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Tim Howells (224 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-13-05 05:09 AM Original message |
September 11 and the Neocons |
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SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE NEOCONS
No crime as horrific as the attacks of September 11 can be covered up indefinitely. There will be leaks, whistleblowers, and real investigations, albeit investigations not sanctioned by the US government. One very promising sign is that 25 prominent US military, intelligence and law enforcement officials have recently condemned the coverup in a letter to the US congress, and have stated unequivocably that certain US government officials must be held accountable not only for incompetence, but for intentional and treasonous complicity: * "we are referring not to quasi-innocent mistakes caused by 'lack of imagination' or brought about by ordinary 'human error'. Rather, we refer to intentional actions or inaction by individuals responsible for our national security, actions or inaction dictated by motives other than the security of the people of the United States." http://pogo.org/m/hsp/hsp-911commission-040913.pdf Open Letter to The Congress of The United States September 13, 2004 Signed: -- Costello, Edward J. Jr., Former Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI -- Cole, John M., Former Veteran Intelligence Operations Specialist, FBI -- Conrad, David "Mark", Retired Agent in Charge, Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs -- Dew, Rosemary N., Former Supervisory Special Agent, Counterterrorism & Counterintelligence, FBI -- Dzakovic, Bogdan, Former Red Team Leader, FAA -- Edmonds, Sibel D., Former Language Specialist, FBI -- Elson, Steve, Retired Navy Seal & Former Special Agent, FAA & US Navy -- Forbes, David, Aviation, Logistics and Govt. Security Analysts, BoydForbes, Inc., -- Goodman, Melvin A., Former Senior Analyst/ Division Manager, CIA; Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy -- Graf, Mark, Former Security Supervisor, Planner, & Derivative Classifier, Department of Energy -- Graham, Gilbert M., Retired Special Agent, Counterintelligence, FBI -- Kleiman, Diane, Former Special Agent, US Customs -- Kwiatkowski, Karen U., Lt. Col. USAF (ret.), Veteran Policy Analyst-DoD -- Larkin, Lynne A., Former Operation Officer, CIA -- MacMichael, David, Former Senior Estimates Officer, CIA -- McGovern, Raymond L., Former Analyst, CIA -- Pahle, Theodore J., Retired Senior Intelligence Officer, DIA -- Sarshar, Behrooz, Retired Language Specialist, FBI -- Sullivan, Brian F., Retired Special Agent & Risk Management Specialist, FAA -- Tortorich, Larry J., Retired US Naval Officer, US Navy & Dept. of Homeland Security/TSA -- Turner, Jane A., Retired Special Agent, FBI -- Vincent, John B., Retired Special Agent, Counterterrorism, FBI -- Whitehurst, Dr. Fred, Retired Supervisory Special Agent/ Laboratory Forensic Examiner, FBI -- Wright, Ann, Col. US Army (ret.); and Former Foreign Service officer -- Zipoli, Matthew J., Special Response Team (SRT) Officer, DOE * What do these insiders know that we do not? The best clues at this point come from the statements of one of the signatories of the letter, Sibel Edmonds. She has stated: * "You get to a point ... where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging ... We are not talking about only governmental levels ... I keep underlining semi-legit organizations and following the money. "If they were to do real investigations we would see several significant high level criminal prosecutions in this country. And that is something that they are not going to let out. And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up." http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate, Jim Hogue, Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel, May 07, 2004 * So what are these "semi-legit organizations" that she refers to, and how do they interface with the "governmental levels"? Sibel Edmonds can only speak in generalities, because Attorney General John Ashcroft first imposed a series of sweeping and unprecedented gag orders on her, and then took the further precaution of retroactively classifying all of her previous statements including all interviews she has given and all of her testimony before Congressional committees. Luckily, however, the US Airforce Inspector General slipped up and named one of the apparently suspected "semi-legit" organizations in an unclassified letter to Mrs. Edmonds. The named organization is the American Turkish Council (ATC). * http://www.balkanalysis.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=391 Did Pentagon Reveal Name of Edmonds’ 'Semi-Legit' Group? balkanalysis.com, August 05, 2003 * Neoconservative leaders have been prominently associated with the American-Turkish Council. Neocon godfather Daniel Pipes is on the board of directors: * http://www.danielpipes.org/article/98 Daniel Pipes: Prophet, by Leonard Getz, Lifestyles Magazine, June 2000 * Paul Wolfowitz addressed the ATC in March of 2001. * http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2001/s20010326-depsecdef.html Remarks by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Washington, DC, Monday, March 26, 2001. DoD Website * Richard Perle gave the keynote speech at an ATC conference in March of 2002. * http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/CHR/ING2002/03/02x03x19.HTM Perle: "Turkey would support the US during an operation in Iraq", Turkish Press Review, March 19, 2002 * Perle together with Douglas Feith founded another shady non- governmental organization called International Advisors Inc. that is also deeply involved in activities of the governments of Turkey and the United States. These activities have been extraordinarily lucrative for Perle and Feith, leading to strenuous allegations of conflict of interest on the part of these officials. The allegations are laid out in joint letters to President George W. Bush, and DoD General Counsel William J. Haynes, cosigned by several Armenian, Greek, and Kurdish organizations. In addition to Wolfowitz, Perle, and Feith, Under Secretary of State Marc Grossman is also named. * http://www.hairenik.com/armenianweekly/february_2003/politics003.html Joint Letter Recommends Review of Policy Toward Turkey Armenian Online Weekly, February 2003 http://www.ahiworld.com/091702_letter2.html Letter To DoD General Counsel William J. Haynes September 6, 2002 * Richard Perle has attempted to falsely deny his association with International Advisors Inc, but he was caught out: * http://www.aaiusa.org/wwatch/051301.htm New Questions About Feith, by James Zogby, Washington Watch, May 13, 2001 * On the subject of the Neocons' shady dealings with non- governmental organizations associated with Turkey, also see: * http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020902&s=vest20020823 Turkey, Israel and the US, by Jason Vest, The Nation, August 23, 2002 * THE BALKANS CONNECTION Neocons and Neolibs view Turkey as central to their geopolitical agenda. According to rightwing journalists Jacob Heilbrunn and Michael Lind, who enjoyed strong connections inside the Clinton administration, the real motivation for the NATO campaigns in the Balkans in the 1990's had little to do with concerns about ethnic cleansing. In an article titled "The Third American Empire", they write: * "President Clinton is depicting his decision to send 20,000 troops into Bosnia as a natural outgrowth of America's European alliance. But instead of seeing Bosnia as the eastern frontier of NATO, we should view the Balkans as the the western frontier of America's rapidly expanding sphere of influence in the Middle East ... The regions once ruled by the Ottoman Turks show signs of becoming the heart of a third American empire ... The main purpose of NATO countries, for the foreseeable future, will be to serve as staging areas for American wars in the Balkans, the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf." The Third American Empire, by Jacob Heilbrunn and Michael Lind, New York Times, January 2, 1996 * There are striking connections between the campaigns in former Yugoslavia and the events of September 11. These connections involve the Pentagon very directly, but also involve several non-governmental "semi-legit" organizations as described by Sibel Edmonds, as well as terrorists, drug traffickers, and money launderers. The Afghan "Jihad" run by the CIA gave bin Laden his start, but the relationship did not end when the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan. During the 1990s The Clinton administration authorized the Pentagon to import Afghan Jihadists into Bosnia and to train and deploy them to fight against the Serbs in support of the NATO campaign. * "By 1993, there was a vast amount of weapons- smuggling through Croatia to the Muslims, organised by 'clandestine agencies' of the USA, Turkey and Iran, in association with a range of Islamic groups that included Afghan mujahedin and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah. Arms bought by Iran and Turkey with the financial backing of Saudi Arabia were airlifted from the Middle East to Bosnia — airlifts with which ... the USA was 'very closely involved'. "The Pentagon's secret alliance with Islamic elements allowed mujahedin fighters to be 'flown in' ... By the end of the 1990s State Department officials were increasingly worried about the consequences of this pact ... US officials claimed that one of bin Laden's top lieutenants had sent operatives to Bosnia, and that during the 1990s Bosnia had served as a 'staging area and safe haven' for al-Qa'eda and others." http://www.antiwar.com/spectator/spec19.html How we trained al-Qa'eda, Brendan O'Neill, The Spectator, 6 September 2003 * According to investigative journalist Wayne Madsen, a former Naval Officer who has worked with NSA, the Pentagon program was assisted enormously by an organization called the Bosnia Defense Fund, again a non-governmental organization created by neocon operatives: * Via something called the Bosnia Defense Fund, these countries deposited millions of dollars into U.S. coffers to buy weapons for the Bosnians ... According to Washington K Street sources, the law firm that established the Bosnia Defense Fund was none other than Feith and Zell, the firm of current Pentagon official and leading neo-con Douglas Feith. Feith's operation at Feith and Zell was assisted by his one-time boss and current member of Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle. Both Feith and Perle advised the Bosnian delegation during the 1995 Dayton Peace talks. http://power.consumercide.com/clark-critq.html Wesley Clark for President?, Another Con Job from the Neo-Cons, By Wayne Madsen * Yet another quasi-non-governmental organization (QUANGO), to use the British term, is Military Professional Resources Inc. MPRI is a very high powered private military advisory firm that employs a great many generals and admirals and other luminaries selected from the US military and intelligence communities. They were very active in the conflicts in Croatia, Kosovo and Bosnia. The tremendous profits available to MPRI and other privately run military organizations are the subject of an article by UPI's Business Correspondent, Sam Vaknin: * Big money is involved. The Los Angeles Times quoted, in its April 14 issue, Equitable Services, a security industry analyst. In 1997, it predicted the international security market would mushroom from $56 billion in 1990 to $220 billion in 2010. This was long before the boost given to the sector by Sept. 11. http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020717-092201-5132r Analysis: Private armies - I, by Sam Vaknin, UPI Senior Business Correspondent, 7/17/2002 * So let's see what we have here. We have a non-governmental military company liasing with terrorists associated with bin Laden on behalf of the Pentagon. Neoconservatives play key roles. Everyone stood to gain tremendous financial and political windfalls as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11. Does this sound like the world of "semi-legit" organizations involved in terrorism and international affairs that Sibel Edmonds claims is implicated in September 11? Oh yes - and drugs and money laundering are indeed a big part of all this. The Kosovo Liberation Army was one of our key allies in the Balkan conflicts. * "The U.S. State Department listed the KLA as a terrorist organization, indicating that it was financing its operations with money from the international heroin trade and loans from Islamic countries and individuals, among them allegedly Usama bin Laden ... Another link to bin Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an Egyptian Jihad organization and also a military commander of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during the Kosovo conflict. (US Congress, Testimony of Ralf Mutschke of Interpol's Criminal Intelligence Division, to the House Judicial Committee, 13 December 2000) ... "The KLA raise part of their funds from the sale of narcotics. Albania and Kosovo lie at the heart of the 'Balkan Route' that links the 'Golden Crescent' of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the drug markets of Europe. This route is worth an estimated $400 billion a year and handles 80 percent of heroin destined for Europe. (House Judiciary Committee, 13 December 2000)" http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_14195.shtml Danger! War Criminals!, by Edward Teague, December 3, 2004. * Further foreshadowing the events of September 11, the Muslim extremists imported by the Pentagon into Bosnia committed atrocities against their own Muslim populations, believing (correctly) that the atrocities would be attributed to the Serbs and would help precipitate NATO intervention on the side of the Muslims. At least three major atrocities formerly attributed to the Serbs are now believed to have been the work of our Muslim allies - i.e. "false flag" attacks, self- inflicted for political purposes. * http://www.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1997/iran.htm Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base, Congressional Press Release, US Senate, January 16, 1997. See the section, "Self-Inflicted Atrocities" * Well, anway ... for what it's worth this is part of what I'm currently looking at, and this is where I see the September 11 investigations heading. I wish I could tie it all up in a neat package. My hat is off to all the investigators doing the real digging and all the insiders doing the leaking at great risk to themselves. May the leaks become a flood. Tim Howells |
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