Guest guest Posted July 21, 2007 Report Share Posted July 21, 2007 Stop The Coup We have long been suspicious of the so-called CIA leak case. When it turned out that Colin Powell's long time friend and deputy, Richard Armitage, was the original source of the Valerie Plame leak to Robert Novak we were not at all surprised. The extremely anti- Israel Novak has long been an admirer of the extremely anti-Israel Colin Powell. Vice President Cheney must be enraged over the fact that it was Colin Powell's long time friend and deputy Richard Armitage who was the original source of the Valerie Plame leak to Robert Novak. President Bush must be furious at Armitage. And well both Vice President Cheney and President Bush should be. What was the end game behind the so-called CIA leak case? Was it to somehow lay a perjury trap for Vice President Cheney's aide, I.Lewis " Scooter " Libby,in the hope that Libby could be " turned " against Vice President Cheney, which, might well have led to Vice President Cheney's forced resignation from office, and in President Bush being forced to name Colin Powell to replace Vice President Cheney, only to be later forced out of office himself, so that Colin Powell could become President of the United States? In other words, is what we have here in this so-called " case " , actually the outlines of an attempted coup against President Bush and Vice President Cheney? If so, was Colin Powell involved in any way, either directly or indirectly? What did Powell know, if anything, and when did Powell know it? Former Tennesse Senator Fred Thompson, served on the advisory board of the legal defense fund for Libby, and urged President Bush to pardon him. If Fred Thompson enters the race for the Republican nomination for President in 2008 he may be the odds on favorite to win that nomination, at least according to a variety of political observers, and could thus be well on the way to becoming the next President of the United States. It is refreshing to note that Fred Thompson, who played a prosecutor on TV's " Law and Order " series, was not taken in by real life prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. " I am very happy for Scooter Libby, " Thompson said. " I know that this is a great relief to him, his wife and children. This will allow a good American, who has done a lot for his country, to resume his life. " Happily Fred Thompson is not the only person not to be taken in by real life federal prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. Another real life federal prosecutor, GOP presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said: " After evaluating the facts, the president came to a reasonable decision and I believe the decision was correct. " Predictably the appeasers were vocal in their criticism of President Bush's brave decision in the Libby case. Democratic presidential candidate and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama offered a different take. " This decision to commute the sentence of a man who compromised our national security cements the legacy of an administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law, " Obama said. " This is exactly the kind of politics we must change so we can begin restoring the American people's faith in a government that puts the country's progress ahead of the bitter partisanship of recent years. " Presidential candidate and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton described actions that led to Libby's conviction as part of a larger effort by the White House to silence critics of the war in Iraq. " Today's decision is yet another example that this administration simply considers itself above the law, " said Clinton of Bush's decision to commute Libby's sentence. " This case arose from the administration's politicization of national security intelligence and its efforts to punish those who spoke out against its policies. " Four years into the Iraq war, Americans are still living with the consequences of this White House's efforts to quell dissent. This commutation sends the clear signal that in this Administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice. " Fellow 2008 hopeful and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards also blasted the commuted sentence. " Only a president clinically incapable of understanding that mistakes have consequences could take the action he did today, " Edwards said. " President Bush has just sent exactly the wrong signal to the country and the world. In George Bush's America, it is apparently okay to misuse intelligence for political gain, mislead prosecutors and lie to the FBI. " George Bush and his cronies think they are above the law and the rest of us live with the consequences. The cause of equal justice in America took a serious blow today. " " Last week Vice President Cheney asserted that he was beyond the reach of the law, " added Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, another presidential candidate. " Today, President Bush demonstrated the lengths he would go to, ensuring that even aides to Dick Cheney are beyond the judgment of the law. It is time for the American people to be heard -- I call for all Americans to flood the White House with phone calls tomorrow expressing their outrage over this blatant disregard for the rule of law. " Other partisans also expressed outrage. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said: " The president's decision to commute Mr. Libby's sentence is disgraceful. Libby's conviction was the one faint glimmer of accountability for White House efforts to manipulate intelligence and silence critics of the Iraq war. Now, even that small bit of justice has been undone. " Judge (Reggie) Walton correctly determined that Libby deserved to be imprisoned for lying about a matter of national security, " Reid said. " The Constitution gives President Bush the power to commute sentences, but history will judge him harshly for using that power to benefit his own vice president's chief of staff who was convicted of such a serious violation of law. " House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: " The president's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence does not serve justice, condones criminal conduct and is a betrayal of trust of the American people. " The president said he would hold accountable anyone involved in the Valerie Plame leak case. By his action today, the president shows his word is not to be believed, " Pelosi said. " He has abandoned all sense of fairness when it comes to justice, he has failed to uphold the rule of law, and he has failed to hold his administration accountable. " House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said: " It is very disappointing that the president has chosen to substitute his judgment for that of the trial judge who heard all the evidence in Mr. Libby's case, as well as the federal appellate panel which ruled today that Mr. Libby could not delay serving his prison term. " The charges against Mr. Libby were not insubstantial; a jury convicted him of lying to authorities and obstructing the investigation into the public disclosure of a CIA operative's identity. " Stoyer said. " In the last election, accountability for wrongdoing was a major issue. With this decision today in the Libby case, the president continues to demonstrate that he rejects accountability for wrongdoing in his administration. " Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry also criticized the decision as a misstep of justice. " President Bush's 11th hour commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence makes a mockery of the justice system and betrays the idea that all Americans are expected to be held accountable for their actions, even close friends of Vice President Cheney, " Kerry said. " It's a tragedy that with young Americans paying the ultimate price in Iraq for this administration's mistakes, this White House continues to avoid accountability and reward deceit for their friends and supporters. " Kerry betrayed the 2004 Democratic Primary voters, whom he had conned into voting for him by appearing to be against appeasement only to turn out to be an appeaser himself after he was nominated in 2004. We will oppose Howard the Coward Dean if he runs in 2008. When Dean said on December 15th, 2003 that : " It is not my policy that you have to end terror before you can have negotiations. That is not my policy at all. " It was the last straw for us, and we hope for you.Kerry correctly skewered Dean for calling members of Hamas soldiers. Dean said, " there is a war going on in the Middle East, and members of Hamas are soldiers in that war. " Kerry said: " Dean insults the memory of every innocent man, woman, and child killed by these murderers. Hamas militants are not soldiers in a war - they are terrorists who need to be stopped. " Now that Colin Powell has called for talks with Hamas will Kerry correctly skewer Powell for saying that? Don't hold your breath waiting for that speech from Kerry, who has turned out to be an appeaser himself. Saddam paid the families of terrorists $25,000 bounties for the murder of Jews. It is time that President Bush and Secretary of State Rice recognized that a lot of those terrorists worked for Arafat and for his long time aide and deputy Abu Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen, the head of Fatah and the so- called " PLO " , the so-called P.A. " , etc. and stop dealing with, arming, and aiding that gangster and the gangs he now leads. Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders also chimed in. " A jury of his peers found Libby guilty of lying about his role in revealing the identity of a covert CIA operative, " Sanders said. " It is unfortunate that President Bush in commuting his sentence has once again put political considerations above the interests of our judicial system. " Republican congressional leaders countered with statements of support for the reduced penalty for Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. " President Bush did the right thing today in commuting the prison term for Scooter Libby, " said House Republican Whip Roy Blunt. " The prison sentence was overly harsh and the punishment did not fit the crime. The sentence was based on charges that had nothing to do with the leak of the identity of a CIA operative. " elements from the material excerpted from above appeared at: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,287790,00.html Was Armitage acting on his own or on Colin Powell's orders? Will Powell and Armitage be called to testify under oath regarding that key question? We certainly hope so. We wonder what the end game of the so-called CIA leak case actually was. We note that the special prosecutor in the case Patrick J. Fitzgerald had a rather interesting background, to say the least. Was Patrick J. Fitzgerald really more concerned with covering himself and his failure to recognize the hand of Saddam Hussein in cases he handled, such as the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, than he was in pursuing the truth in the so- called CIA leak case? After all the gist of the argument underlying that case as made by the appeasers is that Wilson was being smeared by some mythical vast right-wing conspiracy that sought to reveal Wilson's wife's career in an effort to diminish Wilson's effectiveness in his role as a critic of the liberation of Iraq. But if it could be shown that the liberation of Iraq was totally justifiable, and that Saddam Hussein was behind both the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center, and the September 11th, 2001 attacks on America, wouldn't the American people demand to know why Patrick J. Fitzgerald had failed to see Saddam's hand in the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993? In fact, wouldn't the families of those who died on September 11th, 2001 begin litigation against Patrick J. Fitzgerald personally for his failure to recognize Saddam's hand in the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993? After all, if Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who prosecuted the case on the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, had recognized Saddam's hand in the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 the U.S. could well have used that attack as a Casus belli a case to go to war against Saddam Hussein then. If it had, Iraq would have been liberated then. The events of September 11th, 2001, which were masterminded by Saddam Hussein would never have happened. " In June of 1994, he " (Patrick J. Fitzgerald) " became counsel in the prosecution of the 'blind sheik', Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 other defendants, who were accused of a seditious conspiracy involving the bombing of the World Trade Center and a plot to bomb the United Nations, the FBI Building in New York, the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, and to assassinate President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. The nine-month trial resulted in convictions. " The following year, Fitzgerald was named Co-Chief of the Organized Crime and Terrorism Section of the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Shortly thereafter he became National Security Coordinator for the Office. In these capacities, he was responsible for supervising the investigation and development and prosecution of the case against Osama bin Laden. He was the chief counsel in the prosecution of those alleged to have perpetrated the bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. " " Fitzgerald also served as trial counsel in United States v. Arnaout, (United States v. Arnaout Enaam M. Arnaout Prosecutors alleged that Arnaout participated in a RICO enterprise – an ostensible charity known as Benevolence International Foundation ( " BIF " ) – aiming to channel funding and support to militant jihad activities around the world. Ultimately, Arnaout pled guilty to one RICO count based on the failure to disclose to donors that BIF funds were used to buy boots, tents, and like items for fighters in Chechnya and Bosnia. " source: http://72.14.205.104/search? q=cache:HkNnK2r71usJ:www.wfu.edu/~chesner/NationalSecurityLaw/Prosecu tion%2520Charts/Table%25203.1%2520-%2520Identifying%2520the%2520Pure% 2520Support%2520Prosecutions%2520(with%2520.xls+% 22United+States+v.+Arnaout%22 & hl=en & ct=clnk & cd=4 & gl=us ) in which the executive director of Benevolence International Foundation, Inc., a charitable organization based in south suburban Chicago, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Arnaout pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy for fraudulently obtaining charitable donations to provide financial assistance to persons engaged in violent activities overseas, including to fighters in Chechnya and Bosnia, instead of using donations strictly for peaceful, humanitarian purposes. " " In New York, Mr. Fitzgerald participated in the prosecution of United States v. Usama Bin Laden, et al., in which 23 defendants were charged with various offenses, including conspiracy to murder United States nationals overseas and the August 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Four defendants went on trial in January 2001 in New York and four months later a jury returned guilty verdicts against all four. The defendants were sentenced to life in prison. Mr. Fitzgerald also participated in the trial of United States v. Omar Abdel Rahman, et al., a nine-month trial in 1995 of 12 defendants who participated in a seditious conspiracy that involved the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and a plot to bomb the United Nations, the FBI building in New York, and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, as well as a conspiracy to assassinate President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. He also supervised the case of United States v. Ramzi Yousef, et al., the 1996 prosecution of three defendants who participated in a conspiracy in the Philippines in late 1994 and early 1995 to detonate bombs simultaneously on 12 American airliners. " http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/aboutus/patrickjfitzgerald.html We wonder how Patrick J. Fitzgerald http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/aboutus/patrickjfitzgerald.html http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/ could have missed the connections to Saddam Hussein and Arafat in those cases. Why would arafat want Sirhan Sirhan, convicted palestinian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, freed Is it because DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES? " The one who killed Kennedy was trained for three years Salem then asked (Sheikh Omar Abdul) Rahman what he thought of the plan to bomb [the Federal Building]. Rahman responded, Well, uh, a little bit later. We'll talk about this. When Salem indicated that the plan was currently in motion, Rahman responded, It doesnt matter. Slow down. Slow down a little bit. The one who killed Kennedy was trained for three years. " http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1999/08/990802-in.htm see also February 1993 Bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/wtc93.htm http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iraq/956-tni.htm http://www.meib.org/articles/0106_ir1.htm http://www.dssrewards.net/english/yasin.htm Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and nine other militant Muslims (Sudanese, Egyptian, American, and Jordanian citizens) were convicted of conspiracy and other charges http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/14004.html " A number of important circumstantial links connect Arafat to the Trade Center bombing. Cousin of Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan suspected in kibbutz massacre By Margot Dudkevitch Nov. 13, 2002 Security forces arrested a number of Palestinian terrorist suspects in Judea and Samaria on Tuesday as a manhunt continued for Tanzim terrorist Sirhan Sirhan, blamed for the shooting attack in Kibbutz Metzer on Sunday night November 10th, 2002. Security sources confirmed Wednesday that they suspect that Sirhan, a resident of Tulkarm, carried out the attack and Palestinian reports claimed that his uncle was among those arrested on Tuesday by security forces. The suspect is related to Sirhan B. Sirhan, the Jerusalemite who assassinated US Senator Robert Kennedy in 1968. Kennedy was shot dead in 1968 at Los Angeles Ambassador Hotel by Sirhan Sirhan, a 25-year-old Palestinian immigrant who said he felt betrayed by Kennedy's support for Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967. At the time, Kennedy was a Democratic senator running for president. Israeli security sources said they believe the gunman in the Kibbutz Metzer attack is a cousin of the Kennedy assassin, and may have been named after his infamous relative. The Kennedy assassin is serving a life sentence in a California state prison. His lawyers have suggested that if he was released from prison he could return to the so called palestinian territories. Sirhan has been denied parole 10 times and prosecutors say his return to Judea and Samaria could further enflame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Meanwhile, the Tanzim Al-Aksa Brigades on Tuesday vowed to continue attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, after claiming Sundays attack at Metzer in which five people were killed. " http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite pagenameJPost/A/JPArticle/Show Full & cid 37076677290 Tanzim - Arafat loyalists schooled in the first intifada n 1995 the Fatah leadership instituted its own militia, the Tanzim. It has also served as a pro-Arafat offensive force. Fatah was founded by Mr Arafat and a handful of close comrades in the late 1950s. The group came out into the open in 1965; under Mr Arafat's effective leadership it became the strongest and best-organised of the Palestinian factions and it has remained so ever since. " http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_p alestinians/profiles/1371998.stm " ARAFAT ORDERED DIPLO SLAYINGS: EX-SPY By URI DAN New York Post http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/7289.htm December 15, 2001 -- JERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat personally ordered the execution of two American diplomats in 1973, a former U.S. intelligence officer says. James Walsh said he knew of a tape recording in which Arafat calmly discussed an attack on the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. In February 1973 gunmen had burst into the embassy and seized American Ambassador Cleo Noel and his charge d'affaires, George Curtis Moore. The Black September terrorist organization took responsibility for the assault and demanded the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the imprisoned assassin of Robert F. Kennedy. and other jailed Palestinians. Walsh, then a member of the National Security Agency based in Cyprus, said his organization intercepted a conversation between Arafat and Black September in which the PLO chairman ordered the killing of the Americans and a Belgian diplomat. Walsh told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that the conversation was never disclosed by U.S. officials because it would compromise American eavesdropping resources. Walsh said the NSA had intercepted a series of phone calls between Arafat and the Black September kidnappers. Officials in Jerusalem said the United States had been informed of the conversation through another channel. They said then-Prime Minister Golda Meir told then-President Richard Nixon that Israel had also intercepted a conversation between Arafat and kidnap leader Khalil al-Wazir, in which they discussed killing the Americans.. Two weeks before he was murdered Doctor King had endorsed the Presidential Candidacy of Eugene McCarthy, Democrat of Minnesota for the 1968 Democratic Presidential Nomination. Senator McCarthy, (not to be confused with Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin who was Eugene McCarthys opposite in more ways than one), campaigned on a platform of opposition to the Vietnam War in 1968, a war that McCarthy called: Illegal, Immoral, and unconstitutional. Two weeks later Dr. King was murdered in Memphis. Had he lived he would have gone on to campaign for McCarthy, who was 7 points ahead of Nixon in the polls. With Dr. King by his side McCarthy would have gone on to be nominated by the Democratic Party in 1968 and elected President in November 1968. Robert F. Kennedy would have ended his campaign and joined with Gene McCarthy and Dr. King to end the war. Instead Dr. Kings murder caused disunity in the Democratic Party. Bobby Kennedy sought the Democratic Presidential nomination, only to be murdered himself on June 4th, 1968 2 months to the day after Dr. King was murdered. June 4th, 1968 was also the first anniversary of the Six- Day War. As the US Senator from New York State, a state that McCarthy would have carried handily in the June 1968 Democratic Primary, Bobby Kennedy would have to have obeyed the wishes of the people of his state and dropped out of the Presidential race after that primary and endorsed Gene McCarthy. But the primary came after Bobby Kennedy had been killed. Beating a dead Bobby Kennedy was no victory. Not having a live Bobby Kennedy on hand to concede defeat and endorse Gene McCarthy meant that Hubert Humphrey, a supporter of the war in Vietnam, would go on to become the Democratic Presidential nominee, only to lose to Richard M. Nixon in November of 1968. Thus the war in Vietnam would continue no matter who, Humphrey, or Nixon, won. Keeping America tied down in Vietnam was essential for Israel's arab enemies who hoped that America would be reluctant to come to Israel's aid when the eventual arab attack came. That attack came on October 6th, 1973, with a Pearl Harbor surprise attack on the Holiest Day in Judaism, Yom Kippur. The arab attackers however, had failed to comprehend that President Nixon would come to the aid of Israel. Sadat was assassinated, it seems to us, on the orders of Saddam Hussein on the 8th anniversary to the day of the Yom Kippur War, October 6th, 1981, for his failure to defeat Israel in that war. Saddam used the same gang, Sheik Rahman's gang, which he would later use to hit the Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament when Egypt sided with America in the Gulf War, the same gang would later be used by Saddam for the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. " The World Trade Center bombers managed to vaporize President Clinton's limo. President Clinton was scheduled for an appearance at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey the following Monday, but he could easily have chosen to spend the weekend in Manhattan or nearby New Jersey with friends in either location. So he could have been at the World Trade Center on the Friday it was bombed. the World Trade Center in Manhattan which had a heliport . Clinton would have presumably taken a chopper to that heliport, gone down to the basement, gotten into his limo and then someone on site would have detonated the van blowing the limo up with Clinton inside it. Iraq may well have had a hand in this as another key member of that gang is said to have escaped to Iraq using documents provided by Iraq. During the Gulf War the same gang killed the Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament when Egypt broke ranks with Iraq over the invasion of Kuwait. The same gang is alleged to have assassinated Sadat.More than likely, like the attempt on the life of Al Haig when he was at NATO some years back, or the hit on some important Russians in Chechnya , the World Trade Center bomb could have been remote controlled. " The first battle of the first war of the twenty-first century began and ended in under 30 seconds sometime after 12:18 on the afternoon of Friday, February 26th, 1993, with the detonation of a relatively small explosive device that took out four levels of parking garage beneath New York City's World Trade Center- some people made note of the fact that the limousine President Clinton uses when in New York was berthed in the garage where the bomb was detonated. OSAMA BIN LADEN BIDES HIS TIME; TO STRIKE THE USA AGAIN US airmen. There is also evidence that bin Laden may had been connected to the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City that killed six. " http://www.emergency.com/binladn2.htm Was McVeigh tasked by Saddam Hussein to assassinate General Schwarzkopf during the 1991 Gulf War " IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO Criminal Action No. 96-CR-68 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, vs. TIMOTHY JAMES McVEIGH, Defendant. REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT (Trial to Jury - Volume 137) Proceedings before the HONORABLE RICHARD P. MATSCH, Judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado, commencing at 1:00 p.m., on the 6th day of June, 1997, in Courtroom C-204, United States Courthouse, Denver, Colorado. Royal Witcher - Direct know where they took them. And then after the cease-fire was called, we went to Safwan for the peace talks, and we were the inner circle of defense for that. Q. From the point at which you were-at which you engaged this resistance, how far was that to Safwan Is that S-A-F-W-A-N A. Yes. Q. Where the peace talks were being held A. Distancewise Q. Well, how long did it take you to get there A. I guess about a week or so, from what I recall. Q. And your unit was ordered to go there; is that right A. Yes. Q. And what was it you did when you got there A. We were to stay at defense, defensive ring or barrier, I guess you would call it, around the tents and the air base that the peace talks were going to be held at. Q. Now, who actually came to conduct the talks for the warring parties A. General Schwarzkopf. Q. Did you have occasion to meet General Schwarzkopf A. Yes, I did. Q. Did Mr. McVeigh, too A. Yes. Q. Do you know whether your meeting with him was photographed Royal Witcher - Direct by anyone A. Yes, it was. Q. Who was it Do you know A. Lieutenant Rodriguez. Q. Was there any-any video made of that meeting, do you know A. I think there was. " B. http://www.kwtv.com/news/mcveigh/060697p.htm " McVeigh-as has been extensively reported-was a Gulf War vet who tried out for the elite Special Forces. He didn't make the cut. But in his tryout, he says in an excerpt of a McVeigh letter printed in the Times, he learned that Special Forces duties include " helping the CIA fly drugs into the U.S. to fund many covert operations " and to " work hand-in-hand w/civilian police agencies to `quiet' anyone who was deemed a `security risk.' " He adds: " We would be gov't-paid assassins! " In his letter, McVeigh says he learned this stuff at a Fort Bragg intelligence briefing attended by McVeigh and nine other soldiers. " http://www.conspire.com/curren52.html " Andreas ( " Andy " ) Strassmeir, a German national with McVeigh at Elohim City. He worked for the FBI and CIA operative Air Force Colonel Petruskie and was known to Louis Freeh " http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3ac536a661e3.htm. http://home.earthlink.net/~alto/hoppy.html " Did McVeigh's sister say McVeigh told her he had worked for a special operations Army group that was engaged In criminal activity Not exactly. She said something like that. That her brother told her such a special operations group existed. Yes. But more than that. That they had recruited him and he turned them down. Yes. " Strange Links Between the Bombing of The World Trade Center, the Bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, and Osama bin Laden Yousef's lawyer, Bernard V. Kleinman, said by phone that his client has had conversations with McVeigh through the fence and also as they have been moved from their cells to the recreation area. " They talk about innocuous things like the movies, " Kleinman said. " They don't talk about anything that they shouldn't be talking about " The Philippines is the basis an interesting link between Ramsey Yousef and the bombing of the World Trade Center, Terry Nichols and the bombing of the Murrah Building, Osama bin Laden. April 25, 1997 Electronic Telegraph Issue 700 A prosecutor in Denver said yesterday that the " hate-filled " mastermind of the bombing in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people was involved in a Right-wing plot . McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, is expected to suggest that a foreign government, " probably Iraq " hired " a Middle Eastern bombing engineer " to detonate the explosion with the help of neo-Nazis. In a court petition, lawyers say the attack was " contracted out " through an Iraqi base in the Philippines and it was " possible that those who carried out the bombing were unaware of the true sponsor " . Was Stephen Jones on the right track and what was behind the evidence he wanted to introduce into the McVeigh trial but could not Some clues may lie in another link with the Phillipines that involved McVeigh's co-conspirator Terry Nichols November 22, 1994 (See NY Times December 24, 1997) Terry Nichols left for a 59 day stay in the Phillipines. He left letters, with his ex-wife, Lana Padilla, explaining what to do in case he died. Three days after he returned on January 16, 1995, he was sharing a motel room in Kansas with Mr. Mc.Veigh. What was the purpose of this visit Why was he so concerned that he might die Did he meet with Ramsey Yousef, who at the same time was testing a plan to blow up airliners in the Philippines and who was later convicted in the bombing of the World Trade Center Did Nichols receive training there on how to construct and detonate large bombs Was he fearful that there could be an accident during his training December, 1994 (See TIME magazine July 29, 1996) Ramsey Yousef tests his plan for attacking U.S. carriers by boarding a Philippine Airlines flight on the first leg from the Philippines to Japan. He carried with him the components of a bomb, unassembled in his carry-on bag. On board he assembled the bomb, which was made of gun cotton, a nitroglycerine solution packed into a contact-lens bottle. He tucked the bomb under a cushion and left the plane after its first stop in the Philippine city of Cebu. Two hours later the device exploded killing a passenger. Cebu is the city where in July 1990 Nichols travelled to find a mail-order bride and met Marife Torres. He was 35, she was 17 and they were married there on November 20, 1990. (NY Times December 24, 1997) An associate of Ramsey Yousef, Edwin Angeles, had been arrested in the Phillipines where he was contacted by McVeigh's attorney, Stephen Jones. Angeles linked Nichols (a.k.a. `the farmer') to Yousef in a meeting on the island of Mindanao. In his book `Others Unknown', Jones describes that at a meeting in Davao, Angeles met an American who introduced himself as `the farmer'. Among those present at the meeting were Ramsey Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah. The meeting was to discuss terrorism and Murad, Khan and Yousef would later be defendants in the plot to blow up twelve U.S. airliners. All were convicted on September 5, 1996 and are in American prisons. On April 19, 1995, Murad told his guard in his New York cell that the Oklahoma city bombing was the work of Islamic Jihad. But back to Yousef and the World Trade Center bombing where we find a link also between him and Iraq .September 15, 1996 The Telegraph (U.K. Electronic Edition) Issue 480 According to Dr Mylroie, the attempt to blow up the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York on February 26, 1993 .... was an act of Iraqi state- sponsored terrorism conducted by proxies. After studying the telephone records and document archives from the trial, she has concluded that the mastermind said to be behind the bombing, a shadowy figure called Ramsi Yousef, was working for Iraqi intelligence. The Justice Department did not address this issue in the official investigation. It concluded that the bombing was the work of Islamic fundamentalists loyal to a blind Egyptian cleric. Jim Fox, then head of the New York FBI office, suspected Iraqi involvement but says that the Washington headquarters refused to look at the evidence. June 3, 1997 Electronic Telegraph Issue 739 Painted by prosecutors as a fanatical bomber obsessed with a warped sense of patriotism, Timothy McVeigh, convicted of the Oklahoma bombing, gave his attorneys no help in establishing an alibi.... Judge Richard Matsch kept a tight hold on the trial,the judge refused to allow Stephen Jones, McVeigh's lawyer, to present an alternative theory, gathered after spending $10 million travelling the world, that an international conspiracy was responsible. Many of the victim's relatives are so concerned at evidence of this aspect that they are suing the government, insisting that the FBI had prior knowledge of the blast. March 30, 1997 Electronic Telegraph Issue 674 Dennis Mahon must lead a charmed life. The FBI has pursued endless leads into the 1995 Oklahoma bombing, collecting more than 26,000 witness statements. But it has never been to visit him at his bungalow in Tulsa. The omission is curious. Mahon, 47, is an associate of the government's chief suspect, Tim McVeigh. Indeed, McVeigh's defence team says Mahon sent a tape to their client in prison urging him to accept his " sacrifice " and reminding him in a subtle way that members of his family were vulnerable. Before the bombing on April 19, 1995, he was the subject of a terrorism investigation which generated allegations that he was plotting to blow up a federal building in Oklahoma. In case the authorities had overlooked this, an undercover informant reminded the FBI two days after the bombing that she had told them that Mahon had made three trips to Oklahoma City. On one visit in 1994, the informant said he " cased " the building that was attacked. A former Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and now a leader of the more militant White Aryan Resistance, Mahon has never made a secret of his extremism. He has called for the overthrow of the United States government by " any means " and regards it as an honour to have been barred from Britain and Canada. " I always deliver my bombs in person, in disguise, " he said mischievously. " I can look like a hispanic or even a Negro. I'm the master of disguise. " He has kept his sense of humour, despite being the chief target of McVeigh's defence team in the trial that starts tomorrow. McVeigh's lawyers have introduced documents in court asserting a " high probability " that Mahon and his friend Andreas Strassmeir, a former German army officer, were behind the Oklahoma bombing. " This is where I make my bombs, " he said, giving me a tour of a workshop attached to his house. " Just kidding. Everybody seems to think I did the bombing. Even the Iraqis think I did it, " he explained, saying he had been on the Iraqi payroll as a propagandist for more than three years. " They paid me $100 a month. " http://members.aol.com/bardonia/strange.htm Yousef's sponsor, Osama bin Laden, continues to build his base in the Phillipines. December 3, 1998 Global Intelligence Update (T)he terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, linked to Saudi terrorist Osama Bin Laden, has increased its activities in the southern Philippines, and a new Bin Laden linked group, the Salafiya Fighters, has reportedly surfaced near Zamboanga on Mindanao. While Yousef and Nichol's partner, McVeigh, chat in a Federal prison. March 11, 1999 The New York Times When the nation's most infamous terrorists-the Oklahoma City bomber, the Unabomer, and the World Trade Center bomber-are allowed out of solitary confinement so that they can have one hour of exercise in the nation's most secure Federal prison, what do they do Apparently, they just chat Timothy J. McVeigh convicted of carrying out the Oklahoma City bombing, while Ramzi Ahmed Yousef is a Muslim terrorist who masterminded the World Trade Center attack. The prison, the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colo., is so secure that it is known as Super Max. McVeigh, Kaczynski and Yousef, who are otherwise allowed no contact with each other, are permitted to spend their one-hour exercise period in separate cages in the prison yard, speaking to each other through mesh fences. Because of their distance from each other, they must speak loudly, so guards can hear what they say. ... Lawrence K. Feitell, wrote to the judge that he had seen on a television news program that McVeigh, Kaczynski and Yousef were allowed to have their daily exercise chats in the prison yard. He asked that Felipe be allowed " to share " with the three " in their outdoor mutual recreation. " ..... Precisely what the inmates discuss through the prison fence is not known. Yousef's lawyer, Bernard V. Kleinman, said by phone that his client has had conversations with McVeigh through the fence and also as they have been moved from their cells to the recreation area. " They talk about innocuous things like the movies, " Kleinman said. " They don't talk about anything that they shouldn't be talking about. " The FBI refuses to accept the evidence March 21, 2001 WorldNet Daily http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.aspARTICLE_ID=22122 A former investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City last night told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly she has gathered massive evidence of a foreign conspiracy involving Saudi terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the 1995 bombing of the federal building that killed 168 people. Jayna Davis, former reporter for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, says she took her evidence-including hundreds of court records, 24 sworn witness statements and reports from law enforcement, intelligence and terror experts-to the FBI, which refused even to accept the material. Two men were convicted of murder and conspiracy charges in the bombing-Timothy McVeigh, who faces execution May 16, and Terry Nichols, who yesterday asked that Oklahoma charges against him be dismissed as he has already been convicted in federal court. Nichols, 45, is serving a life prison sentence for his federal conviction on eight involuntary manslaughter counts and conspiracy for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. State prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Nichols. But defense attorneys said yesterday constitutional protection against double jeopardy bars the state from seeking the death penalty. Davis said federal authorities investigating the bombing decided early on in the probe that the blast was the result of a domestic conspiracy, not a foreign one, ignoring all evidence to the contrary. She said a Middle East terrorist cell was in operation only blocks from the federal building, and that an Iraqi national who formerly served in Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard was in contact with McVeigh the day of the bombing. She said this suspect arrived at the crime scene in a Ryder truck moments before the blast and sped away in a brown Chevrolet pickup truck immediately after. An all-points bulletin was issued for this suspect, but was later withdrawn inexplicably. Davis said her evidence indicates a conspiracy involving McVeigh, Nichols and at least seven men of Middle Eastern ethnic background. She called bin Laden the mastermind of the conspiracy. " The evidence we have gathered definitely implicates McVeigh and Nichols, " she said. " I want to make that very clear. They were in it up to their eyeballs. " Davis also points to court records offered in the Nichols defense that suggest he had contacts with a member of bin Laden's terrorist organization in the Philippines prior to the bombing. When she took her hundreds of pages of documentation of conspiracy in the bombing to the FBI, Davis said agents " turned me away and refused to take my statements. " " I was flabbergasted, " she told O'Reilly. " I am unable to imagine any reason they would not accept it. " But McVeigh supplies strange hints to both Osama bin Laden and Ramsey Yousef Friday, April 27, 2001 1:41 a.m. EDT NewsMax.com A month after a former NBC News reporter went public with evidence of links between Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Middle Eastern terrorist Osama bin Laden, McVeigh himself has cited bin Laden in a letter to the Fox News Channel., McVeigh -tossed in the chilling reference to the notorious Muslim terrorist. McVeigh mentioned convicted World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, in perhaps another indication of a Middle Eastern connection to his own crime. " For all else, I would refer you to my enclosed paper `Hypocrisy,' and to Ramzi Yousef's statement to the court just prior to his sentencing. I filter all labels and insults thusly. " In the Jan. 8, 1998, court statement to which McVeigh referred, Yousef proclaimed, " Yes, I am a terrorist and proud of it as long as it is against the U.S. government, " before being sentenced to 240 years in jail.Last month former NBC reporter Jayna Davis told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly that compelling evidence links McVeigh to a Middle Eastern terrorist cell ultimately controlled by bin Laden. " What we discovered, an intelligence source at one of the highest levels in the federal government later confirmed, was a Middle Eastern terrorist cell living and operating in the heart of Oklahoma City just a few miles from the Alfred P. Murrah building, " Davis said. Her NBC affiliate had located several witnesses who claimed that an Iraqi national with ties to Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard was seen in the company of McVeigh just prior to the bombing, Davis said. The Iraqi was also seen driving away from the bomb scene in a car identified by the FBI as a possible getaway vehicle. " We have 24 sworn witness affidavits that tie seven to eight Arab men to various stages of the bombing plot from the beginning all the way to the day in which the plot was executed, " the former NBC reporter told O'Reilly. " It really is a foreign conspiracy masterminded and funded by Osama bin Laden, according to my intelligence sources, " she asserted. Davis is not alone in that belief. In his 1999 book on the Oklahoma City tragedy, " Others Unknown, " McVeigh's lawyer Stephen Jones made similar claims, citing a meeting in the early 1990s between World Trade Center bomber Yousef and McVeigh's partner, Terry Nichols, in the Philippines, which he called a " hotbed of fundamentalist Muslim activity. " Jones said his research shows that bin Laden was in the Philippines at the same time as Yousef and Nichols. Both Jones and Davis said federal investigators were uninterested in exploring any possible Middle Eastern connection to the crime. [For further details see `From Dublin to Oklahoma City'. Also recommended is the book `Others Unknown' by Stephen Jones.] " http://members.aol.com/bardonia/strange.htm " The one Army link established in the case so far is the bond shared by McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The two men joined up on the same day in May 1988 and went through basic training together at Fort Benning, Georgia. They were then stationed together in the same company at Fort Riley enter Iraq during the Gulf War. Nichols was discharged for undisclosed reasons in May 1989, but McVeigh rose to sergeant and went on to serve in Operation Desert Storm, where he won several medals, including a Bronze Star. Although the awards were described by Pentagon officials as " typical " for those who served in the theater, one officer notes, " Some captains and majors didn't get Bronze Stars, so he must have been a half-decent soldier. " That is an understatement, says Robin Littleton, McVeigh's army roommate and one of his closest friends in the service. " Tim was the perfect soldier, " Littleton told Time. " I swear to God he could have been sergeant major of the Army - he was that good of a soldier. " One of his former commanders, Captain Terry Guild, 28, now stationed in Hawaii, agrees: " He was a very normal, good American serving his country. " according to the Anti-Defamation League last week, McVeigh in 1993 ran an ad to sell a military launcher in the Spotlight, a publication put out by the right-wing Liberty Lobby. Though the notice ran under an alias, T. Tuttle, it listed a Kingman address, and authorities say McVeigh has been known to use Tuttle as an alias. " Tuttle, it should be noted is the fictional character from the cult film " Brazil " . On the eve of the anniversary of the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy on the night of June 4th, 1968, which itself was the first anniversary of the Six Day War, in which Israel re-united Jerusalem, and liberated Judea and Samaria from arab despotism, Canada has arrested " alleged " terrorists with " alleged " links to international arab terrorists. Moreover the " alleged " terrorists arrested by Canada were " allegedly " planning to use the same type of explosive concoctions used in other terrorist attacks, including the Iraqi sponsored attack on the Oklahoma City Federal Building which housed the records of the Iran-Contra scandal which tied Saddam Hussein to George Herbert Walker Bush and would have proven to be an embarrassment to Saddam in the arab world. In the Iran-Iraq War then Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush sent messages to Saddam telling him to start bombing Iran. The following weekend Saddam conducted 300 to 400 bombing attacks on Iran, which was then approached by the U.S. with an offer of missiles to protect itself from Saddam. Thus began the Iran-Contra scandal which culminated in the indictment of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger at the Oklahoma City Federal Building on election eve 1992. The same type of explosive concoction was also used in the first bombing of the World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993, which was the 2nd anniversary to the day of the liberation of Kuwait City in the 1991 Gulf War and the eleventh anniversary to the day of the infamous and highly incorrect declaration on February 26th, 1982, that Iraq was no longer a state sponsor of terror, and was thus eligible for U.S. grants and " loans " , which it subsequently received. " The AMIA bombing was an attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, or AMIA) building in Buenos Aires. It was Argentina's deadliest bombing and the largest single incident of terrorism against Jews since World War II. Argentina is home to the largest Jewish community in Latin America (see Demographics of Argentina). The bombing On July 18, 1994, a powerful bomb made of ammonium nitrate was driven in a van through the front gates of the AMIA building in the Once district near downtown Buenos Aires. The building was a seven- story structure which was the headquarters of Argentina's Jewish community. The bomber detonated the bomb, levelling the building and reducing it to rubble, along with nearby buildings. Eighty-five people died, most of them Jewish. More than three hundred others were wounded. The attack came two years after the 1992 Israeli Embassy Attack in Buenos Aires that killed 29, and a day before a bomber blew himself up on a Panamanian commuter plane, killing 12 Jews and 9 others. Eight days after the AMIA attack the Israeli Embassy in London was car-bombed by two Palestinians linked to Hezbollah. In the days following the bombing, Israel sent Mossad agents to Argentina to investigate and Argentina closed its borders for fear more terrorists could enter. It is thought possible that the bombers entered Argentina through the Triple Frontier, where the borders of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet. Argentina's intelligence agency, the SIDE, is said to have set up a network of surveillance called " Centauro " in Paraguay, where many Muslim extremist cells are said to be located. In the years following the attack SIDE is said to have stopped another attack on Argentine soil. Responsibility Argentina, Israel and the US suspect that Hezbollah was behind the attack, with backing from Iran. Israeli diplomatic sources who read the " final " report by SIDE on the attack said in 2003 that the attack was a suicide bombing carried out by Ibrahim Hussein Berro, a 29-year-old Muslim who has been honored with a plaque in southern Lebanon for his " martyrdom " on July 18, 1994, the date of the bombing. This was confirmed by SIDE, the FBI, and Berro's relatives in November 2005. [1] Imagine the rage and fury of Saddam Hussein " On February 26th, 1982 the Reagan Administration told Congress that it had dropped Iraq from the list of nations that supported acts of international terrorism. Baghdad would now be eligible for American government loan guarantees. " source: SPIDER'S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN: 0553096508 Imagine Saddam's rage and fury when Kuwait was liberated on February 26th, 1991, 9 years to the day after the event described above! Is it any wonder that Saddam would launch the first of his 2 attacks on the World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993, the 2nd anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait City, and the 11th anniversary of the event described above, and that he would launch his 2nd attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, the 11th anniversary of the Bush I speech to Congress on Iraq. Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for instance " Saddam Hussein's speech on the 11th Anniversary of the Great Victory Day In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of our Glorious Arab Nation… " http://www.index.com.jo/iraqtoday/auguste.html Saddam took credit for the September 11th attacks on America on Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television. Saddam sent his henchman Osama bin Laden to attack America and to assassinate former President Bush, who was at the White House on the morning of September 11th, 2001,just as he had tried to assassinate former President Bush in Kuwait in 1993. That is why Flight 93 was selected to hit the White House on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Fortunately the heroes of Flight 93 stopped that from happening and the plane went down in Pennsylvania. Second Attempt to Assassinate President Bush. We all know that Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate former President Bush in Kuwait in 1993. Laura Bush, wife of the current President Bush, along with the current President Bush's brothers, his parents, and former Secretary of State Baker were actually in the air enroute to Kuwait when the intelligence came in and their plane was turned back. Then President Clinton later bombed an empty Iraqi intelligence building in retaliation for that attempt in which Saddam's homicide bombers were caught in Kuwait. We believe that the Second Attempt to assassinate former President George Herbert Walker Bush was made by Saddam Hussein using his henchman Osama bin Laden on September 11th, 2001. September 11th, 1990 Dubya's Dad Speaks to Congress on Iraq When September 11th Yes ! September 11th 1990. Exactly 11 years to the day before the infamous September 11th 2001 attacks on America. Saddam's Revenge !!! How clear it is!!! " Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal Budget Deficit September 11, 1990. We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of August 2d, following negotiations and promises by Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. *** The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective-a new world order-can emerge. *** " READ THE WHOLE OF DUBYA'S DADDY'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1990 AT http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ " Note: The President spoke at 9:09 p.m.in the House Chamber at the Capitol.. The address was broadcast live on nationwide television and radio. " http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ Iraq Cheers September 11th Attacks on America " Wednesday, September 12, 2001 Baghdad TV Commentary: US `Reaping Fruits of Crimes Against Humanity' Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic 1700 GMT 11 Sep 01 [TV Commentary by Sa'd Yasin Yusuf read by announcer over footage of explosions in New York] [FBIS Translated Text] [With thanks to Laurie Mylorie - Iraq Watch] The American cowboy is reaping the fruits of his crimes against humanity. It is a black day in the history of America, which is tasting the bitter defeat of its crimes and disregard for peoples' will to lead a free, decent life. The massive explosions in the centers of power in America, notably the Pentagon, is a painful slap in the face of US politicians to stop their illegitimate hegemony and attempts to impose custodianship on peoples. It was no coincidence that the World Trade Center was destroyed in suicidal operations involving two planes that have broken through all US security barriers to carry the operation of the century and to express rejection of the reckless US policy. Panic has spread among US official circles, which evacuated the White House following a series of explosions. They also evacuated the Pentagon, the State Department, and Congress and closed down the airports and government institutions. The collapse of US centers of power is a collapse of the US policy, which deviates from human values and stands by world Zionism at all international forums to continue to slaughter the Palestinian Arab people and implement US plans to dominate the world under the cover of what is called the new [world] order. These are the fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion rocking World Trade Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic-Official television station of the Iraqi Government] " http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3 " Canada arrests terror suspects; explosives found By Janet Guttsman Saturday June 3rd 2006 TORONTO (Reuters) - A group of Canadian residents arrested for " terrorism related offenses " were inspired by al Qaeda, had amassed enough explosives to build huge bombs and were planning to blow up targets in densely populated Ontario, police said on Saturday. Mike McDonell, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, said the group had acquired three metric tons of ammonium nitrate—or three times the amount used in the 1995 bombing in Oklahoma City—as they sought to " create explosive devices. " http://news./s/nm/20060603/wl_canada_nm/canada_crime_arrests _col_13 " On February 26, 1993, a terrorist bomb, which had been fabricated out of ammonium nitrate, urea, and nitric acid, exploded in an underground parking garage at the World Trade Center in New York City, causing six deaths, many injuries, and massive property damage… Subsequent to the World Trade Center bombing, an ammonium nitrate bomb demolished the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, at a cost of 68 lives, including those of children. " http://law.gsu.edu/wedmundson/Syllabi/TRT200.EXM.htm " FBI Connects Georgia Arrests to Canadian Plot Steve There may be a US connection to the terrorist arrests in Toronto, as two arrested in March 2006 in Georgia were tracked traveling to Canada, DC and Pakistan. Over the last month, investigators have traced Ahmed's path from an Atlanta mosque to Toronto to Washington, D.C. to Pakistan. According to a March 23 affidavit unsealed April 21, Ahmed met Sadequee at Al-Farooq Masjid mosque in Atlanta. Then, the two suspects traveled to Toronto in March 2005 to discuss potential terrorist targets with " like-minded Islamic extremists. " Lastly, Ahmed attempted to receive terrorism training during a trip to Pakistan last year. Ahmed's March 23 arrest was not made public until April 20 and he is being held at an undisclosed location by the U.S. Marshal Service while he awaits trial. He pleaded not guilty on April 19, and no trial date has been set. [Emphasis added.] With implication in the Canadian investigation, this should quiet those who were complaining that the FBI had abducted the Bangladeshi. Canada's National Post also took a look at the Georgia-Canada connection in Terrorism's `new guard', published first on May 4, 2006. Unlike the old guard of terrorists, who were immigrants and refugees who brought to Canada the conflicts of their homelands, the new generation consists largely of Canadian-born radical Muslims of various ethnicities, as well as converts who have adopted the extremist interpretation of Islam. The documents also support recent claims by U.S. counterterrorism officials that extremists are operating inside Canada's borders. The presence of Islamic terrorists in Canada was noted two weeks ago, when the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrests of two Georgia youths. Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, 19, and Syed Haris Ahmed, 21, are accused of traveling [sic] to Canada last March for " terrorism-related planning and co-ordination " with local radicals. The FBI says while in Toronto they discussed terrorist training and plots to bomb U.S. military facilities and oil refineries. The next 48 hours will surely be full of related developments and revelations. " http://rapidrecon.threatswatch.org/2006/06/fbi-connects-georgia- arrests-t/ Recently President Bush took a very good step against the appeasers when the President granted Scooter Libby a commutation of his sentence. Libby will not have to go to prison. That was a very good move. The President needs to make more such good moves to stop the appeasers. Such good moves can help to rally those who will stand with him in the struggle against appeasement. The President needs to abandon once and for all his absurd call for the creation of a so-called " palestinian " state. The President needs to clean house from top to bottom at the State Department by firing every single arabist and other appeaser of terrorism there. The President needs to liberate so-called " Iran " , a.k.a. Persia, it was re-named " Iran " , which literally means: " Land of the Aryans " in 1935 when Persia tried to cozy up to Hitler. The President needs to liberate Syria. The President needs to permanently end all aid to, and all contacts with, Holocaust Denier, and long time aide to terrorist arafat, (arafat's uncle was the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who raised 3 Moslem SS Divisions, 2 Bosnian, the 3rd Albanian, for Hitler), Abu Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen, and the rest of his so-called " Fatah " , so called " PLO " , so-called " PA " , gang. " Powell calls for talks with Hamas Published: 07/19/2007 Colin Powell called for talks between the United States and Hamas. " I think you'd have to find some way to talk to Hamas, " the former U.S. secretary of state said Wednesday in an interview with National Public Radio. " http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103129.html Powel urges talks with Hamas Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:26:10 Source: Fars and Agencies Colin Powell urges the international community to talk with Hamas. Former US secretary of state Colin Powell has called on the international community to talk with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement. While the White House is trying to isolate Hamas, Powell has called on the international community to talk with the group, Fars news agency reported. In an interview with the National Public Radio of the US, Powell said the international community should be in touch with Hamas " source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=16980 & sectionid=351020202 " PRESS TV is the first international Iran-based news network to broadcast in English on a round-the-clock schedule. Our Tehran-based headquarters is staffed by media professionals from around the world. PRESS TV has an extensive network of bureaus located in the world's most strategic places. " http://www.presstv.ir/aboutus/ Jul. 19, 2007 19:24 Colin Powell: Quartet should talks to Hamas By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday the international diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East should find some way to talk to Hamas. source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? cid=1184766015795 & pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull " Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, no stranger to Middle East peace efforts, said Wednesday that he saw no solution to the conflict other than engaging with Hamas. Hamas is designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. and EU. " source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6791986,00.html " You might have heard Colin Powell say July 18 on NPR that the U.S. cannot maintain its current level of American-soldier fodder in Iraq beyond mid-2008... " source: http://villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/2007/07/good_news_bush ..php It is tragic that President Bush and Secretary Rice have been taken in by Holocaust Denier Abu Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen. Lest anyone believe that the mad man in Iran, who is a denier of The Holocaust and who supports Hamas is the only modern-day-Haman, in fact the so- called " moderate " Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) is also a Holocaust Denier read on: " Likely PA Prime Minister a Holocaust-Denier By Rafael Medoff Jewishsf.com | February 26, 2003 c.e. While European Union officials praised Yasser Arafat's decision to appoint his first-ever prime minister, historians of the Holocaust winced at the news that a leading candidate for the job is the author of a book denying that the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews. The candidate is Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen), Arafat's second in command, and his book, published in Arabic in 1983, translates as " The Other Side: The Secret Relations Between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement. " It was originally his doctoral dissertation, completed at Moscow Oriental College. The book repeatedly attempts to cast doubt on the fact that the Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews, according to a translation provided by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. " Following the war, " he writes, " word was spread that six million Jews were amongst the victims and that a war of extermination was aimed primarily at the Jews...The truth is that no one can either confirm or deny this figure. In other words, it is possible that the number of Jewish victims reached six million, but at the same time it is possible that the figure is much smaller—below one million. " Abbas denies that the gas chambers were used to murder Jews, quoting a " scientific study " to that effect by French Holocaust-denier Robert Faurisson. Abbas' book then asserts: " The historian and author Raoul Hilberg thinks that the figure does not exceed 890,000. " That is, of course, utterly false. Hilberg, a distinguished historian and author of the classic study " The Destruction of the European Jews, " has never said or written any such thing. Abbas believes the 6 million figure is the product of a Zionist conspiracy: " It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement...is to inflate this figure so that their gains will be greater, " he writes. " This led them to emphasize this figure in order to gain the solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning conclusions—fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few hundred thousand. " Another falsehood. In fact, no serious scholar proposes such a figure. After reducing the magnitude of the Nazi slaughter so that it no longer seems to have been a full-scale Holocaust, Abbas seeks to absolve the Nazis by blaming the Zionist leadership for whatever killings did take place. According to Abbas, " A partnership was established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist movement...[the Zionists gave] permission to every racist in the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine. " In addition to encouraging the persecution of Jews so they would immigrate to the Holy Land, the Zionist leaders actually wanted Jews to be murdered, because—in Abbas' words— " having more victims meant greater rights and stronger privilege to join the negotiation table for dividing the spoils of war once it was over. However, since Zionism was not a fighting partner—suffering victims in a battle—it had no escape but to offer up human beings, under any name, to raise the number of victims, which they could then boast of at the moment of accounting. " Perhaps sentiments of this sort were common within Abbas' circle of graduate students in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. But in the free world, such propaganda has never been accepted as serious scholarship. In most Western countries, Holocaust-deniers have been treated as pariahs. In Canada and many European countries, Holocaust-denial is a criminal offense. In New Zealand, Canterbury University recently issued an apology for having accepting a master's thesis denying the Holocaust, while the French minister of education revoked a doctoral degree that was awarded to a Holocaust-denier by the University of Nantes. A Polish university professor who denied the Holocaust was suspended from his position. The Japanese publisher Bungei Shunju shut down one of its magazines for printing an article denying the Holocaust. International pressure compelled Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to publicly retract statements in his book doubting that the Holocaust had taken place. Austrian Freedom Party leader Jorg Haider was ostracized by the international community for his remarks praising members of the SS, as was French politician Jean Marie Le Pen, for questioning the existence of the gas chambers and belittling the significance of the Holocaust. A recent poll found 64 percent of Americans believe world leaders should likewise refuse to meet with Abbas. Yet some in the media have treated Abbas with kid gloves, to say the least. The official BCC News Profile of Abbas reports: " A highly intellectual man, Abbas studied law in Egypt before doing a Ph.D. in Moscow. He is the author of several books. " The New York Times recently characterized Abbas as " a lawyer and historian...He holds a doctorate in history from the Moscow Oriental College; his topic was Zionism. " Neither the BBC nor the Times offered any further explanation as to the contents of Abbas' writings. Bestowing the title " historian " upon Mahmoud Abbas awards his writings a stature they do not deserve, and deals a grievous insult to every genuine historian. If Abbas is elevated to the post of prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, not only the media but the entire international community will be confronted with the question of whether Abbas deserves to be treated any differently from Tudjman, Haider and Le Pen. The writer is visiting scholar in the Jewish studies program at the State University of New York-Purchase College. His latest book is " A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, " co- written with David S. Wyman. " from: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=6340 " Mein Kampf, " previously banned by Israel, has been allowed by the PA and was sixth on the Palestinian best-seller list. A senior commander in Arafat's personal bodyguard is Fawzi Salem al-Mahdi (known as " Abu Hitler " ), whose two sons bear the first names Hitler and Eichmann. The official Arab mouthpieces are among the ranks of the most stubborn Holocaust deniers. And American neo-Nazi and white supremacist parties have found in Muslims a new audience to advance theories discredited in the west for more than 50 years. " excerpted from: http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/jewishsociety/Wake_Up_And_Smell_the_ Anti-Semitism.asp We saw it on September 11th, 2001 c.e. " A so-called)palestinian woman receives free sweets from a vendor as groups of locals in Jerusalem's Old City celebrate after hearing the news of a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. " (AP Photo/str) http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWorldTrade0109/photo136.html We saw it again on Sunday December 18th, 2005 c.e. so-called " palestinians " distribute sweets in Gaza after hearing that Israeli Prime Minister Sharon was taken to hospital 18th December 2005 c.e. Source: Reuters http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/pictures/SJS34.htm so-called " palestinians " distribute sweets in Gaza after hearing that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was taken to a hospital December 18th, 2005 c.e. Sharon was rushed to a Jerusalem hospital on Sunday suffering from what Israeli television described as a minor stroke " We do not feel that people who would celebrate the arab attacks of September 11th,2001 c.e. or the stroke suffered by Israeli Prime Minister Sharon are very sweet at all. We are happy to see the disapproval being expressed regarding the anti-Semitic remarks of the Iranian Tyrant and Holocaust Denier. We wonder when we will see identical disapproval being expressed regarding another Holocaust-Denier Mahmoud Abbas,(also known as Abu Mazen), the person who succeeded arafat as the Tyrant in parts of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Below is from: http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/08/29/plamegate-revelation-liberal- silence-deafening/ Plamegate Revelation: Liberal Silence Deafening August 29, 2006Vox Populi, Will Malven The silence from the Left is, well, deafening. Come on folks, you know of what I am speaking. It's Plamegate of course and the silence of which I take note is the complete absence of commentary in the Left-wing blogosphere about the revelation that it was Richard Armitage, not Karl Rove, not Dick Cheney, not even Lewis " Scooter " Libby that was Robert Novak's source for the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson. The silence in the Liberal blogs is absolutely deafening, Armitage's revelation is not addressed at dailyKos.com, not even mentioned at democraticunderground.com, nary a word at the Huffington post, Wonkette says nothing, Crooksandliars misses the story entirely, MyDD has zippo, yep even Buzzflash which purports to supply pretty much all the important news for the moonbats failed to mention Richard Armitage. Amazing how inconvenient facts seem to be swallowed up in the static of repetition Katrina, Katrina, Katrina, Lieberman, Lame-ont, Rumsfeld, Katrina, Bush, Brownie, Katrina, Floyd, Kat…whoops, did I say Floyd? I'm sorry just a slip. You most assuredly won't find any mention of Hurricane Floyd in those Left- wing moonbat blogs. It is another " inconvenient fact " and therefore to be ignored by the Left. The dedication of Liberal bloggers to the truth is less than overwhelming; of course you knew that didn't you. Liberals are liars. If you don't believe me just watch " Lassie " …err former Senator, Presidential Candidate, and Vice-Presidential Candidate John Edwards whenever he answers a question about the war. He bats his eyes like a Main-Street hooker. Watch Joe " Plagiarizer " Biden whenever he answers a question about national security, he appears to have suddenly gotten a piece of sand in his eyes, blink-blink- blink-blink. In fact the blink reflex is a relatively good indicator of a person's veracity. When the individual is telling the truth, their eyes blink normally like everyone else, but let them leave the realm of fact for the dodgy terrain of untruth and suddenly their eyes are all a flutter. I suspect if we were to put all the Liberal politicians together in the same room, they would be able to power a windmill and reduce the energy requirements of DC. Once you know this truth, it can be quite amusing to watch Democrats as they struggle with the truth. It's not infallible, but it is useful. As for the silence, are you really surprised? The Left has spent much of the past few years hounding the Bush Administration about the events surrounding the Novak article. Karl Rove was demonized, Vice-President Cheney was loudly accused, the President was held up to scrutiny for his statement that anyone in his administration involved in the outing of a CIA operative " would be taken care of. " The moonbats of dailyKos and Democraticunderground have openly bragged about the imminent demise of either Rove or Cheney on an almost daily basis. They have blithely ignored any information that would have easily redirected their ire toward those who were more likely to have been the " leaker. " Liberal arrogance (and it is an epidemic among them) is based on their ignorance of the facts. Usually that ignorance is by choice. They choose to " ignore " the facts with which they are confronted, believing instead their own mythology. So now they have been caught with their mouths hanging open with nothing to say. Being that profoundly wrong will do that to you. All of that hope hanging on their delusional faith in a myth which was never based in reality. You can expect to see them equally silent in November when all of their delusional prognostications of a glorious victory in which they (the just and right) seize back power from conservatives (the evil and heartless). Of course some of them will immediately revert into their delusional state and claim that the Republicans have stolen the elections they have long assumed they would win. They seem to be incapable of understanding that mere hatred of Republicans and President Bush is not a sufficient reason for people to vote for them. One must have some clue as to how to run the nation and it is becoming increasingly clear that the Democrats don't have and will never have a clue. So far, every " policy proposal " they have come forward with has been a bland accumulation of generalities. They haven't any idea as to how to deal with the nation's problems. So look for more of these omissions as time progresses. Richard Armitage has been a hero of the Left because he was hostile to the Bush Administrations plans for Iraq. For him to be revealed as the notorious " leaker " of Robert Novak fame is a severe blow to the moonbats. Hey moonbats: " Armitage is the Leaker! " " Armitage is the Leaker! " " Armitage is the Leaker! " Na-na-na-na-na-na! What ya think about them apples Markos? I tell you I love it. Even Karl Rove couldn't have planned this… could he? Hmmm, you never know. Posted in Vox Populi, Will Malven at 4:48 pm by Will Malven " below is excerpted from: http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny- vparm314871380aug31,0,7404584,print.story?coll=ny-editorials- headlines " Armitage all along August 31, 2006 The world now knows who outed CIA operative Valerie Plame. It was then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage....It would have been nice to know the truth before a special counsel was appointed, a criminal investigation launched, a grand jury impaneled, a reporter jailed and a White House staffer, Lewis " Scooter " Libby, indicted....According to Newsweek, Armitage was Robert Novak's source for a July 2003 column that revealed Plame's line of work....Armitage was no champion of pre-emptive war in Iraq, so identifying him as the original leaker would have deflated speculation that it was administration officials pushing for war who outed Plame. Their goal, the theory went, was to discredit her husband, a diplomat who had challenged White House claims about the existence of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq. A bit more candor would have been good for all concerned. " Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has confirmed that he was the first Bush Administration official to leak Valerie Plame's name to Ultra-right-wing extremst and notorious anti- Israel CNN Crossfire co-host Robert Novak. Not so long ago Novak, interviewing Colin Powell, of all people, quoted his fellow anti-Israel lunatic Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd: " MR. NOVAK: Mr. Secretary, Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd of West Virginia, the president pro tem of the Senate, often speaks his mind. He did this week, and we'll put it up on the screen. He said, " If we expect to kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us going beyond doomsday. How long can we afford this? " http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2002/8624.htm How long could the terrorists afford to continue to be wiped out by the US government we wonder? Well I guess that question never occurred to Byrd or to the online Egyptian newspaper AL-AHRAM which used the same quote from Byrd. Clearly Byrd hates the idea of wiping out arab terrorists. http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/576/re74.htm Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Al-Ahram Weekly Online 7 - 13 March 2002 Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd of West Virginia: " If we expect to kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us going beyond doomsday, " he said. " How long can we afford this? " The thing is, though clearly Byrd, Novak, and Al Ahram aren't interested, is that we cannot afford not to continue to go after terrorists like arafat and bin Laden and their master Saddam Hussein. All of whom we guess must be among Byrd's and Novak's biggest fans. What happens if Ms. Rice's predecessor's aide, Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage ends up testifying that he fed Bob Novak the Valerie Plame story on orders from his then boss Colin Powell? Could Powell end up in jail if he ends up mishandling his own testimony on the matter, should such testimony by demanded. If it is not demanded we need to ask why not? Ex-Colleague Says Armitage Was Source of CIA Leak By R. Jeffrey Smith Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, August 29, 2006; Page A06 The leak of information about an undercover CIA employee that provoked a special prosecutor's investigation of senior White House officials came from then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage, according to a former Armitage colleague at the department. Armitage told newspaper columnist Robert D. Novak in the summer of 2003 that Valerie Plame, the wife of a prominent critic of the Iraq war, worked for the CIA, the colleague said. In October of that year, Armitage admitted to senior State Department officials that he had made the remark, which was based on a classified report he had read. Powell's history as a witness is somewhat checkered to say the least. " It was Powell whom President Reagan summoned to the White House to help National Security Advisor Frank Carlucci clean up the mess after the Iran-contra debacle. " Below is excerpted from: http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/colin8.html " Behind Colin Powell's Legend-Saving Reagan By Robert Parry & Norman Solomon " We need you, Colin, " the familiar voice of new national security adviser Frank Carlucci pleaded over the phone in December 1986. " This is serious. Believe me, the presidency is at stake. " With those words, Colin Powell re-entered the Iran-contra affair, a set of events he had dangerously advanced in January 1986when he arranged missile deliveries to Iran , while keeping Pentagon colleagues in the dark. But just as Powell played an important behind-the-scenes role in those missile shipments, he would be equally instrumental in the next phase, the scandal's cover-up in 1987-88 The documentary record-some of it recently declassified at the request of The Consortium-reveals disturbing new questions about Colin Powell's own " character and competence, " including clear discrepancies in his sworn testimony. But in late 1986, as Carlucci called Powell in West Germany , the White House needed some cool heads and some steady hands. President Reagan was reeling day after day from disclosures of the reckless arms-for-hostage scheme with Iran and diversion of money to the Nicaraguan contra rebels. After sounding Powell out about his willingness to join the National Security Council staff, Carlucci made sure he could wall Powell off from the scandal. On Dec. 9, 1986, the White House obtained from the FBI a statement that Powell was not a criminal suspect. The next day, Carlucci asked Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger " to call Peter Wallison, WH Counsel-to tell them Colin had no connection with Iran arms sales-except to carry out President's order, " Weinberger wrote down. He then " called Peter Wallison-Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on Iran . " With Carlucci satisfied that his old friend, Powell, could sidestep the spreading Iran-contra stain, Reagan formally asked the general on Dec. 12, 1986, to quit his post as commander of V Corps in West Germany and to become deputy national security adviser. Powell accepted, taking over those new duties on Jan. 2, 1987. As always, Powell took to his task energetically. To put the Iran-contra scandal behind the White House, he help ed draft a limited mea-culpa speech by Reagan on March 4, 1987. The president admitted that the arms-for-hostage deal " was a mistake. " But Powell failed to force in some phrasing exonerating his patron, Weinberger, and by inference, Colin Powell. A Confident General Powell testified before both the congressional committees and special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. Under oath, the general asserted that he did not know about the early 1985 arms shipments to Iran a key point given the fact that those arms transfers represented a felony under the Arms Export Control Act. He insisted that he did not know that U.S. weapons were being shipped until mid-January 1986 when President Reagan signed a " finding " that made the deliveries legal. The distinction was crucial to Powell's defense of himself and Weinberger. Powell stuck to his story even as evidence emerged proving that he and Weinberger were reading top-secret intelligence intercepts in September and October 1985 in which Iranians described the delivery of U.S. weapons. The Consortium obtained one of those reports, dated Oct. 2, 1985. It was marked " SECRET SPOKE ORCON " and was signed by Lt. Gen. William Odom, the director of the National Security Agency. The sensitive electronic intercept had picked up a phone conversation a day earlier between two Iranian officials, identified as " Mr. Asghari " who was in Europe and " Mohsen Kangarlu " who was in Tehran . " A large part of the conversation had to do with details on the delivery of several more shipments of weapons into Iran , " wrote Odom in the " exclusive " report which went only to top officials at CIA, the NSC and the Pentagon. " Asghari then pressed Kangarlu to provide a list of what he wanted the 'other four planes' to bring. ... Kangarlu said that he already had provided a list. Asghari said that those items were for the first two planes. Asghari reminded Kangarlu that there were Phoenix missiles on the second plane which were not on the first. ...[Asghari] said that a flight would be made this week. " When asked about this and other touchy points by congressional investigators on June 19, 1987, Powell pleaded a weak memory. He repeatedly used phrases such as " I cannot specifically recall. " At one point, Powell said, " To my recollection, I don't have a recollection. " When asked if Weinberger kept a diary, Powell responded, " The Secretary, to my knowledge, did not keep a diary. Whatever notes he kept, I don't know how he uses them or what he does with them. He does not have a diary of this ilk, no. " As for his own notebooks from the Iran-contra period, Powell announced that he had destroyed them. Weinberger offered similar testimony, claiming that he took notes " occasionally, but comparatively rarely " and that they were not " kept in any formal way. " Whatever their condition, however, Weinberger's notes were not delivered to Congress or to the special prosecutor. That gap of evidence was crucial in the failure of the early Iran-contra investigations to breach the White House stonewall. Fall-Guy Plan In 1987, the White House cover story-blaming the scandal on Oliver North and other out-of-control NSC officers-held, even though North had publicly denounced the official version as a " fall-guy plan. " Thanks in no small part to Powell's fencing with his inquisitors, the investigation was blunted, Ronald Reagan's presidency was saved and George Bush could tell the voters that he had been " out-of-the-loop " on Iran-contra. The Consortium investigation found that Powell's records at the NSC and at the Pentagon revealed no information about-or apparent interest in-longstanding allegations that the contras engaged in cocaine trafficking -(Ironically, recent disclosures in federal court records cite Bermudez as the contra leader who gave a green light to massive contra cocaine shipments into the United States .) After Congress ended its Iran-contra investigation in fall 1987, Powell mounted a counter-attack -To his surprise, though, Powell was not quite through with Iran-contra. In 1991, Walsh's investigators stumbled upon Weinberger's long-lost notes which had been filed away in an obscure corner of the Library of Congress. Among those papers was a note from Oct. 3, 1985. It indicated that Weinberger had received information from an NSA intercept that Iran was receiving " arms transfers " -the point that Powell had tried so hard to obscure. The belated discovery of Weinberger's diaries led to the former defense secretary's indictment for obstruction of justice. The notes also prompted Powell to submit a pro-Weinberger affidavit that stunningly contradicted Powell's own earlier sworn testimony in which he had insisted that Weinberger maintained no " diaries. " In the affidavit dated April 21, 1992, however, Powell argued that he regarded Weinberger's daily notes as a " personal diary " and that it was " entirely possible " that Weinberger would not have understood these personal papers to be within the scope of the Iran-contra document requests. Though the contradiction was clear, Powell was never held to account.. The only threat to Powell's reputation would be the trial of Caspar Weinberger which was scheduled to start in January 1993 and which listed Powell as a prospective witness. Bush -pardon(ed ) Weinberger, on Christmas Eve 1992. Weinberger thus was spared a trial-and Powell was saved the embarrassment of public attention over his dubious role in the Iran-contra affair. " Public Service " 11-17-1995 Powell Receives Enron Prize for Public Service Photo caption: Colin Powell receives an ovation upon accepting the first Enron Prize, presented by James A. Baker, III, 61st secretary of state. " Thomas E. White became the 18th Secretary of the Army on May 31, 2001, after nomination to that post by Bush and confirmation by the United States Senate. From 1990 to 2001, Mr. White was employed by Enron Corporation and held various senior executive positions. " http://www.army.mil/leaders/Secarmy/bio.htm " Press Release (Bush) intends to nominate Thomas E. White, Jr. to be Secretary of the Army. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of Enron Energy Services. He has served as Chairman and CEO of Enron Operations Corporation and as Chairman and CEO of Enron Power Corporation since joining Enron in 1990. After 23 years, White retired from the U.S. Army as a Brigadier General. He served as Executive Assistant to General Colin Powell while he served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1990 " http://www.ktroop.com/gen_white.htm " Powell, the son of General Colin Powell, is widely expected to be named FCC chairman once Bush takes office. General Powell is a member of AOL's board of directors. " http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/6627.html " Colin Powell SECRETARY OF STATE Corporate Connections: America Online; Time Warner; Gulfstream Aerospace; General Dynamics As a civilian, Colin Powell served on two corporate boards: Gulfstream Aerospace and America Online. Gulfstream Aerospace makes specialty jets for Hollywood movie stars and for foreign governments, like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia-two countries Powell got to know well in his role as chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War. The company was bought out by defense contractor General Dynamics in 1999. The former general also earned a nice windfall when AOL finally merged with Time Warner earlier this year. His stock in the company reportedly increased in value by $4 million. Powell's son, Michael, was the only commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission who advocated letting the AOL-Time Warner deal go through without scrutiny. President Bush recently named Michael Powell chairman of the FCC. The agency will soon consider whether to allow AOL to keep its monopoly on the " instant messaging " technology it developed for the Internet. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics. http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/cabinet/cabinet.powell.asp Wrong Team In Washington Powell " Colin L. Powell will again embarrass the American people by meeting with Yassir Arafat as if he wasn't the murderer of Americans. He will again ignore the operational connections to Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Iranian-backed Hezb'Allah. The soft General - now Sec. of State, fits the profile of a State Department apparachnik who will deal with any dictator or war criminal if it meets the requirements of commerce. No pride, no dignity, no ethics - just a vast shadow government ready to sell America for whatever price it will bring. Selling out our Allies to Arab Islamists is merely a step lower than their usual practice. " Above excerpted from a widely quoted piece by Emmanuel Winston. " Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists and destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the United States the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that " rogue regime. " " from the secretary of state of the United States the other day. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) COLIN POWELL, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: This kind of response (Note the response Powell was referring to was a response to arab terrorism!!! Quite a double standard! ) is too aggressive and it just serves to increase the level of tension and violence in the region. " " Sharon told Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) in a telephone conversation, that Israel had the same right to defend itself as the United States, an Israeli political source said. Raanan Gissin, a senior aide to Sharon, said the Hamas activists killed in Tuesday's strike had been planning new operations in Jerusalem, where a high security alert is in effect and a pipe bomb exploded in a park on Wednesday. " " Take Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. His portfolio, which is valued at between $18 million and $65 million, is chock full of high-tech stocks. For instance, he has holdings in the $500,000 to $1 million range in such companies as Cisco Systems, EMC Corporation and JDS Uniphase. " " " When Colin Powell called himself a " Rockefeller Republican " - pundits found nothing odd He may well have picked it up from Christine Todd Whitman. Powell and New Jersey's first woman governor have become thick lately, and Nelson Rockefeller runs through her life like a trout line. " " Colin Powell, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was awarded the first Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service Monday during the Inaugural Annual Conference of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Powell was chosen for his service to his country at the highest level in both military and civilian positions and for his contributions to foreign policy and national security. James A. Baker, III, the 61st secretary of state, and Kenneth Lay, chairman and chief executive officer of Enron Corp., presented the award at a ceremony prior to the afternoon panel discussion on politico-military factors and the future of warfare. " I am deeply honored to be the first recipient of the Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service, " Powell said. In his remarks, he thanked both the Baker Institute and Enron Corp. I am pleased to begin this new phase of my life right here at the Inaugural Conference of the Baker Institute. It's a good place to start it. " Powell said the institute represents a very successful collaboration between the corporate leaders in Houston and the leaders of Rice University. Powell said we are now moving from a world of danger to a world in which, with the end of the Cold War and containment, " we have lost the rules that gave us the means to make appropriate choices. " New rules are needed. So there will be new elements of power, new ways of competing and the ideas and structure that we will need to deal with this new world will emerge from places of learning, places of study and places of introspection, such as the Baker Institute. I predict this will be one of the leading institutions of that kind, " he said. The inscription on the prize states: " In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the foreign policy and national security of the United States of America The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy Awards the Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service to General Colin L. Powell (retired) at Rice University, November 1995. " The Enron Prize is made possible by a generous gift from the Enron Corp., which has established an endowment for the prize. " Did Anniversary Assassins Strike Again November 22nd 2004 What do you think the chances are that the plane crash which would have killed the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush,had he been on board the plane which was enroute from Love Field in Dallas, Texas to pick him up, on the 41st anniversary of the assassination of JFK 11/22/1963 was a botched assassination attempt? Saddam Hussein, who may be running the show from his jail cell, assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years old, took power in Iraq in 1968, made it official 11 years later in 1979, invaded Kuwait 11 years later in 1990 sent bin Laden to assassinate former President Bush 11 years later on 9/11/2001 on the 11th anniversary to the day of the 9/11/1990 Bush speech to Congress on Iraq in which Bush mentioned The New World Order. " US plans to dominate the world under the cover of what is called the new [world] order. These are the fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion rocking World Trade Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic-Official television station of the Iraqi Government. " The World Trade Center looked so much like the number 11 that WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World Trade Center as its logo. Note 11 times 2 equals 22. The Madrid attacks were done exactly 911 days after 9/11/2001. Sadat, criticized by arafat and Saddam for making peace with Israel, was assassinated on 10/6/1981 exactly 8 years after the 10/6/1973 Yom Kippur War in which he failed to defeat Israel. The American Embassies in Africa were hit on August 8th, 1998, exactly 8 years after the US entered Saudi Arabia in response to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait. A gentlemanly John Connally reaches to remove his hat as Jackie Kennedy enters presidential limousine at Love Field, Dallas, November 22, 1963 Source: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/jbc-love.htm The shocking news that narco-terrorists in Colombia plotted to assassinate current President George W. Bush on Monday November 22nd, 2004, the 41st anniversary of the JFK assassination, needs some examination. BCCI, the infamous drug-terror-arms bank that allegedly gave former President Jimmy Carter $10 million for the Carter Library,had offices in Peru, where coca leaves are grown, in Colombia, where the coca leaves are processed into cocaine, and in Castro's Cuba, and Baathist Syria and Baathist Iraq. Banks did not get offices in any of those 3 tyrannies without the approval of the tyrant. " Colombian Rebels Planned to Kill President Bush November 27th, 2004 U.S. National - Reuters By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Bush was targeted for assassination by Colombia's biggest Marxist rebel group this week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, a top Colombian official said on Saturday. " According to informants and various sources, we had information indicating that various members of the FARC had been instructed by their leaders to make an attempt against President Bush, " Defense Secretary Jorge Alberto Uribe told reporters. He would not be drawn out on the details of the threat. The White House had no immediate comment. The U.S. Secret Service, which protects the president, said it " does not comment or release information regarding our protective intelligence and protective methods. " " We do not discuss any alleged threats to our protectees, " said Jonathan Cherry, a Secret Service spokesman. There was heavy security in Cartagena when Bush visited the city on Monday(November 22nd, 2004)on his way back from the APEC forum in Chile. Military helicopters packed with armed soldiers flew over Bush's motorcade while naval vessels kept watch offshore. Many shops were shuttered. " Source: http://news./news? tmpl=story & u=/nm/20041127/us_nm/colombia_bush_plot_dc_5 " In early August, 1991, the Committee was provided with documents from the Latin American and Caribbean Region Office (LACRO) of BCCI, describing the offer for sale by the Argentine air force of 22 Mirage aircraft for $110 million. (63) The planned sale was to have been made to Iraq, as part of Saddam Hussein's massive military buildup prior to the Gulf war. BCCI was acting as the broker for the transaction, which was to take place in August or September of 1989...As Robert Mazur, the Customs agent in Tampa who selected BCCI as the target of the Customs money laundering sting testified, BCCI bank executives volunteered methods to enhance and improve his techniques for money laundering, and shortly before the sting ended the operation, offered to introduce Mazur to other potential " cash " customers for money laundering services from Bogota, Colombia.... " Source: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/04crime.htm " The Ba'ath leadership gave the orders for Qasim's assassination...On October 7th,1959, a six-,man assassination squad was waiting...the night before one member of the squad had fallen ill. A new recruit was drafted in...his full name was Saddam Hussein al-Takriti. " Page 22 " The Ba'athist led forces...participated in the coup of 8th February 1963...Immediately after the coup, Saddam Hussein returned to Iraq, where he was appointed as the head of Al-Jihaz Al Khas, known popularly as Jihaz Haneen (the Yearning Apparatus), the clandestine intelligence organization of the Ba'ath Party. Saddam proceeded to turn it into an instrument of terror....on 18th November (1963) the army seized power in a swift military coup...the new leadership of the Ba'ath Party...was arrested. However, some of its members immediately collaborated with the new regime... " Pgs 25-26 " 7th October 1959 A Ba'athist assassination squad fails to kill Qasim. A member of the team, twenty-two-year old Saddam Hussein, escapes to Syria and then to Egypt...8th February 1963 A Ba'athist coup overthrows Quasim amidst several days of terrible street fighting...18th November 1963 Following bitter infighting between...factions of the Baath, Arif overthrows the Ba'athist regime... " Pages 312-313 " Saddam...inherited from his uncle an admiration for Nazi principles...he was attracted to the ideas of the Ba'ath nationalist movement. The movement had been established in Damascus in 1943 " (when Syria was a French colony and Hitler ruled France) " by two Syrians, Greek Orthodox Christian Michel A'flaq and Sunni Muslim Salah al-Bitar. Their philosophy was based on the ideology of German national socialism " (Nazism) " and on Italian fascism. " Page 199 " After the Ba'ath Party came to power in February 1963...Saddam was promoted into the Regional Command Council and it was soon found that this was his metier. He was put in charge of a special force responsible for terror and assassination and was an interrogator and torturer in the Qasr al-Nihayyat (`The Palace of the End'). Eyewitnesses say Saddam excelled in creating new methods and revealed a sadistically inventive mind. He designed new instruments of torture and then experimentd with them on his victims. ...By the summer of 1963, Saddam was urging the party to put him in charge of creating a special security apparatus modelled on the Nazi SS. This was the Jihaz Haneen....following nationalisation of banks and certain foreign companies in 1964, the Ba'ath Party instructed Saddam to assassinate the president Abd al-Salam Arif. The proposed assassination was designed to trigger off another Ba'ath coup. Critics say it was a plan on behalf of the CIA but according to some Ba'athist defectors the CIA did not have direct contact with the Ba'ath itself but with army officers who were co-ordinating a joint coup with the party. The main contact with the Americans was Iraq's own ambassador in Washington, Dr. Nasser al-Hanni. " Pages 201-203 " The second part of the plot was carried out by the Jihaz Haneen...Members of the Iraqi Jewish community...were...arrested. Eleven of them were among the first fourteen `spies' to be pubicly hanged on 27th January 1969....The public hangings turned into a national holiday with live television and radio coverage, and the Ba'ath Party organized the transport of some hundred thousand `workers and peasants' from outside Baghdad to join in...Families picknicked under trees while watching the hangings. This public orgy of death went on for twenty-four hours... " Page 206 Source: Unholy Babylon-The Secret History of Saddam's War by Adel Darwish and Gregory Alexander St. Martin's Press, New York 1991 ISBN 0-312-06530-2 " Compare the January 1969 show trial with another spectacle organized by the first Ba'thi regime in 1963 and designed to counter the continuing popularity of the ousted president, `Abd al-Karim Qassem, among certain sectors of the Shi'ite population of Baghdad. In the first week of the coup, the citizens of al-Thawra, a suburb of Baghdad, had fought the army and Ba'thist militia in some of the bloodiest street battles in the history of the country. They refused to believe that Qassem had been overthrown....The Ba'ath...dealt with this emotive imagery by televising a lengthy film clip displaying Qassem's bullet-ridden corpse. Night after night, they made their gruesome point. The body was propped up on a chair in the studio. A soldier sauntered around, handling its parts. The camera would cut to scenes of devastation at the Ministry of Defence where Qassem had made his last stand. There, on location, it lingered on the mutilated corpses of Qassem's entourage...Back to the studio, and close-ups now of the entry and exit points of each bullet hole. The whole macabre sequence closes with a scene that must forever remain etched on the memory of all those who saw it: the soldier grabbing the lolling head by the hair, came right up close, and spat full face into it. The fear that the Ba'th were trying to instill in this and other instances was brutally direct. The centuries-old message was simple: he is dead, you had better believe it, we can do the same to you. The fact that it was on television extended its reach... " Pages 58-59. Source: Republic of Fear The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq by Samir al Khalil Pantheon Books, New York 1989 ISBN 0-679-73502-X " An Afghani tends to a field of heroin poppies, the sale of which provides much of the financing for the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. Afghanistan is the world's No. 1 producer and distributor of heroin, and illicit drug trafficking is the biggest funding source for By Rachel Ehrenfeld / Special to The Detroit News About the author Rachel Ehrenfeld is director of the New York-based Center for the Study of Corruption and the author of " Evil Money " (HarperBusiness) and " Narco-Terrorism " (Basic Books). Moving the money... In the welter of events following the bombing of the World Trade Center in Feb. 26, 1993, few noticed that the first man arrested, Mohammed Salameh—the poor, unemployed illegal immigrant -- offered $5 million for bail. Where could he get this kind of money? The judge refused bail. But was the source of Salameh's offer the same as the one that funded the eight men—arrested shortly afterward—who planned to blow up Manhattan's tunnels and bridges and to assassinate public officials? Were the same money sources behind the final attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11? .... For a long time, there has been evidence that terrorist, international drug trafficking and criminal organizations use the same fund-raising methods to enrich themselves. Yet no one seemed to connect the dots. And no one seriously tried to crack down on their financing. Bin Laden's is only one among many hostile international criminal organizations, often state-sponsored, that will do whatever they can to diminish the status of the United States as the only superpower. According to a State Department report, the Taliban, who are at bin Laden's service, has the advantage of controlling the world's largest heroin production and distribution in the world. Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the heroin production soared to hundreds of tons each year. In 1999 alone, the world production of heroin was estimated at 500 metric tons; 400 were produced by the Taliban and available to fund bin Laden and his associates worldwide. First warning The writing was on the wall on July 5, 1991, when the Bank of England shut down what was the most important Islamic bank in the world, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). This criminal entity was created by the Pakistani Aaga Hassan Abedi " to fight the evil influence of the West " ; to help with the creation of the " Islamic Bomb " ; to finance all Muslim terrorist organizations; and to launder the money that was generated mostly by illicit drug trafficking and other illegal activities, including arms trafficking. When BCCI went belly up, we learned from thousands of documents that Abu Nidal—the notorious Palestinian terrorist organization that now enjoys the hospitality of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hezbollah and bin Laden—had accounts in the bank. By the end of the 1980s, the " special services " provided by BCCI included access to Western humanitarian and international development funds, as well as drug money laundering, secret transfers of cash and bribes. A " Black Network, " a special enforcement unit supported by Abu Nidal and other terrorist organizations, operated from Pakistan. The same Pakistan that harbored bin Laden for many years while its officials told the United States that they didn't know his whereabouts. And the same Pakistan that for decades, even according to the State Department's annual report, had been a major drug trafficking and money laundering center. Western blindness Yet, now more importantly, we also discovered that the American and British governments knew and kept the bank open for a long time. The bank " that would bribe God " was able to get away with its criminal activities for decades due to Abedi's clever portrayal of the Muslim nations as victims of Western—and particularly U.S. -- " imperialism. " And when the bank was shuttered, the accusation in the Muslim/Arab and Third World countries was that the U.S. and the United Kingdom governments closed the bank to curtail the growing fiscal power of Muslim countries. Like Abedi, anti-American, anti-Western terrorist and radical Muslim states and organizations, such as the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the PLO, Iraq and Iran, use Western democratic rhetoric to their advantage. But it is the willful blindness, mainly toward the growing volume of drug money laundering, exercised by Western bankers on the one hand and Western politicians on the other, that makes money laundering possible, despite the many laws and international conventions to control this phenomenon. The BCCI was the first warning to the West. The second warning about the abuse of European and American financial markets by terrorist organizations, as well as their involvement in the illicit arms and drug trade, was made in February 1994 by the British National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS). The Organized Crime Unit of the NCIS warned that Middle East terrorist groups and states were targeting the financial centers of London, Frankfurt and other Western countries, and that they favor illegal drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud.... Clinton appeasement Despite its stated policy of not negotiating with terrorists, the Clinton administration went out of its way to appease a few of the 20th century's most notorious terror groups: the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the PLO and the Irish Republican Army. All are heavily involved in the drug trade. On the eve of the 1993 handshake on the White House lawn between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service estimated the PLO's ill-gotten gains to total between $8 billion to $10 billion, with an annual income of about $1.5 billion to $2 billion from " donations, extortion, payoffs, illegal arms dealing, drug trafficking, money laundering, fraud, etc. " Since then, Washington has only aided and abetted the PLO. Since the start of the Oslo process, Arafat has received at least $3 billion more from the United States and the international community, without any serious demand for accountability, according to a report this year to Congress. Arafat, in well-documented instances, has been systematically skimming off portions of these funds, as he has with monies given to him on behalf of the refugees in the camps. The PLO was in the drug trafficking business almost from the beginning. Operating from Lebanon, under Habash's able leadership and assisted by a PLO-owned shipping company SUMUD, the organization exported hashish, opium, heroin and cocaine, first to Europe and later even to the United States and Australia. In return, it obtained weapons for their war against Israel and the West, and amassed a massive treasure trove. In addition, the PLO and Arafat, who enjoy the financial and strategic support of Hussein and bin Laden, have the distinction of being the organization that promoted " suicide bombers " as a weapon. Yet the Clinton administration subsidized a multitude of radical Palestinian groups, ranging from Arafat's Fatah branch of the PLO and its military wing, the Tanzim, to the socialist-nationalist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), headed by George Habash, all with close ties to bin Laden, Iraq and Iran. ....It was the Clinton White House that, despite evidence to the contrary, removed Syria from its list of the drug trafficking countries, to entice Syria to join the " peace process " in the Middle East. The failure of that process and the compromises the United States has made to maintain an illusion of peaceful prospects had no doubt added to the Muslim radical terrorists' resolve to attack what they see as a naive and vulnerable America. In another example of self-delusion, in 1999, then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright suggested a U.S.-led coalition to negotiate with the FARC and supported Colombia President Pastrana's " land for peace " initiative, despite a report from the General Accounting Office that the FARC is running a major international criminal enterprise that, among other things, supplies hundreds of tons of cocaine and heroin to the U.S. black market. This second Clinton " land for peace " initiative gave half of Colombia to the narco-terrorist FARC, while doing nothing to diminish its violence or appetite to control the rest of the country.... " Source: http://www.detnews.com/2001/editorial/0109/30/a17-306400.htm Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called the Palestinian Authority a " gang of corrupt assassins and terrorists. " " There is an obstacle [to peace] with the gang of corrupt assassins and terrorists that lead the Palestinian Authority, " Sharon said in a televised speech in Israel. " The only way to peace is to remove this murderous posse. " – Source: New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com Sharon raps Arafat `assassins' By KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Thursday, August 8th, 2002 " Bush back from surprise Iraq trip President Bush has arrived back in the United States after a surprise trip to Baghdad, where he spent two hours with US troops celebrating Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Bush told troops the US would not be swayed by ongoing attacks in Iraq. " We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a bitter cost of casualties, defeat a ruthless dictator and liberate 25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and assassins, " he told 600 US soldiers. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3245584.stm " President Bush and his wife, Laura, along with former president George H. W. Bush, welcome the King and Queen of Spain, Juan and Sofia Carlos, to their ranch Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, in Crawford, Texas.(AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) " Source: http://story.news./news? tmpl=story & u=/041124/480/txlj10111241820 A small jet chartered to fly former President Bush to Ecuador Monday,November 22nd, 2004 was well below normal altitude when it clipped a toll road light tower and crashed into a muddy field three miles south of Hobby Airport, killing the crew of three.The plane, which belonged to Jet Place Inc. of Tulsa, Okla., came from Love Field in Dallas. It was approaching the runway when the wing and the landing gear on the right side clipped the pole on a tollway road..... " " Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed deliberately. " http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair000121.html " The co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 uttered an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just before the doomed airliner went down " http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair991121.html " Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary radar data seems to indicate. " http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/chat_johnnance110199.html " The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from the south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this direction is that there's a 555 ft tall structure in the way called the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument, and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this, but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall, would have to be cleared, which means the plane's altitude would probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot. " Imagine the rage and fury of Saddam Hussein " On February 26th, 1982 the Reagan Administration told Congress that it had dropped Iraq from the list of nations that supported acts of international terrorism. Baghdad would now be eligible for American government loan guarantees. " source: SPIDER'S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN: 0553096508 Imagine Saddam's rage and fury when Kuwait was liberated on February 26th, 1991, 9 years to the day after the event described above! Is it any wonder that Saddam would launch the first of his 2 attacks on the World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993, the 2nd anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait City, and the 11th anniversary of the event described above, and that he would launch his 2nd attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, the 11th anniversary of the Bush I speech to Congress on Iraq. Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for instance " Saddam Hussein's speech on the 11th Anniversary of the Great Victory Day In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of our Glorious Arab Nation… " http://www.index.com.jo/iraqtoday/auguste.html Saddam took credit for the September 11th attacks on America on Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television. Saddam sent his henchman Osama bin Laden to attack America and to assassinate former President Bush, who was at the White House on the morning of September 11th, 2001,just as he had tried to assassinate former President Bush in Kuwait in 1993. That is why Flight 93 was selected to hit the White House on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Fortunately the heroes of Flight 93 stopped that from happening and the plane went down in Pennsylvania. Second Attempt to Assassinate President Bush. We all know that Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate former President Bush in Kuwait in 1993. Laura Bush, wife of the current President Bush, along with the current President Bush's brothers, his parents, and former Secretary of State Baker were actually in the air enroute to Kuwait when the intelligence came in and their plane was turned back. Then President Clinton later bombed an empty Iraqi intelligence building in retaliation for that attempt in which Saddam's homicide bombers were caught in Kuwait. We believe that the Second Attempt to assassinate former President George Herbert Walker Bush was made by Saddam Hussein using his henchman Osama bin Laden on September 11th, 2001. September 11th, 1990 Dubya's Dad Speaks to Congress on Iraq When September 11th Yes ! September 11th 1990. Exactly 11 years to the day before the infamous September 11th 2001 attacks on America. Saddam's Revenge !!! How clear it is!!! " Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal Budget Deficit September 11, 1990. We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of August 2d, following negotiations and promises by Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. *** The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective-a new world order-can emerge. *** " READ THE WHOLE OF DUBYA'S DADDY'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1990 AT http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ " Note: The President spoke at 9:09 p.m.in the House Chamber at the Capitol.. The address was broadcast live on nationwide television and radio. " http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ Iraq Cheers September 11th Attacks on America " Wednesday, September 12, 2001 Baghdad TV Commentary: US `Reaping Fruits of Crimes Against Humanity' Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic 1700 GMT 11 Sep 01 [TV Commentary by Sa'd Yasin Yusuf read by announcer over footage of explosions in New York] [FBIS Translated Text] [With thanks to Laurie Mylorie - Iraq Watch] The American cowboy is reaping the fruits of his crimes against humanity. It is a black day in the history of America, which is tasting the bitter defeat of its crimes and disregard for peoples' will to lead a free, decent life. The massive explosions in the centers of power in America, notably the Pentagon, is a painful slap in the face of US politicians to stop their illegitimate hegemony and attempts to impose custodianship on peoples. It was no coincidence that the World Trade Center was destroyed in suicidal operations involving two planes that have broken through all US security barriers to carry the operation of the century and to express rejection of the reckless US policy. Panic has spread among US official circles, which evacuated the White House following a series of explosions. They also evacuated the Pentagon, the State Department, and Congress and closed down the airports and government institutions. The collapse of US centers of power is a collapse of the US policy, which deviates from human values and stands by world Zionism at all international forums to continue to slaughter the Palestinian Arab people and implement US plans to dominate the world under the cover of what is called the new [world] order. These are the fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion rocking World Trade Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic-Official television station of the Iraqi Government] " http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3 " CNN LARRY KING LIVE America's New War: Laura Bush Discusses the Impact of September 11 Aired October 2, 2001 - 21:00 LARRY KING: A couple of other things: Have you spoken to your father- in-law? (Not in transcript, but the father in law in question is one George Herbert Walker Bush !!!) LAURA BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had actually spent that Monday night here. (not in transcript but " here " means at the White House !!!) LARRY KING: Really? LAURA BUSH: I had just seen them off that morning when I got in the-got in the car and found out about the first plane. LARRY KING: Didn't know that. LAURA BUSH: They were-they were on their way to St. Paul, Minnesota to give a speech, and they were in a private plane, and their plane was diverted to Minneapolis. " http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html " September 11th, 2001 - The White House is evacuated. White House Sealed " http://www.september11news.com/AAWhiteHouseEvacReuters.jpg " try to avoid having the principal travel by commercial airline on terrorist anniversaries " from " The Art of Executive Protection " http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000450.html " Perhaps the following may explain how Saddam knew where former President Bush might be spending the night of September 10th-11th 2001.: " Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III, and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has become unexpectedly important. That the Carlyle Group had its conference on America's darkest day was mere coincidence, but there is nothing accidental about the cast of characters that this private-equity powerhouse has assembled in the 14 years since its founding. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S. President George Bush Sr., former U.K. Prime Minister John Major, and former President of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has counted, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's family among its high-profile clientele. " http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html Prince Alwaleed bin Talal reportedly believes AOL is the `anchor' of the Internet. Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said Thursday that he intends to double his investment in America Online (NYSE: AOL), bringing his stake to a whopping $2.05 billion (US$) " The prince decided to invest more heavily in AOL because he reportedly believes the company is the " anchor of the industry " and will flourish even though other high-tech companies are " collapsing and going under left and right. " " America Online is the No. 1 Internet company in the world and has a solid foundation and is making profit, " the prince said in published reports. " When the dust settles on the dot-com industry, America Online will be around. " " SAUDI PRINCE ALWALEED WILL INVEST ANOTHER $1B IN AOL " Charles Molineaux, Patricia Sabga 11/20/2000 CNNfn; Capital Ideas CNN is owned by AOL Time Warner. CNN infamously has provided platforms to such rabid anti-Israel hosts as Pat Buchanan and Robert Novak, and to Clinton, now Kerry operatives Paul Begala and James Carville, all four of whom opposed the liberation of Iraq. " News for Abdul Aziz (I) " Saudi Prince Brokers Viacom-Kirch Deal 24 August 1999 (StudioBriefing) Saudi entrepreneur Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, who has made a number of investments in the worldwide entertainment industry, disclosed Monday that Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone had asked him to broker an acquisition of a stake in Germany's KirchGruppe. The Kirch company, which reportedly is in need of a cash infusion, has also been courted in recent months by News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch The Saudi prince, spoke to Bloomberg News about the Viacom-KirchGruppe deal on his yacht in Cannes,France. " Source: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0044287/news " Viacom, the owner of the MTV network, yesterday agreed to buy AOL Time Warner's 50% stake in Comedy Central, producer of cartoon series South Park, for $1.2bn (£790m). " Source: http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/text4-23-2003-39468.asp " South Park is racist, anti-Semitic.... " Source: http://www.jumptheshark.com/s/southpark.htm " Although a majority economic interest in Viacom is held by independent shareholders, the Redstone family maintains voting control of the company through National Amusements' holdings of Viacom's class A stock. " Source:http://www.worldwidewebfind.com/encyclopedia/en/wikipedia/v/vi /viacom ..html " Viacom, the parent company of Simon & Schuster, Richard Clarke's publisher. It's not clear yet how the Clarke book and testimony will shake out. But by publishing Clarke's book and giving him the platform of 60 Minutes, Viacom guaranteed that his 9/11 Commission testimony would be a blockbuster. " Source: http://www.bopnews.com/archives/000424.html Should the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F.Kennedy, and The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King,Jr. be investigated by a Special Presidential Commission, which we hope will be appointed solely by President George W. Bush, charged with discovering what role,if any, may have been played in any or all of those assassinations by arab terrorists, arab state sponsors of terror, arab terrorist gangs, and arab terrorist gangsters such as arafat, Saddam Hussein,and others,as well as the role,if any,of persons such as former alleged New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello,and the alleged associations, which may or may not be coincidental, of persons with one another including, but not limited to: Carlos Marcello, Lee Harvey Oswald,Ramsey Clark, John Failed The American Test Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Jesse " Welcome to Hymietown " Jackson,Louis Farrakhan,and others. " A Federal Aviation Administration report stated that Carnahan's plane was flying at 65,000 feet when the pilot reported a 'gyro problem.' A gyroscope on an airplane is a dashboard instrument that helps the pilot with basic orientation and sense of horizon... " http://www.cnn.com/chat/transcripts/2000/11/1/murphy/ " Will Joe and Valerie Wilson Sue Richard Armitage? No. They just want Cheney, Rove, and Libby. By Byron York The new attorney for Joseph and Valerie Wilson says the Wilsons do not plan to add former State Department official Richard Armitage to their lawsuit against top Bush administration officials...In July, the Wilsons sued Cheney, Rove, and Libby, along with ten other un- named co-defendants, charging that were part of a conspiracy to " discredit, punish and seek revenge against the plaintiffs that included, among other things, disclosing to members of the press Plaintiff Valerie Plame Wilson's classified CIA employment. " Armitage was not named in the suit....This week, a new book, Hubris, by the Nation's David Corn and Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, confirmed widespread rumors that Armitage was the original leaker in the CIA controversy. A few weeks ago, the Wilsons made changes in their legal team, joining forces with the liberal advocacy group Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington (CREW). The Wilsons also hired the San Francisco-based firm Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy. Constitutional lawyer Erwin Chemerinsky, who helped write the lawsuit, remains with the case.....Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is best known for its filing of ethics complaints against members of Congress, the overwhelming majority of them Republicans. Sloan is a former aide to Democratic lawmakers John Conyers and Charles Schumer. — Byron York, NR's White House correspondent, is the author of the book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists, and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President — and Why They'll Try Even Harder Next Time. below is excerpted from: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? file=/c/a/2006/08/31/EDG0SJ7NHV1.DTL & type=printable " by - Debra J. Saunders Thursday, August 31, 2006 WITH the disclosure that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the initial source for Robert Novak's July 2003 column that outed CIA operative Valerie Wilson -- also known as Valerie Plame, wife of former ambassador and Iraq-war critic Joseph Wilson -- it is now clear that all the hype about a Bush-inspired vendetta against the Wilsons is bunk....No one knows how much special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has spent in taxpayers' money investigating this leak, but figure the probe came with a hefty price tag because he has been in business since December 2003. We do know now, however, that when Fitzgerald set up shop, the secretary of State and someone at the Department of Justice knew that Armitage leaked the story....What did America learn? Rove confirmed Wilson's identity. Big deal. As Mark Corallo, who served as Rove's spokesman during this controversy, noted, Rove " never made a single phone call to a single journalist on this matter. He simply answered two phone questions from two journalists. " For confirming, not initiating, the Armitage leak, Rove was hauled before a grand jury five times. Rove is not the only White House aide made to jump through hoops. Some 2,000 White House staffers also were hopping as they had to produce phone records, diaries and correspondence. Then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller spent 85 days behind bars before disclosing who told her about Wilson -- even though she never wrote about the CIA operative's identity. That's another colossal waste of taxpayers' dollars, which would have been better spent jailing a real criminal. Fitzgerald has charged Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide, with perjury and obstruction of justice. But the special prosectuor's failure to charge the original leaker makes one question whether Fitzgerald was mindful of his office's mandate -- that a special prosecutor's probe, as Attorney General Janet Reno wrote in 1999, " be conducted ably, expeditiously and thoroughly, and that investigative and prosecutorial decisions will be supported by an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of Justice policies. " Instead, Fitzgerald's actions have been plodding and heavy-handed, landing a journalist who didn't write on the leak behind bars, while the leaker remained anonymous and free....As for the time table, while Deputy U.S. Attorney General James B. Comey told reporters that Fitzgerald had a reputation for working quickly, Fitzgerald has spent years investigating a leak that he has failed to prosecute, although the Libby prosecution is pending. The irony is that as Joe Wilson charged that the White House was pursuing him as an act of revenge, he emerges as a partisan bent on punishing those with whom he disagreed. Wilson, after all, once bragged that he wanted to see Rove " frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. " The Wilsons filed a silly lawsuit suit against Libby, Cheney and Rove. Armitage was not an Iraq war hawk, so it should come as no surprise that Wilson's attorney has given Armitage a pass....Yes, it is about the abuse of government power. The victims are the innocent staffers and journalists who had to face the threat of jail over three years while Armitage was too ashamed to come forward and admit what he had begun. E-mail: dsaunders. Page B - 9 URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? file=/c/a/2006/08/31/EDG0SJ7NHV1.DTL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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