Racism and anti-Semitism should be banned. Europe learned that hate speech, such as Hitler's evil book Mein Kampf, leads to hate actions, such as The Holocaust. It would be great to see African-American leaders become independent of their subservience to the Democrats and take a good hard look at racists like Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, who as President Pro Tempore of the US Senate, once the Democrats organize the US Senate, would be next in line, after the Speaker of the House to become President of the United States. Byrd And Pelosi Put Planet In Peril
My friends, this is an age in which evil is coming very close to
triumphing over good. This is an age in which evil terrorists and
assassins will stop at nothing to achieve those goals.
The following comment from President George W. Bush should be taken
to heart:
"We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a
bitter cost of casualties, defeat a ruthless dictator and liberate
25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and
assassins."
The impending election of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House will
place her next in line to be President of the United States after
Dick Cheney. We cannot let that happen. We must encourage a revolt
in the House of Representatives against the election of Ms. Pelosi,
or any other cut and run character, such as John Murtha, as Speaker
of the House.
We also must encourage a revolt in the United States Senate against
Robert Byrd. Even if we succeed in stopping the election of Pelosi,
or some other cut and run character, like Murtha, as Speaker of the
House there is still a chance that evil terrorists and assassins
might take out that Speaker of the House, because just behind her or
him in line to become President of the United States if Democrats
organize the US Senate would be none other than Robert Byrd.
To prevail in the Senate we need to get Joe Lieberman, or some other
Senator, to caucus with the Republicans, so that the Republicans may
organize the US Senate and choose the President Pro Tempore of the
United States Senate. Please contact Senator Lieberman today.
http://lieberman.senate.gov/contact/
706 Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4041 Voice
(202) 224-9750 Fax
For TTY Call 711
One Constitution Plaza
7th Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
(860) 549-8463 Voice
(800) 225-5605 In CT
(860) 549-8478 Fax
For TTY Call 711
and urge Senator Lieberman to caucus with the Republicans in the US
Senate so that the Republicans may organize the US Senate and so
stop Senator Byrd from becoming third in line to succeed to the
Presidency of the United States. We can recall that Senator
Jeffords, who was elected as a Republican US Senator in Vermont
later decided to caucus with the Democrats, which gave control of
the US Senate to the Democrats not that long ago. Senator Lieberman
was elected as an Independent in 2006.
"AS ELECTED PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE,
ROBERT BYRD IS THIRD IN LINE TO SUCCEED THE PRESIDENT, FEW PEOPLE
REALIZE HOW POWERFUL HE IS" read one of the many internet postings
about Byrd when Democrats previously controlled the US Senate and
elected him as President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate.
Senator Byrd is a `former' Ku Klux Klansman, Here another internet
posting keeps up with Byrd's activities: "October 3, 2002 Robert C.
Byrd was the only Senator in the 100-member chamber to vote against
opening debate on the Iraq question. The Senate has opened debate on
Joint Resolution 46, a resolution authorizing the President to use
whatever force he deems necessary in Iraq or elsewhere. Byrd was
first elected to the Senate in 1958 and has now served for 44
years." Of course Byrd has a long record in such matters.
The vicious extremist notorious anti-Israel former CNN Crossfire
co-host Robert Novak, interviewing Colin Powell, of all people,
quoted
his fellow anti-Israel lunatic Senator Robert Byrd:
"MR. NOVAK: Mr. Secretary, Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the
president pro tem of the Senate, often speaks his mind. He did this
week, and we'll put it up on the screen. He said, "If we expect to
kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us going
beyond doomsday. How long can we afford this?"
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2002/8624.htm
How long could the terrorists afford to continue to be wiped out by
the US government we wonder? Well I guess that question never
occurred
to Byrd or to the online Egyptian newspaper AL-AHRAM which used the
same quote from Byrd. Clearly Byrd hates the idea of wiping out arab
terrorists.
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/576/re74.htm
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Al-Ahram Weekly
Online 7 - 13 March 2002 Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia: "If we
expect to kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us
going beyond doomsday," he said. "How long can we afford this?" The
thing is, though clearly Byrd, Novak, and Al Ahram aren't interested,
is that we cannot afford not to continue to go after terrorists like
arafat and bin Laden and their master Saddam Hussein. All of whom we
guess must be among Byrd's and Novak's biggest fans. THIS FROM AN
ANTI-ISRAEL SOURCE: "only Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) had a perfect
record of zero compliance with recommendations of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), Israel's principal Washington, DC
lobby." Quite a turn of phrase there, in case it slipped by you, the
anti-Israel source quoted immediately above used the
word "compliance"
, a buzz-word among classical anti-Semites in their "vast Jewish
conspiracy" theories.
THIS FROM a very different sort of source entirely: "Friends, if ever
there was a definitive list of the anti-Israel members of Congress,
we
have it now. It's the 23 members-two in the Senate and 21 in the
House-who voted against yesterday's House and Senate resolutions of
support for Israel. If you are a U.S. citizen and contribute to
political campaigns in the U.S., you may want to contribute to the
opponents of the members below, regardless of party, so long as these
incumbents' opponents are pro-Israel. If you don't or can't
contribute
to campaigns, please feel free to forward this list to anyone who
might. No other issue and no U.S. political party allegiance is more
important in these times than the safety and security of Eretz
Yisrael. (the land of Israel) The New York Times, Friday, May 3, 2002
Following is a list of legislators who voted "No" on yesterday's
resolutions of support for Israel:
SENATORS VOTING "NO" (2)
Robert Byrd, Dem., W.Va. ,
Ernest Hollings, Dem.S.C.
HOUSE MEMBERS VOTING "NO" (21)
Neil Abercrombie, Dem., Hawaii,
David E. Bonior, Dem., Mich.,
Rick Boucher, Dem., Va.,
Gary A. Condit, Dem., Calif.,
John Conyers Jr.,Dem., Mich.,
Peter A. DeFazio, Dem., Ore.,
John D. Dingell, Dem., Mich.,
Earl F. Hilliard, Dem., Ala.,
Jay Inslee, Dem., Wash.,
Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Dem., Ill.
(Please note this is Jesse Jacksons son),
Gerald D.Kleczka, Dem., Wisc.,
Barbara Lee, Dem., Calif.,
Cynthia A. McKinney,Dem., Ga.,
George Miller, Dem., Calif.,
David R. Obey, Dem., Wisc.,
Ron Paul, Rep., Tex.,
Thomas E. Petri, Rep., Wisc.,
Nick J. Rahall II, Dem.,W.Va.,
Dana Rohrabacher, Rep., Calif.,
Nick Smith, Rep., Mich.,
Fortney Pete Stark, Dem., Calif.,
Here yet another internet posting tracks the terrorists' best friend
on
Capitol Hill, Robert Byrd: "Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002 Sen. Byrd Gripes
About War on Terror Senator Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., the famous former
Ku
Klux Klansman, complained today, "There's no end in sight in our
mission in Afghanistan." The remarks "were among the harshest in
Congress yet about the anti-terrorism campaign," the Associated Press
noted today. Long ago saddled with the nickname Senator Pork for his
notoriously wasteful squandering of taxpayer dollars, Byrd controls
spending legislation as chairman of the Senate Appropriations
Committee. Though he loves bringing boondoggle make-work projects
home
to West Virginia, he has begun expressing reluctance about footing
the bill for ending terrorism." Byrd's obstructionism to fighting
terrorists like arafat and bin Laden and their master: Saddam
Hussein,
seems to have no bounds, "Thursday, October 10, 2002 By a 66-31 vote,
the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Robert Byrd D-W.Va. - the
most outspoken Senate opponent of the war resolution - that would
have ended the authorization for him to use force against Iraq after
two years." Fortunately a number of people on and off the net have
been keeping track of the terrorists' best friend on Capitol Hill, US
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, for instance: "WHY AM I NOT
SURPRISED? Finally, Congress has somewhat meekly voiced its support
for Israel. The Senate version of the bill was symbolic and largely
omitted language from the House which placed blame on Arafat. Despite
the watering down in the Senate, two members voted against it: "The
two most senior Democrats, Sens. Robert Byrd of West Virginia and
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings of South Carolina, still opposed it, however
Byrd is a former Klansman. " http://opinionated.blogspot.com/
"This ex-Klansman wasn't just a passive member of the nation's most
notorious hate group. According to news accounts and biographical
information, Sen. Byrd was a "Kleagle"-an official recruiter who
signed up members for $10 a head. He said he joined because it
"offered excitement" and because the Klan was an "effective force" in
"promoting traditional American values." Nothing like the thrill of
gathering `round a midnight bonfire, , tying nooses, and promoting
white supremacy with a bunch of your hooded friends. The ex-Klansman
allegedly ended his ties with the group in 1943. He may have stopped
paying dues, but he continued to pay homage to the KKK. (someone) in
West Virginia discovered a letter Sen. Byrd had written to the
Imperial Wizard of the KKK three years after he says he abandoned the
group. He wrote: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am
anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state
in the Union." The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964
Civil Rights Act-for more than 14 hours. He also opposed the
nominations of the Supreme Court's two black justices, liberal
Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. Meanwhile, author
Graham Smith recently discovered another letter Sen. Byrd wrote after
he quit the KKK, this time attacking desegregation of the armed
forces. The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight "with a ***** by my
side.
Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in
the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours
become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest
specimen from the wilds."
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2001/march/mm_byrd_kkk.htm
All it would take for Byrd to become President of the United States
would be for Democrats to regain control of the US Senate and
Saddam's Saddemocrats, and, or, arab terrorists, to "remove"
President Bush, Vice President Cheney and the Speaker of the
House. "One of the most influential Nazi spies in the U.S. was Dr.
Walter
Becher, an anti-Communist "refugee leader" from the Hitler regime.
Becher joined the Nazi Party in December, 1931, and became an editor
of Die Zeit, a Nazi propaganda sheet in 1937. He was a Brown-Shirt
for
a spell and a member of the National Socialist Student Bund. He
editorialized for the purge of all Jews from state-owned radio in
Prague. During the war, Becher worked in the Goebbels Propaganda
Ministry and for the Wehrmacht as a war correspondent. Soon after the
war, he founded a newspaper in Germany that agitated for the
restoration of National Socialism. Becher had his advocates in
Washington, D.C. In 1957, Congressman Usher Burdick inserted one of
Dr. Becher's propaganda pieces in the Congressional Record, and in
August 1959, seven more appeared in the pages of the Record. When he
junketed to the States, conferences were arranged for him by the
State
Department. His geopolitical opinions were trumpeted by scores of
newspapers and the Mutual Broadcasting Network's 600 affiliates.
Dr. Becher's early contacts in Washington were McCarthy and William
Jenner in the Senate, and a handful of congressmen in the House. T.H.
Tetens in The New Germany and the Old Nazis, was awed by the Nazi's
camaraderie with Beltway politicians, and tracked his movements
through the District of Columbia: "During the early fifties, when he
first came to Washington, he began to build for himself a formidable
political machine. His scheme was very simple. If he could obtain the
support of leading politicians in the United States, his prestige and
stature would grow enormously at home.... With the help of the
McCarthy faction in the United States, he could establish a
nationwide
reputation as the foremost leader of the anti-Communist crusade."
Among the senators who sent personal letters of support to Dr. Becher
in Munich in the 1950s: Robert Byrd.". Senate Asks Clinton to Oppose
Palestinian Declaration
12 March, 1999
JERUSALEM (CNS) - The U.S. Senate
Thursday overwhelmingly approved a
resolution asking President Bill
Clinton to oppose a unilateral
declaration of an independent
Palestinian state.
"The president should unequivocally
assert United States' opposition
to the unilateral declaration of a
Palestinian
state ... and that a declared state
would not be recognized by the
United States," the resolution said.
Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) was the
only dissenter in the 98-1 vote."
"Senator Robert Byrd former Ku Klux Klan Grand Kleagle"
"When Congress recently passed a
resolution in support of Israel and our "common struggle against
terrorism," the only two
dissenting votes in the Senate were Democrats - Senators Robert Byrd
of West Virginia and
Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. Later, Hollings, seemingly just to
remind us that he is just as
anti-Israel as Byrd has always been,"
"Senate Expressing Solidarity with Israel in its
Fight Against Terrorism
5/2/2002
On the Amendment 05/02/2002
Senate Roll Call No. 102
107th Congress, 2nd Session
By 94 yeas to 2 nays (Vote No. 102), Reid (for Lieberman) Amendment
No. 3389 (to Amendment No. 3387), to express solidarity with Israel
in
its fight against terrorism.
The two senators who voted against
solidarity with Israel:
Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and Robert Byrd (D-WV)"
"From: Arutz-7 Editor
Subject: Arutz-7 News Brief: Friday, March 12, 1999
Arutz Sheva News Service
Friday, Mar. 12, 1999 / Adar 25, 5759
SENATE AGAINST UNILATERAL ARAFAT DECLARATION The American Senate
voted
almost unanimously last night to oppose a unilateral declaration of
independence by Yasser Arafat and the PLO. "The president should
unequivocally assert United States opposition to the unilateral
declaration of a Palestinian state... and that a declared state would
not be recognized by the United States," read the resolution. Only
one
Senator - Robert Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia - voted against,
while 98 voted in favor."
Regarding Murtha
Please read more by Googleing the following articles:
What Does The Murtha Money Trail Teach Us
Message From An Alternate Future Universe
Can We Stop The Coming War Against China
The Murtha Moran McKinney Axis of Evil
Murthas Money Trail World
What Does The Murtha Money Trail Teach Us
You just have to go to http://www.google.com/
scroll down to Advanced Search click on Advanced Search and put any
one of those titles above in with the exact phrase and click on
Google Search
Please also read more by Googleing the following articles:
Let Us Punish Anti Semitism Not Reward It
Anatomy Of The George Allen Lynching
Help Us Expose The Lynching of George Allen
HILLARYS HATCHET JOB ON GEORGE ALLEN CRUMBLES
DONT LET PARIS PICK AMERICAS NEXT PRESIDENT
CLINTON FRENCH CONNECTIONS TO GEORGE ALLEN LYNCHING
CLINTONS CONNECTED TO THE GEORGE ALLEN LYNCHING
Are Saddams Saddemocrats Behind The George Allen Lynching
Politics and Bedfellows An Age Old Story Told Once Again
Webb Backer Hillary Clinton Linked to Union Leader Arrested on
Racketeering Charges
You just have to go to http://www.google.com/
scroll down to Advanced Search click on Advanced Search and put any
one of those
titles above in with the exact phrase and click on Google Search
It is my hope that the investigation and expose of those tactics
will lead to
the setting aside of the results of the election, and the stepping
aside of
James Webb, a.k.a. Jim Webb, so that Senator Allen may be declared
the choice of
the people of Virginia for the United States Senate. If that can
happen Republicans would organize the US Senate and Senator Byrd
would not become President Pro Tempore in the US Senate, next in
line after the Speaker of the House to become President of the
United States.
In fact we could borrow a phrase from the State of New Jersey, that
used to promote itself by proclaiming "New Jersey and You, Perfect
Together!"
Perhaps we should be saying Murtha and Pelosi, Perfect Together!"
"In early 2004, Murtha reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to
sign a contract to transfer the Hunters Point Shipyard to the city
of San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. A
company called Lennar Inc. had right to the land, and Laurence
Pelosi, nephew to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was
an executive with the firm at that time. "
"Friday, December 2nd, 2005
John Murtha and a small world
Dan Riehl at Riehl World View has researched the rumors about House
Representative John Murtha (D-PA) and found much interesting hard
data. Dan notes in part: The Los Angeles Times in June reported that
Murtha funneled nearly $21 million to 10 or more corporate clients
of KSA Consulting, where Robert "Kit" Murtha is a senior partner.
Carmen Scialabba, a Murtha congressional aide for 27 years, is
also a high-ranking official at KSA. Now one may snort that raising
an eyebrow about Murtha's lobbying connections ignores Business as
Usual in Washington, yet this cynicism ignores the big picture. An
American can look back almost with nostalgia at the Washington
lobbying scandals during the waning years of the
Cold War, when maneuvers by foreign and US business interests to
influence Congress didn't boomerang on US national security—at
least, not enough to raise great alarm. Such is not the case today.
There is no such thing as "domestic" politics for the world's lone
superpower nation in today's highly interconnected world—and in
particular not during a globalized asymmetric war launched by
America's enemies. The date of the LA Times article suggests Mr.
Murtha has had plenty of time
of worry that pointed questions about his ethics would mar his next
election bid. Murtha's headline-grabbing call to immediately bring
US troops from Iraq has made him a quixotic hero in his home
congressional district, according to a
Big Three nightly news report the other night. (ABC, if my memory
serves.) There
might be no connection between John Murtha's call for troop
withdrawal
and his desire to head off ethics questions, yet Dan turned up
another credible
source (The Hill newspaper) that raises even more troubling
questions about the
power that Murtha has accumulated in Washington. The Hill article
(linked to in
Dan's post) notes:
In 2004, Murtha ranked behind only President Bush and his Democratic
opponent, Sen. John Kerry, in overall defense-industry
contributions, with
$284,750. So I find it disturbing that the major broadcast media
(and, it seems,
the mainstream media in general) have not sought to question Mr
Murtha about his
motive for demanding immediate US troop withdrawal from Iraq.
President Bush, on the other hand, is always fair game: the media
examine every
sentence he utters, every action he takes with regard to Iraq, in
light of
speculations about his political motives.
That's not a level playing field, which tilts to the enemy's
advantage."
http://pundita.blogspot.com/
"Republican lawmakers say that ties between Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.)
and his
brother's lobbying firm, KSA Consulting, may warrant investigation
by the House
ethics committee... According to a June 13 article in The Los
Angeles Times, the
fiscal 2005 defense appropriations bill included more than $20
million in
funding for at
least 10 companies for whom KSA lobbied. Carmen Scialabba, a
longtime Murtha
aide, works at KSA as well. KSA directly lobbied Murtha's office on
behalf of
seven companies, and a Murtha aide told a defense contractor that it
should
retain KSA to represent it, according to the LA Times. In early
2004, Murtha
reportedly leaned on U.S. Navy officials to sign a contract to
transfer the
Hunters Point Shipyard to the city of San Francisco, according to
the San
Francisco Chronicle. A company called Lennar Inc. had right to the
land, and
Laurence Pelosi, nephew to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-
Calif.), was an
executive with the firm at that time.
Murtha also inserted earmarks in defense bills that steered millions
of dollars
in federal research funds toward companies owned by children of
fellow
Pennsylvania Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D)."
http://happycarpenter.blogs.com/the_happy_carpenter/politics/
Pelosi donated $5,000 to McKinney
"[ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 8/3/02 ]
"Some McKinney donors probed for terror ties By BILL TORPY
Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Rep. Cynthia McKinney is
backed by many Islamic individuals and groups. Rep. Cynthia
McKinney's re-election campaign has accepted contributions from
several people who have come under federal investigation for
suspected
links to Middle Eastern terrorists or have voiced support for
extremist groups. The outspoken DeKalb County Democrat, a frequent
critic of U.S. Middle East policy, has long drawn Arab and Muslim
financial support. Most of McKinney's individual donors listed on
disclosure reports in 2001 and this year have Arabic names and live
out of state. According to a review of federal campaign disclosure
records, they include:
Abdurahman Alamoudi, leader of a Muslim organization, who during a
2000 rally outside the White House expressed support for the violent
Palestinian group Hamas and for Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite party
linked to bombings. The controversy surrounding his comments caused
Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and George W. Bush's
presidential campaign to return his contributions. A professor who
was
jailed in 1998 on contempt charges for refusing to answer a grand
jury's questions about alleged money-laundering links to Hamas. Five
businessmen whose homes or businesses were searched in March during
an
FBI raid investigating financial links to terrorism. Another was an
officer in one of the groups under investigation, according to
Federal
Election Commission reports. Bill Banks, manager of McKinney's
re-election campaign, said this week that the congresswoman was not
aware that any of her donors might support terrorist activities, or
have ties to organizations involved with terrorism. The McKinney
campaign reported most of those contributions as having come Sept.
11,
the date of the terror attacks in New York and Washington. FEC
spokeswoman Kelly Huff said the date listed on disclosure reports is
supposed to be, by law, the date the campaign received the money. But
FEC officials said it was up to the campaign to document the proper
date. Banks said the campaign accepted contributors' money believing
"in good faith that they are law-abiding citizens. If you did an
investigation of everyone who gave money, people would stop giving."
McKinney is locked in what a poll released this week shows to be a
virtual dead heat against former DeKalb County State Court Judge
Denise Majette in the Aug. 20 Democratic primary. Majette declined to
comment Friday on McKinney's fund-raising. McKinney caused a tempest
earlier this year by suggesting President Bush knew the Sept. 11
attacks were coming but did nothing so his associates could make
money
in the ensuing war. And last October, she also caused controversy for
apologizing to a Saudi prince whose $10 million donation for terror
victims was rejected by New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. The prince
had laid part of the blame for the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. policy.
The following week, McKinney collected $32,150 in a fund-raiser, her
best fund-raising day in 2001.
McKinney's support for Arab causes is well known. The Council on
American-Islamic Relations, an Islamic advocacy group whose director
was named on the Sept. 11 listing as giving McKinney $500, recently
asked members to support her. "She is our strategic choice. Pro-
Muslim
candidate. Supporter of (so-called) "palestinian state for over
seven years.
Against secret evidence. Against aid to Israel."
Steven Emerson, who runs a private counterterrorist institute in
Washington, called McKinney's contributors "the A list of militant
Islamic front groups." Two years ago, Emerson warned a Senate
committee about increasing terrorist activity in America, sometimes
in
the name of charity. Alamoudi, the president of the American Muslim
Foundation who expressed support for Hamas and Hezbollah, gave the
maximum allowable contribution of $2,000.
Clinton, then a Democratic Senate candidate in New York, returned the
$1,000 Alamoudi gave her after her opponent called the
donation "blood
money." Her spokesman, explaining the decision to return the money,
said, "Hillary is a strong supporter of peace and security for
Israel." Reps. James Moran (D-Va.) and David Bonior (D-Mich.),
Republican Senate candidate John Sununu of New Hampshire and the Bush
presidential campaign all have returned Alamoudi's contributions
since
last fall.
Alamoudi did not return phone calls seeking comment. Another donor,
Abdelhaleem Ashqar, now a Howard University professor, who gave $250,
was jailed for six months in 1998 after refusing to testify before a
federal grand jury investigating money laundering in the United
States
by Hamas. Ashqar told the grand jury that he would not testify
because
the information would be "used against my friends, family and
colleagues in the Palestinian liberation movement." He was never
charged with a crime and did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Six of McKinney's donors were officers with companies and
organizations that are under investigation.
On March 20 and 21, Treasury agents served warrants on the Herndon
Va.-based Saar Foundation, Safa Trust, the International Institute of
Islamic Thought and 13 other locations. The groups are part of a
Saudi-based financial empire that U.S. investigators say has handled
$1.7 billion since the mid-1990s, allegedly sending some of it to
groups that authorities have linked to terrorists, The Washington
Post
reported. No charges have been filed in that investigation.
Listed as McKinney donors on Sept. 11 are M. Yaqub Mirza, Mohamed
Omeish and Ahmad Totonji.
Federal agents in March searched the offices of Mirza, who
contributed
$500. The former president of Saar, Mirza was the central figure in
the interlocking multinational corporations being investigated. He is
the president of Mar-Jac, which includes investment firms and a North
Georgia poultry plant, which also was searched in March. He did not
return phone calls seeking comment.
Omeish is president of Success Foundation, a refugee relief
organization whose office was searched in March. He is listed as
having given $500. Omeish said investigators returned computers taken
from his office. Totonji, founder of Saar and the IIIT, gave $1,000.
Federal agents carted away numerous computers from his offices in the
March raid. Two weeks later, on Sept. 26, Jamal Barzinji, Taha
Alalwani of Herndon, Va., and Hisham Al Talib of California all gave
$500 to McKinney's campaign, according to FEC records. Barzinji, a
business associate of Mirza's, is also president of Mar-Jac Poultry
in
Gainesville. Alalwani is a founder of the IIIT and Al Talib, was the
treasurer for Safa and the IIIT vice president."
Pelosi donated $5,000 to McKinney
Father of Ousted McKinney Spells Defeat `J-E-W-S'
By ELI KINTISCH
FORWARD STAFF
ATLANTA — The father of Rep. Cynthia McKinney is blaming Jews for
her defeat in Georgia's Democratic primary, but observers said that
Tuesday's outcome had less to do with dueling donations from pro-
Israel and pro-Palestinian activists than with high Republican
turnout in the open primary and tepid support from black voters and
congressmen.
The pro-Palestinian McKinney, a five-term incumbent, was upset by
Denise Majette in a race featuring two black candidates. The race's
much touted fund-raising fight mirrored a June election in which
longtime Rep. Earl Hilliard, backed by Arab donors from across the
country, lost Alabama's Democratic primary to Artur Davis, an
opponent heavily financed by Jewish donors nationwide. Majette
received more than $1 million in donations from supporters — many
Jewish — while Arab Americans also increased their historically
strong support of McKinney. But in the end, McKinney's polarizing
personality seemed the difference, as whites, Jews and Republicans
voted in droves, while African-American turnout was relatively tepid.
"It looks like the Republicans wanted to beat me more than the
Democrats wanted to keep me," McKinney said in a concession speech
around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday. Majette defeated McKinney 58% to 42%,
with all but one precinct accounted for.
But her father, civil-rights stalwart and DeKalb County community
leader Billy McKinney, pointed a finger at her pro-Israel critics.
When asked by a local television reporter what the election had
hinged on, he responded: "J-E-W-S."
In a press release, Anti-Defamation League southeast director
Deborah Lauter condemned Billy McKinney's remark, calling
it "classic anti-Semitism." He caused a similar stir in 1996 after
calling his daughter's opponent a "racist Jew," a comment Cynthia
McKinney repudiated.
Considered the most outspoken liberal in Congress, McKinney had
trounced white, black and women candidates in five previous
elections by relying on massive support in south DeKalb County, a
predominantly black area. But in Majette, McKinney found her
strongest challenger yet, a Democrat with nearly 20 years under her
belt as a local judge. One of the first black women to graduate from
Yale, Majette will face a Republican challenger in the fall with a
distinct advantage since the district's registered voters are
overwhelmingly Democratic.
Majette, who expressed her support of Israel during the campaign
when asked about the Middle East, generally avoided foreign policy
issues on the campaign trail, instead highlighting her own
credentials and questioning McKinney's ability to help the
district. "The issue I think for a lot of people was the 10-year
record of my opponent," Majette said. "The people in the district
are really focused on the schools, hospitals and jobs here in
DeKalb."
The race saw Georgia's 4th District, comprised almost entirely of
DeKalb County, bitterly divided, as white Republicans rushed to the
polls to oust McKinney. Republican voters also played a major role
in ousting Georgia's other controversial long-time congressman, Bob
Barr, a conservative lawmaker who led the push to impeach former
president Bill Clinton. In a Republican primary in which
redistricting forced a face-off between two incumbents , Barr was
easily defeated by Rep. John Linder.
In the days leading up to Georgia's Democratic primary Nation of
Islam leader Louis Farrakhan repeatedly blamed the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee for McKinney's troubles, though it was
unclear whether the result would harm relations between blacks and
Jews, two of the Democratic Party's key constituencies.
Several observers said it was likely that the reverberation would be
slight due to lopsided nature of McKinney's defeat and the
relatively low level of support that she received from her black
colleagues in Congress.
According to the political newsletter Hotline, while 31 members of
the Congressional Black Caucus gave donations to help Hilliard in
June, only 16 members supported McKinney in her primary fight.
Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, whose district includes
Harlem, wasn't ruling out aftershocks, but he was confident that
blacks and Jews wouldn't turn on one another. "I think we should
continue to talk about the things we agree on, rather than the
disagreements," Rangel said.
Despite relatively weak support from her congressional colleagues,
McKinney was joined on the campaign trail by several prominent black
leaders, including Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King III,
Al Sharpton and Walter Fauntroy, a legendary civil rights leader and
former head of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Among leaders of mainstream Jewish groups, McKinney was considered a
more controversial member of Congress than other black lawmakers on
the left. Along with her support of the Palestinian cause, McKinney
refused in 1994 to condemn a fiery speech by a Nation of Islam
spokesman, the late Khalid Muhammed. More recently, she also
infuriated otherwise indifferent Republicans in her district when
she suggested that President Bush might have known about September
11 before it happened, and possibly profited from it.
Last October, after New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani returned a $10
million gift to the city from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after
the prince criticized Israel in published comments, McKinney issued
a public letter supporting the prince, asking that he donate the
money to black charities.
In May, along with Hilliard, McKinney was one of 5 of the 36 voting
members of the Congressional Black Caucus to oppose a pro-Israel
resolution that put the bulk of the blame for the conflict on the
Palestinians. McKinney said the measure would "undermine America's
vital role as peacemaker"...Democratic institutional support for
McKinney, who has been a solid member of the Democratic caucus in
the House, was weak. In the Hilliard race the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee took much heat for its financial
support of the five-term incumbent, with some asking why the
committee was using resources on a solidly Democratic district. In
this race, the committee, whose function is to help increase the
Democratic ranks in the House, stayed out.
The committee declined to comment on the McKinney race, but Rangel,
who donated $5,000 to her campaign, said: "Some Republicans and
Democrats support incumbents, and others don't." Rangel is board
chair of the committee.
Democratic House Whip Nancy Pelosi of California also donated $5,000
to McKinney's effort.
National Jewish Democratic Committee executive director Ira Forman
declined to comment on Pelosi's funding. But a Jewish Republican
activist slammed Democratic support of McKinney.
"For the Democrats and the NJDC and other groups to remain silent is
an abdication of their responsibility," the activist said. Pelosi's
office did not return a call for comment.
Several thousand of DeKalb County's Jews were transferred into
Democrat John Lewis's district in the 2000 redistricting after
complaining about McKinney to their state senator, but a few
thousand remained.... most Jewish residents and pro-Israel activists
rejected McKinney's rhetoric and condemned her recent backing from
Farrakhan. "I found Farrakhan's involvement as offensive as Michael
Lerner's," Schneier said.
McKinney was the ninth incumbent to be ousted in a House primary
this year. Weeks before the election, some McKinney supporters urged
the legislator to wage a write-in campaign leading up to the
November general election. But McKinney campaign officials reached
at press time said they haven't considered it."
http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.08.23/news2.html
Pelosi donated $5,000 to McKinney
Please take action. Please contact
njdc@njdc.org njdc AT njdc.org and DEMAND that they STRONGLY
CONDEMN the funding provided to McKinney by Pelosi and company.
http://www.njdc.org/contact/
Phone: 202-216-9060
Fax 202-216-9061
NJDC
P.O. Box 75308
Washington, DC 20013-5308
Their New York office may be reached at:
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Phone 212-868-4048
Pelosi donated $5,000 to McKinney
"In early June, [Congressional Black] Caucus members [all are
Democrats] summoned Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, Whip Nancy Pelosi
and two others to a special meeting. The subject: Helping Rep. Earl
Hilliard of Alabama defeat a primary challenger in the June 25
runoff.
The challenger, Artur Davis, was getting campaign contributions from
donors angry with Hilliard's anti-Israel views. Hilliard had refused
to support a resolution criticizing (so-called) "palestinian"
suicide bombings. At the Congressional Black Caucus session, Davis
was cited for making an appeal to Jewish Democrats, even traveling
to New York for fundraisers. If Democratic leaders don't rescue
Hilliard, CBC members said they would block aid to
Israel. "Democratic leaders quickly urged House members to donate
$1,000 each to Hilliard's campaign."
"GOP Makes Gains With Jewish Voters
Democrats Worry Party Critics of Israel Are Costing Support
[...]
The issue of Democratic conflicts over Israel policy took center
stage
last month, when the House voted 352 to 21, with 29 members voting
"present," for a pro-Israel resolution sponsored by Majority Whip Tom
DeLay (R-Tex.) and Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.). Many of those voting
"present" were expressing their unwillingness to support a resolution
that strongly endorsed Israel while condemning "the ongoing support
and coordination of terror by Yasser Arafat and other members of the
Palestinian leadership."
Of the 50 "no" and "present" votes, 44 were cast by Democrats and six
by Republicans. More significantly, five of the most senior Democrats
voted against the resolution, including Democratic whip David E.
Bonior (Mich.), and four members in line to become committee chairmen
if Democrats win back the House: David R. Obey (Wis.), John D.
Dingell
(Mich.), George Miller (Calif.) and John Conyers Jr. (Mich.).
[...]
The vote also forced to the surface long-standing tensions between
the
Jewish and black communities. Of the 37 members of the Congressional
Black Caucus, a total of 17 either voted no on DeLay-Lantos (4),
voted
present (8) or did not vote at all (5).
Two black Democratic House members, Earl F. Hilliard (Ala.) and
Cynthia McKinney (Ga.), have become lightning rods in the Jewish
community, and their primary challengers are raising hundreds of
thousands of dollars from Jewish supporters determined to defeat the
two incumbents because of statements they have made.
Not to mention her father's notorious remarks. This piece from 1996
fairly
covers, however, anti-Semitism on both sides of the aisle. There's
enough to
go round. Bonior, on the other hand, is significant, particularly
because he's
so consistently wobbly on Israel. http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/
"Five congressional aides from the House of Representatives left
Friday on an independent fact-finding mission to Iraq. ADC, one of
the
co-sponsors of the delegation, applauds the five members of Congress
whose aides are participating in the delegation. *** The
congressional
offices participating in the delegation are: Rep.Danny K. Davis
(D-IL), Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-CT), Rep. Earl F. Hilliard (D-AL), Rep.
Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), and Rep. Bernard Sanders (I-VT).
McKinney and Davis are members of the House International Relations
Committee; Gejdenson is the Ranking Minority Member. The
congressional
staffers are accompanied by Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for
Policy
Studies"
http://www.cin.org/archives/al-bushra/199908/0036.html.
"The caucus would not provide a full list of the corporate donors
here. But a partial list included Philip Morris, the tobacco giant;
Anheuser- Busch, the brewing company;
Entergy, the energy company; Lockheed Martin, the defense contractor;
Household Finance, the consumer- credit company, and the American
Gaming Association, which represents the casino industry."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0827-02.htm
"Mr. Thompson, the event's host, said the two casinos that helped
underwrite the weekend, the Horseshoe and the Grand, had each pledged
$50,000 in services and cash donations, which allowed them to call
themselves platinum sponsors of the event. Gold donors pledged
$25,000, while silver donors promised $10,000. A similar fund-raising
event here last summer raised $500,000 for the caucus. As he took a
seat in the Horseshoe's hospitality suite, Representative Earl F.
Hilliard of Alabama, whose district is listed as the seventh poorest
in the country, said that he saw a soft-money ban as "a threat to my
continued service in the Congress."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0827-02.htm
Not so tough any more
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28109
Posted: June 27, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Alabama's 7th Congressional district is 62 percent black and its
5th-term congressman, Earl F.
Hilliard, is an active member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Despite this caucus's extraordinary help, including
six of them who traveled to Alabama to campaign
for him, Hilliard was defeated by a 34-year-old
Harvard-educated attorney, Artur Davis, who
received 52,356 votes to Hilliard's 41,050, Davis graduated Magna ***
Laude from Harvard as an undergraduate and *** Laude from Harvard Law
School.
The Hilliard Campaign featured one TV spot which morphed a white man
into Davis … who is black. Another spot showed Davis supporters as
white, cigar-smoking fat cats; while another showed Davis with a
large
bandage over his mouth with the words "FOR SALE."
Washington's Weekly Standard magazine reported this week:
"In early June, [Congressional Black] Caucus members [all are
Democrats] summoned Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, Whip Nancy Pelosi
and two others to a special meeting. The subject: Helping Rep. Earl
Hilliard of Alabama defeat a primary challenger in the June 25
runoff.
The challenger, Artur Davis, was getting campaign contributions from
donors angry with Hilliard's anti-Israel views.
Hilliard had refused to support a resolution
criticizing Palestinian suicide bombings. At the
Congressional Black Caucus session, Davis was
cited for making an appeal to Jewish Democrats,
even traveling to New York for fundraisers. If
Democratic leaders don't rescue Hilliard, CBC
members said they would block aid to Israel.
"Democratic leaders quickly urged House members
to donate $1,000 each to Hilliard's campaign. But
the letter wasn't signed by two prominent
Democratic honchos from New York - Charles
Rangel, a CBC member and ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means
Committee and Nita Lowey, chair of the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee. The letter caused the anger to ease a bit, and a
CBC member, Alcee Hastings of Florida, met with the American-Israel
Public Affairs Committee to avert a major black-Jewish rift in the
Democratic party."
The Standard also noted: "Ethan Wallison and
Rachel Van Dongen of Roll Call the Capitol Hill
newspaper, wrote a detailed account of the flap. It
was a great piece of reporting, but major
newspapers and TV news outlets didn't pick up the
story. Now imagine if it had been a story about
threats by right-wing Christians to Republican
leaders. That would have been front-page news for sure."
One year ago, Congressman Hilliard was censured by the House Ethics
Committee for paying off business and personal debts with campaign
funds. Five years ago, Hilliard visited Libya on behalf of a European
company.
Candidate Davis accused Congressman Hilliard of
doing little to help his district while lining his
pockets in Washington.
During the campaign, Representative Hilliard
refused offers to debate Davis.
At Hilliard's campaign office in Birmingham, a
spokeswoman said the congressman had no
comment on the primary election result. She also confirmed that the
following members of the Congressional Black Caucus came to Alabama
to
campaign for Congressman Hilliard:
"Representatives Maxine Waters of California;
Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas; Stephanie Jones of
Ohio; John Conyers of Michigan; Benny Thompson
of Mississippi; as well as former D.C. Congressional
Delegate Walter Fauntroy - and the Rev. Al
Sharpton."
The spokeswoman confirmed that Rep. Hilliard
announced that Hollywood actor Danny Glover
would campaign for him; but Glover never arrived.
Les Kinsolving hosts a daily talk show for WCBM in Baltimore. His
radio commentaries are syndicated nationally. He also hosts a
national
weekend show for Talk Radio Network and has been selected by Talkers
Magazine as one of the top 100 radio hosts for the last four years.
Before going into broadcasting, Kinsolving was a newspaper reporter
and columnist - twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his
commentary."
"Hilliard, Earl F
PAC Contributions, 1999-2000 (as of December 1, 2000)
Total PAC contributions to candidate: $302,101
Agribusiness: $50,750
Crop Production & Basic
Processing
$11,500
Western Peanut
Growers Assn
$3,000
Alabama Peanut
Producers Assn
$2,000
American Crystal Sugar
$2,000
American Sugar Cane
League
$1,000
Florida Sugar Cane
League
$1,000
National Cotton Council
$1,000
American Sugarbeet
Growers Assn
$500
Minn-Dak Farmers Co-op
$500
Southern Minn Beet
Sugar Co-op
$500
Tobacco
$9,500
Philip Morris
$4,000
RJ Reynolds Tobacco
$2,000
US Tobacco Co
$2,000
Brown & Williamson
Tobacco
$1,500
Dairy
$5,500
Dairy Farmers of
America
$4,000
National Milk Producers
Federation
$1,500
Poultry & Eggs
$6,000
National Chicken Council
$3,500
National Turkey
Federation
$2,000
Tyson Foods
$500
Agricultural
Services/Products
$13,000
Alabama Farmers
Federation
$7,000
DuPont Co
$1,500
Farm Credit Council
$1,500
National Council of
Farmer Co-ops
$1,500
Rain & Hail Insurance
Society
$1,000
Farmland Industries
$500
Food Processing &
Sales
$1,000
ConAgra Inc
$1,000
Forestry & Forest
Products
$4,250
Fort James Corp
$1,500
Champion International
Corp
$1,000
Georgia-Pacific Corp
$1,000
National Hardwood
Lumber Assn
$750
Communications/Electronics: $9,000
Telephone Utilities
$9,000
BellSouth
Telecommunications
$7,000
US Telecom Assn
$1,000
Verizon Communications
$1,000
Construction: $8,000
Home Builders
$4,500
National Assn of Home
Builders
$3,000
Walter Industries
$1,500
Building Materials &
Equipment
$3,500
Vulcan Materials
$3,000
Lehigh Portland Cement
$500
Defense: $500
Defense Aerospace
$500
Northrop Grumman Corp
$500
Energy & Natural Resources: $20,500
Oil & Gas
$2,500
Chevron Corp
$1,000
Conoco Inc
$500
National Propane Gas
Assn
$500
USX Corp
$500
Mining
$7,000
Drummond Co
$6,000
Barrick Goldstrike Mines
$1,000
Electric Utilities
$11,000
Alabama Power
$6,000
ACRE (Action Cmte for
Rural Electric)
$4,000
General Atomics
$1,000
Finance, Insurance & Real Estate: $19,000
Commercial Banks
$2,000
Independent Bankers
Assn
$1,000
Peoples Banctrust Co
$1,000
Credit Unions
$2,000
Alabama Credit Union
Assn
$1,000
Credit Union National
Assn
$1,000
Securities & Investment
$1,500
Chicago Mercantile
Exchange
$1,500
Insurance
$4,000
Prudential Insurance
$2,000
Torchmark Corp
$2,000
Real Estate
$9,500
National Assn of Realtors
$9,500
Health: $5,500
Health Professionals
$3,500
American Medical Assn
$3,500
American Assn Oral &
Maxillofacial Surg
$0
Hospitals/Nursing Homes
$2,000
American Hospital Assn
$2,000
Lawyers & Lobbyists: $10,500
Lawyers/Law Firms
$10,500
Assn of Trial Lawyers of
America
$10,000
Hogan & Hartson
$500
Transportation: $9,900
Air Transport
$3,500
United Parcel Service
$2,000
Boeing Co
$1,000
Delta Airlines
$500
Automotive
$5,400
DaimlerChrysler
$3,000
National Auto Dealers
Assn
$2,000
Delphi Automotive
Systems
$400
Railroads
$1,000
Norfolk Southern Corp
$1,000
Misc Business: $4,500
Beer, Wine & Liquor
$3,000
National Beer
Wholesalers Assn
$3,000
Casinos/Gambling
$1,000
MGM Grand
$1,000
Steel Production
$500
American Iron & Steel
Institute
$500
Ideological/Single-Issue: $21,951
Leadership PACs
$5,000
PAC to the Future
$5,000
Foreign & Defense Policy
$2,000
Arab American
Leadership PAC
$2,000
Human Rights
$2,000
Human Rights Campaign
$2,000
Campaign for UN Reform
PAC
$1
Gun Rights
$5,950
National Rifle Assn
$5,950
Candidate Committees
$5,500
Rangel for Congress
2000
$2,000
Ronnie G Flippo Cmte
$2,000
Hoyer for Congress
$1,000
Eddie Bernice Johnson
for Congress
$500
Unknown: $0
This list includes contributions made by both PACs and other
candidates' campaign committees.
Candidate committee contributions, like leadership PACs, are included
in the "Ideological" sector."
http://www.opensecrets.org/candidates/pac/H2AL07041.htm
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What Does The Murtha Money Trail Teach Us
Message From An Alternate Future Universe
Can We Stop The Coming War Against China
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By The Numbers
On September 11th, 2001 4 Flights were hijacked.
American Airlines Flight 11 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound
for Los Angeles before being piloted into the North Tower of the
World Trade Center.American Airlines Flight 77 which left
Washington's Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles
before being flown into the Pentagon.
United Airlines Flight 93 which left Newark, N.J., bound for San
Francisco before crashing in Stony Creek Township, Pa United
Airlines Flight 175 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound for Los
Angeles before being piloted into the South Tower of the World Trade
Center. Why did the mastermind behind the attacks on America of
September 11th, 2001 choose these particular flight numbers? MY
THEORY ABOUT THE CHOICE OF FLIGHT 93 WAS THAT 1993 WAS THE YEAR
IN WHICH SADDAM FIRST TRIED TO ASSASSINATE FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH IN
KUWAIT, IT WAS ALSO THE YEAR IN WHICH SADDAM HUSSEIN FIRST TRIED
TO DESTROY THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN UNLUCKY
NUMBER FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN BECAUSE THE PASSENGERS ON FLIGHT 93 BECAME
HEROES AND STOPPED THE PLANE FROM GOING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.
"White House Was Flight 93 Target
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml
May 23, 2002
Volunteers in Shanksville this past weekend. (Photo: AP)
The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.
fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44
people aboard were killed.
(CBS) A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the
intended target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a
Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House.
Government sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, is
believed to be the source of the information. He is being
interrogated by U.S. officials at an undisclosed location.
Investigators have linked Zubaydah directly to hijackers on board
Flight 93.
United Flight 93 took off from Newark, N.J., and crashed in Somerset
County, Pa.. A recorder on the plane and calls made to people on the
ground indicate passengers fought for control with the hijackers
before it went down.
The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.
fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44
people aboard were killed.
Officials previously had assumed the White House was a likely
target, but said the Capitol and CIA headquarters in McLean, Va.,
near Washington were other possibilities.Abu Zubaydah is believed to
have played a key role in organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, officials
said. As al Qaeda's top operational planner, he ran the Khalden camp
in Afghanistan, where U.S. investigators have learned many of the
Sept. 11 hijackers trained. This suggests Abu Zubaydah may have had
direct contact with the hijackers and chosen them for training.
He also had telephone contacts with at least one Arab student at
U.S. flight schools, according to a July 10, 2001, memo from a
Phoenix FBI agent.
The CIA, FBI and Pakistani authorities captured and wounded Abu
Zubaydah in a raid by in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in March. He is
believed to have masterminded the failed millennium bombing plots in
Los Angeles and Jordan, and has been linked to failed plots on the
U.S. embassies in Paris and Sarajevo.
Abu Zubaydah was also indirectly linked, through a web of
associations with other al Qaeda members in Europe, to lead Sept. 11
hijacker Mohammed Atta and his cell in Hamburg, Germany. Three
members of the Hamburg cell were suicide hijackers; three others are
still at large. Ziad Jarrah, believed to be the pilot-hijacker of
Flight 93, was a member of the Hamburg cell."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml
The first attack on the World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993.
The February 26th, 1993 attack marked the 11th anniversary to the
day of the declaration by the Reagan-Bush Administration of February
26th, 1982 that Iraq was no longer a state sponsor of terrorism and
as such was eligible for American loans and grants, which it
subsequently got.
The February 26th, 1993 attack also marked the 2nd anniversary to the
day of the liberation of Kuwait by the U.S. in the first Gulf War.
Remarks at the Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the
Liberation of Kuwait Secretary Colin L. Powell Kuwait City, Kuwait
(US Embassy) February 26, 2001
The World Trade Center was attacked by terrorists associated with
Sheik Rahman on February 26th, 1993. It was Sheik Rahman's group
that murdered Egyptian President Anwar Sadat on the 8th anniversary
to the day of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, October 6th.
Sheik Rahman's son was subsequently found with bin Laden's group
in Afghanistan when the U.S. liberated Afghanistan.
"White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and
credible information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon
was
originally intended to hit the White House."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912-
8.html#intended-targets
American Airlines Flight 77 which left Washington's Dulles
International Airport bound for Los Angeles before being flown into
the Pentagon.
7/7 is one way to write the date July 7th
On July 7th, 1994 Yasser Arafat, PLO chairman drove from Egypt into
Gaza, after 27 years in exile. What Arafat was doing was using the
date of July 7th to re-write a perceived wrong he had felt some
years earlier on another July 7th. It was on July 7th 1986 that the
government of Jordan closed the offices of Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah.
Because a bus bombing occurred in London on July 7th, 2005 it struck
me that the nation that has endured more bus bombings than any other
nation is Israel. There may be a connection between the July 7th,
2005 attacks in London and the terrorists who have targeted Israel
with bus bombings for years.
Recently terrorists in Iraq murdered Egypt's envoy to Iraq.
"Zarqawi group reportedly killed Egyptian ambassador in Iraq
Iraq-Egypt, Politics, 7/7/2005
News reports from al-Jazeera and al-Arabia satellite TV stations
said that Egypt's top diplomat in Iraq to Iraq, Eyhab al-Sharif, had
been executed.
Meantime, Al-Qaida organization in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-
Zarqawi, had threatened in a statement on the Internet to execute
the chairman of the Egyptian diplomatic mission al-Sharif.
The threat to execute Sharif came a short time after al-Qaida
organization in Iraq issued pictures for the identity cards of the
Egyptian diplomat as an evidence that they are the ones which
kidnapped him.
The statement said the legitimate court of al-Qaida organization in
Mesopotamia decided to "send the ambassador of the state of Egypt to
the Mujahideen (indivduals from Egypt and other states that go to
Iraq to fight with the insurgents) to execute the death penalty
against him." The statement considered that "the embassies in
Baghdad are but monitoring sites to snipe the arriving Mujahideen
and preventing them from having access to their brothers in Jihad in
the land of Mesopotamia (Iraq) and in Afghanistan."
In an attempt to prove that the Egyptian ambassador is their
possession, al-Qaida organization published documents including a
driving Sharif's license and a work card for him at the foreign
ministry and another one for health insurance. On Tuesday the
organization claimed responsibility for kidnapping Sharif."
American Airlines Flight 11 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound
for Los Angeles before being piloted into the North Tower of the
World Trade Center.
Saddam Hussein assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years
old. Fixated on the number 11 ever since then he easily focused on
the World Trade Center as a target because it looked so much like a
number 11 that WPIX TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World
Trade Center in its logo for years.
The World Trade Center also housed an office of the Bank of Kuwait.
Saddam used Rahman's group to punish Sadat for failing to defeat
Israel in the attack on Israel of October 6th, 1973. Saddam also
used Sheik Rahman's group to hit the Speaker of the Egyptian
Parliament during the first Gulf War when Egypt sided with America
against Iraq.
Saddam, acting like a child who is deprived of a toy, who
subsequently
breaks that toy, set fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields as he was being
driven out of Kuwait during the first Gulf War in 1991.
"Aired 9/11/2001 "Baghdad Republic of Iraq TV: These are
the fruits of the new US order.[Video of explosion rocking World
Trade
Center] Panic has spread among US official circles, which evacuated
the White House following a series of explosions."
"CNN LARRY KING LIVE Aired October 2, 2001 LARRY KING: Have you
spoken to your father- in-law? (George Herbert Walker Bush)
LAURA BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had
actually spent that Monday night here.(at the White House) I had
just seen them off that morning (9/11/2001) when I got in the car
and found out about the first plane.(going into the World Trade
Center.)"
"CNN LARRY KING LIVE America's New War: Laura Bush Discusses the
Impact of September 11 Aired October 2, 2001 - 21:00 LARRY KING: A
couple of other things:
Have you spoken to your father- in-law? (Not in transcript, but the
father in law in question is one George Herbert Walker Bush !!!)
LAURA
BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had actually
spent that Monday night here. (not in transcript but "here" means at
the White House !!!) LARRY KING: Really? LAURA BUSH: I had just seen
them off that morning when I got in the-got in the car and found out
about the first plane. LARRY KING: Didn't know that. LAURA BUSH: They
were-they were on their way to St. Paul, Minnesota to give a speech,
and they were in a private plane, and their plane was diverted to
Minneapolis." http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html
"September 11th, 2001 - The White House is
evacuated. White House Sealed"
http://www.september11news.com/AAWhiteHouseEvacReuters.jpg
"try to avoid having the principal
travel by commercial airline on terrorist anniversaries" from "The
Art
of Executive Protection"
http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000450.html "
Saddam tried to kill former President Bush in 1993.
Former President Bush's Speech to Congress September 11th 1990. 11
years to the day before September 11th 2001 "In the early morning
hours of August 2d,(1990),a powerful Iraqi army invaded Kuwait. The
crisis in the Persian Gulf also offers a rare opportunity to move
toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled
times, our fifth objective-a new world order-can emerge."
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and credible
information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon was
originally intended to hit the White House."
"White House Was Flight 93 Target
A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the intended
target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a
Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House. Government
sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, believed to be the
source of the information."
Perhaps the following may explain how Saddam knew where former
President Bush might be spending the night of September 10th-11th
2001:
"Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed
as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary
of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III,
and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some
underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency
interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the
plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most
powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the
Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has
become unexpectedly important. That the Carlyle Group had its
conference on America's darkest day was mere coincidence, but there
is nothing accidental about the cast of characters that this
private-equity powerhouse has assembled in the 14 years since its
founding. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S.
President George Bush Sr., former U.K. Prime Minister John Major, and
former President of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has
counted, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi
Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's family among its high-profile
clientele."
"The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as
tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond
these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller
than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively
unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from
the south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president
uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The
problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this
direction is that there's a 555 ft tall structure in the way called
the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is
similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the
west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in
approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument,
and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this,
but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings
in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall,
would have to be cleared, which means the plane's altitude would
probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a
successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot."
To indicate September 1990 one might well write or type 9/90
It was in September of 1990 that President George Herbert Walker
Bush spoke to Congress on Iraq. On September 11th, 1990 in fact.
What of EgyptAir Flight 990?
Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was
pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more
convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed
deliberately."
"The co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990
uttered
an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just
before the doomed airliner went down"
"Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial
aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary
radar data seems to indicate."
An example of terrorists striking on an anniversary
came on October 7th, 2004 in Taba.
"Images of Destruction | Taba Hilton Before and After Terrorist
Attack on October 7, 2004"
According to initial findings Naveh said, a car bomb blew up at the
entrance to the Hilton Taba Hotel and there was a combined bomb and
shooting attack in two restaurants usually frequented by Israelis in
Ras Al-Satan."
http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4020867.html
On October 7th,2001 "America Retaliates for the September 11
Attacks. October 7, 2001 President George W. Bush Speaks to America
After the Strikes Begin.
"On October 7th, 1959, Saddam and others attempted, but failed, to
assassinate the prime minister of Iraq. Wanted by the Iraqi
government, Saddam was forced to flee. He lived in exile in Syria
for three months and then moved to Egypt where he lived for three
years."
http://history1900s.about.com/od/saddamhussein/p/saddamhussein.htm
"President Saddam Hussein chairs 48th Cabinet Session Baghdad, Oct.
22, 2001 INA
President Saddam Hussein chaired on Sunday the 48th Cabinet session.
The Cabinet discussed recent events of Palestinian Intifadha and
praised Palestinians brave and
persistent struggle for liberating their lands. The cabinet reviewed
the current international
situation, especially the U.S aggression on Afghanistan. The Cabinet
brought back a historic
stance Iraq had taken in 1979 when it condemned the military Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan though Iraq had then deep relations with the
Soviet Union and there was a
friendship and cooperation agreement between Iraq and the Soviet
Union, yet this had not prevented Iraq from taking the national
independent stand rejecting Soviet's behavior. History repeats itself
once again in 2001 as Iraq takes the same stance and condemns the US
aggression on Afghanistan....this confirms Iraq's principled stance
rejecting all forms of foreign intervention and aggressions. The
Cabinet discussed issues listed on its agenda and made necessary
decisions and recommendations."
Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for instance " Saddam Hussein's
speech on the 11th Anniversary of the Great Victory Day In the Name
of God, Most Compassionate, Most
Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of
our Glorious Arab Nation…"
"Middle East Correspondent, Robert Fisk: Why was it that the bombing
of the two
embassies in Tanzania and Kenya occurred on the eighth anniversary to
the very day of the first arrival of American troops of the 82nd
airborne in Saudi Arabia in 1990?"
"The 12th of October 2002 will for the rest of Australian history be
counted as a day when evil
struck with indiscriminate and indescribable savagery,"
"On October 12th, 2000 terrorists in a boat laden with explosives
carried out a
suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the harbor at Aden, Yemen. In
what President Clinton described as a "despicable and cowardly act,"
17 U.S. sailors were killed, and over 30 others were wounded."
After the liberation of Iraq terrorists struck the Baghdad Hotel on
October 12th.
If you add 1 to 9 you get 10. If you add 1 to 11 you get 12. Thus
the 9/11/2001 attack
was presaged by the attack on the U.S.S. Cole on 10/12/2000. The
terrorists were
engaging in what to them was a private joke regarding their plans
for 9/11/2001.
"Iraq has the motivation and the means to actively support the
Islamist networks of the region*** In the past, there have been
intelligence reports of possible cooperation between Iraq and Osama
bin Laden. Iraq has already tried to assassinate President Bush
Senior in 1993, when he visited Kuwait as a private citizen. In the
attack
on the USS Cole in Aden (in) October (of 2000), there could have
been an
Iraqi connection. Iraq has excellent relations with the anti-Western
Yemeni Islamists of the Army of Aden-Abyan, whose militants have been
arrested by the Yemenite authorities in connection with the attack.
Such an attack required long preparations, technical and military
skills and good operational intelligence. In addition, the explosive
used in the attack was sophisticated, a "shaped charge" like a
torpedo or a missile, a device not in use by terrorist
organizations, and
which may have come from a military stockpile."
4 DAYS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Saddam's Stepson in USA
"Authorities said Saffi" (Saddam's Stepson), " triggered red flags
for four reasons: the family relationship to the Iraqi dictator;
training
at an American flight school; arrival on the eve of the Independence
Day celebrations; and his only documented prior entry into the United
States occurred just four days before the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks."
"Saddam's Stepson to Be Deported Fri Jul 5th 2002 (Saffi) was
planning to study at a flight school believed by the FBI
to have been used by one of the Sept. 11 hijackers."
"US officials state that an FBI investigation had substantiated
charges that the Iraqi government plotted the assassination of former
President Bush while visiting Kuwait in April 1993."
"Terrorist Pilot Met With Iraqi Intelligence Agent By RICK JERVIS
Special to The Wall Street Journal Europe Wall Street Journal,
Europe October 4, 2001 [With thanks to Laurie Mylroie - Iraq News]
PRAGUE-Mohamed Atta, who
allegedly crashed the first plane into the World Trade Center on
Sept. 11, met at least one Iraqi intelligence agent last year in
Prague
before moving to the U.S., a Czech official close to the
investigation
said."
United Airlines Flight 175 which left Boston's Logan Airport bound
for Los Angeles before being piloted into the South Tower of the
World Trade Center.
UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY 15 December 1988 43/175.
Question of Palestine
RECORDED VOTE ON RESOLUTION 43/175 A: 123-2-20
Did Anniversary Assassins Strike Again November 22nd 2004
What do you think the chances are that the plane crash which would
have killed the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert
Walker Bush,had he been on board the plane which was enroute from
Love Field in Dallas, Texas to pick him up, on the 41st anniversary
of the assassination of JFK 11/22/1963 was a botched assassination
attempt? Saddam Hussein, who may be running the show from his jail
cell, assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years old, took
power in Iraq in 1968, made it official 11 years later in 1979,
invaded Kuwait 11 years later in 1990 sent bin Laden to assassinate
former President Bush 11 years later on 9/11/2001 on the 11th
anniversary to the day of the 9/11/1990 Bush speech to Congress on
Iraq in which Bush mentioned The New World Order."US plans to
dominate the world under the cover of what is called the new [world]
order. These are the fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion
rocking World Trade Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic
of Iraq Television in Arabic-Official television station of the
Iraqi Government." The World Trade Center looked so much like the
number 11 that WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World
Trade Center as its logo. Note 11 times 2 equals 22. The Madrid
attacks were done exactly 911 days after 9/11/2001. Sadat,
criticized by arafat and Saddam for making peace with Israel, was
assassinated on 10/6/1981 exactly 8 years after the 10/6/1973 Yom
Kippur War in which he failed to defeat Israel. The American
Embassies in Africa were hit on August 8th, 1998, exactly 8 years
after the US entered Saudi Arabia in response to Saddam's invasion
of Kuwait. A gentlemanly John Connally reaches to remove his hat as
Jackie Kennedy enters presidential limousine at Love Field, Dallas,
November 22, 1963
Source: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/jbc-love.htm
The shocking news that narco-terrorists in Colombia plotted to
assassinate current President George W. Bush on Monday November
22nd, 2004,
the 41st anniversary of the JFK assassination, needs some
examination.
BCCI, the infamous drug-terror-arms bank that allegedly gave former
President Jimmy Carter $10 million for the Carter Library,had
offices in Peru, where
coca leaves are grown, in Colombia, where the coca leaves are
processed into cocaine, and in Castro's Cuba, and Baathist Syria and
Baathist Iraq. Banks
did not get offices in any of those 3 tyrannies without the approval
of the tyrant.
"Colombian Rebels Planned to Kill President Bush
November 27th, 2004 U.S. National - Reuters
By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Bush was
targeted for assassination by Colombia's biggest Marxist rebel group
this week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, a
top Colombian official said on Saturday. "According to informants
and various sources, we had information indicating that various
members of the FARC had been instructed by their leaders to make an
attempt against President Bush," Defense Secretary Jorge Alberto
Uribe told reporters. He would not be drawn out on the details of
the threat. The White House had no immediate comment.
The U.S. Secret Service, which protects the president, said it "does
not comment or release information regarding our protective
intelligence and protective methods." "We do not discuss any alleged
threats to our protectees," said Jonathan Cherry, a Secret Service
spokesman.
There was heavy security in Cartagena when Bush visited the city on
Monday(November 22nd, 2004)on his way back from the APEC forum in
Chile. Military helicopters packed with armed soldiers flew over
Bush's motorcade while naval vessels kept watch offshore. Many shops
were shuttered."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041127/us_nm/colombia_bush_plot_dc_5
"In early August, 1991, the Committee was provided with documents
from the Latin American and Caribbean Region Office (LACRO) of BCCI,
describing the offer for sale by the Argentine air force of 22
Mirage aircraft for $110 million. (63) The planned sale was to have
been made to Iraq, as part of Saddam Hussein's massive military
buildup prior to the Gulf war. BCCI was acting as the broker for the
transaction, which was to take place in August or September of
1989...As Robert Mazur, the Customs agent in Tampa who selected BCCI
as the target of the Customs money laundering sting testified, BCCI
bank executives volunteered methods to enhance and improve his
techniques for money laundering, and shortly before the sting ended
the operation, offered to introduce Mazur to other potential "cash"
customers for money laundering services from Bogota, Colombia...."
Source: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/04crime.htm
"The Ba'ath leadership gave the orders for Qasim's assassination...On
October 7th,1959, a six-,man assassination squad was waiting...the
night before one member of the squad had fallen ill. A new recruit
was drafted in...his full name was Saddam Hussein al-Takriti."
Page 22
"The Ba'athist led forces...participated in the coup of 8th February
1963...Immediately after the coup, Saddam Hussein returned to Iraq,
where he was appointed as the head of Al-Jihaz Al Khas, known
popularly as Jihaz Haneen (the Yearning Apparatus), the clandestine
intelligence organization of the Ba'ath Party. Saddam proceeded to
turn it into an instrument of terror....on 18th November (1963) the
army seized power in a swift military coup...the new leadership of
the Ba'ath Party...was arrested. However, some of its members
immediately collaborated with the new regime..." Pgs 25-26
"7th October 1959 A Ba'athist assassination squad fails to kill
Qasim. A member of the team, twenty-two-year old Saddam Hussein,
escapes to Syria and then to Egypt...8th February 1963 A Ba'athist
coup overthrows Quasim amidst several days of terrible street
fighting...18th November 1963 Following bitter infighting
between...factions of the Baath, Arif overthrows the Ba'athist
regime..." Pages 312-313
"Saddam...inherited from his uncle an admiration for Nazi
principles...he was attracted to the ideas of the Ba'ath nationalist
movement. The movement had been established in Damascus in 1943"
(when Syria was a French colony and Hitler ruled France) "by two
Syrians, Greek Orthodox Christian Michel A'flaq and Sunni Muslim
Salah al-Bitar. Their philosophy was based on the ideology of German
national socialism" (Nazism) "and on Italian fascism." Page 199
"After the Ba'ath Party came to power in February 1963...Saddam was
promoted into the Regional Command Council and it was soon found
that this was his metier. He was put in charge of a special force
responsible for terror and assassination and was an interrogator and
torturer in the Qasr al-Nihayyat (`The Palace of the End').
Eyewitnesses say Saddam excelled in creating new methods and
revealed a sadistically inventive mind. He designed new instruments
of torture and then experimentd with them on his victims. ...By the
summer of 1963, Saddam was urging the party to put him in charge of
creating a special security apparatus modelled on the Nazi SS. This
was the Jihaz Haneen....following nationalisation of banks and
certain foreign companies in 1964, the Ba'ath Party instructed
Saddam to assassinate the president Abd al-Salam Arif. The proposed
assassination was designed to trigger off another Ba'ath coup.
Critics say it was a plan on behalf of the CIA but according to some
Ba'athist defectors the CIA did not have direct contact with the
Ba'ath itself but with army officers who were co-ordinating a joint
coup with the party. The main contact with the Americans was Iraq's
own ambassador in Washington, Dr. Nasser al-Hanni." Pages 201-203
"The second part of the plot was carried out by the Jihaz
Haneen...Members of the Iraqi Jewish community...were...arrested.
Eleven of them were among the first fourteen `spies' to be pubicly
hanged on 27th January 1969....The public hangings turned into a
national holiday with live television and radio coverage, and the
Ba'ath Party organized the transport of some hundred
thousand `workers and peasants' from outside Baghdad to join
in...Families picknicked under trees while watching the hangings.
This public orgy of death went on for twenty-four hours..." Page 206
Source: Unholy Babylon-The Secret History of Saddam's War by Adel
Darwish and Gregory Alexander St. Martin's Press, New York 1991
ISBN 0-312-06530-2
"Compare the January 1969 show trial with another spectacle
organized by the first Ba'thi regime in 1963 and designed to counter
the continuing popularity of the ousted president, `Abd al-Karim
Qassem, among certain sectors of the Shi'ite population of Baghdad.
In the first week of the coup, the citizens of al-Thawra, a suburb
of Baghdad, had fought the army and Ba'thist militia in some of the
bloodiest street battles in the history of the country. They refused
to believe that Qassem had been overthrown....The Ba'ath...dealt
with this emotive imagery by televising a lengthy film clip
displaying Qassem's bullet-ridden corpse. Night after night, they
made their gruesome point. The body was propped up on a chair in the
studio. A soldier saunter around, handling its parts. The camera
would cut to scenes of devastation at the Ministry of Defence where
Qassem had made his last stand. There, on location, it lingered on
the mutilated corpses of Qassem's entourage...Back to the studio,
and close-ups now of the entry and exit points of each bullet hole.
The whole macabre sequence closes with a scene that must forever
remain etched on the memory of all those who saw it: the soldier
grabbing the lolling head by the hair, came right up close, and spat
full face into it. The fear that the Ba'th were trying to instill in
this and other instances was brutally direct. The centuries-old
message was simple: he is dead, you had better believe it, we can do
the smae to you. The fact that it was on television extended its
reach..." Pages 58-59.
Source: Republic of Fear The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq by Samir
al Khalil Pantheon Books, New York 1989 ISBN 0-679-73502-X
"An Afghani tends to a field of heroin poppies, the sale of which
provides much of the financing for the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.
Afghanistan is the world's No. 1 producer and distributor of heroin,
and illicit drug trafficking is the biggest funding source for
By Rachel Ehrenfeld / Special to The Detroit News About the author
Rachel Ehrenfeld is director of the New York-based Center for the
Study of Corruption and the author of "Evil Money" (HarperBusiness)
and "Narco-Terrorism" (Basic Books).
Moving the money...
In the welter of events following the bombing of the World Trade
Center in Feb. 26, 1993, few noticed that the first man arrested,
Mohammed Salameh—the poor, unemployed illegal immigrant—
offered $5 million for bail. Where could he get this kind of money?
The judge refused bail. But was the source of Salameh's offer the
same as the one that funded the eight men—arrested shortly
afterward—who planned to blow up Manhattan's tunnels and bridges
and to assassinate public officials?
Were the same money sources behind the final attack on the World
Trade Center on Sept. 11?
... For a long time, there has been evidence that terrorist,
international drug trafficking and criminal organizations use the
same fund-raising methods to enrich themselves.
Yet no one seemed to connect the dots. And no one seriously tried to
crack down on their financing.
Bin Laden's is only one among many hostile international criminal
organizations, often state-sponsored, that will do whatever they can
to diminish the status of the United States as the only superpower.
According to a State Department report, the Taliban, who are at bin
Laden's service, has the advantage of controlling the world's
largest heroin production and distribution in the world.
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the heroin production
soared to hundreds of tons each year. In 1999 alone, the world
production of heroin was estimated at 500 metric tons; 400 were
produced by the Taliban and available to fund bin Laden and his
associates worldwide. First warning
The writing was on the wall on July 5, 1991, when the Bank of
England shut down what was the most important Islamic bank in the
world, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). This
criminal entity was created by the Pakistani Aaga Hassan Abedi "to
fight the evil influence of the West"; to help with the creation of
the "Islamic Bomb"; to finance all Muslim terrorist organizations;
and to launder the money that was generated mostly by illicit drug
trafficking and other illegal activities, including arms
trafficking.
When BCCI went belly up, we learned from thousands of documents that
Abu Nidal—the notorious Palestinian terrorist organization that
now enjoys the hospitality of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO), Hezbollah and bin Laden—had
accounts in the bank. By the end of the 1980s, the "special
services" provided by BCCI included access to Western humanitarian
and international development funds, as well as drug money
laundering, secret transfers of cash and bribes.
A "Black Network," a special enforcement unit supported by Abu Nidal
and other terrorist organizations, operated from Pakistan. The same
Pakistan that harbored bin Laden for many years while its officials
told the United States that they didn't know his whereabouts. And
the same Pakistan that for decades, even according to the State
Department's annual report, had been a major drug trafficking and
money laundering center.
Western blindness
Yet, now more importantly, we also discovered that the American and
British governments knew and kept the bank open for a long time. The
bank "that would bribe God" was able to get away with its criminal
activities for decades due to Abedi's clever portrayal of the Muslim
nations as victims of Western—and particularly U.S.—
"imperialism." And when the bank was shuttered, the accusation in
the Muslim/Arab and Third World countries was that the U.S. and the
United Kingdom governments closed the bank to curtail the growing
fiscal power of Muslim countries.
Like Abedi, anti-American, anti-Western terrorist and radical Muslim
states and organizations, such as the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Hamas,
Hezbollah, the PLO, Iraq and Iran, use Western democratic rhetoric
to their advantage. But it is the willful blindness, mainly toward
the growing volume of drug money laundering, exercised by Western
bankers on the one hand and Western politicians on the other, that
makes money laundering possible, despite the many laws and
international conventions to control this phenomenon.
The BCCI was the first warning to the West. The second warning about
the abuse of European and American financial markets by terrorist
organizations, as well as their involvement in the illicit arms and
drug trade, was made in February 1994 by the British National
Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS).
The Organized Crime Unit of the NCIS warned that Middle East
terrorist groups and states were targeting the financial centers of
London, Frankfurt and other Western countries, and that they favor
illegal drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud....
Clinton appeasement
Despite its stated policy of not negotiating with terrorists, the
Clinton administration went out of its way to appease a few of the
20th century's most notorious terror groups: the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC), the PLO and the Irish Republican Army.
All are heavily involved in the drug trade.
On the eve of the 1993 handshake on the White House lawn between
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat,
Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service estimated the PLO's
ill-gotten gains to total between $8 billion to $10 billion, with an
annual income of about $1.5 billion to $2 billion from "donations,
extortion, payoffs, illegal arms dealing, drug trafficking, money
laundering, fraud, etc."
Since then, Washington has only aided and abetted the PLO. Since the
start of the Oslo process, Arafat has received at least $3 billion
more from the United States and the international community, without
any serious demand for accountability, according to a report this
year to Congress. Arafat, in well-documented instances, has been
systematically skimming off portions of these funds, as he has with
monies given to him on behalf of the refugees in the camps.
The PLO was in the drug trafficking business almost from the
beginning. Operating from Lebanon, under Habash's able leadership
and assisted by a PLO-owned shipping company SUMUD, the organization
exported hashish, opium, heroin and cocaine, first to Europe and
later even to the United States and Australia. In return, it
obtained weapons for their war against Israel and the West, and
amassed a massive treasure trove. In addition, the PLO and Arafat,
who enjoy the financial and strategic support of Hussein and bin
Laden, have the distinction of being the organization that
promoted "suicide bombers" as a weapon.
Yet the Clinton administration subsidized a multitude of radical
Palestinian groups, ranging from Arafat's Fatah branch of the PLO
and its military wing, the Tanzim, to the socialist-nationalist
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), headed by
George Habash, all with close ties to bin Laden, Iraq and Iran.
...It was the Clinton White House that, despite evidence to the
contrary, removed Syria from its list of the drug trafficking
countries, to entice Syria to join the "peace process" in the Middle
East.
The failure of that process and the compromises the United States
has made to maintain an illusion of peaceful prospects had no doubt
added to the Muslim radical terrorists' resolve to attack what they
see as a naive and vulnerable America.
In another example of self-delusion, in 1999, then Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright suggested a U.S.-led coalition to negotiate
with the FARC and supported Colombia President Pastrana's "land for
peace" initiative, despite a report from the General Accounting
Office that the FARC is running a major international criminal
enterprise that, among other things, supplies hundreds of tons of
cocaine and heroin to the U.S. black market.
This second Clinton "land for peace" initiative gave half of
Colombia to the narco-terrorist FARC, while doing nothing to
diminish its violence or appetite to control the rest of the
country...."
Source: http://www.detnews.com/2001/editorial/0109/30/a17-306400.htm
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called the Palestinian Authority
a "gang of corrupt assassins and terrorists." "There is an obstacle
[to peace] with the gang of corrupt assassins and terrorists that
lead the Palestinian Authority," Sharon said in a televised speech
in Israel. "The only way to peace is to remove this murderous
posse." – Source:
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
Sharon raps Arafat `assassins' By KENNETH R. BAZINET DAILY NEWS
WASHINGTON BUREAU Thursday, August 8th, 2002
"Bush back from surprise Iraq trip
President Bush has arrived back in the United States after a
surprise trip to Baghdad, where he spent two hours with US troops
celebrating Thanksgiving Day.
Mr. Bush told troops the US would not be swayed by ongoing attacks
in Iraq.
"We did not charge hundreds of miles into the heart of Iraq, pay a
bitter cost of casualties, defeat a ruthless dictator and liberate
25 million people only to retreat before a band of thugs and
assassins," he told 600 US soldiers.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3245584.stm
"President Bush and his wife, Laura, along with former president
George H. W.
Bush, welcome the King and Queen of Spain, Juan and Sofia Carlos, to
their ranch
Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, in Crawford, Texas.(AP Photo/Lawrence
Jackson)"
Source:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/041124/480/txlj10111241820
A small jet chartered to fly former President Bush to Ecuador
Monday,November
22nd, 2004 was well below normal altitude when it clipped a toll
road light
tower and crashed into a muddy field three miles south of Hobby
Airport, killing
the crew of three.The plane, which belonged to Jet Place Inc. of
Tulsa, Okla.,
came from Love Field in Dallas. It was approaching the runway when
the wing and
the landing gear on the right side clipped the pole on a tollway
road....."
"Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was
pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more
convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed
deliberately."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair000121.html "The
co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 uttered
an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just
before the doomed airliner went down"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair991121.html
"Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial
aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary
radar data seems to indicate."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/chat_johnnance110199.html
"The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as
tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond
these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller
than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively
unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from
the
south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president
uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The
problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this
direction is that there's a 555 ft tall structure in the way called
the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is
similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the
west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in
approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument,
and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this,
but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings
in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall,
would have to be cleared, which means the plane's altitude would
probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a
successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot."
Imagine the rage and fury of Saddam Hussein
"On February 26th, 1982 the Reagan Administration told Congress that
it had dropped Iraq from the list of nations that supported acts of
international terrorism. Baghdad would now be eligible for American
government loan guarantees." source: SPIDER'S WEB: THE SECRET HISTORY
OF HOW THE WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
Imagine Saddam's rage and fury when Kuwait was liberated on February
26th, 1991, 9 years to the day after the event described above! Is it
any wonder that Saddam would launch the first of his 2 attacks on the
World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993, the 2nd anniversary of the
liberation of Kuwait City, and the 11th anniversary of the event
described above, and that he would launch his 2nd attack on the World
Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, the 11th anniversary of the
Bush
I speech to Congress on Iraq. Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for
instance " Saddam Hussein's speech on the 11th Anniversary of the
Great Victory Day In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most
Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of
our Glorious Arab Nation…"
http://www.index.com.jo/iraqtoday/auguste.html
Saddam took credit for the September 11th attacks on America on
Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television. Saddam sent his henchman Osama
bin Laden to attack America and to assassinate former President
Bush, who was at the White House on the morning of September 11th,
2001,just as he had tried to assassinate former President Bush in
Kuwait in 1993. That is why Flight 93 was selected to hit the White
House on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Fortunately the heroes
of Flight 93 stopped that from happening and the plane went down in
Pennsylvania.
Second Attempt to Assassinate President Bush.
We all know that Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate former
President
Bush in Kuwait in 1993. Laura Bush, wife of the current President
Bush,
along with the current President Bush's brothers, his parents, and
former Secretary of State Baker were actually in the air enroute to
Kuwait when the intelligence came in and their plane was turned back.
Then President Clinton later bombed an empty Iraqi intelligence
building
in retaliation for that attempt in which Saddam's homicide bombers
were
caught in Kuwait.
We believe that the Second Attempt to assassinate former President
George Herbert Walker Bush was made by Saddam Hussein using his
henchman Osama bin Laden on September 11th, 2001.
September 11th, 1990 Dubya's Dad Speaks to Congress on Iraq When
September 11th Yes ! September 11th 1990. Exactly 11 years to the
day before the infamous September 11th 2001 attacks on America.
Saddam's Revenge !!! How clear it is!!! "Address Before a Joint
Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal
Budget Deficit September 11, 1990.
We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as
significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of August
2d, following negotiations and promises by Iraq's dictator Saddam
Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting
and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. *** The crisis in the Persian Gulf,
as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an
historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our
fifth
objective-a new world order-can emerge. ***" READ THE WHOLE OF
DUBYA'S
DADDY'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1990 AT
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ "Note: The President spoke at 9:09
p.m.in
the House Chamber at the Capitol.. The address was broadcast live on
nationwide television and radio." http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ Iraq
Cheers September 11th Attacks on America "Wednesday, September 12,
2001 Baghdad TV Commentary: US `Reaping Fruits of Crimes Against
Humanity' Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic 1700 GMT 11
Sep 01 [TV Commentary by Sa'd Yasin Yusuf read by announcer over
footage of explosions in New York] [FBIS Translated Text] [With
thanks
to Laurie Mylorie - Iraq Watch] The American cowboy is reaping the
fruits of his crimes against humanity. It is a black day in the
history of America, which is tasting the bitter defeat of its crimes
and disregard for peoples' will to lead a free, decent life. The
massive explosions in the centers of power in America, notably the
Pentagon, is a painful slap in the face of US politicians to stop
their illegitimate hegemony and attempts to impose custodianship on
peoples. It was no coincidence that the World Trade Center was
destroyed in suicidal operations involving two planes that have
broken
through all US security barriers to carry the operation of the
century
and to express rejection of the reckless US policy. Panic has spread
among US official circles, which evacuated the White House following
a
series of explosions. They also evacuated the Pentagon, the State
Department, and Congress and closed down the airports and government
institutions. The collapse of US centers of power is a collapse of
the
US policy, which deviates from human values and stands by world
Zionism at all international forums to continue to slaughter the
Palestinian Arab people and implement US plans to dominate the world
under the cover of what is called the new [world] order. These are
the
fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion rocking World Trade
Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television
in
Arabic-Official television station of the Iraqi Government]"
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3
"BLITZER: That's Osama bin Laden's group. Now you also have some
new information, David, about Mohamed Atta. He's the suspected
ringleader of the September 11th hijackings.
ENSOR: Well, that's right. As you know, he was one of the suicide
hijackers who died on September 11th on one of those aircraft. And we
had previously reported on September 19th that he met with an Iraqi
intelligence official somewhere in Europe. Well, I'm now able to tell
you, based on information from U.S. sources, he met not once but
twice with Iraqi intelligence officers in Prague in the Czech
Republic:
once last year in June of 2000 and once in April of 2001."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/10/lkl.00.html
Aired 9/11/2001 "Baghdad Republic of Iraq TV: These are
the fruits of the new US order.[Video of explosion rocking World
Trade
Center]Panic has spread among US official circles, which evacuated
the White House following a series of explosions."
"CNN LARRY KING LIVE Aired October 2, 2001 LARRY KING: Have you
spoken to your father- in-law? (George Herbert Walker Bush)
LAURA BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had
actually spent that Monday night here.(at the White House) I had
just seen them off that morning (9/11/2001) when I got in the car
and found out about the first plane.(going into the World Trade
Center.)" http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html
"Senator Joseph Lieberman: (Saddam) tried to kill former President
Bush (in 1993)"
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0401/25/le.00.html
Former President Bush Speech to Congress September 11th 1990. 11
years to the day before September 11th 2001 "In the early morning
hours of August 2d,(1990),a powerful Iraqi army invaded Kuwait.The
crisis in the Persian Gulf also offers a rare opportunity to move
toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled
times, our fifth objective-a new world order-can emerge."
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/
"(White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer: we have real and
credible information that the airplane that landed at the Pentagon
was originally intended to hit the White House."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912-
8.html#intended-targets
"White House Was Flight 93 Target
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml
A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the intended
target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a
Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House. Government
sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, believed to be the
source of the information." "Moussaoui Says He Was to Hijack 5th
Plane
By MATTHEW BARAKAT, Associated Press Writer (Monday March 27, 2006)
Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and
would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth
airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House.
Moussaoui's testimony on his own behalf stunned the courtroom. His
account was in stark contrast to his previous statements in which he
said the White House attack was to come later if the United States
refused to release a radical Egyptian sheik imprisoned on earlier
terrorist convictions.
On Dec. 22, 2001, Reid was subdued by passengers when he attempted
to detonate a bomb in his shoe aboard American Airlines Flight 63
from Paris to Miami. There were 197 people on board. The plane was
diverted to Boston, where it landed safely.
Moussaoui told the court he knew the World Trade Center attack was
coming and that he lied to investigators when arrested in August
2001 because he wanted it to happen.
"You lied because you wanted to conceal that you were a member of al-
Qaida?" prosecutor Rob Spencer asked.
"That's correct," Moussaoui said.
Spencer: "You lied so the plan could go forward?"
Moussaoui: "That's correct."
The exchange was key to the government's case that the attacks might
have been averted if Moussaoui had been more cooperative following
his arrest.
Moussaoui told the court he knew the attacks were coming some time
after August 2001 and bought a radio so he could hear them unfold.
Specifically, he said he knew the World Trade Center was going to be
attacked, but asserted he was not part of that plot and didn't know
the details.
Nineteen men pulled off the Sept. 11 attacks on New York in
Washington in the worst act of terrorism ever on U.S. soil.
"I had knowledge that the Twin Towers would be hit," Moussaoui
said. "I didn't know the details of this."
Asked by his lawyer why he signed his guilty plea in April as "the
20th hijacker," Moussaoui replied: "Because everybody used to refer
to me as the 20th hijacker and it was a bit of fun."
Before Moussaoui took the stand, his lawyers made a last attempt to
stop him from testifying, but failed. Defense attorney Gerald Zerkin
argued that his client would not be a competent witness because he
has contempt for the court, only recognizes Islamic law and
therefore "the affirmation he undertakes would be meaningless."
Moussaoui at first denied he was to have been a fifth hijack pilot
Sept. 11 but under cross examination spoke of the plan that would
have him attack the White House. He said Reid was the only person he
knew for sure would have been on that mission, but others were
discussed.
The 19 terrorists on Sept. 11 hijacked and crashed four airliners,
killing nearly 3,000 people in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon
and on the planes. The intended target of the plane that crashed
into a Pennsylvania field remains unknown.
Moussaoui said he talked with an al-Qaida official in 1999 about why
a 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center failed to bring the towers
down. He said "was asked in the same period for the first time if I
want to be a suicide pilot and I declined."
Just before Moussaoui took the stand, the court heard testimony that
two months before the attacks that a CIA deputy chief waited in vain
for permission to tell the FBI about a "very high interest" al-Qaida
operative who became one of the hijackers.
The official, a senior figure in the CIA's Osama bin Laden unit,
said he sought authorization on July 13, 2001, to send information
to the FBI but got no response for 10 days, then asked again.
As it turned out, the information on Khalid al-Mihdhar did not reach
the FBI until late August. At the time, CIA officers needed
permission from a special unit before passing certain intelligence
on to the FBI.
The official was identified only as John. His written testimony was
read into the record.
"John's" testimony was part of the defense's case that federal
authorities missed multiple opportunities to catch hijackers and
perhaps thwart the 9/11 plot.
His testimony included an e-mail sent by FBI supervisor Michael
Maltbie discussing Moussaoui but playing down his terrorist
connections. Maltbie's e-mail said "there's no indication that
(Moussaoui) had plans for any nefarious activity."
He sent that e-mail to the CIA even after receiving a lengthy memo
from the FBI agent who arrested Moussaoui and suspected him of being
a terrorist with plans to hijack aircraft.
Prosecutors argue that Moussaoui, a French citizen, thwarted a prime
opportunity to track down the 9/11 hijackers and possibly unravel
the plot when he was arrested in August 2001 on immigration
violations and lied to the FBI about his al-Qaida membership and
plans to hijack a plane.
Had Moussaoui confessed, the FBI could have pursued leads that would
have led them to most of the hijackers, government witnesses have
testified.
To win the death penalty, prosecutors must first prove that
Moussaoui's actions — specifically, his lies — were directly
responsible for at least one death on Sept. 11.
If they fail, Moussaoui would get life in prison.
___
Associated Press Writer Michael J. Sniffen contributed to this report
source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060327/ap_on_re_us/moussaoui_14&printer=
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