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[Translation of BND Report on September 11, 2001]


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Background Report on 9/11/2001


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On Monday 6, August, 2001, at 17:50, [German] Ambassador Ischinger
personally notified the President of the United States that
information developed by the Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz [German
domestic secret service] as well as the BND [Bundesnachreichtendienst,
German foreign
secret service] indicated that an attack by a radical Arab group
partially based in Germany was to occur on 10-11 September, 2001. The
President
was at that time in residence at his farm in Texas. Our [the German's]
Ambassador was acting in direct response to instructions from Foreign
Minister Fischer.


This information was developed from official surveillance of Arab
extremist groups operating in the Federal Republic as well as from
intercepted communications between the Embassy of Israel and the
Israeli Foreign Ministry in Tel Aviv concerning this matter.


The information was "gratefully received" by the US President who
stated at the time that he was also aware of the same pending
assaults.


Subsequent to these attacks, the office of the US President, through
the US Department of State, made an urgent request to the government
of the Federal Republic of Germany that no reference whatsoever should
be made to the official warnings given by Ambassador Ischinger.


In order to clarify the background of this matter, this
Gesamtubersicht
[overall survey] of the events leading to the assault was prepared,
basing on extracts of reports from our [BND's] foreign stations.


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Overall, it is evident that the American authorities were aware of
the pending attacks. Why they did nothing, is explained in the
following.


Background: General Overview


Because of the Bush family's involvement in oil (Zapata Oil Company),
many important and wealthy individuals and corporations with oil
interests financially supported the Bush political career. Today,
the Bush administration is therefore strongly influenced by major
American business groups.


The candidate for American Vice President, Richard "*****" Cheney,
had been the Chief Director of the Halliburton Company. This company,
based in Dallas, Texas, where Bush was Governor, is the largest oil
service company in the world.


Between 1991 and 1997, such important American oil companies as
Texaco, Unocal, Shell, BP Amoco, Chevron and Exxon-Mobil became
involved with the former Soviet state of Kazakhstan who holds
enormous oil reserves. The government of Kazakhstan was eventually
paid over $3 billions of corporate money to allow these companies to
secure oil rights. At the same time, these companies agreed further
to give the sums of 35 billion US Dollar in investments in plant and
equipment to the Kazakhstan projects. A confidential project report
of said US firms announced that the gas and oil reserves in Kazakhstan
would amount to 4 trillion US Dollar.


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The United States is not self-sufficient in oil and 50% of their
supply is imported from various foreign sources. Some 80% of oil
imported to the US comes from OPEC-Countries, the Arabian oil cartel.
Because of the unconditional support by American political leaders
of the state of Israel, these Arab governments have a very strained
relationship with the USA.


A further small percentage of oil imported to the US comes from
Venezuela.
Just recently, the US government has been attempting to overthrow the
government of Chavez with the help of the CIA and replace it with a
government "more sympathetic to American oil needs."


A position paper prepared by the office of the later-Vice President
Cheney states that the Kazakhstan oil reserves would be "more than
sufficient to supply US needs for at least a decade" and would further
"reduce American dependence on OPEC."


Unocal Oil Company signed an agreement with the reigning Taliban
forces
as well as their opponents, the Northern Alliance, in order to permit
an oil pipeline to be built through Afghanistan direct through
Pakistan
to the Indian Ocean. by this, the exorbitant rates charged by the
Russian
to use their pipelines would be avoided. Unocal then opened official
offices in Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to
facilitate
the construction of this oil pipeline.


In December of 1997, official Taliban representatives were in the
United
States to attend a conference at Unocal headquarters in Texas to
discuss
the


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Afghanistan pipeline. These talks failed because the Taliban made what
Unocal felt were excessive financial demands.


In 1998, internal strife in Afghanistan and inherent instability in
Pakistan reached such levels as to render the pipeline project
impossible
to execute.


In the same year, the Houston, Texas based firm of Enron suggested
instead
to build a $3 billion oil pipeline parallel to the Russian pipelines,
running westwards rather than taking the shorter but more problematic
route south.


In a secret memorandum by Cheney, it is stated that the Unocal company
was prepared to finance the southern route. According to this, this
project would take five years to complete and its annual revenues from
the successful completion of this pipeline would approximate $2
billions. however, and this had been the subject of a number of secret
American
reports, the only thing standing in the way of the construction of the
pipeline was the basic opposition of the Afghanistan government and
its political supporters.


On May 8, 2001, the US Department of State, in the name of Secretary
of State Powell, gave 43 million US Dollars to the Taliban in order to
facilitate their cooperation in the pipeline project.


On June 10, 2001, the BND warned the CIA office in the US Embassy to
the
Federal Republic [of Germany] that certain Arab terrorists were
planning
to seize American commercial aircraft for use as weapons of
destruction
against


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significant American symbols. This was considered a general warning
only.
The Federal Republic's warning of August 6, however, was specific as
to date, time and places of the attacks.


On July 11, 2001, in Berlin, US officials: Thomas Simmons, a former
American Ambassador to Pakistan, Lee Coldren, State Department expert
on Asian matters, and Karl Inderfurth, Assistant Secretary of State
for Asian matter met with Russian and Pakistani intelligence officers.
At this meeting, which was under surveillance, it was stated by the
Americans that the United States planned to launch military strikes
against Afghanistan in October of that year. The purpose of these
strikes
was to topple the Afghanistan government and the Taliban in order to
replace it with a government "more sensitive to the needs of American
oil interests."


In mid-August 2001, President of the Russian Federation Putin ordered
that the American authorities be warned of pending attacks on
government buildings inside the United States. This warning was
conveyed to the US Ambassador in Moscow and via the Russian
Ambassadors office directly to
the US President.


On August 20, the Government of France, through the American Embassy
in Paris and their Embassy in Washington, issued a more specific
warning.
This warning specified the exact date, time and places of the attacks.


On September 11, President Bush and top aides flew to the state of
Florida so that the President could speak with children in


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a kindergarten. Also at that time, Vice President Cheney absented
himself from Washington and went to the safety of the Presidential
compound in the mountains of Maryland.


It was noted in Washington that Cheney remained sequestered in
Maryland
for some time and only appeared in public surrounded by heavy
security.


The role of the Israeli Mossad in the terrorist attacks


Note: The following two sections are considered to be extremely
sensitive
due to the special relationship between the Federal Republic [of
Germany]
and its Jewish citizens as well as the State of Israel. This material
is compiled from German and American sources.


During the term of President George HW Bush, the government of Israel
made an official, but very secret, request to the American president.
This request was to permit agents of the Mossad, Israeli Foreign
Intelligence, to enter the United States and conduct surveillance
operations against various Arab groups residing in that country.


The stated purpose of this surveillance was to permit Israeli early
warning of terrorist plots against their country. Permission for this
surveillance was granted with the caveat that the Mossad would have a
liaison with the FBI and report any and all finding to that agency.


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However, these conditions were not observed. The Mossad not only did
not inform the FBI of any of its findings, it is known to have engaged
in commerce with several groups of Israeli criminals of Russian
backgrounds. These groups were engaged in extensive criminal
activities
inside the United States, to include the smuggling of the Ecstasy
drug.
Mossad agents were able to subvert American criminal investigations
through their knowledge of American telephone surveillance of such
groups.


It is very evident from surveillance conducted against Mossad agents
in the Federal Republic as well as interceptions of Israeli diplomatic
communication from the Federal Republic to Tel Aviv, that the Mossad
has successfully penetrated various extremist Arab groups in both the
Federal Republic and the United States.


These investigations disclosed in late May of 2001 that an attack was
to be made against certain specified targets in the American cities of
Washington and New York. But it was apparent that the Mossad was not
only fully aware of these attacks well in advance but actually, though
their own agents inside these Arab groups, assisted in the planning
and the eventual execution of the attacks.


That the Israeli government was fully aware of these attack is
absolutely
certain and proven. Diplomatic traffic between the Israeli Embassy in
the
Federal Republic and the Israeli Foreign Office made it very clear
that
Minister President Sharon was fully aware


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of this pending attack and urgently wished that no attempt was made to
prevent the attacks.


Although the Israeli officials were instructed to warn the American
intelligence community that some kind of an attack might be possible,
at no time were the specific dates and targets (known at that time
to Israeli officials) to be given to the Americans.


The rationale for this attitude was expressed in a conversation on
August 1, 2001, between the Israeli Military Attaché in the Federal
Republic to a member of the Israeli General Staff. There it was stated
that Israel believed an attack on the continental United States would
so inflame American public opinion that they would permit Israel to
"cleanse" their state of "Arab terrorists and those who support such
terrorists". This "cleansing" was explained as the expulsion of all
Arabs, and even Christian groups, from the Palestine area.


American intelligence officials have repeatedly expressed great
concern
in meeting with our people that the Israeli government, through a
company called Amdocs, was able to conduct surveillance of all
telephone
communications within the United States. It was categorically stated
that this Israeli-based firm was given the American contract with 25
of the largest American telephone companies. This contract was granted
over the objections and concerns of the American intelligence
community.


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The official reason given for this extraordinary arrangement that
permitted Israeli agencies to observe all highly confidential
investigative telephone calls was that the United States has a
"special relationship" with the State of Israel and they had requested
this.


The Israeli Political Influence in the United State


It should be noted here that the professional Israeli lobby in America
is huge in size and is considered even by our American colleagues to
be a very powerful and entirely dominant factor in American politics.


The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is the largest foreign
lobby in Washington and fourth most powerful lobby in the country.
Other Israeli groups also include the Anti-Defamation League (from
whose national offices, along with the Israel Trade Mission and the
many Israeli Consulates, many Mossad agents were working,) the Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs and the Committee for Accuracy
in Middle East Reporting in America. These groups, in conjunction with
Jewish dominated media giants like the New York Times, the Washington
Post, Newsweek Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Time-Warner-AOL and
their CNN
news network, basically control the dissemination of news in the
United
States.


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It is therefore almost impossible for any news that would be
considered
in opposition to Israeli interests to appear before the American
public, although such stories are readily available in most European
media.


The Role of the Christian Fundamentalists in American Politics


The so-called "Christian Right" consists of Protestant
fundamentalists,
where the so-called Pentecostals play a dominant role. This is a very
fanatical and aggressively missionary denomination that believes in
the return of a living Christ to earth and the subsequent elevation
of its members to heavenly paradise.


In order for this appearance of Christ to occur, several factors must
be in place according to the views of this denomination. In the first
place, a number of Jews must convert to Christianity, and, in the
second, there must be a rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
As the site of this temple is now occupied by a major Islamic mosque,
it will be necessary to destroy this building.


Starting as an Episcopalian, Bush tried other Protestant denominations
before joining the Pentecostals. Apart from US President Bush and his
Attorney General John Ashcroft, other members of his administration
are members of this denomination, too, which is the second largest
Christian denomination after the Catholic Church. As a considerable


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part of the American public sentiment is strongly opposed to religious
fanatics, these facts have been kept very quiet.


Bush and his entourage are very strong supporters of the State of
Israel
because of their belief, that the founding of this nation is viewed as
another requirement for the return of Christ. For this reason, Bush
unconditionally supports any program put forward by the Israeli
government and is a devoted follower and supporter of Sharon, the
Israeli right wing extremist Minister President.


Attorney General Ashcroft has stated in a public sermon (he is a lay
preacher of the Pentecostal church) that Muslims are "agents of the
Anti-Christ" and must be destroyed in the so-called "Battle of
Armageddon". According to the beliefs of fundamentalist Christians,
this battle will
be fought over Israel's existence and will lead to the end of the
world
and the return of Christ.


It is generally known in Washington that Bush is entirely guided by
his
religious beliefs and that he has been attempting repeatedly to force
his views onto the American public by means of various disguised
programs,
such as religious control of charities, unconditional support of
Israel,
and so forth.


Summary and Outlook


The terrorist attacks on American targets were fully known to many
entities well in advance. The US President was fully informed as to
the


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nature and exact time of these attacks.


The US government in general and the US President in specific have
become
subservient to the wishes and plans of the Israeli government. As
these
plans encompass the removal of the Arab population of Israel and
adjoining
territories, it is evident that the population of the United States if
being pushed into a situation that could easily result in more, and
terrible, attacks on their home country.


In view of this possibility, the US authorities are determined to
limit
any discussion of the 11 September attacks to the official version as
it appears regularly in the US media.


It also appears from confidential sources that Bush's plans to attack
Iraq are based mainly on a desire on the part of Israel to remove
Saddam Hussein. Tel Aviv views Hussein as a real threat and has
already attack that country before.


There is also evidence that if Hussein is toppled by American military
forces, the oil resources of Iraq would be put under the control of a
consortium of the American oil interests that so avidly support the
Bush administration.


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