7/5/04
I have now devoted quite a bit of time to putting this information together (although it is by no means complete). It will take awhile to absorb it, so please examine carefully. Please do listen to the first item. Hopefully now having seen the Michael Moore movie, the information will have more of an immediate context. One of the things that is relevant and CURRENT is the webpage(s) I just made pertaining to the Kean Commission (see reference toward the end of this).
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Audio: a short presentation of basic, current information, by Bill Douglas 5/04 http://www.septembereleventh.org/kc/multimedia/movies/billdemocracy.mov
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interjecting just one thing re DU:
"Radiation In Iraq Equals 250,000 Nagasaki Bombs" By Bob Nichols, dissidentvoice.org 3-31-4
..."an Admiral who is the former Chief of the Naval Staff of India wanted to know how much radiation this represented. He also wanted to express the amount in a figure that the world, especially the non-American world, could easily understand. The Admiral decided to figure out how many Nagasaki Atom Bombs it would take to deliver the equivalent of the total amount of radiation deployed in Iraq in 2003 in Four Million Pounds of uranium."... http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Mar04/Nichols0327.htm
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see what you think of this, esp. after having seen F9-11:
"Guilty for 9-11 Section 3: Bush in the Open" by Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel [Posted 18 January 2002] http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/01_31_02_911murder_sect3.html
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This is one group (Bush Admin.) that really knows how to loot an economy (ours): "9-11 Profiteering: A Framework for Building the 'Cui Bono?' UnAnswered Questions" By Catherine Austin Fitts, former Asst. Secty. of HUD http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/032504_cui_bono.html
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Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (one of the Congresspeople shown in F9-11) reads her essay/commentary on the "war against terrorism" on KPFA's Flashpoints 3/25/02. (She was subsequently ousted from Congress. These are excerpts from a transcript I made:)
..."In November 2000 Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all, the right to free and fair elections. In an organized manner, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State Katharine Harris created a list of convicted felons, 57,700 to be exact, to "scrub" from the state's voter roles. The names were created from Florida records and from lists provided by 11 other states, the largest list coming from Texas. We now know that most of the people on that list were innocent of crimes. The list was a phony. And worse, the majority of those rightful voters were people of color, and likely Democratic voters. Of the thousands who had their votes scrubbed, 80% are African Americans. Had they voted, the course of history would have changed. Harris declared Bush the victor by only 537 votes. President Carter has said that the Carter Center would not certify the 2001 election had they been asked to do so
"Consequently an administration of questionable legitimacy has been given unprecedented power to fight a war against terrorism. ... "Moreover, persons close to this administration are poised to make huge profits off America's new war. Former President Bush sits on the board of the Carlyle Group. The Los Angeles Times reports that on a single day last month, Carlyle earned 237 million dollars selling shares in United Defense Industries, the Army's fifth-largest contractor. The stock offering was well timed. Carlyle officials say they decided to take the company public only after the September 11 attacks. The stock sale cashed in on increased Congressional support, a hefty defense spending including one of United Defense's cornerstone weapons program.
"Now is the time for our elected officials to be held accountable. Now is the time for the media to be held accountable. Why aren't the hard questions being asked?
"We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on September 11. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, delivered one such warning. Those engaged in unusual stock trades immediately before September 11 knew enough to make millions of dollars from United and American airlines, certain insurance and brokerage firms' stocks. What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of September 11? Who else knew and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered."...
[full transcript of the interview is at http://soula.org/-/edu/mckinney4-02.html#interview ]
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INSIDER TRADING
04-22-02 "- Briefing Paper, The Case for Bush Administration Foreknowledge of the Attacks of September 11th." http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/042202_bushknows.html
02-11-02 "TIMELINE BEFORE AND AFTER THE SEPT 11 ATTACKS DEMONSTRATES THE COMPLICITY OF THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION AND CIA IN GETTING THE WAR THEY NEEDED TO CONTROL CENTRAL ASIAN OIL AND THE DRUG MONEY FROM CENTRAL ASIA." http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html
10-09-01 "Evidence of criminal insider trading before WTC ATTACKS leads directly into the highest levels of the CIA." http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_09_01_krongard.html
these are long and tedious:
"01-09-02 Shocking New Evidence on Insider Trading Connected to 9/11, The CIA and the Markets, Deutschebank, AB Brown, United Air Lines, Insurance companies and the story of Kevin Ingram"
Part I - 12-06-01 http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/12_06_01_death_profits_pt1.html
Part II - 12-11-01 http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/12_11_01_death_profits_pt2.html
Part III - 01-09-02 http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/01_09_02_death_profits_pt3.html
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3/4/04 This is an animation based on the 9-11 morning timeline. It shows the original official-story timeline before some recent revisions in history via the Kean Commission. It makes a good complement to the stripped-down version in F9-11, adding several intriguing points. Only one mistake I noticed: Bush was already reading the Goat Book before Andrew Card came in to whisper in his ear (and then turn immediately and walk away after issuing his update). http://www.takebackthemedia.com/true911.html
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Pre-planned war on Afghanistan:
"Pre-Planning For September 11th" 10/15/01 -Michael Ruppert
Like all of the major wars of the last century, this one too has had a hidden but very real and undeniable phase of preparation. International Law Professor Francis A. Boyle, of the University of Illinois wrote on October 12, "Obviously, the war against Afghanistan was planned for quite some time. We know for a fact that it had been war-gamed by the Pentagon going back to 1997. Right around September 11, two US Aircraft carrier task forces conveniently arrived in the Persian Gulf right at the same time on "rotation." Obviously, preplanned. Just before September 11, the UK had put together what was billed as the "largest armada since the Falklands War" and had it steaming towards Oman, where now 23,000 UK troops are on maneuvers. This had been planned for at least 3 years. Also, the US "Bright Star" operation is currently going on in Egypt. 23,000 US troops plus an additional 17,000 from NATO and its associates. This had been planned at least two years ago. Finally, NATO just landed 12,000 troops into Turkey. This had been planned for at least two years. It is obvious that we are seeing an operational War Plan being executed here that had been in the works for at least the past four years. September 11 is either a pretext or a trigger or both." (http://truedemocracy.net/td4/31s-preplan.html )
In light of the known available intelligence information that we have previously presented in these pages, and the hard data on insider trading that we present in this issue, there can be no doubt that the Bush Administration awaited the attacks as a pretext for the massive military operations that we see occurring now. In the words of retired Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff - who taught military science at West Point - "I can't help but conclude that the actions we are seeing put into motion now are part of a pre-September 11th agenda. I'm absolutely sure of that, in fact. The planning alone for operations, of this scale, that are now taking shape, would take many months. And we are seeing them take shape in mere weeks." ... http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/oct152001.html
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TERRORISM: BLOOD AND OIL -leaflet posted by 'sanity' Friday, Nov. 30, 2001
A leaflet developed by people involved in Sonoma Valley Friday night public vigils against the military intervention in Afghanistan. "As you read these two pages, please try to suspend your belief that the reason we are engaged in bombing, shelling, and decimating Afghanistan is to redress our terrible September 11th injury."... http://www.indybay.org/news/2001/11/110983.php
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>From the RICO lawsuit against Bush et al. filed by Phil Berg, former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania (representing 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani)
"Plaintiff reasonably believes Defendants knew or should have known the attacks on "911" would be carried out and intentionally and deliberately failed to act and prevent these deadly attacks leading to the untimely death of her husband. Plaintiff believes Defendant GWB et al, allowed the attacks to take place to compel public anger and outcry to engage our nation and our military men and women in a preventable "IWOT" for personal gains and agendas. The statement of "911 Commissioner" and former United States Senator Max Cleland reinforces Plaintiff's claims that her President and Commander-in-Chief Defendant GWB has not been honest and forthright to her or the American public with regard to "911": "As each day goes by, we learn this government knew a whole lot more about these terrorists before Sept. 11 than it has ever admitted."[10]
"6. Plaintiff believes the facts, circumstances and substantial evidence once presented to a jury will ultimately establish Defendants allowed the "911" attacks to occur to create an "IWOT" for malicious personal agendas, to include, but not limited to war profiteering. A pattern of this financial war profiting and the "Bush Family" goes back to their dealings with Nazi Germany during World War II. Plaintiff understands this assertion will be a shock to her fellow Americans who are not aware of this fact, however, her sentiment is expressed in the following by Paul Donovan: "Why Isn't the Truth Out There?" Observer (U.K.), October 5, 2003, article which states in part: "This is the staggering story of the events of 9/11. No reasons have been given for the Bush administration's conduct on that day; no one has been brought to account. Yet from the tragedy that was 9/11, Bush has been able to deliver for his backers in the arms and oil industries…"
... "the following phillynews.com, September 11, 2003, William Bunch article; "Why Don't We Have Answers to these 9/11 Questions" goes to the heart of Plaintiff's claims and states: "NO EVENT IN recent history has been written about, talked about, or watched and rewatched as much as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 - two years ago today. Not only was it the deadliest terrorist strike inside America, but the hijackings and attacks on New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington were also a seminal event for an information-soaked media age of Internet access and 24- hour news. So, why after 730 days do we know so little about what really happened that day? No one knows where the alleged mastermind of the attack is, and none of his accomplices has been convicted of any crime. We're not even sure if the 19 people identified by the U.S. government as the suicide hijackers are really the right guys."
http://www.911forthetruth.com/pages/AmendCom.htm
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look at the Unanswered Questions featured on the page of the "Jersey Girls" 9/11 widows, "The Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission" (these are the women who forced the creation of the Kean Commission, and who at this point are outraged at the failures of that commission). http://www.911independentcommission.org/questions.html
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Another example of a group of 9/11 victims' families angered by the Kean Commission:
"White House Whitewash" Sunday Herald - 28 March 2004 (excerpts:) ... the hammering that Bush took during the hearings did little to appease Andrew Rice and other family members like him. To Rice, who chairs the 9/11 Commission Committee of the September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows organisation, the whole inquiry is one big fix that will do everything it can to hide the truth of what the US president and his closest advisors knew about the attacks. ... You can hardly blame Rice for his pessimism. Many family members believe the "fix was in" from the very beginning and cite the appointment of Philip Zelikow as the commission's executive director as proof positive. ... One Democrat on the commission, Timothy Roemer, said agreeing to the White House demands would remove the context in which intelligence was presented and allow any "smoking guns" to be hidden from public scrutiny. ... Andrew Rice seethes over information like this. "I've contacted the commission to say that it's laughable that Zelikow was appointed to such a position. I have big problems with the White House editing the PDBs, but Zelikow defended the decision. He worked with these people and now he is defending them.
"This commission was created by the establishment and the friends of the establishment are now part of the commission. Is it really an investigation? Zelikow is a symbol of the way this inquiry has been constructed. As far as the Clinton and Bush administrations being held to account - we won't hear about it. It is not about transparency, it is just there to appease the public.
"But it won't appease me or many other family members. We need a truly independent commission that is outside the realm of government. Zelikow should never have been in this in the first place. Aren't there other and better people out there who didn't work with Condoleezza Rice? ... http://www.sundayherald.com/40876
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'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes'
Whistleblower the White House wants to silence speaks to The Independent
-- by Andrew Buncombe, The Independent, 2 Apr '04
A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened.
She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was "an outrageous lie".
Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by citing the rarely used "state secrets privilege".
She told The Independent yesterday: "I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation. I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up. This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily."
She added: "There was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be used but not specifically about how they would be used and about people being in place and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks. There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities with skyscrapers."
The accusations from Mrs Edmonds, 33, a Turkish-American who speaks Azerbaijani, Farsi, Turkish and English, will reignite the controversy over whether the administration ignored warnings about al-Qa'ida. That controversy was sparked most recently by Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism official, who has accused the administration of ignoring his warnings.
The issue what the administration knew and when is central to the investigation by the 9/11 Commission, which has been hearing testimony in public and private from government officials, intelligence officials and secret sources. Earlier this week, the White House made a U-turn when it said that Ms Rice would appear in public before the commission to answer questions. Mr Bush and his deputy, Dick Cheney, will also be questioned in a closed-door session.
Mrs Edmonds, 33, says she gave her evidence to the commission in a specially constructed "secure" room at its offices in Washington on 11 February. She was hired as a translator for the FBI's Washington field office on 13 September 2001, just two days after the al-Qa'ida attacks. Her job was to translate documents and recordings from FBI wire-taps.
She said said it was clear there was sufficient information during the spring and summer of 2001 to indicate terrorists were planning an attack. "Most of what I told the commission 90 per cent of it related to the investigations that I was involved in or just from working in the department. Two hundred translators side by side, you get to see and hear a lot of other things as well."
"President Bush said they had no specific information about 11 September and that is accurate but only because he said 11 September," she said. There was, however, general information about the use of airplanes and that an attack was just months away.
To try to refute Mr Clarke's accusations, Ms Rice said the administration did take steps to counter al-Qa'ida. But in an opinion piece in The Washington Post on 22 March, Ms Rice wrote: "Despite what some have suggested, we received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using airplanes as missiles, though some analysts speculated that terrorists might hijack planes to try and free US-held terrorists."
Mrs Edmonds said that by using the word "we", Ms Rice told an "outrageous lie". She said: "Rice says 'we' not 'I'. That would include all people from the FBI, the CIA and DIA [Defence Intelligence Agency]. I am saying that is impossible."
It is impossible at this stage to verify Mrs Edmonds' claims. However, some senior US senators testified to her credibility in 2002 when she went public with separate allegations relating to alleged incompetence and corruption within the FBI's translation department.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=507514
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Rather than cram 5 times more stuff into this email, I just made an extensive webpage to illustrate what is up with the Kean Commission. It starts here: http://soula.org/-/edu/
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Websites that could be checked into:
9/11 Truth Alliance http://www.911truth.org
911Visibility.org http://www.septembereleventh.org
Center for Cooperative Research 9/11 timeline http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/index.jsp
9/11 Citizen's Watch http://www.911citizenswatch.org
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Paul Lannoye, European Union Parliamentarian, Belgium 5/24/04:
..."A few of these questions are:
"1) Who made the insider stock trades against United and American Airlines the day before the attacks? And why did the head of AB Brown Trust (an institution once headed by the current Executive Director of the CIA, Buzzy Krongard), where $5 million of those stock "winnings" were made, quietly resign on 11, Sept., 2001, and why is $2.5 million of that winning still unclaimed?
"2) Why were there no fighter interceptor jets dispatched on 9-11 until it was too late on 9-11, after 4 commercial jets flew hijacked for an hour and a half, ending with the last one crashing into the worlds' most highly protected building, the Pentagon?
"3) Why did the CIA Station Chief in Dubai meet with Bin Laden weeks before 9-11 at a U.S. Army Hospital? Why did the Pakistani Intelligence Chief, who was in Washington on 9-11 meeting with top Bush officials, wire lead hijacker, Mohammed Atta $100,000 weeks before the 9-11 attacks?
"These are but a few questions needing answers." ... http://www.septembereleventh.org/alerts/lannoye.php
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"Surely the masterminds of the 9-11 operation would have taken the time to learn something about US air defense procedures. They would therefore have realized that hitting New York City with jets hijacked from Boston would have been difficult. New York is about 30 minutes away by airplane and jumbo jets fly very slowly when compared to US fighter jets that crack the sound barrier. Even with a 15-20 minute head start, NORAD's jets could have easily intercepted them, especially the second plane, which took a longer route to New York and flew way off course for 40 minutes. Why choose Boston's airport and jeopardize the success of the operation? Wouldn't it be safer to just hijack planes from New York's Kennedy or La Guardia Airports? Or even Newark which is just across the river. Any plane hijacked from either of those three busy airports would have been unstoppable. Even a plane from Philadelphia's Airport would have been much closer to the target than far away Boston.
"The planners were no dummies. They must have counted on receiving protective cover and a window of opportunity by someone high up at US Air command. Why else choose Boston?" [I forget where I copied this from, but what diff does it make?.]