan Ward 1888
Coombs Orde Musgrave 1965
Coon John 1847
Cooper Carnell 1977
Cooper Henry Sage Fenimore 1917
Cooper Jacob 1852
Cooper John Sherman 1923
Cooper William Frierson 1838
Corbin William Herbert 1889
Corey Alan Lyle 1911
Corey III Alan Lyle 1965
Cornell Thomas Hilary 1915
Corning Erastus 1903
Cornish, Jr. Percy Gillette 1914
Cortelyou, Jr. George Bruce 1913
Corwin Robert Nelson 1887
Corwith John White 1890
Cosgrove Thomas Francis 1969
Costikyan Grange K. 1929
Cowdry Rex William 1968
Cowles Alfred 1913
Cowles Alfred 1886
Cowles William Hutchinson 1887
Cowles William Sheffield 1921
Cowles III Alfred 1913
Cox John Joughin 1891
Coxe Alexander Brown 1887
Coy Edward Harris 1910
Coy Sherman Lockwood 1901
Crampton Rufus Cowles 1851
Crane, Jr. Winthrop Murray 1904
Crapo Stanford Tappan 1886
Crapo William Wallace 1852
Crawley Brian Scott 1964
Creoxton John T.
Cressler Alfred Miller 1902
Crile, Jr. George 1929
Crosby Albert Hastings 1922
Crosby Henry Stetson 1926
Crosby John 1890
Crosby, Jr. Benjamin Lewis 1892
Cross Alan W. 1966
Cross John Walter 1900
Cross Richard James 1937
Cross Walter Snell 1904
Cross, Jr. William R. 1941
Cross William Redmond 1896
Croxton John Thomas 1857
Cruikshank, Jr. Paul Fessenden 1952
Crump John 1833
Csar Michael F. 1972
Cunningham Hugh Terry 1934
Cunningham Oliver Baty 1917
Curtin Francis Clare 1935
Curtis George Louis 1878
Cushing Charles Cyprian Strong 1902
Cushing William Lee 1872
Cushman Charles W. 1957
Cushman Isaac LaFayette 1845
Cushman, Jr. Lt. Gen. Robert E. 1958
Cutler Benjamin Crawford 1926
Cutler Carroll 1854
D'Avanzo Louis A. 1956
Daggett Oliver Ellsworth
Dahl George 1908
Dalby Michael Thomas 1966
Dale, Jr. Edwin Lyon 1945
Daly Frederick Joseph 1911
Dana William Buck 1851
Dana James Dwight
Daniels Forest Leonard 1907
Daniels John H. 1943
Daniels Joseph Leonard 1860
Daniels Rensselaer Wilkinson 1873
Daniels John Thomas Leonard 1914
Danielson Richard Ely 1907
Darling Arthur Burr 1916
Darling Thomas 1836
Davenport Bradfute Warwick 1938
Davenport George Leovy 1980
Davenport John A. 1926
Davenport Russell Wheeler 1923
Davenport Stephen Rintoul 1915
Davies Philip Turner 1976
Davies Thomas Frederick 1853
Davies Thomas Frederick 1894
Davis Benjamin 1895
Davis Benjamin Franklin 1833
Davis Clinton Wildes 1911
Davis John 1835
Davis Lowndes Henry 1860
Davis Richard Marden 1933
Davis Robert Stewart 1860
Davis Walter Goodwin 1908
Davis II Horace Webber 1936
Davison Daniel Pomeroy 1949
Davison Endicott Peabody 1945
Davison Frederick Trubee 1918
Davison Henry Pomeroy 1920
Dawes Chester Mitchell 1876
Day Arthur Pomeroy 1890
Day Clive 1892
Day Dwight Huntington 1899
Day Huntington T. 1923
Day John Calvin 1857
Day Melville Cox 1862
Day Robert Webster 1875
Day Sherwood Sunderland 1911
Day Thomas Mills 1837
Day Thomas Mills 1886
Day William Edwards 1902
Day Henry N
Deans Robert Barr 1918
Dechert Henry Martyn 1850
Decker, Jr. Edmund Lockwood 1929
DeForest Stephen Elliott 1955
Demaree II Frank Edward 1969
Deming Charles Clerc 1872
Deming Henry Champion 1872
Deming Henry Champion 1836
Deming Lawrence Clerc 1883
Dempsey Andrew Squire 1956
Dempsey John Bourne 1911
Dempsey, Jr. James Howard 1938
Denegre Thomas Bayne 1915
DeNeufville John Phillip 1961
Denison Lindsay 1895
Dennis Frederic Shepard 1872
Denny Thomas 1854
Denslow Herbert McKenzie 1873
Dent Henry Hatch 1836
Depew Canson Goodyear 1919
Depew Chauncey Mitchell 1856
DeSa Pompeo Ascenco 1841
DeSibour Jules Henri 1896
DeSilver Albert 1910
Desjardins Peter Earl 1965
Devlin Michael William 1982
Devor, Jr Donald S. 1941
DeVore Mark Samuel 1980
Dexter Franklin Bowditch 1861
Dexter Morton 1867
Diamond Peter C. 1974
Dickinson Arthur 1856
Diller John Cabot 1924
Dilworth George Toby 1980
Dilworth Joseph Richardson 1938
Dimock Henry Farnam 1863
Dines Tyson 1908
Dixon Theodore Polehemus 1907
Dixon William Palmer 1868
Doane John Wesley 1891
Dodd Albert 1838
Dodge Francis Talmage 1904
Dodge Philip Lyndon 1907
Dodge Washington 1929
Dominick David DeWitt 1960
Dominick Gayer Gardner 1909
Donaldson William Henry 1953
Donnelley Gaylord 1931
Donnelley Reuben H. 1889
Donnelley Richard Robert 1889
Donnelley Thomas Elliott 1889
Doolittle Duncan Hunter 1943
Douglas Malcolm 1900
Douglass Willard Robinson 1887
Dousman Louis deVierville 1906
Dowling Brian J. 1969
Downing III Earl S. 1970
Doyle, Jr. Thomas James 1974
Drain Richard Dale 1943
Draper Arthur Joy 1937
Draper III William H. 1950
Dreisbach John Martin 1903
DuBois John Jay 1867
Dunham George Elliott 1859
Dunham, Jr. Lawrence Boardman 1938
Dunn George J. 1957
Dunning Rev. Albert Elijah 1867
Dunwody James Bulloch 1836
Durfee, Jr. C. Gibson 1956
Durham II Edwin A. 1953
Duryee Samuel Sloan 1917
Dutton Samuel W.S.
Dwight Timothy 1849
Dwight Winthrop Edwards 1893
Dyess Arthur Delma 1939
Eakin Emmet Alexander 1856
Eakin William Spencer 1846
Eames Benjamin Tucker 1843
Eaton Daniel C.
Early Hobart Evans 1945
Eaton Samuel Lewis 1877
Eaton Sherburne Blake 1862
Ecklund John E. 1938
Eddy Maxon Hunter 1929
Eden John W. 1951
Edozien Anthony O. 1979
Edwards Alfred Lewis 1857
Edwards George Benjamin 1878
Edwards Newton 1842
Edwards Richard Henry 1901
Eels John Shepard 1901
Eichelberger Martin Smyser 1858
Eisenberg Bruce Alan 1974
Eisler Colin Tobias 1952
Ekfelt Richard (Dick) Henry 1971
Elder Samuel James 1873
Eldridge Charles St. John 1839
Elebash Shehand Daniel 1944
Elliot Henry Rutherford 1871
Elliot William Horace 1844
Ellis Garrison McClintock Noel 1951
Ellis Harland Montgomery 1930
Ellis Raymond Walleser 1930
Ellis, Jr. Alexander 1944
Ellis, Jr. F. Henry 1941
Ellis, Jr. G. Corson 1951
Ellsworth John Stoughton 1905
Elwell, Jr. Francis Bolton 1945
Ely Grosvenor 1906
Ely Richard T.
Embersits John Frank 1958
Emerson Alfred 1834
Emerson Christy Payne 1953
Emerson Joseph 1841
Emerson Samuel 1848
English, Jr. William Deshay 1975
Eno John Chester 1869
Eno Wiliam Phelps 1882
Ercklentz Alexander Tonio 1959
Erickson Thomas Franklin 1940
Ernst Frederick Vincent 1960
Erskine, Jr. Albert DeW. 1930
Esselstyn Erik Canfield 1959
Esselstyn, Jr. Caldwell Blakesman 1956
Estill Joe Garner 1891
Esty Constantine Canaris 1845
Etra Donald 1968
Eustis William Tappan 1841
Evans Evan Wilhelm 1851
Evans Peter Seelye 1972
Evans T. Boyd 1954
Evarts Maxwell 1884
Evarts Sherman 1881
Evarts William Maxwell 1837
Ewell John Lewis 1865
Ewing Sherman 1924
Eyre Lawrence L. 1970
Farnam Charles Henry 1868
Farnam Henry Walcott 1874
Farnam John Dorrance 1890
Farnam William Whitman 1866
Farrar John Chipman 1917
Farris Robert P.
Faulkner Endress 1839
Fearey Morton Lazell 1898
Fehr Gerald F. 1955
Feinerman James Vincent 1971
Felder John Henry 1844
Fenn William Henry 1854
Ferguson Alfred Ludlow 1902
Ferguson James Lord 1944
Ferguson, Jr. Alfred L. 1926
Ferry Orris Sanford 1844
Fetner Philip Jay 1965
Few Smith William 1844
Field David Irvine 1841
Field John Warner 1937
Finch Francis Miles 1849
Fincke Clarence Mann 1897
Finley John George Gilpin 1947
Finney C. Roger 1973
Finney Graham Stanley 1952
Finney John Warren 1945
Fischer Louis Christopher 1856
Fish Stuyvesant 1905
Fisher Irving 1888
Fisher Samuel Herbert 1889
Fisher Scott B. 1972
Fisher George Park
Fishwick Dwight Brown 1928
Fisk Samuel Augustus 1844
Fisk Stuart Wilkins 1840
Fitch George Hopper 1932
Fitch James 1847
Flagg Wilbur Wells 1873
Flanders Henry Richmond 1885
Fleming Andrew T. 1980
Fleming William Stuart 1838
Fletcher Alexander Charles 1933
Flynn Alexander Rex 1906
Folsom Charles Seward 1883
Foote Charles Seward 1883
Foote Harry Ward 1866
Foote Joseph Forward 1850
Foote Thaddeus 1844
Ford George Tod 1865
Ford William 1942
Fore John Arthur 1979
Fort Donald Kenneth 1976
Fortgang Jeffrey 1971
Fortunato S. Joseph 1954
Foster David John 1967
Foster Dwight 1848
Foster Eleazar Kingsbury 1834
Foster George Forris 1879
Foster John Pierrepont 1869
Foster Joseph Taylor 1908
Foster Maxwell E. 1923
Foster Reginald 1884
Foster Roger 1878
Fowler Charles Newell 1876
Fowler Horace Webster 1863
Fowler William 1860
Fox Joseph Carrere 1938
Franchot Charles Pascal 1910
Francis Samuel Hopkins 1964
Frank Clinton E. 1938
Frank III Charles Augustus 1963
Frank, Jr. Victor H. 1950
Frankelm Scott David
Franklin Richard David 1983
Fredericks Joel Richard 1977
Freeman Henry Varnum 1869
French Asa Palmer 1882
French Robert Dudley 1910
Friedland Johnathan David 1970
Fritzche Peter B. 1957
Frost Elihu Brintnal 1883
Frost, Jr. Albert Carl 1922
Fuller Henry W. 1969
Fuller Philo Carroll 1881
Fuller Stanley Evert 1935
Fuller William Henry 1861
Fulton Robert Brank 1932
Furbish Edward Brown 1860
Gachel Charles Nicholas 1843
Gage Charles Stafford 1925
Gaillard Edward McCrady 1919
Gaillard, Jr. Samuel Gourdin 1916
Gaines Edwin Frank 1975
Gaines Milton J. 1956
Galbraith Evan Griffith 1950
Gale Frederick Scott 1983
Gallaudet Edson Fessenden 1893
Gallaudet Herbert Draper 1898
Gallico III G. Gregory 1968
Galvin Michael Gerard 1971
Gammell Arthur Amory 1911
Gardner Robert Abbe 1912
Garfield Newell 1918
Garnsey Walter Wood 1930
Garnsey William Herrick 1960
Garnsey William Smith 1933
Garnsey, Jr. Walter W. 1967
Garrison Elisha Ely 1897
Garvey John Joseph 1929
Gates Artemis L. 1918
Gates Edward Raymond 1976
Gerard Sumner 1897
Gibbs Josiah Willard
Gibson, Jr. Richard Channing 1976
Giegengack, Jr. Robert F. 1960
Gifford Richard C. 1954
Gile Clement D. 1939
Gile Clement Moses 1914
Gile Lawrence Maclester 1978
Gill B. 1936
Gill Brendan 1963
Gill Charles Otis 1889
Gill George Metcalf 1888
Gill Michael Gates 1963
Gillespie Kenrick S. 1929
Gillespie, Jr. S. Hazard 1932
Gillette Augustus Canfield 1841
Gillette Curtenius 1897
Gillette, Jr. Howard Frank 1964
Gilman Daniel Coit 1852
Gisen, Jr. Arthur R. 1954
Glaenzer Georges Brette 1907
Gleason William Henry 1853
Glover III Charles Carroll 1940
Goedecke William Skinner 1947
Goldberg Richard Julius 1977
Gonzalez Timoteo F. 1974
Goodenough John Bannister 1944
Goodyear Robert M. 1949
Gordon Alexander Blucher 1834
Gordon Edward McGuire 1938
Gordon George Arthur 1934
Gould Anthony 1877
Gould James 1918
Gould James Gardner 1845
Gow Robert Haigh 1955
Grammar Christopher 1843
Grandine Thomas Allan 1981
Granger Gideon 1843
Granger John Albert 1855
Grant Edward Dromgoole 1858
Graves Henry Solon 1892
Graves William Phillips 1891
Graves, Jr. Earl Gilbert 1984
Grayson James Gordon 1940
Grayson William Cabell 1944
Grayson, Jr. Cary Travers 1942
Grayson, Jr. William Cabell 1977
Gready William Postell 1842
Green Benjamin P. 1973
Green Charles Grady 1955
Green Edmund Frank 1880
Green Henry Sherwood 1879
Green James Payne 1857
Green Rudolph 1975
Greenberg Stephen David 1970
Greene Waldo Wittenmyer 1930
Greenway James Cowan 1900
Gregory Daniel Seelye
Griggs John Cornelius 1889
Griggs Maitland Fuller 1896
Griggs, Jr. Herbert Stanton 1928
Grimes David Charles 1948
Griswold Dwight Torrey 1908
Griswold William Edward Schenck 1899
Grossman Jay Alan
Grove Manasses Jacob 1929
Grover Thomas Williams 1874
Growel Alfred 1853
Grubb Charles Ross 1873
Gruener Gustav 1884
Guernsey Raymond Gano 1902
Guidotti Hugh G. 1955
Guinzburg Thomas Henry 1950
Gulliver Henry Strong 1875
Gulliver William Curtis 1870
Guthrie III Robert K. 1968
Gwin Samuel Lawrence 1930
Gwin, Jr. Samuel Lawrence 1963
Haas Frederick Peter 1935
Hadden Briton 1920
Hadley Arthur Twining 1876
Hadley Hamilton 1919
Hadley Morris 1916
Hadley James
Haffner, Jr. Charles C. 1919
Haight Ducald Cameron 1847
Haight George Winthrop 1928
Haight, Jr. Charles S. 1952
Haines Thomas Frederick David 1924
Haldeman Richard Jacobs 1851
Hale, Jr. Eugene 1898
Hall Daniel Emerson 1834
Hall Edward Tuck 1941
Hall Gordon
Hall Jesse Angell 1936
Hall John Loomer 1894
Hall John Manning 1866
Hall Robert A. 1930
Hall Stanley
Hall William Kittredge 1859
Hall, Jr. Frederick Bagry 1933
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Hayes Rutherford B. (Co-founder Skull & Bones)
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http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/bones.htm
oldickeastman
administration you must know exactly which of a thousand pictures to
use. Here they are.
-------------------------
A new site exposing the true nature of the attack on the Pentagon on
9-11-01 is is being discussed on two strategic newsgroups:
alt.politics.gw-bush and alt.dear.whitehouse
The Administration's shameful and criminal coverup farce has gone on
long enough. This evidence finishes it:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/message/6
( make sure the above url ends in "-frameup/message/6" when you
click or press
enter)
Here is the new site url that needs to be seen by hundreds of
millions around the world:
Angelo
"Everyman" <dick_e...@yvn.com> wrote in message
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> Documents found in Baghdad's bombed foreign ministry and published
> last Tuesday by The Daily Telegraph claimed the Glasgow MP had
> effectively been on Saddam Hussein's payroll for a decade and had been
> given a slice of oil-for-food earnings totalling £375,000.
>
> Days later a Boston newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor (CSM),
> dwarfed the Telegraph's 'scoop' by claiming documents found in a house
> belonging to Saddam's son Qusay, showed payments totalling $10m paid
> to Galloway from 1992 to this year. In the CSM report, Qusay's
> accounts department is told by him to 'issue the check and deliver to
> Mr George Galloway -- do this fast and inform me'.
> In another of the Telegraph's documents found in the foreign ministry,
> a letter has Galloway identifying his 'representative in Baghdad on
> all matters concerning my work with the Mariam Appeal or the Emergency
> Committee in Iraq'. Galloway's intermediary was Fawaz Zureikat. In the
> Telegraph letter Zureikat is quoted as effectively pleading for a
> Galloway pay rise.
> Galloway recalls that Zureikat had once shared a prison cell in Syria
> with Tariq Aziz, the implication being that the two men share a common
> bond and that Zureikat 'does not need George Galloway'. But Galloway
> did use the financial help of Zureikat, a man he met through his
> Jerusalem-born wife, Dr Amineh Abu-Sayyad, a relative of the
> Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. Galloway separated from his first
> wife in 1987, and divorced 12 years later. He married Sayyad in 2000 .
Ahhh filter it down and what do you get?
A greedy little bastard getting paid off by Saddam
and has "family" ties to Yasser Arafat.
Galloway, say hello to the Gallows you
traitorous fuck.
No wonder he was the most voicetrous opponent
to the war in Iraq in Parliment. It hurts his
bank account, oh I mean his money laundering
scheme with the "Mariam Humanitarianism Effort"
He must have taken lessons from Saddam's
"Oil for Food" laundering.
Jim
Dick Eastman
Richard N. Perle
From Disinfopedia, the encyclopedia of propaganda.
Long-time Washington cold warrior Richard N. Perle is a man of many hats:
Pentagon policy adviser, former Likud policy adviser, media manager,
international investor, op-ed writer, talk show guest, think tank expert
and, most of all, a man who ardently wants Saddam Hussein toppled. Known in
Washington circles as "The Prince of Darkness", Perle is associated with the
American Enterprise Institute and the Project for the New American Century,
both of which have been prominent behind-the-scenes architects of the Bush
administration's foreign policy, in particular its push for war with Iraq.
He is closely allied with Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz,
another Iraq hawk. Perle is also a vocal supporter of Israel and a critic of
Saudi Arabia. Perle is on the Advisory Board of the Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs (JINSA), and is chairman of the Defense Policy
Board, a Defense Department advisory group composed primarily of former
government officials, retired military officers, and academics.
Born in New York City, Perle graduated from the University of Southern
California in 1964 and worked in a variety of Senate staff jobs, including
the office of late Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson from 1969 to 1980, when he
went to work for a private military-consulting firm. The following year he
was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense in the presidential
administration of Ronald Reagan. During the presidential campaign of George
W. Bush, Perle served as a foreign policy advisor.
A veteran Washington insider, Perle has on occasion been accused of being an
Israeli agent of influence. It has been reported that, while he was working
for Jackson, an "FBI summary of a 1970 wiretap recorded Perle discussing
classified information with someone in the Israeli embassy." In 1983, after
stepping into a Pentagon job in the Reagan administration, Perle came under
fire for accepting a $50,000 payment from an Israeli arms manufacturer. He
explained that the payment was for work done as a Washington lobbyist before
entering government. According to a Dec. 24, 1985, Associated Press report,
Perle, still a Reagan Defense Department official, was challenged by
Jeremiah Denton, then a Republican senator from Alabama, on Perle's choice
of Stephen D. Bryen as a Pentagon aide. In the email copy of Lee Byrd's
report provided by John Sugg (John...@aol.com), Denton charged that Bryen,
moving from a job with the powerful American-Israel Public Affairs
Committee, had been forced to resign his Senate Foreign Relations Committee
staff job after being investigated for trying to gain information for the
Israeli government. Federal prosecutors dropped the case, with Perle
defending Bryen's integrity, the AP report says.
In February 2002, the dispute spilled over into theWashington Post's
editorial pages, with one writer blasting the 'toxic' charge that Israel is
unduly influencing President Bush's Iraq policy. A Post editorial responded
by pointing out that Perle, who is chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy
Board, and two other Bush policy men, Douglas Feith, undersecretary of
defense for policy, and David Wurmser, a State Department special assistant,
had in 1996 participated in Likud policy deliberations. Under the auspices
of the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, a
Likud-leaning Israeli think tank, the three helped come up with a paper, 'A
Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,' which declared that
'removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq' was an 'important Israeli
strategic objective in its own right as a means of foiling Syria's regional
ambitions."
The paper also recommended that Israel drop the Labor Party's 'comprehensive
peace' slogan and aim for 'balance of power,' launch 'hot pursuit' strikes
into Palestinian territory - now a staple of the Sharon government - and
work to loosen Yasir Arafat's grip on the Palestinian Authority, a policy
reflected in the recent pressure to compel Arafat to accept a prime
minister.[1]
Perle, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, led the discussion.
Wurmser was listed as a member of the Israeli Institute. Before taking up
his Pentagon post, Wurmser was a Middle East studies expert at the American
Enterprise Institute. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld felt it necessary
to distance himself from Perle last year when the press learned that a
former aide of Lyndon LaRouche had addressed the Defense Policy Board on
reputed Saudi machinations, a theme also favored by Perle and Wurmser.
Rumsfeld said the 'talented' Perle, whose Pentagon post is unpaid, did not
speak for Rumsfeld or for President Bush.
Perle has close business ties with Conrad Black, chairman of Hollinger
International Inc., which owns more than 400 daily and weekly newspapers in
Canada, the United States, Britain, Israel and Australia. Hollinger papers
include London's Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Sydney Morning
Herald and the Jerusalem Post. Perle uses these papers and others to trumpet
his anti-Saddam sentiments and to tangle with political figures, such as
British Minister Clare Short, who opposes the Perle line on Iraq. Black, a
Canadian, recently joined fellow media kingpin Rupert Murdoch in defending
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to stick with Bush's war aims,
despite overwhelming domestic opposition.
Perle is a top executive of Hollinger Digital Inc., which is the media
management and investment arm of Hollinger [2][3]. Perle is listed on
various corporate boards through his association with Hollinger. Whether or
not Perle speaks for Bush, the president's recent reasoning on Iraq follows
a pattern found in Perle's writings, particularly in a lengthy piece for
Israel Insider, which uses numerous non-sequiters in its emotionally-charged
connection of Saddam to terrorist activity.[4]
Despite his familiarity with the media, Perle found a piece by veteran
investigative reporter Seymour Hersh a little hard to take. Hersh's New
Yorker report, "A Hawk's Business," targets Perle's hush-hush meeting with
Saudi industrialist Saleh al-Zuhair, a meeting arranged with the help of
Iran/contra figure Adnan Khashoggi. Hersh explored the possibility of a
conflict of interest for Perle, one of whose businesses is Trireme Partners
LP, a venture capital firm that invests in technology, goods, and services
related to homeland security and defense. Trireme also created International
Advisors Inc., a lobbying firm whose main client is Turkey. Henry Kissinger
is a Trireme adviser, and Perle is a managing partner.[5] Kissinger, who was
forced to resign as head of the independent commission to investigate the
9/11 attacks, has been using his influence to try to keep the Saudis calm
during the buildup to war. The subject of the al-Zuhair meeting is in
dispute, but Perle is fighting off the impression that he was trying to use
his Pentagon influence to profit from a war that he is doing all he can to
implement. Hersh criticized Perle's relationship with Trireme as an ethical
conflict of interest, to which Perle responded by calling Hersh "the closest
thing American journalism has to a terrorist."[6]
Bush has recently taken to accepting Perle's view that the UN is pretty much
irrelevant when it comes to Iraq.[7]
Perle is also associated with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies,
which backs Bush's Iraq war push. Others with the foundation are columnist
Charles Krauthammer, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, and Georgia
senator Zell Miller. Perle, who produced the 1992 PBS documentary, "The Gulf
Crisis, the Road to War,' has long experience in the ways of Washington.
The wide-ranging Perle even finds himself involved in Total Information
Awareness technology. He was listed as a speaker at a March 13 Washington
press briefing on 'data mining,' the use of computer technology to sift out
patterns from electronic communications. A fellow Pentagon official, Admiral
John M. Poindexter of Iran/contra notoriety, spurred a political firestorm
with his TIA plans. Congress forbade such technology to be used against
Americans. The briefing, which also billed Sen. Ron Wyden, was promoted as
informational only. However, concerned scientists have charged that data
mining pays off in miniscule results in contrast to widespread privacy
violation.[8]
Mr. Perle is receiving some heat due to a possible conflict of interest with
serving on the Defense Policy Board and being hired as an advisor for Global
Crossing, "Even as he advises the Pentagon on war matters, Richard N. Perle,
chairman of the influential Defense Policy Board, has been retained by the
telecommunications company Global Crossing to help overcome Defense
Department resistance to its proposed sale to a foreign firm, Mr. Perle and
lawyers involved in the case said today." Mr. Perle's fee is $750,000, but
he will receive an additional $600,000 if the sale is approved. [9]
Concerned over conflict of interest, senior Democrats are seeking an inquiry
into the matter by the Pentagon inspector general. [10]
Perle maintains that he has not violated any ethics rules, but decided to
resign his position as chairman of the Defense Policy Board on March 26,
2003 [11], but remains on the board. In an effort to save face, he writes in
his resignation letter that he will refuse any compensation with his deal
with Global Crossing and "any fee for past service would be donated to the
families of American forces killed or injured in Iraq." There is also a
report that "The communications company, Global Crossing, also announced
that Mr. Perle had decided to sever his ties with it."[12] [13]
The Global Crossing affair has started a more critical look into Perle's
business affairs. On March 29, 2003, The New York Times reports that Perle
was involved with Loral Space and Communications in 2001 as an advisor while
it faced accusations that it transfered rocket technology to China [14]. It
is worth noting that Global Crossing affair was also due to Global Crossing
trying to overcome Defense Department opposition to be sold to a venture
with ties to China.
Angelo
"oldickeastman" <oldick...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c2cda8c6.03042...@posting.google.com...
> A picture is worth a thousand words -- but to bring down a criminal
> administration you must know exactly which of a thousand pictures to
> use. Here they are.
>
> -------------------------
>
> A new site exposing the true nature of the attack on the Pentagon on
> 9-11-01 is is being discussed on two strategic newsgroups:
>
> alt.politics.gw-bush and alt.dear.whitehouse
>
> The Administration's shameful and criminal coverup farce has gone on
> long enough. This evidence finishes it:
Or you can just take on the eyewittnesses.
"I WAS THERE YOU FUCKWIT LUNATIC CONSPIRACY
THEORY DRIVEL FROTHING IDIOT!
IT WAS A COMMERCIAL AIRLINER THAT CRASHED
INTO THE PENTAGON."
Jim
Angelo
"Dick Eastman" <dick_e...@yvn.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Richard_N._Perle
BLAH BLAH BLAH, ok lefty whatever you say
Dick Eastman
he says that is most significant.
----------------
Further substantiation of the killer-jet-decoy-airliner explanation of the
Pentagon crashbombing
> Dick, Have you seen the Bob Pugh Video? It is 2:12 sec. long and
> some of it very early. Here is url:
http://dirckhalstead.org/issue0110/video/Pentagon01.rm
> The file name is Pugh_Pentagon 01.ram.
> It can be found with Yahoo image search - Pugh Pentagon.
> The video shows one of the lime fire trucks obstructing the
> view while moving into position. I believe it is edited and
> not as filmed for aesthetic reasons only.
> Upon listening to the audio I note he gives the time of
> hearing of the "hit" at about 9:30 instead of 9:38 to 9:42
> as the networks have placed the hits.
>
> I appreciate your hard work. Thank You!!!
>
> Daniel Thompson
Daniel,
Oh wow! This is significant new information to me.
Watched it with Real One Player at both x1 and x2, I was looking for
downed poles etc. but it was what Pugh said that really hit me.
Pugh says that he first heard a report that a plane had crashed on the 14th
Street Bridge. This bridge is east of the Pentagon -- and it was the
west-facing side that was hit.
The fact that some observers saw what looked like a plane hitting or about
to hit the fourteenth street bridge is new support for my contention that as
the killer plane hit the west wall the Boeing 757 Flight 77 flew over the
crash site and continued straight ahead -- and what is straight ahead, I
notice, looking at the American Automobile Association map, is the 14th
street bridge.
I suspect that the Boeing was banking sharply over the bridge to make one
of the east-most runways of Reagan National. Here at last is some
indication that someone saw the airliner east of the building -- possibly
before the sound of the crash reached his ears -- if the source of that
claim was observing from the east side of the Potomac.
Thank you for posting this.
Dick
Angelo
> 1. 9-11 investigators' progress notes
> 2. Wegerif "Unmasking the 9-11 Deception"
>
> =========
>
> I T E M # 1:
>
>
apparently
> realize, but no matter.
>
> I have one thought -- suggestion.
>
> The important initial photograph shows the scale model of the Boeing 757
> outside outside the Pentagon as per the "official story" -- but the
> picture of shows the Pentagon after the outer wall collapsed (definitely a
> piece of demolition --Or you can just take on the eyewittnesses.
Or you can just take on the eye wittnesses to the crash.
Angelo
> Bob Pugh video of minutes after the attack on the Pentagon, but it is what
> he says that is most significant.
> ----------------
>
> Further substantiation of the killer-jet-decoy-airliner explanation of
the
> Pentagon crashbombing
>
> > Dick, Have you seen the Bob Pugh Video? It is 2:12 sec. long and
> > some of it very early. Here is url:
> http://dirckhalstead.org/issue0110/video/Pentagon01.rm
> > The file name is Pugh_Pentagon 01.ram.
> > It can be found with Yahoo image search - Pugh Pentagon.
Dick Eastman
strategy/reasons for 9-11 frameup; 2) Fescado-Eastman Re: Bob Pugh video
of Pentagon minutes after the attack, but it is what he says that is most
significant.
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Item # 1:
Re: New best investigative site on Sept. 11 Pentagon attack evidence
> Best new investigative site on the attack on the Pentagon:
> http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/pentagon.htm
Niels Groeneveld writes:
The articles on Rumsfeld and the implementation of the QDR (Quadrennial
Defense Review) in September 2001
on the site are at least as important (if not far more important) as the
Flight 77 story -
They show very clearly, from official sources, the strategy and reasons
behind the September 11th attacks.
They show that all strategies which are supposedly implemented 'because of
911' were being carefully planned
in the months (and years) preceding the September 11th attacks, and -at
least as important- these plans in
the QDR and the increased budgets which were planned were not possible to be
implemented without the
911 events. These strategies include the war on terrorism, afghanistan,
iraq, regime change, pre-emptive
strike doctrine and so on.
But well - I guess those who debunk the site do so by default - and not
after reading what's actually on there....
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Here is the site's front page: http://www.freedomfiles.org
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DE comment: I have only commented on the subpage on the Pentagon attack
from this powerful compilation and digest of 9-11 data. Obviously you are
not going to get the full story if you just rely on me.
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Item 2:
Fescado-Eastman Re: Bob Pugh video of Pentagon minutes after the attack.
[Note: The more I watch the Pugh tape, which Pugh edited, the more I see
deliberate avoidance (editing out) of shots of the hole made in the Pentagon
wall -- he avoids pointing the camera at the hole except on one occasion,
when he just happens to be where two fire engines completely block the most
important scene to be seen. Why would a professional news cameraman do
that?]
Subject: Re: Bob Pugh video of Pentagon minutes after the attack, but it is
what he says that is most significant.
> kewl video - interesting 14th Bridge reporting...
>
> Help me with something...
>
> You say Flight 77 flew over the Pentagon while the smaller jet impacted
> the Pentagon. Tell me why Flight 77 was even in DC airspace, since it
> was inbound to Los Angeles, if I remember correctly, and how you know
> that?
Primarily because witnesses an American Airlines jet over washington d.c.
before the crash -- even near the white house -- and then the approach to
the Pentagon, over the Annex, over Columbia Pike, over the gardener working
in the cemetery (presumably near the Naval Annex on the south side). Also,
we major media show the planes course, show it turning around, before
transponder was shut off -- although it continued flying west after a brief
turn north and correction before making that turn. You've seen the map, --
was it USAToday?
Riskus saw it within 100 feet of him -- he saw it cross Washington Blvd. in
front of him -- and he was north and southbound of the crash (whereas the
lamp posts are more than 600 feet further south.
>The argument falls apart if you answer it was going to hit
> targets in DC. Oh, its just a decoy.... why? For what purpose do they
> need 2 planes anyway? Why not actually fly 77 into the Pentagon?
Rumsfeld was in the Pentagon. THEIR PEOPLE were in there -- on the opposite
side! The needed just the portion of the Pentagon assigned that they wanted
taken out -- probably filled with selected "troublesome-to-Rummsfeld -and
Wolfowitz Pentagon personel.
>There
> was probably normal air traffic inbound to the airport. Whatever
> happened at the Pentagon, Flight 77 was nowhere to be had!
Yes, normal traffic for Flt. 77 to blend in with. I do not understand why
you say Flight 77 was nowhere to be had. Recall that we have never heard
from Reagan national tower people -- just Dulles. That is strange, is it
not? ANd remember the 87 foreigners (Mossad?, MI6?) with illegal top
security badges allowing them anywhere in Reagan -- I'd say the chances
are good one of these, as a confederate, was in the tower arranging for
Flt.77's blending-in dissappearance act. And remember, Reagan was shut
down completely for months after Dulles reopened. Yet, no extraordinary
measures unlike other airports was initiated there has been reported.
This is
> crucial. No one has been able to positively ID Flight 77 anywhere after
> transponder-radio-radar contact was lost, let alone back in DC.
SO what do you suggest -- that Riskus saw a hologram? I do not believe
holograms can be projected, nor can holograms of that size be made (imagine
the lazers) even if viewed through developed plate. Forget the projections.
People saw the Boeing. They saw the Boeing approach from a location and at
an angle (Riskus says it appeared to him to go straight in -- that is at a
90 degree angle to the wall) so that it would be impossible for that plane,
for that Boeing 757, to have been on the attack path of the killer jet, the
attack path described by 5 downed lamp posts and six holes in a line within
Pentagon, each below the floor of the third story of the building.
> Remember it took some 48hrs for AA to confirm it had lost Flight 77.
> Try to avoid any argument that attempts to place Flight 77 in DC
> airspace or near the Pentagon, unless you can get the data (and then
> pass it over to me). From that you are free to investigate what
> actually did hit the Pentagon as you've been doing.
WHa? What have I missed?
>
> fes
>
>
> ----
Dick Eastman
EVERYBODY - RISE - UP - AND - THROW - THE - MASS -MURDERING - DEBT -
SLAVER - PIRATES - THE- HELL - OUT - OF - THE - GLOBAL - DRIVER'S -
SEAT -BECAUSE - WE - REALLY - CAUGHT - THEM - ON - THE - PENTAGON -
FRAME-UP - AND - COVER-UP - AND -AREN'T - GOING - TO - PUT - UP - WITH -
THEM - EVEN - ONE - MORE - YEAR MOVEMENT.
Yes, it's an established fact. . The American power elite, directed by the
neo-conservative false-religion right, were the planners and executioners
of 3000 innocent human beings in New York City and Arlington, Virginia on
September 11, 2001 and they did it in order to blame innocent of other
lands so that a hundred American and British billionaires could become
trillions of dollars richer.
But of course, no one will accept a claim so serious and consequential
without a mountain of overwhelming proof.
Pentagon crime evidence presentations (photo essays):
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/
Best "big-picture" site on the Pentagon attack and entire 9-11 frameup
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/pentagon.htm
Leading French Sites on the Pentagon Attack:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jpdesm/pentagon/
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ericbart
http://www.ifrance.fr/silentbutdeadly/
Other highly recommended sites on 9-11:
http://www.the-movement.com/Hijackers/Agents.htm
http://www.communitycurrency.org/pi.html
http://www.koolpages.com/killtown/flight77.html
http://www.waronfreedom.mediamonitors.net/index.html
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/pentagon.htm
http://amigaphil.planetinternet.be/PentagonCrash.html
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman1.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman2.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman3.htm
Now perhaps you are debating in you mind whether or not to join this mass
movement of the world's billions of honest hard-working
and-really-quite-nice people and break these chains of debt-slaver piracy.
Here is a debaate that will help you weigh the pros and cons:
I know you will do the best for the future of those you love and for
hundreds of millions of other good people you don't even know.
Dick Eastman
video store clerk and your brother
223 S. 64th Ave.
Yakima, Washington
Every man is responsible to every other man.
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Resolved: We Should We Go For the Establishment's Throat Over the 9-11
Mass-Murder Frame-up, the Afganistan and Iraq War Crimes, and a century of
political and economic crimes against humanity.
Pro: Dick Eastman
Con: Marguerite Hampton (of aw...@yahoogroups.com )
Part One:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dick_eastman_populism/message/12
Part Two:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dick_eastman_populism/message/14
EVERYBODY - RISE - UP - AND - THROW - THE - MASS -MURDERING - DEBT -
SLAVER - PIRATES - THE- HELL - OUT - OF - THE - GLOBAL - DRIVER'S -
SEAT -BECAUSE - WE - REALLY - CAUGHT - THEM - ON - THE - PENTAGON -
FRAME-UP - AND - COVER-UP - AND -AREN'T - GOING - TO - PUT - UP - WITH -
THEM - EVEN - ONE - MORE - YEAR MOVEMENT.
Dick Eastman
>
> Firstly it may not have been any sort of a plane that struck the Pentagon.
A missile is possible. What is a remote-controlled F-16 but a missile?
And on Dec. 12, 2001 an experimental F-16 owned by General Dynamics
was retired and its body put in the General Dynamics flight museum -- the
plane capable of all feats of a high-permormance tactical fighter from the
ground.
(I suspect the equipment was stripped and put on the F-6 that did the deed.)
> It could have been either a missile or a bomb (or set of bombs).
Actually I was wedded to the bomb theory after reading the French site
in early March, 2002. I was arguing with Dave Bosankoe, who was defending
the official version, when the video frames of the security camera were
released.
I sent him the frames, which he enlarged and animated. Both of us were
convinced
by that that the jet in the frame, its tail standing up behind the famous
yellow pillar,
could not have been a Boeing 757 because the fuselage that would go with the
tailfin was simply not there (in broad daylight, the fuselage shiny
aluminum etc.)
My theory -- if you demand utmost rigor and not going one speck beyond what
the
data will support -- is the "small plane" theory, not the F-16 theory.
But the F-16 has much to recommend it. It is the plane that is assinged to
guard
duty over Washington D.C. anyway. Its being there, even its approaching the
Pentagon at top speed, would be understandable if it were identified. It
could
hug the terraine and blend behind the visual noise of the buildings. It has
all
the capabilities needed. And if the psychological op that was being relied
upon
failed, one could say that the jet was merely trying to intercept the Boeing
and
it crashed. etc.
F-16s were in the area. F-16's were all around the jet that went down in
Pennsylvania 10 minutes before the Pentagon was hit.
But you are right it could be a missile. But not the global-hawk name
illudes
me right now -- but this craft does not have the shape tail shown in the
video,
even though it has the capabilities under remote control.
ANd there is the witness who said he saw the plane actually crash -- a plane
that could not have held more than 12- passengers. (A business jet, like
the
plane that followed the airliner that went down in Pennsylvania has been
suggested -- one capable of firing a missile (certainly billionaires have
defensive gagets they don't tell us about.)
>If one
> includes US conspirators in the act as well as Mossad, the latter is
> possible because where else would the US conspirators normally work and
> operate except in the Pentagon? Although the same can be said of Mossad
> conspirators - the Pentagon is probably riddled with Israeli agents.
Yes, starting with Perle and Wolfowitz. (Dual citizenship, I suspect.
Wolfowitz
has been caught in the Reagan years, talking about secret stuff with the
Israeli
embassy -- I just read.)
>
> Secondly, the plane seen passing close over the Pentagon may not
necessarily
> have been Flight 77 at all, although that is the mostly likely option.
Yes -- but, as you have convinced me, it was not a projection, and it was
positively
identified as an American Airlines Airliner -- see quotes I have collected
at this apfn
page:
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman1.htm
>
> Thirdly, one can well understand that the conspirators would not want a
real
> plane hitting the Pentagon because they could neither know the extent of
the
> damage to expect - it could have been 'excessive' from their point of
view -
> and because, not being a precision weapon, it could have missed the target
> wall and come down inside the Pentagon on the opposite side, or even short
> of or past the Pentagon.
I think they trust the new technology. We are forced to live in the 70's in
a world
falling apart -- not so the super rich who have the technology they
withhold from
us. The military has all the best applied brains mixed with all that
capital -- reliability
they have. But not with the Boeing! They trusted the general dynamics
equipment
in the F-16, doubtless with double and triple-checking fail-safes in case
things go wrong.
> Note the altitude difference (in storeys) between
> the two jets which struck the Twin Towers, where vertical precision was
not
> so critical.
Well put. Looks like the first one is diving into it, the second
horizontal. But there could have been specific offices that were targeted in
each case, we don't know.
>
> That the explosion at the Pentagon was designed to take out either
plotters
> or potential whistle-blowers (or both) I am in no doubt.
I agree with you.
> There may have even
> been some collateral damage - deaths of innocents, though I would hesitate
> to describe anyone employed at the Pentagon as "innocent", even if they
knew
> nothing of the plot.
Yes, the enemies of the guilty, the friends of the guilty, and "the
insignificant" (from there perspective.)
> Moroever, I suspect that all parties to the plot below
> the level of those with White House access are now dead, one way or
another,
> and further that the hitmen used to take out any residual parties not
killed
> at the Pentagon would themselves have been killed subsequently. The
ancient
> Egyptian technique involved killing everyone who knew the victim's name or
> had ever met him/her and then the assassins themselves by other assassins
> who had no idea who the primary assassins were or what they had done.
Many aviation types were aboard Flight 77 -- and microbiology medical men
too.
> Professor Dewdney associates the plane that was brought down by an
explosion
> on October 4th, carrying 77 Israelis from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk with
such
> a tactic and speculates that the Israelis, who were all killed, were part
of
> the 9/11 plot.
>
> It is still possible that the US was not in on the plot and that it was
> solely a Mossad initiative, despite the evidence the 'response' being
> planned before the event. The planners may well have been Mossad agents,
as
> I believe Perle and Wolfowitz to be.
Not with Bush's actions. ANd the DoD must have known what did not hit their
building, as well as what did hit it. The entire upper echelon is by now
aware that the story does not add up -- they are all, by now, accomplices to
the coverup -- the ones who have not resigned that is, and there have been
many of those.
Certainly Rice, Cheney, Meyer, Abrams, Kissinger, Gingrich and all those
dealing with Wolfowitz on a daily basis -- and Blair and Straw etc. --
investment banking is the only power that could coordinate US< Britain and
Israel at the top like this -- and investment bankers (merchant bankers, I
guess you would call them) are the power elite -- through the cfr, the
trilateral commission, the bilderberg, the royal roundtable etc.
>
> As for what ultimately happened to Flight 77 - it was probably dumped in
the
> Atlantic. No other land-crashes were recorded that day.
I used to suggest this -- in the mid-Atlantic trench, is was saying --
but there are the witnesses -- and then I discovered , what no one was
telling us, that Reagan National's closest runway starts only one mile
away -- and is reachable from the blast when flying as I have suggested the
Boeing 757 must have flown.
But I am not certain -- and I will keep these sensible alternatives you
have suggested in the back of my mind -- especially the missile
possibility.
Dick
Dick Eastman
Belgium."
Bush threatening Belgium. How ironic. Recall that one of the exucses used
for America break her isolationist traditions and enter World War One was
the fact that might Germany had roughed up bystander Belgium because the
Schlieffen plan required an outflanking manouver against France through that
peaceful little country.
See how we have grown in stature and wisdom since then or not.
The fact is that the President has an obligation to live up to all treaties
of the US, which have the authority second only to the constitution in
American law.
Is anyone keeping count of all these impeachable offenses?
Last Updated: Tuesday, 29 April, 2003, 03:52 GMT 04:52 UK
US anger at war crimes threat
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2983911.stm
By Justin Webb
BBC Washington correspondent
The Bush administration has reacted angrily to suggestions that General
Tommy Franks, the commander of the US-led war in Iraq, might be charged with
war crimes.
A Belgian lawyer says he is preparing a case that could see General Franks
charged under a law which allows the prosecution of non-Belgian citizens for
war crimes.
The most famous such case was brought against the Israeli Prime Minister,
Ariel Sharon, and caused deep strains in the relationship between Belgium
and Israel.
If this prosecution goes ahead, Bush administration officials are making it
plain they will regard it as a major diplomatic incident - an example of
political harassment.
A senior administration official warned that even the issuing of indictments
would result in what he called "diplomatic consequences" for Belgium.
The State Department spokesman, Richard Boucher, said the Belgian
authorities should act early to prevent such consequences.
"We believe the Belgian Government needs to be diligent in taking steps to
prevent abuse of the legal system for political ends," he said.
The row erupted after a Brussels lawyer gave an interview to American
newspapers in which he said he was aiming to file a case next week on behalf
of 10 Iraqi civilians alleging among other things that General Franks did
nothing to stop the looting of hospitals in Baghdad and that coalition
forces fired on an ambulance.
Copyright BBC
Dick Eastman
win! Congratulations on the success of this showdown, John! Kudos to you
and your work.
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From: "John Kaminski" <sky...@comcast.net>
To: -----------------
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:07 PM
Subject: Fox chickens out
Dear e-mail friend,
From the bottom my heart, thank you for all those wonderful messages
of encouragement.
After studying 9/11 stuff and reading all your great e-mails this
morning, I just woke up from a monster afternoon nap - in order to be
fresher at midnight - and there's a message on my phone from Fox News
producer Jon Constantino.
"Uh, sorry to tell you, John, but we've decided to have you on another
night. We'll call you to tell you when it is."
Those bastards. I should've known better. They can't play straight with
anyone. This is the second time they've done this to me.
What I will say when and if they call back I do not know. I feel
strongly that the public needs to be talking more about this, and that 9/11
is the key to beginning a genuine reform of the American political
system. If this does not happen, I feel we will slide further into a
police-state situation, and our Constitutional rights, which already have
been severely diminished, will disappear altogether.
So ... this is what I wanted to say to those Fox shills, and what I want
you to be saying to those people you know who are at least willing to talk
about what happened then, and what is happening now.
There is no doubt that the horrible attacks of September 11, 2001 were
allowed to happen by the highest levels of the American government.
Numerous intelligence reports prior to the tragedy were available to the
government, and the government failed to act on them. Worse, top government
officials lied after 9/11 and said they had no idea this type of attack was
possible, flying in the face of ten years of intelligence which indicated
that terror groups had planned to use airplanes as weapons of destruction.
This is the one irrefutable fact you should use in your arguments with
other people: the 9/11 attacks could not have happened without the
catastrophic failure of America's air defenses. And yet, the people in
charge of those air defenses who allowed these attacks to happen were not
censured or prosecuted after the tragedy, they were promoted (and I am
speaking primarily of Gen. Myers).
Now, beyond allowing the tragedy to happen, the question becomes did
the highest levels of the American government PLAN for the event to happen?
There is every reason to believe that they did, although this
assertion is not ironclad, because so much of the evidence has been covered
up.
What looms most suspiciously after 9/11 are the rigged passage of the
Patriot Act, which took away most of our Constitutional rights, and the
cynical invasion of Afghanistan, which was claimed to be response to 9/11
even though it was planned long before 9/11.
The Patriot Act was passed, according to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas),
without even being read by most members of Congress. (This is clearly an act
of treason, and was committed by most members of Congress. Destroying the
Constitutional provisions that make America what it is probably is the
greatest crime in American history, although there are a lot of nominees in
this category all happening under the administration of George W. Bush.)
The president and his minions all made it clear that the invasion of
Afghanistan was for the purpose of apprehending the terrorist Osama bin
Laden, who was blamed for the 9/11 attacks (although to this day, not a
shred of evidence that could be used in a court of law has been released to
the public).
However, it is clear from numerous documents that the invasion of
Afghanistan was planned long before 9/11, so for the Bush administration to
claim 9/11 was the reason for the attack is a lie on its face. Besides,
Pakistan offered to hand over bin Laden for trial in a neutral country, and
the U.S. refused the offer. Gen. Tommy Franks went so far as to state that
apprehending bin Laden would not stop the war, nor was his apprehension its
purpose (Ahmed, The War on Freedom).
Subsequent events such as the anthrax attacks (and its trail of evidence
that led straight to the door of the government) and the tragic U.S.
invasion of Iraq (the major reasons for which are now known to be
pathetically obvious lies) amply illustrate a clear pattern of lying by the
Bush administration.
It is imperative that the American people analyze the events and
statements by Bush and his cronies about 9/11 in the context of subsequent
actions; that is to say, if they're lying about everything else, chances are
excellent they're lying about 9/11.
And all this is to say nothing about the evidence concerning 9/11
itself:
. Why did the president continue to read a story to schoolchildren after
he knew that TWO World Trade Center towers had been hit by hijacked
airliners? As many have noted, this behavior clearly reveals
Bush was covering up his foreknowledge of the attacks. That he has provided
three different explanations of his behavior is simply more evidence.
. Any idiot realizes the hole in the Pentagon was not made by a jumbo
jet - it's just not big enough, there was no aircraft debris at the point of
contact, and there were no marks on the building that would have been made
by the wings. In addition, there is existing film of the impact in which no
trace of a jetliner appears.
. This is really the big one. How could top officials, immediately after
the tragedy, say American intelligence had no clue that hijackers would fly
planes into buildings and then two days later release the names of the
hijackers? This is a clear lie, repeated by almost everyone in the power
structure. How could they know the names of the hijackers if they weren't
following them and knowing what they were supposedly going to do? The whole
story about the hijackers is a complete fabrication, conclusively revealing
foreknowledge and casting doubt on the story that the hijackers even boarded
the planes.
As most of you know, there are thousands of other facts that indicate
both foreknowledge and conspiracy. This information is posted widely on the
Internet. It is imperative that you seek out this information and
disseminate it as widely as possible.
We are in a battle for freedom and we are losing it.
This is just a note right off the top of my head to say I'm sorry you
didn't get to listen to me torch those fascists on Fox, and to say we need
to redouble our efforts toward recruiting our neighbors and
relatives to understand our point of view about this, or else our freedoms
will continue to be taken away.
The criminals who have hijacked the American government and are intent on
enslaving the entire world under corporate fascism will not stop unless we
stop them.
Don't depend on TV or the newspapers. They're all in the pocket of the
power elite, and work tirelessly to cover up and belittle those who are
seeking the real story.
We may not avoid this confrontation, and there is no place in the world
to hide. We must stand up for honesty and what we believe is right. And we
must all take action now, before it is too late.
Be well. Be safe. More later.
Best wishes,
John Kaminski
Angelo
Dick is either not getting enough of his namesake or is jealous
of others more endowed to that namesake.
oldickeastman
No no no. I like the Dixie Chicks. And here is why:
Subject: Re: The Dixie Who?
On 03 May 2003, eflo...@rochester.rr.com (eflorack) posted this:
> Just a thought; Why is it the liberals haven't started on the Dixie
> Chicks name as being offensive to blacks?
The Dixie Cups are made with non-polluting processes and are very
cheap ways to provide glasses for anti-war picnics, and blacks like
picnics as well as the next race does.
But you ask about the Jeffersonian liberal position on all this. Let
me explain it all for you.
The Dixie Chick is merely getting what British Minister Galloway has
just gotten for what he said about soldiers needing to say no if they
feel they are being asked to commit war crimes.
Look what someone said -- and see if you don't see the same
totalitiarian thinking at work -- what is happening to the Dixie
Chick for being a human being with her own politics reminds me of the
treatment the Maoist Red Guards gave people who did not exhibit the
right shade of Mao-think and recite the red book" exactly as written
in the late 1960s.
Now lets look at this Galloway-Dixie chick issue a little closer:
Roy <R...@seuk.freeserve.co.uk>, who exhibits the anti-DSixie CHick
"Red Guard" mentality, wrote about Galloway as follows:
> I sincerely hope he (Galloway) is proved to be one (a traitor)
> and is then subjected to the full force of the law - if he is
> found guilty, (knowing our idiotic judges) he will probably
> be given a Knighthood and a pension !
Roy neweds to see that what this minister of Parliament did was to
tell troops
to use their conscience if they feel they are being led into war
crimes against Iraq. And of course the Dixie Chick had a similar
message -- as a private person to her admirers -- and why the hell
not?
Have you looked at the evidence that the September 11 "terrorism" was
a false-flag inside-job mass-murder frame-up? That it was known in
advance that both Afganistan and Iraq were totally innocent of any
involvement? That plans for the war were completed and that secret
policies that required such wars were already adopted before 9-11?
If enemies of Britain manage to capture control of your government
through the massive money power of the merchant banks fed by laundered
drug money, insider- manipulated national currencies and interest
rates around the world, and monopoly profits from economic priveleges
bestowed by bought governments etc. and if these pirates use British
soldiers as hit-men and thumb-breakers to raid innocent nations that
have resisted debt-slavery globalization, like the moral Moslem
peoples of Afganistan and Iraq had been doing -- then why the hell
not shouldn't a soldier say -- Heck! I'll have no part of this
wanton plunder murder to profit a bunch of neo-con zionist sociopath
infiltrators! -- Isn't that what should have been done during World
War One? you bet your sweet ass it is. The world needed Galloways
and Dixie CHicks then, and it needs them now!
So smarten up! And to do so, begin reading here:
Sources: vectress, truthout, israel shamir -- subscribe to these
yourself:
Aftermath-11-Septe...@yahoogroups.co.uk (vectress)
http://membership.truthout.org/membership/sub_mgmt.php
shamireader...@yahoogroups.com
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Has Germany also participated in what International Commission of
Jurists (ICJ) has called the war a "flagrant violation of the
prohibition of the use of force?"
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/may2003/germ-m07.shtml
U.K Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has ignored Israeli attacks on UK
nationals
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,950516,00.html
Iraqi Resistance (Hizb al-Tahrir, "Liberation Movement") interviewed
by Al-Jazeera
http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=7012&TagID=2
'Jewish cabal' of Bush and Blair
(no url -- articles forwarded by Israel Shamir presented in full
below)
Wish we had a nationalist hero President like this. Saddam Hussein's
speech, more than was reported
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/07/1051987718936.html
Proud to be American? Not While it Chooses Bombs Over Bread
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/050403H.shtml
"Reconstruction and Flying Carpetbaggers" --US embassy launches
"reconstruction" website announcing contract awards
http://tinyurl.com/b6cf
Halliburton Cash Registers Ring in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/050403F.shtml
Organised Crime Involved In Looting Of Museum
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=403861
White House Refuses to Release Sept. 11 Info
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/050703A.shtml
Labour Party suspends MP George Galloway for calling on British
soldiers to resist on war-crime participation on conscience
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/story/0,9061,950650,00.html
Another diplomat resigns: " This is the only time in my many years
serving America that I have felt Icannot represent the policies of an
administration of the United States. I disagree with the
administration's policies on Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
North Korea and curtailment of civil liberties in the United States
itself. "
http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=7014&TagID=2
Zionist neo-con appointed occupation to impose new curricula on Iraqi
schools to wipe out "racist" and "hate-filled" Arab-centered identity
http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=7004&TagID=2
Selective Intelligence -- Donald Rumsfeld uses his own (unreliable)
intelligence sources (Seymore Hersh article)
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact
Iraq invasion comes 50 years after CIA overthrow of Mossadegh
http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1325
A feel of occupied Iraq...By Jerry Levin " we encountered another
Tank whose inscription asked the worrisome question, 'Where's The
Bitches?' "
(no url -- article below)
Greta Duisenberg -- time to flood the world with the Palestine flag
http://www.counterpunch.org/paulo05062003.html
British Protest Humor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,950533,00.html
For Bush, Cold Truths Are Lurking After Pomp on Carrier
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/050403J.shtml
That Was the War That Was
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/050403I.shtml
Small-plane evidence in the Pentagon 9-11 attack:
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/pentagon.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jpdesm/pentagon/
http://www.911dossier.co.uk/
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/pentagon.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman1.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman2.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman3.htm
Articles"
US: 'Saddam Had No Weapons of Mass Destruction'
By Neil Mackay
Sunday Herald (Australia)
Monday 5 May 2003
The Bush administration has admitted that Saddam Hussein probably had
no weapons of mass destruction.
Senior officials in the Bush administration have admitted that they
would be 'amazed' if weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were found in
Iraq.
According to administration sources, Saddam shut down and destroyed
large parts of his WMD programmes before the invasion of Iraq.
Ironically, the claims came as US President George Bush yesterday
repeatedly justified the war as necessary to remove Iraq's chemical
and biological arms which posed a direct threat to America.
Bush claimed: 'Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. We will
find them.'
The comments from within the administration will add further weight to
attacks on the Blair government by Labour backbenchers that there is
no 'smoking gun' and that the war against Iraq -- which centred on
claims that Saddam was a risk to Britain, America and the Middle East
because of unconventional weapons -- was unjustified.
The senior US official added that America never expected to find a
huge arsenal, arguing that the administration was more concerned about
the ability of Saddam's scientists -- which he labelled the 'nuclear
mujahidin' -- to develop WMDs when the crisis passed.
This represents a clearly dramatic shift in the definition of the Bush
doctrine's central tenet -- the pre-emptive strike. Previously,
according to Washington, a pre-emptive war could be waged against a
hostile country with WMDs in order to protect American security.
Now, however, according to the US official, pre-emptive action is
justified against a nation which simply has the ability to develop
unconventional weapons.
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From: "Israel Shamir" <sha...@home.se>
To: "readers" <shamir...@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 2:52 AM
Subject: [shamireaders] 'Jewish cabal' of Bush and Blair
Fury as MP Tam Dalyell attacks 'Jewish cabal' of Bush and Blair
>From the Telegraph UK
Sunday 4 May 2003
Fury as Dalyell attacks Blair's 'Jewish cabal'
By Colin Brown and Chris Hastings
(Filed: 04/05/2003)
Tam Dalyell, the Father of the House, sparked outrage last night by
accusing the Prime Minister of "being unduly influenced by a cabal of
Jewish advisers".
In an interview with Vanity Fair, the Left-wing Labour MP named Lord
Levy, Tony Blair's personal envoy on the Middle East, Peter Mandelson,
whose father was Jewish, and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, who
has Jewish ancestry, as three of the leading figures who had
influenced Mr Blair's policies on the Middle East.
Tam Dalyell
Yesterday Mr Dalyell, the MP for Linlithgow, told The Telegraph: "I am
fully aware that one is treading on cut glass on this issue and no one
wants to be accused of anti-Semitism but, if it is a question of
launching an assault on Syria or Iran . . . then one has to be
candid." He added: "I am not going to be labelled anti-Semitic. My
children worked on a kibbutz. But the time has come for candour." The
Prime Minister, Mr Dalyell claimed, was also indirectly influenced by
Jewish people in the Bush administration, including Richard Perle, a
Pentagon adviser, Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defence secretary, and
Ari Fleischer, the President's press secretary.
"They very much have captured the ear of the President of the United
States. I said [to Vanity Fair] I thought that Blair was very
sympathetic to them. I cannot understand why," Mr Dalyell said.
Mr Dalyell's claim caused fury last night. Mr Mandelson said: "Apart
from the fact that I am not actually Jewish, I wear my father's
parentage with pride. As for Tam, he is as incorrigible as ever." Lord
Janner, a Labour peer and the chairman of the Holocaust Education
Trust, said: "I think these comments are sad and unfounded. Tony Blair
is his own man. He will follow advice if he considers it correct and
not otherwise. He has been a good friend of the Jewish people and the
Jewish state."
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain of Maidenhead Synagogue and a spokesman for
Britain's Reform Synagogues, said: "Tam Dalyell is not being candid
but misguided. Concerning Iraq it was crystal clear that Tony Blair
was not swayed by popularity or anyone else but by his own deep
convictions. It is also obvious that the majority of President Bush's
circle are Christian Evangelicals rather than Jews." Ned Temko, the
American-born editor of the Jewish Chronicle, said: "I just think
these sort of comments are offensive and are a profound
misunderstanding of the way foreign policy is made in the United
States or
here."
A spokesman for Lord Levy said he was not available for comment. A
spokesman for the Foreign Secretary said: "If these reports are
accurate, these remarks are too unworthy to be worth a comment."
More on Lord Levy and Blair:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/04/1602890.php
Here is the URL (with the embedded links) for
Neocons in Denial:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j043003.html
Bush is intent on painting allies and enemies in the Middle East as
evil:
By Robert Fisk - 10 September 2002
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=332011
Just as Americans are recovering from the harrowing television re-runs
of the 11 September attacks, their President is going to launch the
biggest reshaping of the Middle East since the British and French
parcelled out the Arab lands after the 1914-18 war. When he addresses
the United Nations on Thursday, George Bush will be threatening not
only Iraq - which had absolutely nothing to do with the crimes against
humanity in New York and Washington - but Syria, Iran and, by
extension, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The Syrian Accountability Act,
which accuses Damascus of supporting "terrorism", will come into force
as President Bush is speaking and will follow only days after the
State Department branded the Lebanese Hizbollah as the "A-team of
terrorism", more dangerous even than Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida. Like
Iraq, the Hizbollah had nothing to do with the 11 September attacks -
indeed, they were among the first to condemn them - but the White
House now seems set on painting allies and enemies alike in the Middle
East as a focus of evil.
Only The Nation among all of America's newspapers and magazines has
dared to point out that a large number of former Israeli lobbyists are
now working within the American administration and the Bush plans for
the Middle East - which could cause a massive political upheaval in
the Arab world - fit perfectly into Israel's own dreams for the
region. The magazine listed Vice-President Dick Cheney - the arch-hawk
in the US administration - and John Bolton, now under-secretary of
state for Arms Control, with Douglas Feith, the third most senior
executive at the Pentagon, as members of the advisory board of the
pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (Jinsa)
before joining the Bush government. Richard Perle, chairman
of the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board, is still an adviser on the
institute, as is the former CIA director James Woolsey. Michael
Ledeen, described by The Nation as "one of the most influential
'Jinsans' in Washington" has been calling for "total war" against
"terror" - with "regime change" for Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia
and the Palestinian Authority. Mr Perle advises the Defence Secretary,
Donald Rumsfeld - who refers to the West Bank and Gaza as "the
so-called occupied territories" - and arranged the anti-Saudi "kernel
of evil" briefing by Laurent Murawiec that so outraged the Saudi royal
family last month. The Saudi regime may itself be in great danger as
the princes of the House of Saud attempt to seize more power for
themselves in advance of the depart-ure of the dying King Fahd.
Jinsa's website says it exists to "inform the American defence and
foreign affairs community about the important role Israel can and does
play in bolstering democratic interests in the Mediterranean and the
Middle East". Next month, Michael Rubin of the right-wing and
pro-Israeli American Enterprise Institute - who referred to the
outgoing UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson as an abettor of
"terrorism" - joins the US Defence Department as an Iran-Iraq
"expert". According to The Nation, Irving Moskovitz, the California
bingo magnate who has funded settlements in the Israeli-occupied
territories, is a donor as well as a director of Jinsa.
President Bush, of course, will not be talking about the influence of
these pro-Israeli lobbyists when he presents his vision of the Middle
East at the United Nations on Thursday.
Nor will he give the slightest indication that the region is, in the
words of its own kings and dictators, a powder keg of resentment and
anger. The tectonic plates of the Arab world are now grinding with
increasing violence. Into this political earthquake zone, Mr Bush now
seems intent on leading his
country, with his loyal British ally.
Most of today's Arab nations were fashioned out of the ruins of the
Ottoman Empire by Britain and France in the aftermath of the First
World War - and Palestinians still blame Britain today for supporting
the formation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Both European
nations stationed tens of thousands of troops across the region,
suppressing Arab revolts in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon - itself
created by the French at the request of its Christian Maronite
community.
The whole colonial framework led to the loss of tens of thousands of
lives before both the British and French retreated from the Middle
East. Now President Bush seems set on following the colonial powers
into the region for another military and political adventure -
ostensibly to spread "democracy" among those nations it most despises
(Iraq, Palestine and Iran) but in fact more likely to increase
American control of an increasingly anti-Western Arab world.
The Arabs themselves warn that this will lead to massive instability
and widespread violence. The Israelis - and their allies in the US
administration - are hell bent on the whole shebang. For more on
Robert Fisk, access the following URL
Here is the "Men from JINSA and CSP" article (by Jason Vest) that
Robert Fisk mentions in the article above:
"The Men from JINSA and CSP" (this eloquent article by Jason
Vest for "The Nation" mentions the JINSA motivation for the potential
coming
attack on North Korea as well):
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=vest&c=1
Pat Buchanan: Cabal of (JINSA/PNAC) US Officials Colluding with Israel
to
Ignite Wars:
http://www.amconmag.com/03_24_03/cover.html
PNAC Group...the List of Players:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewforum.php?f=10
Powerful Jews and US Policy:
http://www.theweeklyinformant.com/arishavit.htm
The following is an article by Uri Avnery about the JINSA/PNAC cabal
(as Mr.
Avnery is a respected Israeli journalist):
The Night After: The Easier the Victory, the Harder the Peace
By URI AVNERY
It is now fashionable to talk about "the day after". Let's talk
about the night after. After the end of hostilities in Iraq, the world
will be faced with two decisive facts: First, the immense superiority
of American arms can beat any people in the world, valiant as it may
be. Second, the small group that initiated this war-
-an alliance of Christian fundamentalists and Jewish neo-
conservatives--has won big, and from now on it will control Washington
almost without limits. The combination of these two facts constitutes
a danger to the world, and especially to the Middle East, the Arab
peoples and the future of Israel. Because this alliance is the enemy
of peaceful solutions, the enemy of the Arab governments, the enemy of
the Palestinian people and especially the enemy of the Israeli peace
camp. It does not dream only about an American empire, in the style of
the Roman one, but also of an Israeli mini-empire, under the control
of the extreme right and the settlers. It wants to change the regimes
in all Arab countries. It will cause permanent chaos in the region,
the consequences of which it is impossible to foresee. Its mental
world consists of a mixture of ideological fervor and crass material
interests, an exaggerated American patriotism and right-wing Zionism.
That is a dangerous mixture.
There is in it something of the spirit of Ariel Sharon, a man who has
always had grandiose plans for changing the region, consisting of a
mixture of creative imagination, unbridled chauvinism and a primitive
faith in brute force. Who are the winners? They are the so-called
neo-cons, or neo-conservatives. A compact group, almost all of whose
members are Jewish. They hold the key positions in the Bush
administration, as well as in the think-tanks that play an important
role in formulating American policy and the ed-op pages of the
influential newspapers. For many years, this was a marginal group
that fostered a right-wing agenda in all fields. They fought against
abortion, homosexuality, pornography and drugs. When Binyamin
Netanyahu assumed power in Israel, they offered him advise on how to
fight the Arabs. Their big
moment arrived with the collapse of the Twin Towers. The American
public and politicians were in a state of shock, completely
disoriented, unable to understand a world that had changed overnight.
The neo-cons were the only group with a ready explanation and a
solution. Only nine days after the outrage, William Kristol (the son
of the group's founder, Irving Kristol) published an Open Letter to
President Bush, asserting that it was not enough to annihilate the
network of Osama bin Laden, but that it was also imperative to "remove
Saddam Hussein from power" and to "retaliate" against Syria and Iran
for supporting Hizbullah. Following is a short list of the main
characters. (If it bores you, skip to the next section).
The Open Letter was published in the Weekly Standard, founded by
Kristol with the money of ultra-right press mogul Rupert Murdoch, who
donated $ 10 million to the cause. It was signed by 41 leading
neo-cons, including Norman Podhoretz, a Jewish former leftist who has
become an extreme right-wing icon, editor of the prestigious Encounter
magazine, and his wife, Midge Decter, also a writer, Frank Gaffney of
the Center for Security Studies, Robert Kagan, also of the Weekly
Standard, Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post, and, of course,
Richard Perle. Perle is a central character in this play. Until
recently he was the chairman of the Defense Policy Board of the
Defense Department, which also includes Eliot Cohen and Devon Cross.
Perle is a director of the Jerusalem Post, now owned by extreme right-
wing Zionists. In the past he was an aide to Senator Henry Jackson,
who led the fight against the Soviet Union on behalf of the Jews who
wanted to leave. He is a leading member of the influential right-wing
American Enterprise Institute.
Lately he was obliged to resign from his Defense Department position,
when it became known that a private corporation had promised to pay
him almost a million dollars for he benefit of his influence in the
administration. That Open Letter was, in effect, the beginning of the
Iraq war. It was eagerly received by the Bush administration, with
members of the group already firmly established in some of its leading
positions. Paul Wolfowitz, the father of the war, is No. 2 in the
Defense Department, where another friend of Perle's, Douglas Feith,
heads the Pentagon Planning Board. John Bolton is State Department
Undersecretary. Eliot Abrams, responsible for the Middle East in the
National Security Council, was connected with the Iran-Contra-Israel
scandal. The main hero of the scandal, Oliver North, sits in the
Jewish Institute for National
Security Affairs, together with Michael Ledeen, another hero of the
scandal. He advocates total war not only against Iraq, but also
against Israel's other enemies, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the
Palestinian Authority. Dov Zakheim is comptroller for the Defense
Department.
Most of these people , together with Vice-President Dick Cheney and
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, are associated with the "Project
for the New American Century", which published a White
Paper in 2002, with the aim 'to preserve and enhance this 'American
peace'"--meaning American control of the world. Meyrav Wurmser (Meyrav
is a chic new Israeli first name) is Director of the Center for Middle
East Policy at the Hudson Institute. She also writes for the Jerusalem
Post and is co-founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute
that is, according to the London Guardian, connected with Israeli Army
Intelligence. MEMRI feeds the media and politicians with highly
selective quotations from extreme Arab publications. Meyrav's husband,
Davis Wurmser, is at Perle's American Enterprise Institute, heading
Middle East Studies. Mention should also be made of the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy of our
old acquaintance, Dennis Ross, who for years was in charge of the
"peace process" in the Middle East. In all the important papers there
are people close to the group, such as William Safire, a man
hypnotized by Sharon, in the New York Times and Charles Krauthammer in
the Washington Post. Another Perle friend, Robert Bartley, is the
editor of the Wall Street Journal. If the speeches of Bush and Cheney
often sound as if they came from the lips of Sharon, one of the
reasons may be that their
speechwriters, Joseph Shattan, Mathew Scully and John McConnell, are
neo-cons, as is Cheneys Chief-of- Staff, Lewis Libby.
The immense influence of this largely Jewish group stems from its
close alliance with the extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalists,
who nowadays control Bush's Republican party. The founding fathers
were Jerry Falwell of the Moral Majority, who once got a jet plane as
a present from Menachem Begin, and Pat Robertson of the Christian
Coalition and the Christian Broadcasting Network, which help to
finance the Christian Embassy in Jerusalem of J.W. van der Hoeven, an
outfit that supports the settlers and their right-wing allies. Common
to both groups is their adherence to the fanatical ideology of the
extreme right in Israel.
They see the Iraq war as a struggle between the Children of Light
(America and Israel) and the Children of Darkness (the Arabs and
Muslims). By the way, none of these facts are secret. They have been
published lately in dozens of articles, both in American and world
media. The members of the group are proud of them. The Zionist
general. The man who symbolizes this victory is General Jay Garner,
who has just been appointed chief of the civilian administration in
Iraq. He is no anonymous general who has been picked accidentally.
Garner is the ideological partner of Paul Wolfowitz and the neo-cons.
Two years ago he signed, together with 26 other officers, a petition
organized by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs,
lauding the Israeli Army for "remarkable restraint in the face of
lethal violence orchestrated by the leadership of the Palestinian
Authority," which is certainly news to the Israeli peace forces. He
also stated that "a strong Israel is an asset that American military
planners and political leaders can rely on."
In the first Gulf War he praised the performance of the Patriot
missiles, which had failed miserably. After leaving the army in 1997,
he became, not surprisingly, a defense contractor specializing in
missiles. It was alleged that he landed non-competitive Pentagon
contracts. This year he obtained a defense contract for $ 1.5 billion,
as well as a contract for building Patriot systems in Israel.
Therefore, there can be no better candidate for the job of chief of
the civilian administration in Iraq, especially at a time when
contracts for billions of dollars for reconstruction have to be handed
out, to be paid for by Iraqi oil. A new Balfour declaration. The
ideology of this group, that calls for an American world-empire as
well as for a Greater Israel, reminds one of bygone days. The Balfour
declaration of 1917, that promised the Jews a homeland in Palestine,
had two parents.
Wasn't it interesting to see Gingrich (who is associated with Perle on
the Defense Policy Board at the Pentagon) last week publicly going at
the State Department (at AEI) as Gingrich was basically a spokesman
for Perle (and the hawks at the Pentagon) who would like Syria to be
the next target. Gingrich is associated with the American Enterprise
Institute (AEI) where Perle lurks as well (PNAC is located on the
fifth floor of AEI). Have you been to the PNAC Web site yet?:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
Haaretz - Powell Now Working for Sharon
Last Update: 03/05/2003 04:11
Powell demands end to Syrian support for anti-Israel groups
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/289617.html
By News Agencies
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Damascus on Friday
demanding Syria stop supporting anti-Israel guerrillas and alter other
policies which Washington says do not fit in a changing Middle East.
Powell will meet Syrian President Bashar Assad on Saturday to press
Washington's view that the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and a possible
resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks create a "new strategic
dynamic" in the region.
"What I am looking for is... whether or not as a result of the
exchange that we have tomorrow we start to see specific action and
performance on the part of the Syrian government that would reflect
understanding of this new
situation and how they are going to respond to it," Powell told
reporters.
Asked what would happen if Syria failed to meet U.S. demands, he said:
"If they don't meet any of them, that will be taken into account as we
decide on our future strategy. These are decisions we will take after
we see the performances."
Powell said Damascus should bear in mind members of the U.S. Congress
had revived a Syria Accountability Act which threatens sanctions and
that some embargo provisions of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 could
apply to Syria.
"Frankly Syria would be a lot better off if they would move away from
some of these policies of the past... Why hang on to policies that no
longer have the same relevance?" he said.
The secretary of state will meet Assad on Saturday to press
Washington's point that the ousting of Saddam Hussein and a possible
resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks create a "new strategic
dynamic" in the region.
Powell said ahead of his arrival Friday he expected a frank
conversation with Assad and Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shaara, but no
immediate results. "This will be a candid and useful discussion and I
am looking forward to it but I am not looking for any particular
deliverables," he said.
The United States has a list of grievances against Syria: During the
Iraq war, Washington accused Damascus of letting Arab volunteers cross
its border into Iraq to fight U.S. forces and said it might be
allowing former Saddam aides to escape.
Damascus appears to have satisfied Washington on that count but the
presence of Lebanese and Palestinian guerrilla groups and accusations
that Syria is working on chemical weapons - denied by Syria - continue
to sour the relationship.
"If Syria wants to be part of that comprehensive [peace] solution,
then it has to review the policies it's been following with respect to
the support of terrorist activities and the control they have over
forces in Lebanon that present a threat to northern Israel," Powell
said Wednesday, in a reference to the Syrian-backed Hezbollah
organization, which is based in Lebanon.
On Thursday, Sharaa said American attention should be focused on
Israel's occupation of Arab land rather than on groups that are
resisting occupation. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in
the 1967 Six-Day War.
But Sharaa also reiterated that Damascus was open to dialogue with
Washington in a "spirit that does not emanate out of hostility or one
that meets the demands of others."
He also warned Powell in advance not to set demands, saying Syria
wanted dialogue, not ultimatums, and that would be the basis of the
talks.
The state-run newspaper Al-Thawra said in an editorial Friday that
Syria sought a "just, objective and balanced" stand from the United
States on the Middle East peace process.
Al-Thawra also said that changes in the region in the wake of the Iraq
war "do not constitute reasons that would push Syria into making
concessions on land or rights." Any attempts to impose "incomplete
settlements" would result in more tensions in the region, it warned.
"Syria is not asking the impossible, but it seeks a just, objective
and balanced stand from the United States" on the peace process.
The paper said there should be a "comprehensive evaluation of the
reasons that have prevented results" in the Arab-Israeli negotiations
over the years.
It is Powell's first sortie into the Middle East for more than a year
and a prelude to a longer trip next week that will include talks with
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and new Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud
Abbas (Abu Mazen).
Haaretz May 2, 2003
The Tourism Minister Has it All mapped out
By Daniel Ben Simon
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=289375
.....
`Founders' syndrome'
In another few days, Tourism Minister Benny Elon (National Union) will
make public a plan he has prepared that seeks to resolve the
Palestinian question once and for all. Sharon is unlikely to adopt the
plan, though. True, it proposes a two-state model, but as part of the
plan, the Palestinian state will be established in Jordan and will
then, of course, maintain friendly and peaceful relations with Israel.
King Abdullah will not have to abdicate and there will be no urgent
need to bring about the collapse of the Hashemite regime. Abdullah can
become part of the new regime.
Elon saw no need to attend the emergency meeting; He has his own way
to torpedo attempts of this kind by prime ministers. His immediate
plan is to make a tour of the Bible Belt in the United States in which
he will meet with politicians, public figures, lobbyists and thousands
of Evangelists whose soul goes out to Zion. This is the new arena of
activity for the Israeli right. For everyone who wants to thwart a
political move involving Israel and the Palestinians, everyone who
wants to organize a petition against the president of the United
States, everyone who believes that the Land of Israel belongs in full
and forever to the Jewish people - a visit to this community is
mandatory.
The Christian fundamentalists have hooked up with their Jewish allies
and created a formidable messianic alignment. The events of September
11, 2001, intensified this Jewish-Christian
alliance, which includes some 40 million Americans. "I am very much at
home among the Christians who support Israel," Elon stated proudly.
"These are people who are wild about Israel and believe in the
annexation of Judea and Samaria and even in the transfer of
Palestinians from the soil of the Land of Israel. Compared to them, I
am considered a dove."
These believers are not acting solely for the sake of heaven. While
many are motivated by the divine imperative in the Bible, from which
they conclude that they should love the Jews, others are driven by
messianic fervor. A war of Gog and Magog, they believe, will herald
the second coming of Jesus, and the Jews will have to become
Christians; those who refuse will be put to death.
But that bridge will be crossed when we come to it. In the meantime,
they say, until that critical period arrives, the world can expect
good things: Islam will disappear or undergo a radical transformation.
"It's clear that Islam is on the way to disappearing," Elon asserts
with certainty. "What we are now seeing across the Muslim world is not
a powerful surge of faith but the dying embers of Islam. How will it
disappear? Very simply. Within a few years a Christian crusade against
Islam will be launched, which will be the major event of this
millennium. Obviously, we will be up against quite a large problem
when only the two great religions of Judaism and Christianity remain,
but that's still a long way off."
Until then the road map is stuck in Elon's throat like a bone. Like
his settler colleagues, he too suspected Sharon's intentions from the
beginning. His apprehension only increased in the wake of Sharon's
interview with Haaretz last
month in which he ceded Beit El, Shilo and Bethlehem. Elon, a resident
of Beit El, was appalled. "I felt a terrible pain, I
even cried," he relates. "I told the others that we will fight Sharon
with all our might. He should know that we will cut ourselves off from
him long before Israel cuts itself off from Beit El."
Elon has a complex relationship with Sharon, who, he says, suffers
from a "founders' syndrome." He refers to people who established the
state and fought for it, but were seized by weakness in their old age.
Elon is convinced that Sharon's ambition is to leave behind a peace
treaty after he dies. "He was the one who established the settlements
and the outposts, and now he feels the need to close the circle and
evacuate
them. We will not let him ... Just as Ashkelon was once Majdal,
Ramallah will cease to be Ramallah. It will become Ramat El [`height
of God']. I have no doubt that within a few years the refugee camps
will no longer be here. The whole people of Israel will return to the
Land of
Israel."
Last Update: 03/05/2003 06:29
British journalist killed by IDF fire while filming in Rafah
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/289673.html
By Arnon Regular and Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondents and Agencies
Israel Defense Forces troops demolishing a home suspected of
concealing an arms-smuggling tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip shot
dead a British television cameraman late Friday, military officials
and Palestinian witnesses said.
James Miller, who was in the flashpoint refugee camp of Rafah making a
documentary on how Palestinian children are affected by violence, was
fired upon unprovoked, witnesses said. He died after being evacuated
by Israeli forces for treatment.
"We got close to the area and filmed, but we couldn't leave because an
(Israeli) tank was around 100 meters from where we stood,"
Abdel-Rahman Abdullah, a freelance Palestinian journalist who saw the
night-time incident, told Reuters.
"We were very visible to the troops, with a white flag and 'TV'
markings on our vests, but still the troops opened fire, hitting James
Miller," he said.
The IDF denied troops targeted Miller, saying their operation was to
uncover tunnels used by militants to smuggle in weapons from nearby
Egypt for a
31-month-old armed uprising.
"Our forces found a tunnel at the house in question, when an anti-tank
missile was fired at them. They shot back at the source of the
attack," army spokesman Captain Jacob Dallal said.
"James Miller was apparently hit during that exchange. The Israeli
military expresses sorrow at a civilian death, but it must be stressed
that a
cameraman who knowingly enters a combat zone, especially at night,
endangers
himself," Dallal said.
Rafah sees frequent Israeli incursions against the tunnels - eliciting
gunfire from Palestinian militants protecting them.
But Abdullah said there were no exchanges of fire on Friday night. "We
even called out to the Israeli troops in their armored vehicles and
could hear them talking inside, before they started shooting," he
said.
A spokesman for the British embassy in Tel Aviv said he was aware of
the incident but declined to give details.
Dozens of foreign journalists have been hurt while reporting on the
Palestinian uprising for independence in Gaza and the West Bank, which
erupted in September 2000.
U.S. urges Israeli 'restraint' after Gaza raid leaves 13 dead The
United States urged the Israeli military on Thursday to exercise
restraint after 13 Palestinians were killed, including a two-year-old
toddler in a raid on the Sajayia neighborhood of Gaza City.
"We deeply regret the civilian casualties that occurred today in
Gaza," State Department spokeswoman Jo-Anne Prokopowicz said.
Sixteen Palestinians in all were killed in Israel Defense Forces
operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the day. Three armed
men were shot dead by troops in the West Bank, two south of Hebron and
one in the northern West Bank.
Nine IDF soldiers were wounded during the course of Thursday's
operations.
While recognizing Israel's "right to self-defense" in response to
suicide bombings, Prokopowicz said: "We urge the Israeli government to
take all appropriate precautions to prevent the death or injury of
innocent civilians and damage to civilian and humanitarian
infrastructure. This includes exercising restraint in undertaking
operations in civilian areas."
"These events underscore the need for the two sides to begin working
with each other directly to take steps on the ground to end the
violence," Prokopowicz said.
The White House said Bush discussed the road map on Thursday with
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah.
"The president will, as he said yesterday, dedicate time and energy to
developing the environment for peace to take root between the Israelis
and the Palestinians," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.
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This is a forward of report from Baghdad made by Jerry Levin, a good
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By Jerry Levin
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>From The Inside Looking Out: Report-18
-A Tank Called "Hostile"-
(Baghdad, Iraq May 2, 2003) Like warriors of old, soldiers assigned to
Tanks like to give their weapons names. When selected, the names are
stenciled-in large black easy to read letters-on the right and left
sides of the barrels of their vehicles' powerful canon. The honor of
actually choosing a name usually goes to the crew's "gunner."
There are probably as many reasons for each name as there are tanks in
the U. S. arsenal. For instance, the meaning of "Courtesy of the Red
White and Blue," or "Camel Tow" seemed clear enough to me. But another
name, which I saw on a Tank standing guard just inside the entrance to
the Republican Palace, one of Sadaam Hussein's former palatial places
of rest and work, suggested that I not make any assumptions about it,
even though it bore the potentially revelatory title of "Astonished."
So I asked the gunner, if there was any special reason as to why he
settled on that name.
"Not really," he answered amiably. "I got me a dictionary. Started at
the front and kept going until I found a word I liked."
"Does it fit with what you are doing now?"
"I hadn't really thought about that. I just liked the name."
However, the soldier, who named the first U. S. Tank we encountered as
we reentered Baghdad on April 18, clearly had an attitude, which was
unambiguously expressed on the barrel of his gun: "Hostile."
"O. K., so that's an attitude," I thought, "but does that also express
an intention?"
Not long after that the intention issue popped up again when we
encountered another Tank whose inscription asked the worrisome
question, "Where's The Bitches?" Not being able to question the
author, I nevertheless believe that in his case, we were encountering
an adolescent or barely post adolescent fantasy put stupidly into
words-but not intention.
Bad enough, however, because such a message cannot be reassuring to
Baghdad women, very few of whom are venturing from their homes these
days, because of their fear of looting, robbery, and worse by their
own men. "If the soldiers won't protect them, a brother of one college
age woman worried, "who will? My sister will not leave our house,
unless I go with her."
Another time we glimpsed the barrel of another Tank as it rumbled
noisily down a main thoroughfare. It was providing protection for one
of the ubiquitous convoys moving warily-guns at the ready-which one
encounters round the clock everywhere every day: hodgepodges of solemn
humvees, severe armored personnel carriers, unyielding trucks,
determined tankers, and resourceful recovery vehicles that look as if
they had been assembled by a committee, as well as the aforementioned
don't-tread-on-me tanks.
The Tank's name was "Agamemnon." Since there was no way I was going to
be able to get the convoy to stop in order to ask Agamemnon's gunner
the reasoning behind his choice, I could only wonder about it:
especially the extent and bent of his erudition.
Who in the gunner's mind is/was Agamemnon? A good guy or a bad guy?
What is his view of Agamemnon's war/and this latest mother of all wars
of liberation, and the rationale/incident used to fan the flames of
assertive militancy and eventual aggression back not only in the days
of Troy but right now as well? And does he recognize the screaming
subtext to the Agamemnon story with respect to the futility of war and
violence? In one way or another both war and violence can be counted
on to change lives inevitably for the worse for both those who
engineer war and violence or who are helplessly touched by it.
I would have felt best about his choice, if I could have thought that
it was irony driven. But I'll never know. So, I can only hope that was
the case, because it is very possible that instead of thinking
ironically he may well have thought about Agamemnon the way so many
contemporary super patriots do about War of 1812 hero Stephan Decatur
whose indelible words are said to be, "Our country! In her intercourse
with foreign nations may she always be right; but our country right or
wrong." With that sort of ideological precedent as a prevalent
superscription to U. S. history, the logic that followed inevitably
almost two hundred years later was and remains, "If you are not with
us, you are against us."
The fall-out from that line of reasoning has been-not necessarily in
order of significance-1) the emergence, I am told, of "liberty fries,"
in fast food outlets all across America, and 2) an increasingly
frustrated Iraqi population, many of whom are now feeling snookered by
the propaganda campaign waged by the allies during the build up to the
invasion. It seemed to promise much in the way of installing quickly a
new normalcy in return for Iraqi civilians (and soldiers) sitting on
the sidelines during the fighting. And for the most part, most Iraqis
taking the propaganda promises as binding contracts did sit it out.
Apparently the allied propaganda-inspired Iraqi assumption was that
the occupiers would deal with their needs not just with promised
professional nation-rebuilding aplomb but-more important than
that-with dispatch. But the occupiers, until now, have been proving
that they have been much more professionally adept and efficient at
the making of the war than quickly solving the problems created by it.
A characteristic of this failure is a detectable penchant for making
excuses for the frustrating pace of repairing critical damage to
Iraq's vital institutions-as well as its national psyche-instead of
providing, as required, the wherewithal needed for the people of Iraq
to be able to pick up the ball of liberation and run with it.
In specific terms, the "wherewithal" that is lacking remains 1)
security: Looting continues; and now a new problem is mushrooming out
of control-unexploded explosives left over from the Iraqi arsenal
lying dangerously out in the open in every part of the city. The
occupation is barely coming to grips with both this terrifying issue
and the rising toll of curious young people being wounded, maimed and
worse when venturing into areas that the military still have not
closed off or even marked as dangerous.
2) reliable electrical power: Vast sections of the city remain without
it. As a result, in those places there is no running water.
3) water purification, garbage collection, and sewerage treatment
facilities continue to be inoperable. As a result, dysentery and
diarrhea stricken children are flooding already overcrowded,
understaffed, and medicine-short hospitals.
4) education: Some school grounds have been occupied by slow to leave
soldiers intent on uncovering abandoned or craftily stashed weapons
left behind by Iraqi military and paramilitaries. Some Iraqi parents
and educators claim this is hampering their efforts to get schools up
and running again.
5) a health and nutrition infrastructure: Hospitals are still being
attacked and looted of medicine and equipment while minimal food
supplies remain out of reach of the city's poor.
6) wage producing jobs for Iraq's willing educated workers, especially
in vital governmental ministries. What good jobs there are, so goes
the complaint, are going mainly to former Bath Party workers, the
party
of Sadaam.
When trying to get to the bottom of these issues, it is becoming
increasingly evident that with respect to all those urgent needs the
occupiers are also proving professionally (or is it reflexively) adept
at hiding out or passing the buck. For instance, for the better part
of April, the military was not accessible to the voicing and/or
inquiring into such urgent concerns as those listed above by the
handful of frustrated hand wringing NGOs in Baghdad. Finally late in
April the occupation did begin providing a daily forum-consisting of a
gaggle of low to mid-level officers-to discuss problematic elements of
the occupation with the NGOs.
However, the loudest and clearest message emerging from those meetings
is that the occupiers do not recognize that fixing them is really
their job. In fact, more than once, attendees have been told that it's
up to the NGOs to resolve the current crises.
Moreover, questions or statements concerning the intent or efficacy of
occupation policy too often are met with suspicion bordering on
paranoia, because the only officers accessible thus far to queries are
at the stage in their careers where carrying out policy with as few
waves as possible washing up the chain of command-for which they can
be held accountable in a way that might cloud their performance
evaluations-seems to be a daily be all and end all for
them.
"The generals make policy. We are just doing our duty," is the gist of
an unspoken refrain.
In other words: Make war not love.
As one clearly beating-around-the bush officer said warily to me after
I asked a simple hidden agenda-less "soft ball" question, "When I talk
to you guys, I always worry whether my answer is going to come back to
haunt me."
Despite such discouraging responses, I often do encounter a more
encouraging side to what might be termed a more positive operative
ethos among allied
military in Iraq. One was actually delivered to me confidentially by a
subordinate of the officer mentioned directly above. "Look," the not
much younger man said sotto voce, while looking carefully over his
shoulder, "if we can't do better than this and soon, the honeymoon for
us is going to be over quickly. And when it does end," he
continued-mixing his metaphors-"it will go off like a rocket!"
Another constructive example was related by Iraq Peace Team stalwart,
Wade Hudson, who said that one veteran of the allies' dash from Kuwait
to Baghdad, told him that during the entire campaign he just couldn't
bring himself to fire a single shot. The soldier told Wade that
although it may have looked like he was
participating in the shooting, he was only pretending.
Also encouraging-kind of-was a conversation I had with a member of the
crew of another Tank named "California Dreaming." Here's what I mean
by "kind of."
"We had a job to do," the First Lieutenant said, "but I sure didn't
like a lot of it."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, the wrong people die too often in these things. I'm stuck with
the memory of the morning, when we first reached Baghdad and we were
manning a checkpoint. An Iraqi family kept coming on to us. Maybe
they did not understand that we were trying to get them to stop. But
our rules of engagement were to shoot anyone who wouldn't. But they
kept coming.
"Despite our frantic efforts to try to get them to understand that
they needed to stop, they just kept coming. So I gave the order to
shoot, which we did; and an unarmed family-a woman and her kids-were
killed. All of them were killed. This happened earlier at Un Qsr too:
the exact same thing. I don't like having to live with that."
"So now what?" I asked.
"Well, I know one thing. When I get home, I'm quitting the army. I'm
not going to volunteer to do this again."
"What will you do?"
"I'm going to be a man of peace from now on."
"Meaning?"
"I'm going to join the FBI."
This is the eighteenth in a series of micro-reports, commentaries, and
or analyses that I will be sending routinely from the Occupied
Territories or, for an as yet undetermined time from Iraq or
neighboring Jordan. If the information or ideas seems helpful, please
feel free to forward them to others. It would be a privilege to add
their names to this mailing list, if they so requested. As always I
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Dick Eastman
Where are they, Mr. President?
Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted: May 7, 2003
1:00 a.m. Eastern
After each war, historians sift through the record to discern its real
causes. Invariably, they divide into two camps: the court historians who
defend the war leaders and the revisionists who prosecute them before the
bar of history.
After World War II, the evidence that FDR had steered us into war, while
asserting he was doing his best to avert war, was so massive even his court
historians admit he lied. Wrote Thomas A. Bailey in FDR's defense, "He was
like the physician who must tell the patient lies for his own good."
Roosevelt had cut off Japan's oil, sent the Flying Tigers to China and
sought to tempt Japan into attacking a line of picket ships. He had lied
about German subs torpedoing U.S. destroyers and Nazi plans to conquer South
America and replace the Christian cross with the swastika. This mattered in
1950. For, with Stalin triumphant in Europe and China, it appeared - in
Churchill's phrase - that we "had killed the wrong pig."
But today, with the immense focus on the Holocaust, the question is no
longer, "Did FDR lie?" But, "Why did we not declare war sooner?"
Vietnam was, in Reagan's phrase, "a noble cause." But because it was a lost
cause, it is now said and believed we only went to war because LBJ had
misled us about the Tonkin Gulf incident.
The war in Iraq is being portrayed by the president's men as a just and
necessary war that removed a mortal peril. But if our victory turns to ashes
in our mouths, and we discover that we have inherited our own West Bank in
Mesopotamia, the White House will have to explain again why we went there.
In his speech from the deck of the Abraham Lincoln, President Bush told the
nation, "With those attacks (of 9-11), the terrorists and their supporters
declared war on the United States. And war is what they got" - i.e., the
invasion of Iraq was payback for the killers of Sept. 11.
But is this the truth? For this war on Iraq was not sold to the nation as
retribution for 9-11. Indeed, the ties between Iraqi intelligence and the
al-Qaida killers turned out to be bogus War Party propaganda.
We were told, rather, that Saddam had gas and germ weapons and was working
on nuclear weapons. And once he had them, he would use them on us, or give
them to Osama. "Do you want to wait for a nuclear 9-11?" Americans were
asked.
Trusting the president, believing that he had information we did not, a
majority of Americans approved of pre-emptive war. But where, now, are the
thousands of artillery warheads and terror weapons the president and
secretary of state told us Saddam had?
We have scoured Iraq for a month. No Scuds have been found. No chemical or
biological weapons. No laboratories or production lines. No evidence that
Iraq was building nukes or seeking fissile material.
"Every statement I make today is backed up by ... solid sources," Colin
Powell told the United Nations. But since then, his case has crumbled. Were
he a district attorney, Colin Powell would be under investigation today for
prosecutorial incompetence or possible fraud. One British document he relied
on turned out to be a 10-year-old term paper by a graduate student. The
documents from Niger proving Iraq was seeking "yellowcake" for nuclear bombs
turned out to be forgeries - and crude ones at that.
Who forged them? Why have we not been told? Does the secretary who put his
integrity on the line not want to know?
If our occupation of Iraq turns sour and U.S. troops are being shot in the
back, a year from now, Americans are going to demand to know. And President
Bush could face the charge thrown up in the face of FDR by Clare Boothe
Luce, that he "lied us into war."
Both the president and Powell are honorable men. If they misled us, surely
it is because they themselves were misled. It is impossible to believe
either man would deliberately state as fact what he knew to be false. But
the president must find these weapons - or find the men who told him, with
such certitude, that Iraq had them.
For there is something strange here. If Saddam had these weapons, why did he
not surrender them to save himself? If he did not give them up because he
intended to use them on us, why did he not use them on us? And if they were
destroyed before the war, why did he not simply show us where, and thereby
save himself, his family and his regime?
Last fall, Congress abdicated, surrendered its war-making power to a
president who demanded that Congress yield it up. If Congress wishes to
redeem itself, it should unearth the truth about why we went to war. Was the
official explanation the truth, or was it political cover for an American
imperial war?
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http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030507/index.php
Rumsfeld And Saddam
by Charley Reese
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld compared the fall of Baghdad to the
liberation of Paris and the fall of the Berlin Wall. This shows he is as out
of touch with reality as Saddam Hussein and probably for the same reason: a
pathologically enlarged ego.
It took years and tens of thousands of Allied lives to liberate Paris, and
the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of a 70-year empire that at its
peak could have obliterated the United States from the face of the earth.
The fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq is more comparable to the fall of any
other petty dictator of a Third World country - say, Idi Amin of Uganda. I
can think of nothing more dangerous for the future of America than to crow
about the accomplishment of the obviously easy and to distort deliberately
what has happened.
Our $400 billion-a-year defense establishment used its ultramodern weapons
to crush a $1 billion-a-year defense establishment equipped with obsolete
weapons wielded by a corrupt, poorly trained, poorly led and demoralized
army. It is, to use the vernacular, no big deal, and we make a big deal out
of it to our detriment. It is really insulting to the veterans of World War
II to compare their accomplishments to the short, largely unopposed ride
into Baghdad. A campaign that cost 137 lives is hardly comparable to one
that cost 400,000 American lives and 55 million lives in total.
As for the fall of the Berlin Wall, more than 100,000 Americans died during
the Cold War, mostly in proxy wars, and more tens of thousands of people
died behind the Iron Curtain before the Soviet Union collapsed. Moreover,
the Cold War put us trillions of dollars in debt, which might yet have
disastrous consequences for us.
This war was sold with lies, and it now appears that the administration
intends to sustain the occupation with lies. Rumsfeld and President Bush
both ought to read more than their little briefing papers. An
Arabic-speaking British reporter has written that some Iraqi children get
great glee from smiling and waving at American troops while shouting insults
at them in Arabic. It amuses them that the Americans, not realizing that
they are being insulted, smile and wave back.
When 200 or 300 handpicked Iraqis have to go through three checkpoints and
have their names kept secret while thousands outside demonstrate against the
United States, it hardly is a sign that installing an interim government
acceptable to the Iraqis is going to be easy. The campaign to drive us out
of Iraq has already begun.
First, there were the flares fired into an ammo dump, the explosion of which
killed and injured several innocent Iraqis. The people were so enraged at
the United States, they fired on our troops even as the troops were trying
to assist them.
Now we have the incident at Fallujah. There a large crowd assembled to
demonstrate against us, and someone fired a few rounds at the American
troops, who opened fire on the crowd, killing a number of them. This is one
of the oldest tricks in the book - provoking an army to fire on civilians.
Whoever did it expended only a couple of magazines of rifle ammo, but reaped
a huge prize in the rage the Iraqi people feel toward the Americans as a
result of the incident.
You can expect more such incidents. Who these people are, and who, if
anyone, is directing them, I don't know, but clearly we are seeing the start
of a campaign to make our occupation of Iraq untenable. As I have pointed
out before, modern armies are not equipped or trained to occupy successfully
a territory inhabited by a hostile population. We have the example of the
Soviet army in Afghanistan and Chechnya and the Israeli army in Lebanon and
the occupied territories.
Rumsfeld has said that the Iraqis might not have an Islamic government. Oh?
Suppose that is their democratic choice? He will play hell trying to pretend
we are not an occupying power while opposing the democratic choices of the
Iraqi people.
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From -David Roblee
To whom it may concern...
I don't want to be the person to rain on anybody's parade when it comes to
the attack on the bill of rights, 911, world peace, etal... but I would
recommend this article I am sending be read in a bill of rights context.
What I am saying is that money will rule over any particular 'cause'. This
is the reason why I continually push for a new dialogue to begin regarding
the efficacy of money...from any and all perspectives.
Make no mistake...the 'battle' over rights has historical precedent. Money
drives ALL war. Money enslaves everyone to the power of money. Money cannot
cure the problems that money creates.
It has been said, and is now more true than ever, that money, and the love
of money is THE root for ALL evil.
Nothing will change until the need for peaceful discussion regarding the
efficacy of money is understood and furthered without hate, with an eye on
the past lessons learned and NOT learned.
with prayers for real freedom, real peace, and real love for all our
relations...
David Roblee
North Pole
Solve problems by talking about solutions to problems.
Complaining about problems is NOT a solution.
--==ooOOoo==--
World Revolution and World War
If you were extremely clever and worldly wise and you wished to invade
another country and gain control of that nation's wealth ,what would be
the most effective way to accomplish that end?
A military invasion is too crude. In the first place, The country may be
largely destroyed and it's wealth generating productivity severely impaired.
In the second place, an occupation army would be expensive to maintain and
would spend most of it's time fighting national patriot guerilla armies.
This continual fighting would further diminish the wealth generating ability
of the conquered nation. The military approach would be like killing the
goose that laid the golden egg.
The best invasion is one that no one is aware has taken place! If you could
quietly infiltrate your agents into the target country and place them in
positions to tap that country's wealth unbeknown to that country's citizens,
you could carry out a gigantic hold up with out firing a shot.
Of course you probably couldn't get away with it for long without being
discovered unless you could also gain control of that country's news media
sources. As you continued in your grand deception and larceny you would
probably consider it expedient to gradually gain control of that
country's other governing agencies like the military and the civilian
government. And, that task would be made easier by the vast sums of money
that you siphoned from the target country's national coffers.
The founder of the Banking House of Rothschild stated "Give me the power to
control the issue of a nation's currency and I care not who makes that
nation's laws."
The International Banking House of Rothschild had already gained controlling
influence over France and England by the early 1800's and was extending it's
influence into the newly independent United States through their agents,
notably Alexander Hamilton from New York.
New York was origonally called New Amsterdam and was largly a settlement of
Colonists from Holland. Some of these settelers were related to the Money
lenders of Amsterdam. The first Illuminati stronghold in the United States
was in New York with the inaugration of the Columbian Lodge!
Benjamin Franklin understood the dangers of a privately owned Central Bank
controlling the issue of the Nation's currency and resisted the charter of a
central bank until his death. Then Hamilton prevailed and the First Bank of
America was chartered for a 20 year period.
In this 20 year period the Central Bank caused financial havoc through its
policies of creating cycles of inflation and tight money. During times of
inflation the economy would boom, there would be high employment, and people
would borrow money to buy houses and farms. Then tight money would cause a
depression and unemployment. People who could not pay their mortgages would
have their homes and farms repossessed by the bank for a fraction of their
true value. These policies caused the banks to profit greatly at the
expense of the people.
For these reasons, the charter for the First Bank of America was not
renewed. This angered the Rothschilds who used their influence in the
British Parliament to attempt to retake the Colonies in the War of 1812.
The first military attempt failed. The second strategy was to divide and
conquer. The serious historian will find that the Civil War was largely
stirred up by Rothschild's illuminati agents in the United States.
One of these prominant Illuminati Orders was the secret "Order of Skull &
Bones", Chapter 322, founded at Yale University in 1833 by WilliamHuntington
Russell and Alphonso Taft. The Order was incorporated as the Russell Trust
in 1856.
William Russel became a member of the Connecticut State Legislature in 1846
and a General in Connecticut National Guard in 1862. Alphonso Taft became
Secretary of War in the Grant Administration in 1876, U.S. Attorney General
in 1876 and U.S. Ambassador to Russia in 1884. Alphonso Taft's son later
became Chief Justice and United States President.
One researcher claims that this secret order originated in Germany about the
time the Bavarian Illuminati was outlawed in 1786 by the Bavarian Elector.
William Russell brought the Secret order to Yale from his student days in
Germany in 1831 to 1832. As an ancient tradition the gravestones of Master
Masons would have a skull and crossbones engraved on them. The name of this
secret society probably is derived from this tradtradition.
Yale is the only University with societies open exclusively to seniors.
Only 15 Junior Class members are selected to be initiated during
commencement week each year. The candidates are always male white Protestant
and usually from wealthy and powerful families, often their fathers were
also members of the Order. During the Senior Year, members are called
"Knights", then they become "Patriarchs" for life.
A number of "Skull and Bones" Patriarchs were to become leaders in the
Sucessionist movements of various Southern States. Thus, setting the stage
for events leading up to the Civil War.
The Rothschild Banks loaned money to both sides during the war. This
strategy greatly weakened our nation, but failed with the Union victory.
After the civil war, the more clever method was used to take over the United
States. The Rothschilds financed August Belmont, Khun Loeb and the Morgan
Banks. Then they financed the Harrimans (Railroads), Carnegie (Steel) and
other industrial Titans. Agents like Paul Warburg, Jacob Schiff, Bernard
Baruch were then sent to the United States to effect the next phase of the
takeover.
At the end of the 19th. Century, Czarist Russia was the last roadblock to
total Global control. England ruled most of the world. The Rothschilds had
controlling influence in England, U.S., France, Germany, Austria and Italy.
Jacob Schiff, president of Khun Loeb Bank in New York was appointed by B'nai
B'rith (A secret Jewish Masonic Order meaning "Bothers of the Convenent") to
be the Revolutionary Leader of the Revolution in Russia.
On January 13, 1917, Leon Trotsky arrived in the United States and received
a U.S. Passport. He was frequently seen entering the palatial residence of
Jacob Schiff. At these meetings the Zionist organized agitations of 1905 in
Russia were discussed as well as the lessons to be
Jacob Schiff financed the training of Trotsky's Rebel Band, comprised mainly
of Jews from New York's East Side, on Rockefeller's Standard oil Company
property in New Jersey.
When sufficiently trained in the techniques of guerrilla warfare and terror,
Trotsky's rebel band departed with twenty million dollars worth of gold,
also provided by Jacob Schiff, on the ship S.S. Kristianiafjord bound for
Russia to wage the Bolshevik revolution. 6
After the Bolshevik Revolution, Standard Oil of New Jersey brought 50% of
the huge Caucasus oil field even though the property had theoretically been
nationalized. In 1927, Standard Oil of New York built a refinery in Russia.
Then Standard Oil concluded a deal to market Soviet Oil in Europe and
floated a loan of $75 million to the Bolsheviks.
Jacob Schiff and Paul Warburg at the Kuhn Loeb Bank started a campaign for a
central bank in the United States. They then helped the Rothschild's to
manipulate the financial Panic of 1907.
Then, the panic of 1907 was used as an argument for having a central bank to
prevent such occurrences. Paul Warburg told the Banking and Currency
Committee: "In the Panic of 1907. The first suggestion I made was 'Let us
have a national clearing house'."
The Federal Reserve Act was the brainchild of Baron Alfred Rothschild of
London. The final version of the Act was decided on at a secret meeting at
Jekyll Island Georgia, owned by J.P. Morgan.
Present at the meeting were; A. Piatt Andrew, Assistant secretary of the
Treasury, Senator Nelson Aldrich, Frank Vanderlip, President of Kuhn Loeb
and Co., Henry Davidson, Senior Partner of J.P. Morgan Bank, Charles Norton,
President of Morgan's First National of New York, Paul Warburg, Partner in
Khun Loeb and Co. and Benjamin Strong, President of Morgan's Bankers Trust
Co.
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was the determining act of the international
financiers in consolidating financial power in the United States. Pierre
Jay, Initiated into the "Order of Skull and Bones" in 1892, became the first
Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. A dozen members of the
Federal Reserve can be linked to the same "Order." 7
The 16th. Amendment allowing Congress to tax personal income quickly
followed the Federal Reserve Act (but it never has been ratified in all
states.) This was a natural consequence, since the U.S. government could no
longer create it's own money to finance it's operations as provided by the
Constitution. For the first time in U.S. history people thought they had to
pay income tax. (In fact, filing with the IRS is purely voluntary.)
Congressman Charles Lindbergh described the newly created Federal Reserve
Bank as "the invisible government by the money power."
On Nov, 2, 1917 in England, Lord Author James Balfour wrote a significant
letter to an international banker that had been elevated to the level of a
peer of the realm, Lord Rothschild:
"Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you in behalf of His Majesty's
Government the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist
aspirations, which has been submitted to and approved by the cabinet.
His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of
a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to
facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that
nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political
status enjoyed by Jews in any other Country.
I should be grateful if you would bring this Declaration to the knowledge
of the Zionist Federation.
Yours Sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour"
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At the time of this letter, Turkey still held Palestine but nevertheless One
Nation was promising land held by another Nation to the people of a third!
This became known as the Balfour Declaration that created Modern Israel. A
few years later, Turkey was defeated and England gained control of Egypt and
Palestine while France gained control of Lebanon and Syria.
Lord Rothschild's part of the bargain was to use his influence in the United
States to get her involved in the World War I on the side of the Allies.
This at a time when the Allies were doing very poorly in the war against
Germany and Turkey.
The Zionist headquarters in Berlin was moved to New York under the
leadership of Justice Louis D. Brandeis. The "Zionist Transfer Department"
was used to finance the Zionist cause wherever needed.
Other significant agents for the Rothschild Bank were Edward M. House and
Bernard Baruch. Bernard Baruch was instrumental in Woodrew Wilson's
successful presidential campaign. Colonial Edward M. House became President
Wilson's closest advisor, selecting the president's cabinet and virtually
running the State Department.
There is little doubt that, under the influence of Colonial House, Woodrow
Wilson became an invaluable puppet to the Rothschilds in not vetoing the
Federal Reserve Act and asking Congress for a declaration of war against
Germany.
During 1916, Colonial Edward M. House used his considerable influence with
the financial institutions (many which held stock in the Federal Reserve
Bank) represented by Felix and Paul Warburg, Otto H. Kahn, Louis Marburg,
Henry Morganthau, Herbert Lehman, Mortimer and Jacob Schiff to convince
Americans that it was their sacred duty to make the "World safe for
democracy." Soon there after The U.S. entered World War I.
The Illuminati sold Wilson to the American people under the slogan that he
represented "the New Freedom." "The War to End all Wars" ended up being vary
profitable to the Illuminati Bankers and their associates.
Bernard Baruch who was placed as Chairman of the War Industries Board, went
from a being worth about one million dollars before the war to being worth
about two hundred million after the war. Benard Baruch created what was
later called the "U.S. Military Industrial Complex."
Acting again on the influence of Colonial House, on January 8, 1918 Woodrow
Wilson addressed Congress and asked for the formation of the League of
Nations, one further step towards the Illuminati Goal of World Government.
While at the Paris Peace conference of 1919, House called together the
dedicated intellectuals of Wilson's "Brain Trust" which he had innovated,
including John and Allen Dulles, Christian A. Herter and Tasker H. Bliss to
form a group to study international affairs.
This study group returned to New York from Paris and formed the "Council on
Foreign Relations". The British counterpart is the "Royal Institute for
International Affairs" (RIIA). The RIIA and CFR policies are now coordinated
by the secret Bildaburger Group which was created in 1954. Prince Ferdinand
of the Netherlands was the original chairman of the secret Bilderger Group
which largely decides the fate of the world in their secret meetings.
On February 6, 1929 Montagu Morgan, head of the Bank of England came to
Washington to confer with U.S. Secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon.
Next, the Fed raised the Prime interest rate. On March 9, Paul Warburg was
quoted in "Financial Chronicle" as saying "If orgies of unrestricted
speculation are permitted to spread too far...the ultimate collapse is
certain."
Those in the know, quietly got out of stock and invested in gold and silver.
Then when everything was ready, the New York financiers started calling 24
hour broker call loans. Investors had to dump their stock on the market to
pay the loans and this naturally caused a collapse of the market. The
Illuminati controlled banks had now set into motion a series of events that
would eventually bring on World War II. The desperation caused by the great
depression could be manipulated by the Illuminati to drastically alter the
Constitutional government of the
United States. "New Deal Policies" were a drastic change from the past. Many
distressed properties were brought up for pennies on the dollar by
International Banker insiders.
The Council on Foreign Relations created by Mandell House was increasing
it's influence in the United States, gradually recruiting powerful
government leaders, managers of the press, military and industrial leaders
into it's membership.
Averell and his brother, Roland Harriman (initiated into the "order of
Skull and Bones" in 1917) financially assisted the Nazis. This financing was
through the Union Bank in which they with other members of the "Order",
E.S. James and Knight Woolly, had major holdings.
After financial crash of 1931, German industry was on the brink of
bankruptcy. Fritz Thyssen, the German steel baron, openly joined the Nazi
party and threw his financial support behind Hitler. The flow of funds went
through the Bank Voor Handel, which controlled the Union Bank in New York.
The Union Bank was a joint Thyssen-Harriman operation. a look at the
directors in 1932 show that of the 8 directors, 4 were members of the
"Order" and 2 were members of the Nazi party. 7
Harriman also funneled financing to both the Soviets and the Nazis through
the Brown Bros, Harriman Bank. One of his close associates was Prescott
Bush, father of U.S. President, George Bush. Both Prescott and George Bush
are members of "Skull and Bones."
By 1936, more than 100 United States Company's, including General Motors,
Ford, International Harvester and Du Pont had subsidiaries in Germany or
cooperative agreements with that country, helping to build Germany's war
machine. However, the motive was other than profit since the companies were
not allowed to take any money outside of Germany.
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Freemason Grand Master,
Franklin Delano Rosevelt had powerfull connections, including Bernard Baruch
and Mandel House, which led to his presidency. After 1936, FDR placed into
effect Pacific trade policies with Japan that forced Japan to choose between
capitulation or war. For her economic survival, Japan chose war.
World War II was guaranteed by the Terms of the Treaty of Versailles which
dictated the terms of surrender of Germany following World War I. This
treaty kept the German people at a near starvation level as most of their
production was used to pay war reparation payments to the Victors. It was
the extreme desperation of the German people that allowed a demagogue like
Hitler and his Nazi Party to raise up in power.
The Second World War was deemed a necessary part of Illuminati strategy
which was expressed by the political scientist, Hegel: "To synthesize a new
order, it is first necessary to create opposites sides and then bring them
into conflict." This is why Illuminati bankers financed both the Soviets and
the Nazis. In fact, the Illuminati really favor neither Capitalism or
Communism or Nazism. Their purpose is to create opposite forces and bring
them into conflict. The modern world is a result of the drastic changes
wraught by World War II.
I.G. Farben Co. had discovered a method of recovering petroleum from Coal
and had entered into a licensing agreement with Standard Oil on the process,
receiving 546,000 shares of Standard Oil Stock, worth about Thirty million
dollars. I.G. Farben also entered into an agreement with Alcoa Aluminum.
The I.G. Farben Cartel produced about half of Germany's petroleum. Paul
Warburg's brother, Max Warburg sat on I.G. Farben's board of Directors.
Later, I.G. Farben Co. Located plants outside the concentration camps and
used the prisoners for slave labor while supplying the gas for the gas
chambers.
One question often asked is "why would the Rothschilds help to finance the
Nazis the mortal enemy of the Jews?" The answer to that question is perhaps
given by Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovich in a speech at the Emergency
Council of European Rabbis in Budapest, Hungary on January 12, 1952:
"Greetings my children: You have been called here to recapitulate the
principal steps of our new programme. As you know we had hoped to have 20
years between the wars to consolidate the great gains that we made from
World War II... We may have to repeat the Grim days of world War II when we
were forced to let the Hitlerite Bands sacrifice some of our people... The
death of a few thousand jews in exchange for world leadership is indeed a
small price to pay... To convince you of the certainty of that leadership,
let me point out to you how we have turned all the inventions of the white
man against him. His printing presses and radios are mouthpieces of our
desires. And his heavy industry manufactures the instruments which he sends
out to Asia and Africa against him...And so with the vision of world
victory before you, go back to your countries and intensify your good work,
until that approaching day when Israel will reveal herself in all her
glorious destiny as the Light of the World."
This speech gave added verification of the Illuminati's long range goals as
outlined in the letter between Illuminati leaders Mazzini and Albert Pike in
1871 and the methods described in the "Protocols."
Poland was to be divided up between Germany and the Soviet union according
to a predetermined agreement between Hitler and Stalin. Germany attacked
first and occupied the agreed upon section. Then Russia invaded and occupied
her agreed upon section.
England was required by the Versailles Treaty to declare war against Germany
after this move. However, the horrors of World War One were still fresh in
the minds of most Europeans. No one wanted to fire the first shot between
England and Germany. For this reason, England's Prime Minister Chamberland
was called an appeaser.
It is certain that Hitler did not want war with England. In 1933, he pointed
out that Communism in order to reach it's final objective would eventually
destroy Britain's Empire. In that event he stated: " I would be willing to
help defend the British Empire by force if called upon."
Winston Churchill was a good acquaintance of Bernard Baruch, the man who
helped Woodrow Wilson become President and who profited so handsomely by the
U.S. entry into World I. In one letter, Churchill wrote to Mr. Baruch: "War
is coming very soon. You will be running to show over there, But I will be
on the sidelines over here." Bernard Baruch convinced Winston Churchill, who
had been relegated to the political backwaters because of his views on
Palestine, to change his policy toward support of the Zionist cause.
After reversing his previous stance in a speech to the House of Commons,
Mr. Churchill became Prime Minister in a few short months. The "Phony War"
suddenly turned hot as the new Prime Minister of England ordered air bombing
of civilian population centers in Germany forcing Hitler to retaliate.
The majority of Americans did not want to get involved in another European
war. But the Illuminati had other plans. They had already installed their
man, Franklin D. Roosevelt in to the highest office of the land. Roosevelt
soon repaid the favors owed those who placed him in office. Roosevelt issued
an Unconstitutional Presidential Executive order that all privately held
gold be turned in to the Banks before the end of April 1933 under maximum
penalty of $10,000 or 10 years in prison or both!
The gold was turned in at $20.67 per Oz. After the majority of the gold was
turned in, the gold price was fixed at $35 per Oz. Insiders merely held
their gold in foreign banks and later, sold it back at the higher price!
Publicly FDR stated to the American people: "Your boys are not going to be
sent into any foreign wars." There is a good body of evidence that Roosevelt
repeatedly deceived the American public in the period proceeding Pearl
Harbor. The fact is that FDR would not have been re-elected on a war
platform in 1940.
Top government officials in Washington D.C. had plenty advanced warning of
the attack on Pearl Harbor. On January 27, 1941, U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo,
Joseph Grew wrote a letter to FDR's State Department warning "That in the
event of trouble breaking out between the U.S. and Japan,
the Japanese intended in making an attack against Pearl Harbor." By August
of 1941 Congressman Dies personally submitted evidence of Japan's planned
attack on Pearl Harbor, including a strategic map prepared by the Japanese
Imperial Military Intelligence Department to Roosevelt. So, the attack was
no surprise to Roosevelt. Dies was told not to realease this information to
the public!
On November 26, 1941 FDR sent a war ultimatum to Japan: "Withdraw all troops
from Indo China and Manchuria - or else." Most Asian experts agree that this
ultimatum allowed Japan no choice but to attack the U.S. Navel fleet at
Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese ambassador to the U.S., Prince Kenoye tried to seek other
alternatives to war with the U.S.. But, FDR continually refused to speak
with the Ambassador because war with Japan was already planned. FDR had
already given approval to General Chanault to launch air attacks against
Japan from China with the "Flying Tigers."
The Japanese "Purple Code" had been broken with deciphering machines which
were supplied to all important commanders except at Pearl Harbor. By the
early morning of Dec. 7, Japanese messages indicating that the attack was
impending were decoded and forwarded to Washington D.C.. On Dec. 7, at 9:30
AM EST, Admiral Stark met with General George C. Marshall at the Navy
Department.
Stark wanted to radio Admiral Kimmel at Pearl Harbor. Marshall said he was
afraid that the Japs would intercept the message and complicate matters.
Marshall said that he would personally wire a message to Kimmel. Marshall
finally sent a telegram to Kimmel warning of the Japanese attack. But, it
was delayed sufficiently to arrive after the attack was over.
The American Forces at Pearl Harbor were not prepared for the attack.
Ammunition for the anti-aircraft guns was stored in warehouses not beside
the guns where it was needed for immediate response.
Air craft were parked in circles with their propellers facing inward. Since
the planes had to be pushed backwards by hand to get out of this position
and airborne they were "sitting ducks" for the Japanese
aircraft. It was reported that Roosevelt had ordered the planes grouped in
this fashion because he feared sabotage to the planes.
After the U.S was attacked at Pearl Harbor, our main war effort was directed
towards Europe. By 1943, the tide of war had changed to the Allies favor.
North Africa had been secured. Sicily and Italy had been invaded. Then, the
Allied advance paused as preparations for the invasion of France were being
prepared.
Another figure making tremendous strides in his carrier was Dwight D.
Eisenhower. In March 1941, he was promoted from a Lt. Colonel to a full
Colonel. Three months later, he was promoted to Chief of Staff of the U.S.
Third Army. In another three months, he became a Brigadier General. Proving
once again that it is not what you know - but who you know that really
counts. Eisenhower was a friend of Bernard Baruch!
By December 1941, he was called to Washington by General Marshall and
brought into war planning at the highest level. Following this, Eisenhower
enjoyed a series of promotions until on December 24, 1942, he was made
Supreme Allied Commander of Europe.
After Germany's army was pushed out of Rome by the allied advance, General
Mark Clark stated: "After the fall of Rome, Kesserling's army could have
been destroyed - If we had been allowed to shoot the works in a final
offensive." The Allies could have then easily advance across the Adriatic
into Yugoslavia and then into Vienna, Budapest and Prague.
But instead, Mark Clark's army was halted and weakened by removing men to be
used in the Normandy invasion. This strange tactic prolonged the war by at
least one year, cost the Allies the lives of about 100,000 men and
drastically changed the political nature of Eastern Europe in the following
decades.
To understand why Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower did this, it is
necessary to consider the Quebec Conference of the Allies in 1943. The
policy which was insisted upon by General George C. Marshall, was based on a
document called "Russia's Position." The document stated that Russia's
post-war position in Europe will be a dominate one.
Commander George Earl, former American Minister to Austria from 1935-1939
and to Bulgaria from 1940 -1942, was Roosevelt's personal Naval attache in
Istanbul in the spring of 1943. He had been approached by the head of the
German secret service, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris with a proposal for the
surrender of Germany.
The German Generals had a more realistic picture of the war than Hitler and
wanted a truce with England and the United States so that they could
concentrate on a defense against the Russians. They also proposed turning
Hitler over to the Allies.
Later, the German Ambassador, Friz von Paper made a similar proposal to
George Earl. Earl promptly sent a coded message via diplomatic pouch to
president Roosevelt. The proposals of surrender were never answered by the
president!
Obviously, an honorable surrender of Germany was not part of the plan to
create the Soviet "social experiment" by the Illuminati bankers who
influenced President Roosevelt, General Marshall, General Eisenhower,
Churchill and Stalin.
Meanwhile, operation "Lend Lease", to offer U.S. military aid to the
Soviets, was in full swing. Major Racey Jordan was appointed liaison officer
with Soviets.
Jordan was amazed to learn that Russian Colonel Anatoli Kotikov had
considerable influence with Roosevelt's aid, Harry Hopkins.
Whenever Kotikov couldn't get items the Russians needed, he would call Mr.
Hopkins in Washington and get results! Often, items needed by our own forces
in the battlefield were diverted to Russia.
In one incident, major Jordan inspected a diplomatic pouch headed for
Russia, over the objections of the Russians. Inside, he saw papers
describing atomic fission. A list of materials on the plane included two
pounds of uranium. He did not realize the significance of what he had seen
at the time because atomic weapons research was classified top secret!
Major Jordan kept a dairy with detailed notes of all that he observed of the
Lend Lease operations. Later, he wrote a book, "From Major Jordon's
Diaries", describing many little known aspects of Lend Lease.
Not only were the Germans not allowed to surrender, neither were the
Japanese at least not at first! They issued a formal unconditional surrender
in March 1945. Their offer was ignored!
The fire bombing of Tokyo proceeded next, destroying sixteen square miles of
Tokyo and leaving millions homeless. Then came the use of the atomic bombs
against Nagasaki and Hiroshima!
The Aftermath
The massive rebuilding of Germany and Japan after the war a source of
astronomical profits to the International Bankers. The Japanese and German
people are excellent workers and managers. But, the International Bankers
are the shadowy figures behind the scenes that provide the true leadership
of Japan and Germany and the New World Order.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), started to get some real influence.
Old national sovereignties were dissolved while new International
Organizations like the CFR's creation © the United Nations were organized
and strengthened. The United Nations took on some post war governing
functions. Later, The CFR and it's affiliates like the "Institute of the
Pacific Rim" (IPR) and Foreign Policy Association (FPA) would virtually
direct all U.S. foreign policy. Notably, the IPR
is credited with handing over China to the Communists under the guidance of
General George C. Marshall and later, formulating our Vietnam War Policy.
The CFR helped considerably to create the Soviet Empire.
The Illuminati's control over the Soviet Union was strengthened by the war.
Lend Lease and the secret agreements at Yalta between Roosevelt, Churchill
and Stalin also strengthened the Soviet Empire. The ensuing and well
engineered "Cold War" between the Soviet empire and the West strengthened
the Illuminati's position in the rest of the world.
The hot wars like Korea and Vietnam were engineered so as not to actually
bring the U.S. and Soviets into conflict while providing justification for
the existence of "national security" secret agencies like the CIA, NSA and
NSC. The covert operations arm of the CIA was used extensively since the
1950's to subvert non-aligned governments not already controlled. Then
military strongmen were placed in power that would adopt policies that were
favorable to the multinational corporations directed by the Illuminati.
In one incident, U.S. President, John F. Kennedy, not willing to "to be a
good team player," was preparing to withdraw U.S. "Advisors" from Vietnam.
The withdrawal order was issued in October of 1963, He was assassinated in
November and as soon as his successor was sworn in a massive escalation of
the war developed.
Investigative attorney, Mark Lane developed court evidence that CIA
paymaster, E. Howard Hunt met with Jack Ruby and later paid CIA hit men in
a Dallas Motel the evening before the assassination. This is described in
Lane's book "Plausible Denial." This shows a connection between the
international bankers and the CIA and the Mafia. Woe unto anyone who gets in
the way of their plans!
New international financial institutions like the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) the World Bank and the Bank of International Settlements were
crated to extend economic hegemony through the planet.
The outrageous national membership fees of the IMF runs into billions of
dollars per year per nation. When nations have problems repaying their
loans, strict austerity programs are imposed which cause considerable
hardship on the poorer citizens of that nation.
In 1986 for example, Brazil stripped her rain forests, mined her gold,
forced low cost labor onto her people and had a $10 billion trade surplus.
This was the year that the U.S. suffered a $50 billion trade deficit. But,
the interest payment on Brazil's foreign loans also came to $10 Billion, so
it was all for nothing!
When Brazil decided to default on the payments, her credit rating dropped to
zero. Without short term credit, Brazil was unable to conduct normal
international business transactions and lost even more in trade
than the interest payments had amounted to.
Within six months, Brazil had reconsidered her position and started
negotiations with the bankers. A lesser rate of interest was finally agreed
upon. But, Brazil was persuaded to borrow $13 billion more! The lenders
don't really want the debt paid back. The debt gives them leverage and the
debt servicing or interest payments gives the "cash flow".
Often, "austerity measures" are imposed on nations that have a difficult
time repaying their loans. Social programs like health, education or basic
food subsidies for the people of the nation are reduced drastically. A
recent epidemic of cholera in Latin America is directly related to these
"austerity programs" and the reduction of health and sanitary programs
carried out by the government.
These social evils are a result of ignorance of the true nature of money,
it's purpose and it's creation. Honorable leaders of nations would not
borrow until their countrymen were in bondage.
Knowledable leaders would insure that their country controlled the currency
rather than international bankers. A national law ought to be passed
forbiding Congress from borrowing money.
Also, Congress should nationalise the Federal Reserve Bank to regain it's
Constitutional athority to mint currancy then the borrowing would be
unnessary!
Money is nothing more than a way of keeping score it has no more intrinsic
value than notches on a stick or binary on off states in a computer memory
bank. The productivity of a people is where true wealth lies. Money keeps
track of that productivity and allows the facile transfer of that
productivity.
The central banks that print currency and lend it at interest is the prime
culprit. This money that was created from nothing is lent out. But at a
later time, the central bankers end up owning the entire productivity of
nations.
There can be little doubt that foreign debt is the way the international
bankers drain the wealth from nations or that the IMF is the greatest
legalized racket on the planet.
A different means of keeping score is clearly needed.
Control of Information
The Illuminati started disseminating their propaganda through Reading Clubs
prior to the French Revolution in order to mould public opinion in a
favorable disposition towards the goals of the Illuminati.
Later, during the nineteenth century after the Rothschilds controlled the
Bank of England, a controlling interest was also purchased in the Jewish
operated Reuters Newspaper in London. Also, controlling interests were
purchased in Wolff and the French Havas newspapers, creating a virtual
international news monopoly.
In 1942, the general manager of Associated Press, Kent Cooper, spoke of this
international news monopoly in his book "Barriers Down:" "..the news of the
world was it's own private property to be withheld, to be discolored to it's
own purposes, or to be sold to whom and to where they directed."
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was created in 1921 as the American
branch of the British Royal Institute on International Affairs (RIIA). The
RIIA was the brainchild of Cecil Rhodes as a means to expand British
hegemony globally and to regain Britain's control of the United States. The
CFR was responsible for the creation of the United Nations and presently
directs all U.S. foreign policy.
The world news sources and wire services have members of the Council on
Foreign Relations (CFR) directing and working for them. These include;
Reuters, Associated Press, United Press International, Wall Street
Journal, Boston Globe, New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington
Post, ABC, NBC, CBS, and RCA. Most national and international news is
derived from these sources.
The CFR is also heavily entrenched in the major energy companies, the
military and the U.S. Government. So, with the CFR managing the news and
molding public opinion about world affairs, they are in a key position to
influence the direction of our democratic government.
The Illuminati's order of "Skull and Bones" forms an inner circle of the CFR
and has control of other forms of public information:
Henry Luce of the "Time-Life" syndicate, William Buckley of "National
Review", Alfred Cowles of "Minneapolis Star", Emmert Bates of Litton
Educational Systems, Richard Ely Danielson of"Atlantic Monthly", Russell
Davenport of "Fortune" and Nieman Fellowship's first director, Archibald Mc
Leash are all members of the Order Of Skull and Bones. 7
In 1880, Members of the Order created both the American Economic Association
and The American Historical Association. Andrew Dickson White was the first
president of American Historical Association.
By the turn of the century the "Order of Skull and Bones" had already made
significant penetration into the educational establishment. Timothy Dwight
was president of Yale, later to be followed by Arthor T. Hadly. Andrew
Dickson White was president of Cornell. Daniel C. Gilman was president of
John Hopkins University.
All men were members of the Order. Later Daniel Gilman became president of
Carnegie Institute.
The philosophy and practice of the present public school system is due to
the massive infusion of funds and grants from private foundations
which are directed by Illuminati organizations. These same foundations,
can virtually dictate which textbooks can be used in the public school
system.
This one reason most people don't know the true history of the 20th
century. Any history that goes against the official line of the American
Historical Association will find it impossible to obtain research
funding or publication in "acceptable" forms.
On the other hand, in 1946, the Rockefeller Foundation allotted $139,000
to create an official version of World War Two that hid the massive U.S.
corporate assistance in building the Nazi war machine. One major
contributor to the Nazi effort was Rockefeller's own Standard Oil Co.
The Ford Foundation, was originally created from Henry Ford's Auto
Manufacturing fortune. But eventually, members of the "Order of Skull
and Bones" infiltrated the foundation and used it's financial power to
influence the nature of public education.
For example, McGeorge Bundy (a member of the Order of Skull and Bones)
was the National Security Advisor during the Viet Nam debacle. In 1966
he became the president of the Ford Foundation.
Bundy then appointed another member of the Order, Harold Howe II, as
Vice President in charge of the Education and Research Department. Their
flagrant misuse of foundation money caused the remaining Ford Family
members to resign in disgust. 7
The official history of the John F. Kennedy assassination reflects the
Warren Commission Report. Ie, the president was killed by a lone
assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The true account will demonstrate that the
CIA worked in conjunction with DISCO, organized crime and Cuban Exiles
to have the president assassinated in a large scale conspiracy. DISCO
is an acronym for the super secret Defence Industrial Security
Cooperation Organization.
Some of the names of the conspirators are Orlando Bosch, E. Howard Hunt,
Frank Sturgis, (all CIA employees) and Jack Rubenstien (alias Jack Ruby
of organized crime.) The CIA paid off some large gambling debts that
Jack Rubenstien owed organized crime figures to enlist his aid in the
Dallas Shooting.
Lee Harvey Oswald was also a one time employee of the CIA, but at the
time of the shooting was working for Jack Ruby and was set up to be the
"fall guy". Jack Ruby had to kill him before he talked.
Many of these facts were brought out in the House Special Committee on
Assassinations hearings in 1976. But, most of the information was
sequestered in the National Archives and not to be made public until
2029!
After the hearings, congress did pass a resolution forbidding the CIA
from carrying out covert operations within the territorial boundaries of
the United States.
What is most interesting is that the official media had already
determined that the presidential assassination had not been a conspiracy
within 9 hours of the shooting at Dealy Plaza. Headlines stated "Oswald
acted alone!"
This blatant statement was made even though an actual investigation had
barely started. Obviously, these media statements were also a prepared
part of the conspiracy. Which is a typical demonstration of how the
Illuminati uses the media to mould public opinion.
The Illuminati wanted J.F. Kennedy out of the way because he had his own
agenda which were in conflict with Illuminati plans.
For similar reasons they had his brother killed in 1968 after he had won
the Democratic Presidential Nomination. Sirhan Sirhan, another assassin
acting alone, was actually subjected to sophisticated narcohypnosis
techniques developed by the CIA in their MK ULTRA mind control program..
To insure that Sirhan Sirhan did not miss, Howard Hughes private body
guard was also present. He was hired as a rental security guard to
replace one who had called in sick. His gun fired the extra bullets that
couldn't be accounted for during the later investigation. He disappeared
right after the shooting, never to be seen again!
And once again, these facts will never appear in the "official" media
reports, although some of them may appear in the small independent
publications that have not been taken over by the Illuminati
organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Order of
Skull and Bones.
Bibliography:
1. Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, & Henery Lincoln "Holy Blood, Holy
Grail." Dell Publishing
2. Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, & Henery Lincoln "The Messianic
Legacy." Dell Publishing
3. John J. Robinson "Born In Blood" M.Evans and Co., 216 E. 49 St. New
York, NY 10017
4 Albert Pike "Morals and Dogma" a secret manual of the Freemasons.
5. Des Griffin "The Fourth Reich of the Rich" Emissary Publications,
P.O. Box 642, S. Pasadena, CA 91030
6. Des griffin "Decent into Slavery" Emissary Publications
7. Antony C. Sutton, "America"s Secret Establishment" Liberty House
Press, 2027 Iris, Billings Montana 59102.
Additional information for this work came from the following sources:
Prevailing Winds Research
Nexus
Spotlight
Dick Eastman
divorce, you to have porn and drugs and a dumbed-down school curriculum
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We have seen how the world banking establishment degrades the people of a
nation for their own gain -- I refer here to the U.S., not Iraq, although
"if the shoe fits ...."
Dick Eastman
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Ever Wonder Why the US Stopped Getting Anyplace?
by Homer Perkins
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"Dear Lord Rothschild,
Yours Sincerely,
Arthur James Balfour"
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Later, the German Ambassador, Friz von Papen made a similar proposal to
Control of Information
Bibliography:
Nexus
The Spotlight (now American Free Press)
Dick Eastman
Information from ATC: Flight 77 ATC Transcript integrated with Cooperative
Research Timeline for Flight 77 -- supports small-plane findings, shows
holes in offical version of government info and response
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Here is the Transcript of American Airlines Flight 77 (from The New York
Times)http://www.september11-tribute.org/NewsArticles/AAL77Transcript.htm
which below I correlate with the Cooperative Research timeline of Paul
Thomson
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/
from which I have removed incidents not directly related to Flight 77 and
the Pentagon crash. The transcript is in red the timeline is in black. I
have put in bold what I think are the crime-related portions of the Thomson
timeline.
The guilt of Administration, you will find, is a conclusion you will find
difficult to escape. You will also see that the information from ATCs is
consistent with the small-plane findings derived from photo, video-camera,
and ground witness testimony, while at the same time showing gapping holes
in the "official version" of the attack and the the government and Defense
Department response to that attack.
Dick Eastman
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8:12:29 - AAL77: Good morning ground American seven seven is off of dixie
twenty six with information tango.
8:12:36 - Ground Control West: American 77 Dulles taxi to runway three zero.
8:12:39 - AAL77: Taxi three zero American seven seven.
8:16:01 - Local Control West: American 77, Dulles tower. Runway three zero
taxi into position and hold you'll be holding for landing traffic one left
and for spacing wake turbulence spacing behind the DC 10.
8:16:29 - AAL77: And American ah seven seven is ready.
8:16:32 - Local Control West: American 77, Dulles tower. Runway three zero.
Taxi into position and hold you're holding for wake turbulence landing
traffic one left and you need to be fifteen in trail of that DC 10.
8:16:41 - AAL77: Position and hold three zero, American seven seven.
8:19:20 - Local Control West: American 77 your departure frequency will be
one two five point zero five. Runway three zero cleared for take off.
8:19:27 - AAL77: One two five oh five. Runway three zero cleared for
takeoff, American 77.
8:20 a.m. Flight 77 departs Dulles International Airport near Washington,
ten minutes after the scheduled departure time. [8:20, CNN, 9/17/01, 8:20,
Washington Post, 9/12/01, 8:20, Guardian, 10/17/01, 8:21, AP, 8/19/02] 8:25
a.m. Boston flight controllers notify other flight control centers of the
Flight 11 hijacking, but supposedly they don't notify (NORAD for another 6
or 15 minutes
8:20:26 - Local Control West: American 77, turn left heading two seven zero
contact departure.
8:20:31 - AAL77: Two seventy heading departure, American 77. Good day.
8:20:38 - AAL77: Is with you passing one decimal one for three.
8:20:43 - North Departure: American 77, Dulles departure radar. Contact
climb and maintain five thousand.
8:20:47 - AAL77: Five thousand, American 77.
8:22:05 - North Departure: American 77 climb and maintain one one thousand
eleven thousand
8:22:08 - AAL77: up to one one thousand American 77.
8:23:23 - North Departure: American 77 (whistling sound) cleared cleared
direct linden contact Dulles one one eight point six seven.
8:23:28 - AAL77: direct linden eighteen sixty seven American 77 good day
8:23:28 - North Departure Low: O.K. O.K. O.K.
8:23:34 - Radar Control: Got the board there already
8:23:36 - North Departure Low: All right we got normal frequencies all the
way around nothing hot at this time. Ah, traffic where is this where is this
go one twenty-eight where the hell is that? O.K., O.K.
8:23:43 - AAL77: American 77 with you passing nine decimal one for eleven
one one thousand.
8:23:47 - North Departure: American 77 Dulles approach climb and maintain
one seven thousand.
8:23:50 - AAL77: one seven thousand American 77.
8:23:55 - North Departure Low: O.K., alright. Point outs at this time you
got seven lima vector direct d c a seven thousand november zero nine romeo
is at five thousand he's already talking to north north sees the traffic,
he's going to climb do whatever he has to do. American 77 is direct linden
climbing to eleven switched and gone one tango seven is a point out to
manassas seven nine xray's been pointed out to west he's at six thousand on
going to join victor one sixty eight other than that that's all you have.
8:24:23 - Radar Control: I got it.
8:25:33 - NH: American 77 contact Washington center one two zero point six
five good luck.
8:25:37 - AAL77: point six five American 77 thank you ma'am good day.
8:25:49 - AAL77: center American 77 with you passing one three decimal zero
for one seven thousand.
8:25:57 - Controller 5: American 77 Washington center roger climb and
maintain flight level two seven zero.
8:26:00 - AAL77: two seven zero American 77.
8:30:38 - Controller 5: American 77 contact Washington center one three
three point two seven.
8:30:42 - AAL77: ah thirty three twenty seven American 77.
8:31:08 - AAL77: (unintelligible) American 77 passing two five decimal one
for two seven oh.
8:31:23 - Controller 3: American 77 ah climb climb and maintain flight level
two niner zero sir.
8:31:30 - AAL77: two niner zero American 77.
8:34:16 - Controller 3: American 77 turn twenty degrees right vector for
your climb.
8:34:17 - Controller 3: American 77 turn twenty degrees right vector for
your climb.
8:34:19 - AAL77: turn twenty right American 77.
8:37:33 - Controller 3: American 77 recleared direct Charleston climb and
maintain cor correction recleared direct Henderson sir climb and maintain
flight level three niner zero.
8:37:39 - AAL77: direct Henderson out of two nine for three nine oh
requesting three five zero for a final American 77.
8:37:57 - AAL77: center American 77 you copy request for three five zero as
a final.
8:38:03 - AAL77: three five zero for a final American 77 thank you sir.
8:39:30 - Controller 3: American 77 amend your altitude maintain flight
level three three zero for traffic.
8:39:36 - AAL77: American 77 stop at three three zero.
8:39:52 - Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center in Leesburg, Va: so
who wants to talk to American 77 Bobcat or Henderson
8:40:03 - Controller 3: American 77 contact Indy center one two zero point
two seven.
8:40:06 - AAL77: twenty five seven American 77 thanks sir good day.
8:40:14 - AAL77: center American 77 with you level three three zero.
8:40:16 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 Indy
center roger sqauwk three seven four three.
8:40:18 - AAL77: three seven four three American 77.
8:43:52 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 climb
and maintain flight level three five zero.
8:43:54 - AAL77: thirty three for three five oh American 77.
8:46 a.m. Flight 11 slams into the north tower, 1 World Trade Center.
8:46 a.m. Flight 77 [Boeing 757]rom Washington goes severely off course. It
heads due north for a while, then flies due south and gets back on course.
It is off course by around 15 miles, and stays off course for about five
minutes, judging from flight path maps. According to regulations a fighter
should have scrambled to see what was going on, regardless of any excuses
from the pilot.
After 8:46 a.m. Shortly after the WTC is hit, the FAA has an open telephone
line with the Secret Service, keeping them informed of all events. [Cheney:
"The Secret Service has an arrangement with the FAA. They had open lines
after the World Trade Center was... " - he stops himself before finishing
the sentence, NBC, 9/16/01]
After 8:46 a.m. Brigadier General Montague Winfield is in command of the
National Military Command Center (NMCC), "the military's worldwide nerve
center." [CNN, 9/4/02] According to NORAD command director Captain Michael
Jellinek, at some point not long after the WTC hit, telephone links are
established with the National Military Command Center (NMCC) located inside
the Pentagon (but on the opposite side from where the Pentagon explosion
will happen), Canada's equivalent command center, Strategic Command, theater
commanders, and federal emergency-response agencies. An Air Threat
Conference Call is initiated. At one time or another, Bush, Cheney, key
military officers, leaders of the FAA and NORAD, the White House, and Air
Force One are heard on the open line. [Aviation Week and Space Technology,
6/3/02, CNN, 9/4/02, ABC News, 9/11/02] Says Winfield, "All of the
governmental agencies there that, that were involved in any activity that
was going on in the United States at that point, were in that conference."
[ABC News, 9/11/02] The call continues right through the Pentagon explosion,
as the NMCC doesn't even feel the impact. [CNN, 9/4/02] However, despite
being in the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld doesn't join the NMCC or
the call until 10:30 (see 10:30 a.m.).
8:47:20 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 turn ten
degrees to the right vectors for traffic.
8:47:23 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 turn ten
degrees to the right vectors for traffic.
8:47:23 - AAL77: ten right American 77.
8:47:33 - AAL77: ten right American 77.
8:48 a.m. The first news reports appear on TV and radio that a plane may
have crashed into the WTC. [New York Times, 9/15/01, CNN, 9/11/01] Many
others don't come until a few minutes later. For instance ABC first breaks
into regular programming with the story at 8:52. [ABC, 9/14/02]
After 8:48 a.m. Air Force General Richard Myers, Vice Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, sees the first WTC crash on television. Myers will be
acting Chairman of the US military during the 9/11 crisis because Chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Henry Shelton is flying in a plane
across the Atlantic. He sees the TV in an outer office of Senator Max
Cleland, but he says, "They thought it was a small plane or something like
that," so he goes ahead and meets with Cleland. He says "nobody informed us"
about the second WTC crash, and remains oblivious that there is an
emergency, only leaving the meeting with Cleland right as the Pentagon
explosion takes place at 9:38. [AFPS, 10/23/01, ABC News, 9/11/02] Yet, in
testimony on September 13, 2001, he states, "after the second tower was hit,
I spoke to the commander of NORAD, General Eberhart. And at that point, I
think the decision was at that point to start launching aircraft." [Myers
Confirmation Testimony, 9/13/01] NORAD claims the first fighters are
scrambled even before the first WTC hit. [NORAD, 9/18/01] Which of Myers'
statements is the lie, or are both of them lies?
8:50 a.m. The last radio contact with Flight 77 is made when the pilots ask
for clearance to fly higher. But then they fail to respond to a routine
instruction. [Guardian, 10/17/01, Boston Globe, 11/23/01, 8:50:51, New York
Times, 10/16/01] Note that normal communication continues with Flight 77
about four minutes after the plane had gone significantly off course,
suggesting the original pilot continues to fly the plane for at least a
while after it was hijacked.
After 8:50 a.m. "During the hour or so that American Airlines Flight 77 [is
thought to be] under the control of hijackers, up to the moment it struck
the west side of the Pentagon, military officials in [the Pentagon's
National Military Command Center (see After 8:46 a.m.)] [are] urgently
talking to law enforcement and air traffic control officials about what to
do." [New York Times, 9/15/01] Since the Pentagon is struck around 9:38,
this means that shortly after the first signs of trouble, clearly by at
least 8:50, the military knows that Flight 77 is hijacked, even though,
supposedly, NORAD is not officially notified until 9:24.
Between 8:55 - 9:00 a.m. Just after Bush arrives at Booker Elementary
School and is briefly told of the WTC crash, he is whisked into a holding
room and updated on the situation via telephone by National Security Advisor
Rice. [Christian Science Monitor, 9/17/01, Time, 9/12/01] Rice later claims,
"He said, what a terrible, it sounds like a terrible accident. Keep me
informed." [ABC News, 9/11/02] School principal Gwen Tose-Rigell is then
summoned to a room to talk with the President: "He said a commercial plane
has hit the World Trade Center, and we're going to go ahead and go on, we're
going on to do the reading thing anyway." [AP, 8/19/02 (D)] One local
reporter notes that at this point, "He could and arguably should have left
Emma E. Booker Elementary School immediately, gotten onto Air Force One and
left Sarasota without a moment's delay." [Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 9/12/01
(B)] Why doesn't he? Note that CIA Director Tenet has already been told it
was terrorism (see (After 8:46)) and Bush certainly should have been told by
Rice of the three known hijackings at this time, if he hasn't been told
already. How could Bush continue to think there is only a single-plane
accident?
8:56 a.m. Flight 77's transponder signal is turned off. [8:56, Guardian,
10/17/01, 8:56, Boston Globe, 11/23/01, "six minutes before" Flight 175 hits
WTC, Newsday, 9/23/01] Just prior to this, Flight 77 turns around over
northeastern Kentucky, and starts heading back toward Washington.
[Washington Post, 9/12/01, Newsday, 9/23/01] For some minutes the plane is
missing because flight controllers are looking for the radar signal toward
the west and don't realize the plane is headed east. Rumors circulate that
the plane might have exploded in midair. [Newsday, 9/23/01] Since the plane
had already started turning east before the transponder is turned off, why
don't flight controllers look in that direction?
8:50:48 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 cleared
direct um Falmouth.
8:50:51 - AAL77: uh direct Falmouth American 77 thank you.
8:56 a.m. The New York Times later writes, "'American 77, Indy,' the
controller said, over and over. 'American 77, Indy, radio check. How do you
read?' By 8:56 a.m., it was evident that Flight 77 was lost." Yet the same
newspaper then points out NORAD is not notified about it for another 28
minutes and doesn't find that strange! [New York Times, 10/16/01] Another
New York Times article points out that flight controllers learn Flight 77
has been hijacked "within a few minutes" of 8:48. [New York Times, 9/15/01
(C)] Why are fighters not scrambled now to find Flight 77?
8:56:32 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 Indy.
8:56:46 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 Indy.
8:56:53 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 American
Indy radio check how do you read.
8:57:12 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 American
Indy radio check how do you read.
8:57:28 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American alt 77
American radio check how do you read.
8:57:35 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: override beeping.
8:57:35 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar: this is uh - Indianapolis
Control, Dacos.
8:57:38 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar: this is uh - Indianapolis
Control, Dacos.
8:57:55 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: override
line beeping.
8:57:59 - Controller 3: American 77 roger maintain flight level three five
zero show that as your final
8:58:08 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: outside
line ringing.
8:58:14 - AAL: American dispatch Jim McDonnell.
8:58:19 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: this is
indianapolis center trying to get a hold of American 77.
8:58:23 - AAL: uh Indys hang on one second please.
8:58:25 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: what
8:58:26 - AAL: hang on one second sir.
8:58:28 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: all right
8:58:30 - AAL: who ya trying to get a hold of.
8:58:31 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: American
77.
8:58:32 - AAL: O.K.
8:58:33 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: on
frequency one two zero point two seven.
8:58:35 - AAL: one two zero.
8:58:36 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: point two
seven we were talking to him and all of a sudden it just uh -
8:58:38 - AAL O.K., all right we'll get a hold of him for ya.
8:58:40 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: all right
8:58:41 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American ah 77 Indy
ah center how do you read.
8:58:51 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 Indy
radio check how do you read.
9:00 a.m. The Pentagon moves its alert status up one notch from normal to
Alpha. It stays on Alpha until after Flight 77 hits, and then goes up two
more notches to Charlie later on in the day. [USA Today, 9/16/01]
9:00:25 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 Indy
9:00:29 - AAL2493: center American ah twenty four ninety three.
9:00:31 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American twenty four
ninety three go ahead.
9:00:33 - AAL2493: yeah we uh sent a message to dispatch to have him come up
on twenty twenty seven is that what you want em to do.
9:00:41 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: yeah we had em on
west side of our airspace and they went into coast and ah don't have a track
on em and now he's not talking to me so we don't know exactly what happened
to him. we're trying to get a hold of him we also contacted you company so
thanks for the help.
9:00:51 - AAL2493: all right.
9:01:50 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: over ride
line beeping.
9:02:00 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: outside
line ringing
9:02:07 - AAL: American dispatch Jim McDonnel.
9:02:09 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: yeah this
is indianapolis center we uh I don't know if I'm talking to the same guy
about American 77.
9:02:13 - AAL: yeah I I I cell called him but I did not get a reply back
from him.
9:02:17 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: we uh we
lost track control of the guy he's in coast track but we haven't we don't
where his target is and we can't get a hold of him um you guys tried him and
no response.
9:02:26 - AAL: no response (background noise).
9:02:28 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: yeah we
have no radar contact and uh no communications with him so if you guys could
try again.
9:02:35 - AAL: we're doing it.
9:02:37 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: all right
thanks a lot.
9:02:38 - AAL: we're doing it thank you.
9:03 a.m. Flight 175 hits the south tower, 2 World Trade Center.
9:03:07 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar: American 77 Indy.
9:03 - 9:08 a.m. "A few minutes" after the Flight 175 crash into the WTC at
9:03, all takeoffs from Washington are stopped. [USA Today, 8/12/02, USA
Today, 8/13/02] Why is the emergency considered important enough to stop all
takeoffs from Washington at this time, but not important enough to scramble
even a single plane to defend Washington?
After 9:03 a.m. Controllers at the New York traffic center are briefed by
their supervisors to watch for airplanes whose speed indicated that they are
jets, but which either are not responding to commands or have disabled their
transponders. "Controllers in Washington [get] a similar briefing, which
[help] them pick out hijacked planes more quickly." [New York Times, 9/13/01
(F)]
After 9:03 a.m. Shortly after the second WTC crash, calls from fighter units
start "pouring into NORAD and sector operations centers, asking, 'What can
we do to help?' At Syracuse, New York, an ANG commander [tells Northeast Air
Defense Sector (NEADS) commander Robert] Marr, 'Give me 10 min. and I can
give you hot guns. Give me 30 min. and I'll have heat-seeker [missiles].
Give me an hour and I can give you slammers [Amraams].'" Marr replies, "I
want it all." [Aviation Week and Space Technology, 6/3/02] Supposedly, Marr
says, "Get to the phones. Call every Air National Guard unit in the land.
Prepare to put jets in the air. The nation is under attack." [Newhouse News,
1/25/02] Canadian Major General Eric Findley, based in Colorado and in
charge of NORAD that day, supposedly has his staff immediately order as many
fighters in the air as possible. [Ottawa Citizen, 9/11/02] Yet another
account says those calls don't take place until about an hour later: "By
10:01 a.m., the command center began calling several bases across the
country for help." In fact, it appears the first fighters don't take off
from Syracuse until 10:44. This is over an hour and a half after Syracuse's
initial offer to help, and not long after a general ban on all flights,
including military ones, is lifted (see (9:26 a.m.) and (10:31 a.m.)). These
are apparently the first fighters scrambled from the ground aside from three
at Langley, two at Otis, an unknown number of fighters from Andrews near
Washington, and two fighters that take off from Toledo at 10:16. [Toledo
Blade, 12/9/01] What happened to all these volunteer fighters? Armed
fighters could be in the air from Syracuse by 9:20 a.m. or so, yet
supposedly, when NORAD needs fighters to go after Flight 93 at least 20
minutes after that, the only ones they send are two completely unarmed
fighters on a training mission near Detroit! [ABC News, 8/30/02] The only
likely explanation is that these fighters are prohibited from taking off.
Aircraft cannon (the "hot guns" mentioned) would have been all that was
needed in such a situation, since any fighter would presumably follow
procedure and intercept visually first, tip their wings from a very short
distance away, fire a warning shot, and so on, before firing on the plane.
After 9:03 a.m. Brigadier General Montague Winfield, commander of the NMCC,
the Pentagon's emergency response center, later says, "When the second
aircraft flew into the second tower, it was at that point that we realized
that the seemingly unrelated hijackings that the FAA was dealing with were
in fact a part of a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States."
[ABC, 9/14/02] It is plausible that three planes have been hijacked and one
has crashed into the WTC, and the military still thinks its all coincidence?
After 9:03 a.m. A few minutes after 9:03 a.m., the Secret Service calls
Andrews Air Force Base, located 10 miles from Washington. They are notified
to get F-16s armed and ready to fly. Missiles are still being loaded onto
the F-16s when the Pentagon is hit over half an hour later. [Aviation Week
and Space Technology, 9/9/02] The problem with this account is that prior to
9/11, the District of Columbia Air National Guard (located at Andrews) had a
publicly stated mission "to provide combat units in the highest possible
state of readiness." Shortly after 9/11 this mission statement on its
website is changed, so it merely has a "vision" to "provide peacetime
command and control and administrative mission oversight to support
customers, DCANG units, and NGB in achieving the highest levels of
readiness." [DCANG Home Page (before and after the change)] Either Andrews
fails in its stated mission, or fighters are not ordered to scramble so
early.
9:05 a.m. West Virginia flight control notices a new eastbound plane
entering its radar with no radio contact and no transponder identification.
They are not sure it is Flight 77. Supposedly they wait another 19 minutes
before notifying NORAD about it. ["About 9:05", Newsday, 9/23/01]
9:06 a.m. All air traffic facilities nationwide are notified that the
Flight 11 crash into the WTC was probably a hijacking. [House Committee,
9/21/01, Newsday, 9/23/01]
9:06:20 - Indianapolis Control: override line beeping.
9:06:21 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: Falmouth Decos
9:06:22 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: this is
henderson American seventy seven do you guys have radar on him is he over
falmouth or -
9:06:25 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: no we just moved the
track there we never you know.
9:06:27 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: O.K. all
right you just have the track out there.
9:06:29 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: you guys never been
able to raise him at all.
9:06:31 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: no we
called company they can't even get a hold of him so there's no no uh no
radio communications and no radar.
9:06:36 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: and his last
clearance as far as you know is on course to falmouth and then jay one
thirty four right well we're just gonna treat him like non radar and we've
already told the next sector they're gonna have to sterilize for him until
we find out.
9:06:49 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: O.K.
thanks.
9:06:50 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: ID.
9:06 - 9:16 a.m. Bush, having just been told of the second WTC crash (see
(9:06 a.m.)), does not leave the Sarasota, Florida, classroom he entered
around 9:03. Rather, he stays and listens as 16 Booker Elementary School
second-graders take turns reading a story called Pet Goat, about a girl's
pet goat. [AFP, 9/7/02] They are just about to begin reading when Bush is
warned of the attack. One account says that the classroom is then silent for
about 30 seconds, maybe more. Bush then picks up the book and reads with the
children "for eight or nine minutes." [Tampa Tribune, 9/1/02] In unison, the
children read out loud, "The - Pet - Goat. A - girl - got - a - pet - goat.
But - the - goat - did - some - things - that - made - the - girl's - dad -
mad." And so on. Bush mostly listens, but does ask the children a few
questions to encourage them. [Washington Times, 10/7/02] At one point he
says, "Really good readers, whew! ... These must be sixth-graders!" [Time,
9/12/01] In the back of the room, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer catches
Bush's eye and holds up a pad of paper for him to read, with "DON'T SAY
ANYTHING YET" written on it in big block letters. [Washington Times,
10/7/02] Otherwise, Bush is completely cut off from outside developments.
CNN reported in 1999, "Only the president has the authority to order a
civilian aircraft shot down." [CNN, 10/26/99] The pilot of one of the planes
flying to catch Flight 175 notes that it wouldn't have mattered if he caught
up with it, because only Bush could order a shootdown, and Bush is at a
public event at the time. [Cape Cod Times, 8/21/02] If that fighter had
caught up to Flight 175, or if a fighter had a chance to shoot down Flight
77, would many have needlessly died because Bush didn't leave this
classroom? (Note that three articles claim that Bush leaves the classroom at
9:12 [New York Times, 9/16/01 (B), Telegraph, 12/16/01, Daily Mail, 9/8/02],
but the video of Bush in the room lasts longer than that. That video also
has edits and ends before Bush leaves. The above time is a rough guess based
mostly on the Tampa Tribune estimate).
9:08:43 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: override
line beeping.
9:08:54 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: line
ringing.
9:09 a.m. Supposedly, NORAD orders F-16s at Langley Air Force Base,
Virginia, on battle stations alert. Yet the order to scramble won't come
till 9:27 or so, and they won't take off until 9:30. Around this time, the
FAA command center reports 11 aircraft either not in communication with FAA
facilities, or flying unexpected routes. [Aviation Week and Space
Technology, 6/3/02] So why aren't planes scrambled immediately, at 9:09 or
even before, to find out what's going on? One of the pilots who actually
takes off from Langley later says the battle stations alert isn't sounded
until 9:24. [Among the Heroes, by Jere Longman, 8/02, p. 64-65]
9:09: 27: AAL: and it was a Boston-L.A. flight and 77 is a Dulles-L.A.
flight and uh we've had an unconfirmed report a second airplane just flew
into the World Trade Center
9:09:00 - AAL: American dispatch Jim McDonnel.
9:09:02 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector radar associate:
Indianapolis Center did you get a hold of American 77 by chance?
9:09:05 - AAL: no sir but we have an unconfirmed report the second airplane
hit the World Trade Center and exploded.
9:09:10 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: say again
9:09:11 - AAL: you know we lost American eleven to a highjacking American
was off . . . boston to los angeles flight.
9:09:17 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: it was all
right i can't really I can't hear what you're saying there you said American
eleven.
9:09:23 - AAL: yes we were hijacked.
9:09:25 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: and it -
9:09:27 - AAL: and it was a Boston-L.A. flight and 77 is a Dulles-L.A.
flight and uh we've had an unconfirmed report a second airplane just flew
into the World Trade Center.
9:09:42 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: thank you
very much good bye.
9:10:30 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: calls
Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate line beeps.
9:10:32 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: Indianapolis Control,
Dacos.
9:10:34 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: all right
this is Henderson there was an American eleven departed off of uh New York
goinh to L.A. got hijacked American 77 departed off of Dulles is going to
L.A. dispatch doesn't know where he's at and confirmed that two airplanes
have been uh they crashed into uh the world trade center in New York so as
far as American 77 we don't know where he is but they say uh American eleven
was hijacked off of a new york airport going to lax and uh
9:11:07 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos PA: but we don't have a track on him.
9:11:07 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate:
affirmative.
9:11:10 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: you mean like they
just took off without a clearance.
9:11:13 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: no you
mean American eleven.
9:11:14 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: yep.
9:11:15 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: he he's
depart well I guess he did because he was goin to L.A.
9:11:17 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: but nobody ever
tracked American eleven is what i'm asking.
9:11:20 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: don't know
that I don't.
9:11:22 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: oh O.K.
9:11:23 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: know just
where he lefi from or uh.
9:11:25 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: there's no flight
plan in the machine right now and -
9:11:28 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: yeah I
just looked at that, too.
9:11:29 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: I'm
9:11:30 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: as far as
what we know that's that's all we know I talked to dispatch and that's what
they relayed and they confirmed it here that I guess two airplanes about
crashed into the the trade center.
9:11:37 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: huh?
9:11:39 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: all right.
9:11:40 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: oh
9:11:40 - Indianapolis Control, Dacos Radar Associate: oh
9:13:54 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: override
line beeping.
9:14:04 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: line
ringing.
9:14:37 - AAL: American dispatch Jim McDonnel.
9:14:39 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: Indy
center here.
9:14:40 - AAL: yes sir.
9:14:42 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: American
eleven you guys said he departed off of uh New York.
9:14:45 - AAL: Boston.
9:14:46 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: Boston he
was going to L.A. and it was a hijacked airplane.
9:14:49 - AAL: yes.
9:14:50 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: and you
have you heard anything from American 77.
9:14:52 - AAL: no.
9:14:52 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: O.K. and
if.
9:14:53 - AAL: I talked to a winder in the center up there and I gave em
them the information I got.
9:14:55 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: O.K.
thanks a lot.
9:14:56 - AAL: O.K.
9:14:57 - Indianapolis Control, Henderson Sector Radar Associate: all right.
9:15 a.m. American Airlines orders no new takeoffs in the US; United
Airlines follows suit five minutes later. [Wall Street Journal, 10/15/01]
9:16 a.m. The FAA informs NORAD that Flight 93 may have been hijacked. No
fighters are scrambled in specific response, now or later (there is the
possibility some fighters sent after Flight 77 later head toward Flight 93).
Although this is what CNN is told by NORAD, its not clear why NORAD claims
the flight is hijacked at this time (and NORAD's own timeline inexplicably
fails to say when the FAA told them about the hijack, the only flight for
which they fail to provide this data). [CNN, 9/17/01, NORAD, 9/18/01]
However, there may be one explanation: Fox News later reports,
"Investigators believe that on at least one flight, one of the hijackers was
already inside the cockpit before takeoff." Cockpit voice recordings
indicate that the pilots believed their guest was a colleague "and was
thereby extended the typical airline courtesy of allowing any pilot from any
airline to join a flight by sitting in the jumpseat, the folded over extra
seat located inside the cockpit." [Fox News, 9/24/01] Note that all
witnesses on the plane later report seeing only three hijackers, not four.
So perhaps one hijacker tenuously held control of the cockpit as the
original pilots still flew it, while waiting for reinforcements? Could this
have happened before 9:00, when Flight 93 got a warning to beware of cockpit
intrusions (see (After 9:00 a.m.))? F-16 fighters from the far-off Langley
Air Force Base could reach Washington in seven minutes if they travel at
1100 mph, the speed NORAD commander Larry Arnold says fighters traveled to
reach New York City earlier in the day. Note that the crash of Flight 77 is
still 22 minutes away, so fighters scrambled to protect Washington from
Flight 93 would protect it from Flight 77 as well, but none are sent at this
time.
9:24 a.m. The FAA notifies NORAD that Flight 77 "may" have been hijacked and
appears to be headed toward Washington. [9:24, NORAD, 9/18/01, 9:24, AP,
8/19/02, 9:25, CNN, 9/17/01, 9:25, Washington Post, 9/12/01, 9:25, Guardian,
10/17/01] This notification is 34 MINUTES after flight control lost contact
with the plane and well after two planes have crashed, and even then the FAA
only says "may"? Is such a long delay believable, or has that information
been doctored to cover the lack of any scrambling of fighters? CNN notes
that "after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) warned the military's
air defense command that a hijacked airliner appeared to be headed toward
Washington, the federal government failed to make any move to evacuate the
White House, Capitol, State Department or the Pentagon." [CNN, 9/16/01] A
Pentagon spokesman says, "The Pentagon was simply not aware that this
aircraft was coming our way." Even Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and his top
aides in the Pentagon remain unaware of any danger up to the moment of
impact 14 minutes later. [Newsday, 9/23/01] Most senators and congresspeople
are in the Capitol building, which is not evacuated until 9:48 (see 9:48
a.m.). Only Vice President Cheney, National Security Advisor Rice and
possibly a few others, are evacuated to safety a few minutes after 9:03 (see
(After 9:03 a.m.)). Yet, since at least the Flight 11 crash, "military
officials in a command center [the National Military Command Center] on the
east side of the [Pentagon] [are] urgently talking to law enforcement and
air traffic control officials about what to do." [New York Times, 9/15/01]
Is it believable that everyone in the Pentagon outside of that command
center, even the Secretary of Defense, would remain uninformed?
9:24 a.m. A fighter pilot codenamed Honey who flew one of the F-16s from
Langley offers a different story than the official one. He claims that at
this time a battle stations alert sounds, and two other pilots are given the
order to climb into their F-16s and await further instructions. Then, Honey,
who is the supervisor, goes and talks to the two other pilots. Then, "five
or ten minutes later," a person from NORAD calls, and Honey speaks to him at
the nearby administrative office. He is told that all three of them are
ordered to scramble. Honey goes to his living quarters, grabs his flight
gear, puts it on, runs to his plane, and takes off. It's hard to know
exactly how long all of this takes, but clearly his recollection doesn't
jibe with the official timeline, that NORAD orders the fighters scrambled at
9:27 and they take off at 9:30. [Among the Heroes, by Jere Longman, 8/02, p.
64-65] Is NORAD fudging the numbers to hide its inexplicable behavior?
Ted Olson. [Salon] Since 9/11 he has been trying to prevent the release of
Vice President Cheney's energy task force papers. [Telegraph, 3/5/02]
9:25 a.m. A passenger on Flight 77, Barbara Olson, calls her husband,
Theodore (Ted) Olson, who is Solicitor General at the Justice Department.
Ted Olson is in his Justice Department office watching WTC news on
television when his wife calls. A few days later, he says, "She told me that
she had been herded to the back of the plane. She mentioned that they had
used knives and box cutters to hijack the plane. She mentioned that the
pilot had announced that the plane had been hijacked." [CNN, 9/14/01 (C)] He
tells her that two planes have hit the WTC. [Telegraph, 3/5/02] She feels
nobody is taking charge. [CNN, 9/12/01] He doesn't know if she was near the
pilots, but at one point she asks, "What shall I tell the pilot? What can I
tell the pilot to do?" [CNN, 9/14/01 (C)] Then she gets cut off without
warning. [Newsweek, 9/29/01] Ted Olson' recollection of the call's timing is
extremely vague, saying it "must have been 9:15 or 9:30. Someone would have
to reconstruct the time for me." [CNN, 9/14/01 (C)] Other accounts place it
around 9:25. [About 9:25, Miami Herald, 9/14/01, about 9:25, New York Times,
9/15/01 (C), "by 9:25," Washington Post, 9/21/01] The call is said to have
lasted about a minute. [Washington Post, 9/12/01 (B)] By some accounts, his
warning of that planes have hit the WTC comes later in a second phone call
(see (After 9:30 a.m.)). [Washington Post, 9/21/01] In one account, Barbara
Olson calls from inside a bathroom. [Evening Standard, 9/12/01] In another
account, she is near a pilot, and in yet another she is near two pilots.
[Boston Globe, 11/23/01] Ted Olson's account of how the call is made is also
strange and conflicting. Three days after 9/11, he says, "I found out later
that she was having, for some reason, to call collect and was having trouble
getting through. You know how it is to get through to a government
institution when you're calling collect." He says he doesn't know what kind
of phone she used, but he has "assumed that it must have been on the
airplane phone, and that she somehow didn't have access to her credit cards.
Otherwise, she would have used her cell phone and called me." [Fox News,
9/14/01] But in another interview on the same day, he says that she used a
cell phone and that she may have gotten cut off "because the signals from
cell phones coming from airplanes don't work that well." [CNN, 9/14/01 (C)]
Six months later, he claims she called collect "using the phone in the
passengers' seats." [Telegraph, 3/5/02] But it isn't possible to call on
seatback phones without a credit card, which would render making a collect
call moot. Many other details are conflicting, and Olson faults his memory
and says that he "tends to mix the two [calls] up because of the emotion of
the events." [CNN, 9/14/01 (C)] The couple liked to joke that they were at
the heart of what Hillary Clinton famously called a "vast, right-wing
conspiracy." Ted Olson was a controversial choice as Solicitor General,
since he argued on behalf of Bush before the Supreme Court in the 2000
presidential election controversy before being chosen. Barbara Olson was
known for her extremely partisan attacks on President Clinton. For instance,
a few weeks before 9/11 she had called Clinton's mother a "barfly" who let
herself be used by men. [Telegraph, 3/5/02] Some have questioned if Ted
Olson can be trusted in his account of the call, since he has stated that
lying to the public is justifiable. [Sydney Morning Herald, 3/20/02] Between
his memory and his approval of lying for partisan ends, can Ted Olson's
account be trusted? This is the only call from Flight 77, and the only call
to mention box cutters.
After 9:25 a.m. Theodore (Ted) Olson, the Justice Department's Solicitor
General, calls the Justice Department's control center to tell about his
wife's call from Flight 77 (see (9:25 a.m.)). Accounts vary whether the
Justice Department already knows of the hijack or not. [Washington Post,
9/12/01 (B), Channel 4 News, 9/13/01, New York Times, 9/15/01 (C)] Olson
merely says, "They just absorbed the information. And they promised to send
someone down right away." He assumes they then "pass the information on to
the appropriate people." [Fox News, 9/14/01]
9:26 a.m. Jane Garvey, head of the FAA, "almost certainly after getting an
okay from the White House, initiate[s] a national ground stop, which forbids
takeoffs and requires planes in the air to get down as soon as reasonable.
The order, which has never been implemented since flying was invented in
1903, applie[s] to virtually every single kind of machine that can takeoff -
civilian, military, or law enforcement." Military and law enforcement
flights are allowed to resume at 10:31 a.m. A limited number of military
flights - the FAA won't reveal details - are allowed to fly during this ban.
[Time, 9/14/01] Garvey later calls it "a national ground stop ... that
prevented any aircraft from taking off." [House Committee, 9/21/01]
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta also later says, "As soon as I was
aware of the nature and scale of the attack, I called from the White House
to order the air traffic system to land all aircraft, immediately and
without exception." [State Department, 9/20/01] 4,452 planes are flying in
the continental US at the time. A later account says Ben Sliney, the FAA's
National Operations Manager, makes the decision without consulting his
superiors, like Jane Garvey, first. It would be remarkable if Sliney was the
one to make the decision, because 9/11 is Sliney's first day on the job as
National Operations Manager, "the chess master of the air traffic system."
[USA Today, 8/13/02] When he had accepted the job a couple of months
earlier, he had asked, "What is the limit of my authority?" The man who had
promoted him replied, "Unlimited." [USA Today, 8/13/02 (B)] About 500 planes
land in the next 20 minutes, and then much more urgent orders to land are
issued at 9:45 a.m. [USA Today, 8/13/02] [9:25, Time, 9/14/01, 9:25, USA
Today, 8/13/02, 9:26, House Committee, 9/21/01, 9:26, Aviation Week and
Space Technology, 6/3/02, 9:26, Newsday, 9/23/01, 9:26, AP, 8/19/02, 9:26,
Newsday, 9/10/02] How could the military respond if military takeoffs are
prohibited?
9:27 a.m. Vice President Cheney and National Security Advisor Rice, in their
bunker below the White House, are told by an aide that an airplane is 50
miles outside Washington and headed toward it. The plane is Flight 77.
Federal Aviation Deputy Chief Monty Belger says, "Well we're watching this
target on the radar, but the transponder's been turned off. So we, have no
identification." They are given further notices when the plane is 30 miles
away, then 10 miles away, until it disappears from radar (time unknown, but
the plane is said to be traveling about 500 mph [ 8 1/3 miles per minute ]
and was 30 miles away at 9:30, so 50 miles would be about 3 minutes before
that). [ABC News, 9/11/02] The Dulles tower flight controller who is said to
first spot Flight 77's appearance near Washington, Danielle O'Brien,
previously claims she doesn't find its radar blip until it is around 12 and
14 miles from Washington, and that Cheney is notified only after that. [ABC,
10/24/01, ABC, 10/24/01 (B)] O'Brien's account does not jibe with the fact
that the FAA warned that the plane was headed toward Washington at 9:24 (see
9:24 a.m.).
9:27 a.m. NORAD orders three F-16 fighters scrambled from Langley Air Force
Base in Virginia to intercept Flight 77. Langley is 129 miles from
Washington. Ready aircraft at Andrews Air Force Base, 15 miles away, are not
scrambled. [Newsday, 9/23/01] [9:24, NORAD, 9/18/01, 9:27, CNN, 9/17/01,
9:25, Washington Post, 9/12/01, 9:35, CNN, 9/17/01, 9:35, Washington Post,
9/15/01] One of the three pilots, Major Dean Eckmann, later says he is told
before scrambling that the WTC has been hit by a plane. [AP, 8/19/02 (C)]
Note that according to the official NORAD timeline, they ordered the F-16s
scrambled the same minute they were told about the hijacking. A rare example
of competence. But earlier, according to their own timeline, they waited six
minutes before scrambling fighters after Flight 11. Why? Flight 77 had
supposedly been missing from the radar screen since 8:56. Why wait 31
minutes to send a plane and find out where it is?
9:30 a.m. United begins landing all of its flights inside the US. American
Airlines follows suit five minutes later. [Wall Street Journal, 10/15/01]
Note all planes nationwide have been ordered down already (see (9:26 a.m.))
but the urgency has not been specified - this apparently increases the
urgency.
9:30 a.m. Radar tracks Flight 77 as it closes to within 30 miles of
Washington. [CBS News, 9/21/01]
9:30 a.m. The three F-16s scrambled toward Flight 77 get airborne. [9:30,
NORAD, 9/18/01, 9:30, ABC News, 9/11/02, 9:35, Washington Post, 9/12/01] The
pilots' names are Major Brad Derrig, Captain Craig Borgstrom, and Major Dean
Eckmann, all from the North Dakota Air National Guard's 119th Fighter Wing
but stationed at Langley. [AP, 8/19/02 (C), ABC News, 9/11/02] If the NORAD
departure time is correct, the F-16s would have to travel slightly over 700
mph to reach Washington before Flight 77 does. The maximum speed of an F-16
is 1500 mph. [AP, 6/16/00] Even at traveling 1300 mph, these planes could
have reached Washington in six minutes - well before any claim of when
Flight 77 crashed. Yet they obviously don't.
9:30 a.m. The FAA's emergency operations center gets up and running, five
minutes after the FAA issued an order grounding all civilian, military, and
law enforcement aircraft. [Time, 9/14/01]
9:30 a.m. Chris Stephenson, the flight controller in charge of the
Washington airport tower, says that he is called by the Secret Service
around this time. He is told an unidentified aircraft is speeding toward
Washington. Stephenson looks at the radarscope and sees Flight 77 about five
miles to the west. He looks out the tower window and sees the plane turning
to the right and descending. He follows it until it disappears behind a
building in nearby Crystal City, Virginia. [USA Today, 8/12/02]
However, according to another account, just before 9:30 a.m., a controller
in the same tower has an unidentified plane on radar, "heading toward
Washington and without a transponder signal to identify it. It's flying
fast, she says: almost 500 mph. And it's heading straight for the heart of
the city. Could it be American Flight 77? The FAA warns the Secret Service."
[USA Today, 8/13/02] So does the Secret Service warn the FAA, or vice versa?
9:30 a.m. The hijackers make an announcement to the passengers on Flight 77,
telling them to phone their families as they are "all going to die". They
also tell the passengers that they are going to hit the White House. ["When
they took over the controls," Sunday Herald, 9/16/01, "around 9:30," Cox
News, 10/21/01] Given this announcement, why are there no phone calls from
this flight except for Barbara Olson's?
After 9:30 a.m. About five minutes after Barbara Olson called her husband
Ted Olson, the Justice Department's Solicitor General, she calls again (note
the timing of both calls is extremely vague.) [About 9:30, five minutes
after first call, Miami Herald, 9/14/01] A few days later, Ted Olson
describes the conversation: "She said the plane had been high hijacked
shortly after takeoff and they had been circling around, I think were the
words she used. She reported to me that she could see houses. I asked her
which direction the plane was going. She paused -- there was a pause there.
I think she must have asked someone else. She said I think it's going
northeast.... She told me that [the hijackers] did not know she was making
this phone call." [CNN, 9/14/01 (C)] She doesn't mention the nationality,
number, or other details of the hijackers. Then the phone goes dead, he
doesn't know why. [CNN, 9/14/01 (C), Washington Post, 9/12/01 (B)] He also
says that she said, "The pilot had announced that the plane had been
hijacked. She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff." [Fox News,
9/14/01] Her last words before she was cut off were, "What do I tell the
pilots to do?" [BBC, 9/13/01] She had asked this already in her first phone
call. [Washington Post, 9/12/01 (B)] Then the phone goes dead supposedly
"moments before" the plane crashes [Newsweek, 9/29/01], but actually Ted
Olson's timing recall is so vague that it isn't clear if this is when the
call happens, and he says he doesn't know why the call ends (see [CNN,
9/14/01 (C)]). The call is originally said to last about a minute
[Washington Post, 9/12/01 (B)], but Olson later says it could have lasted up
to four minutes. [CNN, 9/14/01 (C)] Note that there is some reason to doubt
the contents of this call, since the only source appears to be Ted Olson,
who has given vague and contradictory accounts, and has stated a willingness
to lie to the public (see (9:25 a.m.)).
9:33 a.m. According to the New York Times, Flight 77 becomes lost at 8:56
when it turns off its transponder, and stays lost until now. Washington
flight controllers see a fast moving blip on their radar at this time and
send a warning to Dulles Airport in Washington. [New York Times, 10/16/01]
However, at 9:24 the FAA notifies NORAD Flight 77 is headed toward
Washington (see 9:24 a.m.), and Vice President Cheney is told around 9:27
that radar is tracking Flight 77 heading toward Washington (see (9:27
a.m.)). Is it conceivable that an airplane could be lost inside US air space
for 37 minutes?
9:33 - 9:38 a.m. Radar data shows Flight 77 crossing the Capitol Beltway and
headed toward the Pentagon. But the plane, flying more than 400 mph, is too
high when it nears the Pentagon at 9:35, crossing the Pentagon at about
7,000 feet up. [CBS News, 9/21/01, Boston Globe, 11/23/01] The plane then
makes a difficult high-speed descending turn. It makes a "downward spiral,
turning almost a complete circle and dropping the last 7,000 feet in
two-and-a-half minutes. The steep turn is so smooth, the sources say, it's
clear there [is] no fight for control going on." [CBS News, 9/21/01] It gets
very near the White House during this turn. "Sources say the hijacked jet
... [flies] several miles south of the restricted airspace around the White
House." [CBS News, 9/21/01] The Telegraph later writes, "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." [Telegraph, 9/16/01] White House spokesman Ari
Fleischer suggests the plane goes even closer to the White House, saying,
"That is not the radar data that we have seen. The plane was headed toward
the White House." [CBS News, 9/21/01] If Flight 77 passed within a few
miles of the White House, why couldn't it have been shot down by the weapons
on the White House?
9.36 a.m. The national airport instructs a military C-130 (Golfer 06) that
has just departed Andrews Air Force Base to intercept Flight 77 and identify
it. [Guardian, 10/17/01, New York Times, 10/16/01] Remarkably, this C-130
is the same C-130 that is 17 miles from Flight 93 when it later crashes into
the Pennsylvania countryside. [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 9/11/02,
Pittsburgh Channel, 9/15/01] The pilot, Lt. Col. Steve O'Brien, claims he
took off around 9:30, planning to return to Minnesota after dropping
supplies off in the Caribbean. He later describes his close encounter: "When
air traffic control asked me if we had him [Flight 77] in sight, I told him
that was an understatement - by then, he had pretty much filled our
windscreen. Then he made a pretty aggressive turn so he was moving right in
front of us, a mile and a half, two miles away. I said we had him in sight,
then the controller asked me what kind of plane it was. That caught us up,
because normally they have all that information. The controller didn't seem
to know anything." O'Brien reports that the plane is either a 757 or 767 and
its silver fuselage means it is probably an American Airlines plane. "They
told us to turn and follow that aircraft - in 20-plus years of flying, I've
never been asked to do something like that." [Minneapolis Star Tribune,
9/11/02]
9:37 a.m. The blip representing Flight 77 that radar technicians have been
watching on their screens disappears. Its last known position is six miles
from the Pentagon and four miles from the White House. [CBS News, 9/21/01,
Newhouse News, 1/25/02, ABC News, 9/11/02, USA Today, 8/13/02] Supposedly,
just before radar contact is lost, FAA headquarters is told, "The aircraft
is circling. It's turning away from the White House." The plane is said to
be traveling 500 mph, or a mile every seven seconds. [USA Today, 8/13/02]
This picture of Rumsfeld (center), taken from the US Army website, is
captioned, "Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld returns to Pentagon
inner offices Tuesday morning after surveying the damage from the hijacked
plane which crashed into the building moments before." This contradicts his
claim that he was helping victims for nearly an hour after the attack. [US
Army]
9:38 a.m. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld is in the Pentagon meeting with
Representative Cox (R), and is apparently completely oblivious of the
approaching Flight 77. As he watches TV coverage of the WTC, he says,
"Believe me, this isn't over yet. There's going to be another attack, and it
could be us." Supposedly, "moments later, the plane hit." [Telegraph,
12/16/01] Rumsfeld is apparently psychic, because two minutes before the
first WTC crash and supposedly completely ignorant of the hijackings, he
predicted a terrorist attack upon the US (see 8:44 a.m.). Rumsfeld's office
is on the fourth floor of the Pentagon, relatively near the impact. He later
says that just after the explosion, "I went downstairs and went outside. And
around the corner and of course, there it was." He claims he immediately
began helping the wounded: "There was a, a young woman bleeding, sitting on
the ground, and I think she said to me, she didn't know who I was, she said,
she could see people holding, drips going into people, IV of some kind, and
she said, something to the effect, if people would, if someone could bring
that person over, I could hold it." [ABC News, 9/11/02] He helps load the
wounded into ambulances until 10:30 (see 10:30 a.m.). [Minneapolis Star
Tribune, 9/12/01]
9:38 a.m. As fireman Alan Wallace is walking in front of the Pentagon, he
looks up and sees Flight 77 coming straight at him. It is about 25 feet off
the ground, no landing wheels visible, a few hundred yards away, and closing
fast. He runs about 30 feet and dives under a nearby van. ["About 9:40,"
Washington Post, 9/21/01] The plane is traveling at about 460 mph, and
flying so low that it clips the tops of street lights. [CBS News, 9/21/01]
9:38 a.m. Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon. Approximately 125 on the
ground are later determined killed or missing. [9:37, NORAD, 9/18/01, 9:37,
Washington Post, 9/12/01, 9:38, CNN, 9/17/01, 9:38, Guardian, 10/17/01,
9:38, USA Today, 8/13/02, 9:38, ABC News, 9/11/02, 9:38, CBS, 9/11/02 (B),
9:39, Washington Post, 1/27/02, 9:40, AP, 8/19/02, 9:43, CNN, 9/12/01, 9:43,
MSNBC, 9/22/01, 9:43, MSNBC, 9/3/02, 9:43, New York Times, 9/12/01, 9:45,
Boston Globe, 11/23/01, At 9:39:02 on NBC News, reporter Jim Miklaszewski
states that, "Moments ago, I felt an explosion here at the Pentagon,"
Television Archive, WDCN 9:30] Flight 77 strikes the only portion of the
Pentagon that had been recently renovated. "It was the only area of the
Pentagon with a sprinkler system, and it had been reconstructed with a web
of steel columns and bars to withstand bomb blasts. The area struck by the
plane also had blast-resistant windows - 2 inches thick and 2,500 pounds
each - that stayed intact during the crash and fire. While perhaps 4,500
people normally would have been working in the hardest-hit areas, because of
the renovation work only about 800 were there...." More than 25,000 people
work at the Pentagon. [Los Angeles Times, 9/16/01]
9:38 a.m. NORAD states the fighters scrambled after Flight 77 took off from
Langley at 9:30, 129 miles away, yet when Flight 77 crashes they are still
105 miles away. [Newsday, 9/23/01, NORAD, 9/18/01] If so, that means they
must have flown north 24 miles in 8 minutes - an average of about 180 mph!
The F-16 pilot codenamed Honey later offers a different explanation of where
the F-16s are at 9:38. He says they are flying toward New York, when they
see a black column of smoke coming from Washington, about 30 or 40 miles to
the west. He is then asked over the radio by the North East Air Defense
Sector of NORAD if he can confirm the Pentagon is burning. He confirms it.
The F-16s are then ordered to set up a defensive perimeter above Washington.
[Among the Heroes, by Jere Longman, 8/02, p. 76] One of the three pilots,
Major Brad Derrig later claims their target destination all along is Reagan
National Airport, in Washington near the Pentagon. [ABC News, 9/11/02]
Another pilot, Major Dean Eckmann, also later claims their destination all
along was Washington. [AP, 8/13/02 (C)] That means either that Honey is the
third pilot, Captain Craig Borgstrom, or one of the other two have an
inconsistent account. NORAD officer Major James Fox says he dispatches the
jets without targets. "That would come later." [Newhouse News, 1/25/02] But
when and where is not clarified. If Honey's account is true, it shows that
the F-16s would have been over Washington in time to shoot down Flight 77 if
they had been given orders to fly directly to Washington, and not to New
York, which was already defended by two F-15s! (Additionally, subtract 8-10
miles (Sidewinder missile) or 12-20 miles (Sparrow missile) from the flight
distance required for the fighters. [Slate, 1/16/02]) If Honey's account is
true, it also would explain eyewitness claims of fighters over Washington
only a couple of minutes after the Pentagon explosion, not at 9:56 when they
supposedly arrive.
9:38 a.m. A C-130 transport plane that has been sent to follow Flight 77
flies a short distance from Flight 77 as it crashes. This curious C-130 is
the same C-130 that is 17 miles from Flight 93 when it later crashes into
the Pennsylvania countryside. [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 9/11/02, Pittsburgh
Channel, 9/15/01] A number of people see this plane fly remarkably close to
Flight 77:
1) Kelly Knowles says that seconds after seeing Flight 77 pass, she sees a
"second plane that seemed to be chasing the first [pass] over at a slightly
different angle." [Daily Press, 9/15/01]
2) Keith Wheelhouse says the second plane was a C-130, two others aren't
certain. [Daily Press, 9/15/01] Wheelhouse "believes it flew directly above
the American Airlines jet, as if to prevent two planes from appearing on
radar while at the same time guiding the jet toward the Pentagon." As Flight
77 descends toward the Pentagon, the second plane veers off west. [Daily
Press, 9/14/01]
3) USA Today reporter Vin Narayanan, who saw the Pentagon explosion, says,
"I hopped out of my car after the jet exploded, nearly oblivious to a second
jet hovering in the skies." [USA Today, 9/17/01]
4) USA Today Editor Joel Sucherman sees a second plane. [eWeek, 9/13/01]
5) Brian Kennedy, press secretary for a congressman, and others also see a
second plane. [Sacramento Bee, 9/15/01]
6) An unnamed worker at Arlington national cemetery "said a mysterious
second plane was circling the area when the first one attacked the
Pentagon." [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12/20/01]
7) John O'Keefe is driving a car when he sees the Pentagon crash. "The first
thing I did was pull over onto the shoulder, and when I got out of the car I
saw another plane flying over my head.... Then the plane -- it looked like a
C-130 cargo plane -- started turning away from the Pentagon, it did a
complete turnaround." [New York Law Journal, 9/12/01]
The pilot of the C-130, Lt. Col. Steve O'Brien, is later interviewed, but
his account differs from the on-the-ground eyewitnesses. He claims that just
before the explosion, "With all of the East Coast haze, I had a hard time
picking him out," implying he is not nearby. He also says that just after
the explosion, "I could see the outline of the Pentagon," again implying he
is not nearby. He then asks "the controller whether [I] should set up a low
orbit around the building," but he is told "to get out of the area as
quickly as possible. 'I took the plane once through the plume of smoke and
thought if this was a terrorist attack, it probably wasn't a good idea to be
flying through that plume.'" [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 9/11/02] Why does
this C-130 get so close to Flight 77?
After 9:38 a.m. A few minutes after Flight 77 crashes, the Secret Service
commands fighters from Andrews Air Force Base, 10 miles from Washington, to
"Get in the air now!" [Aviation Week and Space Technology, 9/9/02] Why
weren't these fighters ordered into the air earlier - Vice President has
been aware that a plane was headed towards Washington for at least ten
minutes before the crash (see (9:27 a.m.)) so presumably the Secret Service
would have been aware as well. Andrews planes were told to be prepared to
scramble a few minutes after 9:03 (see (After 9:03 a.m.)), so they could
have made the 10 mile distance to the Pentagon very quickly. Almost
simultaneously, a call from someone else in the White House declares the
Washington area "a free-fire zone." Says one pilot, "That meant we were
given authority to use force, if the situation required it, in defense of
the nation's capital, its property and people." Lt. Col. Marc H. (Sass)
Sasseville and a pilot only known by the codename Lucky sprint to their
waiting F-16s armed only with "hot" guns and 511 rounds of "TP" --
nonexplosive training rounds. The pilots later say that, had all else
failed, they would have rammed into Flight 93. Meanwhile, the three F-16s
flying on a training mission 207 miles away return to their home at Andrews
Air Force Base. Major Billy Hutchison's fighter still has enough gas to take
off again immediately; the other two need to refuel. He supposedly takes off
with no weapons. "Hutchison was probably airborne shortly after the alert
F-16s from Langley arrive over Washington, although 121st FS pilots admit
their timeline-recall 'is fuzzy.'" This would mean Hutchison doesn't even
leave Andrews until after 9:49 (see (9:49 a.m.)). His is said to be the
first fighter to reach Washington. [Aviation Week and Space Technology,
9/9/02] Could the pilot's recall of times be "fuzzy" because they don't like
lying? There are multiple reports of Andrews fighters at the Pentagon before
and of the above fighters were reported to have taken off. For instance,
"Within minutes of the [Pentagon] attack ... F-16s from Andrews Air Force
Base were in the air over Washington DC." [Telegraph, 9/16/01] "A few
moments [after the Pentagon attack] ... overhead, fighter jets scrambled
from Andrews Air Force Base and other installations." [Denver Post, 9/11/01]
A year later, ABC News reports, "High overhead [the Pentagon], jet fighters
arrive. Just moments too late." [ABC News, 9/11/02] Yet other newspaper
accounts deny fighters from Andrews were deployed [USA Today, 9/16/01], and
some deny Andrews even had fighters at all! [USA Today, 9/16/01 (B)] NORAD
commander Major General Larry Arnold has said, "We [didn't] have any
aircraft on alert at Andrews." [MSNBC, 9/23/01 (C)]
9:45 a.m. The White House begins a general evacuation. This is 21 minutes
after the FAA warned a hijacked plane appeared to be headed toward
Washington (see 9:24 a.m.) and about 40 minutes after Vice President Cheney
has been evacuated from the White House (see (After 9:03 a.m.)). [9:43, New
York Times, 9/12/01, 9:45, MSNBC, 9/22/01, 9:45, Washington Post, 1/27/02,
9:45, Telegraph, 12/16/01, 9:45, CNN, 9/12/01, 9:48, Washington Post,
9/12/01, 9:48, AP, 8/19/02] Initially the evacuation is orderly, but soon
the Secret Service agents are yelling that everyone should run. [ABC,
9/11/02]
9:45 a.m. Ben Sliney, FAA's National Operations Manager, orders the entire
nationwide air traffic system shut down. All flights at US airports are
stopped. 3,949 flights are still in the air at the time. Sliney makes the
decision without consulting FAA head Jane Garvey, Transportation Secretary
Norman Mineta, or other bosses, but they quickly approve. [USA Today,
8/13/02, USA Today, 8/13/02 (B)] [9:40, MSNBC, 9/22/01, 9:40, CNN, 9/12/01,
9:40, New York Times, 9/12/01, 9:45, AP, 8/12/02, 9:45, AP, 8/19/02, 9:45,
Newsday, 9/10/02, 9:45, USA Today, 8/13/02, 9:49, Washington Post, 9/12/01]
75 percent of the planes land within one hour of the order. [USA Today,
8/12/02 (C)] The Washington Post has reported that it was Mineta who told
Monte Belger at the FAA: "Monte, bring all the planes down," even adding,
"[Expletive] pilot discretion." [Washington Post, 1/27/02] However, it is
later reported by a different Post reporter that Mineta didn't even know of
the order until 15 minutes later. This reporter "says FAA officials had
begged him to maintain the fiction." [Slate, 4/2/02]
9:48 a.m. The Capitol building in Washington begins evacuation, 24 minutes
after the FAA has warned a hijacked plane appeared to be headed toward
Washington (see 9:24 a.m.). [AP, 8/19/02] Senator Tom Daschle, majority
leader of the Senate, later states, "Some capitol policemen broke into the
room and said, we're under attack. I've got to take you out right away."
Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, third in line of succession to the
presidency behind Vice President Cheney, is in the Capitol building with
other congresspeople. Only after this time are Hastert and others in the
line of succession moved to secure locations. Some point after this, Hastert
and other leaders are flown by helicopter to secret bunkers. [ABC News,
9/11/02] It is later reported that the target for Flight 93 was the Capitol
building, so had that flight not been delayed 40 minutes before takeoff, it
is possible most senators and congresspeople would have been killed.
9:49 a.m. Three F-16s scrambled from Langley 129 miles away at 9:30 reach
the Pentagon. The planes, armed with heat-seeking, Sidewinder missiles, are
authorized to knock down civilian aircraft. According to NORAD, they were
flying at 650 mph. The official maximum speed for F-16s is 1500 mph. [9:49,
CNN, 9/17/01, 9:49, NORAD, 9/18/01, 9:56: "15 minutes after Flight 77 hit
the Pentagon," New York Times, 9/15/01, "just before 10:00," CBS, 9/14/01]
Using NORAD's official arrival time of 9:49, the journey takes 19 minutes,
or a speed of only about 410 mph! Using the New York Times arrival time of
9:56, the journey takes 26 minutes, or a speed of only about 300 mph!
After 9:56 a.m. After flying off in Air Force One, Bush talks to Vice
President Cheney on the phone. Cheney recommends that Bush authorize the
military to shoot down any plane under control of the hijackers. "I said,
'You bet,'" Bush later recalls. "We had a little discussion, but not much."
["After Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon," Newsday, 9/23/01, time
unknown, USA Today, 9/16/01, "Once airborne, Bush spoke again to Cheney,"
Washington Post, 1/27/02, after Bush is airborne, CBS, 9/11/02] Flight 93 is
still in the air, and fighters are given orders to intercept it and possibly
shoot it down. [ABC News, 9/11/02] If this decision was so easy to make, why
wasn't it given earlier? Bush was available to make this decision at any
time after leaving the Booker Elementary classroom around 9:16. Why hasn't
he okayed the shooting down of any aircraft during that time, when it's been
known there is a hijacked plane (Flight 77) headed toward Washington since
at least 9:24?
Before 10:00 a.m. Defense officials initially say, "There were no military
planes in the skies over Washington until 15 to 20 minutes after the
Pentagon was hit" - 9:53 to 9:58. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 9/14/01] But
several sources later report that fighters were above Washington within
"minutes" or "moments" of the Pentagon explosion. [Denver Post, 9/11/01,
Telegraph, 9/16/01, ABC News, 9/11/02] ABC News later reports that by 10:00,
"Dozens of fighters are buzzing in the sky. F-16s scrambled at Andrews Air
Force Base in nearby Maryland" (the exact time is not given, but the account
is placed between 9:45 and 10:00 in a later ABC News chronology of 9/11).
[ABC News, 9/11/02] Another account says the first two F-16s from Andrews
that are armed with missiles arrive ten minutes after the three F-16s from
Andrews arrived at 9:49 (see (9:49 a.m.)). [Aviation Week and Space
Technology, 9/9/02] In contradiction to this, a few days after 9/11, the New
York Times reports, "In the White House Situation Room and at the Pentagon,
the response seemed agonizingly slow. One military official recalls hearing
'words to the effect of, "Where are the planes?"' The Pentagon insists it
had air cover over its own building by 10 a.m., 15 minutes after the
building was hit. But witnesses, including a reporter for The New York Times
who was headed toward the building, did not see any until closer to 11."
[New York Times, 9/16/01 (B)]
10:08 a.m. Armed agents deploy around the White House. [CNN, 9/12/01]
10:13 a.m. Federal buildings in Washington begin evacuation. The UN
building evacuates first; others follow later. [CNN, 9/12/01, New York
Times, 9/12/01]
10:15 a.m. The section of the Pentagon reportedly hit by the crash of Flight
77 collapses. [10:10, CNN, 9/12/01, 10:10, New York Times, 9/12/01, recorded
live on WDCC-TV at 10:15, Television Archive, WDCC 10:00] A few minutes
prior to its collapse, firefighters saw warning signs and sounded a general
evacuation tone. No firefighters were injured. [NFPA Journal, 11/1/01]
10:30 a.m. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld finally enters the Pentagon's
National Military Command Center (NMCC), where the military's response to
the 9/11 attacks is being coordinated. [CNN, 9/4/02] Rumsfeld was supposedly
in the Pentagon meeting with Representative Cox (R) about missile defense
and terrorism until the Pentagon explosion. [AP, 9/16/01, Rep. Cox
Statement, 9/11/01] He then went outside to help the wounded of the attack
until this time (see (9:38 a.m.)). Brigadier General Montague Winfield later
says, "For 30 minutes we couldn't find him. And just as we began to worry,
he walked into the door of the National Military Command Center." [ABC News,
9/11/02] Shouldn't Rumsfeld have reported to the NMCC long before? For
nearly an hour, apparently no one knew if he was killed in the Pentagon
explosion or not.
10:31 a.m. "The FAA [allows] military, and law enforcement flights to resume
(and some flights that the FAA can't reveal that were already airborne)."
All civilian, military and law enforcement flights were ordered to land as
soon as reasonably possible about one hour earlier (see (9:26 a.m.)). [Time,
9/14/01]
1:27 p.m. A state of emergency is declared in Washington. [CNN, 9/12/01,
New York Times, 9/12/01]
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Click Here for the Paul Thompson 9/11 Time-Line
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/
Click Here for the Mark Elsis 9/11 Time-Line
http://www.911timeline.net/
Other evidence-centered sites on Flight 77 and 9-11 frame-up:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/pentagon.htm
http://www.911dossier.co.uk/
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jpdesm/pentagon/
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ericbart
http://www.ifrance.fr/silentbutdeadly/
http://www.the-movement.com/Hijackers/Agents.htm
http://www.communitycurrency.org/pi.html
http://www.koolpages.com/killtown/flight77.html
http://www.worldmessenger.20m.com/messenger.html
http://www.truthout.org
http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero14/missile/temoins_en.htm
http://www.waronfreedom.mediamonitors.net/index.html
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/pentagon.htm
http://amigaphil.planetinternet.be/PentagonCrash.html
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman1.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman2.htm
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman3.htm
http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html
http://www.etherzone.com
http://www.antiwar.com
Dick Eastman
http://www.freedomfiles.org/articles/asylum.htm
Saddam prepares for guerrilla warfare with 40,000 fighters (Starting July
17th)
http://www.freedomfiles.org/articles/guerilla.htm
Karl Rove - Counting Votes While the Bombs Drop
http://www.freedomfiles.org/articles/rovebomb.htm
William Pfaff - Scaring America Half to Death
http://www.freedomfiles.org/articles/scaring.htm
Rwanda: Installing a US Protectorate in Central Africa
http://www.freedomfiles.org/articles/rwanda.htm
Wayne Madsen - Combining biological and economic warfare
http://www.freedomfiles.org/bioecowar.htm
Dick Eastman
Two Cokeheads Presidents in a Row? Shame on us!
by Jim Robinson
So, it doesn't matter if he [Bush] snorted coke as a youth? It was a long
time ago, a youthful in-discretion? Kinda like people who frequented
sneakeasies during prohibition? Kind of a cute story, eh? Well, how about
all the people whose lives have been destroyed by being arrested for the
felony of drug possession? What about the millions of people who are rotting
away in your filthy drug infested prisons at this very moment?
Well, by God, if you people insist on electing another cokehead as
President, you damned well better throw open all the prison cell doors and
free every man, woman, and child you're holding on drug charges. And if
you're gonna elect another drug felon as President, you'd better rescind
each and every one of your unconstitutional drug laws now on the books,
including all of your unconstitutional search and seizure laws, and your
asset forfeiture laws, and your laws that enable your unconstitutional
snooping into our bank accounts and cash transactions. Well, I don't know
whether to laugh or cry. You people are sick! Conservatives my ass. You
people are nothing but a bunch of non-thinking hypocrits! You're a shame and
a disgrace to the Republic!
And, I, for one, am tired of taking orders from cokeheads and felons! Elect
another one and I'll tell you what. I'll be ready for war! It'll be time to
take up arms and run the filthy lying bastards out!
Dick Eastman
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New Furor Over Halliburton
By Larry Margasak
CBS News | Associated Press
Wednesday 07 May 2003
WASHINGTON -- Halliburton Co.'s emergency, no-bid contract to work on
Iraq's oil wells must be fully disclosed, a Democratic lawmaker says,
pointing to the Army's admission that the company has a far more lucrative
role than originally believed.
Prior descriptions said Vice President Dick Cheney's former company would
fight oil fires. The contract also lets the company operate the oil fields
for a time and distribute the petroleum, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said
Tuesday. Waxman cited information he received from the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, which awarded the contract.
Cheney's office has said repeatedly that the vice president has no role in
Halliburton's operations or its government contracts.
A spokeswoman for Halliburton said the company's initial announcement of
the contract on March 24 disclosed the larger role for its KBR subsidiary.
The Corps wrote Waxman last Friday that the contract included not only
extinguishing fires but "operation of facilities and distribution of
products."
"I do not mean to suggest that the Corps has intentionally misled anyone
about the contract," Waxman wrote Tuesday to Corps commander Lt. Gen. Robert
Flowers. "I am, however, concerned that the administration's reluctance to
provide complete information about this and other Iraqi contracts has denied
Congress and the public important information."
The lawmaker also said the Corps' proposal to replace the Halliburton
contract with another long-term deal was at odds with administration
statements that Iraq's oil belongs to the Iraqi people.
KBR was given the right to extinguish the oil fires under an existing,
contingency contract. Carol Sanders, a spokeswoman for the Corps of
Engineers, said officials were reviewing Waxman's letter but had no
immediate response.
Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall pointed to the company's announcement
of the contract in March, which she said revealed the extent of the work.
The release said: "KBR's initial task involves hazard and operational
assessment, extinguishing oil well fires, capping oil well blowouts, as well
as responding to any oil spills. Following this task, KBR will perform
emergency repair, as directed, to provide for the continuity of operations
of the Iraqi oil infrastructure."
Hall said KBR is assisting Iraq's oil ministry to get the oil system
operating.
Waxman countered, "Only now, over five weeks after the contract was first
disclosed, are members of Congress and the public learning that Halliburton
may be asked to pump and distribute Iraqi oil under the contract."
Waxman also has repeated the Corps' statement that the contract could be
worth up to $7 billion for up to two years, but the Corps said that figure
was a cap based on a worst-case scenario of oil well fires. In fact, few
wells were burning during the war with Iraq and the Corps said that by early
April, the company had been paid $50.3 million.
Halliburton Deal Includes "Pumping" and "Distributing" Iraqi Oil
By Larry Margasak
Associated Press
Wednesday 07 May 2003
WASHINGTON - Halliburton Co.'s emergency, no-bid contract to work on
Iraq's oil wells must be fully disclosed, a Democratic lawmaker says,
pointing to the Army's admission that the company has a far more lucrative
role than originally believed.
Prior descriptions said Vice President Dick Cheney's former company would
fight oil fires. The contract also lets the company operate the oil fields
for a time and distribute the petroleum, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said
Tuesday. Waxman cited information he received from the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, which awarded the contract.
Cheney's office has said repeatedly that the vice president has no role in
Halliburton's operations or its government contracts.
A spokeswoman for Halliburton said the company's initial announcement of
the contract on March 24 disclosed the larger role for its KBR subsidiary.
The Corps wrote Waxman last Friday that the contract included not only
extinguishing fires but "operation of facilities and distribution of
products."
"I do not mean to suggest that the Corps has intentionally misled anyone
about the contract," Waxman wrote Tuesday to Corps commander Lt. Gen. Robert
Flowers. "I am, however, concerned that the administration's reluctance to
provide complete information about this and other Iraqi contracts has denied
Congress and the public important information."
The lawmaker also said the Corps' proposal to replace the Halliburton
contract with another long-term deal was at odds with administration
statements that Iraq's oil belongs to the Iraqi people.
KBR was given the right to extinguish the oil fires under an existing,
contingency contract. Carol Sanders, a spokeswoman for the Corps of
Engineers, said officials were reviewing Waxman's letter but had no
immediate response.
Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall pointed to the company's announcement
of the contract in March, which she said revealed the extent of the work.
The release said: "KBR's initial task involves hazard and operational
assessment, extinguishing oil well fires, capping oil well blowouts, as well
as responding to any oil spills. Following this task, KBR will perform
emergency repair, as directed, to provide for the continuity of operations
of the Iraqi oil infrastructure."
Hall said KBR is assisting Iraq's oil ministry to get the oil system
operating.
Waxman countered, "Only now, over five weeks after the contract was first
disclosed, are members of Congress and the public learning that Halliburton
may be asked to pump and distribute Iraqi oil under the contract."
Waxman also has repeated the Corps' statement that the contract could be
worth up to $7 billion for up to two years, but the Corps said that figure
was a cap based on a worst-case scenario of oil well fires. In fact, few
wells were burning during the war with Iraq and the Corps said that by early
April, the company had been paid $50.3 million.
"Death Before Dishonor"
Raymond "Mike" Clausen, Jr.