'Fight Smart' - Update 22 Oct

Sept 11 Deja Vu?

U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba
 ABC News Report, 1 May 2001

Media suppress the news that Bush lost election to Gore
Sydney Morning Herald, 22 Oct 2001

Earlier this year major US broadcaster ABC News ran a story on how America's top military leaders drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba in the 1960s. According to ABC (May 1, 2001):  

"Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban Emigres, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro". http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html  

Given such a track record by the military arm of one of its predecessors it seems appropriate to raise some uncomfortable issues about the current 'war on terrorism' which has now been declared by the US administration.

1. "The author Salman Rushdie believes that US authorities knew of an imminent terrorist strike when they banned him from taking internal flights in Canada and the US only a week before the attacks....The FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] told the author&rsquos publisher that US intelligence had given warning of 'something out there' but failed to give any further details." London Times, 27 September 2001 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2001330019-2001334144,00.html   

2. Trading in airline shares prior to the 11 September and other evidence point to prior knowledge of the attacks and a link to an officer at the heart of the CIA. http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/krongard.html   As reported by the Daily Telegraph 16 September (see 3. below for URL) the Israeli Intelligence Service 'Mosad' had already given general information to the CIA about potential attacks the month before, and another press report claims that office workers in Israel received email information that the World Trade Centre would be attacked at least two hours in advance. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170583.html  

3. Why was the third plane that hit the Pentagon not challenged from Andrews Air Force Base only a short distance from Washington DC? After the attacks on the World Trade Center it was clear that this plane was about to be used as a bomb. Consider the following:

Either F-16 fighters were removed from Andrews Air Force Base prior to 11 September, or no order to scramble them was given. It appears even unarmed planes may not have been put up from Andrews for reconnaissance prior to the hit on the Pentagon.

Whilst the London Times 29 September reported that planes scrambled from further afield "arrived too late", just how plausible is it that the capital of the US (to say nothing of the Pentagon itself) should be left undefended given prior terrorist warnings (including those from 'Mosad' during August - London Daily Telegraph, 16 September) and the on-going belief that the country is so under threat from numerous 'rogue states' that it needs to build a missile defence shield in space?  

However, according to the London Daily Telegraph 16 September, F-16s were indeed stationed at Andrews Air Force Base, but for some reason that the Telegraph does not explain they were not in the air until AFTER the strike on the Pentagon. (This is despite the fact that following the first strike at 8.46 am on the World Trade Centre "six minutes later .... two military jets were airborne" from elsewhere in the US, according to the same report. The order to scramble those planes appears to have been given at 8.44 am, with Norad - the command headquarters in Colorado responsible for defending all of North America from air attack - receiving notification of the first hijack at 8.38 am.) The Telegraph describes the Pentagon as "America's most obvious military bullseye".

It is clear that from the tone of the Telegraph article that its own reporter, whilst valiantly attempting to come up with some kind of plausible logic for the lack of challenge to the third hijacked airliner, was nonetheless having severe trouble believing the explanations he was being given for this nonsensical situation: "...in no case was there apparently enough time after the FAA's warning for fighter planes to reach the hijacked airliners. More puzzling, there were 45 minutes between air traffic controllers losing contact with the third airliner, which took off from Dulles airport just outside Washington, and its crash on to the Pentagon."
(Daily Telegraph, London, 16 September 2001 http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$52PMOXQAADW5PQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2001/09/16/wcia16.xml&s
Sheet=/news/2001/09/16/ixhome.html )  

'Late and ineffective scrambling designed to convey image of valiant attempt' - analysis of 11 September chronology
http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg78601.html

"Later that morning, some scrambling attempts were made in the case of the Pennsylvania flight that crashed on the ground as well as the flight that hit the Pentagon.  But the planes came too late and could not catch up in time.  Were they deployed too late on purpose, so as to give the public the appearance of a valiant attempt?  Given their intelligence and capabilities, they could have been deployed much earlier, and could have averted at least the Pentagon attack, if not also the second tower hit earlier. .......As was finally reported in the mainstream press by the Discover channel recently, the pending Japanese attack [on Pearl Harbor] was known in advance by President Roosevelt, and he calculated that allowing it to proceed would serve in the long-term interest of the nation to galvanize them to action, bringing them at long last into the war.  It had that effect.  America united behind the President..... What is the purpose this time?....The fact that they did scramble some planes [on 11 Sept] goes a long way in placating the general public that the military acted in good faith.  Hence the reason why this question has not been hot on the minds of the public...America, when will you awaken? The greatest enemies are within, not without. "

More on Pearl Harbor controversy - click here: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html
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4. The principal strategic interest of the West in the Islamic world, including Afghanistan, is the region's oil reserves over which Anglo-American control has been a constant factor in the history of the politics and conflict of that part of the world for decades. Without oil the industrialised world, as currently constituted, collapses.   5. Control of the Mediterranean, Gulf, and Caspian Sea regions lies at the heart of this chaos, and the conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Chechnya, and Afghanistan need to be seen in this global oil resource context:  

"Mr. Chairman, the Caspian region contains tremendous untapped hydrocarbon reserves......[one] option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges..... From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company.....The 1,040-mile long oil pipeline would extend south through Afghanistan to an export terminal that would be constructed on the Pakistan coast. This 42-inch diameter pipeline will have a shipping capacity of one million barrels of oil per day.... The Central Asia and Caspian region is blessed with abundant oil and gas that can enhance the lives of the region's residents, and provide energy for growth in both Europe and Asia. The impact of these resources on U.S. commercial interests and U.S. foreign policy is also significant."
U.S. INTERESTS IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS, HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 12 February 1998 - evidence by Mr. John J. Maresca, vice president of international relations, Unocal Corporation (US oil company) http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0.HTM  

"What probably made the most difference to U.S. policymakers [in welcoming the arrival of the Taliban], though, was the Taliban's commitment to a particular commercial enterprise. The Taliban had promised to permit construction of giant gas and oil pipelines from Central Asia, down through Afghanistan, to Pakistan. The main contender for that work was an American-Saudi coalition of Unocal and Delta oil companies....

It took a while for many in the West to catch on, but inside Afghanistan the key players were already well-aware of the pipeline's importance--and its potential effect on policy. In 1996, during a conversation in Kabul not long before the Taliban reached the capital, Ahmed Shah Massoud asked me about Unocal, its motives, its methods, and its ties to the U.S. government. When the Taliban finally reached the gates of Kabul, it was well-financed and well-equipped--and it could count upon the acquiescence of the United States....

.... Hours after the Taliban took Kabul in September 1996, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said the United States could see 'nothing objectionable' about the version of Islamic law the Taliban had imposed in the areas it then controlled...... in one encounter a few months before the Taliban entered Kabul, a mid-level bureaucrat at the State Department perched on his couch and tried to convince me that the Taliban was really not such a bad bunch. 'You get to know them and you find they really have a great sense of humor,' he said.

If the administration seemed nonchalant about the Taliban, Unocal was downright gleeful. In a statement to Reuters that the company has worked ever since to retract, a Unocal official applauded the Taliban's arrival and spoke glowingly about the immediate prospects for doing business with the group. Of course, this was hardly surprising, given Unocal's courtship of the Taliban. The company had played host to Taliban clerics on a trip to the United States. Unocal had also hired as 'consultants' key Americans involved in Afghan operations during the jihad years. The former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Robert Oakley, went on the Unocal payroll. A former official of the U.N. secretary-general's mission to Afghanistan, Charles Santos, was given a far more obscure position--he went to work for Unocal's Saudi partner, the firm Delta....."
'The succession: the price of neglecting Afghanistan', Richard Mackenzie. The New Republic, Sept 14, 1998 v219 n11-12 p23(5)  http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/faculty/hodgson/Courses/so191/SouthAsReadings/Afghanistan.html

See also: 'Afghan Pipeline: A New Great Game': BBC News, 4 November 1997
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/analysis/newsid_16000/16777.stm
'South AsiaTrans-Afghan pipeline suspended': BBC News, 22 August 1998 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_156000/156497.stm

"[One] reason for the Middle East's excessive economic power is the assumption that oil must remain the world's dominant energy source for at least the next 20 or 30 years. But there is nothing inevitable about the dominance of oil. Car engines that can run on liquified natural gas and fuel cells have already been developed by several motor manufacturers. Vast amounts of electricity can be generated from wind, nuclear, solar, biomass and other non-oil sources, all of which have the additional advantage of eliminating carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect.

Why are these new technologies not already in use, or at least built into long-term energy planning, which still rests overwhelmingly on oil? The global energy and motor industries believe it is in their interests to delay for as long as possible the transition from oil."
Anatole Kaletsky, London Times, 18 October 2001"The West must break its addiction to oil" http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,248-2001362214,00.html

6. President Bush and Vice-President Cheney have strong personal or family links to oil and military commercial interests. In the case of the Bush family some of these interests stretch back to unsavoury activities leading up to and during the second world war (see bottom).

7. Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, claims a heavy pre-planned military build up of Western forces in the Middle East just before September 11, preceded by evidence of preparations for a war by the West in Afghanistan planned well in advance: "It is obvious that we are seeing an operational War Plan being executed here that had been in the works for at least the past four years. September 11 is either a pretext or a trigger or both." http://mai.flora.org/forum/31126 
(see also: - Associated Press, Cairo, 5 September 2001, "US troops, tanks and artillery are pouring into the Mediterranean port of  Dekheila for the world's largest military exercises, Egyptian Defence Ministry sources said Tuesday"  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/message/9490 )

Whatever the action or inaction of the US government in relation to the terrorist attacks in September, it is clear that the unprecedented public outrage that they precipitated has conveniently cleared the way for the Bush Administration to proceed with a war in Afghanistan.

It has also provided a president whose legitimacy was under serious question before the 11 September (and seemingly even more so now: see http://old.smh.com.au/news/0110/22/world/world14.html , Syndney Morning Herald Report 22 October 2001, 'Media suppress the news that Bush lost election to Gore') with the perfect opportunity to stifle dissent at home and abroad on a wide range of social, environmental, economic and constitutional issues.  

It may be that there are perfectly reasonable explanations for the extraordinary circumstances surrounding 11 September. However, given that outrageous tactics have been contemplated or executed before by previous military and 'intelligence' leaders in the US (Cuba is by no means the only precedent here), the public is perfectly in order to keep on raising awkward issues like these - at least until some credible answers are produced.  

Meanwhile the general public would be well advised to pursue the 'fight' against terrorism without placing unreserved faith in the governments of the 'civilised' world. It would certainly also be wise to start paying serious attention to investment in locally generated renewable sources of energy.   Pollution and war - two violations of natural law which go together. It's time to do something about this.   Please make sure you 'fight smart'.  

NATURAL LAW PARTY WESSEX
nlpwessex@bigfoot.com
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex

"How appropriate that John Negroponte is Bush's ambassador at the United Nations. This week, he delivered America's threat to the world that it may 'require' to attack more and more countries. As US ambassador to Honduras in the early 1980s, Negroponte oversaw American funding of the regime's death squads, known as Battalion 316, that wiped out the democratic opposition, while the CIA ran its 'contra' war of terror against neighbouring Nicaragua. Murdering teachers and slitting the throats of midwives were a speciality. This was typical of the terrorism that Latin America has long suffered, with its principal torturers and tyrants trained and financed by the great warrior against 'global terrorism', which probably harbours more terrorists and assassins in Florida than any country on earth. The unread news today is that the 'war against terrorism' is being exploited in order to achieve objectives that consolidate American power."
'The ultimate goal of the attacks on Afghanistan is not the capture of a fanatic, but the acceleration of western power' : John Pilger, 9 Oct 2001 http://pilger.carlton.com/print

"Americans are the biggest terrorists. Americans have terrorised everybody since America began. First they came here from Europe and terrorised the Indians. Then they made slaves of black people and terrorised the Africans. They've always been terrorists."
African-American lady selling US flags at a stall in New York, quoted by BBC Radio 4's 'From our own Correspondent', 20 October, 2001.
Listen to BBC report on American citizens offering awkard post Sept 11 opinions
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/audio/ram_fooc.ram (go 5:15 mins into transmission)

"On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush..... President Bush's family had already played a central role in financing and arming Adolf Hitler for his takeover of Germany; in financing and managing the buildup of Nazi war industries for the conquest of Europe and war against the U.S.A.; and in the development of Nazi genocide theories and racial propaganda, with their well-known results."
"George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography" --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm
More on this from Herald Tribune Newscoast, 11 November 2000
http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115
Also - Bush/Bin Laden links
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press_release.asp?pr_id=1624

"After leaving the Pentagon, Cheney ran Halliburton, the company that owns Brown and Root..... More than $2 billion of the $14 billion the Pentagon has spent in the Balkans since December 1995 has gone to private contractors led by Brown and Root...."
Time Magazine, Friday, Jan. 05, 2001
 http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,93858,00.html
More on Cheney at http://www.public-i.org/story_01_080200.htm

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
Hermann Goering, Nazi leader, at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II

Top 5 Lies about the War - Students in Solidarity at the University of Pittsburgh, US

"For globalization to work, America must not be afraid to act as the almighty superpower that it is ...the hidden hand  of the market will never work without the hidden fist-- McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the  designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for  Silicon Valley is called the United States Army, Air Force,  Navy and Marine Corps."
Thomas Friedman, explaining the real but unstated reason for NATO's war  against the Yugoslav government. (New York Times, March 28,  1999) http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/FreeTrade.asp

24 Reasons to oppose NATO

"The common strand in these and other interventions all over the world is an undeclared war against democracy and popular movements that resist or limit American strategic and economic influence."
'US foreign policy has not changed since Vietnam and, potentially, it is more dangerous than ever' : John Pilger, 22 Dec 2000 http://www.johnpilger.com/print/41456

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www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex

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