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Bareface Political Scams

The Whilimena Team's photos, quotes and reviews are chronicled on various sites including: www.whilimena.blogspot.com. These data delve into a lot of the political scams; from Pearl Harbor, JFK, RFK, MLK, Murrah, to the most barefaced scam in history - September 11, 2001.

The Whilimena Team brings these data to you for reading and digesting of the facts so that you may be alerted to the next scam.

We do not contrive to present 'wild goose' conjecture; nor do we publish data created by crackpots and propagandists.

The Whilimena Team has nothing to do with anti-Americanism, anarchism, communism, war and political thuggery. Whilimena focuses on truth and justice.

Consequently, this Team unearths all terrorists. Especially those powerful ones in London, Washington, Tel Aviv, Middle East, Africa, you name it.

If you have a comment about something factual, (not just a tribal or smear comment), write: whilimena @netscape.net

September 11, 2001

The world watched as three skyscrapers fell within their 'footprints' after two of them were struck, allegedly by objects launched horizontally. The most rediculous was the fall of the 47-story WTC 7 where not even a brick struck it.

Then folks, no plane parts or black boxes found.

Recorded data show that the planes allegedly crashed into those towers were still 'in the air' way after 9 am.

Then 'Houdini' threw out one of the hijacker's passport out the plane window and the security services found it very quickly.

The hole in the Pentagon was too small for any large plane to go through.

The hole in Shanksville that was allegedly struck by a jet with no less than 9000 gallons of fuel, had grass growing in it. This hole was dug days prior 9-11.

Further, the hole could not have been created by the plane because of the trajectory of that object flying horizontally.

And shortly thereafter the 9-11 al Qaeda hoods identified the bodies at their military labs and determined that the hijackers were identified 'by a process of elimination'.

Did people believe that absolute stupidity? Oh yes! Tribesmen, fools and persons who were and are just naive.

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DISPARATE QUOTES: "Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again; poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves." D. H. Lawrence

"The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of government power, not the increase of it." Woodrow Wilson (1912)

The Whilimena Chronicles:We have carefully reviewed some data: (a) 9-11 Commission Report (b) verbal comments made by al Qaeda kingpins (c) actions and inactions of the said kingpins. The Team has concluded that those 9-11 'dingbatic' crooks have been lucidly identified. And, note carefully that Osama bin Laden is not on this initial list. WHY?
"...On June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters, (202) 324-..., to learn why Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. The Muckraker Report spoke with Rex... , Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI. When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page, Tomb said, 'The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.' " The Muckraker Report

There is always someone who believes a story without checking the facts.
When one observes or hears another who believes a weird story; especially the official 9-11 one, we should remember these quotes:
(1) "The madman who knows that he is mad is close to sanity." Juan Ruiz deAlacron
(2) "The fool has already made up his mind. Do not confuse him with facts." Anonymous
(3) "I could not have believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilized men." Charles Darwin

"How do we know when the local al Qaeda boys pull off a scam? They generally identify the bogeymen very quickly with minute details; yet decades later there is no proof of guilt." Whilimena

READ ON:
"...we were able to identify, track and escort suspected hijacked aircraft after the initial attacks...our reaction time outpaced the process in some instances..." Major Larry Arnold
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"Whatever trail was left, was left deliberately--for the F.B.I. to chase." Seymour Hersh
Answer these questions al Qaeda!
US embassy issued 15 of the 19 visas, right?
There was no official airline manifest, right?
There was not one single piece of smoking gun in the 'Treasure trove' of data, right?
The Military could not catch the crooks because of the 'sophistication' of these 19 bushmen, right?
Then where did you get the detailed list of hijackers?
Could the live hijackers be the ones who refused to show up for work; or was this the Mossad's way of 'setting you up' for everlasting blackmail?
Don't you find it very strange that several of these Cats were trained by the Military?
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American Airlines Flight #11 Boeing 767
7:45 a.m. Departed Boston for Los Angeles
8:45 a.m. Allegedly crashed into North Tower of World Trade Center. However, it was still in the air after that time!
Satam Suqami, Allegedly used Firearm. Although it was the Mossad agent firing the gun.
Waleed Alshehri, Alive on September 12, 2001
Wail Alshehri, Alive on September 12, 2001
Mohamed Atta, He was alive on September 12, 2001 eventhough he was the pilot in the doomed craft.
Abdulaziz Alomari, Alive on September 12, 2001
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American Airlines #77 - Boeing 757
8:10 a.m. Departed Dulles for Los Angeles
9:39 a.m. Allegedly crashed into Pentagon and left only a small hole.
Khalid Almihdhar, Alive on September 12, 2001
Majed Moqed
Nawaf Alhazmi
Salem Alhazmi, Alive on September 12, 2001
Hani Hanjour
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United Airlines #175 - Boeing 767
7:58 a.m. Departed Boston for Los Angeles
9:05 a.m. Allegedly crashed into South Tower of World Trade Center. It was still in the air after it 'crashed'.
Marwan Al-Shehhi, Alleged Pilot. Alive on September 12, 2001. The pilot who crashed the plane was found alive thousands of miles away. Amazing you al Qaeda thugs!
Fayez Rashid
Ahmed Alghamdi
Hamza Alghamdi
Mohand Alshehri
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United Airlines #93 - Boeing 757
8:42 a.m. Departed Newark for San Francisco
10:03 a.m. According to The Great Rummy, it was shot down by 'the terrorists'.
Saeed Alghamdi, Alive on September 12, 2001
Ahmad Haznawi
Ahmed Alnami, Alive on September 12, 2001
Ziad Samir Jarrah, Alleged Pilot
End of FBI APB. On this flight were some very important passengers. Apparently, these were selected carefully. None of their kin filed for any 9-11 benefits. Amazing - when we look at the fraudulent distribution of those funds.
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(New York Times)
"...the lowest floor of fire in the South Tower actually looked like someone had planted explosives around it because...everything blew out on the one floor..." Battalion Chief B. Dixon (Oral Histories 9-11) New York Times
"I heard this metalic roar...just a peculiar site...one after the other exploding outward....whoever they [terrorists] are, had set charges. In fact the building was imploding down. I saw explosions..." John Bussey WSJ (The Breaking News of 9/11, Rowman & Littlefield)
"Floor by floor, it started popping out...Yeah - detonated!" P. Zoda, New York Fire Department"...boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!" Captain D. Tardio, NYFD
"Pock, pock, pock, pock, pock, pock, pock, pock..." Captain D. Tardio, NYFD

(Thought the fires brought down WTC? Think again! One building was struck at the 78th floor. Yet hear this:
Chief Orio J. Palmer: "Battalion seven...Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire..."
Ladder 15: "What stair are you in?"
Ladder 15: "Chief, what stair you in?"
Ladder 15: "Floor 78?"
Chief: "Ten-four [Yes]"

"...in this exercise [Operation Amalgam Virgo] we used actual drone - NQM-107 drones, which are about the size of a cruise missile..." Colonel Alan Scott (Retired)

"...9:24 was the first time that we had been advised of American 77 as a possible hijacked airplane...We had just come out of a video teleconference...when I was hended a note that we had a possible hijacking at Boston center..." General Larry Arnold, NORAD

Please see evidence of two fires above!!!!!!!

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9-11 Impact Statements, useful to the 9-11 Commission.

Whilimena: "By the way! Is there a law which states that the so-called 9-11 Commission cannot convene again, to view additional data?
We heard that Rudi Giuliani gave impact statements in the Moussaoui case. It would be of great interest to the people of the world, especially relatives and friends of those murdered on 9-11, to ascertain what in the world Rudi could be saying at the Moussaoui trial; considering that the first-responders were not called. And those who volunteered (like Rodriquez) to give testimony elsewhere were rediculed with classic 'JFK Specter' 'Philidelphia' tricks.
It is crystal clear that the impact statements of the first-responders at WTC on September 11, 2001 expressed the view that bombs were going off in the buildings. It is also crystal clear that Osama bin Laden could NOT have planted explosives in the WTC prior 9-11 because of the 'tight' security. Consequently, the Attorney General and District Attorney of New York must empanel a Grand Jury to investigate these numerous claims. It must be carefully noted that a complaint was filed with the said New York law enforcement officials, by citizens of these United States (2004), seeking an investigation into the 9-11 scam. So far, that complaint is sitting idle in File 13. Why?"

IMPACT STATEMENTS- 9-11:
"...there was just an explosion.... It seemed like on television, they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions."--Firefighter Richard Banaciski
"I saw a flash flash flash - the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building?"--Assistant Fire Commissioner Stephen Gregory

"...it was professional demolition where they set the charges on certain floors and then you hear 'Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop'."--Paramedic Daniel Rivera

"We are Israelis. We are not your problem. Your problems are our problems. The Palestinians are your problem".
Zionists travelling in Van on 9-11

The Guardian: "...police and fire officials were carrying out the first wave of evacuations when the first of the World Trade Centre towers collapsed. Some eyewitnesses reported hearing another explosion just before the structure crumbled. Police said that it looked almost like a ‘planned implosion.’"

Engineer Mike Pecoraro: "There was nothing there but rubble," ..."We're talking about a 50 ton hydraulic press--gone!" ... "like a piece of aluminum foil."

"... The evidence indicates that, at the least, the highest circles in the White House knew a spectacular attack was in the works in the days and weeks preceeding 9/11 -- warnings were coming into the White House from a host of foreign leaders and intelligence agencies -- but chose to do nothing, presumably to make use of those events in the service of their hidden agenda.

Similarly, nothing was done as a result of the government's own intelligence warnings..." Bernard Weiner, Ph.D.

Mark Loizeaux, of Controlled Demolition, Inc: "If I were to bring the towers down, I would put explosives in the basement to get the weight of the building to help collapse the structure."

FDNY Captain Dennis Tardio: "I hear an explosion and I look up. It is as if the building is being imploded, from the top floor down, one after another, boom, boom, boom."

The Ha'aretz article by Sara Leibovich-Dar reveals the "close ties with Netanyahu" that Silverstein has:
"The two have been on friendly terms since Netanyahu's stint as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations. For years they kept in close touch. Every Sunday afternoon, New York time, Netanyahu would call Silverstein. It made no difference what the subject was or where Netanyahu was, he would always call, Silverstein told an Israeli acquaintance," the Israeli newspaper reported.

Firefighter Louie Cacchioli: "...another huge explosion like the first one hits. This one hits about two minutes later . . . I’m thinking, ‘Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in here like they did in 1993!’ "

Teresa Veliz: "There were explosions going off everywhere. I was convinced that there were bombs planted all over the place and someone was sitting at a control panel pushing detonator buttons. . . . There was another explosion. And another. I didn't know where to run."

Steve Evans: "I was at the base of the second tower . . . that was hit. . . . There was an explosion. . . . The base of the building shook. . . . [T]hen there was a series of explosions."

Sue Keane: "[I]t sounded like bombs going off. That's when the explosions happened. . . . I knew something was going to happen. . . . It started to get dark, then all of a sudden there was this massive explosion." Then, discussing her experiences during the collapse of the north tower, she said: "[There was] another explosion. That sent me and the two firefighters down the stairs. . . . I can't tell you how many times I got banged around. Each one of those explosions picked me up and threw me. . . . There was another explosion, and I got thrown with two firefighters out onto the street."

Wall Street Journal reporter John Bussey: "I . . . looked up out of the office window to see what seemed like perfectly synchronized explosions coming from each floor. . . . One after the other, from top to bottom, with a fraction of a second between, the floors blew to pieces."

Another Wall Street Journal reporter: "‘My God, they’re going to bring the building down.’ And they, whoever they are, HAD SET CHARGES. . . . I saw the explosions."

Beth Fertig of WNYC Radio: "It just descended like a timed explosion-like when they are deliberately bringing a building down. . . . It was coming down so perfectly that in one part of my brain I was thinking...They got everyone out, and they're bringing the building down because they have to.'"
Firefighter Timothy Julian: "First I thought it was an explosion. I thought maybe there was a bomb on the plane, but delayed type of thing, you know secondary device. . . . I just heard like an explosion and then a cracking type of noise, and then it sounded like a freight train, rumbling and picking up speed, and I remember I looked up, and I saw it coming down."

Emergency medical technician Michael Ober: "[W]e heard a rumble, some twisting metal, we looked up in the air, and . . . it looked to me just like an explosion. It didn’t look like the building was coming down, it looked like just one floor had blown completely outside of it. . . . I didn’t think they were coming down. I just froze and stood there looking at it."

Chief Frank Cruthers: "There was what appeared to be at first an explosion. It appeared at the very top, simultaneously from all four sides, materials shot out horizontally. And then there seemed to be a momentary delay before you could see the beginning of the collapse."

Paul Curran: "...all of a sudden the ground just started shaking. It felt like a train was running under my feet. . . . The next thing we know, we look up and the tower is collapsing."

Lieutenant Bradley Mann of the fire department: "Shortly before the first tower came down," ... "I remember feeling the ground shaking. I heard a terrible noise, and then debris just started flying everywhere. People started running." "...we basically had the same thing: The ground shook again, and we heard another terrible noise and the next thing we knew the second tower was coming down."

Paramedic Kevin Darnowski: "I started walking back up towards Vesey Street. I heard three explosions, and then we heard like groaning and grinding, and tower two started to come down."
Gregg Brady: "I heard 3 loud explosions. I look up and the north tower is coming down now."

Thomas Turilli: "...it almost sounded like bombs going off, like boom, boom, boom, like seven or eight."
Craig Carlsen: "...heard explosions coming from building two, the south tower. It seemed like it took forever, but there were about ten explosions. . . . We then realized the building started to come down."

Rumsfeld - interviewed by Lyric Wallwork Winik, Parade Magazine Friday, Oct. 12, 2001.
"Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center."

Timothy Burke: "...the building popped, lower than the fire..."

Edward Cachia: "As my officer and I were looking at the south tower, it just gave. It actually gave at a lower floor, not the floor where the plane hit. . . . we originally had thought there was like an internal detonation, explosives, because it went in succession, boom, boom, boom, boom, and then the tower came down."

Lieutenant James Walsh: "The [north tower] didn't fall the way you would think tall buildings would fall. Pretty much it looked like it imploded on itself."

Assistant Commissioner Stephen Gregory: "I thought . . . before . . . [WTC 2] came down, that I saw low-level flashes. . . . Lieutenant Evangelista . . . asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I . . . saw a flash flash flash . . . [at] the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That's what I thought I saw."

Captain Karin Deshore: "Somewhere around the middle of the World Trade Center, there was this orange and red flash coming out. Initially it was just one flash."..."Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode. The popping sound, and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then a red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides as far as I could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger, going both up and down and then all around the building."

Firefighter Richard Banaciski: "...there was just an explosion. It seemed like on television [when] they blow up these buildings. It seemed like it was going all the way around like a belt, all these explosions."

Deputy Commissioner Thomas Fitzpatrick: "We looked up at the [south tower] . . . . All we saw was a puff of smoke coming from about 2 thirds of the way up . . . . It looked like sparkling around one specific layer of the building. . . . My initial reaction was that this was exactly the way it looks when they show you those implosions on TV."

Captain Jay Swithers: "I took a quick glance at the building and while I didn't see it falling, I saw a large section of it blasting out, which led me to believe it was just an explosion."

Firefighter James Curran: "When I got underneath the north bridge I looked back and . . . I heard like every floor went chu-chu-chu. Looked back and from the pressure everything was getting blown out of the floors before it actually collapsed."

Battalion Chief Brian Dixon: "I was . . . hearing a noise and looking up. . . . the lowest floor of fire in the south tower actually looked like someone had planted explosives around it because . . . everything blew out on the one floor. I thought, geez, this looks like an explosion up there, it blew out."
Firefighter Stephen Viola: "You heard like loud booms . . . "

Battalion Chief Dominick DeRubbio: "It was weird how it started to come down. It looked like it was a timed explosion."

Firefighter Kenneth Rogers: "[T]here was an explosion in the south tower. . . . I kept watching. Floor after floor after floor. One floor under another after another and when it hit about the fifth floor, I figured it was a bomb, because it looked like a synchronized deliberate kind of thing. I was there in '93."

Firefighter Christopher Fenyo: "At that point, a debate began to rage because. . . many people had felt that possibly explosives had taken out 2 World Trade, and officers were gathering companies together and the officers were debating whether or not to go immediately back in or to see what was going to happen with 1 World Trade at that point. The debate ended pretty quickly because 1 World Trade came down."

Firefighter William Reynolds: "I said, ‘Chief, they're evacuating the other building; right?’ He said, ‘No.’ . . . I said, ‘Why not? They blew up the other one.’ I thought they blew it up with a bomb. I said, ‘If they blew up the one, you know they're gonna blow up the other one.’ He said, ‘No, they're not.’ I said, ‘Well, you gotta tell them to evacuate it, because it's gonna fall down and you gotta get the guys out.’ . . . He said, ‘I'm just the Battalion Chief. I can't order that.’ . . . I said, ‘You got a f...king radio and you got a f...king mouth. Use the f...king things. Empty this f...king building.’ Again he said, ‘I'm just a Battalion Chief. I can't do that.’ . . . Eventually this other chief came back and said, ‘They are evacuating this tower.’ . . . And sometime after that . . . I watched the north tower fall."

Auxiliary Lieutenant Fireman Paul Isaac: "...there were definitely bombs in those buildings..." Isaac added: "...many other firemen know there were bombs in the buildings, but they’re afraid for their jobs to admit it because the ‘higher-ups’ forbid discussion of this fact."
Typical al Qaeda move whereby the witness is led to think that he/she is mistaken. It happened similarly in the JFK case. Read here:

Firefighter Louie Cacchioli: "I felt like I was being put on trial in a court room" .... "They were trying to twist my words and make the story fit only what they wanted to hear. All I wanted to do was tell the truth and when they wouldn’t let me do that, I walked out."

The 9-11 Commission of pure farce:
William Rodriguez: "I met with the 9/11 Commission behind closed doors and they essentially discounted everything I said regarding the use of explosives to bring down the north tower."..."I contacted NIST . . . four times without a response. Finally, [at a public hearing] I asked them before they came up with their conclusion . . . if they ever considered my statements or the statements of any of the other survivors who heard the explosions. They just stared at me with blank faces."
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Flight 93 imbroglio (from anonymous source):
The physical Shanksville evidence does not show the crash site of a Boeing 757-200:
• Amount of debris not consistent with a +120,000 lb aircraft
• Crash imprint could only be caused by a vertical, or near vertical crash, which was not possible
• Circular crater indicative of a below ground explosion
• Grass and weeds are growing in the crater which clearly indicates the crater was made before 9/11 • Lack of fire damage
• Mushroom cloud not consistent with 9,000 gallons of fuel exploding and burning
• The three minute discrepancy
• Flight 93: of the 45 people who are listed as dying on this flight, only 6 are listed in the SSDI. (13%) Of these 45 people, none are on the 9-11 Compensation Fund list: None.
"...a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.
One of the wilder stories circulating about September 11th - and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs - is that it was carried out by nineteen fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they 'hate our freedoms'...the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborate woven web of delusions...to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell...These crackpots even contend that the...regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it had been able. Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force...the controlled demolition of the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other documented proofs...So they [terrorists] got on board with false IDs but took their real passports with them ...
On the trail of real al Qaeda "Avenging Angels" terrorists
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"Is it true or is it false? Well - its been out here for years and neither the al Qaeda 9-11 Kingpins, nor the German Intel have refuted it. So I believe it." Whilimena
The German Intelligence Report [Translation of BND Report on the September 11, 2001 attacks] T O P S E C R E T B a c k g r o u n d R e p o r t o n 9 / 1 1 / 2 0 0 1 - DO NOT RUBBERSTAMP - - DO NOT SIGN - - DO NOT WRITE ON - - DO NOT MARK - [Page 2] On Monday August 6, 2001, at 17:50, [German] Ambassador Ischinger personally notified the President of the United States that information developed by the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz [German domestic secret service] as well as the BND [Bundesnachrichtendienst, German foreign secret service] indicated clearly that an attack by a radical Arab group partially based in Germany was to occur on September 10-11, 2001. The President was at that time in residence at his farm in Texas. Our [German] Ambassador was acting in direct response to instructions from Foreign Minister Fischer. This information was developed from official surveillance of Arab extremist groups operating in the Federal Republic as well as from intercepted communications between the Embassy of Israel and the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Tel Aviv concerning this matter. The information was “gratefully receivedف by the U.S. President who stated at the time that he was also aware of the same pending assaults. Subsequent to these attacks, the office of the U.S. President, through the U.S. Department of State, made an urgent request to the Federal Government [of Germany] that no reference whatsoever should be made to the official warnings given by Ambassador Ischinger. In order to clarify the background of this matter, this Gesamtübersicht [overall survey] of the events leading to the assault was prepared, basing on extracts of reports from our [BND’s] stations abroad. [Page 3] Overall, it is evident that the American authorities were aware of the pending attacks. Why they did nothing, is explained in the following. Background: General Overview Because of the Bush family’s involvement in oil (Zapata Oil Company), many important and wealthy individuals and corporations with oil interests financially supported the Bush political career. Today, the Bush administration is therefore strongly influenced by major American business groups. The candidate for American Vice President, Richard “Dickف Cheney, had been the Chief Director of the Halliburton Company. This company, based in Dallas, Texas, where Bush was Governor, is the largest oil service company in the world. Between 1991 through 1997, such important American oil companies as Texaco, Unocal, Shell, BP Amoco, Chevron and Exxon-Mobil became involved with the former Soviet state of Kazakhstan who holds enormous oil reserves. The government of Kazakhstan was eventually paid over $3 billions of corporate money to allow these companies to secure oil rights. At the same time, these companies agreed further to give the sums of 35 billion U.S. Dollar in investments in plant and equipment to the Kazakhstan projects. A confidential project report of said U.S. firms announced that the gas and oil reserves in Kazakhstan would amount to 4 trillion U.S. Dollar. [Page 4] The United States is not self-sufficient in oil and 50% of their supply is imported from various foreign sources. Some 80% of oil imported to the U.S. comes from OPEC-countries, the Arabian oil cartel. Because of the unconditional support by American political leaders of the state of Israel, these Arab governments have a very strained relationship with the U.S.A. A further smaller percentage of oil imported to the U.S. comes from Venezuela. Just recently, the U.S. government has been attempting to overthrow the government of Chavez with the help of the CIA and replace it with a government “more sympathetic to American oil needs.ف A position paper prepared by the office of the later-Vice President Cheney states that the Kazakhstan oil reserves would be “more than sufficient to supply U.S. needs for at least a decadeف and would further “reduce American dependence on OPEC.ف Unocal Oil Company signed an agreement with the reigning Taliban forces as well as their opponents, the Northern Alliance, in order to permit an oil pipeline to be built through Afghanistan direct through Pakistan to the Indian Ocean. By this, the exorbitant rates charged by the Russians to use their pipelines would be avoided. Unocal then opened official offices in Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to facilitate the construction of this oil pipeline. In December of 1997, official Taliban representatives were in the United States to attend a conference at Unocal headquarters in Texas to discuss the [Page 5] Afghanistan pipeline. These talks failed because the Taliban made what Unocal felt were excessive financial demands. In 1998, internal strife in Afghanistan and inherent instability in Pakistan reached such levels as to render the pipeline project impossible to execute. In the same year, the Houston, Texas based firm of Enron suggested instead to build a $3 billion oil pipeline parallel to the Russian pipelines, running westwards rather than taking the shorter but more problematic route south. In a secret memorandum by Cheney, it is stated that the Unocal company was prepared to finance the southern route. According to this, this project would take five years to complete and its annual revenues from the successful completion of this pipeline would approximate $2 billions. However, and this has been the subject of a number of secret American reports, the only thing standing in the way of the construction of this pipeline was the basic opposition of the Afghanistan government and its political supporters. On May 8, 2001, the U.S. Department of State, in the name of the Secretary of State Powell, gave 43 million U.S. Dollars to the Taliban in order to facilitate their cooperation in the pipeline project. On June 10, 2001, the BND warned the CIA office in the U.S. Embassy to the Federal Republic [of Germany] that certain Arab terrorists were planning to seize American commercial aircraft for use as weapons of destruction against [Page 6] significant American symbols. This was considered a general warning only. The Federal Republic’s warning of August 6, however, was specific as to date, time and places of the attacks. On July 11, 2001, in Berlin, U.S. officials: Thomas Simmons, a former American Ambassador to Pakistan, Lee Coldren, State Department expert on Asian matters and Karl Inderfurth, Assistant Secretary of State for Asian matters met with Russian and Pakistani intelligence officers. At this meeting, which was under surveillance, it was stated by the Americans that the United States planned to launch military strikes against Afghanistan in October of that year. The purpose of these strikes was to topple the Afghanistan government and the Taliban in order to replace it with a government “more sensitive to the needs of American oil interests.ف In mid-August, 2001, President of the Russian Federation Putin ordered that the American authorities be warned of pending attacks on government buildings inside the United States. This warning was conveyed to the U.S. Ambassador in Moscow and via the Russian Ambassador’s office directly to the U.S. President. On August 20, the Government of France, through the American Embassy in Paris and their Embassy in Washington, issued a more specific warning. This warning specified the exact date, time and places of the attacks. On September 11, President Bush and top aides flew to the state of Florida so that the President could speak with children in [Page 7] a kindergarten. Also at that time, Vice President Cheney absented himself from Washington and went to the safety of the Presidential compound in the mountains of Maryland. It was noted in Washington that Cheney remained sequestered in Maryland for some time and only appeared in public surrounded by heavy security. The Role of the Israeli Mossad in the Terrorist Attacks Note: The following two sections are considered to be extremely sensitive due to the special relationship between the Federal Republic [of Germany] and its Jewish citizens as well as the State of Israel. This material is compiled from German and American sources. During the term of President George H.W. Bush, the government of Israel made an official, but very secret, request of the American President. This request was to permit agents of the Mossad, Israeli Foreign Intelligence, to enter the United States and conduct surveillance operations against various Arab groups residing in that country. The stated purpose of this surveillance was to permit Israeli early warning of terrorist plots against their country. Permission for this surveillance was granted with the caveat that the Mossad would have a liaison with the FBI and report any and all findings to that agency. [Page 8] However, these conditions were not observed. The Mossad not only did not inform the FBI of any of its findings, it is known to have engaged in commerce with several groups of Israeli criminals of Russian backgrounds. These groups were engaged in extensive criminal activities inside the United States, to include the smuggling of the Ecstasy drug. Mossad agents were able to subvert American criminal investigations through their knowledge of American telephone surveillance of such groups. It is very evident from surveillance conducted against Mossad agents in the Federal Republic as well as interceptions of Israeli diplomatic communication from the Federal Republic to Tel Aviv, that the Mossad had successfully penetrated various extremist Arab groups in both the Federal Republic and the United States. These investigations disclosed in late May of 2001 that an attack was to be made against certain specified targets in the American cities of Washington and New York. But it was apparent that the Mossad was not only fully aware of these attacks well in advance but actually, through their own agents inside the Arab groups, assisted in the planning and the eventual execution of the attacks. That the Israeli government was fully aware of these attacks is absolutely certain and proven. Diplomatic traffic between the Israeli Embassy in the Federal Republic and the Israeli Foreign Office made it very clear that Minister President Sharon was fully aware [Page 9] of this pending attack and urgently wished that no attempt was made to prevent the attacks. Although the Israeli officials were instructed to warn the American intelligence community that some kind of an attack might be possible, at no time were the specific dates and targets (known at that time to Israeli officials) to be given to the Americans. The rationale for this attitude was expressed in a conversation on August 1, 2001, between the Israeli Military Attaché in the Federal Republic to a member of the Israeli General Staff. There it was stated that Israel believed an attack on the continental United States would so inflame American public opinion that they would permit Israel to “cleanseف their state of “Arab terrorists and those who support such terrorists.ف This “cleansingف was explained as the expulsion of all Arabs, and even Christian groups, from the Palestine area. American intelligence officials have repeatedly expressed great concern in meetings with our people that the Israeli government, through a company called Amdocs, was able to conduct surveillance of all telephone communications within the United States. It was categorically stated that this Israeli-based firm was given an American contract with 25 of the largest American telephone companies. This contract was granted over the objections and concerns of the American intelligence community. [Page 10] The official reason given for this extraordinary arrangement that permitted Israeli agencies to observe all highly confidential investigative telephone calls was that the United States had a “special relationshipف with the State of Israel and they had requested this. The Israeli Political Influence in the United States It should be noted here that the professional Israeli lobby in America is huge in size and is considered even by our American colleagues to be a very powerful and entirely dominant factor in American politics. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is the largest foreign lobby in Washington and the fourth most powerful lobby in the country. Other Israeli groups also include the Anti-Defamation League (from whose national offices, along with the Israel Trade Mission and the many Israeli Consulates, many Mossad agents were working,) the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. These groups, in conjunction with Jewish dominated media giants like the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Time-Warner-AOL and their CNN news network, basically control the dissemination of news in the United States. [Page 11] It is therefore almost impossible for any news that would be considered in opposition to Israeli interests to appear before the American public*, although such stories are readily available in most European media. The Role of the Christian Fundamentalists in American Politics The so-called “Christian Rightف consists of Protestant fundamentalists, where the so-called Pentecostals play a dominant role. This is a very fanatical and aggressively missionary denomination that believes in a return of a living Christ to earth and the subsequent elevation of its members to heavenly paradise. In order for this appearance of Christ to occur, several factors must be in place according to the views of this denomination. In the first place, a number of Jews must convert to Christianity, and in the second, there must be a rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.* As the site of this temple is now occupied by a major Islamic mosque, it will be necessary to destroy this building. Starting as an Episcopalian, Bush tried other Protestant denominations before joining the Pentecostals. Apart from U.S. President Bush and his Attorney General Ashcroft, other members of his administration are members of this denomination, too, which is the second largest Christian denomination after the Catholic Church. As a considerable [Page 12] part of the American public sentiment is strongly opposed to religious fanatics, these facts have been kept very quiet. Bush and his entourage are very strong supporters of the State of Israel because of their belief, that the founding of this nation is viewed as another requirement for the return of Christ. For this reason, Bush unconditionally supports any program put forward by the Israeli government and is a devoted follower and supporter of Sharon, the Israeli right wing extremist Minister President. Attorney General Ashcroft has stated in a public sermon (he is a lay preacher of the Pentecostal church) that the Muslims are “agents of the Anti-Christف and must be destroyed in the so-called “Battle of Armageddon.ف* According to the beliefs of fundamentalist Christians, this battle will be fought over Israel’s existence and will lead to the end of the world and the return of Christ. It is generally known in Washington that Bush is entirely guided by his religious beliefs and that he has been attempting repeatedly to force his views onto the American public by means of various disguised programs, such as religious control of charities, unconditional support of Israel, and so forth. Summary and Outlook The terrorist attacks on American targets were fully known to many entities well in advance. The U.S. President was fully informed* as to the [Page 13] nature and exact time of these attacks. The U.S. government in general and the U.S. President in specific have become subservient to the wishes and plans of the Israeli government. As these plans encompass the removal of the Arab population of Israel and adjoining territories, it is evident that the population of the United States is being pushed into a situation that could easily result in more, and terrible, attacks on their home country. In view of this possibility, the U.S. authorities are determined to limit any discussion of the 11 September attacks to the official version as it appears regularly in the U.S. media. It also appears from confidential sources that Bush’s plans to attack Iraq are based mainly on a desire on the part of Israel to remove Saddam Hussein. Tel Aviv views Hussein as a real threat and has already attacked that country before. There is also evidence that if Hussein is toppled by American military force, the oil resources of Iraq would be put under the control of a consortium of the American oil interests that so avidly support the Bush Administration. Pullach, April 5, 2002 * Whilimena's emphasis _________________________ Scanned copy of the original document S T R E N G G E H E I M H i n t e r g r u n d b e r i c h t z u m 1 1 . 9 . 2 0 0 1 - NICHT STEMPELN - - NICHT UNTERZEICHNEN - - NICHT BESCHRIFTEN - - NICHT MARKIEREN - Am Montag, den 6. August 2001, unterrichtete Botschafter Ischinger in Washington den US-Präsidenten um 17:50 Uhr persönlich über vom Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz und vom BND gewonnene Erkenntnisse, die eindeutig darauf hindeuteten, dass am 10.-11. September 2001 ein Terroranschlag gegen die USA durch teilweise von Deutschland aus operierende radikale arabische Gruppen zu erwarten ist. Der US-Präsident hielt sich zu jener Zeit in seiner Residenz auf seiner Farm in Texas auf. Unser Botschafter handelte auf direkte Anweisung von Außenminister Fischer. Diese Erkenntnisse wurden einerseits durch die nachrichtendienstliche Überwachung extremistischer arabischer Gruppierungen gewonnen, die in der Bundesrepublik operieren, und andererseits durch abgehörte Kommunikation, die in dieser Angelegenheit zwischen der israelischen Botschaft in Deutschland und dem israelischen Außenministerium in Tel Aviv geführt wurde. Der US-Präsident nahm diese Informationen "dankbar entgegen" und gab an, über die bevorstehenden Terroranschläge bereits informiert worden zu sein. Nach den Anschlägen ersuchte das Amt des US-Präsidenten auf dem Umweg über das US-Außenministerium die Bundesregierung dringend darum, die durch Botschafter Ischinger vorgebrachten Warnungen unter keinen Umständen zu erwähnen. Um den Hintergrund dieser Ereignisse auszuleuchten, wurde diese Gesamtübersicht der Ereignisse erstellt, die zu den Terroranschlägen führten, basierend auf Auszügen aus Berichten von verschiedenen unserer Residenturen. Zusammenfassend ist festzuhalten, dass die US-Behörden über die bevorstehenden Anschläge Bescheid wussten. Warum sie nichts dagegen unternahmen, wird nachfolgend verdeutlicht. Hintergrund: Allgemeiner Überblick Da die Bush-Familie in der Erdölindustrie tätig ist (ZAPATA Oil Company), wurde die politische Laufbahn Bushs von vielen wichtigen und wohlhabenden Persönlichkeiten und Unternehmen der Erdölindustrie finanziell unterstützt. Die Regierung Bush wird daher heute von verschiedenen großen US-Firmengruppen stark beeinflusst. US-Vizepräsident Richard "Dick" Cheney war einst stellvertretender Direktor der Halliburton Company. Dies ist das weltweit größte Ölfelddienstleistungsunternehmen mit Sitz in Dallas, Texas, also in jenem US-Bundesstaat, in dem Bush Gouverneur war. In den Jahren 1991-1997 waren viele bedeutende amerikanische Erdölgesellschaften wie Texaco, Unocal, Shell, BP Amoco, Chevron und Exxon-Mobil in der ehemaligen sowjetischen Teilrepublik Kasachstan tätig, wo enorme Erdölreserven lagern. Die Regierung Kasachstans erhielt schließlich 3 Mrd. Dollar aus Mitteln dieser Unternehmen, mit denen diese sich die Erdölförderungsrechte sicherten. Zugleich verpflichteten sie sich, weitere 35 Mrd. Dollar zur Errichtung von Anlagen und Ausrüstungen für diese Kasachstan-Projekte zu investieren. In einer vertraulichen Projektstudie besagter US-Firmen heisst es, der Wert der in Kasachstan lagernden Erdölreserven belaufe sich auf etwa 4 Billionen US-Dollar. Die Vereinigten Staaten sind in Sachen Erdöl nicht autark, sondern decken 50% ihres Bedarf durch verschiedene ausländische Importe. Etwas 80% der US-Ölimporte kommen von den OPEC-Ländern, also dem arabischen Erdölkartell. Wegen der bedingungslosen Unterstützung Israels durch die amerikanische politische Führung haben diese arabischen Regierungen allerdings ein sehr gespanntes Verhältnis zu den USA. Ein weiterer kleiner Prozentsatz der US-Ölimporte stammt aus Venezuela. Die US-Regierung versuchte erst neulich mit Hilfe der CIA, die dortige Regierung Chavez zu stürzen und durch eine Regierung zu ersetzen, "die Amerikas Erdölbedarf wohlwollender gegenüber steht". Ein vom Büro des späteren US-Vizepräsidenten Cheney verfasstes Positionspapier führt aus, die in Kasachstan lagernden Erdölreserven seien "mehr als ausreichend, um den Erdölbedarf der USA für mindestens ein Jahrzehnt zu decken" und zudem "die amerikanische Abhängigkeit vom OPEC-Öl zu verringern". Die Erdölgesellschaft UNOCAL unterzeichnete eine Vereinbarung mit den in Afghanistan herrschenden Taliban-Kräften wie auch mit deren Gegnern, der Nördlichen Allianz, um den Bau einer Erdölpipeline durch Afghanistan und Pakistan zum Indischen Ozean zu ermöglichen. Dadurch würde man die exorbitanten Summen vermeiden können, die die Russen für die Nutzung ihrer Pipelines fordern. Anschließend eröffnete UNOCAL offizielle Zweigstellen in Usbekistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan und Kasachstan, um den Bau dieser anvisierten Pipeline zu ermöglichen. Im Dezember 1997 hielten sich offizielle Repräsentanten des Taliban-Regimes in den USA auf, um an einer Konferenz über die Afghanistan-Pipeline am Firmensitz von UNOCAL in Texas teilzunehmen. Diese Verhandlungen scheiterten allerdings, da die Taliban in den Augen von UNOCAL maßlose finanzielle Forderungen stellten. 1998 schließlich nahmen die inneren Unruhen in Afghanistan sowie die anhaltende politische Instabilität Pakistans derartige Ausmaße an, dass die Umsetzung des Pipeline-Projekts unmöglich erschien. Im selben Jahr schlug die in Houston (Texas) ansässige Firma Enron vor, statt dessen für etwa 3 Mrd. US-Dollar eine Erdölleitung parallel zu den russischen Pipelines zu bauen, also gen Westen anstatt der zwar kürzeren, aber problematischeren Route gen Süden. In einem geheimen Memorandum Cheneys wird ausgeführt, UNOCAL sei bereit, die südliche Pipeline zu finanzieren. Demnach würde die Fertigstellung dieses Projekts etwa fünf Jahre in Anspruch nehmen und nach Fertigstellung der Pipeline zu einem jährlichem Ertrag von 2 Mrd. Dollar führen. Das einzige, was dem Bau dieser Pipeline entgegen stehe, sei die rigorose Ablehnung seitens der afghanischen Regierung und ihrer politischen Unterstützer, was Thema einer Anzahl geheimer amerikanischer Berichte ist. Am 8. Mai 2001 überreichte das US-Außenministerium im Namen des US-Außenministers Powell dem Taliban-Regime $43 Mio. Dollar, um dessen Kooperationbereitschaft beim Pipeline-Projekt zu fördern. Am 10. Juni 2001 warnte der BND die CIA-Zweigstelle in der US-Botschaft in der Bundesrepublik, dass bestimmte arabische Terroristen planten, ein kommerzielles amerikanisches Flugzeug zu entführen, um es als Massenvernichtungswaffe gegen bedeutende amerikanische Symbole einzusetzen. Dies wurde lediglich als eine allgemeine Warnung angesehen. Die bundesdeutsche Warnung vom 6. August hingegen war sehr konkret hinsichtlich Datum, Zeit und Ort der Anschläge. Am 11. Juli 2001 trafen die folgenden US-Regierungsvertreter mit russischen und pakistanischen Geheimdienstlern in Berlin zusammen: Thomas Simmons, früherer US-Botschafter in Pakistan, Lee Coldren, Asien-Experte des US-Außenministeriums, und Karl Inderfurth, Abteilungsleiter für südasiatische Angelegenheiten des US-Außenministerium. Bei diesem überwachten Treffen wurde von den Amerikanern ausgeführt, die Vereinigten Staaten planten militärische Angriffe auf Afghanistan im Oktober des gleichen Jahres. Zweck dieses Angriffs sei der Sturz der afghanischen Regierung und der Taliban, um sie durch einer Regierung zu ersetzen, "die Amerikas Erdölbedarf wohlwollender gegenüber steht". Mitte August 2001 ordnete der Präsident der Russischen Föderation Putin an, die amerikanischen Behörden seien vor bevorstehenden Anschlägen auf Regierungsgebäude innerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten zu warnen. Diese Warnung wurde sowohl dem US-Botschafter in Moskau überbracht wie auch direkt dem US-Präsidenten über den Amtssitz des russischen Botschafters. Am 20. August gab die Regierung Frankreichs eine genauere Warnung heraus, und zwar sowohl über die amerikanische Botschaft in Paris als auch über deren Botschaft in Washington. Diese Warnung gab das genaue Datum, die genaue Zeit und die Orte der Anschläge bekannt. Am 11. September flogen US-Präsident Bush und seine Gefolgschaft nach Florida, wo der Präsident mit den Kindern eines Kindergartens sprach. Zur gleichen Zeit verabschiedete sich Vizepräsident Cheney Washington und begab sich in die Sicherheit der Präsidenten-Anlage in den Bergen Marylands. In Washington registrierte man aufmerksam, dass sich Cheney einige Zeit lang nach Maryland zurückgezogen hatte und anschließend nur mit schwerer Bewachung in der Öffentlichkeit erschien. Die Rolle des Mossad bei den Terroranschlägen Hinweis: Aufgrund der besonderen Beziehungen der Bundesrepublik zu seinen jüdischen Bürgern und zu Israel sind die folgenden zwei Abschnitte als extrem sensibel anzusehen. Das Material stammt aus deutschen und amerikanischen Quellen. Während der Präsidentschaft George H.W. Bushs machte die israelische Regierung ein offizielles, aber streng geheimes Gesuch beim US-Präsidenten. Es wurde darin um Erlaubnis gebeten, dass sich Mossad-Agenten in den Vereinigten Staaten offiziell aufhalten und nachrichtendienstliche Ermittlungen gegen verschiedene, sich in den Staaten aufhaltende arabische Gruppen durchführen dürfen. Der von Israel angegebene Zweck dieser Überwachung war, den Israelis ein frühzeitige Warnung vor Terroranschlägen gegen ihr Land zu ermöglichen. Die Erlaubnis für diese Überwachung wurde unter der Bedingung erteilt, dass der Mossad mit dem FBI zusammenarbeitet und ihm alle seine Erkenntnisse mitteilt. Diese Bedingung wurde allerdings nicht eingehalten. Der Mossad hat nicht nur versäumt, das FBI von seinen Erkenntnissen zu unterrichten, sondern er trieb bekanntermaßen Handel mit verschiedenen Gruppen israelischer Krimineller vorwiegend russischer Abstammung. Diese Gruppen sind innerhalb der USA in ausgedehnte kriminelle Aktivitäten verwickelt, einschließlich des Schmuggels von Ecstasy-Drogen. Dank ihrer Kenntnisse über das US-Telefonüberwachungssystem gelang es den Mossad-Agenten, die polizeilichen Ermittlungen der US-Behörden zu untergraben. Aus der Überwachung von Mossad-Agenten in der Bundesrepublik sowie aus der diplomatischen Kommunikation der israelischen Botschaft in der Bundesrepublik mit Tel Aviv geht eindeutig hervor, dass der Mossad diverse extremistische arabische Gruppen sowohl in der Bundesrepublik als auch in den Vereinigten Staaten erfolgreich infiltriert hat. Die Ermittlungen des Mossad ergaben gegen Ende Mai 2001, dass Anschläge gegen bestimmte festgesetzte Ziele in den amerikanischen Städten Washington und New York geplant waren. Aus unseren nachrichtendienstlichen Erkenntnissen wird aber nicht nur deutlich, dass der Mossad über diese Anschläge vollständig und weit im voraus informiert war, sondern auch, dass die in die arabischen Gruppen eingeschleusten Agenten des Mossads bei der Planung und Durchführung der Anschläge selbst mithalfen. Dass die israelische Regierung über die bevorstehenden Anschläge voll informiert war, ist hieb- und stichfest erwiesen. Aus dem diplomatischen Verkehr zwischen der israelischen Botschaft in der Bundesrepublik und dem israelischen Außenministerium geht deutlich hervor, dass Ministerpräsident Sharon selbst über die bevorstehenden Anschläge informiert war und seinen dringenden Wunsch äußerte, dass kein Versuch unternommen werden solle, die Anschläge zu verhindern. Die israelischen Beamten wurden zwar angewiesen, die amerikanischen Ermittlungsbehörden darüber zu informieren, dass irgendein Anschlag bevorstehen könnte, allerdings sollten den Amerikanern zu keiner Zeit genaue Angaben über Ort und Zeit gemacht werden, die den Israelis damals bereits bekannt waren. Die hinter diese Haltung stehenden Überlegungen wurden in einem Gespräche zwischen dem israelischen Militärattaché in der Bundesrepublik und einem Mitglied des israelischen Generalstabs am 1. August 2001 ausgesprochen. Demnach sei die israelische Regierung der Ansicht, ein Anschlag auf das Festland der Vereinigten Staaten würde die amerikanische öffentliche Meinung dermaßen erregen, dass man Israel anschließend erlauben würde, sein Territorium von "arabischen Terroristen zu säubern sowie von jenen, die solche Terroristen unterstützen". Diese Säuberung wurde als Vertreibung aller Araber aus dem Territorium Palästinas beschrieben, einschließlich der christlichen Bevölkerungsteile. Wiederholt haben amerikanische Ermittlungsbeamte bei Treffen mit unseren Leuten ihre große Sorge darüber ausgedrückt, dass die israelische Regierung durch eine Firma namens Amdocs in der Lage sei, fast die gesamte Telefonkommunikation innerhalb der USA zu überwachen. Es wurde mit Bestimmtheit angeführt, dass diese in Israel ansässige Firma einen Vertrag mit den 25 größten US-Telefongesellschaften erhalten hat. Dieser Vertrag kam trotz der Einwände und Bedenken der US-Ermittlungsbehörden zustande. Dieses außerordentliche Vereinbarung, die es den israelischen Behörden sogar ermöglicht, sämtliche streng vertraulichen Gespräche der US-Ermittlungsbehörden zu verfolgen, wird offiziell damit begründet, dass die Vereinigten Staaten ein "besonderes Verhältnis" zum Staat Israel hätten und dass die Israelis dies so gewünscht hätten. Der israelische politische Einfluss in den Vereinigten Staaten Es sei hier darauf hingewiesen, dass die professionelle israelische Lobby in den USA sehr umfangreich ist und von unseren amerikanischen Kollegen selbst als sehr mächtig und die amerikanische Politik vollständig dominierend angesehen wird. Das "American Israel Public Affairs Committee" ist die größte ausländische Lobby-Gruppe in Washington und die viertstärkste Lobby-Gruppe im ganzen Land. Andere israelische Gruppen umfassen die "Anti-Defamation League" (aus deren landesweiten Büros heraus viele Mossad-Agenten operieren, wie auch aus den israelischen Handelsvertretungen und den vielen israelischen Konsulaten), das "Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs" und das "Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America". Zusammen mit den jüdisch dominierten Mediengiganten wie der New York Times, der Washington Post, dem Newsweek Magazine, der Los Angeles Times, dem Konzern Time-Warner-AOL und ihrem CNN Nachrichtensender haben diese Gruppen die Nachrichtenverbreitung innerhalb der USA im wesentlichen unter ihrer Kontrolle. Es ist daher annähernd unmöglich, eine Nachricht, die als den israelischen Interessen zuwiderlaufend angesehen wird, der amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren, obwohl derartige Nachrichten in den meisten europäischen Medien ohne weiteres aufzufinden sind. Die Rolle der christlichen Fundamentalisten in der US-Politik Die sogenannte "Christliche Rechte" besteht aus protestantischen Fundamentalisten, wobei die sogenannte Pfingstgemeinde eine dominante Rolle spielt (im Englischen Pentecostal genannt). Es handelt sich dabei um eine äußerst fanatisch und aggressiv missionarische Glaubensrichtung, die an die leibhaftige Wiederkehr Christi auf Erden und die anschließende Erhebung ihrer Mitglieder ins himmlische Paradies glaubt. Nach Ansicht dieser Konfession müssen verschiedene Randbedingungen erfüllt sein, damit die Wiederkehr Christi erfolgen kann. Erstens müssen eine Reihe von Juden zum Christentum konvertieren, zweitens muß der jüdische Tempel in Jerusalem wieder errichtet werden. Zumal sich an der Stelle dieses Tempels heute eine wichtige islamische Moschee befindet, muss diese daher notwendigerweise zerstört werden. Der ursprünglich episkopalische Bush trat zwischenzeitlich verschiedenen anderen Konfessionen bei, bevor er sich der Pfingstbewegung anschloss. Neben US-Präsident Bush und seinem US-Generalbundesanwalt Ashcroft gehören auch andere Mitglieder des Bush-Kabinetts dieser nach der katholischen Kirche zweitgrößten christlichen Konfession an. Zumal ein erheblicher Teil der amerikanischen öffentlichen Meinung massiv gegen religiöse Fanatiker eingestellt ist, wurden diese Tatsachen verschwiegen. Aufgrund ihres Glaubens sind Bush und seine Entourage vehemente Unterstützer des Staates Israel, denn die Gründung dieses Staates wird als ein weiterer Schritt zur Wiederkehr Christi angesehen. Aus dem gleichen Grunde unterstützt Bush jedes israelische Regierungsprogramm bedingungslos und ist zugleich ein hingebungsvoller Anhänger und Unterstützer des rechtsextremen israelischen Ministerpräsidenten Sharon. US-Generalbundesanwalt Ashcroft erklärte in einer öffentlichen Rede (er ist Laienprediger der Pfingstgemeinde), die Moslems seien "Agenten des Antichristen" und müssten daher in der sogenannten "Schlacht von Armageddon" vernichtet werden. Im Glauben fundamentalistischer Christen wird diese Schlacht um die Existenz Israels geführt werden und das Ende der Welt sowie die Wiederkehr Christi einleiten. Es ist in Washington allgemein bekannt, dass sich Bush völlig von derartigen religiösen Ansichten leiten lässt und dass er wiederholt versucht hat, diese Ansichten der amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit mittels verschiedener verkappter Programme aufzunötigen, wie etwa der religiösen Kontrolle wohltätiger Organisationen, der bedingungslosen Unterstützung Israels usw. Zusammenfassung und Perspektive Die Terroranschläge auf amerikanische Ziele waren vielen Stellen weit im voraus bekannt. Der US-Präsident war über die Art und den genauen Zeitpunkt dieser Anschläge vollständig informiert. Die US-Regierung im allgemeinen und der US-Präsident im besonderen haben sich völlig den Wünschen und Plänen der israelischen Regierung unterworfen. Zumal diese Pläne die Entfernung der arabischen Bevölkerung aus Israel und den angrenzenden Gebieten umfassen, ist offenbar, dass die Bevölkerung der USA in eine Lage gedrängt wird, die durchaus zu weiteren schrecklichen Anschläge auf ihr Land führen könnte. Angesichts dieser Möglichkeit sind die US-Behörden entschlossen, die Diskussion über die Anschläge vom 11. September auf die offizielle Sichtweise zu beschränken, wie sie regelmäßig über die US-Medien verbreitet wird. Aus vertraulichen Quellen ergibt sich auch, dass Bushs Pläne eines Krieges gegen den Irak ihren Grund hauptsächlich im Wunsch Israels haben, Saddam Hussein zu entfernen. Tel Aviv sieht Hussein als reale Bedrohung an und hat diese Land schon früher angegriffen. Es gibt zudem Indizien dafür, dass Iraks Erdölressourcen im Falle eines Sturzes der Regierung Hussein durch US-Truppen unter die Kontrolle eines Konsortiums amerikanischer Erdölgesellschaften kommen, die die Bush-Regierung so begeistert unterstützen. Pullach, 5. April 2002 ____________________ Article from the Los Angeles Times of August 8, 2002 IRANIAN GOVERNMENT CLAIMS
_____________________"It is already possible to know, beyond a reasonable doubt, one very important thing: the destruction of the World Trade Center was an inside job, orchestrated by terrorists within..." Ray Griffin, Ph.D."We must hold the scoundrels accountable." Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D.

FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH:
The Great Rummy, Donald Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense - interviewed by Lyric Wallwork Winik, Parade Magazine Friday, Oct. 12, 2001.
"Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center."

"Of all the terrorist incidents that took place on September 11, the one that underlines most starkly the poverty of the official account is undoubtedly the attack on the Pentagon. While the strikes on the Twin Towers in New York require a little investigative digging before their true and disturbing nature is uncovered, in the case of the Pentagon it isn't necessary to look at a single scrap of evidence. Even the most cursory review of the events leading up to the attack soon makes it abundantly clear that an unanticipated attack of this kind could not, in reality, happen at all..." Leonard Spencer"...The application of scientific reasoning in the form of inference to the best explanation, applied to the relevant evidence, establishes that the official account of the events of 9/11 cannot be sustained...we are confronted by alternative accounts of what happened on 9/11, both of which qualify as 'conspiracy theories'. It is therefore no longer rational to dismiss one of them as a 'conspiracy theory' in favor of the other. The question becomes, Which of two 'conspiracy theories' is more defensible?..." James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.Seymour Hersh, New Yorker 10/1/01 Major General Larry Arnold (NORAD)
(Then folks - if the Military's efforts 'outpaced' that of the hijackers, how the hell not one craft intercepted?)

CIA August 6, 2001: "Based on a review of all source reporting over the last five months, we believe that UBL (Usama bin Laden) will launch a significant attack against U.S. and/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks. The attack will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualities against U.S. facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning."
(Now folks, al Qaeda takes John Public for idiot! Firstly, no citizen, writing about an attack against his country would use the word 'spectacular'. The writer was the attacker!)

Now good folks! The above warning was seen by 'Chief Marshall'. Yet on September 11th when all systems should have been on target, Dick Myers was absent from the NMCC until about 9:30 a.m. His own words:
"Nobody informed us [Myself and the Senator] of that

The Lockerbie Scam

Here again the Enterprise found itself in a situation and sought to 'take out' this Pam Am Flight.
Bogeyman Muammar Ghadaffi was blamed so that a few millions could be milked out of him.
We give you an overview of the Lockerbie Scam:
From 'turn that s... up'

Lockerbie: CIA witness gagged by US government

FORMER CIA agent who claims Libya is not responsible for the Lockerbie
bombing is being gagged by the US government under state secrecy laws
and faces 10 years in prison if herevealsanyinformation about the
terrorist attack.
United Nations diplomats are outraged that the US government is
apparently suppressing a potential key trial witness. Diplomats are now
demanding that the CIA agent, Dr Richard Fuisz, be released from the
gagging order. Fuisz, a multi-millionaire businessman and
pharmaceutical researcher, was, according to US intelligence sources,
the CIA's key operative in the Syrian capital Damascus during the 1980s
where he also had business interests.
One month before a court order was served on him by the US government
gagging him from speaking on the grounds of national security, he spoke
to US congressional aide Susan Lindauer,
telling her he knew the identities of the Lockerbie bombers and
claiming they were not Libyan.
Lindauer, shocked by Fuisz's claims, immediately compiled notes on the
meeting which formed the basis of a later sworn affidavit detailing
Fuisz's claims. One month after their conversation, in October 1994, a
court in Washington DC issued an order barring him from revealing any
information on the grounds of "military and state secrets privilege".
Congressional aide Lindauer, who was involved in early negotiations
over the Lockerbie trial, claims Fuisz made "unequivocal statements to
me that he has first-hand knowledge about the Lockerbie case". In her
affidavit, she goes on: "Dr Fuisz has told me that he can identify who
orchestrated and executed the bombing. Dr Fuisz has said that he can
confirm absolutely that no Libyan national was involved in planning or
executing the bombing of PanAm 103, either in any technical or advisory
capacity whatsoever."
Fuisz's statements to Lindauer support the claims of the two Libyans
accused who are to incriminate a number of terrorist organisations,
including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General
Command, which had strong links to Syria and Iran.

_______________________
The Lockerbie Bombing Trial: Is Libya Being Framed?
by Gary C. Gambill

Lockerbie wreckage
The wreckage from Pan Am Flight 103 (Greg Bos/Reuters)
Scotland's Sunday Herald reported last week that the U.S. government placed a gag order on a former CIA agent to prevent him from testifying in the trial of two Libyans accused of carrying out the December 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people.

Dr. Richard Fuisz, a wealthy businessman and pharmaceutical researcher who was a major CIA operative in Damascus during the 1980s, told a congressional staffer in 1994 that the perpetrators of the bombing were based in Syria. "If the government would let me, I could identify the men behind this attack . . . I can tell you their home addresses . . . you won't find [them] anywhere in Libya. You will only find [them] in Damascus," Fuisz told congressional aide Susan Lindauer, who has submitted a sworn affidavit describing this conversation to the Scottish court that is trying the two suspects.

One month after their meeting, a Washington DC court issued a ruling that prohibits Fuisz from discussing the Lockerbie bombing on national security grounds. When a reporter called Fuisz last month with questions about Lindauer's affidavit, he replied: "That is not an issue I can confirm or deny. I am not allowed to speak about these issues. In fact, I can't even explain to you why I can't speak about these issues." The report quoted a senior UN official who has seen the affidavit as saying that "in the interests of natural justice, Dr. Fuisz should be released from any order which prevents him telling what he knows of the PanAm bombing."1

The investigation into the bombing by Scottish police and the FBI initially focused exclusively on evidence linking the blast to the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), a radical Palestinian group closely allied with Syrian President Hafez Assad and other senior officials. However, the investigation suddenly changed courses after Syria joined the U.S.-led coalition against Iraq in 1991 and Iran stayed neutral. In November of that year, U.S. investigators issued indictments against two alleged Libyan intelligence agents and President George Bush declared that Syria had taken a "bum rap" on Lockerbie.

Fuisz is not the first to run afoul of the U.S. government for speaking about Syrian and Iranian complicity in the Lockerbie bombing. Juval Aviv, the president of Interfor, a New York corporate investigative company hired by Pan Am to conduct an inquiry into the bombing, was indicted for mail fraud after Interfor announced its conclusion that the PFLP-GC had been responsible.2 A former agent for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lester Coleman, was charged by the FBI with "falsely procuring a passport" while he was researching a book entitled Trail of the Octopus which fingered the PFLP-GC (Coleman left the country and published the book in Britain).3 William Casey, a lobbyist who made similar claims about PFLP-GC involvement, said in 1995 that the U.S. Justice Department had frozen his bank accounts and federal agents scoured through his garbage cans.4

The Case Against Libya

Al-Megrahi and Fahima
A courtroom sketch of Abdel Basset Al-Megrahi (center), and Al-Amin Khalifa Fahima (right) during the trial proceedings on May 5. (Fred Ernst/Reuters)
The prosecution's claim is that two Libyan intelligence agents, Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah and Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, planted Semtex plastic explosives inside a Toshiba radio-cassette recorder in an unaccompanied suitcase on a flight from Malta to Frankfurt, where it was transferred onto Pan Am flight 103, bound for New York via London's Heathrow airport.

The first important chain of evidence links the bomb-laden suitcase on Flight 103 to Air Malta Flight KT180. Fragments of the Toshiba radio-cassette recorder were found inside a brown Samsonite suitcase, the only piece of luggage on the Flight 103 that was not checked by a passenger. The suitcase had entered the baggage system at Frankfurt at the same time and location as the Air Malta flight was unloading. According to prosecutors, a tattered shirt with a Maltese label containing fragments of the timing device was found by a Scottish man walking his dog 18 months after the explosion (fabric samples from the shirt were said to indicate that it was inside the brown suitcase).

However, Air Malta's computer records show no indication that a brown Samsonite suitcase was on board Flight KT180, and the notion that an old man walking his dog would stumble across a key piece of evidence a year and a half after the explosion is a bit far-fetched. Moreover, according to a forensic report which the defense will present during the trial, a bomb in a suitcase stored in the aluminum luggage containers could not have created the dinner plate-sized hole in the fuselage that brought down the plane--the bomb would have had to be directly next to the plane's fuselage. If this true, then the prosecution's entire explanation of how the bomb arrived on the aircraft in Malta falls apart.

A second chain of evidence links the two Libyan suspects to Malta. Detectives traced the charred remains of clothing tattered shirt to a clothing shop in Sliema, Malta, whose owner, Tony Gauci, said that he recalled selling the clothes to a tall Arab male, about 50 years old, in the fall of 1988. Investigators say he later identified the man who bought the clothes as Megrahi. However, Megrahi was only 36 at the time, and Gauci greatly overestimated his height. Moreover, a member of the PFLP-GC, Muhammed Abu Talb, was originally identified as the man who bought the clothes during the early stages of the investigation.5

A third primary piece of evidence said to implicate Libya are two fragments of an electronic circuit board from the the timing device that detonated the explosives on board the airliner. Investigators traced the fragments to a Swiss company which manufactures electronic timers, Mebo Telecommunications. The head of Mebo Communications, Edwin Bollier, told investigators that the fragments came from an MST-13 timer he had sold to the Libyan government. However, Bollier recently said he had made the identification solely from looking at photographs of the fragments. When he was shown one of the actual fragments in September 1999, he concluded that "the fragment does not come from one of the timers we sold to Libya." Bollier says that it appears to come from one of the three prototypes built by his company--two of which were sold to the Institute of Technical Research in East Germany (a front for the Stasi intelligence service), while the third was stolen. He intends to testify to this at the trial, as will Owen Lewis, a British forensic expert.6

A fourth important piece of evidence is the testimony of a former Libyan intelligence officer who will identify the two suspects as members of Libya's intelligence service. While details of what he told investigators are scarce, sources close to the defense have said that it is highly questionable.

A number of irregularities in the investigation also detract from the plausibility of the prosecution's claims. The American FBI agent who was instrumental in pushing the Libya hypothesis, J. Thomas Thurman, was later suspended for manipulating evidence to favor the prosecution in subsequent cases.7

The Case Against Syria/Iran

The primary hypothesis guiding the investigation for the first year was that the bombing was perpetrated by the Syria-based PFLP-GC, presumably acting on behalf of Iran. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had vowed to retaliate for the U.S. Navy's July 1988 downing of an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf, saying that the skies would "rain blood" and offering a $10 million reward to anyone who "obtained justice" for Iran. Ayatollah Ali Akbar Mohtashemi, Teheran's envoy in Damascus in 1988, was believed to have recruited the financially-strapped group for the task.

Two months before the disaster, German police arrested 15 terrorist suspects, all connected to the PFLP-GC, and confiscated three explosive devices consisting of Semtex hidden inside Toshiba cassette recorders--nearly identical to the one used in the Lockerbie bombing ( the only major difference being that they had barometric triggers, rather than electronic timers of the type that investigators claim detonated the explosives on board Pan Am flight 103). Moreover, U.S. officials reportedly had received advance warnings that a flight to New York would be targeted around the time of the Lockerbie bombing. In fact, Stephen Green, a senior Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) administrator, John McCarthy, the U.S. Ambassador to Beirut, and several other U.S. officials were originally scheduled to fly on the ill-fated airliner on December 21, but rescheduled at the last minute.

It's possible that the PFLP smuggled the bomb on board Pan Am flight 103 from Malta. Abu Talb was sighted in Malta just weeks before the bombing. When he was later arrested in Sweden, police found the date of the Lockerbie explosion (December 21) circled on his calender.8

This and most other evidence linking the Lockerbie bombing to the PFLP-GC is largely circumstantial and difficult to substantiate, if only because the results of the FBI's early investigation into its involvement were not made public. The question is: Given the weaknesses in the case against Libya, why was the investigation into PFLP-GC involvement suspended and should it be reactivated if the two Libyan defendants are acquitted?..."

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Scotland on Sunday Sun 28 Aug 2005
Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
MARCELLO MEGA

A FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.

The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.

The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, currently serving a life sentence in Greenock Prison.

The evidence will form a crucial part of Megrahi's attempt to have a retrial ordered by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC). The claims pose a potentially devastating threat to the reputation of the entire Scottish legal system.

The officer, who was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, is supporting earlier claims by a former CIA agent that his bosses "wrote the script" to incriminate Libya.

Last night, George Esson, who was Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway when Megrahi was indicted for mass murder, confirmed he was aware of the development.

But Esson, who retired in 1994, questioned the officer's motives. He said: "Any police officer who believed they had knowledge of any element of fabrication in any criminal case would have a duty to act on that. Failure to do so would call into question their integrity, and I can't help but question their motive for raising the matter now."

Other important questions remain unanswered, such as how the officer learned of the alleged conspiracy and whether he was directly involved in the inquiry. But sources close to Megrahi's legal team believe they may have finally discovered the evidence that could demolish the case against him.

An insider told Scotland on Sunday that the retired officer approached them after Megrahi's appeal - before a bench of five Scottish judges - was dismissed in 2002.

The insider said: "He said he believed he had crucial information. A meeting was set up and he gave a statement that supported the long-standing rumours that the key piece of evidence, a fragment of circuit board from a timing device that implicated Libya, had been planted by US agents.

"Asked why he had not come forward before, he admitted he'd been wary of breaking ranks, afraid of being vilified.

"He also said that at the time he became aware of the matter, no one really believed there would ever be a trial. When it did come about, he believed both accused would be acquitted. When Megrahi was convicted, he told himself he'd be cleared at appeal."

The source added: "When that also failed, he explained he felt he had to come forward.

"He has confirmed that parts of the case were fabricated and that evidence was planted. At first he requested anonymity, but has backed down and will be identified if and when the case returns to the appeal court."

The vital evidence that linked the bombing of Pan Am 103 to Megrahi was a tiny fragment of circuit board which investigators found in a wooded area many miles from Lockerbie months after the atrocity.

The fragment was later identified by the FBI's Thomas Thurman as being part of a sophisticated timer device used to detonate explosives, and manufactured by the Swiss firm Mebo, which supplied it only to Libya and the East German Stasi.

At one time, Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence agent, was such a regular visitor to Mebo that he had his own office in the firm's headquarters.

The fragment of circuit board therefore enabled Libya - and Megrahi - to be placed at the heart of the investigation. However, Thurman was later unmasked as a fraud who had given false evidence in American murder trials, and it emerged that he had little in the way of scientific qualifications.

Then, in 2003, a retired CIA officer gave a statement to Megrahi's lawyers in which he alleged evidence had been planted.

The decision of a former Scottish police chief to back this claim could add enormous weight to what has previously been dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory. It has long been rumoured the fragment was planted to implicate Libya for political reasons.

The first suspects in the case were the Syrian-led Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC), a terror group backed by Iranian cash. But the first Gulf War altered diplomatic relations with Middle East nations, and Libya became the pariah state.

Following the trial, legal observers from around the world, including senior United Nations officials, expressed disquiet about the verdict and the conduct of the proceedings at Camp Zeist, Holland. Those doubts were first fuelled when internal documents emerged from the offices of the US Defence Intelligence Agency. Dated 1994, more than two years after the Libyans were identified to the world as the bombers, they still described the PFLP-GC as the Lockerbie bombers.

A source close to Megrahi's defence said: "Britain and the US were telling the world it was Libya, but in their private communications they acknowledged that they knew it was the PFLP-GC.

"The case is starting to unravel largely because when they wrote the script, they never expected to have to act it out. Nobody expected agreement for a trial to be reached, but it was, and in preparing a manufactured case, mistakes were made."

Dr Jim Swire, who has publicly expressed his belief in Megrahi's innocence, said it was quite right that all relevant information now be put to the SCCRC.

Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the atrocity, said last night: "I am aware that there have been doubts about how some of the evidence in the case came to be presented in court.

"It is in all our interests that areas of doubt are thoroughly examined."

A spokeswoman for the Crown Office said: "As this case is currently being examined by the SCCRC, it would be inappropriate to comment."

No one from the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland was available to comment.

____________________ WHY ROBERT BOOTH NICHOLS AND MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO SHOULD BE CALLED AS WITNESSES TO THE LOCKERBIE TRIAL, ALONG WITH LESTER COLEMAN AND MICHAEL T. HURLEY. I think it is very important to present a "full" and complete picture of Lester K. Coleman in order to understand why he is so important to understanding "the big picture". To that end, the following is an article about Coleman from the London Times dated Monday, July 22,1991. The article carries no byline and reads as follows: US DRUGS STING 'GAVE PAN AM BOMBER COVER' A former American intelligence officer who worked for a secret unit, four of whose members have been killed, is hiding abroad because of allegations he has made about the Lockerbie bomb disaster. Lester Knox Coleman, formerly with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is a key witness behind allegations that negligence on the part of the US government led to the placing of a bomb on board Pan Am flight 103 which exploded over Lockerbie in Scotland on December 21, 1988, killing 270 people. Mr. Coleman, age 47, worked until May 1990 with the secret unit Middle East Collection 10 (MC10). For most of his six years with the DIA he was in Cyprus, running a network of agents in Beirut, whose mission was to find American hostages held by extremists. Two senior MC10 members were Matthew Kevin Gannon and Major Charles Dennis McKee. Both were on flight 103 and had just returned from a mission in Beirut. Also on board was Khaled Nazir Jaafar, a Lebanese agent for the American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Mr. Coleman has a unique insight into DIA and DEA operations in the Middle East because he worked for both organizations in Cyprus. While still a DIA agent -- usually paid in travelers cheques sent from the Luxembourg branch of the now collapsed Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) -- he was seconded twice to the DEA, from February to September 1987 and April to May 1988. According to an affidavit by Mr. Coleman given to Pan Am lawyers in Brussels on April 17 this year [1991], the DEA, with the narcotics squad of the Cypriot national police, the German BKA police and British customs, ran a "drugs sting operation" through Cyprus and airports in Europe including Frankfurt. It involved delivering heroin from the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon to the United States, particularly to Detroit, Houston and Los Angeles, where there are large Lebanese communities. The explanation for this operation, which was officially codenamed Khourah, was provided by Ronald Caffrey, acting assistant administrator of the operational division of the DEA, in a US government submission dated March 20 this year [1991]. He said the drugs operation was "a controlled delivery". His statement said: "In a controlled delivery, a law enforcement agency permits and monitors shipment of contraband, including drugs, to move from a source or transit location to its intended destination. Use of this technique is sometimes essential to enable law enforcement agencies to identify and arrest high-ranking members of trafficking organizations, rather than simply arrest low level couriers." Mr. Coleman, with his knowledge of this type of operation, believes that flight 103 was being used by the DEA as a "controlled" flight in which Khaled Jaafar, a DEA courier, was allowed to carry his luggage through Frankfurt without being subject to normal security checks. He knew Jaafar was one of many agents involved in drug operations. In a telephone conversation last October with a BKA officer in charge of investigations at Frankfurt Rhein-Main airport, Mr. Coleman said he was told that BKA had "serious concerns" that a US drugs sting operation out of Cyprus had been used by terrorists to place the bomb on flight 103, by switching bags. According to reports last year, the security of flight 103 had already been compromised by a mysterious man with an American accent using the pseudonym David Lovejoy, who had reportedly telephoned the Iranian embassy in Beirut on December 20, 1988, the day before the Lockerbie flight, to tip them off that US agents Gannon and McKee would return from a mission in Beirut to the US on flight 103. Mr. Coleman said: "Individuals involved in drug sting operations would arrive at Larnaca (in Cyprus) on the ferry from Jounich (in Lebanon) and be escorted by officers of the Cypriot national police to the offices of Eurame Trading Company in Nicosia, a DEA proprietary company." Mr. Coleman saw Khaled Jaafar on at least three occasions in the Eurame offices and knew him to be a DEA courier. The DEA has denied it was involved in a drugs sting operation at any time around the Lockerbie incident. But James Shaughnessy, lead counsel for Pan Am, said in his latest affidavit dated May 3 [1991]: "The DEA's denial is incredulous....simply false." Pan Am's affidavit refers to a telephone conversation between a senior officer of British customs' investigations branch and Michael Jones of Pan Am Corporate Security in London in which he asked: "Have you considered a bag switch in Frankfurt due to the large amounts of Turkish workers?" The Beirut end of MC10 had been "blown". There were five key members of the MC10 cell in Cyprus and Beirut, according to Mr. Coleman. Apart from Mr. Coleman there were Werner Tony Asmar, a German Lebanese, Charlie Frezeli, a Lebanese army officer, and two more Lebanese who worked with Asmar. Asmar was killed in a bomb explosion at his office in east Beirut on May 26, 1988. Frezeli was shot dead at his home in east Beirut in November 1989. When Asmar was killed, the DIA ordered Mr. Coleman home. Those, like Mr. Coleman and the Pan Am lawyers who are convinced there is a link between the Lockerbie bomb and "Operation Khourah", were not helped by the so-called Aviv report, which claimed that a rogue CIA unit permitted the bags switch, knowing it contained a bomb. The report, produced by Israeli investigator Juval Aviv was discredited. Now, however, a judge in a US court has ruled that the US government must produce all relevant documents relating to the practice of drugs sting operations through Frankfurt and elsewhere in Europe. End of article. It is VERY important to read the preceding article closely and then re-read it again. Next, one must compare the information in the article to an affidavit Coleman introduced in Adversary Proceeding No. 86-0069 in the case entitled INSLAW, INC, plaintiff v. USA and the USA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The affidavit reads as follows: I, LESTER K. COLEMAN, being duly sworn do hereby state as follows: 1. I am currently self-employed as a freelance writer, editor, and security consultant. I am a United States citizen and am temporarily residing outside of the United States. 2. In November 1984, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) offered me a position in human intelligence operations in the Middle East. I was raised in the Middle East, where I lived in Iran, Libya and Saudi Arabia. I speak three dialects of Arabic and some Farsi. I accepted the position and received training from the DIA. I was assigned to a Middle East intelligence unit. 3. Between February and September 1987, I was seconded by DIA to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Nicosia, Cyprus, reporting to the DEA Country Attaché, Michael T. Hurley. 4. After a cover assignment in the United States, I was again seconded to the DEA in Nicosia, Cyprus, in early 1988. 5. During April and May 1988, I worked in the offices of EURAME Trading Company, Ltd., in Nicosia, Cyprus, a DEA proprietary company. On or about May 29, 1988, because of my concern about poor security in the DEA operation in Cyprus, I returned to the United States, having previously obtained the concurrence of the DIA. 6. During my two stints as a DIA covert intelligence officer seconded to the DEA in Nicosia, Cyprus, I became aware of the fact that DEA was using its proprietary company, EURAME Trading Company, Ltd, to sell computer software called PROMISE or PROMIS to the drug abuse control agencies of various countries in the Middle East, including Cyprus, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait and Turkey. 7. I personally witnessed the unpacking at the Nicosia, Cyprus, Police Force Narcotics Squad of boxes containing reels of computer tapes and computer hardware. The boxes bore the name and red logo of a Canadian corporation with the words "PROMISE" or "PROMIS" and "Ltd" in the company name. 8. The DEA objective in inducing the implementation of this computerized PROMIS[E] system in the drug abuse control resources available to the United States government by making it possible for the United States Government to access sensitive drug control law enforcement and intelligence files of these Middle East governments. 9. It is also my understanding that third-party funds were generally made available for the purchase of these computer software and hardware systems. One third-party funding source was the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control in Vienna, Austria. 10. As DEA Country Attaché for Cyprus, Michael T. Hurley had overall responsibility for both the EURAME Trading Company, Ltd, and its initiative to sell PROMIS[E] computer systems to Middle East countries for drug abuse control. 11. In 1990, DEA reassigned Hurley to a DEA intelligence position in Washington State. 12. I became aware in 1991 that Michael Riconosciuto, known to me as a long-time CIA asset, was arrested in Washington State by DEA for the manufacturing of illegal chemical drugs. I had also become aware of the fact that Riconosciuto made a sworn statement, prior to his arrest, about his participation in a covert U.S. intelligence initiative to sell INSLAW's PROMIS to foreign governments. 13. In light of Hurley's personal involvement in the U.S. Government's covert intelligence initiative to sell PROMIS[E] software to foreign governments and his reassignment to a DEA intelligence position in Washington State in advance of the DEA's arrest of Riconosciuto, the arrest of Riconosciuto should be regarded as suspect. I do not believe that Hurley's posting to a drug intelligence position in Washington State in advance of Riconosciuto's arrest on drug charges in merely coincidental. Rather, the probability is that Hurley was reassigned to Washington State to manufacture a case against Riconosciuto in order to prevent Riconosciuto from becoming a credible witness about the U.S. Government's covert sale of the PROMIS software to foreign governments. 14. The investigative journalist Danny Casolaro contacted me in Europe on August 3, 1991. Mr. Casolaro had leads and hard information about things that I know about, including Department of Justice groups operating overseas, the sale of PROMIS[E] software by the U.S. Government to foreign governments, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and the Iran/Contra scandal. I subsequently learned of Mr. Casolaro's death in Martinsburg, West Virginia, one week later, on August 10, 1991. I contacted INSLAW in October 1991, after learning about Mr. Casolaro's death under suspicious circumstances. FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NOT. Signed by Lester K. Coleman This, then, was Danny Casolaro's Octopus. Casolaro had been interviewing Michael Riconosciuto since approximately May of 1990; Casolaro had also met with and interviewed Michael's wife, Bobbie. Both Riconosciutos had told Casolaro the same thing they have repeatedly told me about the downing of Pan Am 103. Michael Roconosciuto claimed to be an intelligence officer monitoring the hostage situation in Iran, staying at the apartment of Robert Booth Nichols and Ellen Hopko Nichols located near the Nicosia, Cyprus airport. This group of people, according to Michael, were also involved in the "controlled drug operation" run by the DIA. Riconosciuto stated that they were paid with unsigned BCCI travelers checks. Shortly before the Lockerbie crash Riconosciuto returned to his home in Oregon. He knew that the McKee team would be returning to the United States to "blow the whistle" on the drug operation run by George W. Bush. Riconosciuto told me that when the warning came to the unit in Nicosia that there might be a bombing of Pan Am #103, Robert Booth Nichols told Rinconosciuto that he would change the reservation for the McKee team to another flight, just as FBI agent Revell's son had done. The night of the Lockerbie crash, Bobbi Riconosciuto was watching the television with their children when she learned of the crash and heard that the McKee team went down with others on board. She woke Michael up and told him. Michael broke from Robert Booth Nichols from that point forward because he held Nichols responsible for betraying the McKee team. Robert Booth Nichols became the key source for Danny Casolaro who had contacted Lester K. Coleman seven days before his murder in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Nichols stated, in a lawsuit against the FBI and FBI agent Thomas Gates, that he has had no source of income for the past twenty-plus years and yet his concealed weapons permit shows that he maintains many residences around the world. Sam Giacana was Nichols' business partner and it is rumored that Nichols' mentor is the head of Yakuza in Hawaii. Nichols' lawsuit was sustained by a declaration submitted by the former head of the LA FBI, Ted Gunderson. Gunderson has stated to me and others that he owes his life to Nichols because he called off a mob hit on Gunderson. Gunderson also states that he is nothing but a private investigator, but documents out of his own files show his intelligence connections. 270 people were killed on Pan Am 103 and the United States government is continually silencing witnesses who could tell the truth about what happened. Lawyers who hold the Coleman documents out for ransom, judges who use the law to torture and imprison individuals who would expose the intelligence prostitutes who whore for drugs, arms, power and money, and an apathetic public are the ones who are responsible for the murder of those who died at Lockerbie. Let Lester K. Coleman testify. Let Michael Riconosciuto testify. MAKE Robert Booth and Ellen Hopko Nichols testify. FORCE Michael T. Hurley to testify. MAKE THEM TELL THE TRUTH!! If the families of the victims want to really know what happened they should demand the head of Danny Casolaro's Octopus. Virginia McCullough © 20001 JOHN H. CLARKE [Pro Hac Vice] 2 Telephone: (202) 332-3030 JOHN F. DUNNE, JR. [SBN 32854] 3 1601 Cloverfield Boulevard 4 Second Floor, South Tower Santa Monica, California 90404-4084 5 Telephone: (310) 393-9351 6 Facsimile: (310) 230-4066 7 Attorneys for Plaintiff 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 WESTERN DIVISION 11 12 H. RAY LAHR, ) Case No. 03-08023 AHM (RZx) ) 13 Plaintiff, ) PLAINTIFF'S NOTICE OF 14 ) MOTION AND MOTION FOR v. ) LEAVE TO AMEND COMPLAINT 15 ) 16 NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION ) 17 SAFETY BOARD, et al. ) ) 18 Defendants. ) 19 ) 20 Date: February 6, 2006 21 Time: 10:00. a.m. 22 Place: Courtroom 14, 312 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 23 Judge: Honorable A. Howard Matz 24 25 (1) PLAINTIFF'S NOTICE OF MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND 26 COMPLAINT 27 (2) MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF'S MOTION 28 (3) AFFIDAVIT OF H. RAY LAHR 1 1 NOTICE OF MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND COMPLAINT 2 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that, under Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a), Amendments, 3 and Fed. R. Civ. P. 20(a), Permissive Joinder, plaintiff will seek leave to file a 4 second amended complaint (1) to add CIA-generated zoom-climb records 5 generated after the CIA's November 17, 1997 release of its zoom-climb conclusion, 6 and (2) to add the National Security Agency as a defendant; in the Courtroom of 7 the Honorable A. Howard Matz, on February 6, 2006, at 10:00 a.m., or as soon 8 thereafter as counsel may be heard. 9 The grounds for this motion, to include additional CIA records, are that 10 plaintiff was unaware of the existence of responsive records generated after the 11 CIA's November 1997 release of the zoom-climb conclusion; these post-decisional 12 records were not initially requested and so are not now under the Court's 13 jurisdiction. 14 The grounds for this motion to add the National Security Agency ("NSA") 15 as a defendant is the NSA's November 2005 letter announcing that it originated, 16 and withholds under FOIA exemptions, a flight-path simulation apparently the 17 basis of the CIA's zoom-climb conclusion. 18 The grounds for this motion are more particularly set forth in the 19 accompanying memorandum, and upon such grounds as may be advanced to the 20 Court in the future. This Motion is made following conferences of counsel under 21 L.R. 7-3, which commenced on October 23, 2005 regarding the CIA, and on 22 November 17, 2005 regarding the NSA. 23 Date: January 5, 2006. 24 Respectfully submitted, 25 H. Ray Lahr 26 By Counsel 27 28 John H. Clarke 2 1 2 MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND COMPLAINT 3 4 A. FACTS 5 1. Central Intelligence Agency 6 The FOIA request now before the Court seeks disclosure of records upon 7 which the government's TWA Flight 800 flight path trajectory, or zoom-climb, 8 conclusions were based. The government first released the zoom-climb hypothesis 9 to the public via a widely broadcast narrated CIA video-animation, on November 10 17, 1997. The NTSB released its video-animation (report) the following month. 11 (In 2000, at the age of seventy-five, plaintiff had submitted a FOIA request 12 to the CIA for the same records at issue herein.1) 13 14 15 16 1 See Second Amended Complaint ¶ 9-10: 17 By November 10, 2000 FOIA request, plaintiff sought disclosure of 18 the CIA's zoom-climb records. The CIA's January 6, 2001, response 19 states in part: 20 This acknowledges receipt of your 10 November 2000 letter 21 requesting records under the provisions of the Freedom of 22 Information Act (FOIA). Specifically, your request is for records pertaining to the computer program and data used to 23 produce the computer simulation of TWA Flight 800, 17 24 July 1996, losing its nose section, then climbing about 3,000 feet. For identification purposes... We have researched this 25 matter, and have learned that the pertinent data, and resulting 26 conclusions were provided by the National Transportation 27 Safety Board (NTSB). CIA simply incorporated the NTSB conclusions into our videotape... Accordingly, you may want 28 to submit your request to the NTSB... (bolded in original) (Docket # 28 Opposition to NTSB summary judgment) 3 1 Attached to the CIA's August 16, 2005 Second Buroker Declaration are 2 zoom-climb records generated after November of 1997. Plaintiff was unaware of 3 these post-decisional records until the CIA produced them. 4 Although the CIA identified many of these records, this Court does not have 5 jurisdiction over them because they fall outside the scope of plaintiff's FOIA 6 request, seeking disclosure of pre-decisional records. 7 On September 13, 2005, plaintiff's made a FOIA Request to the CIA. A 8 copy is attached as Exhibit A. It states in part: 9 This FOIA request is for all records created as part of the analysis 10 that continued after the CIA video-animation concerning the 11 explosion of TWA Flight 800 was shown to the public. 12 The CIA has to date failed to respond to plaintiff's September 13, 2005, 13 FOIA request. An agency is required to make a "determination" on any FOIA 14 request within twenty working days of receipt. 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(A)(i). The 15 FOIA expressly provides that a requestor "shall be deemed to exhausted his 16 administrative remedied... if the agency fails to comply with the applicable time 17 limit provisions" for initial and appellate determinations, under 5 U.S.C. § 18 552(a)(6)(C). Thus, plaintiff has constructively exhausted his administrative 19 remedies, and plaintiff's amended complaint is ripe. 20 2. National Security Agency 21 Plaintiff received a November 7, 2005 letter from the National Security 22 Agency, a copy of which is Exhibit B. The NSA letter states that "Item 83 of 23 your index, requesting a copy of the computer simulation and animation program 24 used by the CIA and / or the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) was 25 referred to the National Security Agency / Central Security Service by CIA for our 26 review and direct response to you." 27 The letter denied the request in its entirety. 28 On November 16, 2005, plaintiff administratively appealed the NSA's November 7, 2005 denial. A copy of plaintiff's appeal letter is Exhibit C. 4 1 The NSA has not to date responded to plaintiff's November 16, FOIA 2 administrative appeal, and thus plaintiff has exhausted his administrative remedies 3 under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(C). 4 B. ARGUMENT 5 Fed. R. Civ. P. 15(a), Amendments, directs the Court to grant leave to amend 6 "when justice so requires," and in practice the burden is usually on the party 7 opposing the amendment to demonstrate why the amendment should not be 8 permitted. See, e.g., Forman v. Davis, 371 US 178, 83 S.Ct. 227, 9 L.Ed.2d 9 (1962). The CIA cannot demonstrate why the amendment should not be 10 permitted. The CIA cannot fault plaintiff for being unaware of the fact that most 11 of the CIA's records were generated after November 17, 1997 when the CIA 12 announced, by video-animation, broadcast to tens of millions of Americans, that 13 the eyewitnesses had seen Flight 800 zoom-climb, "not a missile." (emphasis in 14 video caption) 15 Regarding the joinder of the NSA as defendant, the disclosure of zoom- 16 climb records involve questions of law and fact that are common to all defendants, 17 the records were generated during the same transactions and occurrences, and so 18 Fed. R. Civ. P. 20(a), Permissive Joinder, is clearly applicable.2 See, e.g., Mosley 19 v. General Motors Corp., 497 F. 2d 1333 (8th Cir. 1974), "[A]ll reasonably related 20 claims for relief by or against different parties [should] be tried in single 21 proceeding." 22 Plaintiff has exhausted his administrative remedies. 23 24 2 Fed. R. Civ. P. 20(a), Permissive Joinder, in part: 25 All persons... may be joined in one action as defendants if there is asserted against them jointly, severally, or in the alternative, any right 26 to relief in respect of or arising out of the same transaction, 27 occurrence, or series of transactions or occurrences and if any question of law or fact common to all defendants will arise in the 28 action. 5 1 Also, granting the relief sought would not would not broaden the issues 2 before the Court, as plaintiff still seeks the same zoom-climb records. 3 Conclusion 4 WHEREFORE, plaintiff H. Ray Lahr respectfully moves for leave to amend 5 his complaint to include post-November 17, 1997 CIA-records, and to add the 6 National Security Agency as a defendant. 7 Plaintiff's proposed Second Amended Complaint is filed herewith, as is his 8 proposed order. 9 Date: January 5, 2006. 10 Respectfully submitted, 11 H. Ray Lahr 12 By Counsel 13 14 John H. Clarke 15 16 PROOF OF SERVICE 17 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: I am a resident of the District of Columbia, over the age of 18 years. My business address is 1717 K Street, NW, Suite 600, 18 Washington, DC 20036. I am counsel for plaintiff. On January 5, 2006, I served 19 a true copy of (1) PLAINTIFF'S NOTICE OF MOTION FOR LEAVE TO AMEND COMPLAINT, (2) MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND 20 AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF'S MOTION, (3) AFFIDAVIT OF 21 H. RAY LAHR on the interested parties in this action, by hand, to: 22 David M. Glass, Esquire 23 Assistant United States Attorney 24 20 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Room 7140 Washington, DC 20530 25 26 I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is correct and that this Proof of Service was executed on January 5, 2006. 27 28 John H. Clarke 6 1 AFFIDAVIT OF CAPTAIN H. RAY LAHR 2 1. My name is Ray Lahr. 3 2. Exhibit A is a true and correct copy of my September 13, 2005 letter 4 to the Central Intelligence Agency, which I signed before submitting. 5 3. Exhibit B is a true and correct copy of the National Security Agency's 6 November 7, 1995 letter to me. 7 4. Exhibit C is a true and correct copy of my November 16, 1995 8 administrative appeal letter to the National Security Agency, which I signed before 9 submitting. 10 I hereby certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and 11 correct. 12 13 Date: January 4, 2006. 14 15 16 Captain H. Ray Lahr (Ret.) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28