'Fight Smart' Update -
18 April 2004
Don't Take the
Bait - Fight Smart
ANIMATED 911 SUMMARY - CLICK HERE
Who is the enemy?
Ignored Warnings
That Have Come To Haunt Bush
The Silence Of George Tenet
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATTenetsilence.htm
911 And The Israeli-Russian Connection
'Bin Laden Determined To
Strike In US'
V
'Tenet Determined Not To Tell The Whole Story'

CIA Director Tenet
Testifies Before The 911 Inquiry
"I've got the best job in
government"
George Tenet, Director of the CIA
'C.I.A. Chief Prospers From Bond With Bush'
New
York Times, 17 December 2002
"Russian President Vladimir Putin
has said publicly that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the United States
last summer that suicide pilots were training for attacks on U.S. targets."
Clues Alerted White House to Potential Attacks
Fox News, 17 May 2002
"This
provocative memoir by former top White House counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke was
published on the eve of the 9/11 Commission hearings. His book is shocking and revealing,
and should be worrisome for all Americans..... CIA Director George Tenet refused to arm an
unmanned Predator aircraft to try to take out Osama Bin Laden... "
Against All Enemies - Book Review
Forbes, 15
April 2004
| In This Bulletin |
| Tenet Keeps Quiet About KSM - Click Here |
| Tenet Keeps
Quiet About Moussaoui And 'Forgets' His Briefing Meetings With The President - Click Here |
| What Else Was
The CIA Doing Before The 911 Attacks That Tenet Can't Remember? - The Israeli-Russian Connection - Click Here |
| CIA Silence On Moussaoui Just The Tip Of The Iceberg - Click Here |
| CIA Strategy Not
To Catch Bin Laden Too Soon As Tenet And White House Pump Fear Of Terror Prior To Invasion Of Iraq - Click Here |
"Eventually, someone's going to have to
tell the truth. Once those people are dealt with according to law, there will be no more
false terror spread across the globe."
FTW interview: Delmart 'Mike' Vreeland - What
the CIA doesn't want you to know
Online Journal, 4 April 2002
Who Is Mike Vreeland? - Click Here
"The ex-police chief told [CIA
veteran and terrorism expert Bob] Baer that [Khalid Shaikh] Mohammed 'is going to hijack some planes.' The ex-police chief said his basis for
this was evidence developed by police and Qatari intelligence... Baer sent this
information [before 911] to a friend in the CIA Counter-terrorist Center who forwarded the information to his superiors.
Baer heard nothing. 'There was
no interest,' he said...."
UPI Exclusive: Pearl tracked al Qaida
United Press International, 30 September 2002
"KSM [Khalid Shaikh Mohammed] came to the attention of the
Intelligence Community as a terrorist in early 1995 when he was linked to Ramzi
Yousefs 'Bojinka Plot' in the Philippines. One portion of that plot involved the
idea of crashing an airplane into CIA Headquarters. Through additional intelligence and
investigative efforts in 1995, KSM was also connected to the first World Trade Center
bombing. He was indicted by a U.S. grand jury in January 1996..... Subsequently,
indications were received that he might have been involved in the East Africa U.S. Embassy bombings."
REPORT OF THE JOINT INQUIRY INTO THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
BY THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
24 July 2003
"Two veteran FBI investigators say
they were ordered to stop investigations into a suspectedterror cell linked to Osama bin Laden's al
Qaeda network and the Sept. 11 attacks.... even after the
[embassy] bombings [in Africa], Wright said FBI headquarters
wanted no arrests."
Called Off the Trail?
ABCNews 19 Dec 2002
"Interestingly, the [911]
Congressional inquiry revealed that CIA Director George Tenet has prevented the
declassification of all information regarding Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (even his name was
not allowed to be mentioned in the inquiry's report). [Congressional
Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02, New York
Times, 9/22/02]"
Alhazmi and Almihdhar: The 9/11 Hijackers Who Should Have Been
Caught
Centre
for Co-operative Research, 18 October 2002
KSM AND THE OMAR SHEIKH FILES - CLICK HERE
"The head of the CIA [George
Tenet] has told the 9/11 commission that ..... he did not speak to George Bush in the
month before the attacks, when Mr Bush was on holiday in Texas. 'He's in Texas and I'm
either here [in Washington] or on leave for some of that time,' Mr Tenet said in response
to a question from commissioner Tim Roemer. 'In this time
period, I'm not talking to him, no.' "
US was 'unprotected' on 9/11
BBC Online, 14 April 2004
"CIA Director George Tenet met with
President Bush at least eight times in the 42 days before the catastrophic terrorist
attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, a CIA spokesman said Thursday, correcting Tenet's testimony
that he hadn't talked with the president during the entire month of August.... Tenet's
contacts with Bush during that period are significant because the CIA director was the
highest ranking U.S. official who was aware of both the FBI's arrest of flight student
Zacarias Moussaoui in Minnesota and the CIA warning to Bush that Osama bin Laden was
'determined to strike' inside the United States. The CIA warning memo to Bush
on Aug. 6, 2001, also noted that the FBI had detected 'patterns of suspicious activity in
this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks.'....
Tenet learned of Moussaoui's arrest on Aug. 23 or Aug. 24 in a CIA memo entitled 'Islamic
Extremist Learns to Fly,' investigators disclosed Wednesday.... Former Acting FBI Director
Thomas Pickard, who served as acting director for 10 of the 11 weeks before the Sept. 11
attacks, told the inquiry Tuesday that he had learned of Moussaoui's arrest in Minnesota
on the afternoon of Sept. 11 -- after the attacks. Word of Moussaoui's arrest never
reached the White House National Security Council's interagency Counterterrorism and
Security Group, former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke testified on March 24. After
the Sept. 11 attacks, FBI agents obtained the legal go-ahead to examine the hard drive on
his laptop. It contained information on using crop-dusting airplanes."
CIA's Tenet did speak to Bush before 9-11, spokesman
says
Salt
Lake Tribune, 16 April 2004
"This
provocative memoir by former top White House counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke was
published on the eve of the 9/11 Commission hearings. His book is shocking and revealing,
and should be worrisome for all Americans..... The revelations in this book about Tenet's
inadequate response to the terrorism threat, in addition to what he subsequently said at
the 9/11 Commission hearings, suggest that Tenet's resignation is long overdue. I am
astounded that Tenet did not pass on his own staff's discovery that an Arab terrorist was
taking flying lessons."
Against All Enemies - Book Review
Forbes, 15
April 2004
"If only Osama had faxed an
X-marks-the-spot map to the [Bush] Crawford ranch showing the Pentagon, the Capitol, the
twin towers and the word 'BOOM!' scrawled in Arabic....Only a couple of weeks after the
endlessly vacationing
Head Spook Sputters
New York Times, 15 April
2004
"This War Against Terrorism Is Bogus" - Ex-Blair Government Minister - Click Here
"Israeli intelligence officials say
that they warned their counterparts in the United States last month that large-scale
terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent. The
Telegraph has learnt that two senior experts with Mossad, the Israeli military
intelligence service, were sent to Washington in
August to alert the CIA and FBI to the existence of
a cell of as many of 200 terrorists said to be preparing a big operation...."
Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale
terror attacks
Daily
Telegraph, 19 September 2001
"At the same time
that the FBI was getting close to investigating [911 hijackers] Alhazmi and Almihdhar, the
Mossad, Israel's feared secret service, gave the US an urgent warning, according to recent
reports from Germany. These reports say that on August 23, 2001, the Mossad gave the CIA a
list of terrorists living in the US and said that they appeared to be planning to carry
out an attack in the near future. The list of terrorists contained 19 names. It is unknown
if these are the same exact 19 names as the actual hijackers or if the number is a
coincidence. However, four names on the list are known and were names of the 9/11
hijackers: Nawaf Alhazmi, Khalid Almihdhar, Marwan Alshehhi, and Mohamed Atta. It appears
that a spy ring run by the Mossad had been closely following these terrorists for many
months. In December 2000, Mossad agents rented an apartment in Hollywood, Florida, close
to where Atta and Alshehhi were staying and attending flight school. They were closely
spied upon until at least April 2001, when many of the Israeli agents were thrown out of
the country. [Die Zeit,
10/1/02, Der Spiegel,
10/1/02, BBC,
10/2/02, Haaretz, 10/3/02] It has not been stated how the Mossad knew of
Alhazmi and Almihdhar, but a Drug Enforcement Administration report on the Israeli spy
ring internally released in June 2001 (and leaked after 9/11) noted the presence of
Israeli spies in San Diego, California and Phoenix, Arizona at times when Alhazmi and
Almihdhar would have been in those cities. [DEA Report, 6/01]
Yet, apparently this warning and list were not treated as particularly urgent by the CIA
and also not passed on to the FBI. [Der Spiegel,
10/1/02]"
Alhazmi and Almihdhar: The 9/11
Hijackers Who Should Have Been Caught
Centre
for Co-operative Research, 18 October 2002
"Odigo, the instant messaging
service, says that two of its workers [in Israel]
received messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on Sept. 11, 2001 predicting the
attack would happen, according to a report on
Haaretz.com. The company has been cooperating with Israeli and American law
enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the original sender of the message
predicting the attack, said the report."
Report: Israeli Firm Got Warning of WTC Attacks
Newsmax, 8 April 2004
"Mossad chiefs insist the Israeli
spy agency was tracking Osama Bin-Laden's terrorists in America before September 11 and
that that the information was passed on to the CIA on Five separate occasions before the
attacks on the WTC and Pentagon. As late as August
24, less than two weeks before the attacks, a Mossad
warning, confirmed by German intelligence, BND, said that 'terrorists plan to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack
important symbols of American and Israeli culture.' The
warning alert was passed to the CIA. The warning was also passed to MI6. The agency made
its own checks and also informed the CIA. Frustrated by its inability to alert the CIA to
an impending attack, Mossad arranged on September 1, according to Tel Aviv sources last week, for Russian intelligence to
warn Washington 'in the strongest possible terms of imminent assaults on airports and government buildings.'... According to similar documents shown to the Sunday Express, Mossad was
running a round-the-clock surveillance operation on some of the September 11 hijackers.
The details, contained in classified papers, reveal that a senior Mossad agent tipped off
his counterpart in America's Central Intelligence Agency that a massive terrorist hit was
being planned in the US. A handful of the spies had infiltrated the Al-Qaeda organisation
while a
staggering 120 others, posing as overseas art students, launched massive undercover
operations throughout America... The spying operations first came to the attention of
the DEA in January 2001 according to a classified 90-page dossier which has been seen by
the Sunday Express."
BUSH: THE IGNORED WARNING THAT WILL COME TO HAUNT
HIM
GLOBE-INTEL - NUMBER :- 104 DATE :- 21/05/02
The Day After
911 The Following Two Pieces
Appeared On The Web Sites Of The Russian Newspapers, 'Izvestia' and 'Pravda'.
How Did The Russians Know So Much About The 911 Attacks Before They Took Place
And What Had They Told The US About Them In Advance?
"... According to our intelligence
agents among terrorists there were at least two Uzbeks, natives of Fergana who arrived in
the USA on forged documents about ten months ago.... The organization of the International
Terrorist, according to Russian Intelligence Service agents had been planning an operation
against the USA more than a year and a half."
RUSSIA WARNED US OF IMPENDING 9-11 ATTACKS
Izvestia (Russian Newspaper), 12 September 2001
"Generally it is impossible to carry out an
act of terror on the scenario which was used in the USA yesterday. We had such facts too. As soon as something like that happens here, I am reported about that right away
and in a minute we are all up [in our fighter aircraft]."
Commander-in-Chief
of Russian Airforce, Anatoli Kornukov
Pravda online: 18:50 hrs 12 September 2001
Click here for more information on the Izvestia article which raises further controversial questions about how much the Russians told the USA before the attacks. It appears the Russians may have visited the CIA at Langley just two weeks before the attacks to warn the US government. And they may have provided very specific information. |
"Russian President Vladimir Putin
has said publicly that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the United States
last summer that suicide pilots were training for attacks on U.S. targets."
Clues Alerted White House to Potential Attacks
Fox News, 17 May 2002
"Among the Russian documents Vreeland says he retrieved was one describing impending terrorist attacks in the United
States, naming Osama bin Laden as an agent and the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as
likely targets...... If his
claim is true, then why is the US hounding this man, and why does he fear for his life if
he is extradited? Perhaps because Russian
foreknowledge of September 11th is a can of worms best left unopened."
Did 'Rogue' US Agent Vreeland Warn CSIS Of September 11?
'Frank' magazine, Canada, 16 October, 2001
"'We had clearly warned them,' said
Mr. Patrushev, who is head of the FSB, the successor organization to the KGB. He added
that their U.S. counterparts 'did not pay the necessary attention' to their warnings, the
Interfax news agency reported."
Russia Gave 'Clear Warning'
Agence
France-Presse, 16 September 2001
MORE INFORMATION AT
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATUS911undefended.htm
So Is Sharon Now Blackmailing
The White House
Over The Failure To Act On Israeli/Russian Tip Offs
As Media Focus On 911 Commission Intensifies?
"During the two-and-a-half-hour
lecture held at a Holiday Inn, Ruppert detailed the mounting and irrefutable evidence
proving U.S. government foreknowledge of 9-11.... Ruppert detailed evidence that supports
the conclusion that, while Israeli intelligence sources had
learned of impending attacks, they promptly informed the U.S., which did nothing to stop them. Ruppert stressed there is no evidence to
suggest Israel perpetrated the 9-11 attacks. Ruppert made it clear he believes Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharons government may be blackmailing the Bush Administration, because the Israelis have evidence that
the Americans had foreknowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks and did nothing to stop them. This
blackmail, according to Ruppert, is what has given Sharon the leverage he
needs to 'act like an 800-pound gorilla in Palestine.'.... Everyone in the audience stayed
for the entire lecture, and most stayed in their seats for an additional hour-and-a-half
to listen and participate in the 'questions and answers' part of the event. Ruppert said
after the lecture he 'was pleasantly surprised that the questions indicated a general
consensus that the
conflict between Palestinians and Israelis in the Middle East was secondary to the broader issues of 9-11.'....."
Ruppert Addresses Private, Mostly Muslim Group in New York -
Reports Israel Did Not Perpetrate 9-11 Attacks
Long Island,
N.Y., April 30, 2002 (FTW)
"Ariel Sharon was smiling during
much of his joint White House conference with President George Bush last night. He secured
most of what he came to Washington DC for, perhaps more than even he had dared to expect.
He had wanted public endorsement of the principle that the pre-1967 borders on which so
many - and not only Palestinians - have long assumed would form the basis of any future
settlement of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, were not after all inviolate. And he wanted
a clear public statement from the US President that there would be no right of return to
Israel for the families of those who have been refugees for more than half a century. That
he got both, not implicitly but explicitly, was made all the more surprising given that
President Bush, mired in the intractable chaos and bloodshed of Iraq, might have been
expected to be especially sensitive about anything which would exacerbate tensions between
himself and Arab leaders. Certainly some of the more worldly officials in the Israeli
government had expected that the President would indeed be so constrained that he would
use opaque words where Mr Sharon would have preferred clear ones. Instead, Mr Sharon
returns from Washington having secured a significant and remarkably open shift of US
policy in his favour.... No one has ever fared well in contacts with Mr Sharon by
underestimating his political wiliness. But the question remains: how did he persuade the
leader of the free world to see it his way? "
How Israel persuaded leader of the free world to see West Bank
entirely their way
Independent, 15 April 2004
"On August 26 [2001], FBI headquarters
was notified by French intelligence that Moussaoui [Sept 11 hijacker suspect] had ties to
the Al Qaeda organization and Osama bin Laden. Even this report did not spur the agency to
action. A special counterterrorism panel of the FBI and CIA
reviewed the information against him, but concluded there was
insufficient evidence that he represented any threat, despite his refusal to answer
questions and the French allegations. Moussaoui was not even transferred from INS
detention to FBI custody until after September 11."
The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to
investigate man charged in September 11 attacks
World Socialist Web
Site, 5 Jan 2002
"At the meeting of al-Qaedas
leading strategists and financiers were two young Muslim men. The CIA, which was tipped off
about the meeting, failed to issue prompt warnings to the FBI or the Immigration Service
about the pair and they slipped unnoticed into America on a flight to Los Angeles, using Saudi passports.... On September 11 they seized the
controls of American Airlines Flight 77 and crashed it into the Pentagon."
After the biggest manhunt in history, no one has been convicted and only two
face charges
London Times, 6
September 2002
"The CIA had information about three of the
Sept. 11 hijackers at least 20 months before the attacks occurred but failed to pass the
information on to other agencies, a congressional investigator said on Friday..... By the
time the suspected hijackers entered Malaysia, the CIA knew al-Mihdhar's name, passport number, and birth information, and that he had
a U.S. multiple-entry visa issued in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia...."
CIA Knew About 3 Hijackers 20 Months Before 911
Attacks
Reuters, 20 Sept 2002
"In a further interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio
Springmann revealed more of his claim of a CIA operation which has brought large numbers of people from the
middle east to the US, issuing them visas and training them to be
terrorists. According to Springmann some of the September 11 bombers were granted US
entry visas
via the US consulate in Jeddah [Saudi Arabia] facilitated through arrangements made by the CIA (additionally Newsweek reported 15 September [2001] FBI
information suggesting that 'five of the alleged hijackers of the planes that were used in
Tuesdays terror attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations in
the 1990s.' ). Springmann suggests that those who died on September 11 may have been
sacrificed in order to further wider US geopolitical objectives. In this respect the
French newspaper Le Figaro reported last year that
the CIA had
met with bin Laden in Dubai in July 2001 and made no attempt to arrest him."
Finishing the Jigsaw Puzzle - Did
Sept 11 victims die for Enron?
'Fight Smart' - 8 March 2002
"Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, suspected
mastermind of the 9/11 plot, obtained a visa to come to the US just weeks before the
attacks despite being under a federal terrorism indictment, a report by the federal
commission investigating the attacks revealed on Monday.... Mohammed had obtained a visa
to visit the US on July 23, 2001 about six weeks before the attacks. He applied for
visa using a Saudi passport and alias Abdulrahman al Ghamdi even though he
is Pakistani-born and was not believed to be in Saudi Arabia at the time the application
was filed, according to a portion of the staff report read by Susan Ginsburg, senior
counsel to the commission. She challenged CIA Director George Tenets description of
17 of the 19 hijackers as arriving in the US clean of activities that would
arouse suspicion."
Officials missed 9/11 clues by whisker, says panel
Indian Express, 28
January 2004
"In a dramatic interview with ABCNEWS,
FBI special agents and partners Robert Wright and John Vincent say they were called off
criminal investigations of suspected terrorists tied to the deadly bombings of two U.S. embassies in
Africa. U.S. officials say al Qaeda was responsible for the embassy attacks
and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States.... The suspected terrorist cell in
Chicago was the basis of the investigation, yet Wright, who remains with the FBI, says he
soon discovered that all the FBI intelligence division wanted him to do was to follow
suspected terrorists and file reports but make no arrests.... 'The supervisor who
was there from headquarters was right straight across from me and started yelling at me: 'You will not open criminal investigations. I forbid any of you. You will
not open criminal investigations against any of these intelligence subjects,' Wright said. Even though they were on a terrorism task force and
said they had proof of criminal activity, Wright said he was told not to pursue the
matter.... Yet, even after the bombings, Wright said FBI headquarters wanted no arrests.
'Two months after the embassies are hit in Africa, they wanted to shut down
the criminal investigation,' said Wright. 'They wanted to kill it.' ... The move outraged
Chicago federal prosecutor Mark Flessner, who was assigned to the case despite efforts
Wright and Vincent say were made by superiors to block the probe....'There were powers
bigger than I was in the Justice Department and within the FBI that simply were not going
to let it [the building of a criminal case] happen. And it didn't happen,' Flessner said.
He said he still couldn't figure out why Washington stopped the case... On Sept. 11, 2001,
the two agents watched the terror attacks in horror, worried that men they could have
stopped years earlier may have been involved.'"
Called Off the Trail?
ABCNews, 19 Dec 2002
AND IS THIS WHY THEY WANTED NO CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS?
"Less than two weeks before the Sept.
11 attacks, FBI headquarters blocked an agent's request to aggressively pursue one of the future
hijackers, a congressional investigator said in a report Friday. The agent warned,
'Someday, someone will die.' The unidentified New York-based FBI agent had asked
headquarters Aug. 29, 2001, to allow his office to use its 'full criminal investigative
resources' to find Khalid Midhar, one of two hijackers intelligence agents had identified
as attending an Al Qaeda meeting in Malaysia in January 2000. In an e-mail, headquarters
denied the request because
Midhar was not under criminal investigation. It cited the
'wall' between intelligence and law enforcement. The agent replied: 'Someday someone will
die - and wall or not - the public will not understand why we were not more effective and
throwing every resource we had at certain 'problems.' ' The exchange was included in a
report prepared by Eleanor Hill, staff director for the House and Senate intelligence
committees' inquiry into intelligence failures leading up to the Sept. 11 attacks. Hill
told lawmakers that the United States failed to pursue Midhar and another hijacker, Nawaf
Alhazmi, who also attended the Malaysia meeting. Intelligence agencies 'had, but missed,
opportunities both to deny them entry into the United States and subsequently to generate
investigative and surveillance action regarding their activities within the United
States,' she said. CIA interest in the Malaysia meeting faded after January 2000,
gradually resurfacing after a participant was identified as being a principal planner in
the October 2000 attack on the U.S. warship Cole in Yemen. CIA employees told
congressional staff that the Malaysia meeting was seen 'as just one of many
counterterrorist efforts' at the time. But intelligence
documents show it was considered important enough to be discussed in briefings with the
CIA director in January 2000. In March 2000, a cable from an
overseas CIA station noted that Alhazmi had flown into Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2000. The
cable was marked 'Action
required: None, FYI.'
Midhar and Alhazmi lived openly in the United States."
FBI barred probe of future hijacker
Associated Press, 22 September 2002
"This Joint
Inquiry confirmed that these same two future hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf
al-Hazmi, had numerous contacts with a long time FBI counterterrorism informant in
California and that a third future hijacker, Hani Hanjour, apparently had more limited
contact with the same informant. In mid- to late-2000, the CIA already had information
indicating that al-Mihdhar had a multiple entry U.S. visa and that al-Hazmi had in fact
traveled to Los Angeles, but the two had not been watchlisted and information suggesting
that two suspected terrorists could well be in the United States had not yet been given to
the FBI. The San Diego FBI field office, which handled the informant in question, did not
receive that information or any of the other intelligence information pertaining to
al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, prior to September 11, 2001. As a result, the FBI missed the
opportunity to task a uniquely well-positioned informant -- who denies having any advance
knowledge of the plot --- to collect information about the hijackers and their plans
within the United States.... During one of their last contacts, al-Hazmi advised the
informant that he was moving to Arizona to attend flight training, but the informant did
not advise the FBI of this information until after the September 11 attacks.... When the
FBIs San Diego field office determined after the attacks that a long-time FBI
counterterrorism informant had had numerous contacts in 2000 with two of the September 11
hijackers, personnel there were immediately suspicious about whether the informant was
involved in the plot. Subsequently, however, all of the field office personnel, including
senior managers and various case agents, concluded that the informant was unwitting of,
and had no role in, the September 11 plot... Several questions remain, however, with
regard to the informants credibility.... the informant told the FBI that the
hijackers did nothing to arouse the informants suspicion, but the informant also
acknowledged that al-Hazmi had contacts with at least four individuals the informant knew
were of interest to the FBI and about whom the informant had previously reported to the
FBI. Third, the informant has made numerous inconsistent statements to the FBI during the
course of interviews after September 11, 2001... In
its November 18, 2002 written response to the Joint Inquiry, the FBI has acknowledged that
there are 'significant inconsistencies' in the informants statements about these
contacts. The FBI investigation regarding this issue is continuing.... The Administration
has to date objected to the Inquirys efforts to interview the informant in order to
attempt to resolve those inconsistencies. The Administration also would not agree to allow
the FBI to serve a Committee subpoena and deposition notice on the informant... What is
clear, however, is that the informants contacts with the hijackers, had they been
capitalized on, would have given the San Diego FBI field office perhaps the Intelligence
Communitys best chance to unravel the September 11 plot. Given the CIAs
failure to disseminate, in a timely manner, intelligence information on the significance
and location of al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, that chance, unfortunately, never
materialized."
REPORT OF THE JOINT INQUIRY INTO THE
TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
BY THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
24 July 2003
"I, myself, still have two key
questions today that I believe are important for this committee to answer. The detailed
answers to them will deserve, and be afforded, the scrutiny of a nation, and must stand
the test of time and exhaustive investigation. First, if the CIA passed information
regarding Al-Mihdhar and Al-Hazmi to the FBI prior to the June 11, 2001 meeting - in
either January 2000 or January 2001 - then why was that information not passed, either by
CIA or FBI Headquarters personnel, immediately to the New York case agents, criminal or
'Intel', investigating the murder of 17 sailors in Yemen when more information was
requested? A simple answer of 'The Wall' is unacceptable. Second, how and when did we, the
CIA and the FBI, learn that Al-Mihdhar came into the country on either or both occasions,
in January 2000 and/or in July 2001 and what did we do with the information?"
Statement for the Record of Special Agent, New York
Field Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation
on Joint Inquiry into the Events of September 11, 2001
Before the Select
Committee on Intelligence, U.S. Senate
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, House of Representatives
20 September 2002
"Months before the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA knew
two of the hijackers were in the United States and that they were connected to the al
Qaeda organization, Newsweek reported on Sunday..... for a year and nine months after the CIA identified them as terrorists, Alhazmi and Almihdhar lived openly in the United States, using
their real names, obtaining driver's licenses, opening bank accounts and enrolling in
flight schools. "
CIA Knew Two Sept. 11 Hijackers Were in U.S.
Reuters, 2 June 2002
"Under
growing criticism for a failure to act on the Phoenix memo and other
potential warning signs, Bush administration officials have said repeatedly that U.S.
intelligence analysts never envisioned the possibility that terrorists would use jetliners
as suicide missiles and slam them into such buildings as the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon..... But a 1999 report prepared for the
National Intelligence Council, an affiliate of the CIA, warned that terrorists associated
with bin Laden might hijack an airplane and crash it into the Pentagon, White House or CIA
headquarters. The report recounts well-known case studies of similar plots, including a
1995 plan by al Qaeda operatives to hijack and crash a dozen U.S. airliners in the South
Pacific and pilot a light aircraft into Langley."
August Memo Focused On Attacks in U.S.
Washington Post, 18 May 2002
"Beginning in 1998 and continuing
into the summer of 2001, the Intelligence Community received a modest, but relatively
steady, stream of intelligence reporting that indicated the possibility of terrorist
attacks within the United States..... the Intelligence Community received information
indicating that terrorists were contemplating, among other means of attack, the use of
aircraft as weapons. This information did not stimulate any specific Intelligence
Community assessment of, or collective U.S. Government reaction to, this form of
threat.... Prior to September
11, the Intelligence Community had information linking Khalid Shaykh Mohammed (KSM), now
recognized by the Intelligence Community as the mastermind of the attacks, to Bin Ladin,
to terrorist plans to use aircraft as weapons, and to terrorist activity in the United
States.... the Inquiry confirmed that the Intelligence Community did receive
intelligence reporting concerning the potential use of aircraft as weapons.... Some, but
apparently not all, of these reports were disseminated within the Intelligence Community
and to other agencies... KSM came to the attention of the
Intelligence Community as a terrorist in early 1995 when he was linked to Ramzi
Yousefs 'Bojinka Plot' in the Philippines. One portion of that plot involved the
idea of crashing an airplane into CIA Headquarters. Through additional intelligence and
investigative efforts in 1995, KSM was also connected to the first World Trade Center
bombing. He was indicted by a U.S. grand jury in January 1996. The indictment was
kept under seal until 1998 while the FBI and CIA attempted to locate him and arrange to
take him into custody. Subsequently, indications were received that he might have been
involved in the East Africa U.S. Embassy bombings."
REPORT OF THE JOINT INQUIRY INTO THE
TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
BY THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
24 July 2003
"[There was]
a climax of concern during the summer of 2001 about imminent attacks by Al-Qaida
upon U.S. targets....the FBI knew about terrorist interest in U.S. flight schools and in
the potential use of aircraft as weapons... The CIA was made aware of the Phoenix special
agents concerns about flight schools, but it offered no feedback despite the
information the CIA possessed about terrorists interest in using aircraft as
weapons...."
REPORT OF THE JOINT INQUIRY INTO THE
TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
BY THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
24 July 2003
"U.S. and Italian officials were
warned in July that Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush and other
leaders by crashing an airliner into the Genoa summit of industrialized nations, officials
said Wednesday.... Italian officials took the reports seriously enough to prompt
extraordinary precautions during the July summit of the Group of 8 nations, including
closing the airspace over Genoa and stationing antiaircraft guns at the city's
airport..... the reports suggest that Western governments were aware that terrorists might
one day use a hijacked airplane as a suicide weapon--as they did Sept. 11 in attacks on
the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.......The Genoa warning was disclosed last week by
Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini..... In any case, the possibility of suicide hijackings has been known
to U.S. counter-terrorism officials for several years...... In
1996, a terrorist captured in Manila told Philippine police that Al Qaeda planned to
hijack 11 U.S. airliners simultaneously and to fly a plane into CIA headquarters near
Washington."
Los Angeles
Times, 27 September 2001
"In mid-July [2001], Tenet sat down
for a special meeting with [Condoleeza] Rice and aides. 'George briefed Condi that there
was going to be a major attack,' says an official ..... Tenet couldn't rule out a domestic
attack..... One date already worrying the Secret Service was July 20, when Bush would
arrive in Genoa for the G-8 summit; Tenet had intelligence that al-Qaeda was planning to
attack Bush there. The Italians ..... closed airspace around the town and ringed it with
antiaircraft guns. "
Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented?
Time Magazine
Online, 4 Aug 2002
"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to
al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives
(C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), or the White House. Ramzi Yousef had planned to do this against the CIA
headquarters....Yousef was planning simultaneous bombings of 11 U.S. airliners prior to
his capture. Whatever form an attack may take, bin Laden will most likely retaliate in a
spectacular way for the cruise missile attack against his Afghan camp in August
1998."
'Sociology and Psychology of
Terrorism'
US National
Intelligence Council Report, Sept 1999
"On July 5 of
last year, a month and a day before President Bush first heard that al Qaeda might plan a
hijacking, the White House summoned officials of a dozen federal agencies to the Situation
Room. 'Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen
soon,' the government's top counterterrorism official, Richard Clarke, told the assembled
group, according to two of those present. The group included the Federal Aviation
Administration, along with the Coast Guard, FBI, Secret Service and Immigration and
Naturalization Service. Clarke directed every counterterrorist office to cancel vacations,
defer nonvital travel, put off scheduled exercises and place domestic rapid-response teams
on much shorter alert. For six weeks last summer, at home and overseas, the U.S.
government was at its highest possible state of readiness -- and anxiety -- against
imminent terrorist attack. That intensity -- defensive in nature -- did not last. By the
time Bush received his briefing at his ranch in Crawford, Tex., on Aug. 6, the government
had begun to stand down from the alert.... As late as July 31, the FAA urged U.S. airlines
to maintain a 'high degree of alertness.' All those alert levels dropped by the time
hijackers armed with box cutters took control of four jetliners on the morning of Sept.
11."
Before Sept.
11, Unshared Clues and Unshaped Policy
Washington Post, 17 May 2002
"By the time a CIA briefer gave
President Bush the Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily Brief headlined 'Bin Ladin Determined
To Strike in US,' the president had seen a stream of alarming reports on al Qaeda's
intentions. So had Vice President Cheney and Bush's top national security team, according
to newly declassified information released yesterday by the commission investigating the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. In April and May 2001, for example, the intelligence community
headlined some of those reports 'Bin Laden planning multiple operations,' 'Bin Laden
network's plans advancing' and 'Bin Laden threats are real.'.... In January 2001, two
surveillance photographs from the (al Qaeda) Kuala Lumpur meeting were shown to an
informant who was helping both the CIA and the FBI. He helped them understand that
Almihdhar was at the meeting with a man identified as 'Khallad' -- who by then was known
to have planned the Cole bombing. But 'we found no effort by the CIA to renew the long-abandoned search for
[Almihdhar] or his traveling companions,' the staff report
noted. Also, contrary
to the previous testimony of Tenet, the CIA did not tell the FBI about this discovery
until late August 2001, according to the report."
Panel
Says Bush Saw Repeated Warnings
Washington Post, 14 April 2004
"On June 11, FBI agents from the New
York office and Washington headquarters met with CIA officials to discuss the Cole
investigation. The FBI agents were shown photographs from Malaysia, but not given copies.
One FBI agent later recalled that Almihdhar was mentioned during the meeting, and said he
had asked the CIA why the people in the photographs were being followed. 'The New York
agents were advised they could not be told why Almihdhar and the others were being
followed,' the Joint Inquiry Staff report revealed. [New York
Times, 9/21/02] 'The FBI agents recognized the men from
the Cole investigation, but when they asked the CIA what they knew about the men, they
were told that they didn't have clearance to share that information. It ended up in a
shouting match.' [ABC News, 8/16/02] The FBI agents didn't
receive the information they wanted until after 9/11. A CIA agent later admitted that he
knew more about Alhazmi and Almihdhar than he told the FBI, but said he couldn't share
that information unless he had the explicit authority to do so at a meeting specifically
convened for that purpose. [Congressional
Intelligence Committee, 9/20/02] As an aside, it's
interesting to note that the CIA Director continued a pattern of denial, later claiming
that this CIA agent told him the complete opposite of what the agent told the
Congressional committee. [New York Times, 10/17/02].... The recent
Congressional Intelligence Committee report on who knew what and when about Alhazmi and
Almihdhar resembles more a whitewash than a true investigation..... For instance, up until
June 2002, the CIA maintained that it had not learned of Almihdhar's connections to
al-Qaeda or his visits to the US until August 2001. [New York
Times, 6/3/02] But as is well-known now, these links had
been established by US intelligence before the January 2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia. If it had not been for leaks and the diligent work of investigative journalists,
this information would never have made it to the public."
Alhazmi and Almihdhar: The 9/11 Hijackers Who Should Have Been
Caught
Centre
for Co-operative Research, 18 October 2002
"KSM [Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed] came to the attention of the Intelligence Community as a terrorist in
early 1995 when he was linked to Ramzi Yousefs 'Bojinka Plot' in the Philippines.
One portion of that plot involved the idea of crashing an airplane into CIA Headquarters.
Through additional intelligence and investigative efforts in 1995, KSM was also connected
to the first World Trade Center bombing. He was indicted by a U.S. grand jury in
January 1996..... Subsequently, indications were received that he might have been involved
in the East Africa U.S.
Embassy bombings."
REPORT OF THE JOINT INQUIRY INTO
THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
BY THE HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE AND THE
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE
24 July 2003
"The ex-police chief told [CIA
veteran and terrorism expert Bob] Baer that [Khalid Shaikh] Mohammed 'is going to hijack some planes.' The ex-police chief said his basis for
this was evidence developed by police and Qatari intelligence... Baer sent this
information [before 911] to a friend in the CIA Counter-terrorist Center who forwarded the information to his superiors.
Baer heard nothing. 'There was
no interest,' he said...."
UPI Exclusive: Pearl tracked al Qaida
United Press International, 30 September 2002
"Two veteran FBI investigators say
they were ordered to stop investigations into a suspectedterror cell
linked to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and the Sept. 11 attacks.... even after the [embassy] bombings [in Africa], Wright said FBI headquarters wanted no arrests."
Called Off the Trail?
ABCNews 19 Dec 2002
"Interestingly, the [911]
Congressional inquiry revealed that CIA Director George Tenet has prevented the
declassification of all information regarding Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (even his name was
not allowed to be mentioned in the inquiry's report). [Congressional
Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02, New York
Times, 9/22/02]"
Alhazmi and Almihdhar: The 9/11 Hijackers Who Should Have Been
Caught
Centre
for Co-operative Research, 18 October 2002
"Exactly two years before the Sept.
11 attacks, a federal report warned the executive branch that Osama bin Laden's terrorists
might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the
Pentagon or other government building.... The report
noted that an al-Qaida-linked terrorist first arrested in the Philippines in 1995 and
later convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing had suggested such a suicide jetliner mission. 'Ramzi
Yousef had planned to do this against the CIA headquarters,' author Rex Hudson wrote in a
report prepared for the National Intelligence Council and shared with other federal
agencies. The intelligence council is attached to the CIA and is made up of a dozen senior
intelligence officers who assist the U.S. intelligence community in analysis of threats
and priorities. The report contrasts with Bush administration officials' assertions that
none in government had imagined an attack like Sept. 11 before that time...."
1999 Report Warned of Suicide Hijack
Associated Press, 17 May
2002
"Terrorists could not have carried
out such an operation [as on Sept 11] with 4 hijacked planes without the support of a
secret service."
Horst Ehmke, former coordinator of West German secret services
"Euro Intel Experts Dismiss 'War On Terrorism' As
Deception"
American
Free Press - 4 Dec 2001
CIA Strategy Not To Catch Bin Laden Too Soon As Bush Pumps Fear of Prior To Invasion Of Iraq?
"The
Bush Administration began making plans for an invasion of Iraq, including the use of American troops, within days of President Bush's
inauguration in January of 2001 -- not eight months later after the 9/11 attacks, as has
been previously reported. That's what former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says in his
first interview about his time as a White House insider.... In the book, O'Neill is quoted
as saying he was surprised that no one in a National Security Council meeting questioned
why Iraq should be invaded. 'It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of
it. The president saying 'Go find me a way to do this,' says O'Neill in the book.... "
Saddam Ouster Planned Early
'01?
CBS News,
10 January 2003
"Iraq has had
contact with al-Qaeda and may be working with the group, the head of the CIA has told the
US Senate. 'Baghdad has a long history of supporting terrorism,' said George Tenet,
director of the Central Intelligence Agency. 'It has also had contacts with al-Qaeda,' he
told the Senate's Armed Services Committee. The comments come as the US Vice-President,
Dick Cheney, winds up an international tour aimed at building support for a possible
attack against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, and as Iraqi officials try to shore up
support in the region.... Mr Tenet did not present any new hard evidence of Iraqi
collusion with al-Qaeda to the committee.... 'Their ties may be limited by divergent
ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathies toward the United States and the Saudi
royal family suggests that tactical co-operation between them is possible,' Mr Tenet said.
The CIA chief's comments are likely to be seen as providing further grounds for a
potential US attack against the Iraqi regime... The BBC's Jon Leyne in Washington says
that Mr Tenet's testimony is part of a US attempt to build up a picture of Iraq as a
threat to the region.... Mr Tenet on Tuesday also stressed that al-Qaeda continued to pose
a threat to the United States. 'Al-Qaeda leaders still at large are working to
reconstitute the organisation and to resume its terrorist operations,' he said."
US says Iraq linked to al-Qaeda
BBC Online, 19 March
2002
"Dubai, one of the seven emirates of
the Federation of the United Arab Emirates, North-East of Abi-Dhabi. This city, population
350,000, was the backdrop of a secret meeting between Osama bin Laden and the local CIA
agent in July [2001]. A partner of the administration of the American Hospital in Dubai
claims that public enemy number one stayed at this hospital between the 4th and 14th of
July..... While he was hospitalised, bin Laden received visits from many members of his
family as well as prominent Saudis and Emiratis. During the hospital stay, the local CIA
agent, known to many in Dubai, was seen taking the main elevator of the hospital to go to
bin Laden's hospital room. A few days later, the CIA man bragged to a few friends about
having visited bin Laden. Authorised sources say that on July 15th, the day after bin
Laden returned to Quetta, the CIA agent was called back to headquarters [i.e without
arresting bin Laden]... According to Arab diplomatic sources as well as French
intelligence, very specific information was transmitted to the CIA with respect to
terrorist attacks against American interests around the world, including on US soil. A DST
report dated 7 September enumerates all the intelligence, and specifies that the order to
attack was to come from Afghanistan."
The CIA met Bin Laden while undergoing treatment at an American Hospital
last July in Dubai
Le Figaro, 11
October 2001
"Mullah Haji Abdul Samat Khaksar,
the No 2 Taliban official in U.S. custody, has been waiting months for the CIA to talk to him. The former Taliban deputy interior minister says he has
valuable information for the U.S. - and may be able to help locate former Taliban leader
Mullah Omar.... but no senior
intelligence official has come for a full interview. The CIA will not comment... he says he has sent five letters to the
US embassy in Kabul offering to pass on information about al-Qaeda hideouts in Afghanistan... "
'The Taliban Guy the CIA Won't
Question'
Time Magazine, 25 February
2002, European print edition, p21
"Thousands of American troops
scouring Afghanistan for Mullah Omar have been looking for the wrong man, according to an
Afghan villager who claims that it is his face on the CIA's wanted poster and not that of
the fugitive Taliban leader. Maulvi Hafizullah, a former protocol officer for the Taliban,
has been hiding in fear for his life in a remote part of southern Afghanistan since his
photograph appeared as Omar on a CIA leaflet... Hafizullah has two eyes while Omar has only one,
having been half-blinded in a Soviet rocket attack in 1986...."
'I'm not Mullah Omar' says the man on CIA wanted
poster
Daily
Telegraph, 13 October 2002
"This is the CIA's strategy .... you
guys are in charge... we're just following you in..."
Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of State
for Defense, referring to CIA control over the war in Afghanistan
'The Inside story of US cabinet at
war'
London Times, 23 November
2002
"Why has the CIA ignored for 11
consecutive months the only anti-al Qaida Pakistani tribal leader who had tracked bin
Laden's movements ever since his escape from Tora Bora last Dec. 9? In late November 2001,
this tribal chief contacted us via a mutual friend. He said his people knew where bin
Laden was in the Tora Bora mountain range.... [Later] Bin Laden, he informed us, had
indeed come out through the Tirah Valley on horseback two days before we got there, on Dec
9..... The U.S. intelligence community has been aware of the tribal leader's name and
reputation, but did not contact him. ..... Members of the President's Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board who were asked by us to ask the question [why this man was not
contacted] have simply been told, 'We'll get back to you on that.' They're still
waiting."
Conspiracy of silence?
United
Press International, 18 November 2002
"This
provocative memoir by former top White House counter-terrorism adviser Richard Clarke was
published on the eve of the 9/11 Commission hearings. His book is shocking and revealing,
and should be worrisome for all Americans..... CIA Director George Tenet refused to arm an
unmanned Predator aircraft to try to take out Osama Bin Laden... "
Against All Enemies - Book Review
Forbes, 15
April 2004
"American
warplanes have had al-Qaeda and Taleban leaders in their sights as many as ten times over
the past six weeks, but have been unable to attack because they did not receive permission
quickly enough, US Air Force officials complained yesterday..."
Pilots had leaders of al-Qaeda 'in their gunsights'
London
Times, 19 November 2001
"[Northern Alliance commander]
General Dawood said that Alliance intelligence sources in the city had reported that at
least two large Pakistani planes had landed at Konduz airfield to extricate 'military personnel' on Tuesday night, followed by at least two more flights on
Wednesday night..... Asked why the US, which
controls the skies over Afghanistan, should have allowed such flights, he replied: 'That is a
question that you will have to put to the Americans'...."
Alliance threatens to massacre Taleban's foreign fighters
London Times, 16 November 2001, p3 print edition
(click here to access scanned image)
(on-line
version excludes the
question put to General Dawood)
"Pakistani fighters trapped in the
besieged city of Konduz have been airlifted to safety in Pakistan with the apparent consent of the United States... The deserters are believed to have been joined by some
retired soldiers, including operatives of Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistans main spy agency....It is not thought that many of those who were flown back to
Pakistan, including deserters, were detained on their return...."
US 'allows Pakistani fighters to escape'
London
Times, 24 Nov 2001
"... in late September and early
October [2001], leaders of Pakistan's two Islamic parties negotiated bin Laden's
extradition to Pakistan to stand trial for the September 11 attacks. The deal was that he
would be held under house arrest in Peshawar. According to reports in Pakistan (and the
Daily Telegraph), this had both bin Laden's approval and that of Mullah Omah, the Taliban
leader.... Later, a US
official said that 'casting our objectives too narrowly' risked 'a premature collapse of
the international effort if by some luck chance Mr bin Laden was captured'.... And yet the US and British governments
insisted there was no alternative to bombing Afghanistan because the Taliban had 'refused'
to hand over Osama bin Laden. "
THIS WAR OF LIES GOES ON
Daily Mirror 16 November 2001
911 Inquiry
Must Investigate US Military Command, Intelligence Services, and Cheney - 24 Feb 2004
Iraqgate
2003 - Dr Kelly and 'Operation Rockingham' - 19 Oct 2003
| "This War Against Terrorism Is Bogus" - Ex-Blair Government Minister - Click Here |
Why the CIA is not interested in ending al-Qaeda
Bogus War Against Terrorism - Why They Are Really Doing It
"We now know that a blueprint for
the creation of a global Pax Americana was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-president),
Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), Jeb Bush (George
Bush's younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled
Rebuilding America's Defences, was written in September 2000 by the neoconservative think
tank, Project for the New American Century (PNAC). The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended
to take military control of the Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It
says 'while the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the
need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the
regime of Saddam Hussein.'... In late September and early October 2001, leaders of
Pakistan's two Islamist parties negotiated Bin Laden's extradition to Pakistan to stand
trial for 9/11. However, a US official said, significantly, that 'casting our objectives
too narrowly' risked 'a premature collapse of the international effort if by some lucky
chance Mr Bin Laden was captured'.... The whistleblowing FBI agent Robert Wright told ABC
News that FBI headquarters wanted no arrests.... The evidence again is quite clear that
plans for military action against Afghanistan and Iraq were in hand well before 9/11. A
report prepared for the US government from the Baker Institute of Public Policy stated in
April 2001 that 'the US remains a prisoner of its energy dilemma. Iraq remains a
destabilising influence to... the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East'. Submitted to
Vice-President Cheney's energy task group, the report recommended that because this was an
unacceptable risk to the US, 'military intervention' was necessary. Similar evidence
exists in regard to Afghanistan. The BBC reported that Niaz Niak, a former Pakistan
foreign secretary, was told by senior American officials at a meeting in Berlin in
mid-July 2001 that 'military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of
October'. Until July 2001 the US government saw the Taliban regime as a source of
stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of hydrocarbon pipelines from
the oil and gas fields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and
Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. But, confronted with the Taliban's refusal to accept US
conditions, the US representatives told them 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of
gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs' .... The 9/11 attacks allowed the US to
press the 'go' button for a strategy in accordance with the PNAC agenda which it would
otherwise have been politically impossible to implement. The overriding motivation for this political smokescreen is that the US and the
UK are beginning to run out of secure hydrocarbon energy supplies.... A report from the commission on America's national interests
in July 2000 noted that the most promising new source of world supplies was the Caspian
region, and this would relieve US dependence on Saudi Arabia. To diversify supply routes
from the Caspian, one pipeline would run westward via Azerbaijan and Georgia to the
Turkish port of Ceyhan. Another would extend eastwards through Afghanistan and Pakistan
and terminate near the Indian border. This would rescue Enron's beleaguered power plant at Dabhol on India's west coast, in
which Enron had sunk $3bn
investment and whose economic survival was dependent on access to cheap gas... The
conclusion of all this analysis must surely be that the 'global war on terrorism' has the
hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda -
the US goal of world hegemony, built around securing
by force command over the oil supplies required to
drive the whole project. Is collusion in this myth and junior participation in this
project really a proper aspiration for British foreign policy? If there was ever need to
justify a more objective British stance, driven by our own independent goals, this whole
depressing saga surely provides all the evidence needed for a radical change of
course."
Michael Meacher, former Blair government
Minister - 'This war on terrorism is bogus'
The Guardian, 6 September 2003
Bogus War Against Terrorism - Why They
Are Really Doing It
GLOBAL ENERGY CRISIS LOOMING
Click Here
London
Times - 26 January 2004 |
Including
From Macedonia To Enron - Rice Must
Explain Pre-911 National Security Priorities - 5 April
2004
American Sponsored Islamic Jihad In Yugoslavia - 27 March 2004
Is Bush Camp Preparing Another 'October Surprise'
For The 2004 US election? - 21 March 2004
911 Inquiry Must Investigate US Military Command, Intelligence Services, and Cheney - 24 Feb 2004
Hutton And The Libyan Black Gold Rush - 8 Feb 2004
Hussein Kamel And The Big Anglo-American Deception - 4
Jan 2004
Iraq: British Government
admits to 'Operation Mass Appeal' - 28 Dec 2003
Iraqgate 2003 -
Dr Kelly and 'Operation Rockingham' - 19
Oct 2003
A Vision For Transforming America - 24 March 2003
This Is Our Prime Minister - 23 Feb 2003
What Is Happening To Britain
And America? - 9 Feb 2003
The 911 Omar Sheikh Files - 2 Jan
2003
'October Surprise 2002' - Life After The US Constitutional Coup - 31 Oct 2002
What Did Britain Know About 911? - 28 Aug 2002
Why Did Bush Not Act On Sept 11? - 9 May 2002
World Peace Offered From Hiroshima - 22 April 2002
Did Sept 11 victims die for Enron? - 8 March 2002
CIA provided funds to financiers of Sept 11 bomber - 18
Nov 2001
A Vision For Transforming America - Click Here |
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LAW PARTY WESSEX
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