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9/11 Skeptics Unite

Reflections on 9/11 Investigations and post-political aftermath
Monday, March 1st 2004 By Ewing2001

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"Giuliani, al Quaeda didn't do it."

Thanks to OK-correspondent Michael P Wright, i learned about a story from a heckler, who interrupted former NY Mayor Rudi Giuliani last week in Oklahoma. One month ago, rumors began to emerge that Bush would dump Cheney as vice-president and pick up Giuliani as his running-mate. Interestingly, David Boren (known as mentor of CIA-George Tenet), scheduled Giuliani for an appearance at OU, a banquet, and an honorary degree.

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As Wright wrote, "unfortunately for Boren, his plans for a perfect love-fest at OU for Giuliani were interrupted by a heckler, who yelled, 'Giuliani, al Qaeda didn't do it. You know what I am talking about.' Not long afterwards he was expelled from the room by security." The full story is at OU Daily. Some weeks ago, i stated, that i'm getting in scandals about the Bush Regime, every 3 hours. I have to correct this now. It's every hour. It's unbelievable, how fast new scandals are distracting from each other. This week, four (!!) pending probes against Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, made news again. Halliburton is probed for their overpricing scam, by the Pentagon, by the Kuwaiti Government and probably soon by the US State Department, as requested by Henry Waxman, currently most active in very important issues ("Altering Science Report", "Bin Laden Flights" and "Halliburton"). Halliburton KRB is also under investigation in France for their briberies in Nigeria.

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If this wasn't big enough, Bush divided the nation, with his announcement to change the constitution, to ban gay weddings. This led not only to new outrage by San Francisco's mayor Gavin Newsom, but "Hollywood" responded with an already, long time-planned, protest lesbian wedding by Rosie O'Donnell. More to come from New York State. On Thursday, some Dem Netizens found out, that Bush might have no success with his plan. According to their research, they found official finds by at least 34 Senators, who announced, to vote against his bill.

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Finally this new threat on democracy, was overshadowed with the UN-bug scandal. There was even no time to celebrate the release of whistleblower Katherine Gun, when we suddenly learned, that also apparently Kofi Annan (UN), Hans Blix and Richard Butler were bugged by Intel Members. However, Kofi Annan seems to be manipulated by some globalists. He caved in after a request about an investigation. Now UK Times (*reg) reported, that Tony Blair apparently received "snippets of the French president's private conversations". The question is still open: "Speak up Kofi: What's that about spies?" On the "Spying On the UN", also a new article by Jason Leopold: "In January 2002, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, one of the major architects of the war in Iraq, in an unusual move, asked the Central Intelligence agency to investigate the performance of Swedish diplomat and former UN Weapons Inspector Hans Blix" Then we had the never-ending scandals of the whitewash "Sep12th"-commission. First, House-Speaker Dennis Hastert "blocked" an extension of this panel. Then, 9/11 Family Members Bill Harvey and Kristen Breitwieser responded with an OPEd at NY Daily News and the 9/11 Family Member Committee released an action alert. Some excerpts: The FSC believes that all ten Commissioners should have full access to the PDB's. The FSC continues to firmly maintain that the Commission's deadline should be extended to January 10, 2005. Maintain all public hearings with high-ranking officials under oath. Fully access all information, documents, and testimony needed from the Executive Branch. The FSC maintains that this Commission and its investigation into the 9/11 attacks must not be held hostage by politics. The FSC is still waiting on answers of their question lists from 2003 and 2004. During last week, even Aaron Brown on CNN, called the refusal to extend the time unconscionable. However, i recognised a slight anti-bush touch on CNN lately. On Thursday, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted against Hastert. They approved a two-month extension. On Friday, Hastert released a new statement, announcing, that he agreed to give the panel an extra two months to finish its report. . Ellis Henican from Newsday wrote his opinion about Hasterts U-Turn. Let's wait and see, what happens next. This week, the CIA also had to confirm, that they had data about the hijacker-suspects since 1999. Maureen Dowd of NY Times, responded with an editorial about Tenet's explanation of their pre-911 data: "Sorry, right number" "The Germans gave us a name, Marwan that's it" and a phone number," the director of central intelligence replied, adding: "They didn't give us a first and a last name until after 9/11, with then additional data." For crying out loud. As one guy I know put it: "I've tracked down women across the country with a lot less information than that." But this wasn't even news. Generally discredited as "conspiracy talk", the "Marwan information" was already contained in the Joint Inquiry of Congress' Final Classified Report that was released in December 2002. The 9/11 Family Members are aware of this. As they correctly stated this week, "it's on the top of page 186 of the report. The information was kept classified for obvious reasons, namely it makes the CIA's story that the terrorists caught them flat-footed--a big fat lie." "Perhaps the better question is why it took the 9/11 Commission 14 months to finally read the Joint Inquiry of Congress' Final Report and "actively investigate" this information."

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Furthermore, Tenet lied, when he said, the CIA didn't respond to "a name, named Joe", because they "didn't have enough". In 1999, as german magazine DER STERN already reported last year, CIA officer Thomas Volz, tried to hire Marmoun Darkanzali, a business contact of Mohammad Atta, as an informant. The CIA also had possession of two other phone numbers: Attas apartment and a close relative of hijacker suspect Khaled Al-Midhar. Meanwhile, there was another disturbing follow-up report on al-Midhar: The D.C.-based parent company of Riggs National Bank has been subpoenaed by lawyers representing the victims of the 9/11 attack. The attorneys say they want to know whether Riggs may have helped facilitate the transfer of millions of dollars in funds to the hijackers. As 9/11 Researcher Allan Duncan correctly pointed out, Riggs Bank was the bank that Princess Haifa used to send money to San Diego that ended up in the hands of Khalid Almidhar and Nawaf Alhazmi. The guy behind these transfers was Omar Al Bayoumi.(CNN reported already in 2002). More disturbing, the President and CEO of Riggs Bank is George Bush's uncle, Yale graduate Jonathan Bush. Sean C. Fallon, Managing Director, held an eighteen month internship with Lockheed Martin's global telecommunication satellite division. There is already a competing queue of all these "scandals" (even the word "scandal" or "gate" makes no sense anymore). What happened with monday's, last weeks, ermm whenever scandal, Traitorgate, AWOLGate, Iraq Inquiry etc... I wonder, which NeoCon-PR guy has to coordinate all this? Ray McGovern (ex-CIA) prefers to call the NeoCons "neo-fascists, because that's what they are. And what these neo-fascists did was see 911 as a golden opportunity." McGovern repeated this week his explanation, why George Tenet is still head of the CIA: "...George Tenet no doubt has a little computer disc with the 27 or so warnings that he gave the president starting in spring and going right up until September 2001" ...The president and his advisors in the White House, knowing this, didn't dismiss Tenet after 911 because it was too much of a risk. Were they to have dismissed Tenet on September 12, they could not have been sure that he wouldn't have said, ?Wait a second. Let me print off some of these warnings. Let me show you what I told the president in the president's daily brief on August 6, 2001..."

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It looks like some parts of the "October Surprise" will be accelerated. Is the "Capture of Bin Laden" one of them? Iran Radio claimed this week, that bin Laden was already captured in Pakistan, "to announce it later in the year -- in order to help US President George W. Bush's re-election chances in November polls." Iran also reported first about the "Saddam Capture". Both Pakistan and Pentagon did not confirm these reports. Apparently, George Bush is sued again. Appellant (August) Schlund has alleged in his complaint supporting facts relevant to his FOIA/PA requests he is clearly a political witness against President George W. Bush, as he has personal knowledge from his possession and personal knowledge of the "Bolles Papers" which detail the systematic overthrow of the government of the United States, as he has set forth in his Verified Complaint. A former hawk on the Iraq Invasion, Howard Stern in big blast at Bush: "...my last words to you are 'G.W.B.,' " Stern told listeners yesterday. "Get him out of office. I'm tellin' you, man, he's in dangerous territory a religious agenda and you gotta vote him out..." Last week, i reported about the South Korean Carlyle-Koram Bank connection and the deal by CitiGroup. Now WP reported, that Carlyle sold its $302 million stake to Citigroup. "That recent decision also ended Carlyle's association with another prominent world figure, former Philippine president Fidel Ramos." WP also reported, that "Carlyle is reportedly discussing buying telephone lines in Hawaii from Verizon Communications Inc." The head of Carlyle's telecommunications group, James A. Attwood Jr., is a former Verizon executive. These new Consumer-Business Ventures of Carlyle are headed by Leslie L. Armitage, 35, who is not related to Richard L. Armitage, the deputy secretary of state. What else happened? Some keywords: IRAQ: US soldiers accused of raping 100 colleagues Annan Says Elections in Iraq Can't Be Held by June US, Britain created facts before Iraq war : Blix Where's The Army's Suicide Report? Kurds collected 1.7 million signatures On Independence Chalabi, Garner Provide New Clues to War DOMESTIC: Scalia, Lawyers Went Hunting While Cases Were Pending Richard Perle resigns Education Secretary Rod Paige: NEA a terrorist organization U.S. Won't Sign Anti-Land Mine Treaty Big Oil Companies Granted $66 Million by Homeland Security Greenspan: Cut Social Security Modern-day slaves in Jeb Bush-state Research Continues On Government Program to Monitor Americans' Travel Bush Backs New Terrorism TV Series AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan: Now it's all-out war ALLIES: Army chiefs feared Iraq war illegal just days before start 'David Kelly Murdered' says British Lawyer HAITI: Bush Says US Will `Turn Back' Refugee Exodus Bush accused of supporting Haitian rebels Finally, on Sunday, Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country. Boniface Alexandre, the chief justice of Haiti's supreme court, has stepped in to lead the nation. "He is known in Haiti for his honesty". ADDENDUM: Michel Chossudovsky wrote an article about Haiti's new battle. It was written "in response to the barrage of disinformation in the mainstream media. It was completed on February 29th, the day of President Jean Bertrand Aristide's departure in exile". 9/11, AFTERMATH: U.S. Military Lawyers Criticize Guantanamo Trials F.B.I. Agents Took Mementos From Rubble of Twin Towers U.S., Paki Deny They're Closing in on Osama New Book "Rumsfeld's War" :Bush 'wanted war in 2002' Feds Freeze Charity's Assets "All 'notorious terrorists' backed by US" (Rafsanjani) Globalists-Ploy of the week? -John Kerry as the next wannabee 9/11 TruthSeeker: "...I believe it is in America's interest to know the truth about 9/11," Kerry said. "Mr. President, stop stonewalling the commission..."

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Then we had this obscure leak of a "secret" Pentagon Report about future weather wars. Smelled for me more like: "get used to this scenario, guys!" Wasn't the nickname of this guy behind the Pentagon Report, Yoda ("Andrew Marshall, a legendary DOD figure")? Too obvious for me, including the follow-up statement from the Pentagon- they even didn't show any outrage about this "leak" at all. Time to check out a classic paper from last century (August 1996): Owning the Weather in 2025. Better save also this list of "students" from the "AIR UNIVERSITY". Niels Groeneveld aka FreedomFiles sent me an older Pentagon File on "ClimateChange" from 2003. It's now up at GFP for limited time at http://news.globalfreepress.com/ewing/pentagon-on-climate-change03.pdf. More "freedomfiles" at GlobalResearch Furthermore, between Feb. 19-25, there was an exercise by NORAD and NORTCOM, called "Unified Defense '04". "A major hurricane, a nuclear accident, and a nuclear detonation (all simulated, all occurring in Texas)", was part of this scenario. "...The nuclear detonation scenario simulated killing 300 and affecting nearly 1,000 residents in a town of only 3,700 people. According to Croft, this is the first time the Department of Homeland Security and USNORTHCOM have included a nuclear detonation in an exercise. Since most exercise activities are being simulated, residents in the exercise areas will not see troop movements, hear flying aircraft, or see and hear emergency vehicles responding to accident sites. The one exception will be in Alaska where Coast Guard vessels actually will be visible in the water. But there won't be "any big bangs or anything like that," said Coast Guard Lt. Brad Wilson. He said the general public would see little activity...." Now we know, what we have to expect. The forthcoming "election" is already more than a fix for me, it's a damn red herring. Meanwhile, even Tony Blair seems secretly to endorse John Edwards (the next Vice-President?)

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For those of you, who didn't get a headache of this information overload yet, let's open the holy land of brave 9/11 Research and -activism. To begin with the 9/11 Truth Movement: Finally, the NYPD and Port Authority caved in. Here in New York, we're now allowed to continue our weekly 9/11 truth protest campaign, on the Port Authority side of Ground Zero. Usually the police forced to us, to leave to the Hilton-side on the other side of the street. Nothing happened in the last 3 weeks. It's also getting more warm. :) Bill Douglas (Kansas City) is still collecting new updates about any new 9/11 truth group in the States, and i'm fishing the best-of reports from international fronts. For March 2004, the 9/11 Truth Movement will participate in the next U.S. wide Peace-Protests, with the main message: "Stop the 9/11 cover-up" Other news: Ellen Mariani's petition reached 6500 signatures. Mike Ruppert and Cynthia McKinney support the event "What's wrong with the election 2004!", at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church, in Los Angeles. John Kaminski wrote a new, less polemic essay, which i prefer as one of his better masterpieces. This one goes really deep under the heart: The new evil empire: USA has become what Nazi Germany & Soviet Union used to be

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The Countdown continues for the biggest 9/11 Truth Congress ever, in San Francisco (March 26-28th) Barry Zwicker, Global Outlook and other canadian 9/11 Truth Seekers are working already on "Phase 2" (May 30, June 7-13!)

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9/11 Truth Germany: Heinrich Buecker will continue with regular 9/11 truth openings and other related war-issues at Tacheles, in Berlin. More Updates on his website at HBuecker and his 911Research Yahoogroups. Buecker also officially started Berlin's next 9/11 Truth Alliance. Grolo needs support for his politicial 9/11 Board. He also plans a multimedia 9/11 CD. Please, every german and international 9/11 Researcher, get in touch with him to provide some clips. Woody Box' final version of his article on the oddities about two different gates for Flight 11 is done. It will premiere next week on 911Review. I helped a little bit with some additional stuff, but the main props are going definetely to Woody. I think, his article is groundbreaking regarding the possibilty, that the "hijacked planes" were part of an inside job ("Piggy Back"), covered up by a wargame. What do we know about these wargames or gamereality-syncs yet? 1) Prof. John Arquilla, an information warfare and Special Operations expert at the Naval Postgraduate School, told The Monterey Herald in July 2002: "The idea of such an attack (like 9-11) was well known. It had been wargamed as a possibility in exercises before Sept. 11 2001." 2) Already in in August 1990, General Norman Schwarzkopf, confirmed that a "wargame" was underway, when Iraq invaded Kuwait. 3) Right around September 11, two US Aircraft carrier task forces conveniently arrived in the Persian Gulf right at the same time on "rotation." Obviously, preplanned. 4) On September 11th, the US "Bright Star" operation was going on in Egypt. 5) Sept. 11 was also Day II of "Vigilant Guardian," an exercise that would pose an imaginary crisis to North American Air Defense outposts nationwide. "It must be part of the exercise," Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins thought on the day of the attack. 6) Another wargame, called "Northern Guardian" took place on Sep11th, probably combined with "Vigilant Guardian" 7) The US NRO (National Reconnaissance Office), which operates spy satellites, was conducting a simulation of a plane crash into the headquarters (near Dulles Airport in Virginia) of the CIA. This was planned for 1 PM on that day. 8) Already in June 2001, a BioTerror Drill took place, named DARK WINTER (Pt. 2 of TOPOFF/2000). Among the participants: PNAC-supporter James Woolsey (ex-CIA) and Jerome Hauer (of Kroll Associates, ex-SAIC and ex-OEM New York), who later organised a security job for ex-FBI anti-terror chief John O'Neill: In the Twin Towers, where O'Neill died. The whole story of O'Neill never turned into a mainstream hero story or TV doku drama. Why? 9) Also, already on Jan. 22, 2000, the same James Woolsey, participated in a CFR Project run, as a war-game simulation at its Manhattan headquarters. For the simulation, the CFR enlisted 75 people, including bankers, former Treasury Secretaries, and former State Department officials.

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10) "Amalgam Virgo 01" took place in Summer 2001, sponsored by NORAD, however they didn't react, as usual procedure, on Sep11th. The logo of their drill included the counterfeit of Bin Laden.

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11) In May 2001, the DiLorenzo clinic's tri-service staff participated in the simulation exercise "Tricare" for the possibility crash of a Boeing 757 airliner into the U.S. military headquarters. In fact the first medical personnel at the pentagon scene on September 11th, came mostly from the Army's TriCare clinic on the ground level of the Pentagon's North. Also in charge, the same green trucks from Arlington, as seen above, on early pictures after the Pentagon attack and BEFORE the collapse of the building.

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12) In October 2000, the Pentagon prepares for an airline crash with a miniature building 13) There are many private military contractors, who organised terror drills for the US Government, currently these are also the terror war profiteers. Here are two representative examples: DynCorp In 1998, Dr. Joe Furman of DynCorp, supported a workshop on "Medical Surveillance" regarding possible bio attacks. Booz, Allen, Hamilton Another company, run by James Woolsey. Booz has their offices worldwide, from Boston (John D. Harris) to Amsterdam (Peter Mensing). BAH also works closely with DARPA. James R. Clapper, another BAH-employee, is also head of NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency), a project of the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office), which develops new satellite capabilities (A NRO payload launched into space on September 8, 2001). Other side notes: On September 10, 2001, the Departement of Transportation (DOT) released a rapport of the vulnerabilities of the GPS, due to interferences. On September 11th, CNN released at 7:19 AM, only 2 hours before the first "hijacks", a Pentagon confirmation, that Iraq's anti-aircraft forces shot down a $3.2 million RQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Interestingly Booz, Allen, & Hamilton is also client for Blessed Relief, the charity said to be a front for Osama Bin Laden. Booz had lost 3 employees in the Pentagon : Gerald Fisher, Terence Lynch, and Ernest Willcher. They had apparently to work for the government on Trailblazer 1, a NSA-system required to spy communications. Another side note: Scott Powell and Edmond Young, members of BTG Inc, died in the Pentagon too. Only 9 days later, BTG was then aquired by Titan Corp., another satellite- and security system specialist. It was also Titan, who provided their disinfection systems to Post Offices in October 2001, after anthrax was discovered in mailings to members of Congress and journalists. Obviously VERY specialised, only 12 weeks after Sep11th, another scenario posed to 75 government and healthcare professionals in a wargame, was conducted on December 17th and 18th, 2001, in Washington DC, sponsored by BoozAllen Hamilton and the Council for Excellence. Among other private military contractors, who are specialised or participating in terror drills are: Lockheed Martin Corp., Boeing Company, Inc., Raytheon Company Inc., General Dynamics (Falls Church, center of many Bin Laden Family activities and the official Sep11th hijackers), Northrop Grumman, Litton Industries, Inc., TRW Inc, SAIC, The Carlyle Group, Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), Marconi PLC or Honeywell Int'l, Inc./Allied Signal (also a former sponsor of John Kerry). Other international, interesting PMCs, to keep an eye on: ArmorGroup Services, Ltd., Betac Corporation, Control Risks Group, Cubic Corporation, Globe Risks Holding, Hart Group, Logicon, Mitre Corp, Panasec, Rubicon, Task International, Vinnell, Wackenhut, WatchGuard International. Why does the Pentagon claim, they were not prepared for Sep11th? Why do they still cover-up Sep11th with "incompetence"? In my 9/11 WIKI-encyclopedia , i count even many more terror drills, crisis simulations or other wargames, between 1998 and 2001. Another interesting article this week: "Soldier for the Truth" by Marc Cooper, in LA Weekly. This article contains also an interview with retired Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski (GFP reported in August 2003). Kwiatkowski, retired USAF lieutenant colonel, worked at the Defense Department's office for Near East South Asia (NESA). A whistleblower soft, she's writing since last year, about what she saw and knew about Douglas Feith, William Luti, Lewis Scooter Libby, Abram Shulsky and the other NeoCon Hawks, who planned the war against Iraq, with the Office of Special Plans: "They pushed an agenda on Iraq, and they developed pretty sophisticated propaganda lines which were fed throughout government, to the Congress, and even internally to the Pentagon" From the Interview: L.A. WEEKLY: What was the relationship between NESA and the now-notorious Office of Special Plans, the group set up by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney? Was the OSP, in reality, an intelligence operation to act as counter to the CIA? KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: The NESA office includes the Iraq desk, as well as the desks of the rest of the region. It is under Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Bill Luti. When I joined them, in May 2002, the Iraq desk was there. We shared the same space, and we were all part of the same general group. At that time it was expanding. Contractors and employees were coming though it wasnt clear what they were doing. In August of 2002, the expanded Iraq desk found new spaces and moved into them. It was told to us that this was now to be known as the Office of Special Plans..." Kwiatkowski wrote first anonymously for David Hackworth, then under her real name for Lew Rockwell On Friday, Marc Cooper's article, was also picked up by Yahoo News and reached the Top 5 of the day.

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Other updates from 9/11 Truthseekers:
  • 9/11 Truthseeker-story of the week, was definetely the Alex Jones Interview with former Pentagon arms salesman Donn de Grand-Pre, author of three books that alleged 9/11 was an inside job. A transcript from the interview is already available here. Kaminski brought a good summary: "de Grand-Pre claims, there is now talk of a military coup ? to reverse what he calls the administrative coup d'etat that happened on 9/11 ? are rife within the corridors of the Pentagon. In his various interviews and publications, deGrand-Pre has called 9/11 "an administrative coup d'etat." He suggests the only way the neocons can be stopped is by a military coup d'etat, and estimates 70 percent of key military personnel are in favor of such a step. But the possibility is complicated, he says, by the large number of key military players who have gone over to the Council on Foreign Relations team. Flight 93, the jetliner that supposedly crashed in Pennsylvania after courageous passengers struggled with armed hijackers, was shot down by the North Dakota Air Guard. "I know the pilot who fired those two missiles to take down 93," de Grand-Pre insisted, adding that the order to shoot down the plane came from the Adjutant General of North Dakota. - Most likely it was U.S. forces that tried to kill Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz when he visited Iraq recently. - Military tribunals will try current U.S. public officials when the military decides to take over, de Grand-Pre predicts. "And Cheney, I reiterate, is toast." de Grand-Pre named Cheney as the one man who knows the most about 9/11." From Grand-Pre's bio: Commissioned in 1950, he served as an infantry troop leader and paratrooper, as well as a combat troop commander and intelligence officer with the 27th Infantry "Wolfhound" Regiment in Korea. He was decorated for valor in combat and seriously wounded in 1953. While recuperating, he graduated cum laud from Dickinson State University (ND), with a degree in political science in 1956. He returned to active duty as the deputy chief of the International Division, Office of the Chief of Research and Development. He also served as Commander of Special Troops for the US Army Reserves. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara appointed Colonel Donn de Grand Pr? Director Ground Weapons Systems in a newly created office of International Logistics Negotiation in 1967. He and his colleagues were given the mission to negotiate sales contracts with heads of foreign nations for military equipment and weapons systems. They became the world's most successful arms salesmen, with sales totaling nearly 100 billion dollars over a ten year period.
  • On Saturday, i met Tom Modern, at our weekly 9/11 truth Protest Campaign at Ground Zero. Tom was being affiliated with New York Press and working last year on an anniversary story about Sep11th, when "they started flimflamming about whether or not they were going to run it". At the end, Modern's story was cancelled. There are interesting things, Modern writes on his website ...A New Yorker who goes by the name of "Omega" witnessed the North Tower collapse: "I witnessed the North Tower collapse. The color of the explosion was yellow, similar to the sun, but not as intense. The explosion originated from the 50th-55th floors. ...A secret NYFD tape was found in The Port Authority's offices at 5 WTC a few weeks after 9-11 (New York Times on the web). It was a 78- minute recording of firefighter's last communications inside the Twin Towers. It was learned by the tape that at least two firefighters reached the 78th floor sky lobby in the South Tower (it was previously thought that no one ascended past 50). The U.S. Dept. of Justice ordered the tape withheld from the public, but it was finally released in Nov. '02 and the NYPD and NYFD only received copies after signing a confidentiality agreement.

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    Tom Modern also focused on odd reports about the Woolworth Building and the background of the management. From the NY POST (08-29-03): "The Woolworth Building! The Woolworth Building! They're shooting at the Trade Center from the Woolworth Building!" a police officer screams. ... "There's fucking explosions going off on Vesey street!" another officer yells. "Can you send somebody over to the Woolworth Building to check the roof?" a Port Authority police officer asked. "There's a possible ... they said it was ... we just had a second explosion, possibly a missile from the roof of the Woolworth Building." "The Woolworth Building?" replied a police operator. "`Yeah, on ... on Broadway," the officer said. One still from this "explosion" probably came from the Euro News video---"which is now mysteriously missing". Tom Modern looked into the biography of Richard "Bo" Dietl, who runs the Woolworth Building for Beau Dietl & Associates. He found out, that Dietl has advised the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia on issues of personal and physical site security and supervised security services provided for high-ranking officials from the Peoples Republic of China. Bo Dietls partner is Steven Witkoff, the mega-developer of The Witkoff Group, which bought the building in June 1998 from the Woolworth chain for $155 million. I checked the website of Beau Dietl and found another disturbing, military profile of Michael R. Rocque, Senior Security Consultant: "...In February 2001, he became a member of Beau Dietl & Associates specializing in anti-terrorism From August 2000 until November 2000, he was coordinator with the Bush North Carolina Campaign Committee, prior to this job, he devised and coordinated a comprehensive evaluation program for the five active duty Special Forces Groups in the United States Army. From 1997- 1999, he was Commander of a Special Operations Squadron in the 1st SFOD-D (the Delta Force), the highest priority combat unit in the Department of the Army. From 1980 to 1984, he was Platoon Leader and Executive Officer of a 265 man Light Infantry Company with the primary mission of providing continuous security screening and defense for a Pershing Artillery Battalion (primary nuclear missile system for the European Theater)..." It would be interesting, to follow up on these Port Authority Tapes and other witnesses, who saw something fishy, coming from the Woolworth Building or somewhere else.

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  • Global Outlook No.7 is out! The new Issue contains: The Militarization of Space, Manufactured Terrorist Alerts 9/11, Families Sue George W., The Victims of America's War, Inside the Guantanamo Concentration Camp
  • Phil-Marcus Jayhan-Jump aka Phil_Jayhan, a new collapse specialist, opened a website at letsroll911.org. It focuses mainly on the second WTC-plane, Flight 175.
  • Sander Hicks released Pt.2 of The 9/11 Truth Movement. It contains also stuff by Top 9/11 Master Researcher Lois Battuello. Excellent job :)
  • Matthias Broeckers article about Daniel Hopsicker's new book is still getting responses at Telepolis Forum: "Mohamed Atta and the Cover-Up of Sep11th in Florida -Did "Iran-Contra" never stop?
  • A new increase of 9/11 threads at DU. However, please take the threads or replys of LARED, Crispy, bolobuffin, OudeVanDagen, demodewd, mn9driver or MercutioATC with a big grain of salt: Mis-, Dis- ,Counter-, or trollinfo pure (partly also based on Ron Harvey/RH or Sarah Roberts/anablep/ccameron -nonsense). Instead, i recommend my favourite DU 9/11 buddies, i still would like to hang out with them, for some beers: DulceDecorum, Dancing_Dave, ribofunk, k-robjoe (from Norway), Medienanalyse, woody b (both germany), Plaguepuppy, JackRiddler, paulthompson, Old and In the Way, MSchreader, Phil_Jayhan, Abe Linkman, bpilgrim, Sterling, reorg, gandalf and "Mr. Re-retire" DickEastman -probably not more than 5 beers with Dick :) Please everyone, keep it busy :) (For newbies: I was kicked out from DU in late 2002)
  • Paul Thompson posted some thoughts on the latest hearing from the 9/11 Commission on DU. Thompson found something interesting in the PDF-Files: "...Staff statements 3 and 4 are particularly interesting. For instance, it looks like the hijackers from Flight 77 were all filmed going through a security checkpoint at the airport. The report gives details of what happened when gleaned from that footage...why wasn't this released?"
  • K-robjoe has some new thoughts about Brad M aka GreenManofWar's (911phsyics.org) pictures about the strange oddities of the plane of UA175. "It seems as if the left engine is not in line with the rest of the plane. As if it is tilted a bit forwards." The analyis about the UA175-plane continues also at Amics from LaVanguardia (Spain).
  • Mark Bilk from cosmic penguin and Greg Salyards have spoken with the famous "taxi driver" from the day of the Pentagon attack. According to Mark Bilk, his name is Loyd. "Loyd" claims, he saw a large plane overhead, the pole was knocked down, but the pole actually lodged in his cab, missing him by inches. Then he came to a stop some 50ft later. Gerard Holmgren, 9/11 Researcher from New Zealand argues, to ask him "about the road conditions and the volume of traffic. Other witnesses say there was a severe traffic jam at the time, so I'm wondering how the taxi can have been driving fast enough to drag the pole all that way. I'm also wondering how he managed to keep the taxi in one lane - or if he didn't, how he avoided colliding with another car."
  • Is Larry Flynt another new 9/11 Truthseeker or just running the populist card? Flynt recently claimed, that he tracked down the doctor, who did an abortion for George Bush's former ex-girlfriend, who drove her to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion. On Flynt's website, he also has an own 9/11 section, currently filled with oddities of the Sep11th timeline, and an interview with Mike Ruppert.
  • Transender46 aka John Albanese from New York, currently developing a Sep11th documentary, presents some parts of his clips at Bushbash.org
  • A good source for Sep11th-WTC videos and more is at LoftNinjas
  • A darker view of post 9/11 aftermath, has radio host Jack Blood. Former guests include a wild mix: Alex Jones, Al Martin, Greg Palast, Dr. Len Horowitz, Mark Crispin Miller, Bev Harris, David Brock, John Rappoport, Joel Skousen, David Frum, Daniel Ellsburg and Oliver North. On February 28th, he had 9/11 Truth Candidate John Buchanan in his show.
  • A new article by Richard Oxman about the 9/11 air report cover-up is at PressAction. "...Thirty highly experienced teams ? including 130 of the country's best scientists ? were ready to risk their lives, and descend on NYC to help with the necessary analyses of the air that finally killed so many New Yorkers, but Richard Caspe, the deputy regional administrator for EPA and Joe LaForara, head of EPA's national emergency response team, said "fuck off."
  • Brent Herbert asked last week at "Portland 9/11 Investigation": "Were corporate special interest groups responsible for the 9-11 failures?"
  • A good "crash course" about the "Bastard Children of Leo Strauss", here, with the Adbusters article from September 2003.
  • The Coalition of 9/11 Families brings updates about the controversial memorial discussion.
  • This week's SPECIAL FUNDRAISER INN World Report, included interviews with comedian and author Robert Newman ("The Fountain at the Centre of the World"), Michael Klare (Resource Wars:The New Landscape of Global Conflict") and back by popular demand: the latest INN Interview with ex-UN Weapon Inspector Scott Ritter. Please everyone, help INN World Report to survive :)
  • Michael Kane finished his mega article about BioPharmacy, Vaccine Companies and their eerie ties with some other business. Soon up at FromTheWilderness. That's it for now. Have a nice week :)

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Great synopsis 02.Mar.2004 03:55

hellsbells

Just one small point. Maybe it's my browser at fault, but I found this article was way too wide for the screen. If its possible, can it be formatted the usual portland indymedia width? - Thanks.

Missiles @ the World Trade Center 31.Mar.2004 06:16

Phil Jayhan

Of all the evidence that points to President Bush knowing in advance about 911, nothing is more damning than seeing video's of the day, shot by the News Networks themselves, slowed down, and showing missiles being shot at the Towers from each of the planes. This was captured by CNN, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, Cameraplanet, Fox, The New York Times, the LA Times, Evan Fairbanks and even home video recorders! All we have done for you at http://www.letsroll911.org is to slow these video's down for you, so you can see what is plainly taking place. And at the Forums we have a thread @ 911 For Dummies, http://letsroll911.org/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3 that has the best pictures and videos of the missiles. I think the 'alleged 19 Arab hijackers' would have had a hard time adding on a missile pod and a missile to the planes, thus making it seem laughable that they had anything to do with this, except for playing the part of the 'unwitting patsy.' See for yourself!


missiles at WTC -- a giant distraction from 9/11 truth 08.Jun.2004 00:36

muddying the waters

from "Painful Questions" by Eric Hufschmid, page 20
regarding a "blob" seen in some WTC photos that supposedly showed another plane overhead when the second tower was hit

"It is also possible that the blob is just an 'artifact' caused by the software that compressed the video. However, I suspect the person who posted the images deliberately created the blob to make fun of conspiracy theories or to fool people ... the best policy is to ignore theories that are based on compressed images. Demand the original, high resolution images."


 http://www.oilempire.us/911intro.html#disinformation
Disinformation masquerading as 9/11 Truth exposure

In addition to phony evidence in support of the official conspiracy theory, there is also the problem of bogus material pretending to be investigative journalism that does not bother to present even a scintilla of credible evidence. A few fringe 9/11 websites are now claiming that there wasn't a plane at the World Trade Center north tower (even though the photos of the hole in the tower clearly show the impact of the wings). Some of these "no plane at the north tower" sites include physics911.org, letsroll911.org, 911hoax.org and the fairy godmother of this modus operandi - webfairy.org Oilempire.us doesn't provide direct links to these sites, which are a mix of accurate material and disinformation -- but they are easy enough to find.

The "webfairy" theories claim that no planes hit the World Trade Center, it was done with missiles and high-tech hologram, and uses video clips that supposedly prove these arguments. The "letsroll911" site claims that a missile was fired at the South tower just before the plane crashed into it, and also uses poor quality photos to "prove" this argument. However, blurry low resolution photos that magically appear two years later are not evidence of alternative views of what happened, they are only evidence of people's unfamiliarity with photo editing software and their gullibility. The "physical evidence" clearly shows that large jets hit the towers - the hole in the side of the North tower (which was hit first) is the size of a 767. And the idea that a missile was fired a split second before the South tower was hit makes no sense, since there was no "need" for this to happen (no tactical advantage for the attackers, since the towers were not anywhere as strong as the sector of the Pentagon that was hit - which had been strengthened against attack immediately prior to 9/11).

The "missile pod at the WTC," "no plane at the WTC" and "plane plus missile" theory are toxic to the cause of 9/11 truth. It is a sign that our political efforts are having an effect -- that these "theories" (unsupported by any credible evidence) are being distributed to "muddy the waters" to make those who seek to expose the lies of 9/11 as crackpots who have no idea what we are talking about.

There was no extra "pod" that was used to fire a missile from the 767. A quick search on the web will show several sites with photos of 767's with a structure under the plane to hold the wings together. It is sad that 9/11 truth exposers are forced to waste our time dealing with this. There are NO photos with high resolution that show an extra "pod," there is no credible theory to suggest the need for any alleged pod.

The same thing happened during the citizen investigations into the coup against President Kennedy -- people popped up claiming inside knowledge that turned out to be psychotic ravings. One particularly memorable occurrence was during the Jim Garrison prosecution of Clay Shaw, a CIA agent who participated in the plot against Kennedy - the film JFK covers this episode very well. Garrison's legal team had found a witness who claimed to have participated in meetings with Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald and others, but on the stand, the man's claims of participation were totally shredded by his claims that he had fingerprinted his daughter before and after she went to college to prove that she was the same person (and therefore, this obviously insane testimony was used to discredit the genuine evidence that Garrison had used to prosecute Shaw). Shaw was found innocent by the jury (even though subsequent research and official admissions revealed he was CIA), although that jury did admit that there had been a conspiracy to kill JFK, they merely didn't believe that Shaw was a participant.

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New at questionsquestions.net: an analysis by Eric Salter, refuting several widely-circulated claims about the WTC airliner impacts on 9/11. These include the claims that original video recordings of the impacts were fabricated or altered using computer graphics, that aircraft other than 767s struck the the towers, and even that no planes hit the two towers, the planes supposedly being replaced by super high-tech "holographic" illusions [!]. The analysis shows that these claims, which unfortunately have been lingering around for some time, have no solid basis in the evidence -- video, photographic, or otherwise -- nor any solid basis in logic, and could help to discredit the 9/11 Truth Movement.
The WTC Impacts: 767s or "Whatzits"?
 http://www.questionsquestions.net/WTC/767orwhatzit.html