Guest guest Posted June 5, 2006 Report Share Posted June 5, 2006 Intersections 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/ Why would arafat want Sirhan Sirhan, convicted palestinian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, freed Is it because DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES SHEIKH SAID ONE WHO KILLED KENNEDY TRAINED FOR 3 YEARS 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. Well 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 a lestinians/profiles/1371998.stm The irony of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. questioning the results of the landslide victory in 2004 for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the recipients of some 62,039,073 popular votes, versus the 59,027,478 received by the losing ticket of Senator John Forbes Kerry and John Edwards is mind boggling. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ignoring the evidence which supports the conclusion that arafat ordered the murder of his father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy. It was Bill Clinton who had arafat on the White House lawn, when he should have had arafat brought to justice for the countless murders he ordered, including, we believe the murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy on the night of June 4th, 1968. It was Hillary Clinton who nauseatingly kissed arafat's wife. What that was like we cannot imagine. The nearest possible thing to that must have been like what it must have been like to kiss Hitler's mistress Eva Braun, but to our knowledge only Hitler kissed Eva Braun. Hillary Clinton kissed arafat's wife and she wants to be President of the United States! Has the world gone mad But then perhaps Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is returning to the old ways of his pro-Hitler grandfather Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. who was quoted on the PBS special on the Kennedy as saying that " The Jews deserved The Holocaust. " After all it was George W. Bush who put an end to the regime of the pro-nazi Saddam Hussein, raised by his uncle who had participated in the 1941 pro-nazi coup in Iraq which saw the Luftwaffe fly into Baghdad. Teddy Kennedy, it should be noted opposes the liberation of Iraq. Had Teddy Kennedy been President Saddam would still be in power, still paying the families of terrorists bounties on Jewish scalps, having raised the feed he paid them from $10,000 to $15,000 to $25,000. How much would Saddam be paying the families of those GENOCIDE BOMBERS today had Teddy Kennedy been President and Saddam remained in power What irony, when one must consider the real possibility that Saddam, who was head of the Iraqi Jihaz Haneen, the official assassination organization in Iraq in November of 1963 may well have had a hand in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. " 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. The 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. They do heads of state and Parliament Speakers, they don't do parking lots, unless there is a Presidential limo in them, and unless there Is a President inside the limo. 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 " . Ralph Nader and Chuck Harder " " King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock! " <kingdaevid Tue Jun 26, 2001 1:37pm Ralph Nader and Chuck Harder ....if anyone has documentation about Ralph Nader's contributions to Chuck Harder's syndicated hate talk radio show, I'd appreciate it being posted to the list. Last year, when I wrote the Chicago and Milwaukee Area columns for RadioDigest.com, I made reference to this seemingly odd combine, partly because I used to be a board operator for a station in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, that was an affiliate of Harder's People's Radio Network and was on-duty as Nader's appearances were being made. This was about a year before the Oklahoma City bombing; as Terry Nichols' Michigan farm was being raided, Tom Brokaw reported on NBC that Harder's daily " For The People " program apparently inspired much of Nichols' and McVeigh's anti-government activity. Harder's program, as well as others that his network aired (including one hosted via phone by Lyndon LaRouche from the prison where he was serving his credit card fraud sentence!), boosted the neo-fascist " militia " movement and regularly had " militia " members and commanders as guests. When I pointed that out in my columns, I got a ton of e-mail expressing incredulity that Nader had such an association, and even more from Naderites accusing me of everything short of raping the writers' respective grandmothers... " In his Texas days, the politically ambitious elder Clark was cultivated as a useful connection by New Orleans Mafia kingpin Carlos Marcello, and many feared Clarks new job would afford organized crime access to higher levels of power. AG Clark was repeatedly mired in corruption scandals.*** In 1947, after he had four convicted Chicago mob bosses sprung from prison before their terms were complete, Congress appointed a committee to investigate-and was effectively road blocked by Toms refusal to hand over parole records. Roselli was a Las Vegas based Mafia figure and a link in the CIA-Mafia chain. He had close ties to three Mafia bosses associated with the Kennedy assassination: Sam Giancana of Chicago, Santos Trafficante of Florida, and Carlos Marcello of New Orleans. According to columnist Jack Anderson, Roselli told him that mob leaders had ordered Jack Ruby to kill Lee Harvey Oswald because they were afraid he might crack and reveal their part in the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. In July 1976, shortly before Roselli was to be questioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee, his body was discovered floating in Dumfoundling Bay in Miami. He had been strangled and stabbed; his legs had been sawed off and stuffed into an empty oil drum along with the rest of his body. It is believed that Roselli was killed by someone working for Trafficante because he was talking too much about the Kennedy assassination. Conspiracy Crime and Cover-Up (p. 44): Here Scott discusses links between Ruby, Roselli, and Ramsey Clark. One of Rubys close personal friends and character witnesses for his liquor license was Hal Collins (22 H 928), brother-in-law of prominent local attorney Robert L. Clark, the brother and uncle respectively of U.S. Attorneys General Tom and Ramsey Clark (CD 4.371)Robert L. Clark and his law partner Maury Hughes. arranged the...parole in 1947 of John Roselli. http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/17th_Issue/rambler4. SEE ALSO: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3341739/ " JFK: The day that changed America IN WHICH RAMSEY CLARK STATES THAT HE, RAMSEY CLARK, WAS THE FIRST ONE INTO THE EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE AFTER THE JFK ASSASSINATION. ABCNEWS: What do you make of the idea that Oswalds uncle, Dutz Murret, could have been the connection between Marcello and Oswald http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/WorldNewsTonight/JFK_Ralph_Sal erno • 3.html " The authors also reveal a Mafia chieftain, who employed Jack Ruby and Oswalds uncle, confessed to federal officers he had been directly involved in Kennedys murder. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.aspARTICLE_ID35618 http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Kennedy/WCH/clark_w.html JFK, RFK, the Mob and Dallas by Ronald Goldfarb Ronald Goldfarb who practices law in Washington, D.C., is an active literary agent and television producer. He worked for Robert F. Kennedy in the Department of Justice 1961-64. This book-Goldfarbs ninth-is a memoir of his experiences as a special prosecutor in the organized crime section. Judith Exner, once close to mobsters John Rosselli and Sam Giancana, told talk show host Larry King on television in 1992 that she repeatedly carried satchels of money from JFK to Sam Giancana for his use in Kennedys West Virginia primary. She said that Sam Giancana bragged to her, Your boyfriend wouldnt be in the White House if it wasnt for me.*** After the assassination, Hoffa told Ragano that he was delighted. Did you hear the good news They killed the son-of-a-bitch bastard., Hoffa rejoiced. Hoffa pulled down the flag that hung at half mast at Teamsters headquarters. Hoffa told one reporter, on the day Ruby killed Oswald, Bobby Kennedys just another lawyer now. Several days after the assassination, he took Ragano aside, saying: I told you they could do it. Ill never forget what Carlos and Santo did for me. Later, in New Orleans, Marcello, who was waiting for approval of a huge Teamsters pension fund loan, told Ragano, When you see Jimmy, you tell him he owes me, and he owes me big. He got his loan. Raganos conclusion: They had actually acted on the message I had delivered to them from Jimmy and now they wanted payoffs from him. Ragano says Trafficante told him, in a conversation shortly before he died in 1987, We shouldnt have killed John. We shouldve killed Bobby. http://www.cosmos-club.org/journals/1996/goldfarb.html " The House Assassinations Committee heard evidence that Ruby visited Las Vegas in the weeks prior to the assassination, and if he did, it was certainly to see McWillie, and it was also rumored he saw {Johnny} Rosselli at that time. http://newtimes.rway.com/1996/112096/cover.htm " FBI records indicate that when in 1961 Carlos Marcello... had become one of Bobby Kennedys targets for deportation, the New Orleans don contacted Santo Trafficante... who in turn called Frank to use his influence with the Presidents father on Marcellos behalf. (P.295) This story has appeared (with little emphasis) in the Blakey-Billings book (which does not specify that a contact with Sinatra was made; p. 242) and at 9 HSCA 70 (which does not specifically refer to JFKs father). http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Fringe/Conspiry/jfk-echo.txt Senator Heinz and Martin Luther King both died on April 4th Was Senator Heinz assassinated too The late Senator Heinz, then Senator Gore, and Senator Kerry were all close friends working on exposing what was known as Iraqgate, the arming of Saddam by Reagan and Bush I. Was Senator Heinz, the late husband of Mrs. John F. Kerry, a victim of an arab terrorist assassination plot Senator Heinz was strongly Pro-Israel: Update on Congress The Busy Month of June By Dennis J. Wamsted July 15, 1985, Page 4 The Reagan Administrations plan to sell a package of advanced weaponry-including 40 jet fighters, either F-16s or F-20s, and several types of offensive and defensive missiles-to the Kingdom of Jordan was derailed in June before it was even officially announced. On June 4, Senators John Heinz (R-PA) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) introduced a resolution, with 67 cosponsors, opposing an arms sale to Jordan under present conditions. By mid-month five other senators had added their signature to the resolution-which states, in part, that arms sales to Arab countries jeopardize both the security of Israel and progress toward peace in the Middle East. Facing such determined resistance, the Administration decided, once again, to postpone action on the sale for the indefinite future. Source: http://www.washington- report.org/backissues/071585/850715004.html Why would arafat want RFKs Murderer, Sirhan Sirhan, Freed On April 4th 1968 Martin Luther King was assassinated while standing on the balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Had Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy NOT been assassinated Eugene McCarthy, who was 7 points ahead of Nixon in the polls, would have been nominated by the Democratic Party as its Presidential candidate in 1968 and gone on to win the White House. Gene would have ended the Vietnam War promptly in 1969. Gene McCarthy was a good personal friend of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. He was a friend of Israel. Gene would probably have been re-elected in 1972. There probably would NOT have been an arab surprise attack on Israel on October 6th, 1973 with Gene McCarthy in the White House and the US NOT tied down in Indochina. In our view ARAFAT ordered the assassinations of BOTH BOBBY KENNEDY AND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. The cost to the African-American community of the death of the most Gandhian leader it ever had is incalculable in terms of wasted human lives. Dr. King was also a friend to the Jewish community. Imagine a world in which there never had been a split between the Jewish community and the African American community. Instead of Jesse Jackson assuming the mantle of the slain Dr. King, and going on to lead the charge against the Jewish community after Jimmy Carter fired Andy Young for shaking hands with an arafat observer at the UN, and going on to make his infamous Hymietown remark, Martin Luther King would have led the African-American community. ( Jackson allegedly got $5 million dollars for his OPERATION PUSH from Iraq and allegedly got another $5 million Dollars from Libya).. Who Shot Martin Luther King The federal government, and Tennessee authorities, aggressively pushed the lone-gunman theory-although this explanation was rejected out of hand by millions of Americans. At Rays sentencing, as the state was telling the jury what the evidence would have been at a trial, Ray interrupted the proceedings to say he did not agree with the statement of Ramsey Clark, U.S. attorney general, that there was no conspiracy. Three days later Ray tried to withdraw his plea of guilty, even though that would subject him to a possible death sentence. The court refused. From that day forward there has been a tug-of-war between conspiracy believers and lone-gunman advocates. In 1979 the House Select Committee on Assassinations issued a report saying there probably was a conspiracy. http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/08.07.97/mlkj-9732.html THE GROUP CALLING ITSELF A.N.S.W.E.R. WAS SPUN OFF IT SEEMS TO US FROM the International Action Center. Ramsey Clark FOUNDED the International Action Center. French Lawyer Says He Will Defend Saddam Saturday, March 27, 2004 PARIS - A French lawyer, known for defending terrorists and a Nazi leader, said Saturday he will defend Saddam Hussein Jacques Verges told France-Inter radio he had received a letter from Saddams family requesting him to defend the former Iraqi leader in court. The letter read: In my capacity as nephew of President Saddam Hussein, I commission you officially by this letter to assure the defense of my uncle, Verges said. He did not name the person who sent the letter. U.S. officials have said they will bring Saddam to trial for alleged crimes against Iraqi people. But the location of any trial and its format and date have not yet been decided. Saddam is being held by U.S. forces at an undisclosed location. Verges has defended Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez. He gained international notoriety during the Cold War for staging a string of deadly bombings, assassinations and hostage seizures. The French lawyer also defended, Klaus Barbie, a Nazi Gestapo chief in France in World War II, who was convicted of crimes against humanity in Lyon, France. Source: http://news./news tmplstory & u/ap/20040327/ap_on_re_eu/france_saddam_2 The Formation of the Clark Panel: More of the Secret Team at Work By Lisa Pease The Clark Panel was the medical panel convened almost immediately after Ramsey Clark had been approved for his appointment as Attorney General in 1967. The panel was clearly convened to put to rest the growing doubts caused by the exposures of Mark Lane, Harold Weisberg, other researchers and even in late 1966, LIFE magazine itself. All of the above talked about the evidence of conspiracy, and the implication is that the medical evidence would either show conspiracy, or else, signs of tampering. What brought it to a crux was Jim Garrisons all-out investigation of the assassination, which, in 1967, was making official story proponents very nervous. One of the key questions raised by the New Orleans DA was this: Why hadnt the Warren Commission members examined the autopsy photographs and X-rays Ramsey Clark also dutifully backed the official findings that Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan each acted alone in the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers.*** Carlos Marcello biographer John Davis asserts that the kingpin continued to funnel money to (Ramsey) Clark(s father Tom Clark) when he, (Tom Clark), sat on the high court.*** http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0093.htm RFK was killed on the first anniversary of the Six Day War. http://www.idf.il/english/history/sixday.stm FBI records indicate that when in 1961 Carlos Marcello had become one of Bobby Kennedys targets for deportation, the New Orleans don contacted Santo Trafficante.). International Action Center-IAC- Founder Ramsey ) Clark represented PLO leaders in a suit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the elderly vacationer who was shot and thrown overboard from the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise-ship by Palestinian terrorists in 1986. http://stopterror.org/lawsuits.html " The PLO, PA, and other related defendants are being represented by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. PLO attorney and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Clark also represented PLO leaders in a suit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the elderly vacationer who was shot and thrown overboard from the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise-ship by Palestinian terrorists in 1986. Another Ramsey Clark client was Sheik Rahman himself. In private legal practice since 1969, Mr. Clark has argued or briefed a number of First Amendment, peace movement, civil rights and criminal cases before the Supreme Court. In addition, he has defended a rogues gallery of clients, including convicted 1993 World Trade Center bombing conspirator Sheik Rahman and presidential fringe candidate Lyndon LaRouche. National Press Club Luncheon With Ramsey Clark Who Is Behind Lynne Stewart By Michael Tremoglie FrontPageMagazine.com | September 25, 2002 Lynne Stewart is the radical attorney who has been indicted by Attorney General John Ashcroft for enabling her client, the terrorist Sheik, Omar Abdul Rahman, to carry out his murderous agendas while in prison by helping him to communicate with his terrorist organization in Egypt. Rahman was the spiritual leader of a cell that carried out the first World Trade Center bombing and was planning to blow up the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels. Stewart was recruited to the Rahman case by Lyndon Johnsons Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, who has a long history of anti-American causes. Ramsey Clark is the founder of the International Action Committee (IAC), a pro-Saddam organization. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspID3340 " On February 26th, 1993 the explosion in the basement of the World Trade Center on the second anniversary of Iraqs expulsion from Kuwait City. The Bank of Kuwait just happened to have a vault in the basement of the World Trade Center. Was Saddam Hussein behind the blast It occurred on the second anniversary of Iraqs expulsion from Kuwait City, and the Bank of Kuwait just happened to have a vault in the basement of the World Trade Center. The explosion shook the building, all 110 floors. It killed at least five people (two others appeared to be missing) and injured more than 1,000. It trapped tens of thousands of frightened workers and visitors in coal-dark elevators and smoke-filled offices and stairwells. The explosion shook more than the building; it rattled the country's confidence, dispelling the snug illusion that Americans were immune, somehow, to the plague of terrorism that torments so many countries. No foreign people or force has ever done this to us, said New York's Gov. Mario Cuomo. Until now, we were invulnerable. " http://www.msnbc.com/news/629481.asp#BODY " At approximately 12 noon on February 26, 1993, a massive explosion rocked the World Trade Center. http://www.dssrewards.net/english/wldtrade.html Remarks at the Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the Liberation of Kuwait Secretary Colin L. Powell Kuwait City, Kuwait (US Embassy) February 26, 2001 http://www.state.gov/secretary/index.cfmdocid954 Saddam Hussein and Ramsey Clark Iraqs Hussein wont offer condolences to Bush September 26, 2001 BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said Wednesday he will not offer condolences to U.S. President George W. Bush for those killed in terror attacks because the United States is launching a war on us and his condolences would be hypocritical. In a meeting with a representative of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Hussein said, Bush wants us to pay our condolences, but if I were to do that I would not be respecting my people. Bush is the president of a state that is launching a war on us ... in a mean, terroristic manner. And if I offered condolences to its president, this would be hypocrisy, and we are not hypocrites. Since offering condolences is a kind of courtesy between states, but we offered condolences to small organizations in America and to an American personality [Ramsey Clark] who came to extend condolences for Americas calamities against us. Husseins remarks were reported by the Iraqi News Agency. http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/26/vic.saddam.no.condolences/index.html dex.html Ex-Atty. General Would Aid Saddam Defense Fri Dec 19,10:26 PM ET By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said Friday that he would be willing to provide legal counsel to Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) if the ousted Iraqi leader requested Clarks assistance. AP Photo I would seek to help him protect his rights if he needed my help and I felt that there was no one whos willing who could do it better, Clark said in an interview with The Associated Press. I would have no hesitation. Thats my work. Thats my chosen pursuit br> to protect rights. His rights need protecting. Clark also lashed out at the Bush administration for the militarys handling of the ex-Iraqi president since he was discovered last weekend hiding underground near his hometown of Tikrit. My two main concerns would be about the way hes being treated from the standpoint of human rights, and my belief that the humiliation that he has suffered causes hatred and will be harmful to the interests of the United States, Clark said. He specifically took issue with video images transmitted around the world showing a bearded and weary-looking Saddam being examined by a doctor just after his capture. While Clark said he would defend Saddam at trial, he expressed doubts that such a scenario would unfold. Its unlikely if its not an international court that a foreigner who didnt speak Arabic and wasnt trained in the Arabic legal traditions would be permitted to appear in an Iraqi court, Clark said. U.S. officials have gone along with the Iraqi plan that Saddams trial should be conducted by a special Iraqi tribunal that was set up just days before he was taken into custody. But there are still many questions that remain unresolved, including when a trial would take place, and what kind of charges he would face. The 76-year-old Clark, who was attorney general under President Lyndon Johnson, has met with Saddam on several occasions in the past decade. He most recently sat down with the former Iraqi leader in February, in the days leading up to the U.S. invasion. Clark described Saddam as dignified, reasonable and an interesting person. He is a human being, Clark said. Clark has assisted other despised leaders before. http://story.news./news tmplstory & u/ap/20031220/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saddam_lawyer_2 " THE MYSTERIOUS RAMSEY CLARK STALINIST DUPE OR RULING-CLASS SPOOK By Manny Goldstein Clark couldn't keep his client from a conviction and brief prison term. But Clarks relationship with LaRouche went beyond legal representation to actual advocacy. Researcher Chip Berlet, a watchdog on radical right groups, told Judis that Clarks brief was a political polemic. In June 1990, a LaRouche front organization, the Schiller Institute, flew Clark to a cult-organized conference in Copenhagen. His speech there claimed the US government had moved against LaRouche because he was a danger to the system, and decried that he was a victim of vilification. The speech was printed in full by the LaRouchie New Federalist propaganda rag. Clark also represented PLO leaders in a suit brought by the family of Leon Klinghoffer, the elderly vacationer who was shot and thrown overboard from the hijacked Achille Lauro cruise-ship by Palestinian terrorists in 1986.Another Clark client was Karl Linnas, an ex-Nazi concentration camp guard in Estonia (where he had overseen the murder of some 12,000 resistance fighters and Jews), who was being deported from the US to the USSR to face war crimes charges. Clark again lost the case, but again went to bat for his client in the public arena, questioning the need to prosecute Nazis forty years after some god-awful crime they're alleged to have committed. (fyi, not part of article immediately below or above but related to this case: Buchanan has consistently portrayed war criminals as patriotic Americans, innocent victims of revenge-obsessed Nazi hunters in Washington. Virtually everything the accused and their defenders have said he accepts as truth, and, in the words of one critic, he wages journalistic guerilla warfare on their behalf. Says Neal Sher, former director of the U.S. Justice Departments Office of Special Investigations: Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war criminal in America. Liberty Lobby, the leading anti-Semitic and racist organization in America, overwhelmingly endorsed Pat Buchanan during the 1996 presidential primaries. An editorial in its publication, The Spotlight, pointed out that the 112 issues or legislative positions that Liberty Lobby has taken over the past 40 years...shows that Pat Buchanan stands with us. The predominant issue they share is Holocaust revisionism, the spearhead of the international anti-Semitic movement. Buchanan used his syndicated column and his office as communications director in the Reagan White House from 1981-1987 to assist pro-Nazi Eastern European organizations in trying to block the denaturalization and deportation of Karl Linnas, John Demjanjuk, and at least seventeen others who had been charged by the U.S. Justice Departments Office of Special Investigations or had been convicted in federal courts of concealing war crimes in order to gain illegal entry into the U.S. The Karl Linnas Case In 1981 the Federal District Court in Westbury, NY stripped 67-year-old Karl Linnas of his citizenship for having lied to immigration officials thirty years earlier about his Nazi past. Linnass crimes, the judge said, were such as to offend the decency of any civilized society. From 1941-43 Linnas had commanded a Nazi concentration camp at Tartu, Estonia, where he directed and personally took part in the murder of thousands of men, women, and children who were shot into anti-tank ditches. A 1986 federal appeals court upheld his deportation order, ruling that the evidence against the defendant was overwhelming and largely uncontroverted. Summarily rejecting the courts findings because evidence had been obtained from the Soviet Union, Buchanan orchestrated a national media effort to exonerate Linnas, demanding that his citizenship be reinstated. He championed the Linnas cause in his syndicated newspaper column and TV program Crossfire, and arranged for then U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III to meet with him and members of Eastern European organizations who hailed Linnas as a hero. On March 31, l987, Menachem Rosensaft, founder of the International Network of Children of Holocaust Survivors, wrote a New York Times Op-Ed piece calling for a congressional investigation to determine whether any American official or functionary had intervened on Mr. Linnass behalf. Buchanan responded by saying it was the Office of Special Investigations that needed to be investigated. Let us get it all out in the open, he wrote, nothing un-American can live in the sunlight. Attorney General Meese delayed the deportation of Linnas as long as possible, all the while searching for a haven. After sixteen countries had refused, Panama agreed to accept Linnas on humanitarian grounds. News of the decision prompted Rosensaft and others to intercede with Panamanian officials in Washington, who told them that their government had not been informed of Linnass wartime atrocities. Panama withdrew its offer and issued a statement saying that our country and our Government reject and condemn the crimes committed by fascists. On April 20, 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a final appeal. At that point Meese was legally bound to comply with the deportation order. Linnas was flown to the Soviet Union and three months later died in a prison hospital while awaiting trial. http://uahc.org/rjmag/1096ca.html Article continues below: The Devils Pact In August 1990, two months after his return from the LaRouche conference in Copenhagen, with US troops mobilizing to Saudi Arabia, Clark accepted an invitation to lead the National Coalition to Stop US Intervention in the Middle East. This invitation had been extended by members of an orthodox Stalinist sect, the Workers World Party (WWP). Clark had finally found a new home. The Clark-WWP alliance has lasted to this day. WWP cadre Gavriella Gemma became a secretary in Clarks New York law office in 1977. With Clark as the figurehead and PAM/WWP at the helm At an April 1991 protest in New York City, WWP thugs attacked a Lower East Side squatter contingent and ejected them from the rally for refusing to take down their unapproved homemade banners.WWPers then called in the police and had the squatters arrested (SHADOW April/May 1991).In November 1990, Clark flew to Baghdad to meet with Saddam, who allowed him to return with a few hostages. In February Clark was in Basra, Iraqs southern port. But his consistent failure to complain about Saddams regime made it clear he was there at its invitation. With Clarks name-recognition and homespun, avuncular image, WWP had the opportunity to form a new front group.This was the International Action Center (IAC), which remains the top vehicle for Clarks ego and WWPs play for hegemony. IAC/WWP embraces what is now called in Europe the Red-Brown Alliance-the notion of a left-fascist alliance against the West. This alliance is most advanced in Russia where neo-Stalinists and neo-Czarists have joined to oppose Yeltsin (seen as a stooge of the West). In an echo of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact, former communists and anarchists in Russia now work with figures like Zhirinovsky, who have themselves sought alliances with German neo-Nazis. Clark, meanwhile, represented a Rwandan Hutu militiaman fighting his extradition from the US back to Rwanda to face genocide charges. The WWP line simultaneously (and predictably) tilted to the genocidal Hutu militias as the UN wrote up war crime charges against their leaders for ordering the slaughter of half a million Tutsi civilians in 1994.. " " Iraq Connections to U.S. Extremists Posted Oct. 26, 2001 By Kelly Patricia O'Meara Who's behind the deadly anthrax letters That is the hot-button question of the moment. While federal law-enforcement officials have come up short in connecting the postal poison to Osama bin Laden, Iraq or any other individual terrorist or state sponsor of terrorism, experts well-versed in terrorism wonder why more attention hasn't been focused on a connection much closer to home. For example, considerable evidence that may prove helpful in the ongoing investigation has been made public in other recent terrorism cases. Nowhere is this more evident than in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and the relationship of convicted bombing conspirator Terry Nichols to elements of Iraqi intelligence. During the trial of Timothy McVeigh, the convicted mastermind behind the Oklahoma City bombing, information surfaced concerning Nichols' frequent visits to the Philippines; McVeigh attorney Stephen Jones later wrote about this extensively in his book Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy. According to Jones' investigation, Nichols made numerous trips to the Philippines beginning in 1990, many lasting more than a month. Nichols reportedly attended a meeting in the early 1990s on the predominantly Muslim island of Mindanao, a hotbed of fundamentalist activities, at which Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah were present. The themes of the meeting were " bombing activities, providing firearms and ammunition, training in making and handling bombs. " Yousef was the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993; Murad and Shah were convicted in a 1996 conspiracy to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners. Laurie Mylroie, a Harvard-trained Ph.D. who is an expert on Iraqi terrorism and author of Study of Revenge: The First World Trade Center Attack and Saddam Hussein's War Against America, was a consultant to Jones during the Oklahoma City investigation. She tells Insight " the connection of Terry Nichols, the Philippines and Ramzi Yousef is a very important point that neither the FBI nor the press pursued. " Mylroie adds, " I doubt that Nichols has ever been asked about his connections to Yousef because the government didn't want to know. It wanted to say, `Here are the perpetrators; we arrested them and we brought them to justice. Case closed.' " Mylroie continues: " The fact is, Ramzi Yousef was in the Philippines at the same time as Nichols and visited the same city out of which the Oklahoma City bombing was planned. I doubt that connection ever was pursued. Only the people in charge of the investigation can explain their motives in failing to focus public attention on this, but I can guess. Remember that before the bombing [President Bill] Clinton was in deep political trouble but, by dealing with it in the fashion he did, his kite rose and he was able to make it look like the FBI did a splendid, knockdown investigation. It was kind of like, `Okay, Tim McVeigh is the mastermind; Terry Nichols assisted him; don't ask any more questions.' That settled, with Clinton's tremendous capacity to feel everyone's pain, he improved his own position. " But suppose the investigation had been done another way, says the terrorist expert, " such as saying, `Terry Nichols has all these suspicious contacts in the Philippines, and we're gonna pursue them because it may be there's been a foreign bombing on American soil.' More important is that there were other Americans involved in the McVeigh/Nichols bombing, and they could be involved today in other terrorist activities. But the FBI just isn't going to recognize it. The kind of irresponsibility that I and others believe the Clinton administration committed is so mind-boggling that many well-meaning people just can't believe it, even though there is significant evidence — a standard of probable cause. They find it hard to accept because it would follow that the White House and the FBI were corrupt. " A recent Fox News program appeared to support Mylroie's contention of an FBI cover-up. Paul Bedard of U.S. News and World Report announced on the Fox and Friends show that " top defense officials say that in all the evidence used against Timothy McVeigh to execute him in the Oklahoma City bombing, that he had Iraqi telephone numbers on his person. He had information about Iraq which has led some officials to think that he was an Iraqi agent and maybe was doing Saddam Hussein's business in Oklahoma City. " Bedard further claimed that " the FBI says this is crazy, there is no evidence. DOD [Department of Defense] comes back and says, `That's because you didn't tell us it was a cover-up.' The theory is that he [McVeigh] got those numbers from some militia groups out west which he was associating with. This led the FBI to tell the guys at the Pentagon, `Go fight your war. " … While Nichols' ties to the Iraqis are well-documented in numerous books and independent investigations, such as the recent report of Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Keys, he also had ties to other militant groups. For instance, he attended meetings in Michigan of the Posse Comitatus, a militant, right-wing organization founded by Col. William Potter Gale and headed by James Wickstrom. Members of Posse Comitatus, according to legal documents released prior to McVeigh's trial, have for years been in contact with Iraq and other rogue Arab nations that share a hatred of Israel. This fits with the Oklahoma City defense team's conclusions concerning Dennis Mahon, long suspected of being a player in the conspiracy to bomb the Murrah building. Mahon is described in Jones' book as " a virulent racist and avowed enemy of the U.S. government " and is a high-ranking member of the White Aryan Resistance (WAR) movement. The defense team reports that its investigation shows " the Iraqi government has given Dennis Mahon thousands of dollars over the past six years, and Mahon has been banned from entering Canada and the United Kingdom and is classified by Interpol as an international terrorist. " The FBI did not bother to interview Mahon in connection to the Oklahoma City bombing. Beyond Nichols and Mahon, there are others with connections to domestic militant groups sympathetic to Islamic fundamentalists. These include Larry Wayne Harris, a licensed clinical and public- health microbiologist who was arrested in Las Vegas in February 1998 for conspiring to " possess biological agents and toxin, to wit: anthrax and anthrax precursors for use as a weapon. " At the time of Harris' arrest he was on probation for a 1995 conviction for fraudulently obtaining bubonic-plague toxins. According to the 1998 Las Vegas FBI complaint, " Harris told a group about plans to place a globe of bubonic-plague toxins in a New York City subway station, where it would be broken by a passing subway train, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths. " Furthermore, in a 1996 letter to Aryan Nation founder Pastor Richard Butler, the white-supremacist leader says Harris requested that Butler publish his manuscript on germ warfare, in the preface of which Harris described an encounter with an Iraqi who provided a lengthy commentary on biological warfare and detailed the progress of the Iraqi program in the United States. Butler …confirms that, until his arrest in 1998, Harris had been a member of the Aryan Nation. " http://www.okcbombing.org/News%20Articles/Insightmag_102601.htm " More information is coming to light on the Iraqi connection to the Oklahoma City bombing and possible government cover-up. Oklahoma City lawyer Mike Johnston, aided by Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, filed a federal lawsuit against Iraq on behalf of victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. The lawsuit alleges that " the entire plot to blow up the Murrah Building on April 19, 1995, in whole or in part, was orchestrated, assisted technically and/ or financially and directly aided by agents of the Republic of Iraq. " As to why the feds would cover up the truth, Laurie Mylroie, a Harvard-trained Ph.D. who is an expert on Iraqi terrorism and author of Study of Revenge: The First World Trade Center Attack and Saddam Hussein's War Against America, was a consultant to Stephen Jones, Timothy McVeigh's attorney, during the Oklahoma City investigation. She told Insight Magazine, " the connection of Terry Nichols, the Philippines and Ramzi Yousef is a very important point that neither the FBI nor the press pursued. " Mylroie adds, " I doubt that Nichols has ever been asked about his connections to Yousef because the government didn't want to know. It wanted to say, `Here are the perpetrators; we arrested them and we brought them to justice. Case closed.' " Mylroie continues: " The fact is, Ramzi Yousef was in the Philippines at the same time as Nichols and visited the same city out of which the Oklahoma City bombing was planned. I doubt that connection ever was pursued. Only the people in charge of the investigation can explain their motives in failing to focus public attention on this, but I can guess. Remember that before the bombing [President Bill] Clinton was in deep political trouble but, by dealing with it in the fashion he did, his kite rose and he was able to make it look like the FBI did a splendid, knockdown investigation. It was kind of like, `Okay, Tim McVeigh is the mastermind; Terry Nichols assisted him; don't ask any more questions.' That settled, with Clinton's tremendous capacity to feel everyone's pain, he improved his own position. " —Henrietta http://www.insightmag.com/news/221859.html Investigative Report Iraqi Connection to Oklahoma Bombing Posted March 25, 2002 By Kenneth R. Timmerman Saudi Crown Prince Abdallah reportedly rejected a direct request from Vice President Dick Cheney during a March 16 meeting in Jeddah that Saudi Arabia support a U.S.-led attack on Iraq. Other Arab countries have followed suit. But new information linking Iraq to terrorist attacks against the U.S. mainland could at least change the equation—or at least the U.S. resolve to move against Iraq unilaterally if necessary. President George W. Bush and top administration officials have expanded the war on terror to include regimes, such as Iraq's, that are developing weapons of mass destruction. In testimony March 19 before the Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Director George Tenet made clear that Iraq's ongoing nuclear-weapons program constitutes a clear and present danger to the United States. The president repeatedly has said the same. But until now the United States has taken no steps to deploy the forces most observers believe would be necessary to support military action to depose Saddam Hussein. That was before an Oklahoma City lawyer named Mike Johnston, aided by Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch, filed a federal lawsuit against Iraq on behalf of victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. The lawsuit alleges that " the entire plot to blow up the Murrah Building on April 19, 1995, in whole or in part, was orchestrated, assisted technically and/ or financially and directly aided by agents of the Republic of Iraq. " The facts Johnston and his team of investigators uncovered could blow the lid off the U.S. government cover-up of the " others unknown " who conspired with Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to murder 168 Americans. If proven, says Richard Perle, chairman of the Bush administration's advisory Defense Policy Board, " it would add a lot to the justification of what we do. " However, Perle cautioned INSIGHT in an interview, " The case against Saddam is so powerful it would be unnecessary and unwise to pin our case on one single act, however heinous. We're looking at the aggregate of the indictment of Iraq: their weapons of mass destruction, their refusal to allow U.N. arms inspectors into the weapons facilities, their support for terrorism. If we clutched at one single act, some people might see it as an excuse. " The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court in Washington on March 14, alleges that convicted Oklahoma City conspirator Nichols met repeatedly in the Philippines with World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Youssef, and that Youssef was an Iraqi intelligence agent. If these allegations are confirmed in court, they constitute a stunning indictment of Iraqi state complicity in murderous attacks on the United States well before Sept. 11. As if anticipating new developments on the terrorism front, CIA Tenet told the Senate Armed Services Committee in unusually frank testimony on March 19 that the United States now is actively examining potential Iraqi and Iranian involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. " As to where we are in [investigating] Sept. 11, the jury's out, " Tenet told senators. " And it would be a mistake to dismiss the possibility of state sponsorship, whether Iranian or Iraqi, and we'll see where the evidence takes us. " The evidence could take the CIA and the White House to both Middle Eastern states, as Tenet made clear. " The distinctions between Sunni and Shia [islam] that have traditionally divided terrorist groups are not distinctions you should make anymore because there is a common interest against the United States and its allies in this region, and they will seek capability wherever they can get it, " he said. Saddam Hussein and his governing Baathist elite are predominantly Sunni, while neighboring Iran is majority Shiite. Both have helped Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, U.S. counterterrorism officials now believe. Some of the evidence cited in the complaint was developed by Stephen Jones, the McVeigh defense attorney who first aired allegations of Iraqi involvement in his book Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy. But other facts will surprise even veteran Oklahoma City watchers, who long have known the government was withholding evidence, as Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn A. Fine admitted in an official report released on March 18. Jones tells INSIGHT that the new allegations, combined with evidence he had uncovered earlier, bear the weight of prima facie evidence of a broader conspiracy involving Iraq. " We went to the Philippines four times to investigate Terry Nichols' meetings with Ramzi Youssef and other known terrorists, " Jones tells INSIGHT. That evidence, now being expanded by Johnston and his investigators, includes testimony from Edwin Angeles, a Philippine- government intelligence operative who was infiltrated into the top echelon of the radical Islamic terrorist group known as Abu Sayyaf. Angeles " turned himself in " to Philippine authorities in December 1994 and provided videotaped testimony to an American private investigator working for Jones who interviewed him in the Basilan provincial jail. On the tape, never admitted into evidence at the Oklahoma City trial, Angeles says he met on several occasions with Youssef, coconspirators Abdul Hakim Murad, Wali Khan Amin Shah and a visiting American known as " The Farmer. " At one meeting in late 1994 in Davao on the island of Mindanao, a hotbed of Muslim extremism, the group discussed specific terrorist targets in the United States, including the federal building in Oklahoma City, as INSIGHT reported last November (see " Iraq Connection to U.S. Extremists, " Nov. 19, 2001). Angeles then made a sketch of The Farmer that he gave to the investigators. Says Jones: " The man it depicted was a dead ringer for Terry Nichols. " According to Jones, as well as new witnesses uncovered by Johnston and his investigators working on the ground in the Philippines, Nichols went to the Philippines to learn bomb-making techniques in late 1994 after he and McVeigh had attempted unsuccessfully to build an explosive device. " In October, " Jones says, " Tim couldn't blow up a rock. Then Terry goes to the Philippines, and Tim says he builds the bomb. " Despite repeated demands from his lawyers for the truth, McVeigh " never accounted for how he learned to build the bomb, " Jones says. Jones and Johnston believe it was Nichols who brought back that expertise from the Philippines after extensive meetings with bomb expert Youssef. Nichols' father-in-law, a Filipino policeman named Torres, told Philippine-government investigators that he had found bomb-making manuals in Nichols' luggage in late 1994 when Nichols stayed at the family's home in Cebu City, at precisely the same time Angeles placed Nichols in meetings there with Youssef. The FBI claims Torres retracted these statements, but Jones says he reaffirmed them in subsequent depositions with Philippine authorities. " To me, that increased his credibility, " Jones tells INSIGHT. And then there's the strange package Nichols left with his ex-wife in the United States before making the last of his many previously tranquil trips to the Philippines. In the package, which he instructed her to open only if he didn't return to the United States within 90 days, Nichols included a letter to McVeigh ( " You're on your own, " he wrote). He also left what amounted to a will, instructing his ex-wife in the event of his death to reclaim gold bars, $20,000 in cash and other monetary instruments from a hidden cache. " We have reason to believe that Terry Nichols was planning to take part in Project Bojinka [the plot to attack U.S. airliners], " Johnston tells INSIGHT. " He only returned to the United States after Ramzi Youssef's plans were foiled and Youssef fled the Philippines for Pakistan. " Youssef was arrested by Pakistani authorities in February 1995 and promptly extradited to the United States to stand trial for the 1993 bomb attacks on the World Trade Center. Youssef's past has proved elusive. When he was brought to trial for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, he was presented as a Palestinian refugee who grew up in Kuwait and traveled to Afghanistan in the late 1980s to join forces with bin Laden. But new evidence uncovered by Johnston and his investigators suggests that Youssef may have had direct ties to Iraqi intelligence all along. " We have sworn witness statements and affidavits from court cases that predate the Oklahoma City bombing that directly tie Ramzi Youssef to Dr. Ihsan Barbouti, " Johnston tells INSIGHT. " The witnesses say Barbouti introduced Ramzi Youssef as an `explosives expert for the Iraqi National Oil Company,' and that Youssef was working in Kuwait for Barbouti prior to the Iraqi invasion. " Johnston says that he believes Barbouti was married to a member of Saddam Hussein's al-Tikriti clan. In tribal Iraq, such ties create bonds of absolute loyalty. In January 1995, the record shows Youssef was mixing explosives in a Manila apartment with Abdul Hakim Murad when his deadly brew caught fire, billowing smoke into the hallway and the street. The pair fled, but Murad went back after the fire to retrieve a computer hard drive containing evidence of their terrorist plans and was arrested. Once Youssef was extradited to the United States, the FBI decrypted the files and found detailed plans, code-named Project Bojinka, to blow up 11 U.S. airliners over the Pacific. On the day of the Oklahoma City bombing, Murad summoned his prison guards in a New York jail and told them he had important information about the attack. In a signed statement, he said it had been carried out by the Liberation Army of the Philippines. Questioned about that allegation in jail, Angeles was quick to correct him, Jones says. " It had nothing to do with the Philippines, Angeles told our investigator. It was the Palestine Liberation Army [PLA] that Abdul Hakim was referring to, working with Islamic Jihad. " The PLA was established in 1979 after the Camp David Peace Accord by Saddam Hussein, who was then chairman of a radical Arab coalition known as the Front of Refusal. The PLA trained in Iraq and had units that this reporter encountered in Lebanon in the early 1980s. No one besides Jones has until now picked up on Angeles' claim of their involvement in the Oklahoma City bombing. The new legal complaint by Oklahoma City victims argues the attack " was an illegal continuation of the Persian Gulf War " and that Iraq had the " means, opportunity and motive " to carry it out. It contends Youssef was the main vehicle of the conspiracy working through Nichols, who became " a willing convert " to Youssef's anti- American agenda during his frequent meetings in the Philippines. But troubling new evidence directly tying McVeigh to Iraq also is beginning to emerge. In McVeigh's lengthy March 1998 " Essay on Hypocrisy, " in which he explained his motives for the bombing, he repeatedly compared his actions in taking the lives of U.S. government workers to U.S. air strikes on Iraq. " The people of the nation approve the bombing of government employees because they are `guilty' by association they are Iraqi government employees, " McVeigh wrote. " In regard to the bombing in Oklahoma City, however, such logic is condemned. " Last October, U.S. News & World Report revealed in its " Washington Whispers " column that McVeigh was carrying Iraqi telephone numbers when he was arrested on the day of the bombing. Sources tell INSIGHT that the phone numbers apparently were contained in a sealed manila envelope that was turned over to the FBI unopened by the Oklahoma state troopers who arrested McVeigh. The FBI logged in the evidence as " manila envelope with content, " but never disclosed what was inside. Yet another potential Iraqi connection to the Oklahoma City bombing is being promoted by a former Oklahoma City TV reporter named Jayna Davis, who claims to have discovered an Iraqi terrorist network embedded within the Arab immigrant community in the city. According to Davis, she found a " perfect match " when she compared the sketch of John Doe No. 2 to video surveillance photos of an Iraqi refugee named Hussein al-Hosseini. Davis ran several TV news reports on al-Hosseini and a mysterious brown pickup truck spotted by eyewitnesses at the scene of the bombing in the weeks following the attack. She alleged that a similar pickup was seen before the attack at the house where al-Hosseini was staying. Davis tells INSIGHT she didn't know how many brown pickups were registered in Oklahoma, but that the truck at al-Hosseini's house disappeared after the bombing. Davis was sued by al-Hosseini for libel after airing her allegations on KFOR-TV. But she insists that he never provided a convincing alibi for his whereabouts at key moments in the Oklahoma City conspiracy. After extensive civil-court proceedings, al-Hosseini dropped the lawsuit and has dropped out of view. Davis admits she never successfully penetrated al-Hosseini's past, nor investigated his contradictory claims to have been a member of Iraq's elite Republican Guard or just an ordinary military conscript who subsequently requested and received political asylum in the United States. While Davis has presented the information she gathered on al-Hosseini and his friends to congressional staffers and to former counterterrorism officials who told INSIGHT they were " intrigued " by her findings her allegations of an Iraqi connection to the Oklahoma City bombing, while promising, remain tenuous. But one thing is clear: Bill Clinton and Janet Reno exulted when they found a domestic conspiracy behind the Oklahoma City bombing, say administration insiders, and immediately ordered the FBI to call off its investigation of any international connection. Details of that connection finally are beginning to emerge. Kenneth R. Timmerman is a senior writer for Insight magazine and author of the best-seller Shakedown. http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfminclude=detail & storyid=135660 Iraq Connections to U.S. Extremists " Mughniyeh Linked Also to Arafat DEBKAfile http://www.debka.com/ 4 November, 2001 On February 9, the Washington magazine US News & World Report ran a cover story captioned: Hostage to Terror, What the US Can Do The face on the cover was that of American Professor Robert Polhill, who was kidnapped January 24 in Beirut, by a master of terror named in print for the first time in that article: Imad Mughniyeh. One particular paragraph of that spine-chilling expose sheds a harsh light on the fate of Mugniyeh's victims: Intelligence sources have told U.S.News that some of the hostages (American and European), when first captured, are brought to a sound- proofed basement of a building in Dahya where they are blindfolded and chained to their beds. It is only after they have been held for some time that the blindfolds are removed and the hostages are allowed to stretch their legs. When they are transported to different locations, it is done secretly: Some have even been carried in trunks and cardboard boxes. Inevitably, most of the decisions regarding the hostages in Dahya are made by one man. His name, sources say, is Imad Mughniyeh, a Palestinian Shiite with close ties to Iran. This name struck the intelligence community like a thunderbolt - especially when the writer went on to uncover new aspects of that Palestinian Shiite's trail of terror: the Beirut hostage-taking dramas of the 1980s, the bombings and other atrocities, notably the devastating explosion at the US embassy in Beirut in April 1983, in which 63 Americans died and the entire top rank of the CIA's Middle East-Persian Gulf department, 29 officers in all, were massacred, including the brilliant Middle East desk chief Robert Ames. The article carried two striking revelations: The US embassy was not ravaged by a truck-bomb as reported then and since, but by a bomb planted on the floor above the conference room in which the CIA officers assembled. DEBKAfile's intelligence sources disclose for the first time, 19 years after the event, that two minutes after the CIA chiefs took their seats in that room, the explosive charge was detonated by remote control. The second revelation shows up a little-known facet of Mughniye's murky past: Up until 1982, when he burst on the Shiite terrorist world of Beirut, Mughniye was a member of Yasser Arafat's personal guard, Force 17, when the Fatah group was one of the fiercest warring militias of the savage Lebanese civil war. The embassy bombing must have been executed with the help of an inside informer or a mole. So secret was the top-level CIA conference that only a trusted insider would have known enough to give its timing away to the bomber. That insider had to have pre- knowledge of the meeting and be present in the building to signal the outside detonator. That was one of many clues to how deeply US intelligence was penetrated. That problem was not attacked, any more than the terror menace that began sprouting then. Instead, after suffering a series of terror strikes, Washington turned its back and ordered the US Marines and other Americans to leave war-torn Lebanon and go home. Switching fast forward to early 1996, 1997 and 1998, DEBKAfile's intelligence sources discover intelligence building up in the Middle East and the US on operational relations developing between Mughniyeh and the young Saudi Islamic firebrand Osama Bin Laden, on the one hand, and between Mugniyeh and his erstwhile boss Arafat, on the other. From March 1997 on, US and Israeli intelligence discover the collaboration between the Palestinian Shiite and the Saudi fundamentalist deepening. Mughniyeh's hand is detected in setting up the 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. Then on October 7, 2000, ten days after Yasser Arafat launched his intifada confrontation with Israel, three Israeli soldiers were snatched while patrolling the Israel-Lebanese frontier. This week, after a year of cruel suspense and a hopeless quest for some sign from the missing men, the bereaved families received formal notice from the IDF's chief chaplain that the men were judged dead in action, no longer missing without trace. Three weeks after the soldiers were abducted last October, a civilian, Elhanan Tannenboim, described in the media as a Mossad agent, was abducted. DEBKAfile,whichreported at the time that Mughniyeh masterminded the four abductions, added subsequently that he had handed the three bodies and the live civilian over to Bin Laden's people. Proof positive of the links between the three terror masters led to the targeted killing on February 13, 2001, of the Palestinian Col. Masoud Ayad, a senior operation officer of Arafat's Force 17, in the southern Gaza Strip. Five days later, after he was cut down in a missile attack by Israeli choppers, DEBKAfileexplained why Ehud Barak, then prime minister, had decided to target Ayad. Late in May, 2000, four months before he launched his uprising, Arafat sent Ayad to Beirut on a mission to Lebanon. He was instructed to organize the purchase from the Shiite extremist Hizballah of a quantity of weapons and to recruit their experts in suicide bombings and mortars as instructors for Palestinian terrorists. Shortly after the intifada erupted, smuggled weapons began to flow from Lebanon to Palestinian areas, and the imported Hizballah instructors were soon at work in the Gaza Strip and later on the West Bank, under the protection of the various Palestinian Authority security services. Col. Ayad was the linchpin of Arafat's Hizballah project, which vastly enhanced the scope and deadliness of Palestinian terror. On his trips to Lebanon, he made a beeline for the big Palestinian refugee camp, Ein Hilweh near Tyre in South Lebanon, rather than the Beirut headquarters of the Hizballah secretary general, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. His reason was discovered later: One of Mughniyeh's two main Lebanon cells operates secretly at Ein Hilweh; the second at Nahar al Badar in the north. Arafat Knew of Abductions In the course of the desperate search for the bodies of its three abducted soldiers, Israeli intelligence investigators came upon intelligence evidence that Col. Ayad knew of Mughniyeh's plot to kidnap the Israelis and was in fact an active accomplice. It was he who carried Mughniyeh's agents' request to Palestinian intelligence for a detailed account of the scene at the Shaaba Farms frontier sector. Col. Ayad would never made this or any move without reporting to Yasser Arafat, who must therefore have been aware of Mughniyeh's plan, at least in outline. Of late, Israel discovered - and passed the information to Washington by foreign minister Peres - that segments of Hizballah's front line on the Israeli border, especially in the Shaaba Farms area, have passed to the direct control of Mughniyeh's men. Just as the Palestinian Shiite terrorist never let the Hizballah into the secret of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers, he does not intend letting them know next time he strikes against Israel. Part of the intelligence Peres conveyed to Washington relates to Mughniyeh's plans to kidnap more Israeli soldiers and civilians, kill some and hold some hostage in the same conditions as he held the American and Western hostages in Beirut in the 1980s. One of the British prime minister Tony Blair's tasks in Damascus last week was to ask President Bashar Assad to rein in Mughniyeh's men and especially along the Lebanese frontier. But Assad refused. The Bush administration's decision to add three Palestinian groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Hamas and the Jihad Islami to the list of terrorist groups and impound their bank accounts, is a forward step in the global assault on terrorism, but the war against one of the three most dangerous terrorists in the world, Imad Mughniye, is still ahead. " " U.S. Issues New " Most Wanted " List October 12, 2001 The United States has issued a revised " Most Wanted " list, widening the Bush administration's war on terrorism to included suspects unrelated to Osama bin Ladin. Among the new names on the list was that of Imad Mughniyeh, one of the founders of Hizballah. " Terrorism has a face and today we expose it for the world to see, " Bush told reporters during a visit to FBI headquarters. " We list their names, we publicize their pictures, we rob them of their secrecy. " Key al-Qaidah members head list of those wanted on terrorism charges Not surprisingly, a number of the people on the new list are key members of Osama bin Ladin's al-Qaida organization. Two of them are bin Ladin's most trusted lieutenants, Ayman al-Zawahri and Muhammad Atef. Muhammad Atef, also called Abdulaziz abu Sitta or Abu Hoffs al- Masri, is bin Ladin's top military commander and designated successor. Atef, a former Egyptian police official, has been identified by U.S. authorities as a key military strategist and training director for bin Laden. Atef is related to Osama bin Ladin by marriage, his daughter having married bin Ladin's son last year. Ayman al-Zawahri is widely regarded as bin Ladin's second-in- command. al-Zawahri, a doctor by training, is the former head of the Egyptian al-Jihad terrorist group that merged in 1998 with bin Laden's al-Qaida network. He is wanted in his native Egypt for his role in the assassination of the late Egyptian president, Anwar al- Sadat. Also on the list are several al-Qaida members indicted in previous attacks, such as the 1998 US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Imad Mughniyeh sought by U.S. What is new in the updated " Most Wanted " list is that among those sought were three terrorists connected to Hizballah, including Imad Mughniyeh, a founder of the group. Before September 11, U.S. officials considered Mughniyeh responsible for the deaths of more Americans around the world than anyone else. As head of Hizballah's " foreign operations, " Mughniyeh is believed to have orchestrated the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, which killed 63, and the kidnapping of Western hostages in Beirut in the mid-1980s. Two U.S. hostages—William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, and Lt. Col. William Higgins, a Marine officer serving with U.N. forces in Lebanon—were killed. Mughniyeh is also suspected of directing the bombings of the Israeli Embassy in 1992 and a Jewish social center in 1994 -- that together killed 124 people. Last May, Argentina's Supreme Court issued a warrant for his arrest. U.S. officials say Mughniyeh was also involved in last October's kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers along the Lebanese-Israeli border. The epitome of the faceless terrorist, Mughniyeh appears in only a handful of photographs; he is one of three hijackers pictured during the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847. In the course of the hijacking, U.S. Navy diver Robert Stethem was beaten and shot dead by the hijackers in an attempt to pressure authorities to authorize the refueling of the aircraft. In the 15 years since the hijacking, Mughniyeh is believed to have had two plastic surgeries, and Western intelligence services are unsure what he looks like now. Nor is anyone sure of his exact whereabouts. While some reports say that he currently resides in Iran, others place him in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. The United States has reportedly asked Syria, Lebanon, and Iran for his extradition. Two earlier attempts to capture Mugniyeh—in 1986, in France; and in 1995, in Saudi Arabia—ended in failure. In Saudi Arabia, he escaped capture because Saudi Arabia refused to hold a plane on which he was traveling, and may even have tipped off Mughniyeh to the snatch operation. U.S. prosecutors have obtained a still-sealed indictment against him in the TWA hijacking. However, Mughniyeh's talent for hijacking was used in at least two other lesser known cases, including the hijacking of a Kuwait Airways airliner. As early as 1986, there were reports that Hizballah agents were practicing hijackings at a special airfield in Iran, and that some were being trained as kamikaze pilots. Mugniyeh linked to September 11 attacks There are some who see something of Mughniyeh's influence on the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington. What is clear is that there is evidence that Osama bin Ladin met, probably more than once, with Mugniyeh. Ali Mohamed, one of those convicted in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, testified that bin Ladin pointed to Hizballah's success in ousting Western forces from Lebanon as a model to be imitated. The bombings of the U.S. embassies in East Africa bear an operational resemblance to Hizballah suicide attacks against the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. In court documents, Mohamed testified, " I arranged a meeting in Sudan between Mughniyeh, Hizballah's chief, and bin Ladin. Hizballah provided explosives training for al-Qaida and al-Jihad. " A question that many would like to see answered is whether Mughniyeh also lent al-Qaida some of his considerable experience in hijacking airliners. " Sources: Jerusalem Post, CNN, USA Today http://www.ict.org.il/spotlight/det.cfm?id=689 " Iraqi Special Weapons Facilities PLEASE SEE : http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/facility/index.html SEE ALSO : Maps of Iraqi Special Weapons Facilities http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/facility/maps.htm " Iraq's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Facilities http://www.inc.org.uk/wmd.html " TARGETS IN IRAQ http://www.fas.org/spp/military/docops/operate/ds/appendix.htmIraq Attacks! LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The military journal Janes has reported that Israeli intelligence believes Iraq was a sponsor of the suicide attacks on the United States last week. Foreign Report, published by Janes Information Group, said on its website on Thursday that officers in Israeli military intelligence believed two of the worlds foremost terrorist masterminds had led the attacks. The journal named them as Imad Moughniyeh of Lebanon, a man it said was head of special overseas operations for Hizbollah, and Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahri, a senior member of prime suspect Osama bin Ladens Al-Qaeda group. The Iraqis, who for several years paid smaller groups to do their dirty work, were quick to discover the advantages of Al-Qaeda, Foreign Report said. We believe that the operational brains behind the New York attack were Moughniyeh and Zawahri, who were probably financed and got some logistical support from the Iraqi Intelligence Service (SSO), an Israeli intelligence source told Foreign Report. Foreign Report quoted the Israeli sources as saying that Iraqi intelligence officers had been shuttling between Baghdad and Afghanistan, meeting Zawahri, for the past two years. According to the sources, the Pakistanis captured one of the Iraqi intelligence officers last October near the border with Afghanistan. The Iraqis are also reported to have established strong ties with Imad Moughniyeh, the report said. It quoted unconfirmed reports in Beirut as saying that Moughniyeh had undergone plastic surgery and was unrecognisable while Zawahri, thought to be based in Egypt, could be bin Ladens chief representative outside Afghanistan. The report quoted one Israeli intelligence source as saying Israeli military intelligence had warned Israels allies six weeks ago that an unprecedented, massive terror attack was expected. Moughniyeh, a member of Lebanons Shiite Muslim Hizbollah movement, was behind a wave of anti-American attacks in Lebanon in the 1980s, including the suicide truck bombing of a barracks in Beirut in 1983 that killed 241 U.S. Marines and sailors. He led a network of kidnappers who held dozens of American and other Western hostages in Lebanon for some seven years. Moughniyehs last known address was Tehran. Zawahri was indicted in New York in 1999 in connection with the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya on August 7, 1998. 12:50 09-20-01 http://www.indict.org/indict_web/publish/article.cfmarticle_id124 " On March 16, 1988 Saddam Husseins forces attacked the town of Halabja with a deadly mixture of chemical weapons including mustard gas, sarin, tabun and VX. The bombardment lasted three days and left over 5,000 dead and a further 30,000 injured. Many victims have died of their injuries in the last 11 years and the true death toll can only be guessed at. There is also mounting evidence of long-term genetic effects of the chemical attack with children being born with malformations and severe medical problems. Halabja was the largest, but not the only, Iraqi Kurdish town attacked with chemical weapons. Over 250,000 Iraqi Kurds have been exposed to chemical weapons, the largest civilian population ever to suffer such attacks. INDICT has launched a campaign to bring Saddam and the other perpetrators of Halabja to justice for crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. Numerical Ties Between Terrorist Attacks Friday March 12th, 2004 9:05 AM ET By The Associated Press In comparing the Madrid bombings to the 9-11 terrorist attacks in the United States, there are some interesting numerical ties. There were 911 days in-between the terror attacks in Madrid and Sept. 11, 2001 or 9-11 as it has become known when al-Qaida- backed terrorists slammed planes into the Pentagon (news - web sites), a field in Pennsylvania and the World Trade Center towers in New York, destroying them. The Madrid bombings which happened on 3-11 also came 2-1/2 years to the day after the 9-11 attacks. Source: http://story.news./news tmplstory & u/ap/20040312/ap_on_re_eu/terrorism_by_the_numbers_1 news concerning the July 4th 2002 terrorist anniversary shooter at the El Al airlines counter in the city of angels. Hes no angel, and Americans are wondering about him. The shooting came on the 26th anniversary of the successful July 4th, 1976 Israeli raid to free Israeli hostages held by arab terrorists, at Entebbe Airport in cannibal Idi Amins Uganda. Fox news tells us that Egypts Al Hayyat newspaper has reported that the FBI is tracking possible links between the shooter and Al Queda operative Ayman Al Zawahiri, a top lieutenant to Saddam Husseins henchman: Osama Bin Laden. Al Zawahiri is suspected of having met with the LAX terrorist anniversary shooter on an earlier trip to California. Meanwhile more mystery surrounds the LAX terrorist anniversary gunman. Few Egyptians have uncles who are retired Egyptian Generals ! Privates, yes, Generals no! Hadayet is one of the few who does have an uncle who is a retired Egyptian General ! In Cairo, Hassan Mostafa Mahfouz, a retired general who is married to Hadayet's aunt. A source close to Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Peres granddaughter was in a different part of the terminal at the time of the attack. Last year, an Algerian trained in terrorist camps financed by Osama bin Laden was convicted of plotting to blow up Los Angeles International at the height of the millennium holiday travel period. Ahmed Ressam was arrested in Washington state on Dec. 14, 1999, while entering the country from Canada in a car with a trunk full of explosives. http://story.news./news tmplstory & u/ap/20020705/ap_on_re_us /airport_shooting_46 More questions are raised by the mysteries of why the INS tried to deport the LAX terrorist anniversary gunman and who arranged for Hadayets wife to win an immigration visa through the Department of States Diversity Lottery Program. The US Senate needs to call those involved to testify forthwith! A spokesman for the U.S. immigration service said that Hadayets first petition for permanent residency, in 1996, had been denied for reasons that were unclear. The INS began deportation procedures, but in 1997 Hadayet was granted permanent residency through his wife, who received an immigration visa through the Department of States Diversity Lottery Program. http://story.news./news tmplstory & u/ap/20020708/ap_on_re_mi _ea/egypt_us_airport_shooting_5 DeanBusters/message/4017 " Egyptian IDd As L.A. Gunman Fri Jul 5,(2002) LOS ANGELES (AP) - A shooting at a ticket counter for Israeli airline El Al threw the nations third busiest airport into turmoil and left three people dead, including the Egyptian gunman Hadayet, who also went by the last name Ali, had California drivers licenses listing two different birth dates - April 7, 1961, and July 4, 1961 - according to the FBI. McLaughlin characterized Hadayet as heavily armed during the attack. He had extra ammunition and magazines ready to go, McLaughlin said. http://story.news./news tmplstory & cid514 & ncid716 & e1 & u/ap /20020705/ap_on_re_us/airport_shooting On the 4th of July 1976 Israeli Commandos successfully rescued Jewish and Israeli hostages, as well as the Air France flight crew from Entebbe Airport. http://www.multied.com/Israel/1976EntebbeRescue.html " On the night between Saturday, the 3rd of July and Sunday, the 4th of July, and IDF force raided the Entebbe airport and rescued the hostages. " http://www.isralink.co.il/agada/chapter23e.html " The terrorists deliberately chose the Fourth of July to carry out their crime on the soil of the United States spokeswoman Yaffa Ben-Ari said in a statement. " " New Report Links Syria to 1992 Bombing of Israeli Embassy in Argentina Blanca Madani http://www.meib.org/articles/0003_s1.htm Please tell President Bush at http://www.whitehouse.gov to create " regime change " in BOTH Syria, and Iran, and to end, once and for all, his support of the ridiculous idea of a so- called " palestinian " state, which would reward terrorists for their terror, and set the stage for a war in which Israel, deprived of the strategic depth which only Israeli control of Judea, Samaria, a united Jerusalem, Gaza and the Golan Heights can assure, would be forced to resort to its presumed nuclear deterrent at the onset of any large scale arab attack. 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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