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10 Clues to
Sept 11 (english) by C. Lewis 5:55am
Fri Feb 8 '02 |
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the 10 most striking stories about Sept 11,
plus a ps
Below are 10 stories related to the
September 11 terrorist attacks. In my opinion 5,6,7,8 and 9
are the most directly incriminating, 4 may not be true but
would clinch it on its own if it is, 2 and 3 are the least
surprising, 1 is the most striking, and 10 is the most
expressive of the nature of the thing. I have named the main
sources for all the stories and have included links to these,
where available, at the bottom of the page.
1. The
FBI agent who led investigations into Al-Qaeda, John O'Neill,
quit in August 2001, saying the investigation was being
blocked by the US State Department and oil interests therein.
He then became head of security at the World Trade Centre. He
was killed on Sept.11 (Irish Times Nov.19)
2. The Bin
Ladens have shares in CIA-run defence company The Carlyle
Group. George Bush snr. is an employee, and was having
business meetings with Bin Laden's family at least as recently
as Jan 2000. (Wall Street Journal Sept.27).
3. In
March 1996, Sudan offered to extradite bin Laden either to
Saudi Arabia or the United States. Although Bin Laden was
wanted for bombing the World Trade Centre in 1993, U.S.
officials turned down the offer. Sudan expelled Bin Laden
instead. ( Two years later the U.S. bombed Sudan.) ('The
Washington Post,' 3 October 2001)
4. French
Intelligence sources have told French newspaper 'Le Figaro'
that Bin Laden was in hospital in Dubai from 4th -14th July
2001 and was visited there by local CIA. (Le Figaro Oct.31)
The head of the hospital has denied this, and of course it may
be untrue. Urologist Doctor Terry Calloway, who was named as
having treated Bin Laden, remains unavailable for comment as
of mid January 2002.
5. FBI sources told BBC Newsnight
that, before September 11, their attempts to investigate Bin
Laden and Al Qaeda were being blocked by the U.S. State
Department and that this interference had worsened after
Bush's election. In the days after September 11, Bin Laden
family members under FBI investigation for suspected terrorist
connections were flown out of the U.S. with government
approval. (BBC Newsnight Nov.6)
6. On June 26 2001,
indiareacts.com reported that India had agreed to support a
planned US military action in Afghanistan. Indian diplomatic
sources told the public affairs magazine that America and
Russia had concluded a joint plan for this, that Uzbekistan
and Tajikistan had pledged participation, and that India and
Iran had pledged logistical support. (indiareacts.com June 26)
7. In July 2001, the US told a Berlin meeting they
were planning to attack Afghanistan. (BBC Sept.18,Guardian
Sept.22+26).
8. Throughout the year, military and
diplomatic preparations were taking place - thousands of
Russian troops were building up in Tajikistan, U.S. special
forces in Kyrgyzstan, "teach-ins" involving Northern Alliance
leaders in London, as well as the long scheduled arrival of
huge U.S. and other NATO forces in the Middle East for
Operation Bright Star and British forces for Operation Swift
Sword. (The Guardian Sept 26, CNN, The Telegraph, The
Observer)
9. The head of Pakistan's CIA counterpart,
the I.S.I., Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad, lost his job in a
government "reshuffle" in October after the Indian government
revealed he had authorised a transfer of $100,000 to suspected
hijack ringleader Mohammed Atta. (The Times of India, Delhi, 9
October 2001) On September 11, General Mahmud was in
Washington meeting his American counterparts. (Pakistan has
been the U.S.'s main ally in the region for decades and the
I.S.I. is a long established tool of the C.I.A. Naturally they
have their own interests, but these do not include starting a
war with America.) The U.S. government has made no request to
arrest or question General Mahmud.
10. After Bin
Laden's June 1996 truck bomb on a U.S. military base in
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (sometimes referred to as the Khobar
Towers attack), which killed 19 American servicepeople and
injured hundreds, the US built new military bases in Saudi
Arabia -and gave Bin Laden's family company the contract to
build them. (Wall Street Journal Sept.27).
P.S.
Striking parallels: Vladimir Putin, head of the FSB (i.e. the
KGB) was appointed Russian prime minister on August 9 1999. On
25 August 1999, Moscow journalist Alexander Zhilin wrote that
a plan with the codename "Storm in Moscow" was being hatched
in the Kremlin involving terrorist attacks against the Moscow
population. On August 31, the first bomb blew apart a Moscow
shopping centre. During September a series of bombings
targeted civilian apartment buildings, killing hundreds.
Islamic terrorists were blamed. The shock and outrage allowed
Putin to reignite the war in Chechnya, and to grab power at
home, becoming President the following year, and quietly
suffocating Russia's already feeble democracy. The western
media felt able to suggest the obvious - that Russian
intelligence were behind the bombings. No matter what the
evidence, we know they will not entertain the idea that the
CIA and oil interests now grabbing new power inside and
outside America could stoop to such Russian methods. And most
people won't want to entertain it, because they know it might
be true, and then you are faced with the considerable and all
too real problem of what to do about it. (See, for example,
the Kennedy assassination. The first one, say.)
What
to do about it is always the question.
Links to
sources:
1. http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2001/1119/wor8.htm
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0201/ridgeway.php
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SHA111A.html
For NY Times 'tribute' to O'Neill see http://www.legacy.com/nytimes/Sept11.asp?
Page=TributeStory&PersonId=96837 (He is one of the few
victims of Sept 11 whose tribute includes a smear.)
2.
www.wsj.com http://emperors-
clothes.com/news/bushladen.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4288516,00.
html
3. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
srv/searches/mainsrch.htm http://emperors-
clothes.com/news/probestop-i.htm
4. http://www.lefigaro.fr/cgi-
bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?
pagename=FutureTense/Apps/Xcelerate/View&c=figArticle&cid
=FIGJMSRVETC&live=true&Site=true&gCurChannel=ZZZJTGN6
J7C&gCurRubrique=ZZZ4GPM6J7C&gCurSubRubrique= http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0111/S00018.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4289417,00.
html http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/01_23_02_lucy.html
5. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_164
5000/1645527.stm
6. http://www.indiareacts.com/archivefeatures/nat2.asp?
recno=10&ctg=%20
7. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550
000/1550366.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4262511,00.
html
8. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4264545,00.
html http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=
2FnewsF2001F04F14Fwjihad14.xml
9. http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?catkey=-
2128936835&art_id=1454238160&sType=1) http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html
www.copvcia.com/stories/nov_2001/michele.html
10.(same article as 2) www.wsj.com http://emperors-
clothes.com/news/bushladen.htm
And for the PS, try for
a start: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_449000/
449325.stm
I will be adding more to my own site as
soon as possible. I have not yet looked at the
contradictory official story of what happened on Sept 11
itself, for example - so I still have something in common with
the newspapers. I haven't discussed the claims of warnings, or
the suddenly vanishing story of the stock market speculation
against airlines and reinsurers, and where it might lead. Nor
have I discussed the reasons for the attack (abroad, the
latest move of their expansion into areas left open by the
collapse of Russia's empire, in this case the about-to-boom
oilfields of the Caspian basin. At home, billions of dollars
of taxpayers money, and the grabbing of increased executive
power from the remains of democratic control.)
Some
more interesting facts on all this can also be found at:
www.copvcia.com http://globalresearch.ca
www.tenc.net
and all over the place.
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