The Global Drug Meta-Group:Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/articles/liberation.htm

A BALLAD OF DRUGS AND 9/11


By Peter Dale Scott.


At the First Emperor’s Tomb

the Chinese People’s Republic

shows you a preliminary movie

in which this monument of empire



is seen through the eyes of peasants

who rose up in revolt

and smashed the terra cotta statues

we have come so far to see.



I tried asking whether the government

is more in favor of the tomb

or of its being smashed? The guide answered

Both! We think the tao of history



contains both the bright yang of order

and the dark yin of revolt.

So I said, Does that mean

that in the present phase of history

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1. kicking

4 exposure!
Great post!

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2. Alan Francovich

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Francovich

Allan Francovich produced, wrote and directed The Maltese Double Cross – Lockerbie, a controversial documentary which challenged the official view that Libya was responsible for the sabotage of Pan Am Flight 103. Instead, an unwitting drug mule, with links to Hezbollah and to both the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the CIA, was alleged to have carried the bomb on board the aircraft.

Francovich suffered a heart attack while going through US customs at the Houston airport, Texas on April 17, 1997 and died at the age of 56 <1>.

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3. wow...very interesting...thanks. n/t

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4. Here's some more on that...

Here's a http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=184&id=1857922005">gem from last year:

The Scotsman
Mon 29, Aug 2005
Former police chief says Lockerbie evidence faked
MARCELLO MEGA

CRUCIAL new claims that could free the Libyan convicted of the Lockerbie bombing have emerged via a retired Scottish police officer of high rank who has told lawyers that vital evidence was fabricated.

The revelation could represent the most dramatic breakthrough for the legal team acting for Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al-Megrahi since his conviction for mass murder in 2001.

The retired officer was a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland (ACPOS), and therefore achieved the rank of assistant chief constable at least.

He has supported the evidence provided to Megrahi's lawyers by a former CIA agent that senior figures in United States intelligence wrote the script to incriminate Libya for the bombing.

The Scottish officer's validation of the claim gives it a credibility it would not otherwise have had, given the senior rank he held.

Sources close to Megrahi's legal team have said the retired officer approached them after Megrahi's appeal, before a bench of five Scottish judges, was dismissed in 2002.

One source said: "He said he believed he had crucial information. A meeting was set up and he gave a statement that supported the long-standing rumours that the key piece of evidence, a fragment of circuit board from a timing device that implicated Libya, had been planted by US agents."

Asked why he had not come forward before, he admitted he had been wary of breaking ranks, afraid of being vilified. He also said that at the time he became aware of the matter, no-one really believed there would ever be a trial.

Dr Jim Swire, who has publicly expressed his belief in Megrahi's innocence, said it was right that all relevant information should be put to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission. Dr Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the bombing, said: "It is in all our interests that areas of doubt are thoroughly examined."

And here's a 2001 http://web.archive.org/web/20010723041717/http://www.sundayherald.com/8759">another related story from the Sunday Herald:

Lockerbie: CIA witness gagged by US government

A FORMER CIA agent who claims Libya is not responsible for the Lockerbie bombing is being gagged by the US government under state secrecy laws and faces 10 years in prison if he reveals any information about the terrorist attack.

United Nations diplomats are outraged that the US government is apparently suppressing a potential key trial witness. Diplomats are now demanding that the CIA agent, Dr Richard Fuisz, be released from the gagging order. Fuisz, a multi-millionaire businessman and pharmaceutical researcher, was, according to US intelligence sources, the CIA's key operative in the Syrian capital Damascus during the 1980s where he also had business interests.

One month before a court order was served on him by the US government gagging him from speaking on the grounds of national security, he spoke to US congressional aide Susan Lindauer, telling her he knew the identities of the Lockerbie bombers and claiming they were not Libyan.

Lindauer, shocked by Fuisz's claims, immediately compiled notes on the meeting which formed the basis of a later sworn affidavit detailing Fuisz's claims. One month after their conversation, in October 1994, a court in Washington DC issued an order barring him from revealing any information on the grounds of "military and state secrets privilege".

When contacted by the Sunday Herald last night, Fuisz said when asked if he was a CIA agent in Syria in the 1980s: "That is not an issue I can confirm or deny. I am not allowed to speak about these issues. In fact, I can't even explain to you why I can't speak about these issues." Fuisz did, however, say that he would not take any action against a newspaper which named him as a CIA agent.


Congressional aide Lindauer, who was involved in early negotiations over the Lockerbie trial, claims Fuisz made "unequivocal statements ... to me that he has first-hand knowledge about the Lockerbie case". In her affidavit, she goes on: "Dr Fuisz has told me that he can identify who orchestrated and executed the bombing. Dr Fuisz has said that he can confirm absolutely that no Libyan national was involved in planning or executing the bombing of PanAm 103, either in any technical or advisory capacity whatsoever."

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Lindauer says Fuisz told her CIA staff had destroyed reports he sent them on Lockerbie. Lindauer also refers in her affidavit to speculation that the USA ¬shafted any connection to Lockerbie away from Syria to Libya in return for its support during the Gulf war.

She added that Fuisz told her: "If the government would let me, I could identify the men behind this attack today. I could do the right thing … I could go into any crowded restaurant and pick out these men … I can tell you their home addresses … You won’t find anywhere in Libya. You will only find in Damascus. I was investigating on the ground and I know."

The 1994 gagging order was ¬issued following disclosures by Fuisz during other legal proceedings about alleged illegal exports of military equipment to Iraq. The order claims that the information held by Fuisz is vital to the "nation’s security or dip¬lomatic relations" and can not be revealed "no matter how compelling the need for, and relevance of, the information". The submission also makes clear that the government is empowered to "protect its interests in this case in the future", thereby gagging Fuisz permanently.
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So Lindauer meets up with the CIA's man in Syria in 1994, makes a sworn deposition in court, and then and Fuisz gets gagged. And here's where things get weirder: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Lindauer">Susan Lindauer was http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4506229/">arrested in 2004 by US authorities for being an Iraqi spy:

Ex-Senate aide charged with giving Iraq secrets
Indictment: Kin of White House chief of staff was paid agent of Iraq

NBC News and news services
Updated: 6:19 p.m. CT March 11, 2004

A former news reporter and press secretary for four members of Congress was charged Thursday with being a paid Iraqi intelligence agent and trying to contact her distant cousin — the White House chief of staff — to alter U.S. policy.

Susan Lindauer, 41, was taken into custody in her hometown of Takoma Park, Md., and made a brief court appearance in Baltimore, where lawyers argued over whether she should be granted bail.

"I’m an antiwar activist, and I’m innocent," Lindauer told WBAL-TV outside the Baltimore FBI office. "I did more to stop terrorism in this country than anybody else. I have done good things for this country. I worked to get weapons inspectors back to Iraq when everyone else said it was impossible."

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The indictment said she accepted $10,000 for working for the intelligence service from 1999 to 2002, including payments for lodging at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad and expenses during meetings in New York City with Iraqi agents.

According to the indictment, Lindauer delivered a letter "to the home of a United States government official" on Jan. 8, 2003, in which she described her access to members of dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime "in an unsuccessful attempt to influence United States policy."

The U.S. official was not identified. But federal sources told NBC’s Pete Williams that the official was Card, Lindauer’s second cousin. The sources said it was Card who alerted authorities to his relative’s activities. A government official, speaking on condition on anonymity, later told The Associated Press that Card was the recipient of the letter.
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And here's where things get extra wierd: Lindauer was declared delusional and too incompetent to take the stand at her trial. In September of this year they released her, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/nyregion/09spy.html?ei=5090&en=e0cb07553d4f28d2&ex=1315454400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print">ruling that she couldn't be forcibly drugged in order to be make mentally sound enough to stand trial:

Ex-Congress Aide Accused in Spy Case Is Free on Bail
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS

A former journalist and Congressional aide accused of working with Iraqi intelligence before the war was released from prison yesterday after a federal judge ruled that she could not be forced to take antipsychotic medication in an effort to make her competent to stand trial.

The judge, Michael Mukasey of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said he was not convinced that even if she took the medication, the defendant, Susan P. Lindauer, 43, would improve enough to be capable of standing trial.

Judge Mukasey also criticized the strength of the government’s case, saying that the legal standard for forcibly administering medication requires a strong government interest in prosecution, and that the government has not been able to establish that standard in this case. The ruling was a setback for the government’s case against Ms. Lindauer, who was arrested in March 2004 at her home in Takoma Park, Md. An indictment charged that Ms. Lindauer, also known as Symbol Susan, conspired to act as an unregistered agent of the government of Iraq from October 1999 until February 2004, and engaged in illegal financial transactions.

Although he was reluctant to analyze the government’s case before trial, the judge said, "There is no indication that Lindauer ever came close to influencing anyone, or could have." The indictment, he said, describes an attempt to influence an unnamed government official as unsuccessful.
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At least a half dozen doctors for both the defense and the prosecution have found that Ms. Lindauer suffers from delusions of grandeur and paranoia, which makes her incompetent to stand trial, the judge said. But she refuses to accept the diagnosis or to take medication, he said. One doctor found that Ms. Lindauer had a history of psychotic episodes going back to her childhood, possibly at the age of 7, the judge said. These include her contention that she had gifts of prophecy that allowed her to report 11 bombings before they happened, that she spoke with divine inspiration and that she was an angel.

http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/04/3/11/17874095.cfm">Among her paranoid delusions, doctors said, were the notion that she was being watched by hidden cameras in her apartment, that the Egyptian government had tried to assassinate her and that men next door had videotaped her under instructions from President Bill Clinton.

At a hearing before Judge Mukasey yesterday, prosecutors offered a backup plan, asking the judge to order Ms. Lindauer to either voluntarily take antipsychotic drugs for 30 days or be held in contempt. Contempt charges could be punished with jail time.

Judge Mukasey declined to rule on the prosecutor’s suggestion, saying that the case was being assigned to another judge and that he would leave that decision to her.

Meanwhile, he ordered Ms. Lindauer to be released under previously determined terms, including on bail of $500,000, on the condition that she receive psychological counseling and that her travel be restricted.

Her lawyer, Sanford Talkin, said she was released from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, where she has been held for the last few weeks.

Before that, she was in a federal prison hospital in Carswell, Tex. He said she would now return to her home in Maryland.

"She can’t go to trial until she’s competent," Mr. Talkin said. "I think it was a difficult decision, but I think it was the right decision, and I think it was a just decision."

Ms. Lindauer is a 1985 graduate of Smith College, where she majored in economics, and she received a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.

Her father, John Lindauer, was the Republican nominee for governor of Alaska in 1998.

Judge Mukasey also expressed humanitarian concerns about forcing Ms. Lindauer to take medication, which, he said, "necessarily involves physically restraining defendant so that she can be injected with mind-altering drugs."

Another an interesting side-note, in addition to being Andrew Card's second cousin, Susan Lindauer is also the daughter of Alaska's 1998 GOP nominee for governor, John Lindauer. John Lindauer came under fire and eventually http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/ak/ak005.htm">lost the Alaska state GOP's endorsement for apparently refusing to answer the source of the large amounts of money he used to win the GOP primary. Those funds appear to have come from http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/ak/ak003.htm">his wealthy wife http://www.opensecrets.org/newsletter/ce65/03states.htm">and http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/30/ak.governor/index.html">Edward A. Heil, a Chicago businessman whose company, eSafetyworld, was delisted and came under SEC scrutiny (an http://www.nysscpa.org/home/2006/106/1week/article3.htm">eventual charges)http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_48/b3759101.htm">in the wake of the anthrax attacks for apparent stock fraud.

The Monzer al-Kassar Connection
But getting back to the charges by the former CIA man in Syria, the lockerbie bombing also has potentially direct connections to the intertwined BCCI/Iran-Contra shenanigans, via http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sierraleone/alkassar.html">Syrian arms-dealer/drug-smuggler extraordinaire Monzer al-Kassar. Here's a quick excerpt from the Walsh Report on some of http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_08.htm">al-Kassar's dealings with Enterprise company run Secord/Hakim/Zucker's team:

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Phases V-VII of the Contra Arms Sales (March-June 1986)

Between February 27 and May 23, 1986, the Enterprise paid Defex Portugal about $860,000 for contra weapons. Weapons were delivered to Central America in March, April and May in three shipments. CSF books show profit distributions between April and June, numbered Phases V through VII, totaling $550,471. In addition, there was an unnumbered distribution of $37,277 on June 20, 1986, resulting from the Phase VII shipment.

The Undelivered Shipment and Distribution (July-September 1986)

In July 1986, the Enterprise paid Defex (Portugal) $2.6 million and $500,000 to another dealer, Monzer Al Kassar, for contra weapons. In late July, a shipment of arms left Portugal for Central America aboard the recently acquired Enterprise freighter, the Erria.8 According to Thomas Parlow, the Erria's Danish shipping agent, the freighter was carrying arms picked up in Poland and Portugal.9
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51 The $3.6 million diversion estimate does not include expenditures OIC could not provide evidence for at trial but were, in fact, contra-related, including: the purchase of a $200,000 Jetstar by the Enterprise for contra-related travel; a $500,000 weapons purchase from Monzer Al Kassar, who was not available to testify; and about $535,000 that was used to purchase, operate and insure the Danish freighter, the Erria, which was not used exclusively for contra operations.
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Now, according to John Loftus in his book The Secret War Against the Jews, al-Kassar was intimately involved with George Bush's Iran-Contra dealings, especially with regard to the negotiations with the kidnappers of the CIA's station chief in Lebanon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Buckley">Lt. Col. William F. Buckley. He also asserts that Monzer al-Kassar was, in the end, a double agent working for the Soviet military intelligence (via the Syrians), and helped totally play the Bush team "like a flute" while upping Buckley’s ransom for more and more weapons/policy shifts, etc (see Chapter 20 of http://www.amazon.com/Secret-War-Against-Jews-Espionage/dp/0312156480/sr=8-1/qid=1165036165/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3936263-3783302?ie=UTF8&s=books">The Secret War Against the Jews for lots on that topic).

Connecting this to the Pan Am 103 bombing, it appears that a US intelligence team led by Army Major Charles McKee that has stumbled across Monzer al-Kassar's drug-smuggling and Iran Contra links were on that flight. Check out this http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,975399,00.html">1992 Time Magazine article that talks about al-Kassar’s links to the bombing, and the use of drug-smuggling techniques for doing it:

Time Magazine
Monday, Apr. 27, 1992
Pan Am 103 Why Did They Die?
Washington says Libya sabotaged the plane. Provocative evidence suggests that a Syrian drug dealer may have helped plant the bomb -- and the real targets were intelligence agents working for the CIA
By ROY ROWAN

"FOR THREE YEARS, I've had a feeling that if Chuck hadn't been on that plane, it wouldn't have been bombed," says Beulah McKee, 75. Her bitterness has still not subsided. But seated in the parlor of her house in Trafford, Pennsylvania, the house where her son was born 43 years ago, she struggles to speak serenely. "I know that's not what our President wants me to say," she admits.

George Bush's letter of condolence, written almost four months after the shattered remains of Pan Am Flight 103 fell on Lockerbie, Scotland, on Dec. 21, 1988, expressed the usual "my heart goes out to you" sorrow. "No action by this government can restore the loss you have suffered," he concluded. But deep inside, Mrs. McKee suspects it was a government action gone horribly awry that indirectly led to her only son's death. "I've never been satisfied at ( all by what the people in Washington told me," she says.

Today, as the U.S. spearheads the U.N.-sanctioned embargo against Libya for not handing over two suspects in the bombing, Mrs. McKee wonders if Chuck's background contains the secret of why this plane was targeted. If her suspicions are correct, Washington may not be telling the entire story. Major Charles Dennis McKee, called "Tiny" by his Army intelligence friends, was a burly giant and a superstar in just about every kind of commando training offered to American military personnel. He completed the rugged Airborne and Ranger schools, graduated first in his class from the Special Forces qualification course, and served with the Green Berets. In Beirut he was identified merely as a military attache assigned to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). But his hulking physique didn't fit such a low- profile diplomatic post. Friends there remember him as a "walking arsenal" of guns and knives. His real assignment reportedly was to work with the CIA in reconnoitering the American hostages in Lebanon and then, if feasible, to lead a daring raid that would rescue them.

McKee's thick, 37-page Army dossier contains so many blacked-out words that it's hard to glean the danger he faced. Surviving the censor's ink was his title, "Team Chief." Under "Evaluation," it was written that he "performs constantly in the highest-stress environment with clear operational judgment and demeanor . . . Especially strong in accomplishing the mission with minimal guidance and supervision . . . Continues to perform one of the most hazardous and demanding jobs in the Army."

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Almost immediately after the Pan Am bombing, which killed the 259 people aboard the plane and 11 more on the ground, the prime suspect was Ahmed Jibril, the roly-poly boss of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (P.F.L.P.-G.C.). Two months earlier, West German police had arrested 16 members of his terrorist organization. Seized during the raids was a plastic bomb concealed in a Toshiba cassette player, similar to the one that blew up Flight 103. There was other evidence pointing to Jibril. His patron was Syria. His banker for the attack on the Pan Am plane appeared to be Iran. U.S. intelligence agents even traced a wire transfer of several million dollars to a bank account in Vienna belonging to the P.F.L.P.-G.C. Iran's motive seemed obvious enough. The previous July, the U.S.S. Vincennes had mistakenly shot down an Iranian Airbus over the Persian Gulf, killing all 298 aboard.

Suddenly, last November, the U.S. Justice Department blamed the bombing on two Libyans, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah. The scenario prompted President Bush to remark, "The Syrians took a bum rap on this." It also triggered an outcry from the victims' families, who claimed that pointing the finger at Libya was a political ploy designed to reward Syria for siding with the U.S. in the gulf war and to help win the release of the hostages. Even Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's investigation of the bombing, told the New York Times it was "outrageous" to pin the whole thing on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
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According to Loftus's book, (p484-486), Bush made four secret trips to Damascus to negotiate Buckley release (even though he was already dead at that point but they didn’t tell the US), including one in 1988 right before Bush’s declaration that Syria got a "bad rap".

Continuing...

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A four-month investigation by Time has disclosed evidence that raises new questions about the case. Among the discoveries:

-- According to an FBI field report from Germany, the suitcase originating in Malta that supposedly contained the bomb may not have been transferred to Pan Am Flight 103 in Frankfurt, as charged in the indictment of the two Libyans. Instead, the bomb-laden bag may have been substituted in Frankfurt for an innocent piece of luggage.

-- The rogue bag may have been placed on board the plane by Jibril's group with the help of Monzer al-Kassar, a Syrian drug dealer who was cooperating with the U.S.'s Drug Enforcement Administration in a drug sting operation. Al- Kassar thus may have been playing both sides of the fence.

-- Jibril and his group may have targeted that flight because on board was an intelligence team led by Charles McKee, whose job was to find and rescue the hostages.

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Also described in the teletype is an incident that "may provide insight into the possibilities of a rogue bag being inserted into the baggage system." On a guided tour of the baggage area in September 1989, it was disclosed, detective inspector Watson McAteer of the Scottish police and FBI special agent Lawrence G. Whitaker "observed an individual approach Coding Station 206 with a single piece of luggage, place the luggage in a luggage container, encode a destination into the computer and leave without making any notation on a duty sheet." This convinced the two investigators that a rogue suitcase could have been "sent to Pan Am 103 either before or after the unloading of Air Malta 180."

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The central figure emerging from the Interfor investigation is a 44-year-old Syrian arms and drug trafficker, Monzer al-Kassar. His brother-in-law is Syria's intelligence chief, Ali Issa Duba, and his wife Raghda is related to Syrian President Hafez Assad.
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That’s right, Monzer al-Kassar’s brother in law was Syria’s intelligence chief, and his wife was related to the Assad family too! But check this out, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/202482.stm">Carlos Menem, a Syrian born Peronist that was Argentina’s president throughout the 90’s, also had close connections to Monzer al-Kassar. For more on Monzer al-Kassar’s connections to Argentinian ex-president http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Menem">Carlos Menem, White Supremacists in Argentina’s military, the AMIA Jewish community center bombing, and the postwar Nazi underground (that community center had a lot of documents relating to the Nazis) check out http://www.spitfirelist.com/f109.html">show #109 (Parts http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/dx-FTR-109a.rm">1 and http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/dx-FTR-109b.rm">2. It’s pretty interesting stuff!

Continuing…

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Al-Kassar has many passports and identities. Most important, he was part of the covert network run by U.S. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. During the Iran- contra hearings, it was revealed that al-Kassar was given $1.5 million to purchase weapons. Questioned about al-Kassar, former U.S. National Security Adviser John Poindexter said, "When you're buying arms, you often have to deal with people you might not want to go to dinner with."

It was through al-Kassar's efforts, or so he claimed, that two French hostages were released from Lebanon in 1986 in exchange for an arms shipment to Iran. The deal caught the eye of a freewheeling CIA unit code-named COREA, based in Wiesbaden, Germany. This special unit was reported to be trafficking in drugs and arms in order to gain access to terrorist groups.

For its cover overseas, COREA used various front companies: Stevens Mantra Corp., AMA Industries, Wildwood Video and Condor Television Ltd. Condor paid its bills with checks drawn on the First American Bank (account No. 2843900) in Washington, D.C., which was subsequently discovered to be a subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.

According to Aviv, agents in COREA's Wiesbaden headquarters allowed al- Kassar to continue running his smuggling routes to American cities in exchange for help in obtaining the release of the American hostages being held in Lebanon. At about the same time, al-Kassar's drug-smuggling enterprise was being used by the U.S.'s DEA in a sting operation. The DEA was monitoring heroin shipments from Lebanon to Detroit, Los Angeles and Houston, which have large Arab populations, in an attempt to nail the U.S. dealers.

By the fall of 1988, al-Kassar's operation had been spotted by P.F.L.P.-G.C. leader Ahmed Jibril, who had just taken on the assignment from Tehran to avenge the U.S. downing of its Airbus. A CIA undercover agent in Tripoli reported that Jibril also obtained Gaddafi's support. According to Mossad, Jibril dined with al-Kassar at a Paris restaurant and secured a reluctant promise of assistance in planting a bomb aboard an as yet unselected American transatlantic jet.

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And skipping down in the article more, here’s some more interesting findings by corroborated by TIME’s investigators…

Precisely how a rogue bag containing the bomb eluded the Frankfurt airport security system, Aviv doesn't know. Presumably this required the help of baggage handlers there. So in January 1990 he and a former U.S. Army polygraphist flew to Frankfurt, accompanied by Shaughnessy. At the Sheraton Conference Center, adjoining the airport, the polygraphist administered lie- detector tests to Pan Am baggage handlers Kilin Caslan Tuzcu and Roland O'Neill. Pan Am had determined that they were the only ones who were in a position to switch suitcases and place the bomb-laden bag aboard Flight 103.
Tuzcu took the test three times, and O'Neill took it twice. As the polygraphist later testified before a federal grand jury in Washington, Tuzcu "was not truthful when he said he did not switch the suitcases." The polygraphist also told the grand jury, "It is my opinion that Roland O'Neill wasn't truthful when he stated he did not see the suitcase being switched, and when he stated that he did not know what was in the switched suitcase." The two men continued to claim ignorance of a baggage switch.
After flunking their lie-detector tests, both were sent on a bogus errand by Pan Am to London, where it was assumed they would be arrested. But British authorities refused to even interrogate the pair. According to Leppard, Tuzcu and O'Neill were simply "scapegoats" and were never "considered serious suspects." They returned to Frankfurt that same night.
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Check out Section "16" of Kerry’s BCCI report regarding unanswered questions due to a lack of cooperation by the Brits, including questions about Monzer al-Kassar’s use of BCCI for his drug-smuggling/arms dealing.
Continuing…

If the bomb-laden luggage replaced an innocent bag, what happened to the displaced suitcase? On Dec. 21, 1988, the day of the bombing, one of Pan Am's Berlin-based pilots was about to head home to Seattle, Washington, for Christmas when he received orders to fly to Karachi first. He had with him two identical Samsonite suitcases full of presents. At the Berlin airport, he $ asked Pan Am to send them directly to Seattle. "Rush" tags, marked for Flights 637 to Frankfurt, 107 to London and 123 to Seattle, were affixed to the bags.
It so happened that the flight from Berlin to Frankfurt was delayed. While all the passengers ultimately made the connection to London, 11 suitcases, including the pilot's two bags, remained behind in Frankfurt. They were entered into the airport computer system and rerouted via the Pan Am flight. But only one of the pilot's suitcases was recovered at Lockerbie. The other had been mysteriously left behind in Frankfurt, and arrived safely in Seattle a day later. That story, which TIME has corroborated, doesn't prove Pan Am's claim that terrorists used al-Kassar's drug pipeline to pull a suitcase switch in Frankfurt. But it does support the theory that a rogue bag was inserted into the automated baggage-control system, as the secret FBI report indicates was possible.

And further down in the article, here’s some more on the McKee team and their discover of Monzer’s CIA connections:

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In December 1988 al-Kassar picked up some news that threatened to shut down his smuggling operation. Charles McKee's counterterrorist team in Beirut that was investigating the possible rescue of the nine American hostages had got wind of his CIA connection. The team was outraged that the COREA unit in Wiesbaden was doing business with a Syrian who had close terrorist connections and might endanger their planned rescue attempt.
Besides McKee, a key member of the team was Matthew Gannon, 34, the CIA's deputy station chief in Beirut and a rising star in the agency. After venting their anger to the CIA in Langley about al-Kassar, McKee and Gannon were further upset by headquarters' failure to respond. Its silence was surprising because Gannon's father-in-law Thomas Twetten, who now commands the CIA's worldwide spy network, was then chief of Middle East operations based in Langley. He was also Ollie North's CIA contact.
MCKEE AND GANNON, joined by three other members of the team, decided to fly back to Virginia unannounced and expose the COREA unit's secret deal with al- Kassar. They packed $500,000 in cash provided for their rescue mission, as well as maps and photographs of the secret locations where the hostages were being held. Then the five-man team booked seats on Pan Am 103 out of London, arranging to fly there on a connecting flight from Cyprus.
McKee's mother says she is sure her son's sudden decision to fly home was not known to his superiors in Virginia. "This was the first time Chuck ever telephoned me from Beirut," she says. "I was flabbergasted. 'Meet me at the Pittsburgh airport tomorrow night,' he said. 'It's a surprise.' Always before he would wait until he was back in Virginia to call and say he was coming home."
Apparently the team's movements were being tracked by the Iranians. A story that appeared in the Arabic newspaper Al-Dustur on May 22, 1989, disclosed that the terrorists set out to kill McKee and his team because of their planned hostage-rescue attempt. The author, Ali Nuri Zadeh, reported that "an American agent known as David Love-Boy ((he meant Lovejoy)), who had struck bargains on weapons to the benefit of Iran," passed information to the Iranian embassy in Beirut about the team's travel plans. Reported to be a onetime State Department security officer, Lovejoy is alleged to have become a double agent with CIA connections in Libya. His CIA code name was said to be "Nutcracker."
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In his book, Lockerbie: The Tragedy of Flight 103, Scottish radio reporter David Johnston disclosed that British army searches of the wreckage recovered more than $500,000 cash, believed to belong to the hostage-rescue team, and what appeared to be a detailed plan of a building in Beirut, with two crosses marking the location of the hostages. The map also pinpointed the positions of sentries guarding the building and contained a description of how the building might be taken.
Johnston also described how CIA agents helicoptered into Lockerbie shortly after the crash seeking the remnants of McKee's suitcase. "Having found part of their quarry," he wrote, "the CIA had no intention of following the exacting rules of evidence employed by the Scottish police. They took the suitcase and its contents into the chopper and flew with it to an unknown destination." Several days later the empty suitcase was returned to the same spot, where Johnston reported that it was "found" by two British Transport Police officers, "who in their ignorance were quite happy to sign statements about the case's discovery."
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There’s lots more in that article and no doubt a lot more under the Monzer al-Kassar rock. Check out Dave Emory's For the Record show http://www.spitfirelist.com/f464.html">show #464 (http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=11834">streaming here) (specifically at ~17 minutes into the show) and http://www.spitfirelist.com/f510.html">show #510 (http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=15159">streaming here) for more on this topic.

[mirandapriestly]

5. I've brought that up a few times

it seems pretty obvious to me what was going on, and STILL no one questions the U.S. role in these "terrorist" plots

[mirandapriestly]

6. I have been reading Peter Dale Scott

and watching him speak (videos). I'm a little late in discovering him, but I do think so highly of him. -he said one thing that caught my interest which was that we can look at what the Commission was trying to hide by what they omitted or were deceptive on as a way of finding out what could have happened.

His mother was a remarkable painter -abstract and ahead of her time, I am intrigued by him, I prefer his style to many of the other 9-11 speakers. There are not many like him.

[ftr23532]

7. Good show on the formation of an earlier Meta-group: the Nazi underground and international fascism

Dave Emory just did an interesting show on the maneuvers around the end of WWII to allow the Germany's industrial and financial wealth to flow out of the country into neutral countries and finance the postwar Nazi underground and international fascism. Lots of Prescott Bush/Allen Dulles related naughtiness.

Here's the link: http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=21380&archive=31948">FTR #578 -Darkness at Sunrise: The Interdiction of Operation Safehaven. Enjoy!

[seemslikeadream]

8. Thanks ftr23532

:hi:

[ftr23532]

9. You're welcome!

:bounce:

[ftr23532]

10. Here's some more interesting info relating to Operation Sunrise

This is from Kevin Coogan's "Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International" in the chapter on http://www.writing.upenn.edu/%7Eafilreis/Holocaust/swiss-and-hitler.html">Francois Genoud, the Nazi financier with deep connections to the postwar Nazi diaspora, Arab terrorism, and http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/12/MN192483.DTL">the al-Taqwa network. Genoud was a good friend of SS General Karl Wolf, the general that led Germany's forces in Northern Italy and who was negotiated with Dulles in Operation Sunrise. Even long after the war Genoud maintained excellent relations with Wolff, along with General Leon Degrelle and General Earnst Remer (http://fortherecordessays.blogspot.com/2006/11/part-6-nassers-nazis-go-global-cold_11.html">go here and search for Degrelle to see how he ties in the Nazi arms-trafficking network that the CIA started utilizing in the 50's). In addition, Wolff's chief negotiator with Dulles was SD Leutenient Colonel Eugen Dollmann, was another key figure in the postwar Nazi underground, and both Genoud and Dollman were friends with the Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jersusalem with extensive Nazi relations of his own. There's more on Genoud and this larger network "FTR 453: Verges For the Defense." which is available http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=11211">here (it's in the 2nd half hour of the show). It's interesting stuff!