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9-11: George W. Bush had nothing to do with it ... did he? (english) 
by Vancouver Sun 6:39pm Mon Feb 25 '02 (Modified on 5:54pm Sat Apr 6 '02)  
 

"say what?" 
The truth is out there ... right? 
At first, it all seemed so obvious. It was those Islamic terrorists. Osama 
bin Laden. Mullah Omar. George W. Bush had nothing to do with it ... did he? 
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Ian Mulgrew 
Vancouver Sun 
Saturday, February 23, 2002 

AP Files / President George W. Bush continued speaking to kids after the 
attack ... hmm. 

Reuter Files / The World Trade Center towers explode and burn after being 
hit by planes Sept. 11. 

"The right wing benefited so much from September 11 that, if I were still a 
conspiratorialist, I would believe they'd done it." 

Norman Mailer 

When the paladin of Camelot joined the fray, I knew 9/11 had become the 
Kennedy Assassination of the 21st century -- a real-life X-Files episode 
occurring before my eyes. Like those X-Files accounts of aliens living in 
oil deposits, this was a story with such staggering implications the 
mainstream media are loath to go near it. The question isn't who killed the 
president -- it's who piloted the airplanes that slammed into the World 
Trade Center towers, the Pentagon and the Pennsylvanian countryside. 

Just as there remains lingering doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald fired a burst 
of fatally accurate shots from the Texas Book Depository, so there is 
skepticism that cells of Islamic terrorists secretly coordinated and 
simultaneously commandeered four commercial jetliners. 

The culprit responsible for the Sept. 11 attack is now rumoured to be the 
same one who lurked behind the grassy knoll: the oil-dependent U.S. 
military-industrial complex. 

Not everyone is ready to accept this -- a substitute teacher in North 
Vancouver's Sherwood Park elementary school has been called on the mat for 
suggesting to Grade 5 students the Central Intelligence Agency might have 
been involved in 9/11. 

And at last count, there were a dozen U.S. Congressional Committees 
investigating the tragedies and how such an intelligence and security 
breakdown was allowed to occur. 

But President George W. Bush and his right-hand man, Vice President Dick 
Cheney, have taken the unprecedented step of trying to restrict those 
investigations, pouring fuel on the simmering conspiracy theories being 
propagated in alternative publications, on wingnut Web sites and among some 
serious media outlets. 

In Germany, a former minister of technology, Andreas von Buelow, made 
headlines when in an interview he dismissed the U.S. government's 
explanation that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network is responsible for the 
attacks. His own explanation implicated the White House. 

"I wonder why many questions are not asked," von Buelow said. "For 60 
decisive minutes, the military and intelligence agencies let the fighter 
planes stay on the ground; 48 hours later, however, the FBI presented a list 
of suicide attackers. Within 10 days, it emerged that seven of them were 
still alive." 

In Britain, a flight engineer has published a detailed paper asserting the 
U.S. took the joysticks out of the pilots' hands using a method of remote 
control developed by the American military in the 1970s. 

In the U.S. and Canada, independent publisher and editor Mike Ruppert (a 
former LAPD cop who hates the CIA) has drawn huge crowds to his two-hour 
lecture in which he states baldly that the U.S. government was complicit in 
the attacks and had foreknowledge. He opens his documentary presentation 
with an offer of $1,000 US to anyone who can prove any of his sources were 
misrepresented or inauthentic. 

A former U.S. government agent also has given interviews claiming the CIA 
has been dealing with Osama bin Laden since 1987. 

According to those who do not believe in The Lone Gunman, the truth is as 
plain as the nose on your face: Sept. 11's terrorist acts were planned and 
paid for by the CIA to enable the Bush Administration to "legitimately" bomb 
Afghanistan into submission on behalf of the oil industry. 

After all, everyone knows the Bush family has strong and long acknowledged 
ties to the oil industry, as do other senior members of the administration. 
Cheney until recently was president of a company servicing the oil patch. 
National Security adviser Condoleeza Rice was a manager for Chevron. 
Commerce and Energy Secretaries Donald Evans and Stanley Abraham worked for 
Tom Brown, another oil giant. 

Follow the money, as they say, and you'll find the smoking gun. 

Under this scenario, conspiracy theorists say a pliant Afghan regime was 
essential because of plans to pipe central Asian oil across Afghanistan. And 
there is a harvest of coincidence and contradiction to feed such imaginings. 

Consider first that the intelligence breakdown that led to 9/11 appears to 
have been a consequence of the Bush Administration telling the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation to back off on its investigation of Middle Eastern 
terrorism. A senior FBI investigator resigned from the agency, noisily 
claiming its main obstacle in the investigation was Big Oil's political 
influence. In an ironic twist of fate, the agent died in the World Trade 
Center. 

(Fox Mulder, was that you? Is that why they cancelled the series?) 

There also are recurring reports the CIA station chief in Dubai met with bin 
Laden only seven weeks before 9/11 while he was laid up for surgery. (The 
CIA denies this, but of course you can't believe anything it says.) 

Now think about this for a second: The Independent in London questions how 
Bush could claim in two public appearances to have seen the first plane hit 
the first tower long before any such TV footage was broadcast. The paper 
also asks why Dubya continued sitting with elementary school students after 
the second tower was hit and he'd been told, "America is under attack." 

Very mysterious, when standard procedure for such a situation is to whisk 
the president away to safety. Unless -- and here is the nub -- unless he 
knew something more than we did that morning. As the Independent asked, 
"What television station was HE watching?" 

This is rich stuff for those who see Them under the bed, especially since 
the financial miasma melds nicely with the already swirling rumour and 
insinuation. 

In the days before the attacks, there was unusually heavy trading in airline 
and related stocks using a market tactic called a "put option" that 
essentially bets that a stock will decline in value. If you were Osama, 
buying puts would be a great way to boost the value of your investment 
portfolio. 

And sure enough, unusually high numbers of put options were purchased in 
early September for the stocks of AMR Corp. and UAL Corp., the parents of 
American and United -- each of which had two planes hijacked. The U.S. 
government is now investigating suspicious trading in 38 companies directly 
affected by the events of Sept. 11. 

The initial survey of beneficiaries, however, turns out not to include one 
tall, dark-haired, olive-skinned, Allah-loving, Saudi-born sheik. Mainly the 
profiteers were blue-chip, establishment, red-white-and-blue Americans, some 
of whom were tenants in the collapsed twin towers, such as Morgan Stanley 
Dean Witter, Lehman Brothers and the Bank of America, major airlines, cruise 
companies, General Motors Corp., Raytheon and others. Several insurance 
companies are also on the 38-name list U.S. and Canadian financial firms 
were asked to review and compare with their records for any unusual patterns. 

(Which may say more about who plays the market than anything else, but why 
quibble with the quixotic?) 

Cynics are also questioning the incredible speed with which evidence in the 
WTC collapse is being destroyed. Never in the history of fire 
investigations, they say, has evidence been destroyed before exhaustive 
investigations are complete. 

(Say what? Two skyscrapers' worth of debris should be warehoused?) 

And then there were the curious developments swirling around the anthrax 
public health hysteria triggered shortly after 9/11. Even dullards can 
appreciate that anthrax sent to a top Democrat and to the U.S. media helped 
unify the nation behind the war effort while literally shutting down 
Congress -- a remarkably useful outcome for Dubya and his gang. 

Indeed, specialists in biological warfare say the anthrax appears to be a 
U.S. military strain and the culprit a disgruntled American scientist who 
possesses a rare combination of laboratory skills that make him (they 
believe it's a man) relatively easy to identify. Hmmm. 

And who didn't smell a bad odour two weeks ago when Tennessee driver's 
licence examiner Katherine Smith died in Memphis under "most unusual and 
suspicious" circumstances. One day before her arraignment on charges she 
conspired to provide phoney licences to five Arabs tied by the FBI to the 
9/11 attacks, her car crashed into a utility pole. The car was only slightly 
damaged, the gas tank was full and intact, but the vehicle was immediately 
engulfed in flames. 

As one report pointed out, Smith and the car interior apparently were doused 
with gasoline, which would certainly qualify in my book as at least 
"suspicious." 

And Memphis ... Memphis? Wasn't that the same place a noted Harvard 
bio-warfare expert "fell" off a bridge in December? 

Scully! 

The truth is out there. I know it. You too can help find it. 

If you would like an activist kit to get involved in urging a full public 
investigation of 9/11 and its aftermath, reply to findtruth 40@hotmail.com 
with "Send kit." 

But be warned. 

The Pentagon has just established a new Office of Strategic Influence that 
calls for the planting of false stories in the foreign press, phoney e-mails 
from disguised addresses and other covert activities to manipulate public 
opinion. 

This could be one of them. 

Ian Mulgrew claims to be a Vancouver Sun reporter. 

© Copyright 2002 Vancouver Sun

www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/st...


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add your own comments 
 
Bush didn't do it. (english) 
by Lefty 6:49pm Mon Feb 25 '02  

I don't buy it. 
OK, Bush needed a "reason" to invade Afghanistan. Trillions in oil, gas that 
he wants so he had to have something happen to get the American people 
behind him. 

But - it was totally unnecessary for something as major as the WTC attack. 

The "murder" of some prominent citizen by Afghan people, rebels, soldiers, 
whatever, would probably have worked. 

The "discovery" of a nuclear weapon in NY, DC, whatever that the feds could 
"trace back" to Bin Laden, that was heroically removed and dismantled would 
scare the living hell out of the American people and provide the support he 
had to have. 

Any of a number of things would have worked what with the American people 
being so damned gullible... 

Nah, why would he destroy buildings that were home of big corporations? Or 
damage the already sick economy in the US? 

I don't buy it. 

BTW, I am not defending him. I fear Bush as much as the next liberal. 

I just don't buy it. 
 
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I DO buy it (english) 
by Realist 7:43pm Mon Feb 25 '02  
 
It had to be spectacular enough to totally stun people so that the rest of 
the agenda could go forward.......haven't you noticed what else happened, 
like WHERE DID YOUR CIVIL LIBERTIES GO? How else would Congress pass such 
outrageous legislation WITHOUT EVEN HAVING READ IT. Britain and Canada 
followed suit with hardly the blinking of an eye. You don't get that kind of 
thing happening without prior planning.... it takes time to write new laws. 

Then we have the fact that a Naval Intelligence officer in jail in Toronto 
and fighting extradition, wrote down the scenario and possible targets in 
August and gave the sealed envelope to his jailers. He's been in jail since 
2000. 

The Bushes have run so many scams that they are overconfident. It's time to 
bring the dopedealing, assasinating, bankbusting, genocidal crew down. 
  
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May I ? (english) 
by zorro 7:44pm Mon Feb 25 '02  
 
Bush maybe didn't do it but he certainly took it well (on camera that is) 
when he was told about the first collision, without mentioning how he 
took the second one. 
my opinion ? the average terrorist as a chance of being a better person 
than Bush. 
 
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Tanks for finding this article! (english) 
by Bingo 7:46pm Mon Feb 25 '02  
bingoc142C@hushmail.com  

Thanks for the excellent article! 
  
wow, props to Vancouver Sun (english) 
by cog dissonance 8:04pm Mon Feb 25 '02  
 
Whatever the "truth" is, there are way too many questions and weird 
circumstances surrounding the events of 9/11. The fact that Bush jr. wants 
the investigation to be limited does add fuel to the fire. Why the hell 
would he want a limited investigation into the most devastating attack on 
U.S. soil ever? I mean, c'mon. 
Also, look at what the Bush admin. has gotten from this attack, and remember 
who makes up the adminstration. The USA Patriot Act, huge increases in 
Defense spending (and huge contracts to Lockheed Martin and Boeing), a 
stifling of what was becoming a bigger and bigger and more disruptive 
international "anti-globalization" movement, huge increase in approval 
ratings, and not to mention a "stable" regime (i.e. puppet gov't) in 
Afghanistan and their hands on Caspian Sea oil. Hamid Karzai, former Unocal 
employee? How ridiculous is that? And not a peep from the media! 
 
doesn't look good for the US govt (english) 
by open mind 12:14am Tue Feb 26 '02  

====================== 

Friendly Fire 

Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War 
With CubaBy David Ruppe 

N E W Y O R K, May 1 — In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders 
reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of 
terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. 

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html 

Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible 
assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high 
seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating 
violent terrorism in U.S. cities. 

The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the 
international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new 
leader, communist Fidel Castro. 

America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military 
casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and 
blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful 
wave of national indignation." 

Details of the plans are described in Body of Secrets (Doubleday), a new 
book by investigative reporter James Bamford about the history of America's 
largest spy agency, the National Security Agency. However, the plans were 
not connected to the agency, he notes. 

The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and 
were presented to President Kennedy's defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in 
March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and 
have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years. 

"These were Joint Chiefs of Staff documents. The reason these were held 
secret for so long is the Joint Chiefs never wanted to give these up because 
they were so embarrassing," Bamford told ABCNEWS.com. 

"The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public 
will, and here this is the complete reverse, the military trying to trick 
the American people into a war that they want but that nobody else wants." 

Gunning for War 

The documents show "the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans for 
what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government," 
writes Bamford. 

The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John 
Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false 
pretext for war with Cuba, the documents show. 

Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective is to 
provide irrevocable proof … that the fault lies with the Communists et all 
Cuba [sic]." 

The plans were motivated by an intense desire among senior military leaders 
to depose Castro, who seized power in 1959 to become the first communist 
leader in the Western Hemisphere — only 90 miles from U.S. shores. 

The earlier CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles had been 
a disastrous failure, in which the military was not allowed to provide 
firepower.The military leaders now wanted a shot at it. 

"The whole thing was so bizarre," says Bamford, noting public and 
international support would be needed for an invasion, but apparently 
neither the American public, nor the Cuban public, wanted to see U.S. troops 
deployed to drive out Castro. 

Reflecting this, the U.S. plan called for establishing prolonged military — 
not democratic — control over the island nation after the invasion. 

"That's what we're supposed to be freeing them from," Bamford says. "The 
only way we would have succeeded is by doing exactly what the Russians were 
doing all over the world, by imposing a government by tyranny, basically 
what we were accusing Castro himself of doing." 

'Over the Edge' 

The Joint Chiefs at the time were headed by Eisenhower appointee Army Gen. 
Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who, with the signed plans in hand made a pitch to 
McNamara on March 13, 1962, recommending Operation Northwoods be run by the 
military. 

Whether the Joint Chiefs' plans were rejected by McNamara in the meeting is 
not clear. But three days later, President Kennedy told Lemnitzer directly 
there was virtually no possibility of ever using overt force to take Cuba, 
Bamford reports. Within months, Lemnitzer would be denied another term as 
chairman and transferred to another job. 

The secret plans came at a time when there was distrust in the military 
leadership about their civilian leadership, with leaders in the Kennedy 
administration viewed as too liberal, insufficiently experienced and soft on 
communism. At the same time, however, there real were concerns in American 
society about their military overstepping its bounds. 

There were reports U.S. military leaders had encouraged their subordinates 
to vote conservative during the election. 

And at least two popular books were published focusing on a right-wing 
military leadership pushing the limits against government policy of the day. 
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee published its own report on 
right-wing extremism in the military, warning a "considerable danger" in the 
"education and propaganda activities of military personnel" had been 
uncovered. The committee even called for an examination of any ties between 
Lemnitzer and right-wing groups. But Congress didn't get wind of Northwoods, 
says Bamford. 

"Although no one in Congress could have known at the time," he writes, 
"Lemnitzer and the Joint Chiefs had quietly slipped over the edge." 

Even after Lemnitzer was gone, he writes, the Joint Chiefs continued to plan 
"pretext" operations at least through 1963. 

One idea was to create a war between Cuba and another Latin American country 
so that the United States could intervene. Another was to pay someone in the 
Castro government to attack U.S. forces at the Guantanamo naval base — an 
act, which Bamford notes, would have amounted to treason. And another was to 
fly low level U-2 flights over Cuba, with the intention of having one shot 
down as a pretext for a war. 

"There really was a worry at the time about the military going off crazy and 
they did, but they never succeeded, but it wasn't for lack of trying," he 
says. 

After 40 Years 

Ironically, the documents came to light, says Bamford, in part because of 
the 1992 Oliver Stone film JFK, which examined the possibility of a 
conspiracy behind the assassination of President Kennedy. 

As public interest in the assassination swelled after JFK's release, 
Congress passed a law designed to increase the public's access to government 
records related to the assassination. 

The author says a friend on the board tipped him off to the documents. 

Afraid of a congressional investigation, Lemnitzer had ordered all Joint 
Chiefs documents related to the Bay of Pigs destroyed, says Bamford. But 
somehow, these remained. 

"The scary thing is none of this stuff comes out until 40 years after," says 
Bamford. 

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dont buy it its given to you (english) 
by chrisp 9:03pm Fri Apr 5 '02  
roundtableof9@cs.com  

If you dont buy it then they've succeeded in sitting back in their Italian 
leather chairs with their 100 dollar cigars laughing cause they can shake 
off any fleas that may be on their tail. Their biggest ally is the fact that 
people would not believe that "they" would go THAT far. They have to present 
the unpresentable. Shock therapy so to speak. Is there anything that could 
top the trade centers? Trillions in oil and now Bush has a route out. 
Period. People want to put the 9-11 mess behind them and "not let them get 
us down". If they only knew. 
The brotherhood of satan is impressive and well armed. If youre not for them 
your against them. And if youre one of them then your dirty all the way. The 
ebst revenge is living well though. This is all scripted and in the end Bush 
and his cronies like kissinger and tony blair and the like will be shuffled 
thru the doors of hell. 

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and 
thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series 
of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H.L. Mencken 
 
I'd give anything if this weren't true. (english) 
by Al Smith 10:05am Sat Apr 6 '02  
Info@MajorityVoice.com  

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been 
sold gradually to the masses over generations, 
the truth will seem utterly preposterous 
and its speaker a raving lunatic." 

--Dresden James 

I'd give literally anything to believe that our governments are simply 
benevolent managers of our affairs ~ only catering to the true will and 
needs of "The People." But, sadly, it just isn't true. Government will never 
solve our problems. In fact, government defends our problems from threats of 
solution because they thrive on them! Solutions are impossible from within 
the system, because "their" system is the problem. Our representatives 
represent literally everyone but Us. 

Most Americans are ignorant of the fact that, to the Federal Government, "We 
The People" are not "Citizens," not "citizens" and not even human beings. We 
have been legally demoted to the status of "persons," defined by Federal 
legalese as "FICTITIOUS CORPORATE ENTITIES WITH NO VOLITIONAL MINDS." 
Americans have the status of persons serving in the military. Only the 
Constitution no longer protects the average American. We only have the 
rights granted to us by Congress. 

Tyranny and the sociopathic tyrants who create and maintain it through their 
perverted politicial systems are our true enemies. "The People" of the 
entire world have been skillfully divided, conquered and silenced by the 
self-appointed ruling classes over many generations. We're not apathetic. 
We're simply powerless to affect meaningful change as disenfranchised, 
alienated individuals. 

The key which will unlock our rightful power over our governments has always 
been (and still is) our unity. All we have ever needed to do to control 
"them" is to unite behind one single issue, because we outnumber "them" by a 
million to one. Now for the first time in history, through the Internet, 
mankind has the technology to facilitate our unity and true democracy. Short 
of devine intervention, real democracy is our only hope. 

Unless we unite to define and proclaim our true will, for all to know, 
Government will continue to suck more of our wealth from civilization and 
more freedom, meaning and opportunity from our lives. Baring our unity, 
nothing will change. 

Our plan to enable "Us" to control our governments is at 
www.MajorityVoice.com. We now have a real choice: Real Democracy or more 
demockery.

www.MajorityVoice.com 
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Zoom of Pentagon Crash Security Camera. (english) 
by David Bosankoe 5:54pm Sat Apr 6 '02  
 
The zoom can be found at: 
http://www.bosankoe.btinternet.co.uk/pentagon.gif 

This shows a small plane and not a B 757 crashing into the Pentagon. 

For a comparison, I have modelled the fusilage of a B 757 onto the first 
frame over the small jet. 

http://www.bosankoe.btinternet.co.uk/boeingcam.jpg 

My homepage is available in french :- 
http://www.bosankoe.btinternet.co.uk/indexfrance.htm

www.bosankoe.btinternet.co.uk/