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" Slain Israeli Professor Saved Others in Va. Tech Massacre

by Gil Ronen

(April 17th, 2007 c.e.)

(IsraelNN.com) As Israel observed Holocaust Day, thousands of miles

away, A Rumanian-born Holocaust survivor gave his life in another

senseless murder - and apparently in an act of heroism.

Among the 32 people killed by a lone gunman at Virginia Tech Monday

(April 16th, 2007 c.e.)

is 77-year-old engineering professor, Liviu Librescu, a citizen of

Israel. According to eyewitness accounts, Librescu ran to the door

of his classroom and blocked it with his body – preventing the

gunman from entering but getting shot to death himself as a result.

Alec Calhoun, a 20-year-old student who had been in Librescu's class

in room 204, told a reporter that at 9:05 a.m. the heard screams and

a loud banging sound from the next-door classroom. When the students

realized it was gunfire, he said, some hid behind tables, and others

leapt from the classroom's windows. Calhoun himself was among the

last to jump. " Before I jumped from the window, I turned around and

looked at the professor, who stayed behind, maybe to block the door.

He had been killed. "

Librescu is survived by his wife of 42 years, Marlena, who was with

him in Virginia, and sons Aryeh and Joe who are in Israel. They

intend to bury him in Israel.

Asael Arad, an Israeli student who visited the widow after the

tragedy, told Army Radio Tuesday that Marlena had been receiving e-

mails from students who credited Prof. Librescu with saving their

lives. " I lost my best friend, " the widow told a reporter for NRG at

her home near the Blacksburg campus. " He was a great person, who

loved teaching more than anything. " Marlena said someone had

initially informed her that her husband was injured in the

shooting. " I looked for him in the hospitals all day but I didn't

find him, " she said.

The Librescus are Rumanian Jews who came on aliyah (immigrated to

Israel) in 1978 – after then-Prime Minister Begin interceded on

their behalf with the Rumanian government, according to Marlena. The

couple went on a sabbatical to the United States since 1986 and has

been living there ever since.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122137

Liviu Librescu

Professor

Office

318 Norris Hall

Blacksburg, VA 24061

540/231-5916

llibresc

http://www.esm.vt.edu/~llibresc

Interests:

Foundation and applications of the modern theory of shells

incorporating non-classical effects and composed of advanced

composite materials; Foundation of the theory and applications of

sandwich type structures; Aeroelastic stability of flight vehicle

structures;. Nonlinear aeroelasticity of structures in supersonic

and hypersonic flow fields; Aeroelastic and structural tailoring;

Dynamic response and instability of elastic and viscoelastic

laminated composite structures subjected to deterministic and random

loading systems; Mechanical and thermal postbuckling of flat and

curved shear-deformable elastic panels; Static, dynamic and

aeroelastic feedback control of adaptive structures; Unsteady

aerodynamics and magnetoaerodynamics of supersonic flows with

applications; Optimization problems of aeroelastic structural

systems; Theory of composite thin-walled beams and its application

in aeronautical and mechanical constructions; Response and behavior

of structures to underwater and in-air explosions; Multifunctional

and Functionally Graded material structures.

Education:

Ph.D., Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Academy of Science of Romania,

1969

M. A. Sc., Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Aeronautical

Engineering, Bucharest, 1953

B.S., Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, Aeronautical

Engineer, 1952

Honors and Awards:

2007 Invited Key Note Lecture at the 17th International Congress on

Thermal Stresses, June 4-7, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, Joule Heating

and its Implications on Crack Detection/Arrest in Electrically

Conductive Circular Cylindrical Shells.( Z. Qin, L. Librescu and

D. Hasanyan)

2006 Awarded a diploma by the 17th International Conference on

Adaptive Structures and Technology for the paper Robust

Aeroelastic Control of Composite Aircraft Wings in Incompressible

Flow by Yoon, G. C., Na, S. S., Librescu, L., and Baek, S. C.,

Taiwan, ICAST 2006, October 13-17.

2005 Appointed Chair of the International Organizing Committee of

the 6th International Congress on Thermal Stresses '05 May 26-29,

2005, Vienna, Austria

2005 Invited Plenary Lecture at the 6th International Congress of

Thermal Stresses '05 May 26-29, 2005, Vienna, Austria " Thin-Walled

Beams Used in Turbomachinery and Space Applications Made-Up of

Functionally Graded Materials and Operating in a High Temperature

Environment: Vibration and Instability " by L. Librescu, S-Y Oh and

O. Song

2005 Selected as a member of the Board of Experts of the Italian

Ministry of Education, University and Scientific Research

2005 Awarded a diploma by the International Congress on Thermal

Stresses, Vienna, Austria, May-June, 2005, ``In recognition for the

achievements in the field of Thermal Stresses, for organizing the

Fifth International Congress of Thermal Stresses, and for the

contributions to the Journal of Thermal Stresses, as an author and

as a member of the Editorial Board.''

2005 Awarded a diploma by the ASME, 20th Biennal Conference on

Mechanical Vibration and Noise, Long Beach, CA, September 24-28,

2005 expressing the deep appreciation for the valuable services in

advancing the engineering profession.''

2005 Frank J. Maher Award for Excellence in Engineering Education

2004 Plenary Key Note Lecture to the Third European Conference on

Structural Control July 12-15. 2004, Vienna, Austria Advances in

the Linear/nonlinear Control of Aeroelastic Structural Systems by

L. Librescu and P. Marzocca

2003 Member of the Executive Committee of the International

Congress of Thermal Stresses, (1999-2003) and re-appointed for (2003-

2007)

2003 General Chair of the 5th International Congress of Thermal

Stresses and Related Topics, June 8-11, 2003, Blacksburg, VA

2000 Recipient of the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the

Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania

2000 Elected member of the Academy of Sciences of the Shipbuilding

of Ukraine

1999 Recipient of The 1999 Dean's Award for Excellence in

Research, College of Engineering VPI & SU

1999 Elected Foreign Fellow of the Academy of Engineering of

Armenia

1998 Invited Plenary Lecture at the Session dedicated to the great

Italian Scientist Professor Placido Cicala, Torino, June 25, 1998,

Italia Aeroelastic Tailoring of Advanced Aircraft Wings Carrying

External Stores, with Dr. F. H. Gern

1988 Plenary Key Note Lecture to the Second International

Conference on Composite Science and Technology, June 9-11, 1998

Durban, South Africa Recent Developments in the Modelling and

Behavior of Advanced Sandwich Constructions

1972 Laureate of the prize Traian Vuia of the Romanian

Academy of Science

Professional Service:

Listing in Who's Who

Who's Who in America

Who's Who in Engineering

Who's Who in the World

Who's Who in Science and Engineering

Member of the Editorial Board of

2007 - Journal of Sound and Vibration

2004 - International Journal of Advanced Materials and Structures

2003 - Journal Mathematical Methods and Physic-Mechanical Fields

1999 - Journal Thin-Walled Structures

1998 - Journal of Thermal Stresses

1997 - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics

1975 - Solid Mechanics Archives

Guest Editor for the Special Issues of the Journals

2006 - Journal of Mathematical Engineering (issues devoted to

Thermomechanical Problems)

2004 - International of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and

Structures, Vol. 11, Nos. 4-5, Part I & II

2001 - Composite Structures, Vol. 52, 1, 2001

2001 - Thin-Walled Structures, Special Issue - New Advances in the

Modelling and Application of Smart Thin-Walled Structures, Vol. 39,

1, 2001

2000 - Composites Engineering, Part B, Vol. 32, 3, 2000

Chair of the International Organizing Committee of

2005 - 6th International Congress on Thermal Stresses '05, May 26-

29, Vienna, Austria

Co-Chair of the International Organizing Committee of

2007 - 7th International Congress on Thermal Stresses June 4-7,

Taipei, Taiwan

2005 - Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, October 26-28, Nanjing,

China

Member of the International Advisory Board of

2007 - Second International Symposium on Design Modelling and

Experiments of Adaptive Structures and Smart Systems, DEMEASS II,

October 14-17, Bad Herrenalb, Germany

2007 - Organizing Committee of the 70th Birthday of Jozef Ignaczak

Symposium at the 7th International Congress on Thermal Stresses,

Juen 4-7, Taipei, Taiwan

2006 - 2nd International Congress on Computational Mechanics and

simulation (ICCM-06), December 8-10, Indian Institute of Technology,

Guwahati,-781039, India

2006 - 1st International Symposium on Design Modelling and

Experiments of Adaptive Structures and Smart Systems, DeMEASS I,

June 10-12, Bardonecchia (Turin), Italy

2004 - 1st International Congress on Computational Mechanics and

Simulation, IIT Kanpur, December 9-12, India

2004 - 2nd International Conference on Structural Engineering,

Mechanics and Computation, July 5-7, Cape Town, South Africa

2003 - 2nd International Conference on Applied Mechanics and

Materials (ICAMM 2003), January 21-23, Durban, South Africa

1998 - 2nd Interntional Conference on Composite Science and

Technology, June 9-11, Durban, South Africa

1996 - 1st International Conference, Composite Science Technology,

June 18-20, Durham, South Africa

Member of the International Organizing Committee of

2005 - 6th International Congress of Thermal Stresses, May 26-29,

Wien, Austria

2001 - 4th International Congress on Thermal Stresses, June 8-11,

Osaka, Japan

1999 - 3rd International Congress on Thermal Stresses, June 13-17,

Cracow, Poland

1982 thru 1985 - Israel National Conference on Aviation and

Astronautics

Recent Publications:

G. Polli, L. Librescu and F. Mastroddi, Aeroelastic Response of

Composite Aircraft Swept Wings Impacted by a Laser Beam, AIAA, Vol.

33, No, 2, pp. 382-391, 2006

Na, S. S., Librescu, L., Rim, S. N. and Yoon, G. C., Vibration and

Dynamic Response Control of Non-Unifom Composite Rotating Blades,

International Journal of Rotating Machinery, 2006, ID 13807, pp. 1-

9, 2006

Librescu, L., Oh, S-Y. and Hohe, J., Dynamic Response of Anisotropic

Sandwich Flat Panels to Underwater and In-Air Explosions,

International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 43, No. 13, pp.

3794-3816, June, 2006

Hause, T. and Librescu, L., Flexural Free Vibration of Sandwich Flat

Panels with Laminated Anisotropic Face Sheets, Journal of Sound and

Vibration, Vol. 297, Nos. 3-5, pp. 823-841, 2006

Librescu, L. and Song, O., Composite Thin-Walled Beams: Theory and

Application, Springer, 615, 2005

Full listing

Courses taught:

ESM 3154, Solid Mechanics, Spring 2007.

ESM 5074, Mech Lam Comp Str, Spring 2007.

ESM 5994, Research and Thesis, Spring 2007.

ESM 7994, Research and Dissertation, Spring 2007.

ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2006.

ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2005.

ESM 2304, Dynamics, Spring 2005.

ESM 5074, Mech Lam Comp Str, Spring 2005.

ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2004.

ESM 2304, Dynamics, Spring 2004.

ESM 6044, Theory of Plates and Shells, Fall 2003.

 

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Item below is from WOMEN IN GREEN

12 Apr 2007 11:51:49 am

A DIFFICULT MORAL DILEMMA

 

A DIFFICULT MORAL DILEMMA

Letter from Ruth Matar (Women in Green) Jerusalem

Thursday, April 12, 2007

 

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is seriously considering Hamas' demand to

release jailed Fatah leader, Marwan Barghouti, along with 449 other

Palestinian prisoners involved in terrorist attacks, in exchange for

the return of Cpl. Gilad Schalit, who was kidnapped by Hamas on the

Gaza border in June 2006.

Barghouti is serving five life sentences for his involvement in

terror attacks that killed numerous Israelis. Other top terrorists,

among them the following six listed below from yesterday's Jerusalem

Post, are also on the list of prisoners to be freed.

*Hamas terrorist Hassan Salameh is serving 48 life sentences for his

part in three suicide bombings in 1996 in which 46 people were killed

and 90 wounded; the planning of a 1995 suicide bombing; and killing a

Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel.

*Abdullah Barghouti, a senior Hamas member and master bomb maker

dubbed 'the mechanic,' was sentenced to 67 consecutive life sentences

for preparing the bombs used in a string of suicide bombings in 2001

and 2002. In the attacks in Jerusalem, Rishon Lezion and Tel Aviv, 66

Israelis were killed and 500 wounded. The attacks included the August

2001 Sbarro bombing in Jerusalem, in which 15 Israelis were killed;

the triple bombing at Jerusalem's Zion Square in December 2001, in

which 10 Israelis were killed; the blast at the Moment Cafe in

Jerusalem in March 2002, in which 11 Israelis were killed; and the

Sheffield Club attack in Rishon Lezion in May 2002, in which 15

Israelis were killed. Barghouti also supplied the bomb for the attack

in a cafeteria at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in July 2002, in

which nine Israeli and foreign students were killed, and provided the

explosives belt used in the attack on a No. 4 bus in Tel Aviv in July

2002, in which nine Israelis were killed.

*Yahya Sinwar, one of the founders of Hamas's military wing. Sinwar

has been in jail for over 20 years.

*Fuad Shubaki is considered the Karine A weapons ship paymaster. The

ship was en route to the Palestinian Authority in the Red Sea when it

was seized by Israeli naval commandos in January 2002.

*Ahmed Sa'adat is accused by Israel of plotting the assassination of

former minister Rehavam Ze'evi.

*Hassan Yussuf is considered one of the most prominent Hamas leaders

in the West Bank.

There is a very difficult moral dilemma involved here. On one hand,

our hearts break for the Schalit family, on the other hand, it has

been proven, over and over again, that the release of Palestinian

prisoners only leads to more kidnappings and Israeli death.

A bereaved father, Zion Swery, wanted vengeance for the death of his

two children and son-in-law in a drive-by terrorist shooting on

highway 443 in 2001.

" After my children were murdered I wanted to kill the terrorists! " he

said.

Swery recalled how, at the funeral, Ehud Olmert (then Mayor of

Jerusalem) promised to pursue those who were responsible for the

attack. It is upsetting, Swery said, that Olmert, now the Prime

Minister, is considering going back on his word.

The Almagor Terror Victims Association has long been concerned with

this dilemma. On Tuesday the group held a press conference in

Jerusalem, in which members of the group lit Yartzheit candles in

front of a poster of terror victims.

Almagor Director, Meir Indor, says his research shows that in the

past five years 177 Israelis were killed in terror attacks

perpetrated by Palestinians released in prisoner exchange

deals. " When you release prisoners, you create a new wave of

terrorism " , he said.

He and a number of terror victims said that while they empathized

with the Schalit family, there were other ways to free Gilad that did

not involve risking Israeli lives.

Speaking at the press conference, Yifat Alon, whose mother, Noa, and

niece Gal Eisenman, were killed in a 2002 terror attack in

Jerusalem's French Hill, warned that more Israeli deaths were the

only possible outcome of a prisoner release.

" We have tried this before, we have set prisoners free and what we

got was that people were murdered. I want the government to be

honest. We are going to pay with other people's lives " , she said.

I, myself feel a very personal involvement in this moral dilemma. A

very good friend of mine, an American immigrant from New York, like

myself, Joyce Boim, lost her 17 year old son, David, in a drive-by

terrorist shooting in 1996. My friend Joyce wants the government to

keep the terrorists in jail. " We do not want any more widows or

widowers or parents without children. The terrorists were jailed for

a reason " , says Boim.

In the Jerusalem Post of April 9, 2007, there is an excellent article

by Caroline Glick, entitled:

 

Our World: The next grand bargain

 

Shoshana Amos, Aviel Atash, Vitaly Brodsky, Tamara Dibrashvilli,

Raisa Forer, Larisa Gomanenko, Denise Hadad, Tatiana Kortchenko,

Rosita Lehman, Karine Malka, Nargiz Ostrovsky, Maria Sokolov, Roman

Sokolovsky, Tiroayent Takala, Eliyahu Uzan, Emmanuel Yosef (Yosefov).

All the above were murdered on August 31, 2004, in twin bus bombings

in Beersheba. The attack was planned and commanded by Matzeb

Hasalmon, Hamas terror commander in Hebron.

The massacre in Beersheba was far from inevitable. Hasalmon, who

recruited the bombers, trained them for their mission and sent them

on their way, had previously been taken out of commission. He was

arrested and convicted for the felony crime of membership in Hamas.

Since Hasalmon was not convicted of murder, when the Sharon

government released him from prison together with another 460

terrorists on January 29, 2004, no one raised a fuss. The massive

release, and the simultaneous release of the bodies of 59 dead

terrorists was carried out in exchange for the return of Elhanan

Tenenbaum, who was kidnapped in Dubai and brought to Lebanon by

Hizbullah in 2000. Israel also received the bodies of IDF soldiers

Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan and Omar Suwaid, who were kidnapped and

murdered by Hizbullah terrorists in October 2000.

Today the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government is in advanced stages of

negotiations towards the exchange of Cpl. Gilad Schalit for up to

1,400 terrorists. Schalit was kidnapped from his base near Gaza in

late June by a joint Fatah-Hamas terror cell. He has been illegally

held incommunicado ever since.

Speaking Sunday of the impending deal, Welfare Minister Isaac Herzog

said Israelis should be prepared to see not only small-fry terrorists

like Hasalmon, but also convicted murderers set free. As Herzog put

it, we should use " original thinking " regarding who we should let out

of prison.

During the heyday of the peace process in the 1990s, in

repeated " confidence building measures, " Israel released 6,912

terrorists from prison. As time went by, it became increasingly

difficult to limit the releases to those who had not actually

murdered. So the governments thought " originally " and released

killers whose victims were not Israelis. So it was that killers like

Iyad Suwalha were sent packing.

Suwalha was arrested in 1992 for murdering a fellow Palestinian who

he suspected of assisting Israel in its counterterror operations. He

was released in 1999.

Senior Warrant Officer Haim Alfasi, Chief Warrant Officer Yaakov Ben-

Shabbat, Cpl. Mazi Grego, Capt. Yael Kfir, Cpl. Felix Nikolaichuk,

Sgt. Yonatan Peleg, Sgt. Efrat Schwartzman, Prosper Twito, Sgt. Liron

Siboni, Dr. David Appelbaum, Nava Appelbaum, David Shimon Avizadris,

Shafik Kerem, Alon Mizrahi, Gila Moshe and Yehiel (Emil) Tubol.

All of the above were murdered in two suicide bombings on September

9, 2003. The first took place outside Tzrifin military base; the

second inside Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem. Suwalha commanded both

attacks.

In July, in response to the abduction of IDF reservists Eldad Regev

and Ehud Goldwasser, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert took the nation to

war in Lebanon. Olmert enjoyed massive public support when he pledged

to fight to gain their release and to destroy Hizbullah, Iran's proxy

army in Lebanon that had kidnapped them.

Yet Olmert lost interest in fighting and gave up on winning when he

saw how hard it was. Due in large part to the premier's personal

incompetence, Israel lost the war. Not only was Hizbullah not

destroyed, and not only have Iran and Syria already rebuilt its

arsenal to pre-war levels, Regev and Goldwasser - like Schalit -

remain in captivity.

Since the ignominious cease-fire last August, the public has demanded

an accounting from Olmert. At almost every single non-scripted public

gathering where Olmert appears, he is hounded by angry citizens who

demand he explain how he dared to abandon the field of battle and

leave our soldiers behind.

Last September in one such incident, Olmert was confronted by Elipaz

Baeloha, whose son Nadav was killed in battle in the war. When

Baeloha demanded an accounting, as is his wont, Olmert refused.

Rather than accept the responsibilities of the office to which he

stubbornly clings, Olmert deflected Baeloha's criticism by saying the

public is at fault. We are to blame, he explained, because we were

stupid enough to believe him when he said he would fight to bring the

men home.

As he put it, " From the beginning I knew we would have to negotiate

to secure the release of the hostages. To rescue them we would have

to pay a very heavy price. How many more children would you want to

die like your son died to rescue them? Did anyone seriously think

that I would get to some place, which I don't know where it is, and

would try to rescue them? "

Although as the months have passed the plight of our hostages being

held in Gaza and Lebanon has been mostly out of the headlines, no one

has forgotten them. And the frustration at the government's failure

to secure their release came to the forefront of the public agenda

since the 15 British sailors and marines were kidnapped by Iran last

month.

The contrast between the British, who were paraded seemingly

continuously before the television cameras from the day of their

capture, and the Israelis, who haven't been seen or heard from since

their abductions, was a cause for deep frustration. " Those lucky

Brits, " the thinking went, " At least they get to see their guys. "

The manner in which the Blair government secured the release of the

hostages has been roundly praised by the Israeli Left. Led by the

Haaretz newspaper, the Left, which castigates as warmongers all who

call for Israel to defeat its enemies, immediately pointed a finger

at the government for not having yet capitulated to all the terror-

masters' ever-escalating terms for a deal on the soldiers.

As Zvi Barel of Haaretz put it, " Britain... understands what Israel

refuses to understand: The captives and prisoners of a country

perhaps 'disturb' its prestige, but negotiating their release does

not damage the state's power. Their release sometimes requires a high

price, but in the case of Israel vis-a-vis Hizbullah or the

Palestinian Authority, the price is in identical coinage: captives in

exchange for prisoners and detainees... Only the exchange of people.

And a bit of prestige. "

Like the British, the Haaretz-led Israeli Left ignores inconvenient

truths. In the media age, prestige is power. Loss of prestige leads

directly to a loss of national power and, inevitably, to the loss of

life. The families of the four British soldiers who were killed by

Iranian-sponsored terrorists in Basra the same day their navy and

marine counterparts were released in shame by Iran can attest to this

fact.

Avraham (Albert) Balhasan, Rose Boneh, Hava Hannah (Anya) Bonder,

Anat Darom, Viorel Octavian Florescu, Natalia Gamril, Yechezkel Isser

Goldberg, Baruch (Roman) Hondiashvili, Dana Itach, Mehbere Kifile and

Eli Zfira.

The families of the 11 Israelis listed above can also attest to this

fact. They were murdered in a bus bombing in Jerusalem on January 29,

2004. The attack occurred just as Israel was releasing 461 terrorists

from prison and transferring the bodies of 59 dead terrorists to

their masters in the PA and Lebanon for burial in the Tenenbaum deal.

Another 50 Israelis were wounded in the attack.

That day, then-science minister Eliezer Sandberg stated, " There is no

connection and it is forbidden to make a connection between the

bombing and the deal for the prisoner swap. "

Sandberg's statement, far-fetched under any circumstances, was

rendered farcical when Fatah declared responsibility for the massacre

on Hizbullah's television network.

All told, the Almagor Terror Victims Association has counted 177

Israelis who were murdered by terrorists who Israel released in

prisoner swaps with terrorists.

The Olmert-Livni-Peretz government acts as though there is no way

other than releasing terrorists, and so signing the death warrants of

hundreds more Israelis, to bring about Schalit's release. But this is

simply untrue. What is true is that since the government embraced

defeat last summer, it has had no policy other than capitulation.

But there are many, many other options. Schalit was kidnapped by a

joint Hamas-Fatah force. The government could place sanctions such as

travel bans on PA Chairman and Fatah terror chief Mahmoud Abbas and

PA Prime Minister and Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh and their

associates. So too, the government could order the Prisons Service to

prevent jailed terrorists from talking to reporters, politicians and

European diplomats and so end the anomalous state of affairs whereby

convicted murderers like arch-terrorist Marwan Barghouti are allowed

to engage in psychological warfare against Israeli society and serve

as power brokers in Palestinian society from prison.

Since last summer, the Olmert-Livni-Peretz government has taken no

steps that would lead either the Palestinians or Hizbullah to view

Schalit, Regev and Goldwasser's illegal captivity as a burden.

Rather, like their bosses in Teheran, the terrorists have all

benefited from their criminal behavior.

Because of the fecklessness of our leaders, we lost a war we should

have won and our hostages, who soldiers like Nadav Baeloha heroically

gave their lives to free, have remained in captivity.

As Hizbullah, Iran, Syria, and the Palestinians show daily with their

escalating saber-rattling, our leaders' continued incompetence since

the war has brought us ever closer to a new war.

Now, through their cowardly and unnecessary genuflections to our

enemies, made under the preening cover of feigned concern for the

lives of our hostages they have done nothing to free, Olmert and his

associates place the lives of every one of us in danger.

 

* * *

 

Dear friends, if you were in a position to trade 450 terrorist

killers for Cpl. Gilad Schalit, what would your decision be?

I, myself would not even consider freeing any terrorists who are

responsible for the deaths of our loved ones. Rather, I would

indefinitely turn off the water and electricity, which Israel still

(often without getting paid), supplies to the Arabs in Gaza, until

the return of ALL hostages, including the British BBC reporter, Alan

Johnston.

How would YOU resolve this very difficult moral dilemma?

With Blessings and Love for Israel,

Ruth Matar

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Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)

POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel

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THE SITUATION ROOM

Deadliest Shooting Rampage in U.S. History

Aired April 16, 2007 - 17:00 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM

AND MAY BE UPDATED.

WOLF BLITZER, HOST: And so there you have it.

The next news conference scheduled now for 7:30 p.m. Eastern.

We'll get more information at that time.

At this hour, shock and horror in the wake of the deadliest shooting

rampage in U.S. history.

This is what we know so far.

The killing spree began early this morning, around 7:15 a.m. 7:15

a.m. Eastern. Virginia officials say 33 people were killed. That

includes the gunman, who is believed to have acted alone. That's

what they're saying.

Police also saying the gunman eventually took his own life.

His motive, though, not clear and he remains unidentified at this

point.

The massacre occurred in southwestern Virginia, on the campus of

Virginia Tech. That's in Blacksburg, Virginia.

The first 911 call was made at 7:15 a.m. Eastern from West Amber

Johnson Hall. That's a coed dormitory. Two people were killed there.

Two hours later, with the campus in lockdown, authorities got word

of more gunfire at Norris Hall. That's an engineering building, a

classroom across campus, inside. Most of the bloodshed happened

there.

Cell phone video captured the sounds of gunfire and the chaos.

I want you to watch and listen to this.

(VIDEO CLIP OF SHOOTING, COURTESY JAMAL ALBARGHOUTI, VIRGINIA TECH

STUDENT)

BLITZER: We counted 27 shots in that one minute or so of videotape.

We're going to be speaking to the student who took that videotape,

part of our I-Report series. We're going to get some specifics on

what he saw, what he heard -- 27 shots on that little snippet of

tape. The massacre comes as Virginia's governor is out of the

country right now. He was to begin a two week Asian trade mission in

Japan today. He'll be returning, though, immediately.

Governor Tim Kaine is joining us on the phone from Tokyo.

First of all, Governor, our deepest condolences to everyone at

Virginia Tech. I know this is a university very close to you. You

gave the commencement address there last year.

GOV. TIM KAINE (D), VIRGINIA: I did, Wolf.

It is a university that is a very, very wonderful and tight

community. It has been hit by some tough -- tough circumstances this

year. And today's tragedy is just absolutely awful for the whole

Commonwealth.

BLITZER: You -- I assume you heard the news conference from the

president of the university, the police chief there.

What can you add? what do we not know about these circumstances

because there are still so many unanswered questions?

KAINE: Well, Wolf, there are unanswered questions and I think the

university is trying to put -- put the things in the right order.

The most immediate thing to do now is to make sure that all of the

victims are identified and that every next of kin receives

notification as promptly as possible. That is the first priority,

and then dealing with those grieving family members and students.

I'm returning to campus so that I can be on campus with the students

and family members and faculty tomorrow.

Obviously, the investigation as to the instance is -- is continuing.

And I believe every few hours the university will obviously be

briefing the press on what more they know.

The state police -- I received notice -- I landed in Tokyo and

arrived on a trade mission to Japan and India at about 5:00 p.m. now

last night and then was called at -- shortly after midnight about

this instance and am returning home within the next couple of hours.

BLITZER: What was your immediate reaction, Governor, when they told

you?

Because initially we were told maybe one person was killed. But then

the numbers exploded. The latest numbers now released by the

university, 33 people, including the gunman, dead.

KAINE: Well, when I was told, I mean it just -- my heart went out to

the community. As your viewers know from the -- from your coverage

today, the first day of school last fall, there was a very tragic

incident dealing with an escapee from a local jail who shot a deputy

sheriff and a security guard at a local hospital.

I went down and attended both of those memorial services and dealt

with the university community and it was a very, very tragic thing.

The -- some of the incidents around the shooting happened on the

Virginia Tech campus. And this -- this community has been through a

lot.

So my first thought when I was called last night and given this news

as just feeling very badly for the Virginia Tech community. It is a

tight community with a great deal of spirit. They have been through

a difficult time this year already. And that was the first thing

that came to my mind.

BLITZER: There is no confirmation, no identification of this

shooter.

Have you been told anything in general terms, what -- what he was

doing, what he was trying to achieve, if there was a motive?

KAINE: Wolf, no, I do not have any more information than that. I've

spoken with the -- with the head of the campus police. I've spoken

with the state trooper who is in charge of the operation for the

Virginia State Police on scene. I had two conversations with

President Steger and then my own chief of staff has been in touch

with the -- with me throughout the last six or seven hours.

And so -- but in terms of the identification of the shooter, I do

not have any more information that I can share right now.

BLITZER: The president of the United States, President Bush, spoke

out just a little bit -- a while ago, about an hour-and-a-half or so

ago.

Has he been in touch with you? Is he making federal resources

available for this investigation?

KAINE: Yes, Wolf.

The president called me. It's -- it's now 6:00 a.m. Tokyo time and

the president -- and I was notified shortly after midnight. The

president called me probably somewhere between 3:00 a.m. and -- 3:00

a.m. or 4:00 a.m. and we talked about this. And he, you know, both

expressed his, you know, significant concern, but also indicated

that he wanted to make available federal resources to the greatest

extent he could.

The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms are already

part of the investigation. And I very much appreciate it and I know

that President Steger at Virginia Tech did, as well, the call from

the president. We feel like we are getting good cooperation from

these federal law enforcement agencies.

It is now a, you know, a cooperative law enforcement endeavor where

you've got the Virginia Tech police, the local sheriff's office and

town police, and then the Virginia State Police and these federal

officials all part of the investigation right now.

BLITZER: And I know you're getting ready to fly back and go right to

the campus of Virginia Tech. 2:00 p.m. Eastern they're scheduled to

have, what, it's being called a convocation tomorrow?

KAINE: Yes, it's a...

BLITZER: I know you're going to be there for that.

KAINE: Yes, I am. It's a -- a gathering for all in that community

who feel affected. It will, you know, be a, you know, a vigil, a

chance just to share the pain and grief of this experience, but also

to -- to make very plain that this is a community that is a very

resilient community. And the grieving will be deep and it will not

be quick. But there is no doubt in my mind that this community is a

strong community and will -- will -- will persist through this and --

just as they in so many other instances.

But, yes, we -- we were here for this mission and part of the

mission in India included some work with Virginia Tech. Virginia

Tech offers some degree programs in India and they were part of the

Indian segment of this delegation.

But it is very important that I be back on campus. And so, within a

couple of hours, my wife and I are going to be getting on a plane to

head back.

BLITZER: Governor, have a safe flight back.

We'll speak to you tomorrow.

An awful, awful situation happening on the campus of Virginia Tech.

We're watching it nonstop.

Governor, thank you very much.

Our deepest condolences to everyone on the campus, everyone in

Virginia.

We'll be right...

KAINE: Thank you, Wolf.

BLITZER: Thank you, Governor.

At the scene, there is grief, there's shock, there is stunned

belief.

Let's go to the campus of Virginia Tech.

Our Brianna Keilar is on the scene in Blacksburg, Virginia for us.

What have you been learning about this -- this incident?

There was that two hour gap between the first shooting in which two

people were killed and the subsequent shooting in which, what, 30

additional people were killed, including another person who was --

apparently took his own life. That would be the shooter.

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. And that's the

resounding question here, Wolf -- why wasn't the alarm sounded in

between those two shootings? Why wasn't that first shooting seen as

a warning?

Speaking or listening earlier from the press conference here for

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger, he said they really had to

go -- police authorities had to go on the information that they had.

And at that point, they believed the shooting in the dorm, where two

lives were taken, they believed that to be, perhaps, a domestic

incident.

They also believed it was an isolated event and they also believed

the shooter had left the campus. They thought everything had sort of

finished you, if you will, and there wasn't really cause for alarm.

And still, at this point, Wolf, they say they're trying to still

draw a connection between that first shooting at the dorm and that

second shooting at the engineering building, where 31 people were

killed -- Wolf.

BLITZER: All on this -- oh, unfortunately I think we lost -- there

we are, Brianna.

Are you getting any information at all on the shooter, the

individual who committed this horrendous crime?

KEILAR: No. At this point, police -- Virginia Tech police say that

they are not able to identify the shooter. At this point they're in

the process of identifying the shooter. He had no identification on

his body.

BLITZER: Brianna, we're going to stay on top of this story with you.

Brianna Keilar is on the scene for us at Virginia Tech out in

Blacksburg, Virginia.

Let's get some analysis of what we are gleaning from all of this.

Joining us on the phone, Gregg McCrary.

He's a former FBI special agent.

Greg, we've spoken often during these kinds of incidents. This is

the worst shooting spree -- the worst shooting rampage in American

history. You've heard what local law enforcement has to say, what

the president of the university has to say.

What's your initial reaction?

GREGG MCCRARY, FMR. FBI SPECIAL AGENT: Well, obviously, I mean,

certainly emotionally it's very shocking, even when you deal with

this on a -- deal with violence on a routine basis. Something of

this magnitude is stunning. And we don't know much. It's still

trying -- they're still working and trying to understand exactly

what occurred. But I think one of the important messages here is

that, obviously, that is done. There's nothing we can do about that.

But one of the things to be aware of is that in these nationally-

publicized stories of mass murder, there is a contagion factor, and

over the next few weeks we're at an elevated potential for having

another sort of incident of some sort.

Now, I don't mean to sound like an alarmist on this, but this

happens continuously. We see it workplace violence issues -- they

happen in a cluster, and these school shootings tend to occur in

clusters.

So, I think the most important take-home message right now for

everybody else is just to be sensitive to this issue and to -- to

report things up, or report any suspicions they have. An

individual...

BLITZER: Let me interrupt for a second, Gregg. Are you talking about

copycats? Is that what you fear?

MCCRARY: Yes. Yes, exactly, because there are people who are on the

edge, who look at this as sort of a motivating factor for them to go

over the edge. And it pushes them over and then they go ahead and

act out on this.

So, anyone that is identifying with this or making excessive or

intimidating references to this, or any other workplace violence or

school violence, anything like that that makes people uncomfortable,

they need to be sensitive to that and report that up.

BLITZER: Gregg, short of having metal detectors on college campuses,

at dormitories, lecture halls, or getting on campus, what do you do

in a situation like this? Anybody, a lone individual, deranged, or

for whatever political reason or any other reason, just walks on a

campus with a weapon and a bunch of clips, they could cause

extensive death, as we've seen today.

MCCRARY: That's true. This is part of the risk of having a free and

open society. Anybody can walk in to a shopping mall and do the same

thing, or go in to any -- you know, any public area at any time.

And I guess the -- one of the things to take some heart in is that

these are rare and unusual events. And even though they're rare,

obviously the devastation is catastrophic when these things happen.

But they're low probability, high sequence sort of events.

It's -- we can't live in a fortress society. No one wants to live

like that. But I think the issue is back to identifying these

people, troubled individuals, people who are paranoid or who are

depressed, maybe delusional in some way. They need some help, and we

need to be sensitive to our surroundings and people around us, and

then report those concerns up.

BLITZER: Gregg McCrary, stand by. We're going to get back to you.

MCCRARY: OK.

BLITZER: But joining us now is Jamal Albarghouti. He's the student

who recorded that video earlier today.

Jamal, I know this must be extremely painful and difficult for you,

tub tell our viewers where you were, what time this occurred when

you started your camera rolling.

JAMAL ALBARGHOUTI, VIRGINIA TECH STUDENT: That was around 10 to

10:00, around 9:50 a.m. here Eastern Time in Blacksburg, and I was

just going to campus to talk to my adviser, but then I started

hearing people telling me to leave. So I was on campus around 10:00.

BLITZER: What kind of camera were you using?

ALBARGHOUTI: It was my cell phone camera. I have a Nokia N70, and I

was just using the cell phone camera.

BLITZER: And so what -- did you start hearing some -- some shots and

you saw people running? Is that when you decided to start rolling

video?

ALBARGHOUTI: Well, I took that decision when I saw a policeman

drawing -- taking off his gun and started looking at -- looking for

a target to shoot. I knew that this isn't another bomb threat,

because we had two last week. So I knew this is something way more

serious. It was then when I decided to use my camera.

BLITZER: We heard -- we counted 27 shots in the video that you made

available to CNN through our I-Report operation, 27 shots. Do you

know if those shots were coming from the gunman, coming from the

police? Do you have any idea what those popping sounds -- where they

were coming from?

ALBARGHOUTI: I have no idea. Thanks for counting them, Wolf. I

didn't know there were 27 shots.

I thought -- to tell you the truth, I thought I was really safe. I

thought they were far away from where I am. But then people started

talking about shots that might have been inside the building. That

might have been the reason why they weren't so loud. At the end of

the video, if you can hear it, there is really a loud -- maybe it

was a bang like a tear bomb or something that...

(CROSSTALK)

BLITZER: It sounded a lot louder. It was almost like a boom, the

final shot that we heard.

ALBARGHOUTI: Yes.

BLITZER: There it is right there.

ALBARGHOUTI: Yes. That was the loudest one I heard. That was when I

knew that I'm really close to a really serious situation. And there

was a cop from behind me rushing towards me, telling me to just

leave. This is when I stopped using my camera.

BLITZER: And we heard some screaming after that loud boom at the

very end. What was that?

ALBARGHOUTI: That was the cop. There was a police officer coming

towards me because I was trying to go closer to where the shooting

was to take a better picture. But then I hear police officer run

towards me and he told me to basically run back and leave.

BLITZER: So you were outside the West Ambler Johnston engineering

building where these -- this mass killing occurred, 30 people -- no,

no. Excuse me, that was Norris Hall. You were outside Norris Hall.

ALBARGHOUTI: Norris Hall.

BLITZER: That's the engineering building where most of the dead

people were found.

ALBARGHOUTI: Yes, this is the case. That's where you can see --

Norris Hall is the building that is -- that you will see mainly on

my -- oh, sorry. That you will see mainly on the video I was taking.

BLITZER: That's the engineering building. Did you know earlier that

there had been a shooting at the West -- at the Johnston co-ed dorm

earlier that morning at 7:15, two hours earlier, two and a half

hours earlier? Had anybody alerted you to that?

ALBARGHOUTI: No. Actually, they did send e-mails, and it was on

Virginia Tech's Web site, but I didn't have the time to actually

check it. So I just went to campus without knowing that there was

previous shootings on campus.

BLITZER: So basically you live off campus. You were going to your

class. So you showed up, what, around 9:30, and then all of a sudden

all hell breaks loose?

ALBARGHOUTI: Yes. It's really windy out here. Yes, sir. This is what

happened.

BLITZER: What do you know about, if anything, about these chains

that supposedly were on a door at the Norris Hall, the engineering

building where, what, 30 -- 30 individuals were shot, including the

gunman, who apparently took his own life?

ALBARGHOUTI: I didn't hear the first part of your question. Could

you please repeat it?

BLITZER: Did you hear anything or learn anything about chains on the

door at Norris Hall?

ALBARGHOUTI: No, but I saw the cops struggling to get in to Norris

Hall. Usually that door -- I use it every Wednesday to go to class.

And usually it's never locked.

Probably the reason why the cops were not rushing in to there is

either that they were trying to open it, or that they were just

trying to make sure it's safe to go in there. I did not hear or knew

that there were any kind of chains blocking that door.

BLITZER: The reaction on campus -- you're an undergraduate, or a

graduate?

ALBARGHOUTI: I'm a graduate student.

BLITZER: Are you an engineering student?

ALBARGHOUTI: Yes, I'm doing civil engineering. Construction

management.

BLITZER: So tell us, give us a little bit of flavor of what your

fellow students have been saying to you over these past few hours.

ALBARGHOUTI: Well, everybody here in Blacksburg is really sad.

Blacksburg is one of the best and nicest towns I've ever been to.

It's a really safe place. You can't imagine how safe it is.

And with two bomb threats and two people died in August, at the

beginning -- at the very first day of -- at the very first day of

this semester, and now more than 30 students, I guess, or 30 people

got killed in this incident, everybody is so sad. Everybody is

shocked. We don't what's going on in here.

We were just talking that everything would settle down and we -- and

Blacksburg would once again be the small, nice town it used to be.

But it actually is.

BLITZER: Jamal, where are you from originally?

ALBARGHOUTI: Well, I'm originally from the West Bank, Palestine. I

lived most of my life in Saudi Arabia, though.

BLITZER: So this is very extraordinary for you to be experiencing

here in the United States this kind of horrific event?

ALBARGHOUTI: Yes. Yes. You can imagine that I've been in cities

where problems did happen in such cities, like I've been in

Palestine, or I've been in Saudi Arabia. In Riyadh once there was a

bombing in the Ministry of Interior.

But in Blacksburg, it used to be -- or it is a really safe town,

indeed. I never though that such a thing would happen in front of me

here in Blacksburg.

BLITZER: The Albarghouti family a very prominent family in the

Middle East.

Jamal Albarghouti, thank you so much for doing what you did. Please

be careful over there. Good luck to you. Good luck to all your

fellow students at Virginia Tech.

Is there anything else you want to say to our viewers? ALBARGHOUTI:

I just want to say how sorry I am for all of the families of those

who got killed or injured in this incident. That's probably the only

thing I can say.

BLITZER: Well said.

ALBARGHOUTI: And we are -- we are really sorry for them.

And thank you very much, Wolf.

BLITZER: Thank you, Jamal. Thank you for doing what you've done.

You've helped all of our viewers better appreciate the enormity of

what has happened on your campus today.

Thanks, Jamal Albarghouti. We'll be speaking with you. And please

convey our deepest condolences to your friends and your colleagues,

your fellow students on the campus.

Officials report, as we've been saying, 33 people dead, including

the gunman who went on this massacre at the Virginia Tech campus.

And as we've been discussing, much of the carnage unfolding in the

science and engineering building. That's the building where you

heard Jamal say he attends classes. It's called Norris Hall.

***************

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going to go away from it.

The worst, worst mass shooting in U.S. history unfolded today at

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Three Shot in Drive-By Terror Attack Near the Airport

April 17th, 2007 c.e.

by Ezra HaLevi

 

(IsraelNN.com) Terrorists carried out a drive-by shooting attack

Tuesday morning, targeting Jews not far from the community of

Naaleh, 18 miles east of Tel Aviv and near Ben-Gurion International

Airport.

The Magen David Adom emergency service says it treated one victim

for moderate shoulder wounds and two others for light wounds caused

by shrapnel. The victims have been transported to Tel HaShomer

hospital near Tel

Aviv.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/122138

Let us start out here:

" Yom HaShoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a Jewish holiday that

takes place on the 27th day of Nisan, in the Hebrew calendar. It is

held every

year in remembrance of the approximately six million Jews who died

in the

Holocaust. It is a national holiday in Israel.

It was originally proposed to be on the 15th of Nisan, the

anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising (April 19, 1943), but this

was

objected to as being the first day of Passover. Instead, the 27th

was chosen,

being eight days before Yom Ha'atzma'ut, or Israeli Independence

Day. Yom

HaShoah was established by Israeli

law in 1959, and was signed by David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi,

then prime minister of Israel and president of Israel, respectively.

At 10:00 on Yom HaShoah, air-raid sirens sound for two minutes

throughout Israel. Public transport comes to a standstill for this

period, and

people stop and stand silent. "

" The 57th anniversary celebration of Israel's

Independence Day Yom Ha'atzmaut event

Click on

http://www.dorchadashusa.org/event029.asp

for details about The 57th anniversary celebration of Israel's

Independence Day Yom Ha'atzmaut event at 6 p.m. Wednesday May

11th,2005 c.e. at 530 West 28th Street Between 10th and 11th Avenues

in New York City you may also email Info

Now let us go back for a moment to the first date mentioned above:

" It was originally proposed to be on the 15th of Nisan, the

anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising (April 19, 1943) "

Then let's look at a date mentioned in the piece By Kenneth R.

Timmerman below:

" April 19, 1995 " That was the date of The Oklahoma City Bombing.

On that date Saddam Hussein sent the Oklahoma City Bombers to

destroy the

Federal Building in Oklahoma City,Oklahoma.

Why was the Federal Building in Oklahoma City different from

all other Federal Buildings? Because it housed the records detailing

the

connections between Iran-Contra, Saddam Hussein, and

the Reagan-Bush Administration. It was the site of the election eve

1992 indictment of former U.S.Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger

in the

Iran-Contra case. Saddam Hussein was deeply embarassed by

his connections to the Reagan-Bush Administration, and to the

subsequent

Administration of George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the

United

States (January 20th,1989-January 20th,1993).

Saddam was furious at former President Bush for kicking him out of

Kuwait. Saddam sent his assassins to murder former President Bush

in Kuwait in 1993.

Aired 9/11/2001 " Baghdad Republic of Iraq TV: These are

the fruits of the new US order.[Video of explosion rocking World

Trade

Center]Panic has spread among US official circles, which evacuated

the White

House following a series of explosions. "

" CNN LARRY KING LIVE Aired October 2, 2001 LARRY KING: Have you

spoken to your

father- in-law? (George Herbert Walker Bush)

LAURA BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had

actually spent

that Monday night here.(at the White House) I had just seen them off

that

morning (9/11/2001) when I got in the car and found out about the

first

plane.(going into the World Trade Center.) "

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html

" Senator Joseph Lieberman: (Saddam) tried to kill former President

Bush (in

1993) "

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/25/le.00.html

 

Former President Bush Speech to Congress September 11th 1990. 11

years to the

day before September 11th 2001 " In the early morning hours of August

2d,(1990),a

powerful Iraqi army invaded Kuwait.The crisis in the Persian Gulf

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. "

http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/

" (White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and

credible

information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon was

originally

intended to hit the White House. "

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912-

8.html#intended-targets

" White House Was Flight 93 Target

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml

A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the intended

target of

United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field

on Sept. 11,

was the White House.Government sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S.

custody,believed to be the source of the information. "

 

" Investigative Report

InsightMag.com

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. "

---

" EYES WIDE SHUT OR WIDE OPEN?

" Commentary March 2002 Islamism, Inc.

American Jihad

The Terrorists Living Among Us

by Steven Emerson

Free Press. 261 pp. $26.00

Reviewed by

Terry Eastland

ON SEPTEMBER 11, Americans learned that international terrorists were

living in their midst. The intrepid investigative journalist Steven

Emerson knew this years earlier, as a result of his own inquiries. In

American Jihad, a short but informative book, Emerson shows who the

terrorists are, and how they operate.

On Christmas Day in 1992, as a staff reporter for CNN, Emerson was in

Oklahoma City working on a story having nothing to do with

terrorism. Looking for a place to eat, he passed a large group of men

in Middle Eastern garb who were standing outside the city's

convention center. Wandering inside, Emerson found vendors hawking

books urging jihad and calling for the destruction of Christians

and other infidels. A meeting of the Muslim Arab Youth Association

was

under way. Emerson made his way unobtrusively into the main

hall where he listened to a series of unexpurgated calls for killing

Jews and annihilating the West.

What amazed Emerson, as he recounts here, was that he was hearing all

of this not in the Middle East but in middle America. The FBI, he

subsequently learned from his sources in the agency, had not known

about the gathering. Nor would it have conducted an investigation if

it had known, since its mandate was to probe " criminal activity and

not simply hateful rhetoric. " Two months later, when the first World

Trade Center bombing occurred, Emerson wondered whether what he had

seen in Oklahoma City might somehow be connected to the

attack.

To find out, he left CNN and, arranging with PBS to produce a

documentary on radical Islam and domestic terrorism, started an

investigative project that he still heads. " We discovered, " he

writes,

that " international terrorist organizations of all sorts had set up

shop

here in America. They often took advantage of religious, civic, or

charitable organizations " -fooling the public, police, and " naive

leaders

of religious or educational institutions " who sponsored such groups

in

the name of " multiculturalism " or " diversity. "

PBS broadcast Emerson's Jihad in America on November 21, 1994. The

documentary won several awards, but not before it had been

assailed as biased and even " racist " by American Muslim organizations

and some mainstream U.S. newspapers. Emerson himself became a

target of verbal abuse at meetings similar to the one he had beheld

in

Oklahoma City. He tells of attending one Muslim convention where a

speaker shouted, " Steven Emerson is the enemy of Islam! Are we going

to let Steven Emerson tell us what to do? " " No, " the crowd roared.

" I sat there sweating, " writes Emerson. " Thankfully, I had altered my

appearance . . . [and] no one noticed me. " Not long afterward, he was

alerted by the FBI that a foreign Muslim group was plotting to kill

him.

American Jihad zeroes in mainly on three international terrorist

groups whose tentacles began to reach into the United States at least

as

early as the 1980's. These are Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and al Qaeda-the

very same organizations singled out by President Bush in his State

of the Union address this January and the last-named of which was

responsible for the devastation of September 11. What Emerson

shows is how they have operated on American soil: how they have

recruited freely, focusing especially on persons bearing U.S.

passports; how they have raised money; and how they have built

clandestine networks in the service of planning mayhem and spilling

blood.

Fundraising in the United States has been facilitated by the use of

seemingly above-board organizations making seemingly above-board

pitches-to help needy children, for example-the money from which has

then been diverted elsewhere. A case in point is the Holy Land

Foundation for Relief and Development based in Richardson, Texas,

whose assets were frozen by the Treasury Department this past

December after the FBI concluded that its funds had been used to

support Hamas activities in the Middle East.

Raising money is not the only purpose served by establishing

" charitable " fronts. " By far the most important tactic " employed by

terrorist

groups, writes Emerson, has been the use of nonprofit and religious

organizations to create " a zone of legitimacy " within which planning

for illegal action can occur. Until recently, the FBI has been unable

to penetrate this zone, " barred, " as the Washington Post has

reported,

" even from collecting news clippings on such groups, unless they

could

show a crime had been committed. " Under these circumstances,

Emerson's own research has proved an invaluable resource. In the

aftermath of September 11, his assiduously amassed files have been in

great demand by law-enforcement officials and congressional

investigators alike.

American Jihad is by no means a comprehensive treatment of the

terrorist threat to America. Concentrating mostly on Islamist

radicals,

Emerson has little to say about other terrorist operatives working

against us, including those in the employ of secular Arab regimes

like

Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nor does he take up the complex question of

how

best to prevent terrorism and disrupt and finally destroy the

groups responsible for it. Still, American Jihad is a valuable primer

on the threat within our borders-and one that is both accurate and

fair.

It is important to emphasize this last point because, ever since his

1994 documentary, Emerson has been the object of a denunciatory

campaign as an anti-Muslim bigot and worse. In American Jihad,

Emerson

emphasizes that the problem he has identified is " confined to a

relatively small slice of all American Muslims. " But neither does he

shrink from insisting that " mainstream " Muslim organizations take

responsibility for what happens at their conferences and is issued in

their name. It was, after all, Abdelrahaman Alamoudi, a founding

member of the American Muslim Council, who at a demonstration in 2000

opposite the White House declared: " Hear that, Bill Clinton: we

are all supporters of Hamas. Allahu akhbar. I wish to add that I am

also a supporter of Hizbullah. "

Groups that put incendiary speakers at their microphones or that

permit themselves to be used by radicals bent on jihad, should be

exempt

neither from criticism nor from the scrutiny of the law. But the sad

fact is that, for far too long, groups preaching hatred and violence

have

indeed escaped scrutiny. If Emerson's warnings had been heeded when

he

first issued them, our country might not be in the difficult

straits in which it finds itself today.

TERRY EASTLAND, who served as director of public affairs at the

Justice Department during the Reagan administration, is publisher

of the Weekly Standard. "

---

On February 26th, 1993 The World Trade Center was attacked.

The attack marked the 11th anniversary to the day of the idiotic and

false declaration by the Reagan-Bush Administration of February

26th, 1982 that Iraq was no longer a state sponsor of terrorism and

as such was eligible for American loans and grants,which it

subsequently got. The event also marked the 2nd anniversary to the

day of the liberation of Kuwait by the U.S. in the first Gulf War.

Saddam Hussein assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years

old. Fixated on the number 11 ever since then he easily focused on

The World Trade Center as a target because it looked so much like a

number 11 that WPIX TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World

Trade Center in its logo for years. The World Trade Center also

housed an office of the Bank of Kuwait. We can all recall how

Saddam, acting like a child who is deprived of a toy who subsequently

breaks that toy, set fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields as he was being

driven out of Kuwait during the first Gulf War in 1991.

The World Trade Center was hit on February 26th,1993 by the gang of

the evil monster Sheik Rahman, the same monster whose thugs murdered

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on the 8th anniversary to the day of

the Yom Kippur War, October 6th. Saddam used Rahman's gang of thugs

and assassins to punish Sadat for failing to defeat Israel in the

arab surprise attack Pearl Harbor sneak attack on Israel of October

6th, 1973. Rahman's son was subsquently found with bin Laden's

killers in Afghanistan after the U.S. liberated Afghanistan from

those monsters.

Who Set the 9/11 Date And Washington D.C. location

for the annual meeting of The Carlyle Group? Former President George

Herbert Walker Bush is a part of The Carlyle Group.

Former President Bush has a son named George W. Bush who lives in a

nice White House in Washington, D.C. We do not know who set the

date but we would like to find out. So we have a little project for

you, dear readers, please forward this email to your Senators and

Congresspeople, and to your radio and t.v. talk show hosts and news

people, and to your newspaper and magazine editors and writers and

ask them to help you find out. Then follow up those emails with phone

calls and letters and visits in person to all of those people.

We all know that terrorists love anniversaries.

Dick Cheney knows that quite well, as he told Tim Russert on Meet

The Press on NBC TV on September 8th, 2002:

" MR. RUSSERT: Leading up this September 11, 2002, are we hearing an

increase in chatter? Are intelligence folks picking up conversations

amongst the al-Qaeda cells around the world?

VICE PRES. CHENEY: We've seen some of that. As you go through

anniversary dates during the course of the year, the anniversary

when U.S. troops first went into Saudi Arabia, the various

anniversaries crop up. Now, as I say, to date, not much has happened

in that respect, although we did see just this week the Germans

arrested two individuals planning, apparently, to set off a major

explosion at U.S. European Command in Heidelberg, Germany. Now, was

that al-Qaeda related? We don't know yet, but there is a temptation

I think for terrorists to try to stage events that hark back to

historically significant dates. And I wouldn't be at all surprised

if that's the case here. I'm not saying something is going to happen

on September 11, but as these major milestones come along, we often

receive reporting that it's tied into one of those dates. "

It is good that Dick Cheney knew that. Cheney was in the White House

on 9/11/2001.

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.

" CNN LARRY KING LIVE America's New War: Laura Bush Discusses the

Impact of September 11 Aired October 2, 2001 - 21:00 LARRY KING: A

couple of other things:

Have you spoken to your father- in-law (Not in transcript, but the

father in law in question is one George Herbert Walker Bush !!!)

LAURA

BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had actually

spent that Monday night here. (not in transcript but " here " means at

the White House !!!) LARRY KING: Really LAURA BUSH: I had just seen

them off that morning when I got in the-got in the car and found out

about the first plane. LARRY KING: Didn't know that. LAURA BUSH: They

were-they were on their way to St. Paul, Minnesota to give a speech,

and they were in a private plane, and their plane was diverted to

Minneapolis. "

Source:

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html

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

Former President Bush'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

" September 11th, 2001 - The White House is evacuated. White House

Sealed "

http://www.september11news.com/AAWhiteHouseEvacReuters.jpg

" try to avoid having the principal travel by commercial airline on

terrorist anniversaries " from " The Art of Executive Protection "

http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000450.html "

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912-

8.html#intended-targets

MR. FLEISCHER: John, we have real and credible information that the

airplane that landed at the Pentagon was originally intended to hit

the White House.

Q Can you tell us about the nature of that evidence

MR. FLEISCHER: No, of course I cannot. Any questions relating to how

we have obtained any of this information, sources and methods, I

will, of course, not answer.

Q—why it changed course, Ari Why it went to the Pentagon and not

the White House

MR. FLEISCHER: We really do not know the answer to that. But we are

aware of what we have. "

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912-

8.html#intended-targets

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml

" White House Was Flight 93 Target

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml

May 23, 2002

Volunteers in Shanksville this past weekend. (Photo: AP)

The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.

fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44

people aboard were killed.

(CBS) A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the

intended target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a

Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House.

Government sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, is

believed to be the source of the information. He is being

interrogated by U.S. officials at an undisclosed location.

Investigators have linked Zubaydah directly to hijackers on board

Flight 93.

United Flight 93 took off from Newark, N.J., and crashed in Somerset

County, Pa.. A recorder on the plane and calls made to people on the

ground indicate passengers fought for control with the hijackers

before it went down.

The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.

fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44

people aboard were killed.

Officials previously had assumed the White House was a likely

target, but said the Capitol and CIA headquarters in McLean, Va.,

near Washington were other possibilities.Abu Zubaydah is believed to

have played a key role in organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, officials

said. As al Qaeda's top operational planner, he ran the Khalden camp

in Afghanistan, where U.S. investigators have learned many of the

Sept. 11 hijackers trained. This suggests Abu Zubaydah may have had

direct contact with the hijackers and chosen them for training.

He also had telephone contacts with at least one Arab student at

U.S. flight schools, according to a July 10, 2001, memo from a

Phoenix FBI agent.

The CIA, FBI and Pakistani authorities captured and wounded Abu

Zubaydah in a raid by in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in March. He is

believed to have masterminded the failed millennium bombing plots in

Los Angeles and Jordan, and has been linked to failed plots on the

U.S. embassies in Paris and Sarajevo.

Abu Zubaydah was also indirectly linked, through a web of

associations with other al Qaeda members in Europe, to lead Sept. 11

hijacker Mohammed Atta and his cell in Hamburg, Germany. Three

members of the Hamburg cell were suicide hijackers; three others are

still at large. Ziad Jarrah, believed to be the pilot-hijacker of

Flight 93, was a member of the Hamburg cell. "

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml

(MY THEORY ABOUT THE CHOICE OF FLIGHT 93 WAS THAT 1993 WAS THE YEAR

IN WHICH SADDAM FIRST TRIED TO ASSASSINATE FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH IN

KUWAIT, IT WAS ALSO THE YEAR IN WHICH SADDAM HUSSEIN FIRST TRIED

TO DESTROY THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN UNLUCKY

NUMBER FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN BECAUSE THE PASSENGERS ON FLIGHT 93 BECAME

HEROES AND STOPPED THE PLANE FROM GOING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE)

Perhaps the following may explain how Saddam knew where former

President Bush might be spending the night of September 10th-11th

2001.:

" Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed

as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary

of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III,

and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some

underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency

interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the

plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most

powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the

Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has

become unexpectedly important. That the Carlyle Group had its

conference on America's darkest day was mere coincidence, but there

is nothing accidental about the cast of characters that this

private-equity powerhouse has assembled in the 14 years since its

founding. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S.

President George Bush Sr., former U.K. Prime Minister John Major, and

former President of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has

counted, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi

Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's family among its high-profile

clientele. " Source:

http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html

" Prince Alwaleed bin Talal reportedly believes AOL is the 'anchor'

of the

Internet. Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said Thursday that he

intends to double his investment in America Online (NYSE: AOL),

bringing his stake to a whopping $2.05 billion (US$) " The prince

decided to invest more heavily in AOL because he reportedly believes

the company is the " anchor of the industry " and will flourish even

though other high-tech companies are " collapsing and going under left

and right. "

" America Online is the No. 1 Internet company in the world and has a

solid foundation and is making profit, " the prince said in published

reports. " When the dust settles on the dot-com industry, America

Online will be around. "

" SAUDI PRINCE ALWALEED WILL INVEST ANOTHER $1B IN AOL "

Charles Molineaux, Patricia Sabga

11/20/2000

CNNfn; Capital Ideas

CNN is owned by AOL Time Warner. CNN infamously has provided

platforms to such rabid anti-Israel hosts as Pat Buchanan and Robert

Novak, and to former Clinton, now Kerry operatives Paul Begala and

James Carville, all four of whom opposed the liberation of Iraq.

" ADL Praises Mayor Giuliani for Taking a Principled Stand Against

Saudi's

Remarks on Trade Center Disaster

New York, NY, October 12, 2001 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

today

commended New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for his unequivocal

rejection of

statements by Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal criticizing U.S.

policy in the

Middle East as a cause for the attacks on September 11. The mayor

also refused

to accept the prince's donation of funds to the relief effort.

" We commend Mayor Giuliani for standing up to Prince Alwaleed and

rejecting his

tainted and forced rationalizations on terrorism and U.S. foreign

policy, " said

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. " We thank the mayor for

sending a

strong message to those who continue to degrade the memory of the

victims of the

World Trade Center attack with inappropriate and opportunistic

comparisons to

suffering in other parts of the world. There can be no moral

equivalency for

terrorism, and Mayor Giuliani, in rejecting the prince's offer, has

made that

completely clear. The mayor's wise leadership in the aftermath of

the terrorist

attacks continues to provide reassurance to New Yorkers and all

Americans. "

Prince Alwaleed, after agreeing to commit $10 million to a relief

fund for

relatives of the victims of the September 11 attacks, issued a

statement

criticizing U.S. policy in the Middle East, particularly toward

Israel. " Our

Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of

Israelis while

the world turns the other cheek, " the statement said, in part.

Mayor Giuliani categorically rejected the statement and indicated

that the city

would not accept the donation. " The people who did it (the terrorist

attacks)

lost any right to ask for justification for it when they slaughtered

4,000 or

5,000 innocent people. And to suggest that there's a justification

for it only

invites this happening in the future. It is highly irresponsible and

very, very

dangerous, " the mayor said.

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading

organization

fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract

hatred,

prejudice and bigotry. "

" Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was

pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more

convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed

deliberately. "

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair000121.html " The

co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 uttered

an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just

before the doomed airliner went down "

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair991121.html

" Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial

aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary

radar data seems to indicate. "

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/chat_johnnance110199.html

" The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as

tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond

these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller

than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively

unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from

the

south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president

uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The

problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this

direction is that there's a 555 ft tall structure in the way called

the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is

similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the

west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in

approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument,

and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this,

but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings

in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall,

would have to be cleared, which means the plane's altitude would

probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a

successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot. "

 

The most recent example of terrorists striking on an anniversary

came on October 7th, 2004 in Taba. What happened on October 7th,

2001? The American people should recall

that on October 7th,2001 " America Retaliates for the September 11

Attacks.October 7, 2001 President George

W. Bush Speaks to America After the Strikes Begin.

Read the text of the address made from the Treaty Room in the White

House

on October 7, 2001 at:

 

" President Saddam Hussein chairs 48th

Cabinet Session

Baghdad, Oct. 22, 2001 INA

President Saddam Hussein chaired on

Sunday the 48th Cabinet session.

The Cabinet discussed recent events of

Palestinian Intifadha and

praised Palestinians brave and

persistent struggle for liberating

their lands. The cabinet reviewed the

current international

situation, especially the U.S

aggression on Afghanistan.

The Cabinet brought back a historic

stance Iraq had taken in 1979 when

it condemned the military Soviet

invasion of Afghanistan though Iraq

had then deep relations with the Soviet Union and there was a

friendship and cooperation agreement between Iraq and the Soviet

Union, yet this had not prevented Iraq from taking the national

independent stand rejecting Soviet's behavior. History repeats itself

once again in 2001 as Iraq takes the same stance and condemns the US

aggression on Afghanistan....this confirms Iraq's principled stance

rejecting all forms of foreign intervention and aggressions. The

Cabinet discussed issues listed on its agenda and made necessary

decisions and recommendations. "

http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/enews14.htm

" It occurred on the second anniversary of Iraq's expulsion from

Kuwait City, and the Bank of Kuwait just happened to have a vault in

the basement of the World Trade Center. The Hunt Begins The mystery

of who triggered the new york blast prompts a massive manhunt. What

the experts are looking for- and where the clues may lead By Russell

Watson NEWSWEEK WEB

EXCLUSIVE March 8, 1993 issue - The explosion in the basement of the

World Trade Center did deadly work " At approximately 12 noon on

February 26, 1993, a massive explosion rocked the World Trade Center

in New York City. "

http://www.dssrewards.net/english/wldtrade.html

A key member of the gang that hit the World Trade Center in 1993 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.

Sheik Rahman, the blind sheik who allegedly led that gang in Jersey

City, New Jersey had a son who was found with bin Laden's gang in

Afghanistan when

the U.S. liberated Afghanistan.

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.cfm?docid=954 " Middle East

Correspondent, Robert Fisk: Why was it that the bombing of the two

embassies in Tanzania and Kenya occurred on the eighth anniversary to

the very day of the first arrival of American troops of the 82nd

airborne in Saudi Arabia in 1990? "

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s12267.htm

" October 15, 2002

During the Gulf War the same gang that attacked the World Trade

Center

in 1993 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 on October 6th, 1981, the 8th anniversary

of the Yom Kippur War. On Oct. 6, 2002 a French tanker was damaged in

an explosion in Yemen. Re the Bali attack: " The 12th of October 2002

will for the rest of Australian history be counted as a day when evil

struck with indiscriminate and indescribable savagery, " " On October

12th, 2000 terrorists in a boat laden with explosives carried out a

suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the harbor at Aden, Yemen. In

what President Clinton described as a " despicable and cowardly act, "

17 U.S. sailors were killed, and over 30 others were wounded. "

http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01011605.htm

" Iraq has the motivation

and the means

to actively support the

Islamist networks of the region*** In the past, there have been

intelligence reports of possible cooperation between Iraq and Osama

bin Laden. Iraq has already tried to assassinate President Bush

Senior

in 1993, when he visited Kuwait as a private citizen. In the attack

on

the USS Cole in Aden (in) October (of 2000), there could have been an

Iraqi connection. Iraq has excellent relations with the anti-Western

Yemeni Islamists of the Army of Aden-Abyan, whose militants have been

arrested by the Yemenite authorities in connection with the attack.

Such an attack required long preparations, technical and military

skills and good operational intelligence. In addition, the explosive

used in the attack was sophisticated, a " shaped charge " like a

torpedo

or a missile, a device not in use by terrorist organizations, and

which may have come from a military stockpile. "

 

4 DAYS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Saddam's Stepson in USA

" Authorities said Saffi " (Saddam's Stepson), " triggered red flags

for

four reasons: the family relationship to the Iraqi dictator; training

at an American flight school; arrival on the eve of the Independence

Day celebrations; and his only documented prior entry into the United

States occurred just four days before the Sept. 11 terrorist

attacks. "

" Saddam's Stepson to Be Deported Fri Jul 5th 2002 (Saffi) was

planning to study at a flight school believed by the FBI ( news - web

sites) to have been used by one of the Sept. 11 hijackers. "

http://story.news./news?

tmpl=story & u=/ap/20020705/ap_on_re_us

/saddam_s_stepson_12

" US officials state that an FBI investigation had substantiated

charges

that the Iraqi government plotted the assassination of former

President Bush while visiting Kuwait in April 1993. "

" Terrorist Pilot Met With Iraqi Intelligence Agent By RICK JERVIS

Special to The Wall Street Journal Europe Wall Street Journal,

Europe October 4, 2001

[With thanks to Laurie Mylroie - Iraq News] PRAGUE-Mohamed Atta, who

allegedly crashed the first plane into the World Trade Center on

Sept.

11, met at least one Iraqi intelligence agent last year in Prague

before moving to the U.S., a Czech official close to the

investigation

said. "

The Wedge Issue To Use To Free The Press

We have a great opportunity with the issue of the link between

anniversaries and terrorism

To free the press. We need to ask the public- via emails, letters to

the editor, and call ins to radio and TV talk shows WHY the American

media has not been telling Americans about the link between terrorism

and anniversaries. Let's

get to work on this issue now. " He had tried to board on the

anniversary "

" Reid boarded the flight at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport on

December 22,(2001) the day after the 13th anniversary of the blast

that destroyed Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. He had

tried to board the American plane the day before, on the anniversary

itself, but was delayed by suspicious security personnel and missed

the flight. " http://debka.com/

" WASHINGTON (AP) By Will Lester, Associated Press, 1/1/2002 Seven

in 10 Americans believe there will be another terrorist attack in the

near future. "

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/001/wash/Americans_believe_2002_will_

b

r:.shtml

We are asking for a sustained p.r. campaign by everyone who reads

this

email. Please post it widely and please also CALL your Senator,

Congressperson, Governor, Mayor, and other elected officials AND in

particular : PLEASE CALL EVERY RADIO AND TV TALK SHOW IN AMERICA to

help our fellow Americans become aware of the link between

anniversaries and terrorism . If America really does have a free

press

we hope that your phone calls and emails and letters to the editor of

every newspaper and magazine in America will reveal that fact when

American media starts talking about the relationship of terrorism to

anniversaries. Until then know this: SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE

FOURTH ESTATE!

Why hasn't American media done more, in fact, done anything at all,

to

alert Americans to the relationship of anniversaries to terrorism? Is

the American press free or not? Had the shoe bomber's shoes exploded

in mid-ocean arafat would have had a chance to replicate his role in

the Achille Lauro hijacking in which he played " good guy " to the " bad

guys " he was secretly controlling. Similarly had Pan Am 103 NOT been

an hour late in take-off it too would have been destroyed in

mid-ocean, leaving no clues but another opportunity for arafat to

play " good guy " in " investigating " that event. Another plane, also

delayed

an hour in takeoff, TWA Flight 800, also would have exploded in

mid-ocean had it not taken off late, also would have afforded arafat

the chance to play " good guy " helpful investigator. Today Holocaust

denier

Abbas, arafat's deputy, reprises the role of " good guy " played by

arafat, as he

pretends to go after terrorists who murder Israelis, just as arafat

did when he

used Abbas's namesake, also named Mohammed Abu Abbas, who was

arafat's next door

neighbor, to hijack the Achille Lauro and throw elderly Jewish

American Leon

Klinghoffer overboard in his wheelchair. Arafat pretended to

" negotiate " with the Achille Lauro hijackers but U.S. radio

intercepts showed

that arafat was giving orders to that Abu Abbas, who was running the

hijacking.

That Abu Abbas was captured by Americans in Baghdad after the

liberation of

Iraq. He later died in custody. An Abu Abbas was also named as a

recipient of

Iraqi Oil For Food Scam money. We are not sure which Abu Abbas is

referred to.

Is it the current boss of what was formerly Arafat land? Was it the

Abu Abbas

who was involved as arafat's henchman in the Achille Lauro

hijacking? Does

anyone know? If so please post it here. Thanks.