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COLUMN
SIXTY-FIVE, NOVEMBER 1, 2001
(Copyright © 2001 Al Aronowitz)
THE CENTRAL IGNORANCE AGENCY HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO TO AMERICA
(©
COPYRIGHT 2001, All Rights Reserved, Michael C. Ruppert and From The
On October
31, the French daily Le Figaro dropped a bombshell. While in a Dubai
hospital receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin
Laden met with a top CIA official---presumably the Chief of Station. The
meeting, held in bin Laden’s private suite, took place at the American
hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of
two U.S. embassies and this year’s attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Bin Laden was
eligible for execution according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued by
President Bill Clinton before leaving office in January. Yet on July 14th he was
allowed to leave Dubai on a private jet and there were no Navy fighters waiting
to force him down.
In 1985
Oliver North--–the only member of the Reagan-Bush years who
“I used to
wonder: how many dead Americans will it take before we do something?”
One could
look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to have killed before
September 11 and ask the same question.
It gets
worse, much worse. A more complete timeline listing crucial events both before
and after the September 11th suicide attacks, which have been blamed on bin
Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests that there
was criminal complicity on the part of the U.S. government in their execution.
It also makes clear that the events which have taken place since September 11
are based upon an agenda that has little to do with the attacks.
One wonders
how these events could have been ignored by the major media or treated as
isolated incidents. Failing that, how could skilled news agencies avoid being
outraged, or at least even just a little suspicious?
1998 and
2000: Former President George H.W.
Bush travels to Saudi Arabia on behalf of the privately owned Carlyle Group, the
11th largest defense contractor in the U.S. While there he meets privately with
the Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family. [Source: Wall Street Journal,
Sept. 27, 2001. See also FTW, Vol. IV, No 7--–The Best Enemies Money Can
Buy,
Feb 13, 2001: UPI Terrorism Correspondent
Richard Sale--–while covering
May 2001: Secretary of State Colin Powell
gives $43 million in aid to the Taliban regime, purportedly to assist hungry
farmers who are starving since the destruction of their opium crop in January on
orders of the Taliban regime. [Source: The Los Angeles Times, May 22,
2001].
May, 2001: Deputy Secretary of State
Richard Armitage, a career covert operative and former Navy Seal, travels to
India on a publicized tour while CIA Director George Tenet makes a quiet visit
to Pakistan to meet with Pakistani leader General Pervez Musharraf. Armitage has
long and deep Pakistani intelligence connections and he is the recipient of the
highest civil decoration awarded by Pakistan. It would be reasonable to assume
that while in Islamabad, Tenet, in what was described as “an unusually long
meeting,” also met with his Pakistani counterpart, Lt. General Mahmud Ahmad,
head of the ISI. [Source The Indian SAPRA news agency, May 22, 2001.]
July, 2001: Three American officials: Tom
Simmons (former U.S. Ambassador to
Summer 2001: According to a Sept. 26 story in
Britain’s The Guardian, correspondent David Leigh reported that,
“U.S. department of defense official, Dr. Jeffrey Starr, visited Tajikistan in
January. The Guardian’s Felicity Lawrence established that US Rangers
were also training special troops in Kyrgyzstan. There were unconfirmed reports
that Tajik and Uzbek special troops were training in Alaska and Montana.”
Summer 2001
(est.): Pakistani ISI Chief General
Mahmud (see above) orders an aide to wire transfer $100,000 to Mohammed Atta,
who was according to the FBI, the lead terrorist in the suicide hijackings.
Mahmud recently resigned after the transfer was disclosed in India and confirmed
by the FBI. [Source: The Times of India, October 11, 2001.]
June 2001: German intelligence, the BND,
warns the CIA and Israel that Middle Eastern terrorists are “planning to
hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of
American and Israeli culture.” [Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
September 14, 2001.]
Summer 2001: An Iranian man phones U.S. law
enforcement to warn of an imminent attack on the World Trade Center in the week
of September 9th. German police confirm the calls but state that the U.S. Secret
Service would not reveal any further information. [Source: German news agency online.ie,
September 14, 2001.]
August 2001: The FBI arrests an Islamic
militant linked to bin Laden in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that
the man is a key member of bin Laden’s network and the FBI learns that he has
been taking flying lessons. At the time of his arrest the man is in possession
of technical information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals. [Source:
Reuters, September 13.]
Did
some 5,000 Amercans die
just to make some people
a pile of money?
Summer 2001: Russian intelligence notifies
the CIA that 25 terrorist pilots have been specifically training for suicide
missions. This is reported in the Russian press and news stories are translated
for FTW by a retired CIA officer.
July 4-14,
2001: Osama bin Laden receives
treatments for kidney disease
August 2001: Russian President Vladimir Putin
orders Russian intelligence to warn the U.S. government “in the strongest
possible terms” of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings.
[Source: MS-NBC interview with Putin, September 15.]
August/September,
2001: The Dow
Jones Industrial Average drops nearly 900 points in the three weeks prior to the
attack. A major stock market crash is imminent.
Sept. 3-10,
2001: MS-NBC reports on September 16
that a caller to a Cayman Islands radio talk show gave several warnings of an
imminent attack on the U.S. by bin Laden in the week prior to 9/11.
September
1-10, 2001: 25,000 British troops and the
largest British Armada since the Falkland Islands War, part of Operation Essential
Harvest, are pre-positioned in Oman, the closest point on the Arabian
Peninsula to Pakistan. At the same time two U.S. carrier battle groups arrive on
station in the Gulf of Arabia just off the Pakistani coast. Also at the same
time, some 17,000 U.S. troops join more than 23,000 NATO troops in Egypt for
Operation Bright Star. All of these forces are in place before the first
plane hits the World Trade Center. [Sources: The Guardian, CNN, FOX, The
Observer, International Law Professor Francis Boyle, the University of
Illinois.]
September
6-7, 2001: 4,744 “put” options (a
speculation that the stock will go down) are purchased on United Air Lines stock
as opposed to only 396 “call” options (speculation that the stock will go
up). This is a dramatic and abnormal increase in sales of “put” options.
Many of the UAL puts are purchased through Deutschebank/AB Brown, a firm managed
until 1998 by the current Executive Director of the CIA, A.B. “Buzzy”
Krongard. [Source: The Herzliyya International Policy Institute for
Counterterrorism, http://www.ict.org.il/,
September 21: The New York Times; The Wall Street Journal.]
September 10,
2001: 4,516 “put” options are
purchased on American Airlines as compared to 748 “call” options. [Source:
ICT – above]
September
6-11, 2001: No other airlines show any
similar trading patterns to those experienced by UAL and American. The put
option purchases on both airlines were 600% above normal. This at a time when
Reuters (September 10) issues a business report stating, “Airline stocks may
be poised to take off.”
September
6-10, 2001: Highly abnormal levels of
“put” options are purchased in Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, AXA
Re(insurance) which owns 25% of American Airlines, and Munich Re. All of these
companies are directly impacted by the September 11 attacks. [Source: ICT,
above; FTW, Vol. IV, No.7, October 18, 2001, http://www.copvcia.com/members/oct152001.html.]
It has been
documented that the CIA, the Israeli Mossad and many other intelligence agencies
monitor stock trading in real time using highly advanced programs reported to be
descended from Promis software. This is to alert national intelligence services
of just such kinds of attacks. Promis was reported, as recently as June, 2001 to
be in Osama bin Laden’s possession and, as a result of recent stories by FOX,
both the FBI and the Justice Department have confirmed its use for U.S.
intelligence gathering through at least this summer. This would confirm that CIA
had additional advance warning of imminent attacks. [Sources: The Washington Times,
June 15, 2001; FOX News, October 16, 2001; FTW, October 26, 2001,--- http://www.copvcia.com/members/magic_carpet.html;
FTW, Vol. IV, No.6, Sept. 18, 2001--- http://www.copvcia.com/members/sept1801.html;
FTW, Vol. 3, No 7, 9/30/00 ---http://www.copvcia.com/stories/may_2001/052401_promis.html.
September 11,
2001: Gen Mahmud of the ISI (see
above), friend of Mohammed Atta, is visiting Washington on behalf of the
Taliban. [Source: MS-NBC, Oct. 7.]
September 11,
2001: For 35 minutes, from 8:15 AM
until 9:05 AM, with it widely known within the FAA and the military that four
planes have been simultaneously hijacked and taken off course, no one notifies
the President of the United States. It is not until 9:30 that any Air Force
planes are scrambled to intercept, but by then it is too late. This means that
the National Command Authority waited for 75 minutes before scrambling aircraft,
even though it was known that four simultaneous hijackings had occurred--–an
event that has never happened in history. [Sources: CNN, ABC, MS-NBC, The Los
Angeles Times, The New York Times.]
September 13,
2001: China is admitted to the World
Trade Organization quickly, after 15 years of unsuccessful attempts. [Source:
The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2001.]
September 15,
2001: The New York Times
reports that Mayo Shattuck III has resigned, effective immediately, as head of
the Alex (A.B) Brown unit of
September 29,
2001: The San Francisco Chronicle
reports that $2.5 million in “put” options on American Airlines and United
Airlines are unclaimed. This is likely the result of the suspension in trading
on the NYSE after the attacks which gave the Securities and Exchange Commission
time to be waiting when
October 10,
2001: The Pakistani newspaper The
Frontier Post reports that U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call
on the Pakistani oil minister. A previously abandoned Unocal pipeline from
Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to the Pakistani coast, for the purpose of
selling oil and gas to China, is now back on the table “in view of recent
geopolitical developments.”
Mid October,
2001: The Dow Jones Industrial
Average, after having suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its
pre-attack losses. Although still weak, and vulnerable to negative earnings
reports, a crash has been averted by a massive infusion of government spending
on defense programs, subsidies for “affected” industries and planned tax
cuts for corporations.
Now, let’s
go back to the October 31 story by Le Figaro--–the one that has Osama
bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai this June.
The story
says that, “Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama Bin Laden received
visits from many family members [There goes the story that he’s a black
sheep!] and Saudi Arabian Emirate personalities of status. During this time the
local representative of the CIA was seen by many people taking the elevator and
going to bin Laden’s room.
“Several
days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends about having visited the Saudi
millionaire. From authoritative sources, this CIA agent visited CIA headquarters
on July 15tth, the day after bin Laden’s departure for Quetta…
“According
to various Arab diplomatic sources and French intelligence itself, precise
information was communicated to the CIA concerning terrorist attacks aimed at
American interests in the world, including its own territory.”
“Extremely
bothered, they [American intelligence officers in a meeting with
“On further
investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that had been put together
between the CIA and its ‘Islamic friends’ over the years. The meeting in
Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with ‘a certain American policy.’”
Even though Le
Figaro reported that it had confirmed with hospital staff that bin Laden had
been there as reported, stories printed on November 1
In the most
ironic twist of all, FTW has learned that Le Figaro is owned by the
Carlyle Group, the American defense contractor which employs George Bush Sr.,
and which had as investors--–until they sold their stake on October 26---the
bin Laden family.
Who do you believe? In coming stories FTW will prove to you that this war, which according to Dick Cheney, may not end in our lifetimes, has been in the works for at least four years. ##
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