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"...Former KGB counter-intelligence chief, General Oleg Kalugin, who is a Fox News commentator, recently stated that Admiral Poindexter's Office of Information Awareness (OIA) which is involved in spying on United States citizens, had hired both General Yevgeny Primakov and General Aleksandr V. Karpos, former KGB heads, as consultants and advisors. (Primakov in addition served as Russian Prime Minister in the late nineties.)
Al Martin, whose credibility has been questioned by a couple of NewsWithViews.com readers, had previously reported that Primakov and Karpov were hired by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This information was disinformation provided by the Bush Administration to cover up the fact that Poindexter's OIA had hired Primakov and Karpov.
When the Bush administration realized it couldn't get away with lying about the hiring of Primakov and Karpov by Poindexter's OIA, it put out out very effective disinformation to the effect that these two former Soviet spies had a relationship with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is a lie."
"Everyone likes to say, 'Hitler did this', and, 'Hitler did that'. But the truth is Hitler did very little.
He was a world class tyrant, but the evil actually done by the Third Reich, from the death camps to WW2 was all done by German citizens who were afraid to question if what they were told by their government was the truth or not, and who because they did not want to admit to themselves that they were afraid to question the government, refused to see the truth behind the Reichstag Fire, refused to see the invasion by Poland was a staged fake, and followed Hitler into national disaster."
"...It is naive, not to mention racist, to assume that tyrants appear only in other nations and that somehow America is immune simply because we're Americans.
America has escaped the clutches of a dictatorship thus far only through the efforts of those citizens who, unlike the Germans of the 1930s, have the moral courage to stand up and point out where the government is lying to the people.
And unless more Americans are willing to have that kind of individual courage, then future generations may well look back on the American people with the same harshness of judgment with which we look back on the 1930s Germans."
Most illegal immigrants can be jailed indefinitely without bond when national security risks exist, Ashcroft declared in a legal opinion. Immigration advocates are calling that an abuse of power in the name of fighting terrorism.
This is an abuse of power regardless of your stance on immigration laws. There was a time, not too long ago, when placing people into concentration camps indefinitely was frowned upon.
April 16 — After months of working below the radar, a huge U.S. legal team hired by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sprung into action and begun a major counteroffensive against a landmark lawsuit seeking $1 trillion in damages on behalf of the victims of the September 11 terror attacks...
Backed up by stacks of court affidavits and copies of cancelled checks, the Baker Botts team openly acknowledge in their brief that Sultan has for the past 16 years approved regular payments of about $266,000 a year to the International Islamic Relief Organization—a large Saudi charity whose U.S. offices were last year raided by federal agents. Sultan also authorized two additional grants totaling $52,000 to the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, another Saudi-based group that has drawn the scrutiny of U.S. antiterrorism investigators...
Baker Botts, Sultan’s law firm, for example, still boasts former secretary of State James Baker as one of its senior partners. Its recent alumni include Robert Jordan, the former personal lawyer for President Bush who is now U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
An internal list of other law firms retained in the case, reviewed by NEWSWEEK , reads like a veritable “who’s who” of the U.S. legal community. Among those firms and their Saudi clients are: Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (Prince Mohammed al Faisal); Kellog, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans (Prince Turki al Faisal); Jones, Day (the Binladin Group); Ropes & Grey (Khaled bin Mahfouz); White & Case,(the Al-Rajhi Banking Group); King & Spalding (the Arab Bank and Youssef Nada); Akin Gump (Mohammed Hussein Al-Almoudi); and Fulbright & Jaworski (Nimir Petroleum.)...
"All through the Soviet Afghan invasion of the 1980s, Casey of the CIA, Prince Turki of Saudi intellience, and the ISI worked together to create a Foreign Legion of so-called "Arab Afghans" (who in fact were never Afghans and not always Arabs) in Afghanistan. Bin Laden came to Afghanistan to represent Prince Turki in this endeavor...."
"The bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans, who control three private Saudi Arabian oil companies, are partners with U. S. firms in a series of ambitious oil development and pipeline projects in central and south Asia, records show.
Working through their companies - Delta Oil, Nimir Petroleum and Corral Petroleum - the Saudi families have formed international consortiums with U. S. oil giants Texaco, Unocal, Amerada Hess and Frontera Resources.
These business relationships persist despite evidence that members of the two Saudi families - headed by patriarchs Khalid bin Mahfouz and Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi - have had ties to Islamic charities and companies linked financially to bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization....."
"The financial assets of the Saudi Binladen Corporation (SBC) are also managed by the Carlyle Group. The SBC is headed up by members of Osama bin Laden’s family, who played a principle role in helping George W. Bush win petroleum concessions from Bahrain......"
The commission's executive director, Philip Zelikow, said the panel will ultimately get unfettered access.
Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana, tried to review transcripts of hearings held last year by the joint House-Senate intelligence committee. He learned that he lacked permission to see them, even though he served on the joint committee and therefore had read the material before.
Roemer called the experience outrageous. He noted that the commission, by law, must build upon the work of the congressional inquiry, which found that organizational problems and human failings prevented intelligence agencies from unraveling the Sept. 11, 2001, plot.
"The basic foundational work of the commission is the joint inquiry's product," Roemer said. "To delay access to that, to hinder access to that, is out of bounds."
(10/18/01) -- The Frankfurter Allgemeine reported this week that Mohammed Atta, one of the the suspected terrorists in the September 11 attacks on the United States, was a fellow at the Carl-Duisberg Development Forum in 1995. The three-month fellowship was awarded to students and young professionals aiming to create interdisciplinary approaches to development studies; Mr. Atta worked on a project titled "An investigation of city and traffic engineering to preserve the historical section of Cairo." Apparently, he participated in seminars in many German cities, including Berlin, while he was a student at a Hamburg university.
(Computer translation, click link for German) -- "Under Observation and then lost: A similar breakdown happened to the CIA in the case Mohammed Atta. Agents had already observed the later assassin, when he still lived as a student in Germany. The secret ones suspected it, for being a cell to have bought explosive-added.
Meanwhile they concealed their realizations until today to the German authorities. It remains unclear unmasking, why the CIA did not arrest Atta, over further backers or whether it simply lost sight of him. Insiders assume that Atta was observed up to his entry into the USA by the CIA and the agents then entwischte.
US Grenzer did not get an information: Also after the vermasselten Observierung of the CIA no information was passed on to other authorities. Although Atta had problems after foreign stays several times with the entry into the USA, the border authorities presented nothing against him.
It would have given several reasons to refuse him the entry into the USA: Once he did not have a valid visa, another time he had obviously illegally left the country. In his passport the output stamp was missing. But all this did not prevent him from preparing the devastating terrorist attack and exercise...."
Source: "They've been recently trained and tested and have been federalized so that they can make arrests at various locations around the country. I don't think they can make arrests outside of the areas that they're stationed on the job to secure. But you know how these things get started"
"They were/are the first company to be hired by our military to handle, guess what, security! They've been in Bosnia for about the last year and are now taking applications from people to go to Iraq ... $110k tax free the way I understand it."
After 9 days of involuntary incarceration at a Chicago area mental health facility, Robert More was released today. Robert J. More had been involuntarily taken into custody by the Chicago police on a petition signed by a sibling with whom he is having a legal contention...
VENICE, FL - April 24 -- For at least four years while living in Hamburg during the 1990’s terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta was part of a 'joint venture' between the U.S. and German Governments, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, an elite international “exchange” program run by a little-known private organization with close ties to powerful American political figures like David Rockefeller and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
The jointly-funded government effort picked up the tab for Atta on sojourns in Cairo, Istanbul, and Aleppo in Syria during the years 1994 and 1995 and employing him as a “tutor” and “seminar participant” during 1996 and 1997.
Moreover Atta’s financial relationship with the U.S. - German government effort, known as the may even extend back to his initial move from Egypt to Germany in 1992, after being “recruited” in Cairo by a mysterious German couple dubbed the “hijacker’s sponsors” in a recent news account in the Chicago Tribune.
Mohamed Atta, before becoming a ‘terrorist ringleader,’ enjoyed the patronage of a government initiative, known as the "Congress-Bundestag Program," overseen by the U.S. State Department and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, the German equivalent of the U.S. Agency for International Development busy currently supervising the secretive bidding race for tens of billions of dollars of post-war reconstruction contracts in Iraq. ** MUST READ **
Even stranger, both Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris were providing celebrity endorsements to Hilliard's operation well after the company's Lear (N351WB) had been busted by DEA agents armed with machine guns.
In other news: The U.S. CIA donated funds to the MAK (bin Laden's Maktab al-Khidamat organization) by channeling it through Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI).
George W. Bush, back in December of 2000, tells us about how naming his cabinet would be a lot easier if America were a dictatorship - as long as he was the dictator.
Washington - United States President George W Bush's bid for re-election will start late in 2004 and coincide with the third anniversary of the September 11 2001 attacks, with organizers spending twice as much as during his first campaign, said the New York Times on Tuesday.
Just like the Last War on Terrorism, as Adolf Hilter used his 9-11 (Reichstag fire) for political gain with such hyperbole as, "You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.", Bush Co. will trample on the memory of all those who lost their lives, in exchange for the halting of much needed regime change in America.
"I feel used. I feel violated and duped over the fact that that turned into nothing more than a political rally..."
Of course, he wasn't talking about the 3000+ that died on September 11, he was referring the to the memorial of the late Senator Paul Wellstone, in which eight people died in a tragic plane crash.
All this in light of Bush Co. facing a civil suit from Stanley Hilton and 400 family members of 9-11 victims for "causing, aiding and abetting 9-11", the very same event that he is capitalizing on.
Not to mention that the Washington Post reported that:
“Members of congressional committees investigating September 11th warnings said that there is far more damaging information that has not yet been disclosed about the government's knowledge of events leading up to Sep 11th.
'We've just scratched the surface,' said Senator Richard C. Shelby, ranking Republican member of the Senate intelligence committee."
“As a lifelong Republican I can only say that George Bush's fervent attempts to block the legislation that created the commission and now his attempt to starve it of funds give the strong impression of a man afraid of what an effective commission would disclose."
“...With Bush's truly incredible refusal to make any effort to bring realistic forces to the country's border with Mexico for the purpose of reducing the flow of illegal immigrants, terrorists and drugs, how can you conclude that he is serious about making America safe?”
“Bush may be riding high now but he could wind up back in Texas sooner than he thinks. If he believes that the 9/11 families are going to settle for a cover-up, then he is nuts. If we come to believe that he has betrayed us, and we start going around the country in 2004 and send out the message that the Commission's cover-up is Bush's cover-up, he is finished.”
SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. -Ten years ago, Randy Geissler placed a computer chip in his father's hand. Encased in a tiny glass tube, it wasn't much bigger than a grain of rice.
Geissler's father, a dairy farmer from Chippewa Falls, Wis., stared incredulously at it. "What are you going to do with that?"
A decade later, Geissler says he often answers a different question: "What can't you do with that?"
Today those chips - developed by Digital Angel Corp. in South St. Paul - are implanted in more than 30 million pets, [humans], livestock and fish worldwide, providing instant electronic identification.
Now Digital Angel is poised to take the next step - chips that will not only identify an animal but begin to tell how it feels.
When it comes to many of the "anti-terror" policies and laws being fastened upon us, the "cure" may be more deadly than the disease.
Are we giving up essential liberties in the war on terror for the promise of safety? In the name of security are we concentrating and institutionalizing power in such ways that we are inviting terror far beyond what any terrorist group could ever hope to inflict on us?
Recall that throughout history — and particularly in the past century — governments have been by far the primary and most lethal instruments of terror. Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, and their fellow dictators have proven the most efficient terrorists.
Wielding unbridled power, they have turned the state into an instrument of terror, death, and destruction. In our stampede to safety after the 9-11 attacks, have we been rushing headlong into a deadly trap?
If the iris image in the database matches that of the person seeking entry to the school, the school door automatically unlocks. Members of the project's control group, meanwhile, must show identification and be buzzed into the school by a staffer.
Stillwater police began collecting DNA samples from the 440 pupils at the K-6 school on Tuesday as part of a new initiative to bring child identification in Sussex County into the 21st century.
A new high school said Wednesday its students will be charged for their lunches with a retina-scanning device to prevent poor children who eat for free from being ridiculed in the cafeteria.
Officers with assault rifles and paramedics armed with hypodermic needles invaded Mesa's Westwood High School on Thursday.
The men and women in uniform were part of a daylong drill at the school to see how ready health, emergency and military systems are to deal with a bioterror attack.
School administrators in the Washington area yesterday stepped up preparations for possible terrorism, and most school districts told parents that they would be prevented, or strongly discouraged, from picking up their children in the event of a biological or chemical attack.
CARSON CITY -- The country's founding fathers would have been arrested and imprisoned for life if a Nevada anti-terrorism bill had been in effect 227 years ago, Sen. Joe Neal said Friday.
In the Declaration of Independence, the founders of the United States said citizens have the right to overthrow their government, Neal said in a lengthy floor speech in opposition to Senate Bill 38.
Despite his comments that the legislation is an unnecessary duplication of the federal Patriot Act and an infringement on a person's constitutional rights, the Senate voted 17-3 to approve the measure.
"The new definition, proposed by Sen. Terry Care, D-Las Vegas, removed that language and basically defines a terrorist act as a violent act designed to intimidate or coerce."
"Don't they already have laws against the initiation of violence in Nevada? What's the matter with those people? Are they still living in caves?" - JRadcliffe
According to the some 950 invitations were mailed out for an extraordinary event at the White House: George W. Bush's 35th Yale reunion.
This time Mr. Bush is the host, not just the commencement speaker, as he was in New Haven in 2001.
This time Mr. Bush is opening up his house to as many as 1,200 people, which may be a record number for an early-rising, teetotaling president who has vowed never to hold the huge parties that the Clintons did.
The lawmakers, all of whom are Christian, pay low rent to live in the stately red brick, three-story house on C Street, two blocks from the Capitol. It is maintained by a group, alternately known as the ''Fellowship'' and the ''Foundation,'' (See: "The Family"), that brings together world leaders and elected officials through religion.
"This is exactly the model of group I would expect to see operating in that area between official power and the political underworld of assassinations and terrorist attacks. The secrecy, the importance of promises, the cell structure, and the pseudo-religious and fascist undertones are all perfect for getting certain types of things done without leaving a trail back to the real power structure. Unfortunately, because of the cell structure and the cult of secrecy, it is impossible to penetrate groups like this. But it helps to know that they exist."
"During the 1980s, resistance fighters in Afghanistan developed a worldwide recruitment and support network with the aid of the USA, Saudi Arabia and other states. After the 1989 Soviet withdrawal, this network, which equipped, trained and funded thousands of Muslim fighters, came under the control of Osama bin Laden."
But those were the old days, right? The relationship between "al-Qaeda" and the US government ended a long time ago. It was just a "marriage of convenience" from the Cold War. When Zbigniew Brzezinski told the Afghans in the late 70's: "Your cause is right. God is on your side", he really didn't mean it. What he really meant to do was call them "cowardly evil-doers", but it just came out wrong.
The only problem with this concept is that it simply doesn't square with the facts.
"Skopje, 26 September, 2001: Daily Vecer read on the relation between the members of the so-called ONA National Liberation Army, UCK in Albanian and the Number One world's terrorist - Usamah Bin-Ladin. The writings were supported with photos that clearly showed that the Mojahedin are fighting in the 'ONA' [National Liberation Army] lines....
Dnevnik and Nova Makedonija also focus on the financial relations among the terrorist organizations in the Balkans such as the 'disbanded' KLA Kosovo Liberation Army, UCK in Albanian from Kosovo, amnestied OVPMB (Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac) from southern Serbia and the intelligence connections between the terrorist groups acting in Macedonia and Usamah Bin-Ladin's organization Al-Qa'idah.
Dnevnik reports the text published in the British daily Times claiming that Bin-Ladin and KLA have a 'joint' cash box in the United States. There is information that Bin-Ladin's collaborators raise money through an organization allegedly for the Albanian refugees after the Kosovo crisis. The raised money is then allocated to Bin-Ladin's terrorists, but also to KLA fighters. Some of the men in KLA are trained in the camps led by Bin-Ladin.
The Times does not state the name of the organization, but it is obvious that it is a "humanitarian organization" acting in the mosques and Muslim cultural centres in the United States. Under the veil that money for 'Kosovo's refugees' or 'Afghanistan's children' is being raised, the organization accumulates large amounts of dollars. This is not additional expenditure for the Muslims that live in the United States, as according to the American laws the persons that support the humanitarian organizations have tax reliefs, so the Muslims working in the United States are stimulated to give money in the organization. Some of money is won back directly from the American budget through the tax reliefs. The raised money is used for buying weapons.
The Times stresses that some of these organizations were established under CIA's auspices in the time when the American intelligence agency supported the Afghanistan Islamists in the fight against the Soviet Union. But even when the Russian Army withdrew from Afghanistan they continued to raise money.
Money for the KLA was raised in a similar manner, under US auspices, as that helped to oust Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Yugoslavia."
The mid-October [2001] revelations that an Osama bin Laden terrorist training camp is operating in the U.S.-controlled zone of Kosovo, are only the tip of the iceberg. Now, in a sort of "Operation Truth,'' Macedonian and other sources have begun to reveal publicly what until now had been known to only a relatively small group of people, about the narco-terrorist connections between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the Taliban, and between these two groups and high-level U.S. and British intelligence agencies. Operation Truth is now affecting the strategic domain, provoking a reevaluation of the conventional way of viewing "international terrorism.'' The path leads to those strategists who have used terrorism as a weapon of irregular warfare.
There's no doubt that the CIA was behind the training and financing of the Chechen separatists in the first place. "Former Foreign Minister Ilias Ahmadov, with suspected links to the US intelligence, former Vice-premier Ahmed Zakayev, with suspected links to the European intelligence agencies" leads to the $64,000 question of more recent CIA and other NATO countries' intelligence agencies' direct aid to the Chechen insurgency.
Some Russian press reports from 1999, reported this:
"To accomplish this Russia must concentrate on controlling Chechen borders and especially the border with Georgia, which serves as the main conduit for mercenaries and illegal shipments of weapons and ammunition to Chechnya. The Georgian border is also the so-called 'point of interference': American CIA and other foreign intelligence services are heavily involved in Chechnya with Georgia serving as their base of operations. This is how an American-made anti-aircraft radar appeared in Chechnya along with a number of American-made 'Stinger' portable anti-aircraft surface-to-air missile systems."
A number of the 9-11 hijackers fought in the Chechen "jihad." So did Moussaoui. The way the FBI higher-ups handled this was interesting to say the least:
"A headquarters official edited the Minneapolis memo to remove mention of the Chechens before forwarding it to FBI lawyers."
This information is now not only being completely covered up, it is being used as disinfo to further shred the Constitution and the Bill of Rights by trying to justify another antiterrorism bill that would make it easier for the government to use secret surveillance warrants against "lone wolf" terrorism suspects, claiming that Moussaoui could not be tied to any know terrorist group. Most likely, the case will now go to a secret tribunal where there would conveniently be no public records of this case and the circumstances surrounding Moussaoui's ventures in Chechnya as a "holy warrior."
"...the CIA asked the ISI to divert part of the dregs of the HUM and the HUJI to Bosnia to assist the Muslims there in their fight against the Serbs. The transfer to Bosnia was funded by the Saudi Intelligence, the arms and ammunition were given by the Iranian Intelligence and the leadership and motivation were provided by serving and retired officers of the ISI and the Turkish intelligence. Omar Sheikh, who masterminded the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl of the "Wall Street Journal", had his jihadi inoculation in Bosnia just as bin Laden had his in Afghanistan. From Bosnia, they were diverted to Kosovo by the CIA and thereafter again left in the lurch after they had done the USA's hatchet job in the Balkans....."
It's just so much easier to say that Rambo stopped loving Osama, that the Venice flight schools were not used for covert ops, that the CIA never met with Osama bin Laden between July 4th and July 14th of 2001, that at least 5 hijackers were not trained at secure US military installations, and all were devout Muslims.
When the Murrah bombing occurred at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, Jayna Davis was a reporter for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City. She was among the first journalists to broadcast that an enormous truck bomb had rocked the heartland, killing 168 and injuring hundreds.
In the immediate aftermath of the explosion, the FBI launched an international pursuit of several Middle Eastern-looking men seen fleeing the Murrah Building in a brown Chevy pickup right before the blast. Without explanation, that all-points bulletin was later canceled. Two days later, Timothy McVeigh was a household name. So was Terry Nichols...
On October 10th, 2002, Jayna Davis was invited to Washington D.C. give a presentation of evidence regarding the Middle Eastern connection to the Oklahoma City bombings to Senator Arlen Specter in his office. The following audio is from that meeting.
"This is the first case that I am aware of, of an Alex Jones listener who has been arrested and taken into mental health custody because he has believed in and promoted Alex Jone's tapes and materials...
..A friend of ours Robert J. More has been involuntarily taken into custody by the Chicago police on a petition signed by a sibling with whom he is having a legal contention.
According to Illinois law anyone can swear out under oath that an involuntary emergency commitment to a mental health facility needs to be done in the interest of protecting that person from harming himself or others.
The sibling cited that Robert's belief in what radio host Alex Jones (Alex Jones - http://www.infowars.com) promulgates is EVIDENCE that he is PARANOID, DELUSIONAL AND A DANGER TO HIMSELF AND/OR OTHERS.
She has used Robert's essay (included below) as evidence of his "mental illness."
Also, according to the law the petitioner swears that they are NOT involved in litigation with the person. She is.
The judge allowed hearsay and conclusions of law without rebuttal presented by State's Attorney Arthur Samuels based on the sibling's perjured affidavit..."
"The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic
and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor" (2000)