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Americans enduring the War of Terrorism are paying the price for
having been dumbed-down

by Jim Marrs

=C2=A0 American prisons are overflowing with drug offenders.

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.=E2=80=9D --
Philosopher George Santayana

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant
facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a
nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood
in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." --
President John F. Kennedy

Americans are now beginning to pay the price for sleeping through
history classes, ignoring important information in the alternative
media and neglecting to participate in their own political process.

They find themselves in a new war --- the "War on Terrorism". This is
a war they never asked for and never envisioned, anesthetised as we
all are by the flickering tube of distraction. It is a war predicated
on the premise that a sneak attack was made on the United States
September 11, 2001.

Unlike previous wars, there is no Berlin or Tokyo to capture and
hence, no victory to be won, except for those who profit from war. The
real victims of this war will be the average American citizen, right
along with the starving Afghan.

This new War might well be compared to the failed "War on Drugs" and
the nearly forgotten 'War on Poverty'. No clear victory has yet been
achieved over the misuse of drugs or the ravages of poverty within our
own nation. Our prisons are overflowing with drug offenders with no
appreciable lessening of either demand or supply and our basic civil
rights have been badly mauled.

Just like those failed campaigns, the War on Terrorism for the
foreseeable future will set us all on a costly course of restrictions
on individual freedom, ever more centralized authority and omnipresent
fear.

=C2=A0 Capitalism is Not Democracy is a book for further reading on this
subject.

And where are the voices of those who would argue the merits of this
new War? The airwaves and newspapers only ratchet the fear factor
upwards each day with little or no effort to hear the many thoughtful
Americans who are asking themselves, =E2=80=9CDo I really need to give up=

freedoms in order to save them?=E2=80=9D

So with flags flying on the antennae of our gas-guzzling vehicles and
love of country pulsing in our hearts, we march off to yet another war
for oil.

Wars For Oil

Yes, oil. Petroleum has been behind all recent wars, beginning in the
early 1940's, when a mostly rural and isolationist America was
suddenly thrown into a world war as a reaction to the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor. Americans mourned the loss of some 3,000 soldiers and
civilians in Hawaii and, in righteous indignation, allowed their
country to be turned into a giant military camp.

The U.S. federal government, which had consolidated so much power unto
itself under the Depression-busting policies of President Franklin
Roosevelt, grew even stronger and more centralized under the aegis of
=E2=80=9Cnational security=E2=80=9D. It all seemed quite natural and nece=

time.

But serious students of history now know that even that =E2=80=9Cgood war=

the result of machinations by a handful of wealthy and powerful men.
By closing off Japan=E2=80=99s oil supplies in the summer of 1941, Roosev=

the quintessential Wall Street insider, ensured an eventual attack on
the United States. It has now been well established that Roosevelt and
a few close advisers knew full well that Pearl Harbor would be
attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, but chose to allow it to happen to further
their agenda for launching American into war.

The Vietnam War was prosecuted by men who were close to Roosevelt and
the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) who had long voiced a desire to
gain control over Indochina=E2=80=99s oil, magnesium and rubber assets. A=

a provocation was created. In August, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson
whipped Congress into a frenzy claiming that North Vietnamese gunboats
had attacked the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast
of Vietnam. =E2=80=9COur boys are floating in the water,=E2=80=9D he crie=

responded by passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which bypassed the
Constitution and gave Johnson the power to wage war to stop attacks on
Americans. It was the beginning of the real shooting Vietnam War.

And it was all a lie. No evidence has ever been brought forward that
such an attack took place. In fact, editors for U.S. News & World
Report (July 23, 1984) called it =E2=80=9CThe =E2=80=98Phantom Battle=E2=

War.=E2=80=9D

While America was waging war against North Vietnam, which we were told
was merely a puppet of communist Russia and China, Johnson was
encouraged by his CFR advisers to grant the Soviet Union loans at
higher levels than offered during World War II when they were our
ally. US-backed loans provided Russia with the means to build
facilities which turned out war materials that were then sent to North
Vietnam for use against American troops. This was a good example of
the duplicity of our modern wars.

The Gulf War was all about oil, from the wells in Kuwait slant
drilling into Iraq=E2=80=99s southern reserves to the destruction of the =

fields at its finish. Here we found a new Hitler in Saddam Hussein, an
enemy armed and financed by the CIA, an agency whose top officials
have long been connected to oil men CFR members and other
"Globalists".

Saddam Hussein, strapped for cash due to his eight-year war against
Iran on behalf of the US, decided to regain Kuwait as a means of
increasing his income. Kuwait had been carved out of southern Iraqi by
British troops. When asked her thoughts on this move, U.S. Ambassador
April Glaspie replied that the US government had =E2=80=9Cno opinion=E2=

matter and that the matter of Kuwait was not associated with America.
But when he moved his troops into Kuwait, Bush mobilized a United
Nations force against him, backed by a $4 billion secret fund provided
by his business associates in Saudi Arabia.

Yet, as those patriotic soldiers closed in on Saddam, the whole war
stopped and George H. W. Bush=E2=80=99s old business partner is still in
power. It appears to have been yet another provocation. And as in
Vietnam, even as we prepared to fight against Saddam, the American
taxpayers backed $500 million in loans that he used to purchase arms
for use against our forces.

Caspian Sea Oil Coveted

Today the real issue is the rich oil reserves of the Caspian Sea
region, the prize sought by Hitler whose drive to that area was
stopped only by the tenacious Russian defence of the Volga River city
of Stalingrad.

In the late 1970's, with the Soviet discovery of vast untapped oil in
Chechnya, the region was ripe for exploitation but control over
Afghanistan was needed to ensure the safety of a pipeline to bring the
oil to world markets. But after almost 10 years of brutal, no-quarter
fighting against Afghans and Arab mercenaries backed by the United
States, including Osama bin Laden, the Soviets were forced to
withdraw. The economic stress of this Russo-Afghan War was enough to
topple communism in the early 1990's.

Now the international bankers and oilmen have a foothold in cash-
strapped Russia and the estimated $40 billion in Caspian Sea oil is
again attracting serious attention. In 1997, six international
companies and the Government of Turkmenistan formed Central Asian Gas
Pipeline, Ltd. (CentGas) to build a 790-mile-long pipeline to Pakistan
and perhaps on to the New Delhi area of India.

Leading this consortium was Unocal Corporation, whose president, John
F. Imle, Jr., said the project would be =E2=80=9Cthe foundation for a new
commerce corridor for the region - often referred to as the Silk Road
for the 21st Century.=E2=80=9D

But problems developed with the fundamentalist Muslim government in
Afghanistan, not the least of which was the Taliban government=E2=80=99s
treatment of women which prompted feminist demonstrations against
firms seeking to do business there. Additionally, the Taliban regime
was creating chaotic conditions by pitting the various Islamic sects
against each other in order to maintain control. In the mid-1999,
Unacol withdrew from the pipeline consortium, citing the hazardous
political situation and the project languished.

Notice that in President Bush=E2=80=99s declaration of "War on Terrorism"=

never mentioned terrorists in Northern Ireland or the Palestinian
suicide bombers. Attention was only focused on Afghanistan, the one
nation necessary to complete the lucrative pipeline. It should also be
noted that Vice President ***** Cheney headed Halliburton, a giant oil
industry service company and is generally thought to be more powerful
than the president.

Today it can be demonstrated that military action against Afghanistan
has been in the works long before the Sept. 11 attacks.

Afghan action planned long ago

As reported by BBC=E2=80=99s George Arney, former Pakistani Foreign Secre=

Niaz Naik was alerted by American officials in mid-July that military
action against Afghanistan would be launched by mid-October. At a UN-
sponsored meeting concerning Afghanistan in Berlin, Naik was informed
that unless bin Laden was handed over, America would take military
action to either kill or capture both him and Taliban leader Mullah
Omar as the initial step in installing a new government there.

It should be noted, however, that American intervention in Afghanistan
began years ago, at least six months prior to the Soviet invasion in
December, 1979.

In a 1998 interview with former National Security Adviser Zbigniew
Brzezinski in the French publication Le Nouvel Observateur, the
significant portions of which never made it to the United States, he
admitted that American activities in Afghanistan actually began six
months prior to the Soviet action.

Mr. Brzezinski said the Jimmy Carter administration began secretly
funding opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul in July of 1979
with the full knowledge such action might provoke a Soviet invasion.
Soviet leaders at the time argued the invasion was necessary to thwart
American aggression in Afghanistan. The former national security
advisor, who helped found the Globalist Trilateral
Commission,expressed no regret at this provocation, stating, =E2=80=9CThat
secret operation was an excellent idea. It=E2=80=A6brought about the
demoralization and finally the break-up of the Soviet empire.=E2=80=9D It=

produced the Taliban regime which we are fighting today, as well as
Osama bin Laden.

By 1984, with Vice President George H. W. Bush overseeing the Afghan
situation, bin Laden was in charge of the Maktab al-Khidamir (MAK)
which funnelled money, arms and manpower from the outside world into
the war against the Soviets. He soon helped form a polyglot formation
of Arabic troops from Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestinian
refugee camps, whom the CIA found easier to deal with than the Muslim
fundamentalists in Afghanistan.

There should be considerable soul-searching about America=E2=80=99s role =

arming and training an international group of Muslim extremists in
Afghanistan long after their comrades destroyed the Marine barracks in
Beruit and hijacked numerous airliners.

Little noticed in the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks were reports that
China had signed a pact with the Afghans and was quietly inducted into
the controversial World Trade Organization, action which under normal
circumstances would have drawn widespread protest. Although such a
pact is unconfirmed at this time, Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf,
chairman of their joint chiefs and chief of the Pakistani Army Staff,
this years visited China at their request and discussed matters of
mutual interest.

Although, it is claimed that Pakistan is aiding the U.S. in the
current War Against Terrorism, the State Department=E2=80=99s coordinator=

counterterrorism, Michael Sheehan, told a Senate Foreign Relations
subcommittee that Pakistan supports and trains terrorist groups in
Afghanistan

This raises the spectre of Chinese intervention should US forces
become bogged down in mountainous Afghanistan. This prospect is
particularly unsettling as back in 1555, the French prophet
Nostradamus, who has been proven correct in so many of his prophecies,
predicted that America and Russia would go to war against a coalition
made up of Arab nations and China. Until just recently, such a notion
seemed absurd.

Would Americans attack Americans

The WTC/Pentagon attacks provided a convenient excuse to launch the
pre-laid plans for military action against Afghanistan. But were they
simply allowed to happen or were they contrived? The question becomes:
Would any American allow an attack on fellow Americans just to further
his own business or political agenda?

The answer, unfortunately, appears to be =E2=80=9CYes.=E2=80=9D

Incredibly, 40-year-old government documents thought to have been
destroyed long ago recently were made public show the U.S. military in
the early 1960's proposed making terrorist attacks in the United
States and blaming them on Fidel Castro.

These documents are discussed in a recent book on the National
Security Agency (NSA) entitled Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-
Secret National Security Agency by James Bamford.

These documents were produced beginning in late 1961 following the ill-
fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba that spring. President John F.
Kennedy, angered by the inept actions of the CIA, had shifted
responsibility for Cuba from that agency to the U.S. Department of
Defense. Here, military strategists considered plans to create
terrorist actions which would alarm the American population and
stampede them into supporting a military attack on Cuba.

Under consideration in =E2=80=9COperation Northwoods=E2=80=9D were plans:=

=E2=80=9Ca series of well-coordinated incidents=E2=80=9D in or around the=

Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to include inciting riots, blowing up
ammunition stores, aircraft and ships.

--. To =E2=80=9Cdevelop a Communist Cuba terror campaign in the Miami are=

other Florida cities and even in Washington.=E2=80=9D

-- To =E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6sink a boatload of Cubans en route to Florida (re=

simulated)..foster attempts on the lives of Cuban refugees in the
United States=E2=80=A6=E2=80=9D

-- To explode bombs in carefully chosen locations along with the
release of =E2=80=9Cprepared documents=E2=80=9D pointing to Cuban complic=

-- To use fake Russian aircraft to harass civilian airliners.

-- To make =E2=80=9CHijacking attempts against civil air and surface craf=

even to simulating the shooting down of a civilian airliner.

Then U.S. President Kennedy rejected Operation Northwoods and senior
military officers had ordered the documents destroyed. But someone
slipped up and the papers were discovered by the Assassination Records
Review Board and recently released by the U.S. National Archives.

More recently, according to the New York Times (October 28, 1993), an
informant named Emad Salem early in 1993 was involved with Middle
Eastern terrorists connected to Osama bin Laden to develop a bomb for
use against New York=E2=80=99s World Trade Center. Salem, a former Egypti=

Army officer, wanted to substitute a harmless powder for the explosive
but his plan to thwart the attack was blocked by an FBI official who
apparently did not want to expose the inside informant. The attack was
allowed to proceed.

The February 26 explosion in the WTC resulted in six deaths, more than
1,000 casualties and damage in excess of half billion dollars.

We now see that creating crises to further political goals is a
methodology well understood and utilized in the 20th century. Is this
the game today?

Let=E2=80=99s examine the Sept. 11 attack.

Questions over 9/11

Superficially, it all seemed straightforward enough. According to the
official story, about 19 suicidal Middle Eastern terrorists, their
hearts full of hatred for American freedom and democracy, hijacked
four airliners, crashing two into the twin towers of New York City=E2=80=

World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon. The fourth
reportedly crashed in western Pennsylvania after passengers attempted
to fight the terrorists.

But a series of disturbing questions have arisen. Among them:

-- Why was the US military preparing war plans against Afghanistan
months before the Sept. 11 attacks?

-- Were they just looking for some event to propel the normally
disinterested American public into a war as in the past?

-- How could paper documents incriminating bin Laden be found intact
at the WTC but the plane=E2=80=99s black recording boxes designed to with=

crashes were damaged beyond use? Even days and weeks after the WTC
attack, why were news cameramen prevented from photographing the ruins
from certain angles, as complained about by CBS Correspondent Lou
Young, who asked, =E2=80=9CWhat are they afraid we=E2=80=99re going to se=

-- Why has the NYPD liaison to the FBI been sent packing as a
=E2=80=9Csecurity risk=E2=80=9D as reported in the Oct. 16 New York Times=

security is at risk? The FBI? What is it that the bureau does not want
NYPD to know?

-- How could an obviously sophisticated terrorist plan involving
perhaps as many as 100 persons and in the works for five years escape
the notice of our intelligence services, especially the FBI and CIA?
And why, instead of cashiering those responsible for this intelligence
failure and totally restructuring these agencies, are we doubling
their budgets? Will we now get twice as much failure as before?

-- Why did the South Tower collapse first when it was not as
extensively damaged as the North Tower which burned for almost an hour
and a half before collapsing?

-- Why did many witnesses claim to hear further explosions within the
buildings? And why did the destruction of the WTC towers appear more
like a controlled implosion than a tragic accident?

-- Why did FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledge that the list of
named hijackers might not contain their real names? Doesn=E2=80=99t every=

have to show a photo ID to claim a boarding pass? Where was the normal
security?

-- Why was there a discrepancy of 35 names between the published
passenger lists and the official death toll on all four of the ill-
fated flights? Internet Columnist Gary North reported, =E2=80=9C=E2=80=A6=

names in no instance match the total listed for the number of people
on board.=E2=80=9D Why the discrepancy?

-- As none of these listed passengers had an Arabic-sounding names,
how did the government know which were the hijackers?

-- Why did the seat numbers of the hijackers given by a cell phone
call from Flight Attendant Madeline Amy Sweeney to Boston air traffic
control not match the seats occupied by the men the FBI claimed were
responsible?

-- Since Saudi Arabia=E2=80=99s foreign minister claimed five of the
proclaimed hijackers were not aboard the death planes and in fact are
still alive and a sixth man on that list was reported to be alive and
well in Tunisia, why are these names still on the FBI list?

-- Why were none of the named hijacker=E2=80=99s names on any of the pass=

list? If they all used aliases, how did the FBI identify them so
quickly?

-- Why did one of the named hijackers take luggage on a suicide
flight, then leave it along with an incriminating note in his car at
the airport?

-- As for the overall investigation into the September attacks, by
late October U.S. authorities conceded that most of their promising
leads for finding accomplices and some of their long-held suspicions
about several suspects have unravelled, according to The New York
Times. Since more than 800 people have been arrested and more than
365,000 tips have been received from the public, why has nothing
substantial has been forthcoming in the largest U.S. criminal
investigation in history?

-- Why are none of the nearly 100 people still being sought by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation seen as a major suspect?

-- Why are we bombing Afghanistan when apparently none of the listed
hijackers were Afghans, but instead Arabs from various Middle Eastern
nations? Since Iraq was implicated in the 1993 WTC attack, why are we
not bombing that =E2=80=9Crogue=E2=80=9D nation?

-- Why does the heavy drinking and searching for hookers by some of
the hijackers in Boston, as reported by Reuters New Service, sound
more like mercenaries carousing before a mission than pious religious
fundamentalists about to meet their maker?

-- How did the terrorists obtain top-secret White House and Air Force
One codes and signals, the excuse for hustling President Bush all
across the country on Sept. 11? Was this evidence of an inside job or
was it, as reported by Fox News, evidence that former FBI employee and
double agent Robert Hanssen delivered an updated version of the
purloined computer software Promis to his Russian handlers who passed
it along to bin Laden? Does this software, which was stolen from a US
company during the Reagan Administration by Justice Department
officials under Attorney General Ed Meese, allow outsiders carte
blanch entr=C3=A9e to our top security computers? (Hanssen=E2=80=99s last=

before being arrested as a spy was to upgrade the FBI=E2=80=99s intellige=

computer systems).

-- If United Flight 93 crashed as the result of a struggle between
heroic passengers and the hijackers, why did witnesses tell of a
second plane which followed it down, falling burning debris, no deep
crater and crash wreckage spread over a six-mile area indicative of an
aerial explosion?

-- Why did news outlets describe the throat-cutting and mutilation of
passengers on Flight 93 with box cutters when Time magazine on Sept.
24 reported that one of the passengers called home on a cell phone to
report, =E2=80=9CWe have been hijacked. They are being kind.=E2=80=9D?

As Internet pundit Gary North stated, =E2=80=9CWe need a theory of the
coordinated hijackings that rests on a plausible cause-and-effect
sequence that does not assume the complete failure of both check-in
procedures and the on-board seating procedures on four separate
flights on two separate airlines=E2=80=A6 I don=E2=80=99t see how anyone =

accurate judgment about who was behind the attacks until he has a
plausible explanation of how hijackers got onto the planes and were
not removed.=E2=80=9D

But the federal government aided by a sycophantic mass media did not
allow such rational thinking to interfere with a rush to judgment that
Osama bin Laden was the culprit behind the attacks.

Bin Laden and His Friends

As in the JFK assassination, authorities had a suspect even before
anyone knew for certain what had happened. He was the son of a wealthy
Middle Eastern oil family, Osama bin Laden, who during the Russo-
Afghan War of the 1980s, received arms and financing from the U.S.
Government. Despite the fact that bin Laden has denied any knowledge
of the attack, he was presumed guilty by both the government and the
press. No other interpretation of the attack was allowed in the
corporate mass media.

Bin Laden is a made-to-order enemy, the man reportedly behind the 1993
WTC attack and a fugitive from United States justice for more than a
decade. It has been noted that the government apparently has spent
more time and money chasing Microsoft=E2=80=99s Bill Gates than in captur=

bin Laden.

This may be due to the business connections between our new terrorist
enemy and wealthy American companies.

According to several reports, including Jonathan Beaty and S. C.
Gwynne=E2=80=99s book The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart =

the BCCI (New York: Random House, 1993) and American Free Press
(October 15, 2001), the reincarnation of the Washington newspaper The
Spotlight, Bush family friend James R. Bath used money from Osama bin
Laden=E2=80=99s brother, Salem, to open a partnership with George W. Bush=

Arbusto Energy, a West Texas drilling company. Bush believed the word
=E2=80=9Carbusto=E2=80=9D to mean Bush in Spanish, although it generally =

=E2=80=9Cshrub=E2=80=9D.

According to The Houston Chronicle, Salem bin Laden named Bath his
business representative in Texas shortly after the senior Bush was
named CIA director by appointed President Gerald Ford in 1975.

It was the Bush family, particularly Jeb and Neil, who were involved
in the savings and loan debacle from 1989 to 1993 that cost taxpayers
more than $500 billion.

Through a tangled web of Texas oilmen, wealthy Saudi sheiks and
unscrupulous bankers connected to BCCI, the younger Bush eventually
gained a sizable interest in a new oil company called Harken Energy.
Two months before Saddam Hussein sent Iraqi troops into Kuwait, Bush
sold two-thirds of his Harken stock, netting himself nearly a one
million dollar profit. The stock dropped when the Iraqi invasion
began.

It should be noted that during the Persian Gulf War, it was Binladen
Brothers Construction (now the Binladen Group) that helped build
airfields for US aircraft. The bin Laden brothers were then described
as =E2=80=9Ca good friend of the US government=E2=80=9D.

Later the bin Laden firm continued to be hired to construct an
American air base in Saudi Arabia despite the fact that Osama had
already been blamed for terrorist acts such as the truck bombing of
the Khobar Towers at the Dhahran base which killed 19 Americans. A
WorldNetDaily writer commented, =E2=80=9CSo let=E2=80=99s get this straig=

blows up our facilities, and his family gets the contract for
rebuilding them. Do you get the feeling there is more going on than
meets the eye?=E2=80=9D

Osama=E2=80=99s older brother, Salem, was killed in the strange crash of =

ultralight aircraft in 1988. The single-passenger craft suddenly and
inexplicably veered into high-voltage electric power lines near San
Antonio, Texas. The BCCI bank was closed by federal investigators in
1991 after suffering some $10 billion in losses. BCCI was a Pakistani-
run institution with front companies in the Cayman Islands that used
secret accounts for global money-laundering and was used by U. S.
intelligence to funnel money to bin-Laden and the Mujahideen in
Afghanistan fighting against the Soviet-backed government.

Another close connection between bin Laden and the Bush family is a
$12-billion private international investment firm known as the Carlyle
Group. Although it has removed its web site since the Sept. 11
attacks, it is know that Carlyle directors include former Reagan
Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, former Bush Secretary of State
James Baker and former Reagan aide and GOP operative Richard Darman.
The New York Times reported that former President Bush was allowed to
buy into Carlyle=E2=80=99s investments which involve at least 164 compani=

around the world.

According to the Wall Street Journal (Sept. 28, 2001), =E2=80=9CGeorge H.=

Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin Laden family
business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an international
consulting firm.=E2=80=9D It has been confirmed by the senior Bush=E2=80=

staff that Bush sent a thank you note to the bin Laden family after a
social visit in early 2001.

With such connections and his son as a sitting President of the United
States, the senior Bush=E2=80=99s Carlyle involvement was questioned by L=

Klayman, chairman and general counsel of Judicial Watch, who said,
=E2=80=9CAny foreign government or foreign investor trying to curry favour
with the current Bush Administration is sure to throw business to the
Carlyle Group. And with the former President Bush promoting the firm=E2=

investments abroad, foreign nationals could understandably confuse the
Carlyle Group=E2=80=99s interests with the interests of the United States
government.=E2=80=9D

After detailing some of the Carlyle/bin Laden investments in several
businesses, including aerospace industries, writer Michael C. Ruppert
commented, =E2=80=9CIn other words, Osama bin Laden=E2=80=99s attacks on =

Pentagon, with the resulting massive increase in the US defence
budget, have just made his family a great big pile of money.=E2=80=9D

What makes these business dealings that entangle former and current
American political leaders with Middle Easterners even more suspect
was the announcement that several U.S. firms were being investigated
for short selling stocks just prior to the Sept. 11 attacks.

Selling Stocks short indicated foreknowledge

Short selling of stocks involves the opportunity to gain large profits
by passing shares to a friendly third party, then buying them back
when the price falls. Historically, if this precedes a traumatic
event, it is an indication of foreknowledge. It is widely known that
the CIA uses the Promis software to routinely monitor stock trades as
a possible warning sign of a terrorist attack or suspicious economic
behaviour.

A week after the Sept. 11 attacks, the London Times reported that the
CIA had asked regulators for the Financial Services Authority in
London to investigate the suspicious sales of millions of shares of
stock just prior to the terrorist acts. It was hoped the business
paper trail might lead to the terrorists. The Times said market
regulators in Germany, Japan and the US all had received information
concerning the short selling of insurance, airlines and arms companies
stock , all of which fell sharply in the wake of the attacks.

City of London broker and analyst Richard Crossley noted that someone
sold shares in unusually large quantities beginning three weeks before
the assault on the WTC and Pentagon. He said he took this as evidence
that someone had insider foreknowledge of the attacks.

=E2=80=9CWhat is more awful than he should aim a stiletto blow at the hea=

Western financial markets?,=E2=80=9D he added. =E2=80=9CBut to profit fro=

fail me.=E2=80=9D

The U.S. Government also admitted it was investigating short selling,
which evinced a foreknowledge of the tragedy. There was unusually
heavy trading in airline and insurance stocks several days before
Sept. 11 which essentially bet on a drop in the worth of the stocks.
It was reported by the Interdisciplinary Center, a counter-terrorism
think tank involving former Israeli intelligence officers, that
insiders made nearly $16 million profit by short selling shares in
American and United Airlines, the two airlines that suffered
hijacking, and the investment firm of Morgan Stanley, which occupied
22 floors of the WTC.

Apparently none of the suspicious transactions could be traced to bin
Laden because this news item quietly dropped from sight, leaving many
people wondering if it tracked back to American firms or intelligence
agencies.

According to web writer and former LA policeman Michael C. Ruppert,
these transactions were handled primarily by Deutsche Bank-A. B.
Brown, a firm which until 1998 was chaired by A. B. =E2=80=9CBuzzy=E2=80=

who today is executive director of the CIA.

Besides Krongard, other prominent Americans connected to both the CIA
and Wall Street power include Clark Clifford (who was a key player in
gaining legitimacy for the BCCI), John Foster and Allen Dulles (Allen
oversaw the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion and sat on the Warren
Commission), Bill Casey, David Doherty, George Herbert Walker Bush,
John Deutch, Nora Slatkin and Hank Greenburg.

As detailed in Rule by Secrecy, the CIA historically has been top
heavy with members of the Wall Street elite who desire to advance
their "Globalist" agenda. It also operates a number of front companies
which themselves deal in stocks and bonds. I am absolutely convinced
that the Central Intelligence Agency had complete and perfect
foreknowledge of the attacks, down to the date, time, place and
location,=E2=80=9D Ruppert told OnLine Journal on Oct. 12.

There were other indications of foreknowledge. San Francisco Mayor
Willie Brown stated on that on Sept. 10 he was warned by his personal
=E2=80=9Cairport security=E2=80=9D not to fly the next day., according to=

station KSFO.

More ominous was a piece in the Sept. 28 edition of the Washington
Post stating that officials with the instant messaging firm of Odigo
in New York confirmed that two employees in Israel received text
messages warning of an attack on the WTC two hours before the planes
crashed into the buildings. The firm=E2=80=99s vice president of sales and
marketing, Alex Diamandis said it was possible that the warning was
sent to other Odigo members, but they had not received any reports of
such.

Military forces had been on a heightened state of alert for several
days before the attack and several psychics claimed to have had a
premonition that something was afoot.

Even the Russians got in on the act. Dr. Tatyana Koragina, a senior
research fellow at the Institute of Macroeconomic Researches which is
a part of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, gained
credibility due to her July prediction that an unusual catastrophe
would strike America in late August ruining the economy.

In a Pravda interview, she stated, =E2=80=9CThe US has been chosen as the
object of financial attack because the financial center of the planet
is located there. The effect will be maximal. The strike waves of
economic crisis will spread over the planet=E2=80=A6=E2=80=9D

Following the Sept. 11 attacks, Dr. Koragina was reinterviewed and
asserted the =E2=80=9Cpowerful group=E2=80=9D behind the attacks will mak=

strikes. =E2=80=9CWhen [Americans] understand after the upcoming, new str=

that their government can guarantee them nothing, they will panic -
causing a collapse of their financial system.=E2=80=9D

Asked who was really behind this odious plan, she replied it is not
the 19 terrorists identified by the FBI but rather a larger group
seeking to reshape the world. She said this group of extremely
powerful private persons hold total assets of about $300 trillion and
intend to legitimize their power under a new global government.

Some took Dr. Koragina=E2=80=99s eerily correct predictions as evidence t=

Russia itself may be behind some of the current events. It is a fact
that Russia has backed several state sponsors of terrorists, including
Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, North Korea and Cuba.

Israeli foreknowledge?

But let us not forget the indications that someone in Israel had
foreknowledge of the attacks. And there were questions concerning the
number of Israeli citizens killed in the attacks. The day after, the
Jerusalem Post claimed two Israelis died on the hijacked airplanes and
that 4,000 were missing at the WTC. A week later, a Beirut television
station reported that 4,000 Israeli employees of the WTC were absent
the day of the attack. This information spread across the Internet but
was quickly branded a hoax. On Sept. 19, the Washington Post reported
about 113 Israelis were missing at the WTC and the next day, President
Bush noted more than 130 Israelis were victims. Finally, on Sept. 22,
the New York Times stated =E2=80=9CThere were, in fact, only three Israel=

who had been confirmed as dead: two on the planes and another who had
been visiting the towers on business and who was identified and
buried.=E2=80=9D

Of all the nations of the world, Israel appears to have "profited"
considerably from the events of Sept. 11.

A permanent American military force in the Middle East is now assured,
offering an umbrella of protection to that small nation despite the
anger engendered in Arab states. After Ariel Sharon=E2=80=99s provocative
visit to the Muslim mosque in Jerusalem resulted in widespread
violence by Palestinians, world opinion began to shift away from
uncritical support of Israel. It has been reported that the Bush
Administration was beginning to seriously consider support for a
separate Palestinian state.

The Washington Times on Sept. 10, just 24 hours before the attacks,
ran an article quoting officers of the school as describing the Mossad
as =E2=80=9CWildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target US f=

and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.=E2=80=9D

It is generally known that the Mossad has penetrated every Arab and
Muslim organization and would have had little problem in finding any
number of fanatics to carry out a suicide mission in the belief they
were serving Allah.

Indeed, recent news reports contended that not all of the hijackers
knew their mission would end in death.

Remote Controlled Aircraft

Global Hawk is the name of the latest version of a high-altitude, long-
endurance unmanned air vehicle (UAV), in other words, a unmanned drone
plane that can take off, conduct missions such as photographing
battlefields and land by remote electronic control.

This Buck Rogers equipment made its first operational flight Oct. 7
when it was used for reconnaissance over Afghanistan in preparation
for US air and missile strikes against the Taliban regime.

Following the attacks, the New York Times on Sept. 28 2006 in an
article on increasing air safety, mentioned =E2=80=9Cnew technology, prob=

far in the future, allowing air traffic controllers to land distressed
planes by remote control=E2=80=9D. This made it seem such technology is n=

yet available, yet earlier this year, a former chief of British
Airways suggested that such technology could be used to commandeer an
aircraft from the ground and controlled remotely in the event of a
hijacking.

Alleged Insider Knowledge

Early on, the Bush White House issued a statement stating that
=E2=80=9Ccredible evidence=E2=80=9D showed that the hijackers had access =

secret codes of Air Force One, in which the President fled from
Florida to Louisiana and on to Nebraska. This statement made the
President=E2=80=99s zig-zag journey of 9/11 more like that of a careful a=

prudent commander than a fleeing coward.

White House officials later said this information was untrue, leaving
the public with the question of what else has the Bush people told us
that is untrue, or that the their first statements were true, raising
the possibility that there may have been inside help in obtaining the
codes.

It is certainly true that various agencies knew for some time that
suspected terrorists were operating in the United States.

As early as 1995, it was known within police and military circles and
reported in VFW and American Legion publications that some 5,000
former Iraqi prisoners of war had been allowed in this country by the
Clinton Administration beginning in 1993. Most had worked with the CIA
at one time or another and were allowed in this country to avoid death
at the hands of a vengeful Saddam Hussein.

Many of these men had been with the Iraqi Republican Guard which blew
up the Kuwaiti oil fields at the end of the Gulf War, so they
obviously were trained in explosives.

They were =E2=80=9Cresettled=E2=80=9D in various U.S. cities and where th=

cells. These cities included New York City, Boston, Washington, D. C.,
Miami, New Orleans, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle,
Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Kansas City and
more.

These men participated in fundraising activities for the HAMAS and
Hezballah terrorist chains. They have been connected to Osama bin
Laden through a Cebu City connection in the Philippines, the location
that convicted bomber Terry Nichols visited with his Philippine wife.
At least 12 of these former POWs are believed to have been involved in
the Oklahoma City bombing.

Although this may seem a strange and unreported connection, there is a
wealth of information linking Iraqi operatives to Timothy McVeigh. In
fact the Oct. 29 edition of U.S. News & World Report revealed that
=E2=80=9Ctop Defence officials=E2=80=9D believe McVeigh was acting as an =

Iraq, an astounding development in light of the extent the government
continued to deny any conspiracy other that aid from Terry Nichols.

These same trained soldiers reportedly created a number of clandestine
laboratories to produce biological warfare germs, including anthrax,
bubonic plague, various hemorrhagic fevers and other deadly
combinations.

FBI moves slowly and in wrong direction

In 1996, The FBI finally was moved to action concerning the biological
threat. Ohio microbiologist Larry Wayne Harris had tried to alert the
public to the danger of anthrax being smuggled into the United States
by Muslim extremists but was demonized by the mass media as a
conspiracy buff. In 1998, Harris, along with Nevada microbiologist
William Leavitt, was arrested by the FBI in Las Vegas for possessing
anthrax cultures.

The mass media broadcast this news widely, repeating the government=E2=80=

charge that the men were testing the deadly toxins in preparation for
an attack on New York. These allegations were quietly dropped only a
few days later when it was found that the men possessed a harmless
veterinary anti-anthrax vaccine. They were attempting to find their
own antidote to anthrax, a dangerous disease the government continued
to dismiss in the mid-1990s. (U.S. News & World Report, March 2, 1998
and March 9.)

It is interesting that at that same time, several people were warning
that an anthrax vaccine ordered for all U.S. military personnel was
actually going to be used to spread the disease and provoke a United
Nations takeover once enough U.S. soldiers were incapacitated. It was
claimed that this plan would be set in motion by an emergency blamed
on foreigners which would hasten the use of the vaccine. Several
military persons were brought before a court martial for refusing to
take the vaccine.

And what of Osama bin Laden? What did he have to say about all this?

Don=E2=80=99t look to the corporate mass media to inform you as they have=

agreed not to broadcast anything that might detract from the official
government story, even though it is acknowledged that Bush=E2=80=99s media
denunciations of bin Laden have been more filled with adjectives like
=E2=80=9Cevil=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cevildoer=E2=80=9D than specific evide=

Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAR) noted that on Oct. 10, network
executives representing ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and CNN were involved in a
conference call with National Security Adviser and Council on Foreign
Relations heavyweight Condoleeza Rice. The execs apparently agreed to
limit how and what they broadcast regarding bin Laden or his Al Qaeda
group. Bush people even tried unsuccessfully to have al Jazeera,
called the =E2=80=9CCNN of the Mideast,=E2=80=9D broadcasting from Qatar =

coverage of bin Laden. They were more successful with members of our
Congress, when they threatened to cut off intelligence reports if they
spoke offhand to the media.

The next day, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, already on the
record saying Americans =E2=80=9Cneed to watch what they say,=E2=80=9D ex=

constraint by contacting major newspapers asking that they not print
full transcripts of bin Laden=E2=80=99s interviews.

According to a FAR news release, =E2=80=9CThe point is not that bin Laden=

Al Qaeda deserve =E2=80=98equal time=E2=80=99 on US news broadcasts, but =

troubling for government to shape or influence news content.
Withholding information from the public is hardly patriotic. When the
White House insists that it=E2=80=99s dangerous to report a news event =

entirety=E2=80=9D, alarm bells should go off for journalists and the Amer=

public alike.=E2=80=9D

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About the Author:

A native of Fort Worth, Texas in the United States, Jim Marrs earned a
Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of North
Texas in 1966 and attended Graduate School at Texas Tech in Lubbock
for two years more. He has worked for several Texas newspapers,
including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where beginning in 1968 he
served as police reporter and general assignments reporter covering
stories locally, in Europe and the Middle East. After a leave of
absence to serve with a Fourth Army intelligence unit during the
Vietnam War, he became military and aerospace writer for the newspaper
and an investigative reporter. Since 1980, Mr. Marrs has been a free-
lance writer, author and public relations consultant. He also
published a rural weekly newspaper along with a monthly tourism
tabloid, a cable television show and several videos.

Since 1976, Mr. Marrs has taught a course on the assassination of
President John F. Kennedy at the University of Texas at Arlington. In
1989, his book, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, was published
to critical acclaim and reached the New York Times Paperback Non-
Fiction Best Seller list in mid-February 1992. It became a basis for
the Oliver Stone film JFK. Mr. Marrs served as a chief consultant for
both the film's screenplay and production.

Beginning in 1992, Mr. Marrs spent three years researching and
completing a non-fiction book on a top-secret government program
involving the psychic phenomenon known as remote viewing only to have
it mysteriously cancelled as it was going to press in the summer of
1995. Within two months, the story of military-developed remote
viewing broke nationally in the Washington Post after the CIA held a
press conference revealing the program but putting their own spin on
psychic studies.

In May, 1997, Marrs' in-depth investigation of UFOs, Alien Agenda, was
published by HarperCollins Publishers. Mr. Marrs has been a featured
speaker at a number of national conferences including the Annual
International UFO Congress and the Annual Gulf Breeze UFO Conference.
Publisher's Weekly describedAlien Agenda as "the most entertaining and
complete overview of flying saucers and their crew in years." The
paperback edition was released in mid-1998 and has since become the
best-selling UFO book ever in the United States. Beginning in 2000, he
began teaching a course on UFOs at the University of Texas at
Arlington.

In early 2000, HarperCollins published Rule by Secrecy, which traced
the hidden history that connects modern secret societies to the
Ancient Mysteries. In 2003, his book The War on Freedom probed the
conspiracies of the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath.

An award-winning journalist, Mr. Marrs is listed both in Who's Who in
the World and Who's Who in America. Mr. Marrs has won several writing
and photography awards including the Aviation/Aerospace Writer's
Association's National Writing Award and Newsmaker of the Year Award
from the Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists. In 1993, Mr. Marrs received Freedom Magazine's Human
Rights Leadership Award.

Mr. Marrs has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, CSPAN, the Discovery,
Learning and History Channels, This Morning America, Geraldo, Montell
Williams, Today, Tech TV and The Larry King and Art Bell radio
programs along with numerous national and regional radio and TV shows.
He is a former president of the Press Club of Fort Worth and a current
member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi,
and the Investigative Reporters and Editors.

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