- THE VIEW FROM MARRS
- AN OVERVIEW OF THE WAR ON TERRORISM
- by Jim Marrs
- “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do
that.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat
it.”
- Philosopher George Santayana
- "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant
facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a
nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an
open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
- President John F. Kennedy
- Americans are now beginning to pay the price for sleeping through
history classes, ignoring important information in the alternative media and
neglecting to participate in their own political process.
- They find themselves in a new war --- the War on Terrorism. This is a
war they never asked for and never envisioned, anesthetized as we all are by
the flickering tube of distraction. It is a war predicated on the premise
that a sneak attack was made on the United States September 11,
2001.
- Unlike previous wars, there is no Berlin or Tokyo to capture and
hence, no victory to be won, except for those who profit from war. The real
victims of this war will be the average American citizen, right along with
the starving Afghan.
- This new war might well be compared to the failed War on Drugs and
the nearly forgotten War on Poverty. No clear victory has yet been achieved
over the misuse of drugs or the ravages of poverty within our own nation.
Our prisons are overflowing with drug offenders with no appreciable
lessening of either demand or supply and our basic civil rights have been
badly mauled.
- Just like those failed campaigns, the War on Terrorism for the
foreseeable future will set us all on a costly course of restrictions on
individual freedom, ever more centralized authority and omnipresent
fear.
- And where are the voices of those who would argue the merits of this
new war? The airwaves and newspapers only ratchet the fear factor upwards
each day with little or no effort to hear the many thoughtful Americans who
are asking themselves, “Do I really need to give up my freedoms in order to
save them?”
- So with flags flying on the antennae of our gas-guzzling vehicles and
love of country pulsing in our hearts, we march off to yet another war for
oil.
Wars For Oil
- Yes, oil. Petroleum has been behind all recent wars, beginning in the
early 1940's, when a mostly rural and isolationist America was suddenly
thrown into a world war as a reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor. Americans mourned the loss of some 3,000 soldiers and civilians in
Hawaii and, in righteous indignation, allowed their country to be turned
into a giant military camp.
- The federal government, which had consolidated so much power unto
itself under the Depression-busting policies of President Franklin
Roosevelt, grew even stronger and more centralized under the aegis of
“national security”. It all seemed quite natural and necessary at the
time.
- But serious students of history now know that even that “good war”
was the result of machinations by a handful of wealthy and powerful men. By
closing off Japan’s oil supplies in the summer of 1941, Roosevelt, the
quintessential Wall Street insider, ensured an eventual attack on the United
States. It has now been well established that Roosevelt and a few close
advisers knew full well that Pearl Harbor would be attacked on Dec. 7, 1941,
but chose to allow it to happen to further their agenda for launching
American into war. (The details of this may be found in my book Rule by
Secrecy.)
- The Vietnam War was prosecuted by men who were close to Roosevelt and
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) who had long voiced a desire to gain
control over Indochina’s oil, magnesium and rubber assets. Again a
provocation was created. In August, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson whipped
Congress into a frenzy claiming that North Vietnamese gunboats had attacked
the US Sixth Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of Vietnam. “Our boys
are floating in the water,” he cried. Congress responded by passing the Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution which bypassed the Constitution and gave Johnson the
power to wage war to stop attacks on Americans. It was the beginning of the
real shooting Vietnam War.
- And it was all a lie. No evidence has ever been brought forward that
such an attack took place. In fact, editors for US News & World Report
(July 23, 1984) called it “The ‘Phantom Battle’ That Led to
War.”
- While America was waging war against North Vietnam, which we were
told was merely a puppet of communist Russia and China, Johnson was
encouraged by his CFR advisers to grant the Soviet Union loans at higher
levels than offered during World War II when they were our ally. US-backed
loans provided Russia with the means to build facilities which turned out
war materials that were then sent to North Vietnam for use against American
troops. This was a good example of the duplicity of our modern
wars.
- The Gulf War was all about oil, from the wells in Kuwait slant
drilling into Iraq’s southern reserves to the destruction of the oil fields
at its finish. Here we found a new Hitler in Saddam Hussein, an enemy armed
and financed by the CIA, an agency whose top officials have long been
connected to oil men CFR members and other globalists (See Rule by
Secrecy).
- Saddam Hussein, strapped for cash due to his eight-year war against
Iran on behalf of the US, decided to regain Kuwait as a means of increasing
his income. Kuwait had been carved out of southern Iraqi by British troops.
When asked her thoughts on this move, US Ambassador April Glaspie replied
that the US government had “no opinion” on the matter and that the matter of
Kuwait was not associated with America. But when he moved his troops into
Kuwait, Bush mobilized a United Nations force against him, backed by a $4
billion secret fund provided by his business associates in Saudi
Arabia.
- Yet, as those patriotic soldiers closed in on Saddam, the whole war
stopped and George H. W. Bush’s old business partner is still in power. It
appears to have been yet another provocation. And as in Vietnam, even as we
prepared to fight against Saddam, the American taxpayers backed $500 million
in loans that he used to purchase arms for use against our
forces.
- Caspian Sea Oil
Coveted
- Today the real issue is the rich oil reserves of the Caspian Sea
region, the prize sought by Hitler whose drive to that area was stopped only
by the tenacious Russian defense of the Volga River city of
Stalingrad.
- In the late 1970's, with the Soviet discovery of vast untapped oil in
Chechnya, the region was ripe for exploitation but control over Afghanistan
was needed to ensure the safety of a pipeline to bring the oil to world
markets. But after almost 10 years of brutal, no-quarter fighting against
Afghans and Arab mercenaries backed by the United States, including Osama
bin Laden, the Soviets were forced to withdraw. The economic stress of this
Russo-Afghan War was enough to topple communism in the early
1990's.
- Now the international bankers and oilmen have a foothold in
cash-strapped Russia and the estimated $40 billion in Caspian Sea oil is
again attracting serious attention. In 1997, six international companies and
the Government of Turkmenistan formed Central Asian Gas Pipeline, Ltd.
(CentGas) to build a 790-mile-long pipeline to Pakistan and perhaps on to
the New Delhi area of India.
- Leading this consortium was Unocal Corporation, whose president, John
F. Imle, Jr., said the project would be “the foundation for a new commerce
corridor for the region - often referred to as the Silk Road for the 21st
Century.”
- But problems developed with the fundamentalist Muslim government in
Afghanistan, not the least of which was the Taliban government’s treatment
of women which prompted feminist demonstrations against firms seeking to do
business there. Additionally, the Taliban regime was creating chaotic
conditions by pitting the various Islamic sects against each other in order
to maintain control. In the mid-1999, Unacol withdrew from the pipeline
consortium, citing the hazardous political situation and the project
languished.
- Notice that in President Bush’s declaration of war on terrorism, he
never mentioned terrorists in Northern Ireland or the Palestinian suicide
bombers. Attention was only focused on Afghanistan, the one nation necessary
to complete the lucrative pipeline. It should also be noted that Vice
President Dick Cheney headed Halliburton, a giant oil industry service
company and is generally thought to be more powerful than the
president.
- Today it can be demonstrated that military action against Afghanistan
has been in the works long before the Sept. 11 attacks.
AFGHAN ACTION
PLANNED LONG AGO
- As reported by BBC’s George Arney, former Pakistani Foreign Secretary
Niaz Naik was alerted by American officials in mid-July that military action
against Afghanistan would be launched by mid-October. At a UN-sponsored
meeting concerning Afghanistan in Berlin, Naik was informed that unless bin
Laden was handed over, America would take military action to either kill or
capture both him and Taliban leader Mullah Omar as the initial step in
installing a new government there.
- It should be noted, however, that American intervention in
Afghanistan began years ago, at least six months prior to the Soviet
invasion in December, 1979.
- In a 1998 interview with former National Security Adviser Zbigniew
Brzezinski in the French publication Le Nouvel Observateur, the significant
portions of which never made it to the United States, he admitted that
American activities in Afghanistan actually began six months prior to the
Soviet action.
- Brzezinski said the Jimmy Carter administration began secretly
funding opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul in July of 1979 with the
full knowledge such action might provoke a Soviet invasion. Soviet leaders
at the time argued the invasion was necessary to thwart American aggression
in Afghanistan. The former national security advisor, who helped found the
globalist Trilateral Commission, expressed no regret at this provocation,
stating, “That secret operation was an excellent idea. It…brought about the
demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.” It also
produced the Taliban regime which we are fighting today, as well as Osama
bin Laden.
- By 1984, with Vice President George H. W. Bush overseeing the Afghan
situation, bin Laden was in charge of the Maktab al-Khidamir (MAK) which
funneled money, arms and manpower from the outside world into the war
against the Soviets. He soon helped form a polyglot formation of Arabic
troops from Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestinian refugee camps,
whom the CIA found easier to deal with than the Muslim fundamentalists in
Afghanistan.
- There should be considerable soul-searching about America’s role in
arming and training an international group of Muslim extremists in
Afghanistan long after their comrades destroyed the Marine barracks in
Beruit and hijacked numerous airliners.
- Little noticed in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks were reports that
China had signed a pact with the Afghans and was quietly inducted into the
controversial World Trade Organization, action which under normal
circumstances would have drawn widespread protest. Although such a pact is
unconfirmed at this time, Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf, chairman of
their joint chiefs and chief of the Pakistani Army Staff, this years visited
China at their request and discussed matters of mutual
interest.
- Although, it is claimed that Pakistan is aiding the US in the current
War Against Terrorism, the State Department’s coordinator for
counterterrorism, Michael Sheehan, told a Senate Foreign Relations
subcommittee that Pakistan supports and trains terrorist groups in
Afghanistan
- This raises the specter of Chinese intervention should US forces
become bogged down in mountainous Afghanistan. This prospect is particularly
unsettling as back in 1555, the French prophet Nostradamus, who has been
proven correct in so many of his prophecies, predicted that America and
Russia would go to war against a coalition made up of Arab nations and
China. Until just recently, such a notion seemed absurd.
- WOULD AMERICANS ATTACK AMERICANS?
The WTC/Pentagon
attacks provided a convenient excuse to launch the pre-laid plans for
military action against Afghanistan. But were they simply allowed to happen
or were they contrived? The question becomes: Would any American allow an
attack on fellow Americans just to further his own business or political
agenda?
- The answer, unfortunately, appears to be “Yes.”
- Incredibly, 40-year-old government documents thought to have been
destroyed long ago recently were made public show the US military in the
early 1960's proposed making terrorist attacks in the United States and
blaming them on Fidel Castro.
- These documents are discussed in a recent book on the National
Security Agency (NSA) entitled Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret
National Security Agency by James Bamford.
- These documents were produced beginning in late 1961 following the
ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that spring. President John F.
Kennedy, angered by the inept actions of the CIA, had shifted responsibility
for Cuba from that agency to the Department of Defense. Here, military
strategists considered plans to create terrorist actions which would alarm
the American population and stampede them into supporting a military attack
on Cuba.
Under consideration in “Operation Northwoods” were
plans:
- to create “a series
of well-coordinated incidents” in or around the US Naval Base at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, to include inciting riots, blowing up ammunition stores, aircraft
and ships.
- to “develop a
Communist Cuba terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities
and even in Washington.”
- to “…sink a
boatload of Cubans en route to Florida (real or simulated)..foster attempts
on the lives of Cuban refugees in the United States…”
- to explode bombs in
carefully chosen locations along with the release of “prepared documents”
pointing to Cuban complicity.
- to use fake Russian
aircraft to harass civilian airliners.
- to make “Hijacking
attempts against civil air and surface craft” even to simulating the
shooting down of a civilian airliner.
- Kennedy rejected Operation Northwoods and senior military officers
ordered the documents destroyed. But someone slipped up and the papers were
discovered by the Assassination Records Review Board and recently released
by the National Archives.
- More recently, according to The New York Times (October 28, 1993), an
informant named Emad Salem early in 1993 was involved with Middle Eastern
terrorists connected to Osama bin Laden to develop a bomb for use against
New York’s World Trade Center. Salem, a former Egyptian Army officer, wanted
to substitute a harmless powder for the explosive but his plan to thwart the
attack was blocked by an FBI official who apparently did not want to expose
the inside informant. The attack was allowed to proceed.
- The February 26 explosion in the WTC resulted in six deaths, more
than 1,000 casualties and damage in excess of half billion
dollars.
- We now see that creating crises to further political goals is a
methodology well understood and utilized in the 20th century. Is this the
game today?
- Let’s examine the Sept. 11 attack.
QUESTIONS OVER
9-11
- Superficially, it all seemed straightforward enough. According to the
official story, about 19 suicidal Middle Eastern terrorists, their hearts
full of hatred for American freedom and democracy, hijacked four airliners,
crashing two into the twin towers of New York City’s World Trade Center and
a third into the Pentagon. The fourth reportedly crashed in western
Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to fight the
terrorists.
- But a series of disturbing questions have arisen. Among
them:
- Why was the US
military preparing war plans against Afghanistan months before the Sept. 11
attacks? Were they just looking for some event to propel the normally
disinterested American public into a war as in the past?
- How could paper
documents incriminating bin Laden be found intact at the WTC but the plane’s
black recording boxes designed to withstand crashes were damaged beyond
use?
- Even days and weeks
after the WTC attack, why were news cameramen prevented from photographing
the ruins from certain angles, as complained about by CBS Correspondent Lou
Young, who asked, “What are they afraid we’re going to see?”
- Why has the NYPD
liaison to the FBI been sent packing as a “security risk” as reported in the
Oct. 16 New York Times? Whose security is at risk? The FBI? What is it that
the bureau does not want NYPD to know?
- How could an
obviously sophisticated terrorist plan involving perhaps as many as 100
persons and in the works for five years escape the notice of our
intelligence services, especially the FBI and CIA? And why, instead of
cashiering those responsible for this intelligence failure and totally
restructuring these agencies, are we doubling their budgets? Will we now get
twice as much failure as before?
- Why did the South
Tower collapse first when it was not as extensively damaged as the North
Tower which burned for almost an hour and a half before
collapsing?
- Why did many
witnesses claim to hear further explosions within the buildings? And why did
the destruction of the WTC towers appear more like a controlled implosion
than a tragic accident?
- Why did FBI
Director Robert Mueller acknowledge that the list of named hijackers might
not contain their real names? Doesn’t everyone have to show a photo ID to
claim a boarding pass? Where was the normal security?
- Why was there a
discrepancy of 35 names between the published passenger lists and the
official death toll on all four of the ill-fated flights? Internet Columnist
Gary North reported, “…the published names in no instance match the total
listed for the number of people on board.” Why the
discrepancy?
- As none of these
listed passengers had an Arabic-sounding names, how did the government know
which were the hijackers?
- Why did the seat
numbers of the hijackers given by a cell phone call from Flight Attendant
Madeline Amy Sweeney to Boston air traffic control not match the seats
occupied by the men the FBI claimed were responsible?
- Since Saudi
Arabia’s foreign minister claimed five of the proclaimed hijackers were not
aboard the death planes and in fact are still alive and a sixth man on that
list was reported to be alive and well in Tunisia, why are these names still
on the FBI list?
- Why were none of
the named hijacker’s names on any of the passenger list? If they all used
aliases, how did the FBI identify them so quickly?
- Why did one of the
named hijackers take luggage on a suicide flight, then leave it along with
an incriminating note in his car at the airport?
- As for the overall
investigation into the September attacks, by late October U.S. authorities
conceded that most of their promising leads for finding accomplices and some
of their long-held suspicions about several suspects have unraveled,
according to The New York Times. Since more than 800 people have been
arrested and more than 365,000 tips have been received from the public, why
has nothing substantial has been forthcoming in the largest U.S. criminal
investigation in history?
- Why are none of the
nearly 100 people still being sought by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
seen as a major suspect?
- Why are we bombing
Afghanistan when apparently none of the listed hijackers were Afghans, but
instead Arabs from various Middle Eastern nations? Since Iraq was implicated
in the 1993 WTC attack, why are we not bombing that “rogue”
nation?
- Why does the heavy
drinking and searching for hookers by some of the hijackers in Boston, as
reported by Reuters New Service, sound more like mercenaries carousing
before a mission than pious religious fundamentalists about to meet their
maker?
- How did the
terrorists obtain top-secret White House and Air Force One codes and
signals, the excuse for hustling President Bush all across the country on
Sept. 11? Was this evidence of an inside job or was it, as reported by Fox
News, evidence that former FBI employee and double agent Robert Hanssen
delivered an updated version of the purloined computer software Promis to
his Russian handlers who passed it along to bin Laden? Does this software,
which was stolen from a US company during the Reagan Administration by
Justice Department officials under Attorney General Ed Meese, allow
outsiders carte blanch entrée to our top security computers? (Hanssen’s last
job before being arrested as a spy was to upgrade the FBI’s intelligence
computer systems.)
- If United Flight 93
crashed as the result of a struggle between heroic passengers and the
hijackers, why did witnesses tell of a second plane which followed it down,
falling burning debris, no deep crater and crash wreckage spread over a
six-mile area indicative of an aerial explosion?
- Why did news
outlets describe the throat-cutting and mutilation of passengers on Flight
93 with box cutters when Time magazine on Sept. 24 reported that one of the
passengers called home on a cell phone to report, “We have been hijacked.
They are being kind.”?
- As Internet pundit Gary North stated, “We need a theory of the
coordinated hijackings that rests on a plausible cause-and-effect sequence
that does not assume the complete failure of both check-in procedures and
the on-board seating procedures on four separate flights on two separate
airlines…I don’t see how anyone can make an accurate judgment about who was
behind the attacks until he has a plausible explanation of how hijackers got
onto the planes and were not removed.”
- But the federal government aided by a sycophantic mass media did not
allow such rational thinking to interfere with a rush to judgment that Osama
bin Laden was the culprit behind the attacks.
BIN LADEN AND HIS
FRIENDS
- As in the JFK assassination, authorities had a suspect even before
anyone knew for certain what had happened. He was the son of a wealthy
Middle Eastern oil family, Osama bin Laden, who during the Russo-Afghan War
of the 1980s, received arms and financing from the US Government. Despite
the fact that bin Laden has denied any knowledge of the attack, he was
presumed guilty by both the government and the press. No other
interpretation of the attack was allowed in the corporate mass
media.
- Bin Laden is a made-to-order enemy, the man reportedly behind the
1993 WTC attack and a fugitive from United States justice for more than a
decade. It has been noted that the government apparently has spent more time
and money chasing Microsoft’s Bill Gates than in capturing bin
Laden.
- This may be due to the business connections between our new terrorist
enemy and wealthy American companies.
- According to several reports, including Jonathan Beaty and S. C.
Gwynne’s book The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of the BCCI
(New York: Random House, 1993) and American Free Press (October 15, 2001),
the reincarnation of the Washington newspaper The Spotlight, Bush family
friend James R. Bath used money from Osama bin Laden’s brother, Salem, to
open a partnership with George W. Bush in Arbusto Energy, a West Texas
drilling company. Bush believed the word “arbusto” to mean Bush in Spanish,
although it generally refers to a “shrub”.
- According to The Houston Chronicle, Salem bin Laden named Bath his
business representative in Texas shortly after the senior Bush was named CIA
director by appointed President Gerald Ford in 1975.
- It was the Bush family, particularly Jeb and Neil, who were involved
in the savings and loan debacle from 1989 to 1993 that cost taxpayers more
than $500 billion.
- Through a tangled web of Texas oilmen, wealthy Saudi sheiks and
unscrupulous bankers connected to BCCI, the younger Bush eventually gained a
sizable interest in a new oil company called Harken Energy. Two months
before Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi troops into Kuwait, Bush sold two-thirds of
his Harken stock, netting himself nearly a one million dollar profit. The
stock dropped when the Iraqi invasion began.
- It should be noted that during the Persian Gulf War, it was Binladen
Brothers Construction (now the Binladen Group) that helped build airfields
for US aircraft. The bin Laden brothers were then described as “a good
friend of the US government”.
- Later the bin Laden firm continued to be hired to construct an
American air base in Saudi Arabia despite the fact that Osama had already
been blamed for terrorist acts such as the truck bombing of the Khobar
Towers at the Dhahran base which killed 19 Americans. A WorldNetDaily writer
commented, “So let’s get this straight. Osama blows up our facilities, and
his family gets the contract for rebuilding them. Do you get the feeling
there is more going on than meets the eye?”
- Osama’s older brother, Salem, was killed in the strange crash of an
ultralight aircraft in 1988. The single-passenger craft suddenly and
inexplicably veered into high-voltage electric power lines near San Antonio,
Texas. The BCCI bank was closed by federal investigators in 1991 after
suffering some $10 billion in losses. BCCI was a Pakistani-run institution
with front companies in the Cayman Islands that used secret accounts for
global money-laundering and was used by U. S. intelligence to funnel money
to bin-Laden and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan fighting against the
Soviet-backed government.
- Another close connection between bin Laden and the Bush family is a
$12-billion private international investment firm known as the Carlyle
Group. Although it has removed its web site since the Sept. 11 attacks, it
is know that Carlyle directors include former Reagan Secretary of Defense
Frank Carlucci, former Bush Secretary of State James Baker and former Reagan
aide and GOP operative Richard Darman. The New York Times reported that
former President Bush was allowed to buy into Carlyle’s investments which
involve at least 164 companies around the world.
- According to the Wall Street Journal (Sept. 28, 2001), “George H. W.
Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family business
in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an international consulting
firm.” It has been confirmed by the senior Bush’s chief of staff that Bush
sent a thank you note to the bin Laden family after a social visit in early
2001.
- With such connections and his son as a sitting President of the
United States, the senior Bush’s Carlyle involvement was questioned by Larry
Klayman, chairman and general counsel of Judicial Watch, who said, “Any
foreign government or foreign investor trying to curry favor with the
current Bush Administration is sure to throw business to the Carlyle Group.
And with the former President Bush promoting the firm’s investments abroad,
foreign nationals could understandably confuse the Carlyle Group’s interests
with the interests of the United States government.”
- After detailing some of the Carlyle/bin Laden investments in several
businesses, including aerospace industries, writer Michael C. Ruppert
commented, “In other words, Osama bin Laden’s attacks on the WTC and
Pentagon, with the resulting massive increase in the US defense budget, have
just made his family a great big pile of money.”
- What makes these business dealings that entangle former and current
American political leaders with Middle Easterners even more suspect was the
announcement that several US firms were being investigated for short selling
stocks just prior to the Sept. 11 attacks.
SELLING STOCKS SHORT
INDICATES FOREKNOWLEDGE
- Short selling of stocks involves the opportunity to gain large
profits by passing shares to a friendly third party, then buying them back
when the price falls. Historically, if this precedes a traumatic event, it
is an indication of foreknowledge. It is widely known that the CIA uses the
Promis software to routinely monitor stock trades as a possible warning sign
of a terrorist attack or suspicious economic behavior.
- A week after the Sept. 11 attacks, the London Times reported that the
CIA had asked regulators for the Financial Services Authority in London to
investigate the suspicious sales of millions of shares of stock just prior
to the terrorist acts. It was hoped the business paper trail might lead to
the terrorists. The Times said market regulators in Germany, Japan and the
US all had received information concerning the short selling of insurance,
airlines and arms companies stock , all of which fell sharply in the wake of
the attacks.
- City of London broker and analyst Richard Crossley noted that someone
sold shares in unusually large quantities beginning three weeks before the
assault on the WTC and Pentagon. He said he took this as evidence that
someone had insider foreknowledge of the attacks.
- “What is more awful than he should aim a stiletto blow at the heart
of Western financial markets?,” he added. “But to profit from it. Words fail
me.”
- The US Government also admitted it was investigating short selling,
which evinced a foreknowledge of the tragedy. There was unusually heavy
trading in airline and insurance stocks several days before Sept. 11 which
essentially bet on a drop in the worth of the stocks.
- It was reported by the Interdisciplinary Center, a counter-terrorism
think tank involving former Israeli intelligence officers, that insiders
made nearly $16 million profit by short selling shares in American and
United Airlines, the two airlines that suffered hijacking, and the
investment firm of Morgan Stanley, which occupied 22 floors of the
WTC.
- Apparently none of the suspicious transactions could be traced to bin
Laden because this news item quietly dropped from sight, leaving many people
wondering if it tracked back to American firms or intelligence
agencies.
- According to web writer and former LA policeman Michael C. Ruppert,
these transactions were handled primarily by Deutsche Bank-A. B. Brown, a
firm which until 1998 was chaired by A. B. “Buzzy” Krongard, who today is
executive director of the CIA.
- Besides Krongard, other prominent Americans connected to both the CIA
and Wall Street power include Clark Clifford (who was a key player in
gaining legitimacy for the BCCI), John Foster and Allen Dulles (Allen
oversaw the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and sat on the Warren Commission),
Bill Casey, David Doherty, George Herbert Walker Bush, John Deutch, Nora
Slatkin and Hank Greenburg.
- As detailed in Rule by Secrecy, the CIA historically has been top
heavy with members of the Wall Street elite who desire to advance their
globalist agenda. It also operates a number of front companies which
themselves deal in stocks and bonds. I am absolutely convinced that the
Central Intelligence Agency had complete and perfect foreknowledge of the
attacks, down to the date, time, place and location,” Ruppert told OnLine
Journal on Oct. 12.
- There were other indications of foreknowledge. San Francisco Mayor
Willie Brown stated on that on Sept. 10 he was warned by his personal
“airport security” not to fly the next day., according to radio station
KSFO.
- More ominous was a piece in the Sept. 28 edition of the Washington
Post stating that officials with the instant messaging firm of Odigo in New
York confirmed that two employees in Israel received text messages warning
of an attack on the WTC two hours before the planes crashed into the
buildings. The firm’s vice president of sales and marketing, Alex Diamandis
said it was possible that the warning was sent to other Odigo members, but
they had not received any reports of such.
- Military forces had been on a heightened state of alert for several
days before the attack and several psychics claimed to have had a
premonition that something was afoot.
- Even the Russians got in on the act. Dr. Tatyana Koragina, a senior
research fellow at the Institute of Macroeconomic Researches which is a part
of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, gained credibility due to
her July prediction that an unusual catastrophe would strike America in late
August ruining the economy.
- In a Pravda interview, she stated, “The US has been chosen as the
object of financial attack because the financial center of the planet is
located there. The effect will be maximal. The strike waves of economic
crisis will spread over the planet…”
- Following the Sept. 11 attacks, Dr. Koragina was reinterviewed and
asserted the “powerful group” behind the attacks will make new strikes.
“When [Americans] understand after the upcoming, new strikes, that their
government can guarantee them nothing, they will panic - causing a collapse
of their financial system.”
- Asked who was really behind this odious plan, she replied it is not
the 19 terrorists identified by the FBI but rather a larger group seeking to
reshape the world. She said this group of extremely powerful private persons
hold total assets of about $300 trillion and intend to legitimize their
power under a new global government.
- Some took Dr. Koragina’s eerily correct predictions as evidence that
Russia itself may be behind some of the current events. It is a fact that
Russia has backed several state sponsors of terrorists, including Iraq,
Iran, Syria, Libya, North Korea and Cuba.
- ISRAELI FOREKNOWLEDGE?
- But let us not forget the indications that someone in Israel had
foreknowledge of the attacks. And there were questions concerning the number
of Israeli citizens killed in the attacks. The day after, the Jerusalem Post
claimed two Israelis died on the hijacked airplanes and that 4,000 were
missing at the WTC. A week later, a Beirut television station reported that
4,000 Israeli employees of the WTC were absent the day of the attack. This
information spread across the Internet but was quickly branded a hoax. On
Sept. 19, the Washington Post reported about 113 Israelis were missing at
the WTC and the next day, President Bush noted more than 130 Israelis were
victims. Finally, on Sept. 22, the New York Times stated “There were, in
fact, only three Israelis who had been confirmed as dead: two on the planes
and another who had been visiting the towers on business and who was
identified and buried.”
- Of all the nations of the world, Israel probably profited the most
from the events of Sept. 11.
- A permanent American military force in the Middle East is now
assured, offering an umbrella of protection to that small nation despite the
anger engendered in Arab states. After Ariel Sharon’s provocative visit to
the Muslim mosque in Jerusalem resulted in widespread violence by
Palestinians, world opinion began to shift away from uncritical support of
Israel. It has been reported that the Bush Administration was beginning to
seriously consider support for a separate Palestinian state.
- Israel’s powerful and effective intelligence agency, the Mossad, is
not beyond suspicion, according to the US Army’s School of Advanced Military
Studies. The Washington Times on Sept. 10, just 24 hours before the attacks,
ran an article quoting officers of the school as describing the Mossad as
“Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target US forces and make
it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.”
- It is generally known that the Mossad has penetrated every Arab and
Muslim organization and would have had little problem in finding any number
of fanatics to carry out a suicide mission in the belief they were serving
Allah.
- Indeed, recent news reports contended that not all of the hijackers
knew their mission would end in death.
REMOTE CONTROLLED AIRCRAFT
A REALITY
- Thanks to newly revealed technology, it is now possible to theorize
that none of the hijackers intended to die.
- Global Hawk is the name of the latest version of a high-altitude,
long-endurance unmanned air vehicle (UAV), in other words, a unmanned drone
plane that can take off, conduct missions such as photographing battlefields
and land by remote electronic control.
- This Buck Rogers equipment made its first operational flight Oct. 7
when it was used for reconnaissance over Afghanistan in preparation for US
air and missile strikes against the Taliban regime.
- But this remote-controlled plane, similar to a Boeing 737 commercial
airliner, was successfully tested earlier this year, first at Edwards Air
Force Base and later at Edinburgh Air Force Base in southern
Australia.
- Prior to leaving Australia, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister
for Defense Dr. Brendan Nelson said, “Global Hawk will create aviation
history again during its return journey to become the first unmanned
aircraft to fly non-stop from Australia to the United States west
coast.”
- When news of Global Hawk was first released, there was speculation
that the UAV technology might be used to thwart airline hijackings. Once a
hijacking took place, the Global Hawk technology would be triggered and the
captured plane flown to a landing at a safe location regardless of the
actions of the flight crew or the hijackers.
- In fact, following the attacks, the New York Times on Sept. 28 in an
article on increasing air safety, mentioned “new technology, probably far in
the future, allowing air traffic controllers to land distressed planes by
remote control”. This made it seem such technology is not yet available, yet
earlier this year, a former chief of British Airways suggested that such
technology could be used to commandeer an aircraft from the ground and
controlled remotely in the event of a hijacking.
- Needless to say, there are those today who question if Global Hawk’s
true first operational use might have been conducted on Sept. 11. After all,
as all experienced aviation and military persons well know, if a technology
such as Global Hawk is publicly revealed, it most probably has been in
secret use for several years.
- But regardless of how the planes with the terrorists were controlled,
it is clear that their managers had information, if not help, from inside
the government.
- INSIDER KNOWLEDGE
- Early on, the Bush White House issued a statement stating that
“credible evidence” showed that the hijackers had access to the top secret
codes of Air Force One, in which the President fled from Florida to
Louisiana and on to Nebraska. This statement made the President’s zig-zag
journey of 9-11 more like that of a careful and prudent commander than a
fleeing coward.
- White House officials later said this information was untrue, leaving
the public with the question of what else has the Bush people told us that
is untrue, or that the their first statements were true, raising the
possibility that there may have been inside help in obtaining the
codes.
- It is certainly true that various agencies knew for some time that
suspected terrorists were operating in the United States.
- As early as 1995, it was known within police and military circles and
reported in VFW and American Legion publications that some 5,000 former
Iraqi prisoners of war had been allowed in this country by the Clinton
Administration beginning in 1993. Most had worked with the CIA at one time
or another and were allowed in this country to avoid death at the hands of a
vengeful Saddam Hussein.
- Many of these men had been with the Iraqi Republican Guard which blew
up the Kuwaiti oil fields at the end of the Gulf War, so they obviously were
trained in explosives.
- They were “resettled” in various US cities and where they formed
cells. These cities included New York City, Boston, Washington, D. C.,
Miami, New Orleans, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle,
Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Kansas City and
more.
- These men participated in fundraising activities for the HAMAS and
Hezballah terrorist chains. They have been connected to Osama bin Laden
through a Cebu City connection in the Philippines, the location that
convicted bomber Terry Nichols visited with his Philippine wife. At least 12
of these former POWs are believed to have been involved in the Oklahoma City
bombing.
- Although this may seem a strange and unreported connection, there is
a wealth of information linking Iraqi operatives to Timothy McVeigh. In fact
the Oct. 29 edition of U.S. News & World Report revealed that “top
Defense officials” believe McVeigh was acting as an agent for Iraq, an
astounding development in light of the extent the government continued to
deny any conspiracy other that aid from Terry Nichols.
- These same trained soldiers reportedly created a number of
clandestine laboratories to produce biological warfare germs, including
anthrax, bubonic plague, various hemorrhagic fevers and other deadly
combinations.
FBI MOVES SLOWLY AND IN WRONG
DIRECTION
- In 1996, The FBI finally was moved to action concerning the
biological threat. Ohio microbiologist Larry Wayne Harris had tried to alert
the public to the danger of anthrax being smuggled into the United States by
Muslim extremists but was demonized by the mass media as a conspiracy buff.
In 1998, Harris, along with Nevada microbiologist William Leavitt, was
arrested by the FBI in Las Vegas for possessing anthrax
cultures.
- The mass media broadcast this news widely, repeating the government’s
charge that the men were testing the deadly toxins in preparation for an
attack on New York. These allegations were quietly dropped only a few days
later when it was found that the men possessed a harmless veterinary
anti-anthrax vaccine. They were attempting to find their own antidote to
anthrax, a dangerous disease the government continued to dismiss in the
mid-1990s. (US News & World Report, March 2, 1998 and March
9.)
- It is interesting that at that same time, several people were warning
that an anthrax vaccine ordered for all US military personnel was actually
going to be used to spread the disease and provoke a United Nations takeover
once enough US soldiers were incapacitated. It was claimed that this plan
would be set in motion by an emergency blamed on foreigners which would
hasten the use of the vaccine. Several military persons were brought before
a court martial for refusing to take the vaccine.
- And what of Osama bin Laden? What did he have to say about all
this?
- Don’t look to the corporate mass media to inform you as they have all
agreed not to broadcast anything that might detract from the official
government story, even though it is acknowledged that Bush’s media
denunciations of bin Laden have been more filled with adjectives like “evil”
and “evildoer” than specific evidence.
- Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAR) noted that on Oct. 10,
network executives representing ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and CNN were involved in
a conference call with National Security Adviser and Council on Foreign
Relations heavyweight Condoleeza Rice. The execs apparently agreed to limit
how and what they broadcast regarding bin Laden or his Al Qaeda group. Bush
people even tried unsuccessfully to have al Jazeera, called the “CNN of the
Mideast,” broadcasting from Qatar tone down its coverage of bin Laden. They
were more successful with members of our Congress, when they threatened to
cut off intelligence reports if they spoke offhand to the
media.
- The next day, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, already on the
record saying Americans “need to watch what they say,” extended this
constraint by contacting major newspapers asking that they not print full
transcripts of bin Laden’s interviews.
- According to a FAR news release, “The point is not that bin Laden or
Al Qaeda deserve ‘equal time’ on US news broadcasts, but that it is
troubling for government to shape or influence news content. Withholding
information from the public is hardly patriotic. When the White House
insists that it’s dangerous to report a news event “in its entirety”, alarm
bells should go off for journalists and the American public
alike.”
- OSAMA BIN LADEN REPLIES
- Here’s what bin Laden did say in an interview on Sept. 28, according
to the Pakistani newspaper Ummat, “I have already said that I am not
involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I
try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, not
do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an
appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women,
children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course
of battle. It is the United States, which is perpetrating every maltreatment
on women, children and common people…”
- In this interview, apparently suppressed in the United States, bin
Laden unsurprisingly blamed the attacks on Israel, claiming, “All that is
going on in Palestine for the last 11 months is sufficient to call the wrath
of God upon the United States and Israel….(and) what had earlier been done
to the innocent people of Iraq, Chechnya and Bosnia. (A full text of this
interview may be found at http://www.khilafah.com/1421/category.php?DocumentID=2392&TagID=2)
- Bin Laden went on to state, “…we are not hostile to the United
States. We are against the [US Government] system which makes other nations
slaves to the United States or forces them to mortgage their political and
economic freedom.”
- One cannot, of course, take bin Laden at face value, but then the
same could be said for the US Government which has been caught in so many
lies and deceit in the past that it is surprising that anyone pays any
attention to official pronouncements.
- OSAMA BIN LADEN REPLIES
- What should be thoughtfully considered is the dismal record of United
States foreign policy since World War II. This policy, as confirmed by the
New York Times years ago, has been in the hands of the Council on Foreign
Relations elite since at least 1939. This elite and its associates includes
former Presidents Bush and Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and
Richard Nixon, virtually every CIA director as well as a considerable number
of familiar past and present government officials such as Dick Cheney, Henry
Kissinger, Wesley Clark, Strobe Talbott, Alexander Haig, Alan Greenspan,
Bruce Babbitt, James A. Baker III, Sandy Berger, Colin Powell, Harold Brown,
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Frank C. Carlucci, Richard Darman, John Deutch,
Lawrence Eagleburger, Robert McFarlane, Brent Snowcroft, Condoleeza Rice and
Casper Weinberger.
- This policy has been one of neo-colonialism, that is the subjugation
and control of other nations through military dictators or wealthy families
supported by, and often placed in power, by the US military or intelligence
services.
- The results of this
neo-colonial policy has been dismal at best and catastrophic at worst. Never
mind the historical aggression displayed by American foreign policy in the
Mexican War of 1848 and the Spanish-American War of 1898. Consider this
policy since World War II.
- In 1951, when
Iran’s Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized the oil industry in
that Mideast nation, he was deposed by a coup instigated by the CIA and the
Shah came to power, assuming complete control in 1963. Thousands of
Iranians, perhaps millions died during the repressive rule of the Shah and
his SAVAK secret police. The Shah was finally forced out in 1979 by the
Ayatollah Khomeini, who became the US’s latest foreign enemy despite the
fact that he had been on the CIA payroll while living in Paris. The Shah was
granted asylum in the United States.
- In Guatemala in
1954, again the CIA toppled the popularly elected government of Jacobo
Arbenz, which had nationalized United Fruit property. Prominent American
government officials such as former CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith, then
CIA Director Allen Dulles, Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
John Moors Cabot and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were all closely
connected to United Fruit. An estimated 120,000 Guatemalan peasants died in
the resulting military dictatorships.
- Fidel Castro, with
covert aid from the CIA, overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio
Batista and instituted sweeping land, industrial and educational reforms as
well as nationalizing American businesses. Swifty labeled a communist, the
CIA then organized anti-Castro Cubans resulting in numerous attacks on Cuba
and the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. The island nation has been the
object of US economic sanctions since that time.
- More than 3,000
persons died in the wake of an invasion of the Dominican Republic by US
Marines in 1965. The troops ostensibly were sent to prevent a communist
takeover, although later it was admitted that there had been no proof of
such a takeover.
- Also in 1965, the
US began the bombing of North Vietnam after President Johnson proclaimed the
civil war there an “aggression” by the north. Two years later, American
troop strength in Vietnam had grown to 380,000. US dead by the end of that
Asian war totaled some 58,000 with casualties to the Vietnamese, both north
and south, running more into the millions.
- In 1973, the
elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile was overthrown by a military
coup aided by the CIA. Allende was killed and some 30,000 persons died in
subsequent violence and repression, including some Americans.
- In 1968, General
Sukarno, the dictator of Indonesia, was overthrown by the General Suharto,
again with aid from the CIA. Suharto proved even more dictatorial and
corrupt than his predecessor. A reported 800,000 people died during his
regime.
- Another 250,000
persons died in 1975 during the brutal invasion of East Timor by the Suharto
regime aided by the US Government and Henry Kissinger.
- In 1979, the
powerful Somoza family, which had ruled Nicaragua since 1937, was finally
overthrown and Daniel Ortega was elected president. CIA-backed Contra
insurgents operating from Honduras fought a protracted war to oust the
Ortega government in which an estimated 30,000 people died. The ensuing
struggle came to include such shady dealing in arms and drugs that it
created a scandal in the United States called Iran-Contra, which involved
selling arms to Iran and using the profits to support the
Contras.
- US Marines landed
in Lebanon in 1982 in an attempt to preventing further bloodshed between
occupying Israeli troops and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Thousands died in the resulting civil war, including several hundred
Palestinians massacred in refugee camps by Christian forces. Despite the
battleship shelling of Beirut, American forces were withdrawn in 1984 after
a series of bloody attacks on them.
- In 1983, US troops
invaded the tiny Caribbean island nation of Grenada after a leftist
government was installed. The official explanation was to rescue a handful
of American students who initially said they didn’t need
rescuing.
- For nearly 20
years, during the 1970s and 1980s, the US Government gave aid and arms to
the right wing government of the Republic of El Salvador for use against it
leftist enemies. By 1988, some 70,000 Salvadorans had
died.
- More than one
million persons died in the 15-year battle in Angola between the Marxist
government aided by Cuban troops and the National Union for the Total
Independence of Angola, supported by South Africa and the US
Government.
- When Muammur
al-Qaddafi tried to socialize the oil-rich North African nation of Libya
beginning with his takeover in 1969, he drew the wrath of the US Government.
In 1981, it was claimed that Qaddafi had sent hit teams to the United States
to assassinate President Reagan and in 1986, following the withdrawal of
U.S. oil companies from Libya, an air attack was launched which missed
Qaddafi but killed several people including his infant
daughter.
- In 1987, an Iraqi
missile attack on the US frigate Stark resulted in 37 deaths. Shortly
afterward, the Iraqi president apologized for the incident. In 1988, a US
Navy ship shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf resulting in
290 deaths. The Reagan Administration simply called it a
mistake.
- Thousands of
freedom seeking Chinese were killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989
after hardliners conferred with former President Richard Nixon on how to
deal with the dissidents. Nixon, of course, was the only US president to
resign under threat of criminal indictment.
- About 8,000
Panamanians died over Christmas, 1989, when President George H. W. Bush sent
US troops to invade that Central American nation to arrest his former
business partner, Manuel Noriega. The excuse was that Noriega was involved
in the importation of drugs to the United States. U.S. News & World
Report noted that in 1990, the amount of drugs moving through Panama had
doubled.
- Iraqi casualties,
both military and civilian, totaled more than 300,000 during the short
Persian Gulf War of 1991. It has been estimated that more than one million
Iraqis, including women and children, have died as a result of the continued
missile and air attacks over the past decade as well as economic sanctions
against that nation.
- Also in 1991, the
United States suspended assistance to Haiti after the election of a liberal
priest sparked military action. Eventually, US troops were
deployed.
- The names of nations that have felt the brunt of US CIA and/or
military activity as a result of foreign policy include Somalia,
Afghanistan, Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Brazil, Chad, Sudan and many others. As
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated during the Vietnam War, “My government is
the world’s leading purveyor of violence.”
- He did not say “my country” or “my people,” it is the government, or
rather those who control it, that are responsible. Although we the
distracted and unaware citizens who claim to live in a democracy must take
our fair share of the blame.
- HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS
- Is there precedence in history for what is happening to America
today? So much so that there is not enough space to present it all. Nero
burned Rome, blamed it on his enemies and took dictatorial
power.
- But consider what happened just last century. On February 27, 1933,
the German Reichstag or Parliament was destroyed by fire. Hitler and his
Nazis blamed the destruction on communist terrorists. They even caught one,
a retarded Dutch youth named Marinus van der Lubbe who carried a Communist
Party card. After some time in custody, the youth confessed to being the
arsonist. However, later investigation found that one person could not have
started the mammoth blaze and that incendiaries had been carried into the
building through a tunnel which led to the offices of Hitler’s closest
partner, Hermann Goering.
- Less than a month later, on March 24, 1933, at Hitler’s urging, a
panicky German Parliament voted 441 to 94 to pass an “Enabling Act” which
was the starting point for Hitler’s dictatorship. As a result of this act,
Germans soon saw gun confiscation, national identity cards, racial
profiling, a national security chief (Heinrich Himmler) and later, mass
murders and incarcerations in concentration camps.
- One of the western leaders who supported Hitler and his policies was
Prescott Bush, grandfather of President George W. Bush. He must have taken
notice of Hitler’s method for gaining unwarranted power.
- Since the Reichstag fire, the Bush family and their associates in the
Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderbergers have
often mimicked Hitler’s tactics of creating a problem, offering a draconian
solution and advancing their agenda through any resulting
compromise.
- The real enemy is whoever is behind the Sept. 11 terror attack. Osama
bin Laden, so closely connected to the financial interests of the Bush
family and the CIA, may be the mastermind or he may be a convenient
scapegoat, yet another provocation to stampeded Americans into another war
for oil.
- We must thoughtfully consider where the real source of terror lies
--- with one bearded fanatic in an impoverished Middle Eastern country or
with those who would profit while shredding the US Constitution in the name
of defending freedom.
- END