Zelikow and Catastrophic Terrorism

[formercia]

http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MIND/index.php?showtopic=32916

Philip Zelikow, 9/11 insider, is scheduled to speak at Chautauqua Institution on August 9, 2007 (western New York, near Jamestown).
As Webster Tarpley notes, Zelikow is very important in the 9/11 cover-up.
In 1998, Philip Zelikow published an article in Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, entitled CATASTROPHIC TERRORISM: Imagining the Transformative Event. Nearly two years later, PNAC picked up the CFR-Zelikow language, saying that the desired transformation "is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor..."

In part one of this series, we hear from author Webster Tarpley, Professor Graeme MacQueen (religious studies, McMaster University, ret.), Ken Jenkins (filmmaker), and Peter Dale Scott, author.

Zelikow, hired as a Bush II transition team member for his expertise on al-Qaeda (according to Karen Hughes), didn't want to hear anything about al-Qaeda from Richard Clarke, chief counter-terrorism expert on George W. Bush's national security council. Similarly, John Ashcroft at the Dept. of Justice didn't want to hear anything about al-Qaeda before 9/11 from Thomas Picard, acting director of the FBI. In these and other instances, Zelikow as executive director of the 9/11 Commission, suborned perjury, Webster Tarpley charges.

Tarpley reveals Zelikow's cover-up role in the Able Danger FBI effort to expose "al-Qaeda" cells. Prof. Graeme MacQueen calls attention to Zelikow's unique role in predicting then explicating the consequences of "the transformative event" as head of the commission charged with investigating the catastrophic terrorism of 9/11. Ken Jenkins and Peter Dale Scott note that Zelikow's expertise is in creating and exploiting public myths, and that Zelikow's links to the neo-cons date to the early 1980s. The 9/11 investigation was itself an inside job.

[tanyev]

1. Naomi Klein does an excellent job of illuminating this concept in her book The Shock Doctrine.

She said something like it wasn't necessary for them to be complicit in 9/11 (although I am plenty suspicious that they were), because they pray for crises like a drought-stricken farmer prays for rain. And it is inevitable that some sort of crisis will eventually happen. They have a constant wish list of things they want to accomplish, with all of the necessary prep work done, and then when disaster strikes, they are poised to move in immediately while all of the victims are still dealing with the "shock and awe" of the catastrophe. She mentions 9/11, Iraq, Katrina, the tsunami and is starting to lay out how decades of this pattern have played out. Excellent book.

[noise]

3. Klein's book

was excellent but IMO her view on 9/11 is off. In the lead up to 9/11 Bush administration officials acted in a manner that suggests dereliction of duty (at best).

[SpiralHawk]

2. Republicion facial character study: Note the shifty, kool-aid polluted eyes...

a dead giveaway that you are looking at yet another amoral republicon homelander chickenhawk true-believing traitor...Zelikow

[Supersedeas]

4. interesting how it all comes together

[formercia]

5. That will stick to him like tar and feathers

He's on the short list.