of the victims ... Never forget!
The 9-11 attack is an open murder investigation, mass murder. It was not an act of war, but a crime against humanity. The victims demand that it be treated as such. Never forget the thousands of innocents wrongly accused, wrongly convicted, wrongly executed in the name of this yet unsolved crime.
What we do know for sure? There was an American connection:
Certainly the notion that Mohamed Atta and his henchmen got help from an international organization while they were in Florida is easy to understand...
Logistical support is difficult to arrange from caves.
But to this day the identity of the organization in question remains a closely-guarded secret.
Now the recent events in Orlando--a central Florida crossroads which Mohamed Atta frequented often enough to have opened a second bank account there--may help change all that.
The man who owned the `terror' flight school in Venice Florida is involved with false front airlines, dummy front companies, shadowy charter operations of dubious intent and a politically-well-connected network plugged in to everyone from First Brother Jeb Bush to Clinton "fund-raiser" Truman Arnold.
This is indisputably a `global network;' it is both covert and unacknowledged, and it was the American interface with the terrorists while they were here.
And nobody is investigating it...except the MadCowMorningNews.
Its not a matter of tin foil or conspiracy theories. A plot involving a "global network" means we are engaged in a world war against conspirators whether they be "Al-Qaeda" or whomever. Why not investigate the crime and bring the conspirators to justice? Indeed if they have a global network and are at work amongst us? Why not do this as it is done everyday under the rule of law in every jurisdiction in this country?
Debunk The Myth of Al-Qaeda: Christion Science Monitor
Such concern, when translated into a heightened vigilance about one's surroundings - particularly in light of this week's warnings about future attacks in the US - may not be a completely bad thing. But unchecked public fear, taken to an extreme, could immobilize citizens, jeopardize civil liberties, and lead America into too many fights abroad.
The United States and its allies in the war on terrorism must defuse the widespread image of Al Qaeda as a ubiquitous, super-organized terror network and call it as it is: a loose collection of groups and individuals that doesn't even refer to itself as "Al Qaeda." Most of the affiliated groups have distinct goals within their own countries or regions, and pose little direct threat to the United States. Washington must also be careful not to imply that any attack anywhere is by definition, or likely, the work of Al Qaeda.
This phenomenon of "exaggerated enemy" is not new.
In 1983, three spectacular suicide bombings in Beirut were claimed by the previously unknown "Islamic Jihad." Numerous subsequent attacks were attributed to the group. And while the intelligence community concluded that "Islamic Jihad" was a nom de guerre for the Lebanese Hizbullah, it was clear that many of the subsequent attacks were unrelated to the militant Shiia organization.
Still, the campaign succeeded in creating the image of an invincible force, and "Islamic Jihad" became a symbol to follow - much as Al Qaeda is today.
The US must be careful about its use of the term "Al Qaeda." Meaning "the base" in Arabic, it originally referred to an Afghan operational base for the mujahideen during the Soviet occupation in the '80s.
In the current context of Osama bin Laden's terror network, this name was imposed externally by Western officials and media sources. Mr. bin Laden has, in fact, never mentioned "Al Qaeda" publicly
Never forget!
Expose the Links: CRG
Fabricated Terrorist Warnings
The day following Colin Powell's flopped presentation to the UN Security Council, the Bush administration declared an `Orange Code' Terror Alert. Disinformation was now being fabricated in a totally improvised fashion. Anti-aircraft missiles were immediately deployed around Washington. The media became inundated with stories on Iraqi support to an impending Al Qaeda attack:
`The nation is now on Orange Alert because intelligence intercepts and simple logic both suggest that our Islamic enemies know the best way to strike at us is through terrorism on U.S. soil.` (New York Post, 11 Feb 2003).
A fabricated story emanating from the CIA on so-called `radioactive dirty bombs' had been planted in the news chain (ABC News, 13 Feb 2003). Sec. Powell warned that
"it would be easy for terrorists to cook up radioactive `dirty' bombs to explode inside the U.S. ... `How likely it is, I can't say... But I think it is wise for us to at least let the American people know of this possibility.'"(ABC This Week quoted in Daily News (New York), 10 Feb. 2003).
Meanwhile, network TV warned that "American hotels, shopping malls or apartment buildings could be al Qaeda's targets as soon as next week...".Following the announcement, tens of thousands of Americans rushed to purchase duct tape, plastic sheets and gas-masks.
It later transpired that the terrorist alert was fabricated by the CIA, in all likelihood in consultation with the State Department (ABC News, 13 Feb. 2003). The FBI, for the first time had pointed its finger at the CIA. While tacitly acknowledging that the alert was a fake, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge decided to maintain the `Orange Code' alert:
"Despite the fabricated report, there are no plans to change the threat level. Officials said other intelligence has been validated and that the high level of precautions is fully warranted." ( ABC News, 13 Feb. 2003 ).
A few days later, in another failed propaganda initiative, a mysterious Osama bin Laden audio tape was presented by Sec. Colin Powell to the US Congress as `evidence' that the Islamic terrorists "are making common cause with a brutal dictator". (US official quoted in The Toronto Star, 12 Feb. 2003). Curiously, the audio tape was in Colin Powell's possession prior to its broadcast by the Al Jazeera TV Network. (Ibid.)
Why would someone deliberatly fabricate a terror warning? What a sick joke. Could it be that there is an agenda beyond fighting terror? Could it be that its the OIL?
America's primary interest in the Persian Gulf lies in ensuring the free and stable flow of oil from the region to the world at large. This fact has nothing to do with the conspiracy theories leveled against the Bush administration during the run-up to the recent war. U.S. interests do not center on whether gas is $2 or $3 at the pump, or whether Exxon gets contracts instead of Lukoil or Total. Nor do they depend on the amount of oil that the United States itself imports from the Persian Gulf or anywhere else. The reason the United States has a legitimate and critical interest in seeing that Persian Gulf oil continues to flow copiously and relatively cheaply is simply that the global economy built over the last 50 years rests on a foundation of inexpensive, plentiful oil, and if that foundation were removed, the global economy would collapse.
Today, roughly 25 percent of the world's oil production comes from the Persian Gulf, with Saudi Arabia alone responsible for roughly 15 percent -- a figure expected to increase rather than decrease in the future. The Persian Gulf region has as much as two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves, and its oil is absurdly economical to produce, with a barrel from Saudi Arabia costing anywhere from a fifth to a tenth of the price of a barrel from Russia. Saudi Arabia is not only the world's largest oil producer and the holder of the world's largest oil reserves, but it also has a majority of the world's excess production capacity, which the Saudis use to stabilize and control the price of oil by increasing or decreasing production as needed. Because of the importance of both Saudi production and Saudi slack capacity, the sudden loss of the Saudi oil network would paralyze the global economy, probably causing a global downturn at least as devastating as the Great Depression of the 1930s, if not worse. So the fact that the United States does not import most of its oil from the Persian Gulf is irrelevant: if Saudi oil production were to vanish, the price of oil in general would shoot through the ceiling, destroying the American economy along with everybody else's
Securing the Gulf: Pollack
Yeah so?
This is darn interesting. Saudi Arabia is having problems with its largest field.
Simmons analyzed 200 technical papers on Saudi reserves by the Society of Petroleum Engineers and his work was peer reviewed by a dozen senior technical experts. What he discovered tells a different story than the conventional wisdom.
Saudi Arabia has over 300 recognized reservoirs but 90% of its oil comes from the five super giant fields discovered between 1940 and 1965. Since the 1970s there haven't been new discoveries of giant fields. The most significant of the oil fields is Ghawar. Found in 1948, the 300-mile-long sliver near the Persian Gulf is the world's largest oil field and accounts for 55%-60% of all Saudi oil produced. Ghawar's current proven reserves are 12% of the world's total. The field produces 5 mbd, which is 6.25% of the world's oil production. According to Simmons, Ghawar's northern regions are almost depleted. Two other giant fields, Abqaiq and Berri, also seem to have peaked in the 1970s.
Saudi Aramco officials flew especially to Washington to refute Simmons' analysis. In a speech before the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, Nansen G. Saleri, a manager of reservoir management for Saudi Aramco said Saudi Arabia can maintain production capacity at the current rate of 10 mbd for the rest of this decade and if needed they could increase maximum output by 20-50% within a decade. His colleague Mahmoud Abdul-Baqi, Saudi Aramco's vice president for exploration also expressed optimism about the future of their industry. "We have a lot of area to explore and find a lot of oil and gas. Our track record shows we delivered for the past 70 years and we will continue to deliver in the next 70 years and beyond." Saudi Aramco says that with more investments it can expand its capacity to 12 mbd or more. But according to the New York Times, privately, Saudi oil officials are less self-assured, cautioning that production beyond 12 mbd would damage the oil fields. Even if their prediction is wrong, the road to the 19.5 million barrels a day by 2020 projected by the EIA is very far.
New Study Raises Doubts About Saudi Reserves
In short we have have a global network using the event of 9-11 as a cover story for starting a world war. This group has a motive: supply shortages of Persian Gulf oil threaten to paralyze the global economy! We have a suspect spinning a web of lies with an undeniable record of fabricating enemies and wars, even of plotting against its own people to provoke a military campaign against a soveriegn nation, a plot that the entire JCS signed off on. We have a bevy of suspects in a treasonous plot to arm Iran against Iraq and fund right wing militants to foment violence in South America in control of the highest offices in government.
Far beyond the issue of whodunnit, and who is to blame. We have the issue of quality of life, of legitimacy in the world, the cause of freedom that we must preserve for all the world's children. We have a moral responsibly and a legal one as the final check and balance on our government to bring our young ones up with free minds, compassionate souls, and brave hearts. I suggest we lead by example. The common people of this country have the responsibilty to raise the bar and demand a level of debate on the issues before us that takes into account some semblance of the truth of our position as a nation, and, our agenda as a player in the world, and ultimately to make our times through our freedom of choice. We see that war, greed and fear is a vicious circle. Given this very obvious conclusion, we have but one rational goal: To create a virtuous spiral.
Open up your heart, and let the sunshine in.