Whilimena

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