October 2002

Nov 2000 and Sept 2001
How The 'Two Bite' US Coup Emerged

The Path to The Globalisation of Fear
www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/uscoupstory.htm

Why two bites at the coup were needed and who was involved
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I come here today to speak as a father and veteran. I would not presume to speak for all veterans... I'm just one man who served in our most tragic conflict. I did nothing remarkable in Vietnam; I did my job and came home to build a life and be a good citizen..... And I am here to tell Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, George Shultz, James Baker and the rest of the Committee running this country -- and the corporations that own them (like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, TRW, and others) -- We know who you are, we know what you've done and how you did it, and -- if we have our way -- this is your last hurrah.... "
Keynote Speech at VoterMarch Rally San Francisco, May 19, 2001 by Ed Reiman
Veteran and member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
and one of the founding members of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 144

"....much of what we just witnessed [in the US 2000 Presidential election] not only matches historical examples from the CIA's past history of election rigging and outright overthrows, but can be found in a respected coup 'manual' authored by a one-time advisor to President Reagan.... Whatever his strengths might be, no one seriously believes that George W. Bush has the acuity or connections necessary to plan... well anything, really. Although he was conspicuously absent throughout the entire [2000 election] campaign, it goes without saying that GW's secret patrone was one of the best in the biz: his father, George Herbert Walker Bush.... As the first director (DCI) of the CIA to be elected President, not to forget (or belittle) his eight-year tenure as VP, GHW Bush's crimes are now legendary. Over the years he formulated, directed and otherwise facilitated brutal guerilla wars, coups, death squads, propaganda operations, money laundering, assassinations  ⁸  , and drug smuggling  ⁹  . And that's just for starters. Most importantly in our context, GHW Bush has a documented history of using former and active-duty CIA agents in election campaigns... the most important one is still remembered today as 'The October Surprise.'  ¹⁴   .... In exchange for holding the [American] hostages until after the election [when President Carter lost the Presidency to the Reagan-Bush campaign after failing to negotiate the hostages' release before polling day, nlpwessex], the Reagan-Bush team offered the Iranians millions of dollars in arms, material, and other considerations. Sure enough, the hostages were held until minutes after Reagan's inauguration, then 'suddenly' released... the Reagan-Bush team undercut President Carter's own secret efforts to free the hostages and thereby stole the White House. It was, in fact, a coup d'etat.""
COUP 2K by JOHN DEE
Published in Lumpen, Jan. 2001

What was the 1980 'October Surprise' and why is it still a live issue? - click here

"The cynical purpose of declaring war on terrorism, like the abortive 'war on drugs', is to silence such critics [of American support for terrorism] and harness emotion to the cause of policy. It puts reason in quarantine. We should therefore be aware how thin is the veneer of democratic culture."
Christians should not charge into 'holy war'
Simon Jenkins, London Times, 19 September 2001

"People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook."
Richard Nixon, Washington Post, 17 Nov 1973

Use the menu links in the table immediately below to view individual elements of the US coup evolution
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"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
Henry Kissinger, cited in New York Times Magazine, October 28, 1973

"The case was made [in September 2001] for an attack against Iraq by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Defence Secretary and one of the more hawkish members of the Administration. He argued that September 11 provided a perfect pretext to hit Baghdad."
Decision to deal with bin Laden first, then Saddam
London Times, 29 August 2002

"America's most controversial writer Gore Vidal has launched the most scathing attack to date on George W Bush's Presidency, calling for an investigation into the events of 9/11 to discover whether the Bush administration deliberately chose not to act on warnings of Al-Qaeda's plans. Vidal's highly controversial 7000 word polemic titled 'The Enemy Within' - published in the print edition of The Observer today - argues that what he calls a 'Bush junta' used the terrorist attacks as a pretext to enact a pre-existing agenda to invade Afghanistan and crack down on civil liberties at home...... Vidal argues that the real motive for the Afghanistan war was to control the gateway to Eurasia and Central Asia's energy riches. He quotes extensively from a 1997 analysis of the region by Zgibniew Brzezinski, formerly national security adviser to President Carter, in support of this theory. But, Vidal argues, US administrations, both Democrat and Republican, were aware that the American public would resist any war in Afghanistan without a truly massive and widely perceived external threat.... At the heart of the essay are questions about the events of 9/11 itself and the two hours after the planes were hijacked. Vidal writes that 'astonished military experts cannot fathom why the government's 'automatic standard order of procedure in the event of a hijacking' was not followed'.  These procedures, says Vidal, determine that fighter planes should automatically be sent aloft as soon as a plane has deviated from its flight plan. Presidential authority is not required until a plane is to be shot down."
Gore Vidal claims 'Bush junta' complicit in 9/11
Observer (UK), 27 October 2002

"Senator, if you truly represent the best interests of the people, I want you and your colleagues to pass a law which grants absolute immunity from prosecution or punishment to anyone covered under the National Security Act, the CIA Act, the Espionage Act or any applicable military regulations so that they can come forward and speak first-hand of the crimes which are destroying the fabric of this nation. If you truly represent the people you will see to it that Nuremburg style trials are held in full view of the world and the guilty are brought to justice. And you will see that intelligence agencies of this government are either abolished or so drastically restructured that crimes of this nature can never happen again."
Mike Ruppert - Evidence to Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1997
From The Wilderness Publications

“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.”
William Colby former Director of the CIA
Third World Traveller

"Search crews on Monday combed the muddy waters of the Wicomico River, and helicopters scoured the area in a search for former CIA director William Colby, presumed drowned in a weekend boating accident. The search was called off for the night late Monday.... He was dismissed by Ford because of a growing feeling in the White House that he was cooperating too freely with congressional investigators looking into allegations of CIA wrongdoing."
Hunt for former CIA director continues
CNN, 29 April 1996

What Does The Previous Sudden Death of Former CIA Chief William Colby
And The Current Expanding Heroin Production in Afghanistan Tell Us About America? - click here

"The first worldwide index of press freedom has some surprises for Western democracies. The United States ranks below Costa Rica ...."
Reporters Without Borders is publishing the first worldwide press freedom index
Reporters Without Borders, 23 October 2002

"One of our best-kept secrets is the degree to which a handful of huge corporations control the flow of information in the United States. Whether it is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, books or the Internet, a few giant conglomerates are determining what we see, hear and read. And the situation is likely to become much worse as a result of radical deregulation efforts by the Bush administration and some horrendous court decisions.Television is the means by which most Americans get their 'news.' Without exception, every major network is owned by a huge conglomerate that has enormous conflicts of interest. Fox News Channel is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a right-wing Australian who already owns a significant portion of the world’s media. His network has close ties to the Republican Party, and among his “fair and balanced” commentators is Newt Gingrich. NBC is owned by General Electric, one of the largest corporations in the world — and one with a long history of anti-union activity. GE, a major contributor to the Republican Party, has substantial financial interests in weapons manufacturing.... The bottom line is that fewer and fewer huge conglomerates are controlling virtually everything that the ordinary American sees, hears and reads. This is an issue that Congress can no longer ignore."
US Rep Bernie Sanders
Congress Can No Longer Ignore Corporate Control of the Media
'The Hill', 12 June 2002

"Where are the moderating voices, the views of those who stand against the momentum of war, who challenge the self-serving rationalizations of empire? You are unlikely to find them in the major media. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is headed by Bob Coonrad, formerly deputy managing director of the U.S. propaganda station Voice of America. At the helm of National Public Radio is Kevin Klose, formerly director of the International Broadcasting Bureau, which oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and Radio and Television Marti. The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is Michael Powell, son of the secretary of state. Secretary of State Colin Powell was on the corporate board of America Online, now merged with Time-Warner, which owns CNN. A member of AOL/Time-Warner's board of directors, Carla Hills, also sits on the board of directors of Chevron. On the board of directors of Exxon-Mobil sits J. Richard Munro, former chairman and CEO of Time-Warner. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was on the board of the Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and many TV stations. Oil companies often share board members with the media. The director of Texaco (recently merged with Chevron), former senator Sam Nunn, is also on the board of directors of GE/NBC (GE is the nation's sixth largest defense contractor). Texaco board of directors member Charles Price sits on the New York Times/Boston Globe board of directors. Corporate board member William Steere is on the board of directors of Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal. A member of the Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal corporate board, Rand Araskog, also sits on the board of directors of Shell Oil. The connections of the current White House administration with big oil hardly need mentioning.... All of these oil companies, with important ties to the U.S. media, have interests in the Middle East crucial to their profits. Another company, Unocal, was the major player in a January 1998 agreement with the Taliban to build a natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan. (The U.S. had covertly funded the Taliban to bring stability for the pipeline deal.) In December 1998, they put the project on hold 'until an internationally recognized government was in place.' Unocal runs its own political action committee and is a major donor to the Republican Party. They spend about $1.5 million every year for lobbying... One of the Mujahedin's leaders, Hamed Karzai, was the main intermediary between the Mujahedin and the CIA. He later became a top advisor to Unocal and after the ending of Taliban rule in Afghanistan was installed as prime minister. Henry Kissinger also works for Unocal. Secretary of the Air Force under the elder George Bush, Donald Rice, is on Unocal's board of directors. (Rice is also a former president of the military think tank RAND.) Another board member is Charles Larson, former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Navy's pacific command."
THE WELL OILED MEDIA
rosenlake-er web site

"Speaking to British journalist Robert Fisk in 1996 Afghanistan, bin Laden made clear his agenda. 'When the American troops entered Saudia Arabia [after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait], the land of the two holy places [Mecca and Medina], there was strong protest from the ulema [religious authorities] and from students of the Shariah law all over the country against the interference of American troops,' bin Laden told Fisk, who published the comments in The Nation in 1998. The Saudi leaders made a 'big mistake', bin Laden said, when they responded by suppressing the protests and cementing ties to the U.S. 'After it had insulted and jailed the ulema . . . the Saudi regime lost its legitimacy,' bin Laden said. And so began his deadly fatwa against the United States...... It's the meddling in the internal affairs of the indigenous people of the [Middle East] region to ensure that said oil stays in the hands of the privileged few that has led to an enraged underground movement of terrorists in these lands. And oil is all we're there for - what else of value comes from that part of the world, what strategic value does it have otherwise? That may seem as obvious as the nose on our collective face, but it's something no one wants to acknowledge. Especially given the ties between the media and the oil companies: ABC is tied to Texaco, NBC to British Petroleum, Time Warner to Mobil Oil, as revealed in the marvelous media-watchdog flier Censored Alert in the summer of 2000. And now the oil industry is entrenched as America's No. 1 player with Bush and Cheney, two oil men (one failed, one successful) in command."
It's the Oil
Los Angeles Weekly, Cover Feature, September 21 - 27, 2001

"Dan Rather, the star news anchor for the US television network CBS, said last night that 'patriotism run amok' was in danger of trampling the freedom of American journalists to ask tough questions..... in an interview with BBC's Newsnight, he graphically described the pressures to conform that built up after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. .... And he admitted that he had shrunk from taking on the Bush administration over the war on terrorism.....'Limiting access, limiting information to cover the backsides of those who are in charge of the war, is extremely dangerous and cannot and should not be accepted. And I am sorry to say that, up to and including the moment of this interview, that overwhelmingly it has been accepted by the American people. And the current administration revels in that, they relish that, and they take refuge in that..... It's unpatriotic not to stand up, look them in the eye, and ask the questions they don't want to hear - they being those who have the responsibility, the ultimate responsibility - of sending our sons and daughters, our husbands, wives, our blood, to face death.' "
US Media Cowed by Patriotic Fever, Says CBS Star
London Guardian, 17 May 2002

"The same issues that were placed before the German people in 1933 are now before us, and our grandchildren may one day implore us to explain our silence in the face of a vicious tyranny. It will do you no good to plead the statist’s claim that the current totalitarian structures and unilateral war against the entire world were occasioned by events of September 11^th. Just as Adolf Hitler was able to convert the burning of the Reichstag into the raison d’etre for his military campaigns and domestic police-state, George Bush has been exploiting the World Trade Center attacks to advance a political agenda that goes far beyond the brutalities of early September..... There is scarcely a pip being squeaked anywhere in the major media over any of this.... Our experience with Nazi holocaust films may cause us to shake our heads in disbelief over such revelations [in Germany] – after all, Nazism has come to symbolize as heinous a form of tyranny as we can imagine. But how different is our mindset from that of the Germans who, in 1933, watched as their police state was rapidly put into place and who, fifteen years later, could not imagine that anything untoward had taken place? "
When Didn’t They Know It, and What About You?
Butler Shaffer, Southwestern University School of Law, 13 June 2002

"McClendon is the true dean of the Washington press corps....she cranks out a weekly syndicated newspaper column, a biweekly newsletter, and a weekly radio commentary that airs on 1,200 stations across the nation.   McClendon still doesn't miss a day in the White House press room.... [In our interview she said] 'The sad thing about the United States today is the American people are informed only on a few issues. They don't know anything about welfare. They don't know that we're selling arms to every country in the world. The public has no idea about what's going on. McClendon decried the sorry state of journalism, slammed Clinton's press operation, and reflected on a half-century of covering politics. It's the press. They stick together and circle around one subject. You go to a press conference at the White House and there'll be 55 questions. All but one or two will be on the same subject. I think you have to blame government, too. Government has loads of money to spend every week--billions on public affairs and public information--and they don't tell the public anything. It's mostly devoted to enlarging upon the boss, to making him look great and big. They don't tell the public how they are really spending money..'"
Sarah McClendon, longest serving White House correspondent
Mother Jones, May/June 1996

President Roosevelt had foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor and let it happen - click here
What Did Britain Know About 911? - 28 Aug 2002
Did Sept 11 victims die for Enron? - 8 March 2002

"African Americans were kept away from the polls [in the 2000 Presidential election], they were intimidated at the polls. I write about this in my book, about how Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush, the year before, hired a private firm to go through the rolls to try to take as many African-American names as possible off the voter rolls in Florida. It is an outrageous, disgusting story that you should read about if you haven’t read about it elsewhere already. It will sicken you. People died for this right to vote and they have so abused it. To me at this point, anybody who would so knowingly, illegitimately take control of our White House, what else are they capable of?....."
Michael Moore, Author of America's No1 best selling book spring 2001, 'Stupid White Men'
Speech 4 March 2002 at the prestigious Commonwealth Club of California
America's oldest and largest public affairs forum
(George Bush and the Head of the FBI have both since given addresses of their own to this club)

"And let us not forget Florida Sec. of State Katherine Harris [in the 2000 Presidential election]. Within days of the election, Governor Jeb recused himself to avoid the 'perception' of a conflict of interest. At that point, Harris became the single most important member of the Florida executive branch as far as the election was concerned: she had the sole authority to certify the winner. Harris herself had overwhelming grounds for recusal. Not only did she co-chair the Bush 2000 campaign in Florida, but it was well-known that she was under serious consideration for a cushy ambassadorial post in Europe...... In June, between 8,000 and 12,000 Florida voters were wrongly purged from the voting rolls as felons. The Florida State Government uses an outside contractor [a subsidiary of ChoicePoint Inc] to vet their voter rolls; it is the only state to do so.... Curiously, it turned out ChoicePoint had obtained this false list of 'felons' from the state of Texas.  ²⁷   Yes, Texas.... Curiouser and curiouser, it turns out that ChoicePoint is closely tied to the Republican Party, and that its top executives and board members include many high-dollar donors..... There are further signs that Republican operatives played a covert role in advance work to jimmy the Florida election. Xavier Suarez, the very same 'mayor' of Miami who was thrown from office because of massive voter-fraud in the infamous 1997 election, worked for the Republicans on the 2000 presidential election.... This is profoundly shocking to anyone who knows that Suarez was found guilt of illegally tampering with some 5,000 absentee ballots in the 1997 election. Indeed, absentee ballots had put Suarez over the top in the election when he 'won' twice as many as his rival....When Katherine Harris certified the Florida [2000 Presidential] vote the Sunday after Thanksgiving, she illegally closed off the state Capitol from the press and public. When a few reporters managed to get in with the help of a state employee, Harris tried to have them all arrested. As the Miami Herald related, the reporters 'had to call lawyers to stay in a public building even while state business was being conducted.'  ⁷⁹   While attorneys and security officers squabbled, Harris unilaterally disqualified most of the recounts that had been mandated and sanctioned by the Florida courts....."
COUP 2K by JOHN DEE
Published in Lumpen, Jan. 2001

Congressional Democrats ratify Bush election coup in US
George W. Bush: president-elect or president-select?

"A federal judge has approved a settlement between Leon County and civil rights groups that sued over widespread voting problems in the 2000 presidential election in Florida..... Under the settlement, both sides will work to restore voters who were wrongly removed from voters lists in the 2000 election."
Quietly Florida Admits 2000 Election Fraud
Associated Press, April 26, 2002

"It appears that, in its efforts to push the election 2000 recount in Florida in Bush's direction, his campaign workers rushed about the state in corporate jets provided by three companies now under federal investigation - Enron, Halliburton and Reliant Energy."
Corporate America feels the heat
Guardian 7 August 2002

"Of the twenty largest contributors to George W. Bush's Presidential campaign, fully half had major links to Enron; indeed, five of his seven largest seven contributors were connected to Enron. ... "
'Bush's Biggest Donors Had Links to Enron'
Common Dreams, 18 Feb 2002

"Then when [during the 2000 Presidential Election] the Supreme Court came in and turned out to be a totally political animal, the last shred of any naivety that was left in me has gone. When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke."
Robert Altman, American film directing legend, and creator of the film on the US war in Korea ,'M*A*S*H'
London Times, 22 January 2002

How They Did It

Theft of the Presidency - Articles by BBC and Guardian reporter Greg Palast

"Here’s how they did it: A few months before the election, Katherine Harris’ office used computer systems to make up a list of people to purge from the voter rolls of people who were supposedly felons – people who committed serious crimes and therefore in Florida were not allowed to vote. We now know those lists were as phony as a three-dollar bill. That maybe approximately 90% of the people on those lists, and there were 57,700 people on that list, approximately 90% were not felons and had the right to vote. Surprise, surprise. At least 54% of the names on that list were black. We know that because Florida is one of the few states under the U.S. Civil Rights Act that actually has to track the race of each voter. They used this racial targeting system as a way to target and purge black voters. This was a very sophisticated Jim Crow operation done by computers, completely hidden from the public eye. And when they were asked about it they basically lied. The Governor, the Secretary of State, and the head of the Florida Department of Elections all lied under oath to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission about how that was done. Now that was completely covered in the British and European press. That is one of the reasons why when Bush came over to Europe he was seen as a usurper and a pretender to the presidency - not elected, but a guy who had conducted a sort of racial coup d’etat. He was not seen as legitimate. The U.S. press did little bits of the story and then buried it."
Dispatches from exile
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 5 June 2002

"Consider this: An inarticulate, politically inexperienced man with family links to a previous national regime comes to provincial leadership. Subsequently he gains the highest national office without winning the popular vote. The election in which he was declared the victor is considered compromised by his brother's province. He appoints a chief law enforcement officer who has repeatedly called for constitutional revisions. Regulatory agencies are filled with those previously regulated. Soldiers patrol transportation centers. International treaties are abrogated. International legal organizations are shunned. Roles of police and military are blurred. Law enforcement agencies are centralized. Individual civil rights are reduced. A 'shadow' government is created. Domestic surveillance is increased. People are encouraged to spy on each other. Military budgets are increased. The military establishes a disinformation program. Media access to government is limited. Consultations with the legislative branch decline. Connections to corrupt corporate sponsors are disavowed. Efforts to further plunder natural resources for profit are initiated. Access to past administrations' documents is limited. A war mentality is established with imprecise enemies. Nebulous fear-inducing alerts are periodically released. National level profiling is introduced. People are imprisoned without public charges and unknown others are 'disappeared.' Does the word 'coup' come to mind?"
Analysis of Bush presidency suggests a nation overthrown
Bill Petz, Citzens-Times.com, 9 Aug 2002

"A controversial documentary about Florida's voting problems during the 2000 presidential election stirred the emotions of those who saw it Sunday [13 October 2002] at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Port Charlotte. 'We need political reform. The government in this country is for sale,' Joan Karatzas said after watching 'Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election.' Other viewers said the 50-minute video reinforced their opinion that George W. Bush is not the legitimate president of the United States, having won the office by questionable means.... In one memorable scene, Clayton Roberts, director of the Florida Division of Elections, removes his microphone and stalks out of an interview before investigative reporter Greg Palast can ask a single question."
'Unprecedented' Controversy Election Video Opens Old Wounds
Miami Sun Herald, 15 Oct, 2002

'Theft of the Presidency' - View Greg Palast material on this subject shown by the BBC - unique video footage - click here

President Roosevelt had foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor and let it happen - click here
What Did Britain Know About 911? - 28 Aug 2002
Did Sept 11 victims die for Enron? - 8 March 2002

Illegitimate Government On Point Of Being Exposed

"The most detailed analysis yet of the contested Florida votes from last year's presidential election - with the potential to question President George Bush's legitimacy - is being withheld by the news organisations that commissioned it. Results of the inspection of more than 170,000 votes rejected as unreadable in the 'hanging chad' chaos of last November's vote count were ready at the end of August [2001]. The study was commissioned early this year by a consortium including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Times and the broadcaster CNN. The cost was more than $A2million. Now, however, spokesmen for the consortium say that they decided to postpone the story of the analysis by the National Opinion Research Centre at the University of Chicago for lack of resources and lack of interest in the face of the enormous story after the September 11 attacks."
Media suppress the news that Bush lost election to Gore
Sydney Morning Herald, 22 October 2001

"Conservative Party chairman David Davis has urged a high-level investigation after it emerged that a senior government advisor suggested controversial stories could be buried in the news fallout from the US terror attacks...."
Aide apologises for 'attacks memo'
BBC Online, 10 October 2002

Dec 2001 Update - New Yorker - Results released - Bush lost election - click here

These results were released 12 Nov 2001, the day of the New York Queen's airliner 'crash' which absorbed all the significant news coverage that day and as a result few noticed this story.

"The former Vice-President [Al Gore] won 51 million votes in last year's election, more than any American in history save Ronald Reagan. .... More than that, a comprehensive study of the Florida contest confirmed this week that Mr Gore would be occupying the Oval Office if he had found a way of triggering a state-wide recount of rejected ballots. [This is without considering the people - particularly black Democrat supporters - who were illegally excluded from the ballot in Florida as indicated in section 2, nlpwessex]"
'Nearly man who should be President'
London Times, 17 November, 2001

"Stanley Hilton, a San Francisco attorney and former aide to Senator Bob Dole, filed a $7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District Court on June 3rd. The class-action suit names ten defendants, among whom are George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Norman Mineta. Hilton's suit charges Bush and his administration with allowing the September 11th attacks to take place so as to reap political benefits from the catastrophe.... Hilton's plaintiffs in this case are the families of 14 victims of 9/11, numbering 400 people nationwide. These are the same families that rallied in Washington recently to advocate for an independent investigation into the attacks. The current 9/11 hearings are being conducted by Congress behind closed doors, a situation these families find unacceptable.... "
All Along the Watchtower
T r u t h o u t, Thursday, 20 June, 2002

"The war has given George W. Bush power most presidents daren't dream of.... Within the US the war has silenced all political criticism of him, of the military campaign and of any other policy. His supporters already talk of a second term...."
War Briefing, London Times, 25 October 2001

"September 11 took place amid a virtual stand-down of the security forces which permits no innocent explanation. The circumstances of the terrorist attacks deserve the most serious and conscientious investigation. Both the Bush administration and the Democrats and Republicans in Congress have rejected any such probe, suggesting that to question the role of the FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies is unpatriotic. But the facts which are known so far point to the conclusion that officials at the highest levels of the US government knew that a major terrorist attack was under way and made no serious effort to prevent it. The political motive can be inferred: they permitted an attack to go forward—whether they knew its full dimensions or not—in order to provide the necessary pretext for carrying out a right-wing agenda of military intervention abroad and attacks on democratic rights at home."
'The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui'
Patrick Martin, 5 January 2002

President Roosevelt had foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor and let it happen - click here
What Did Britain Know About 911? - 28 Aug 2002
Did Sept 11 victims die for Enron? - 8 March 2002

Countries which provided advance warning of the attacks to America include Argentina, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Egypt, Jordan, Morroco, Israel and Afghanistan

"Just two months before the Sept. 11 hijackings, Washington was on the highest possible alert for terrorism, according to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. In fact, indications of a large-scale al-Qaida attack had started to appear in April and May, Rice said. By early July they had built to a crescendo. 'Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon,' Richard Clarke, the government's top counterterrorism official told key officials of all pertinent agencies on July 5, The Washington Post reported Friday."
The Dots Were There, But Weren't Connected
Newsday, 18 May 2002

"Britain's spy chiefs warned the Prime Minister less than two months before September 11 that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda group was in 'the final stages' of preparing a terrorist attack in the West, it was disclosed yesterday....Their warning was included in a report sent to Tony Blair and other senior Cabinet Ministers on July 16.....The JIC [Cabinet Office Joint Intelligence Committee] prediction of an al-Qaeda attack was based on intelligence gleaned not just from MI6 and GCHQ but also from US agencies, including the CIA and the National Security Agency, which has staff working jointly with GCHQ. The CIA sometimes has a representative on the JIC. The contents of the July 16 warning would have been passed to the Americans, Whitehall sources confirmed. ... John Scarlett, who took over as chairman of the JIC a few days before the attacks in America, told the committee, according to the report, that there was 'an acute awareness in the period before September 11' that bin Laden and his associates 'represented a very serious threat' and that there was 'planning activity'..."
Spy chiefs warned ministers of al-Qaeda attacks
London Times, June 14, 2002

"Israeli intelligence officials say that they warned their counterparts in the United States last month that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent....The Telegraph has learnt that two senior experts with Mossad, the Israeli military intelligence service, were sent to Washington in August to alert the CIA and FBI to the existence of a cell of as many of 200 terrorists said to be preparing a big operation... [despite this, nlpwessex] in no case was there apparently enough time after the FAA's warning for fighter planes to reach the hijacked airliners. More puzzling, there were 45 minutes between air traffic controllers losing contact with the third airliner, which took off from Dulles airport just outside Washington, and its crash on to the Pentagon."
Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks
London, Daily Telegraph, 16 September 2001

"The Washington Post 28 January 2002 confirmed that by Sept 12 the Bush Administration was suddenly producing intelligence reports which 'specifically identified Capitol Hill and the White House as targets on Sept. 11' - presumably one of which the fourth plane [which crashed in Pennsylvania] may have successfully struck had it not been for its delayed take off.... on the day of the hijackings it was not even known, so it is claimed, which cities were to come under attack. A day later however, it appears, the US government was claiming that it suddenly had information on the precise buildings, never mind the towns, that were to be targets.... So that's really not at all bad for a day's intelligence work in the circumstances. It sure is a pity that the days, weeks and months of previous intelligence gathering prior to Sept 11 had apparently not been so informative, although it was still good enough for Pentagon staff to decide to cancel their own flights for Sept 11 'because of security concerns' according to Newsweek Magazine 24 September....."
Bush Administration Had Knowledge of Specific 9/11 Targets
NLPWessex, May 2002

"On July 5 of last year, a month and a day before President Bush first heard that al Qaeda might plan a hijacking, the White House summoned officials of a dozen federal agencies to the Situation Room. 'Something really spectacular is going to happen here, and it's going to happen soon,' the government's top counterterrorism official, Richard Clarke, told the assembled group, according to two of those present. The group included the Federal Aviation Administration, along with the Coast Guard, FBI, Secret Service and Immigration and Naturalization Service.... The alerts of the early and mid-summer -- described by two career counterterrorist officials as the most urgent in decades -- had faded to secondary concern by the time of Bush's extended Crawford vacation."
Before Sept. 11, Unshared Clues and Unshaped Policy
Washington Post, 17 May 2002

"Ramsi Achmed Yosef ... was... convicted of his involvement in a scheme to blow up 12 U.S. jumbo jets all at the same time .....The plan [in 1995] called for all 12 jumbo jets to be blown up as they flew over major American cities throughout the United States. The case was successfully stopped..."
Excerpts from the Speech of
JOHN P. O'NEILL
Chief, International Terrorism Operations
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Presented at the National Strategy Forum on June 11, 1997

"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House. Ramzi Yousef had planned to do this against the CIA headquarters....Yousef was planning simultaneous bombings of 11 U.S. airliners prior to his capture. Whatever form an attack may take, bin Laden will most likely retaliate in a spectacular way for the cruise missile attack against his Afghan camp in August 1998."
'Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism'
US National Intelligence Council Report, Sept 1999

"The [Afghan] warnings were delivered by an aide of Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, the Taliban Foreign Minister at the time, who was known to be deeply unhappy with the foreign militants in Afghanistan, including Arabs.... Mr Muttawakil's aide, who has stayed on in Kabul and who has to remain anonymous for his security, described in detail to The Independent how he alerted first the Americans and then the United Nations of the coming calamity of 11 September..... Mr Muttawakil learnt of the coming attacks on America not from other members of the Taliban leadership, but from the leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.... The emissary went first to the Americans, travelling across the border to meet the consul general, David Katz, in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar, in the third week of July 2001. They met in a safehouse belonging to an old mujahedin leader who has confirmed to The Independent that the meeting took place. Another US official was also present ­ possibly from the intelligence services. Mr Katz, who now works at the American embassy in Eritrea, declined to talk about the meeting..... Mr Muttawakil is now unavailable for comment ­ he handed himself in to the Afghan authorities in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan last February. He is reported to be in American custody there, one of the few senior members of the Taliban regime the US has managed to arrest."
Revealed: The Taliban minister, the US envoy and the warning of September 11 that was ignored
London Independent, 7 Sept 2002

"One year ago today [5 Sept], in Paris, FBI and CIA agents got a full briefing on Moussaoui's terror background from their counterparts at the French Ministry of the Interior in Paris. In his first interview on the subject, former French Interior Minister Daniel Vaillant told ABCNEWS the French gave the Americans a complete dossier on Moussaoui. 'We did not hold back any information,' said Vaillant. 'This is the essential point I want to communicate to you. There was nothing held back. All the information was given just as soon as it became available in order to help American authorities pre-empt attacks like what unfortunately was the awful tragedy of Sept. 11,' said Vaillant. 'Maybe afterward there was a problem in terms of poor use of the information we relayed, but this does not concern the French authorities.' Moussaoui was arrested a month before the attacks, on Aug. 16, 2001, on immigration charges, after arousing suspicions with his flight training. Instructors at a Minnesota flight school first tipped off the FBI in August about Moussaoui, who showed up with lots of cash and no flying skills. FBI agents in the field were immediately convinced Moussaoui was up to no good, so they interviewed people at another flight school Moussaoui attended in Oklahoma. At the time, lawyers at FBI headquarters turned down requests for a special warrant to check Moussaoui's computer. After Sept. 11, however, the FBI found his computer disks full of incriminating information, according to officials....Whether or not Moussaoui was supposed to be the 20th hijacker, officials believe he knew what was coming."
A Second Attack Planned
ABC News, 5 Sept 2002

"The author Salman Rushdie believes that US authorities knew of an imminent terrorist strike when they banned him from taking internal flights in Canada and the US only a week before the attacks...The FAA confirmed that it stepped up security measures concerning Mr Rushdie but refused to give a reason.”
Rusdie's Air Ban
London Times, 27 September 2001

"Two messages intercepted by US agents on 10 September could have suggested a major event was to take place the next day, according to evidence being investigated by a US congressional panel.... two Arabic messages have now put the NSA [National Security Agency] under the spotlight for the first time."
BBC Online, 20 June 2002

"... [On Sept 10th] a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns"
Newsweek Magazine, 24 Sept 2001

"Generally it is impossible to carry out an act of terror on the scenario which was used in the USA yesterday. We had such facts too.  As soon as something like that happens here, I am reported about that right away and in a minute we are all up.”
Commander-in-Chief of Russian Airforce, Anatoli Kornukov
Pravda online: 18:50 2001-09-12

President Roosevelt had foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor and let it happen - click here
What Did Britain Know About 911? - 28 Aug 2002
Did Sept 11 victims die for Enron? - 8 March 2002

"FBI and military intelligence officials in Washington say they were prevented for political reasons from carrying out full investigations into members of the Bin Laden family in the US before the terrorist attacks of September 11.....the restrictions became worse after the Bush administration took over this year".
'FBI claims Bin Laden inquiry was frustrated'
London Guardian, 7 November 2001

"[Dubai] was the backdrop of a secret meeting between Osama bin Laden and the local CIA agent in July.... According to Arab diplomatic sources as well as French intelligence, very specific information was transmitted to the CIA with respect to terrorist attacks against American interests around the world, including on US soil. A DST report dated 7 September enumerates all the intelligence, and specifies that the order to attack was to come from Afghanistan."
The CIA met Bin Laden while undergoing treatment at an American Hospital last July in Dubai
Le Figaro, 11 October 2001

"A Minnesota FBI agent investigating Zacarias Moussaoui testified yesterday that he notified the Secret Service weeks before Sept. 11 that a terror team might hijack a plane and 'hit the nation's capital.' The FBI agent said that evidence in the case pointed to a broader hijack attack, but added that investigators were largely in the dark because they were blocked from getting access to Moussaoui's computer and handwritten notes."
FBI WARNED D.C. IT WAS A TARGET
New York Post, 25 Sept 2002

"The main [September 11] suspect [Zacarias Moussaoui] in US custody .... had been picked up by immigration authorities in August but the FBI refused to let its field agents search his laptop computer which contained clues as to the September 11 mission....."
'FBI arrogance and secrecy dismays US'
London Times, 3 Nov 2001

"[Moussaoui] had been arrested in August on immigration charges after a Minnesota flight instructor reported that he showed a suspicious interest inlearning how to steer large airliners. When agents learned, from French intelligence, that he had radical Islamic ties, they sought a national-security warrant to search his computer—and got turned down.... The agents were 'in a frenzy,' 'absolutely convinced he was planning to do something with a plane,' said a senior official. One agent wrote that 'one possibility' was that Moussaoui might be planning to crash into the Twin Towers."
FBI agent’s notes pointed to possible World Trade Center attack
Newsweek, 20 May 2002

"Whatever Moussaoui's true tale may be, the Minnesota field office was convinced he was worth checking out. Agents spent much of the next two weeks in an increasingly frantic-and ultimately fruitless- effort to persuade FBI headquarters to authorize a national-security warrant to search Moussaoui's computer. From Washington, requests were sent to authorities in Paris for background details on the suspect. Like most things having to do with Moussaoui, the contents of the dossier sent over from Paris are in dispute. One senior French law-enforcement source told Time the Americans were given 'everything they needed' to understand that Moussaoui was associated with Islamic terrorist groups. 'Even a neophyte,' says this source, 'working in some remote corner of Florida, would have understood the threat based on what was sent.'...."
Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented?
Time Magazine Online, 4 Aug 2002

- Compare this: Tenet didn't know about Moussaoui's case -

"The extraordinary thing about Moussaoui's case-like the Phoenix memo-is that it was never brought to the attention of top officials in Washington who were, almost literally, sleepless with worry about an imminent terrorist attack. Nobody in the FBI or CIA ever informed anybody in the White House of Moussaoui's detention. That was unforgivable. 'Do you think,' says a White House antiterrorism official, 'that if Dick Clarke had known the FBI had in custody a foreigner who was learning to fly a plane in midair, he wouldn't have done something?' In blissless ignorance, Clarke and Tenet [Head of CIA] waited for the meeting of the Principals.'
Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented?
Time Magazine Online, 4 Aug 2002

- With this: Tenet did know about Moussaoui's case -

".....'I wonder,' Tenet was overheard to say [on Sept 11 around 9.30 am], 'if it has anything to do with this guy taking pilot training.' He was referring to Zacarias Moussaoui, who had been detained in August after attracting suspicion when he sought training at a Minnesota flight school Moussaoui's case was very much on Tenet's mind. The previous month, the FBI had asked the CIA and the National Security Agency to run phone traces on Moussaoui, already the subject of a five-inch-thick file in the bureau."
America's Chaotic Road to War
Washington Post, 27 Jan 2002

"But by the summer, policy reviews were hardly what was needed. Intelligence services were picking up enough chatter about a terrorist attack to scare the pants off top officials..... In mid-July, Tenet sat down for a special meeting with [Condoleeza] Rice and aides. 'George briefed Condi that there was going to be a major attack,' says an official ..... Tenet couldn't rule out a domestic attack..... One date already worrying the Secret Service was July 20, when Bush would arrive in Genoa for the G-8 summit; Tenet had intelligence that al-Qaeda was planning to attack Bush there. The Italians ..... closed airspace around the town and ringed it with antiaircraft guns. "
Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented?
Time Magazine Online, 4 Aug 2002

"It also emerged yesterday that the FBI had been aware for several years that al-Qa'ida was using US flying schools to train its pilots and, as early as 1996, it was told of a specific threat to use a plane in a suicide attack against the CIA's headquarters.The latest revelations could prove very damaging to Mr Bush, who has insisted that, had he known al-Qa'ida was planning such an attack, he 'would have done everything in [his] power to protect the American people'. Earlier last week, Mr Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told reporters that the information given to the President was not specific."
Bush told in August of specific threat to US
Independent, 17 May 2002

"A further report came to light yesterday which was commissioned by the Clinton Administration and raised fears about a terrorist attack using an airliner packed with explosives to attack the White House, the headquarters of the CIA in Langley, Virginia, or the Pentagon."
London Times, 18 May 2002

"The WTC bombing [in 1993] illustrated how terrorists with technological sophistication are increasingly being recruited to carry out lethal terrorist bombing attacks. The WTC bombing may also have been a harbinger of more destructive attacks of international terrorism in the United States. Al-Qaida's expected retaliation for the U.S. cruise missile attack against al-Qaida's training facilities in Afghanistan on August 20, 1998, could take several forms of terrorist attack in the nation's capital..... Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House. Ramzi Yousef had planned to do this against the CIA headquarters.... Yousef was planning simultaneous bombings of 11 U.S. airliners prior to his capture. Whatever form an attack may take, bin Laden will most likely retaliate in a spectacular way for the cruise missile attack against his Afghan camp in August 1998."
'Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism'
National Intelligence Council September 1999

"Months before the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA knew two of the hijackers were in the United States and that they were connected to the al Qaeda organization, Newsweek reported on Sunday..... for a year and nine months after the CIA identified them as terrorists, Alhazmi and Almihdhar lived openly in the United States, using their real names, obtaining driver's licenses, opening bank accounts and enrolling in flight schools. "
CIA Knew Two Sept. 11 Hijackers Were in U.S.
Reuters, 2 June 2002

"Britain's spy chiefs warned the Prime Minister less than two months before September 11 that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda group was in 'the final stages' of preparing a terrorist attack in the West, it was disclosed yesterday....Their warning was included in a report sent to Tony Blair and other senior Cabinet Ministers on July 16.....The JIC [Cabinet Office Joint Intelligence Committee] prediction of an al-Qaeda attack was based on intelligence gleaned not just from MI6 and GCHQ but also from US agencies, including the CIA and the National Security Agency, which has staff working jointly with GCHQ. The CIA sometimes has a representative on the JIC. The contents of the July 16 warning would have been passed to the Americans, Whitehall sources confirmed. ... John Scarlett, who took over as chairman of the JIC a few days before the attacks in America, told the committee, according to the report, that there was 'an acute awareness in the period before September 11' that bin Laden and his associates 'represented a very serious threat' and that there was 'planning activity'..."
Spy chiefs warned ministers of al-Qaeda attacks
London Times, 14 June 2002

"Months before the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA knew two of the hijackers were in the United States and that they were connected to the al Qaeda organization, Newsweek reported on Sunday..... for a year and nine months after the CIA identified them as terrorists, Alhazmi and Almihdhar lived openly in the United States, using their real names, obtaining driver's licenses, opening bank accounts and enrolling in flight schools."
CIA Knew Two Sept. 11 Hijackers Were in U.S.
Reuters, 2 June 2002

"[Atta, the alleged Hijacker] never aroused suspicion, even though he threatened to cut the throat of the loan officer who interviewed him and made comments about the destruction of all the government buildings in Washington."
Hijackers sought US loan for flying lessons
London Times, 8 June 2002

More on the above story - 'Press Relay More 911 absurdities' - 16 June 2002

"Exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal report warned the executive branch that Osama bin Laden's terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the Pentagon or other government building.... The report noted that an al-Qaida-linked terrorist first arrested in the Philippines in 1995 and later convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing had suggested such a suicide jetliner mission. 'Ramzi Yousef had planned to do this against the CIA headquarters,' author Rex Hudson wrote in a report prepared for the National Intelligence Council and shared with other federal agencies. The intelligence council is attached to the CIA and is made up of a dozen senior intelligence officers who assist the U.S. intelligence community in analysis of threats and priorities. The report contrasts with Bush administration officials' assertions that none in government had imagined an attack like Sept. 11 before that time...."
1999 Report Warned of Suicide Hijack
Associated Press, 17 May 2002

"Israeli intelligence officials say that they warned their counterparts in the United States last month that large-scale terrorist attacks on highly visible targets on the American mainland were imminent....The Telegraph has learnt that two senior experts with Mossad, the Israeli military intelligence service, were sent to Washington in August to alert the CIA and FBI to the existence of a cell of as many of 200 terrorists said to be preparing a big operation... [despite this, nlpwessex] in no case was there apparently enough time after the FAA's warning for fighter planes to reach the hijacked airliners. More puzzling, there were 45 minutes between air traffic controllers losing contact with the third airliner, which took off from Dulles airport just outside Washington, and its crash on to the Pentagon."
Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks
London, Daily Telegraph, 16 September 2001

"A Moroccan secret service agent says that for two years he successfully infiltrated al-Qaeda before breaking cover last summer to warn his bosses that the terror group was plotting 'something spectacular' in New York. Hassan Dabou has told of meetings at which Osama bin Laden vented his fury at al-Qaeda’s failure to demolish the World Trade Centre in 1993 and proclaimed his desire for revenge. Mr Dabou was not sure what the target was to be, only that it would be a 'large-scale operation in New York in the summer or autumn of 2001'. Secret service chiefs are said to have taken seriously the tip from one of its veteran informants and immediately passed on the details to Washington.... ."
Moroccan secret agent 'predicted New York attack'
London Times, 12 June 2002

"U.S. and Italian officials were warned in July that Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner into the Genoa summit of industrialized nations, officials said Wednesday.... Italian officials took the reports seriously enough to prompt extraordinary precautions during the July summit of the Group of 8 nations, including closing the airspace over Genoa and stationing antiaircraft guns at the city's airport..... the reports suggest that Western governments were aware that terrorists might one day use a hijacked airplane as a suicide weapon--as they did Sept. 11 in attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.......The Genoa warning was disclosed last week by Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini..... In any case, the possibility of suicide hijackings has been known to U.S. counter-terrorism officials for several years...... In 1996, a terrorist captured in Manila told Philippine police that Al Qaeda planned to hijack 11 U.S. airliners simultaneously and to fly a plane into CIA headquarters near Washington."
Los Angeles Times, 27 September 2001

"Air defense around Washington is provided mainly by fighter planes from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland near the District of Columbia border. The D.C. Air National Guard is also based there and equipped with F-16 fighter planes, a National Guard spokesman said. But the fighters took to the skies over Washington only after the devastating attack on the Pentagon, which is alongside a flight path to Ronald Reagan National Airport."
SECURITY CRACKS EXPOSED
The San Diego Union - Tribune, Sep 12, 2001

"Now, Andrews Air Force Base is a huge installation. It's home to Air Force One, the President's plane. It's home base for two combat-ready squadrons of jet interceptors mandated to ensure the safety of the U.S. capital. Andrews is only 12 miles from the White House. On September 11th the squadrons there were: The 121st Fighter Squadron of the 113th Fighter Wing, equipped with F-16s The 321st Marine Fighter Attack Squadron of the 49th Marine Air Group, Detachment A, equipped with F/A-18s. This information was on the Web site of the base on September 11th. On September 12th, Andrews chose to update its Web site. I find it odd that after the update there's no mention of the F-16 and F-18 fighters. The base becomes, according to the website, home to a transport squadron only. Yet at 6:30 the evening of September 11th NBC Nightly News, along with many outlets, reported: 'It was after the attack on the Pentagon that the Air Force then decided to scramble F-16s out of the DC National Guard Andrews Air Force Base to fly … a protective cover over Washington, D.C.' Throughout the northeastern United States are many air bases. But that morning no interceptors respond in a timely fashion to the highest alert situation. This includes the Andrews squadrons which have the longest lead time and are 12 miles from the White House. Whatever the explanation for the huge failure, there have been no reports, to my knowledge, of reprimands. This further weakens the 'Incompetence Theory.' Incompetence usually earns reprimands. This causes me to ask - and other media need to ask - if there were 'stand down' orders."
'What really happened on Sept. 11th?'
Barrie Zwicker, Straight Goods, 27 January 2002

"There remains one question to ask about Sept. 11. What happened?... Marine Corps Maj. Mike Snyder, a spokesman for NORAD, echoed Myers in a Sept. 15 Boston Globe story, which stated: '[T]he command did not immediately scramble any fighters even though it was alerted to a hijacking 10 minutes before the first plane… slammed into the first World Trade Center tower... The spokesman said the fighters remained on the ground until after the Pentagon was hit...' U.S. inaction was all the more astonishing because the same story had Snyder admitting that 'fighters routinely intercept aircraft.' So why were no fighters dispatched to intercept planes on an extraordinary day like Sept. 11?.... Happily, the war against the Taliban managed to push these questions out of the papers. For now."
Scrambled Messages
New York Press, 12 Dec 2001

"Tony Blair has no plans to change [post Sept 11] the chain of command system under which he has to give personal authorisation to the RAF to shoot down a hijacked commercial airliner threatening London or other British cities, a government source said yesterday.... The chain of command in Britain for a decision requiring prime ministerial authorisation in the event of a hijacked airliner would involve a four-stage process, but officials emphasised that Mr Blair would be in a position to make a judgement in a matter of minutes... Tornado air crews on highest readiness for defending British airspace from 'enemy' aircraft can take off within five to ten minutes of being scrambled and would already be in the air, heading for the hijacked plane, by the time Mr Hoon was in touch with the Prime Minister. The government source said the Prime Minister was always instantly contactable under the special communications system wherever he was, at home or overseas. An RAF source said that even if an airliner was hijacked at Heathrow and then turned east towards London, there would still be time to act...."
Blair Controls Response to Hijack
London Times, 29 Sept 2001

"Generally it is impossible to carry out an act of terror on the scenario which was used in the USA yesterday. We had such facts too.  As soon as something like that happens here, I am reported about that right away and in a minute we are all up.”
Commander-in-Chief of Russian Airforce, Anatoli Kornukov
Pravda online: 18:50 2001-09-12

"Terrorists could not have carried out such an operation [as on Sept 11] with 4 hijacked planes without the support of a secret service."
Horst Ehmke, former coordinator of West German secret services
"Euro Intel Experts Dismiss 'War On Terrorism' As Deception"
American Free Press - 4 Dec 2001

"Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, a strategic ally in America's war against terrorism, said in an interview he does not believe that Osama bin Laden planned the Sept. 11 attacks against the United States.... Speaking of bin Laden, Musharraf said in the interview: He was perhaps the sponsor, the financier, the motivating force. But those who executed it were much more modern. 'They knew the U.S., they knew aviation. I don't think he has the intelligence or the minute planning. The planner was someone else.' Musharraf does not say who he thinks was behind the attacks."
Musharraf: bin Laden didn't plan 9/11
Toronto Star, 5 Aug 2002

"For 60 decisive minutes, the military and intelligence agencies let the fighter planes stay on the ground...With the help of the horrifying attacks, the Western mass democracies were subjected to brainwashing... Even investigative journalists are fed propaganda and disinformation... I know a lot of people, including very influential ones, who agree with me, but only in whispers, never publicly... Where this all comes together, the American intelligence services are not far away..."
Former German Minister of Technology, Andreas von Buelow
Interview with German daily 'Tagesspiegel,' 13 Jan 2002

"New evidence linking the owner of the Venice, Florida, flight school that trained Mohamed Atta to the Central Intelligence Agency surfaced last month. The new evidence adds to existing indications that Mohamed Atta and his terrorist cadre's flight training in this country was part of a so-far unacknowledged U.S. government intelligence operation which had ultimately tragic consequences for thousands of civilians on September 11. Far from merely being negligent or asleep at the switch—the thrust so far of allegations expected to be aired at joint Senate and House Select Committee hearings this month—the accumulating evidence suggests the CIA was not just aware of the thousands of Arab student pilots who began pouring into this country several years ago to attend flight training, but was running the operation for still-unexplained reasons."
The Enron-Cheney-Taliban Connection?
Ron Callari, Albion Monitor
February 28, 2002

President Roosevelt had foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor and let it happen - click here
What Did Britain Know About 911? - 28 Aug 2002
Did Sept 11 victims die for Enron? - 8 March 2002

A: Collapsing US Economy Can't Face Increasing Global Competition For Oil and Gas Reserves
B: Afghan War Planned Before Sept 11 - Preparing To Secure Southern Access To Oil and Gas Rich Caspian Sea Region
C: Why Iraq Is The Next Stop
D: Part Of A Long Term Strategy For Global Dominance
E: Vice President In Severe Trouble

A: Collapsing US Economy Can't Face
Increasing Global Competition For Oil and Gas Reserves

This was said infront of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Jan 2001!

"My name is Dr. Debra H. Freeman. I appear before the Committee as the national spokesperson for Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., to voice the strongest possible opposition to the nomination of John Ashcroft as the next Attorney General of the United States. My opposition to Mr. Ashcroft's confirmation is shaped by two considerations that go beyond the normal factors that one would weigh, in considering a candidate for the top law enforcement post in the U.S. Federal Executive Branch......the epicenter of the current phase of global monetary and physical economic disintegration is the advanced sector, specifically the United States, with our skyrocketing balance of trade deficit, negative household savings, and collapsing real industrial output. Thus, the crisis phase that we have now entered has the most profound implications for the well-being of the American population and goes to the heart of our domestic tranquility and the common good. .... The incoming Administration will be faced, immediately, with the choice between: (1) abandoning the current economic and monetary policy axioms and returning to policies that, in the past, have led the United States and the world out of the path of disaster, as during the Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt; or, (2) under the guise of 'crisis management,' imposing a form of brutal bureaucratic fascism on the United States, that bears striking similarities to the conditions under which Adolph Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933. It was Hitler's 'crisis management' of the Reichstag fire [These remarks made January 2001 are extremely prescient. Exactly the same principle has been applied to 911, nlpwessex] and other events, real and manufactured, that established the dictatorship that no one in Germany had anticipated, even weeks before the coup was carried out. .... "
TESTIMONY BY DR. DEBRA H. FREEMAN IN OPPOSITION TO THE NOMINATION OF JOHN ASHCROFT TO THE POST OF ATTORNEY GENERAL, AS DELIVERED TO THE SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, JANUARY 16, 2001

"This is about America's energy security. It's also about preventing strategic inroads by those who don't share our values. We're trying to move these newly independent countries toward the west. We would like to see them reliant on western commercial and political interests rather than going another way. We've made a substantial political investment in the Caspian, and it's very important to us that both the pipeline map and the politics come out right."
Bill Richardson 1998, US energy secretary, on US policy on the extraction and transport of Caspian oil
'A discreet deal in the pipeline - Nato mocked those who claimed there was a plan for Caspian oil'
Guardian 15 February 2001

"A new and potentially explosive Great Game is being set up and few in Britain are aware of it. .....It is the large reserves of oil and gas in the Caucasus, notably the Caspian basin. Pipelines are the counters in this new Great Game....There is also a plan, backed by the US, for a pipeline running from the Bulgarian Black sea port of Burgas through Macedonia to the Albanian Adriatic port of Vlore. While the US and Nato - and now the EU - hold out the prospect of untold wealth for the Caucasian states of the former Soviet Union, the west will also have an important economic stake in Albania and Macedonia.....[hence the CIA funding of terrorists in the Balkans- see London Times, 3  September 2001 - nlpwessex]"
'The new Great Game'
London Guardian, 5 March 2001

See also: 'Afghan Pipeline: A New Great Game': BBC News, 4 November 1997

"Now that exploratory drilling has commenced, the biggest question still facing Caspian Sea participants is one of export routes. The geopolitics of the whole region is a serious issue -- it's even the setting and plot device for the latest James Bond movie -- and a great deal of foreign policy is being conducted via these pipelines."
'Explorer' - February 2000

"Dwindling domestic supplies and surging demand could lead to a severe gas shortage within three years, the Department of Trade and Industry warned British consumers yesterday."
Gas shortage in Britain 'due within three years'
London Times, 26 June 2002

President Roosevelt had foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor and let it happen - click here
What Did Britain Know About 911? - 28 Aug 2002
Did Sept 11 victims die for Enron? - 8 March 2002

B: Afghan War Planned Before Sept 11
Preparing To Secure Southern Access to Oil and Gas Rich Caspian Sea Region

"In the Middle East and Southwest Asia, our overall objective is to remain the predominant outside power in the region and preserve U.S. and Western access to the region's oil."
From Pentagon Policy Document as drafted by Wolfowitz and Cheney in 1992 under the first Bush administration
and reported in New York Times, 23 May 1992

"A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taleban even before last week's [Sept 2001] attacks. Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. Mr Naik said US officials told him of the plan at a UN-sponsored international contact group on Afghanistan which took place in Berlin..... The wider objective, according to Mr Naik, would be to topple the Taleban regime and install a transitional government of moderate Afghans in its place - possibly under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir Shah. Mr Naik was told that Washington would launch its operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American advisers were already in place. ....he said it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taleban."
US 'planned attack on Taleban'
BBC Online, 18 September 2001

"Bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, according to The Guardian of London. The warnings to the Taliban originated at a four-day meeting of senior Americans, Russians, Iranians and Pakistanis at a hotel in Berlin in mid-July.... Until August, the U.S. government saw the Taliban regime 'as a source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of an oil pipeline across Central Asia,' from the rich oilfields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean [this was vital to Enron's interests in the region, nlpwessex], they said ....When the Taliban refused to accept U.S. conditions, 'this rationale of energy security changed into a military one.' 'The Americans indicated to us that in case the Taliban does not behave and in case Pakistan also doesn’t help us to influence the Taliban, then the United States would be left with no option but to take an overt action against Afghanistan,' said Niaz Naik, a former foreign minister of Pakistan, who attended the meetings...'At one moment during the negotiations, the U.S. representatives told the Taliban, ‘either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs,’ ' Brisard said in an interview in Paris....."
European Spooks Say Mideast Terrorists Needed State Support
American Free Press, Dec 2001

"President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept.11... The couching of the plans as a formal security directive is significant, Miklaszewski reported, because it indicates that the United States intended a full-scale assault on al-Qaida even if the Sept. 11 attacks had not occurred."
U.S. planned for attack on al-Qaida
NBC NEWS WASHINGTON, May 16

A War in the Planning for Four Years - Click Here

"Mr. Chairman, the Caspian region contains tremendous untapped hydrocarbon reserves......[one] option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges..... From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company.....The 1,040-mile long oil pipeline would extend south through Afghanistan to an export terminal that would be constructed on the Pakistan coast."
U.S. INTERESTS IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS,
HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ASIA AND THE PACIFIC OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 12 February 1998 - evidence by Mr. John J. Maresca, vice president of international relations, Unocal Corporation (US oil company)

"The CPC [Caspian Pipeline Consortium] project also advances my Administration's National Energy Policy by developing a network of multiple Caspian pipelines .... These projects will help diversify U.S. energy supply and enhance our energy security, while supporting global economic growth."
George Bush, White House Press Release, 28 Nov 2001

"In the spring of 1995, Turkmenistan and Pakistan commissioned Bulgheroni's company to study the Afghan route. But that summer, a rival entered the game. John Imle, president of California-based Unocal Corp., wooed Niyazov and Benazir Bhutto, then prime minister of Pakistan, throughout July with a vision of a Unocal pipeline following roughly the same route as the one proposed by Bridas. A Unocal link had strong appeal for Niyazov. Afghanistan was in turmoil. A big American oil company could draw on the political muscle of the United States to promote Turkmenistan's energy interests. In October 1995, both Bulgheroni and Imle followed Niyazov to New York for the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Each expected to be chosen to build the Afghan pipeline, according to sources close to the two men. On Oct. 21, the nod went to the Americans as Niyazov announced the selection of Unocal. Looking on at the announcement ceremony was former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger, now a Unocal consultant."
Gas Pipeline Bounces Between Agendas
Washington Post, 5 October 1998

"Kissinger is today a member of the Pentagon's DefensePolicy Board, appointed at the invitation of its chairman, Richard Perle. Perle is one of the notorious members of Washington's 'Wolfowitz cabal' which is leading the pack for turning the 'war against terrorism' into World War III...."
Kissinger And Other Taliban Apologists Now Lead Drive For War Against Islam
Executive Intelligence Review, 13 Nov 2001

"What probably made the most difference to U.S. policymakers [in welcoming the arrival of the Taliban], though, was the Taliban's commitment to a particular commercial enterprise. The Taliban had promised to permit construction of giant gas and oil pipelines from Central Asia, down through Afghanistan, to Pakistan. The main contender for that work was an American-Saudi coalition of Unocal and Delta oil companies.... It took a while for many in the West to catch on, but inside Afghanistan the key players were already well-aware of the pipeline's importance--and its potential effect on policy. In 1996, during a conversation in Kabul not long before the Taliban reached the capital, Ahmed Shah Massoud asked me about Unocal, its motives, its methods, and its ties to the U.S. government. When the Taliban finally reached the gates of Kabul, it was well-financed and well-equipped--and it could count upon the acquiescence of the United States..... Hours after the Taliban took Kabul in September 1996, State Department spokesman Glyn Davies said the United States could see 'nothing objectionable' about the version of Islamic law the Taliban had imposed in the areas it then controlled...... in one encounter a few months before the Taliban entered Kabul, a mid-level bureaucrat at the State Department perched on his couch and tried to convince me that the Taliban was really not such a bad bunch. 'You get to know them and you find they really have a great sense of humor,' he said. If the administration seemed nonchalant about the Taliban, Unocal was downright gleeful. In a statement to Reuters that the company has worked ever since to retract, a Unocal official applauded the Taliban's arrival and spoke glowingly about the immediate prospects for doing business with the group. Of course, this was hardly surprising, given Unocal's courtship of the Taliban. The company had played host to Taliban clerics on a trip to the United States. Unocal had also hired as 'consultants' key Americans involved in Afghan operations during the jihad years. The former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Robert Oakley, went on the Unocal payroll. A former official of the U.N. secretary-general's mission to Afghanistan, Charles Santos, was given a far more obscure position--he went to work for Unocal's Saudi partner, the firm Delta....."
'The succession: the price of neglecting Afghanistan', Richard Mackenzie.
The New Republic, Sept 14, 1998 v219 n11-12 p23(5)

"Under the influence of U.S. oil companies, the government of George W. Bush initially blocked U.S. secret service investigations on terrorism, while it bargained with the Taliban the delivery of Osama bin Laden in exchange for political recognition and economic aid, two French intelligence analysts claim. In the book "Bin Laden, la verite interdite" ("Bin Laden, the forbidden truth"), that appeared in Paris on Wednesday, the authors, Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie, reveal that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's deputy director John O'Neill resigned in July in protest over the obstruction. The two claim the U.S. government's main objective in Afghanistan was to consolidate the position of the Taliban regime to obtain access to the oil and gas reserves in Central Asia. They affirm that until August, the U.S. government saw the Taliban regime 'as a source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of an oil pipeline across Central Asia', from the rich oilfields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. Until now, says the book, 'the oil and gas reserves of Central Asia have been controlled by Russia. The Bush government wanted to change all that'. But, confronted with Taliban's refusal to accept U.S. conditions, 'this rationale of energy security changed into a military one', the authors claim. 'At one moment during the negotiations, the U.S. representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs',' Brisard said in an interview in Paris....The last meeting between U.S. and Taliban representatives took place in August, five weeks before the attacks on New York and Washington, the analysts maintain.....Bush's family has a strong oil background. So are some of his top aides. From the U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, through the director of the National Security Council Condoleeza Rice, to the Ministers of Commerce and Energy, Donald Evans and Stanley Abraham, all have for long worked for U.S. oil companies. Cheney was until the end of last year president of Halliburton, a company that provides services for oil industry; Rice was between 1991 and 2000 manager for Chevron; Evans and Abraham worked for Tom Brown, another oil giant.... The book confirms earlier reports that the U.S. government worked closely with the United Nations during the negotiations with the Taliban.....These meetings, also called '6+2' because of the number of states (six neighbours plus U.S. and Russia) involved, have been confirmed by Naif Naik, former Pakistani Minister for Foreign Affairs. In a French television news programme two weeks ago, Naik said during a '6+2' meeting in Berlin in July, the discussions turned around 'the formation of a government of national unity. If the Taliban had accepted this coalition, they would have immediately received international economic aid. And the pipe lines from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan would have come,' he added. Naik also claimed that Tom Simons, the U.S. representative at these meetings, openly threatened the Taliban and Pakistan. 'Simons said, 'either the Taliban behave as they ought to, or Pakistan convinces them to do so, or we will use another option'. The words Simons used were 'a military operation'," Naik claimed.".
U.S. Policy Towards Taliban Influenced by Oil - Say Authors
Inter Press Service, 15 November 2001

"If USA actions in Afghanistan would be successful and Taliban regime will be replaced with new leaders the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline (previously promoted by Unocal) c