Simply Shady: My Family Ties With Black Ops

[robertpaulsen]

Simply Shady: My Family Ties With Black Ops
A true story by Robert Paulsen
Adapted from an earlier article "Am I the Only One?" by the same author


My alarm clock radio turned on at 7:20 in the morning on September 11, 2001 after I had already pressed the snooze button twice. Suddenly aware of the report on the radio of a building on fire, I turned on the TV to see one of the twin towers in New York City on fire. I vainly attempted to look around the burning tower to see where the other tower was. Gradually it dawned on me that the other tower was no longer standing. After getting verbal confirmation from the broadcaster that two planes had crashed into the World Trade Center, I called my girlfriend to break the shocking news. As her phone was ringing, I watched in horror as the second tower collapsed. When she answered, all I could blurt out was, "The twin towers are gone! The twin towers are gone!"

As everyone else did, I spent the day in a state of shock. Getting in touch with relatives to share my dismay and grief consumed me that afternoon. I got in touch with one of my sisters who conveyed a sense of fright over the events that day. But the details of the story she told that frightened her were a revelation to me. I was aware of only minor details regarding her husband's previous career as a military officer. I knew that during the 1980's he had served in operations in Central America, including stints in Honduras and Panama. I also knew that he left the military because of recurring nightmares, many that my sister witnessed where she had to wake him up as he screamed, "Over there! They're in the trees! They're in the trees!"

The truth that my sister confirmed to me on September 11 is that he was a contract killer for the CIA involved in covert operations during the late 1980's. For more than ten years he had severed his ties with the intelligence community without so much as leaving a forwarding address. But at 8:15 a.m. pacific time, a note was left on his front door while he was away from a representative of his former commanding officer, trying to renew his interest in returning to his former line of work. Now, consider the timing of this incident. They had been out of touch for ten years, including the first bombing of the World Trade Center as well as the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, yet only 45 minutes after the second tower collapsed, they were knocking on his door in the belief that the services he used to specialize in would be required. To me, it seemed a little suspicious. Granted the attacks of September 11 were far more devastating to the country than the 1993 WTC bombing or the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, but at 8:15 a.m., nobody knew whether the source of this terrorism was domestic or foreign. Or did they?

By that afternoon, the media has already pinpointed Osama bin Laden as the primary suspect. Then on September 12, news from Boston that a man in the airport parking lot reported an altercation with some suspicious looking men of Middle Eastern descent compelled authorities to impound the abandoned vehicle where flight manuals were found on the front seat. In Arabic. It felt to me, to quote X in the movie JFK, "as if a cover story was being put up". Arabic flight manuals left in an airport parking lot seemed analogous to doctored photos of Oswald toting a Mannlicher Carcano left in his garage. The analogy seemed even more appropriate when, a couple days later, it was revealed that these same terrorists had attended flight training schools and perhaps had training from our own military. If this is true, what was the point of briniging Arabic flight manuals to the airport? Carelessness after a late night cramming session? But the kicker for me was the report that amidst the scene of chaos and cremation at Ground Zero, somehow the passport of one Mohammed Atta managed to float down without being incinerated and land where authorities could retrieve it. What's a conspiracy without a little magic: JFK had his "magic bullet", 9/11 had a "magic passport".

Since then, we've had so many more questions raised than have been answered that despite a Congressional and "independent" bipartisan commission investigating 9/11 we are nowhere closer to the truth than when we started. Perhaps the release of the information contained in the 27 pages of censored material from the congressional report on 9/11 would help us draw the arrows. But if Bob Graham is correct that the Bush administration, FBI and CIA blocked the congressional investigation into the involvement of the Saudi government in 9/11, then rather than wait for the release of that material, which may happen sometime after the Warren Commission censored material becomes available, we should all make an effort to investigate the claims of Sibel Edmonds into how our government aided and abetted the 9/11 conspiracy and has covered it up after the fact.

What do we know about Sibel Edmonds? We know that she has accused people in the highest levels of our government with treason. We know that before she was fired from the FBI for being a whistleblower, she saw papers that show the US knew al Qaeda would attack cities with airplanes. We know that she discovered that international terrorist activities converge with government action through "front organizations" that deal in everything from drugs to money laundering to arm sales. Fianlly, we know that John Ashcroft has had a gag order placed on Sibel Edmonds since 2002. With all the damning information she has revealed despite this gag order, imagine what she hasn't told us.

Until extensive research or future revelations bear fruit, I have only the nagging questions, various theories and the experience of my sister to go by. And what of her now ex-husband? I visited him at his home three weeks ago. Obviously, he did not follow the path of the late CIA operative Johnny Michael Spann into Afghanistan. I'm not exactly sure what the truth behind the CIA's query into his availability is. He refuses to talk about September 11. I've discovered it's very difficult extracting the truth out of a spook. You have to approach your intended subject in a roundabout manner. When I spoke with him last month, he was very happy to talk about his recent travels, including a trip to Panama. He was pretty animated talking about how wonderful the weather was and how relaxing it was. So I took a chance and asked, "Weren't you there before, during the war in 1989?" He smiled and said, "Oh, I was there in 1989, but not during the war. I was there before the war". The CIA was conducting black ops against Noriega (himself a paid CIA operative) before the war. He was beaming with pride as he said, "We basically ended that war before it even began". I tried digging for more but that was the extent of his disclosure.

Will it take another 15 years before he lets a sliver of the truth slip out about September 11? I'm willing to wait and I'll try to finesse it out of him every chance I get.

[zeemike]

1. An interesting story

Oh what a tangled web we weav...

[Pallas180]

2. Wow, quite a story and a mystery here..... what's annoying is that

DU moves it to a hidden closet where no one can see it ...

why is anything about 9 11 and terrorism relegated to the back room?

[Pallas180]

3. Uh - Robert, this thread below on DU seems to

answer fully and frighteningly, the mystery of who, what, and how....

And suspiciously, similarly to Northwoods, the name carried over (?) is
Operation NORTHERN Vigilance....

The question is what is the common thread...who on the Joint Chiefs was around back then, perhaps as a Junior something or other?

Or is this another one of NORTH's executions of his warped and twisted
secret wars against his own country?

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/080904wargamescover.htm



Wargames Were Cover For the Operational Execution of 9/11

Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson | September 8 2004

For almost three years since 9/11 independent researchers have stockpiled individual smoking guns which prove that the official version of events was not only a lie but operationally impossible.

However, no single smoking gun has yet been forwarded to explain why air defenses categorically reversed Standard Operating Procedure and failed to respond to hijacked jetliners.

Until now. More and more individuals are looking at the facts and highlighting exercise drills that took place on the morning of 9/11.

It is clear that at least five if not six training exercises were in operation in the days leading up to and on the morning of 9/11. This meant that NORAD radar screens showed as many as 22 hijacked airliners at the same time. NORAD had been briefed that this was part of the exercise drill and therefore normal reactive procedure was forestalled and delayed.

The large numbers of 'blips' on NORAD screens that displayed both real and 'drill' hijacked planes explain why confused press reports emerged hours after the attack stating that up to eight planes had been hijacked. Click here for that article.

The drill scenario also explains a comment made by air traffic control personnel which was featured in a July 2004 BBC television report. Click here for that video clip and article. The controller is told that a hijacked airliner is heading for New York and responds by saying, "is this real world or an exercise?"

Alex Jones was one of the first to highlight the wargames in his documentary film 'Masters of Terror', which was released in August 2002. Click here to watch a video clip. Alex explains why the Associated Press later had to admit the fact that the CIA were running drills of crashing planes into buildings on the morning of 9/11.

What were the drills called and what was their nature?

1) OPERATION NORTHERN VIGILANCE: This was planned months in advance of 9/11 and ensured that on the morning of 9/11, jet fighters were removed from patrolling the US east coast and sent to Alaska and Canada, therefore reducing the amount of fighter planes available to protect the east coast.

2) BIOWARFARE EXERCISE TRIPOD II: Alex Jones first reported on this back in May when Rudolph Giuliani let the details of it slip in his testimony to the 9/11 Commission. FEMA arrived in New York on September 10th to set up a command post located at Pier 29 under the auspices of a 'biowarfare exercise scheduled for September 12. This explains why Tom Kenney of FEMA's National Urban Search and Rescue Team, told Dan Rather of CBS News that FEMA had arrived in New York on the night of September 10th. This was originally dismissed as a slip of the tongue. Giuliani was to use this post as a command post on 9/11 after he evacuated WTC Building 7. As we reported back in January, Giuliani knew when to leave WTC 7 because he got advanced warning that the Trade Towers were about to collapse. "We were operating out of there when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse," Rudolph Giuliani told Peter Jennings of ABC News. How did Giuliani know the towers were about to collapse when no steel building in history had previously collapsed from fire damage?

3) OPERATION VIGILANT GUARDIAN: This exercise simulated hijacked planes in the north eastern sector and started to coincide with 9/11. Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins, NORAD unit's airborne control and warning officer, was overseeing the exercise. At 8:40am she took a call from Boston Center which said it had a hijacked airliner. Her first words, as quoted by Newhouse News Service were, "It must be part of the exercise." This is another example of how the numerous drills on the morning of 9/11 deliberately distracted NORAD so that the real hijacked planes couldn't be intercepted in time.

4) OPERATION NORTHERN GUARDIAN: The details of this exercise are still scant but it is considered to be part of Vigilant Guardian, relating to simulating hijacked planes in the north eastern sector.

5) OPERATION VIGILANT WARRIOR: This was referenced in Richard Clarke's book 'Against All Enemies'. It is thought to have been the 'attack' component of the Vigilant Guardian exercise.

Another example of how air defenses were purposefully kept preoccupied so they couldn't protect New York was reported by this website in December of 2003. The Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing, based at Atlantic City International Airport in Pomona, were just eight minutes away from New York and could have intercepted both Flight 11 and Flight 175.

Under NORAD procedures that date to the Cold War, two F-16 fighters from the 177th were parked around the clock on the Atlantic City runway. Pilots waited in a nearby building, ready to scramble.

But on the morning of 9/11, the F-16's were performing bombing runs over an empty stretch of the Pine Barrens near Atlantic City after being decommissioned from their usual role of protecting the skies of the east coast.

It was only after both trade towers were hit that the two F-16s landed and were refitted with air-to-air missiles, then sent aloft.

Now that we have established how NORAD were confused, delayed and distracted by the numerous wargames, the next question to ask is who if anyone was aware of which planes were 'real world' and which planes were 'exercise'? The answer to this question will provide us with the name of the individual who ran the operatonal execution of the 9/11 attack.

Dick Cheney.

Cheney was initially taken by the secret service to an underground bunker in the White House called the Presidential Emergency Operations Center.

From there, according to CNN, Cheney directed the US government's response to the unfolding attack.

Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta was in the Presidential Emergency Operating Center with Vice President Cheney as Flight 77 approached Washington, D.C. On May 23, 2003 in front of the 9/11 Commission, Secretary Mineta testified:

"During the time that the airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, "The plane is 50 miles out." "The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to "the plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the Vice President, "Do the orders still stand?" And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"

As the plane in question hit the Pentagon, what else can we conclude but that the 'order' was not to shoot down the aircraft and to let it find its target.

Mineta stated that he did not know what the 'order' was because he wasn't there when it was made.


-more-

[Pallas180]

4. Holy Cow ! - (repost of DU poster)

PerpetualYnquisitive (37 posts) Tue Jun-29-04 03:17 PM
Response to Reply #15
17. Long Debunked Rumor Validated by Giuliani

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Long Debunked "Rumor" Validated by Giuliani

FEMA in NYC prior to 9-11 for Project TRIPOD terror drill, scheduled for
9-12
By Gregor Holland

As of this writing, June 2, 2004, the transcript of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's testimony to the 9-11 Commission during the May 18-19, 2004 hearings in New York is the only transcript of that hearing omitted from the Commission website ( http://www.9-11commission.gov ).

Did Rudy say something wrong?

In case you missed it live, you can listen to his testimony in full at the WNYC radio website at: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/28147 . As Giuliani recounts his experience of the day of 9/11, and the evolving location of the Emergency Command Center that morning, you might want to pay special attention to what he says at the end of his prepared statement:

"... the reason Pier 92 was selected as a command center was because on the next day, on September 12, Pier 92 was going to have a drill, it had hundreds of people here, from FEMA, from the Federal Government, from the State, from the State Emergency Management Office, and they were getting ready for a drill for biochemical attack. So that was gonna be the place they were going to have the drill. The equipment was already there, so we were able to establish a command center there, within three days, that was two and a half to three times bigger than the command center that we had lost at 7 World Trade Center. And it was from there that the rest of the search and rescue effort was completed."

Readers may remember that on the days immediately after 9/11/01 there was a nasty little rumor running around the internet that FEMA had arrived in NYC on Monday September 10, thus implying foreknowledge of the disaster. The source of the rumor was a September 13, 2001 interview between CBS News anchor Dan Rather and Tom Kennedy (later corrected to Kenney) of FEMA National Urban Search and Rescue. Here is a transcript of the brief interview:

Rather: "Tom Kennedy... Kenney, a rescue worker with the National Urban Search and Rescue, it's part of FEMA... "

Kennedy: "We're currently one of the first teams that was deployed to support the city of New York for this disaster. We arrived on late Monday night, and went into action on Tuesday morning. And not until today did we get a full opportunity to work the entire site."

Full article: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/archive/scoop/stories/fc/8...