Guest guest Posted April 8, 2004 Report Share Posted April 8, 2004 patrick oconnell <azpat0 us2cool <us2cool Cc: skip2bert <skip2bert Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:11 Fwd: World Affairs Brief, April 2, 2004 enjoy-patrick > undisclosed-recipients:; > World Affairs Brief, April 2, 2004 > World Affairs Brief,April 2, 2004 Copyright Joel Skousen.Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as JoelSkousens World Affairs Brief (http://www.JoelSkousen.com). WHAT THE 9/11 COMMISSION SHOULD BE INVESTIGATING, BUT ISNT The controversialtestimony of former counter-terrorism expert Richard Clarke injuxtaposition with the constant drama surrounding whether or notPresident Bush and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Ricewill testify before the commission (under oath and in public) is alljust a scripted diversion to use up the Commissions limited time andensure that the real issues are never investigated or aired publicly. First, Clarkestestimony is only partially genuine. He is playing a partisan roleto help the Democrats undermine Bush by confirming that Bush and otherCabinet members had intentions to attack Afghanistan and Iraq prior to9/11 (which is true), but he continues to foster the false idea that heand others during the Clinton administration were highly focused on alQaeda a threat the Bush administration, he says, failed to takeseriously. In reality, the Clinton administration during Clarkes tenure never tried to capture Osama bin Laden any more than theBush administration, even when the Sudanese government had him intheir custody and offered to turn him over to the US. Clarke had to have known this. CBS News and a FrontlineSpecial reported that within hours of the 9/11 attack, DefenseSecretary Donald Rumsfeld was instructing his aides to come up withplans for striking Iraq. The invasion of Afghanistan was planned before 9/11, as evidenced by US diplomatic pronouncements to a closed meetingin Berlin in July 2001 where it was leaked that Bush would attack Afghanistan no later than October 2001. The Indymedia documentation ofthat meeting has since been purged from all government internet sites.The India Times also reported a secret military agreement between theUS and Russia in the spring of 2001 to jointly invade Afghanistan. Many suspect that the main reason VP Cheney is so adamant about refusing todisclose minutes of what went on during the secret meetings on energyis because oil giants openly discussed with Cheney the need tooverthrow the Taliban in order to be able to build a major pipeline through Afghanistan. Currently, the Bush administration has said they will allow Condoleezza Rice to testifyin public and under oath. Despite the months of wrangling overexecutive privilege and separation of powers, its a safe bet that Rice wont be embarrassed by the pseudo-inquisitor, Chief Counsel RichardBen Veniste. I listened to Ben Venistes examination of numerousgovernment officials on NPR radio. By all the initial joking andcomradery that was exchanged between him and CIA Director Tenet, andlater with Asst. Sec. of State Richard Armitage (former chief drugimporter for the CIA), it was clear no tough questions were going to beforthcoming. He played softball with them both. Instead of setting uplegal traps in advance by asking questions Ben Veniste could later tripthem up on, he wasted hours asking them questions these officials couldeasily evade by claiming ignorance or " national security, " and thenfailed to present any contradictory testimony. It will be the same with Rice. There are dozens of general explanations she can come up with toexplain the contradictions between her former statements to the pressand the testimony of Richard Clarke. But even if Ben Veniste were ableto make something of the differences, what would they show? That the CIA was negligent, incompetent, and worked at cross purposes with otheragencies? Or, heaven forbid, that they failed to share information withother agencies? If they are guilty, so what? These are not faultsmeriting more than a slap on the hands. No wonder no government official responsible for security and intelligence has been fired. By focusing on such innocuous drama, the public is denied the key issuesthat cry out for an explanation. HERE ARE THE KEY ISSUES THAT ARE BEING EVADED: Planted,too-good-to-be-true evidence: Hijackers are apparently too stupid to follow one of the cardinal rules of covering your trail:Dont drive to the airport have an accomplice or Arab taxi driverdrop you off. Instead, they drove themselves to Boston Logan Airport,and proceeded to leave flight manuals and Arabic messages in their van.Mohammed Attas magic indestructible passport survived the inferno ofTwin Towers and was found two or three blocks away. (Two passports werefound in all, plus a pristine suicide letter in Arabic.) Within twohours, FBI agents were at restaurants where the hijackers had beeneating, and at nightclubs where they went carousing so much for theirreligiosity. How did they find this information so fast if they weretoo incompetent to track them beforehand? Refusal of thegovernment to produce tape and video evidence that would corroboratethe official version of events and the list of hijackers: The surveillance videorecorded at the gas station across from the Pentagon crash site wasconfiscated by the FBI and never released. The parking lot videoexcerpt that was leaked doesnt show any jet the size of a Boeing 757.Crash proof black boxes from all aircraft except one were claimed to bedestroyed or unreadable. The one played for surviving family membersfrom Flight 93 was editied. The Commission claimed itwould subpoena FAA recordings of conversations with pilots prior to thehijacking, but never has followed through or released them. One taperecording from Cleveland Air Traffic Control that monitored the fate ofFlight 93 over Pennsylvania was leaked, so we know these tapes exists.Interestingly, this tape shows that three or four other commercialaircraft talking on the same ATC frequency heard the pilot of Flight 93tell the passengers that the hijackers told them there was a bomb onboard, and yet the government has never mentioned this. Heres an abbreviatedexcerpt from the leaked private ATC transcript: Executive 956 [privatejet]: Just answering your call. We could year that, er, yelling too. Cleveland Center:OK, thank you, were just trying to figure out whats going on. United 93:[unintelligible] this is captain, please sit down, remain sitting, we have a bomb on board. [sometimes pilots key the wrong button. In this case the Captain thinks he is broadcasting to the passengers on intercom but he is pressing the radio transmit button shows he is under severe stress.] Cleveland Center:Uh, calling Cleveland Center, youre unreadable, say again slowly. Executive 956:[unintelligible] was reasonable, sounded like someone said they had abomb on board. Cleveland: Thats what we thought, we just, er, we didnt get it clear. United ninety-three calling. United ninety-three, understand you have a bombon board, go ahead. Executive nine fifty-six, did you understand that transmission? Executive 956:Affirmative. He said there was a bomb on board. [Later]ClevelandCenter (2): [Voice changed to female, apparently second Cleveland controller.] Do you see any, ah, activity on your rightside, smoke or anything like that? American 1060:Negative. Were searching. Yeah, we do have a smoke puff now at about,er, oh probably two oclock. There appears to be just a spire up like apuff of black smoke. [indicates evidence of explosion in the air.][End of ATC excerpt.] Lack of verifiable evidence of hijackers identities: Security cameras atairport boarding gates would have clearly shown the Arab hijackers. Thegovernment wont release them or the actual passenger manifests,including Arabic named passengers. The claimed DNA samples are a fraudunless the government can prove it has custody of original DNA from thehijackers, seven of whom (according to other evidence) are still alive and nine of whom were dead or missing before 9/11. Lack of evidence that al Qaeda is a world wide terrorist organization: Al Qaeda had roots withthe CIA, so it may still be controlled at the higher levels, forpurposes of creating conflict and engendering in Americans a blindpatriotism to support a phony war on terror. The CIA and its cohorts inthe Pakistani ISI and the Israeli Mossad are the only sources ofinformation on al Qaeda, which is suspicious. The organization wasrarely considered a credible threat before 9/11. Even now, the CIAconsistently refuses to display captured al Qaeda leaders in public orput them on trial. All leaks about supposed confessions mirror thegovernments story and have no other corroborating evidence. Ofgreatest significance is the fact that there have been virtually nonormal terrorist attacks in the US since 9/11, even though the US hasalmost open borders and no protection against car bombings, electricaltower sabotage, or suicide bombings: weekly occurrences wherever terrorism is a legitimate threat. Evidence of CIA involvement with the terrorists: Ruddy Dekker, the ownerof Huffman Aviation, and a fellow Dutchman who bought another aviation school next door, both had prior CIA dealings. Dekker had no previousaviation experience prior to acquiring Huffman Aviation in Venice,Florida, and showed a broad ignorance of technical aviation regulationsand affairs when dealing with other professionals in the field. Hesublet space in his hangar to Britannia Aviation, another governmentfront company. Prior knowledge warnings: High schools in some NYcity districts told students not to go down to the WTC on 9/11. SFMayor Brown was told not to fly that day, as was Salmon Rushdy in the UK. Putin warned Bush about 25 suicide pilots. Germany and the Israel iMossad said the US was warned not to fly that day. Evidence of explosives in the World Trade Centers: Investigative journalistChristopher Bollyn has written one of the best expositions on the ampleevidence that there were explosives wired into the building prior tothe attack. He writes, " In the basements of the collapsed towers, wherethe 47 central support columns connected with the bedrock, hot spots of literally molten steel were discovered more than a month after thecollapse. Such persistent and intense residual heat, 70 feet below thesurface, in an oxygen starved environment, could explain how thesecrucial structural supports failed. Peter Tully, president of TullyConstruction of Flushing, N.Y., told AFP that he saw pools of literally molten steel at the World Trade Center. " Tullywas contracted after the Sept. 11 tragedy to remove the debris from thesite. Tully called Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition,Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Md., for consultation about removing the debris.CDI calls itself the innovator and global leader in the controlleddemolition and implosion of structures Loizeaux, who cleaned up thebombed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, arrived atthe WTC site two days later and wrote the clean up plan for the entireoperation. AFP asked Loizeaux about the report of molten steel on thesite. Yes, he said, hot spots of molten steel in the basements.These incredibly hot areas were found at the bottoms of the elevatorshafts of the main towers, down seven [basement] levels, Loizeauxsaid. The molten steel was found three, four, and five weeks later,when the rubble was being removed, Loizeaux said. He said molten steelwas also found at 7 WTC, which collapsed mysteriously in the lateafternoon. " Constructionsteel has an extremely high melting point of about 2,800 degrees Fahrenheit. Asked what could have caused such extreme heat, Tully said,Think of the jet fuel. Loizeaux told AFP that the steel-melting fireswere fueled by paper, carpet and other combustibles packed down theelevator shafts by the tower floors as they pancaked into thebasement. However, some independent investigators dispute this claim,saying kerosene-based jet fuel, paper, or the other combustibles normally found in the towers, cannot generate the heat required to melt steel, especially in an oxygen-poor environment like a deep basement. " Eric Hufschmid, author of abook about the WTC collapse, Painful Questions, told AFP thatdue to the lack of oxygen, paper and other combustibles packed down atthe bottom of elevator shafts would probably be a smoky smoldering pile. Experts disagree that jet-fuel or paper could generate suchheat. This is impossible, they say, because the maximum temperaturethat can be reached by hydrocarbons like jet fuel burning in air is1,520 degrees F. Because the WTC fires were fuel rich, as evidenced bythe thick black smoke, it is argued that they did not reach this upperlimit. The hottest spots at the surface of the rubble, whereabundant oxygen was available, were much cooler than the molten steelfound in the basements. " [End of Bollyn quote.] Canadian Investigator Will Thomas has written an excellent workentitled, All Fall Down. In it he documents, " An eyewitness 6 blocks from the WTC heard explosions prior to each collapse. A firemans transcription of the New York Times 9/11 firefighters audiotape reveals an explosion prior to the collapse of WTC 2 was reported.A video shows an object falling from WTC 1 followed by a camera shake.14 seconds later WTC 1 collapses. " Thomas, Bollyn and othersbelieve that the only explanation that explains the collapse of theTwin Towers without the use of complicated timed explosives placedthroughout the building (requiring extensive pre-wiring) is the use ofthermite charges in the basement, filling the cavity of the coresection of 4 inch thick pillars holding up the towers. Heres Bollynagain: " Thermite is very exothermic. Temperatures above 4,500deg;F(2,500deg;C) are often reached. A byproduct of a thermite detonation inthe WTC basements would be molten steel. The service core [ofcentral pillars] of WTC 2 initially survived the collapse, butafter a few seconds it also came to ground. This is consistent withmolten iron from a thermite reaction pooling around the core columns,thus causing the collapse. If I were to bring the towers down, I wouldput explosives in the basement to get the weight of the building tohelp collapse the structure,; [says] Mark Loizeaux, president ofControlled Demolition, Inc. " However, contrary toBollyn, I disagree that the seismic evidence shows powerful explosivesprior to the collapse. I have looked at the charts and fail to see whathe claims. Yes, there were plenty of eye and ear witnesses to priorexplosions, but they most likely were not large enough to register onthe seismic charts as a significant quake. This also points to the useof thermite. Thermite doesnt explode rapidly like C-4 or otherdemolition explosives. The mixture of aluminum powder and iron oxideburns only moderately fast, giving off heat well in excess of thatrequired to melt steel. Whats more, it creates its own oxygen supplyby consuming the iron oxide and thus is the only thing that can accountfor the huge heat being generated for days in the aftermath of the fallof both towers. Terrorists of theincompetent Arab variety that showed up at US flight schools could nothave pulled off high tech insider explosives job, nor the collapse of WTCBuilding 7, which video evidence does show had been pre-wired withnormal demolition explosives lots of small charges on critical steelcolumns and corners which were timed to collapse the buildingvertically. Building 7 was almost exclusively occupied by government,and could have been pre-wired by government agents without alerting anycivilians. Christopher Bollyncommented on the insider connections to the WTC complex: " Forexample, Peter G. Peterson, chairman of the CFR and the Federal ReserveBank of New York announced that his Blackstone Group had purchased, inOctober 2000, the mortgage on 7 World Trade Center, the 47-storybuilding built by Larry Silverstein in 1987. Silverstein is the personwho obtained 99-year leases on the twin towers shortly before 9-11 andwho insured the property and its future income against terrorism. He isseeking some $7.2 billion claiming the attacks were two separateevents. " Silverstein also made the indiscreet comment to reporters thathe had given orders to " pull the building " just prior to its collapse.This is demolition lingo for bringing down a building by controlleddemolition. According to Bollyn,others suspected controlled demolition too: " WTC 7 mysteriouslycollapsed at 5:25 p.m. on 9-11, in what appears to have been acontrolled demolition. John Wholihan, a firefighter with Rescue 5 fromStaten Island was near WTC 7 when it collapsed. Wholihan told AmericanFree Press that he heard many explosions just before the buildingcollapsed neatly within the perimeter of its foundation. Silversteinreceived some $441 million in insurance money for WTC 7 although thecause of the collapse remains officially unexplained. " What is clear, in myanalysis, is that the official explanation of it coming down verticallyand instantly cannot meet the test of reality. If it suffered damagefrom the collapse of the nearby WTC tower, it would have only beendamaged on one side. A collapse from damage to one side would only haveoccurred with a massive falling over movement. There was no centralsystem of support to fail in this building that could explain avertical collapse even with fire (which was not uniform throughout thebuilding). Selective stand-down of military interceptors: One of the most powerfulevidences of government participation in the outcome of this attack bywhat I think were government controlled operatives, is the shootingdown of Flight 93 over Pennsylvania by an F-16 aircraft, and thesimultaneous but inexplicable holding of other fighters on the ground(orders to " stand down " ). One of my rs is friends with a toweroperator at McGuire AFB in NJ. He reports that his friend told him tonot permit any fighters to take off. They could have easily stoppedFlight 175 heading for the second WTC strike. (Flight 175 was theBoeing 757 airliner that several video tapes showed had a large bulgingmodification on its belly, as documented in a prior World AffairsBrief.) Other fighters which were launched did so painfully late andwere not told to " go buster " (supersonic speeds), to make sure theywouldnt catch the Pentagon targeting aircraft on time. All of thisanalysis is contained in Will Thomas publication, entitled StandDown. The strange case of the Pentagon attack: The attack on thePentagon was much more complex than the governments version of events,and also filled with contradictory evidence: lack of external debriscoupled with a damage area too small to match a 757 airliner. ThePentagon parking lot video shows a huge, white explosion on thePentagon wall, followed by a fuel-fed fire. Ordinary people wouldnt know that only high explosives can generate this white image and thatit never occurs with the crash of a fuel-laden aircraft. The strangely edited video clip evens fails to show a large airliner crashing intothe Pentagon, but rather the hazy image of a much smaller fighter-sized jet with a mysterious smoke or missile trail. Witnesses did see a largeairliner, but others also saw a smaller jet. It is possible both werepresent, and that the smaller jet fired a missile into the Pentagonwall prior to the crash, which would explain how one object punched a12-foot-diameter hole through three rings of the Pentagon. This could not have been done by any part of the relatively soft airliner nor its turbo fan engines. The video clip showing the smoke trail looks strangely unlike a real smoke trail from a missile (too white and too much soft curling smoke). It is almost as if whoever leaked the editedclip doctored it to give a hint that there was another aircraft and a missile involved. Conclusions: As you can see from my abbreviated listing, there is no shortage oflegitimate and substantive matters to investigate. No governmentcommission with the kind of money and staff this commission has couldpossibly be unaware of these issues I have mentioned. They aredocumented and discussed by tens of credible internet sites, completewith photos, videos, theories, and laborious investigations.WhatReallyHappened.com is one of the most comprehensive, though I dont buy into the total package of conclusions proffered by any one site.One must look at a variety of theories and issues to come to a finalconclusion. All these private investigations need some form of legal power of discovery in order topenetrate various veils of government secrecy surrounding key issues.The 9/11 Commission has failed the public by refusing to provide thatpenetration into government secrets. All of the roadblocks met byinvestigators have been put up by our own government almost as if theyreally dont want the public to find out exactly how thesesophisticated attacks took place. I, for one, am convinced that Muslim terrorists were involved, but that they were directed and assisted by a huge network of secret operatives that only the US government could have produced. No portion of the 9/11 Commissioninvestigation was allowed to follow through with any evidence pointingto government collusion in this great tragedy. That is why thisinvestigation is an exercise in futility, if not a direct cover-up. THE CONTINUING COVER-UP OF THE VINCE FOSTER DEATH The US Justice system hasalways shown a tendency to support government cover-ups, in particularby refusing to allow private investigators access to the " bestevidence " : either the body or the original photographs of the woundsthat would indicate a cover-up. The courts sealed up the evidence ofmurder in the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations, and consistently refusedprivate review of those photos, even as investigators demonstrated thatautopsies had been falsified or altered. They did so again with themurder of Ron Brown, suppressing x-ray photos showing a bullet wound. Now, the Supreme Courthas weighed in on the Vince Foster murder and denied Californiaattorney Allan Favish access to photographs of the late VinceFoster, who was deputy counsel to the Clinton White House. I believeFoster was killed because he knew too much (about Clinton illegal dealings in Arkansas and the hidden Swiss Bank accounts where Clintons government payoff money was stashed). Foster was being sought after asa witness in the Whitewater investigation and was showing signs ofweakening. He was killed to keep him from spilling crucial information. THE FALLUJAH DEATHS POINT TO MORE GOVERNMENT MERCENARY ACTIVITY The four Americans killedin the anti-US stronghold of Fallujah in Iraq were apparently formermilitary commandos operating under the cover of a private securitycompany. The Washington Post reported that they were employees ofBlackwater Security Consulting, a division of Blackwater USA.Blackwater (a telling name) is one of the tens of US insider connectedcorporations like DynCorp and MPRI that do secret military operationson behalf of the US government. Such companies train a variety ofunsavory allies in the " war on terror " so the US government can claimplausible deniability or lack of any direct association should they becaught. There is a revolving door between US military commandos andthese so-called private companies. Unlike truly private securitycompanies (who can only gain limited access to weapons), these insidercorporations are allowed unrestricted access to US military bases, plusthe full range of high-tech, sophisticated weapons that are supposed tobe the exclusive domain of the military. Americans are shocked atthe violence perpetrated on these mercenaries, but they shouldnt be.Its only a taste of things to come, as hatred for the US occupationgrows. The reason it is growing is that the US government continues toantagonize Iraqis in the know, who see the American corruption, thecontinued heavy handed incarceration of Iraqis (mixing innocents withthe guilty), and its the US occupations favoring of Americancontractors and their swaggering mercenary guards. Iraqis see throughthe many ulterior motives and hidden agendas of the Bushadministration, even if most Americans do not. [END] ===== It`s a no brainer. Join MyFreeShares ( for free ), after you join you will get 1 share. 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