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Part 17 & 18: “The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later“

Transcript (page 52)

Complete 911 Timeline: Al-Qaeda in Spain, 9/11 Commission’s Investigation of NSA, Torture – Additions as of April 27, 2008

Complete 911 Timeline: Al-Qaeda in Spain, 9/11 Commission’s Investigation of NSA, Torture – Additions as of April 27, 2008

Many of this week’s new entries deal with al-Qaeda in Spain and the collection of informants and surveillance targets that performed the 2004 Madrid train bombings. Spanish authorities first began monitoring the main al-Qaeda cell in Spain in 1995, later linking it to the Hamburg cell that provided three of the alleged 9/11 pilots, and watching it commit an interesting variety of crimes. The Spanish learned the cell was sending recruits to al-Qaeda training camps, and found out that al-Qaeda had established a camp in Indonesia, but did not bother to tell the Indonesian authorities about it.

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In torture, Justice Department lawyer John Yoo said the military could ignore a raft of irksome laws in 2003, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice permitted harsh tactics to be used on a detainee a couple of months later. President George Bush recently admitted he knew about such high-level approvals of the harsh techniques, and an al-Qaeda leader arrested in 2002 has never emerged from the archipelago of black sites.

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Gammel, men …: OSAMAGATE

“Now the Taliban will pay a price” vowed President George W. Bush, as American and British fighter planes unleashed missile attacks against major cities in Afghanistan. The US Administration claims that Osama bin Laden is behind the tragic events of the 11th of September. A major war supposedly “against international terrorism” has been launched, yet the evidence amply confirms that agencies of the US government have since the Cold War harbored the “Islamic Militant Network” as part of Washington’s foreign policy agenda. In a bitter irony, the US Air Force is targeting the training camps established in the 1980s by the CIA.

The main justification for waging this war has been totally fabricated. The American people have been deliberately and consciously misled by their government into supporting a major military adventure which affects our collective future.

“OSAMAGATE“

by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa

Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal
Posted at globalresearch.ca 9 October 2001

Confronted with mounting evidence, the US Administration can no longer deny its links to Osama. While the CIA admits that Osama bin Laden was an “intelligence asset” during the Cold War, the relationship is said to “go way back”. Most news reports consider that these Osama-CIA links belong to the “bygone era” of the Soviet-Afghan war. They are invariably viewed as “irrelevant” to an understanding of present events. Lost in the barrage of recent history, the role of the CIA in supporting and developing international terrorist organisations during the Cold war and its aftermath is casually ignored or downplayed by the Western media.

Yes, We did support Him, but “He Went Against Us”

A blatant example of media distortion is the so-called “blowback” thesis: “intelligence assets” are said to “have gone against their sponsors”; “what we’ve created blows back in our face.”[1] In a twisted logic, the US government and the CIA are portrayed as the ill-fated victims:

The sophisticated methods taught to the Mujahideen, and the thousands of tons of arms supplied to them by the US – and Britain – are now tormenting the West in the phenomenon known as `blowback’, whereby a policy strategy rebounds on its own devisers.[2]

The US media, nonetheless, concedes that “the Taliban’s coming to power [in 1995] is partly the outcome of the U.S. support of the Mujahideen, the radical Islamic group, in the 1980s in the war against the Soviet Union”.[3] But it also readily dismisses its own factual statements and concludes in chorus, that the CIA had been tricked by a deceitful Osama. It’s like “a son going against his father”.

The “blowback” thesis is a fabrication. The evidence amply confirms that the CIA never severed its ties to the “Islamic Militant Network”. Since the end of the Cold War, these covert intelligence links have not only been maintained, they have in become increasingly sophisticated.

Complete 911 Timeline: Victor Bout, Rich B, GWOT, Pakistan, and Much More

Complete 911 Timeline: Victor Bout, Rich B, GWOT, Pakistan, and Much More – Additions as of April 5, 2008

This week was a very busy week for the 9/11 Timeline, and dozens of new entries were published. New material, and a new chapter, has been added to cover superstar arms dealer Victor Bout, who was assisted by a former US intelligence officer, was known to the CIA as supplier to the Taliban and al-Qaeda before 9/11, and is said to have transported heroin out of Afghanistan. He sold aircraft to the Taliban and the US created a team of catch him in 1999, but the Bush administration lost interest in apprehending him. Instead, he was hired to help US in Iraq, not once, but repeatedly. Whilst supporting the US in Iraq, he also supported Islamic militants in Somalia and Hezbollah, but was finally arrested last month.

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Al-Qaeda grooming militants who ‘look western’: CIA chief

YAHOO! NEWS / AFP: Al-Qaeda grooming militants who ‘look western’: CIA chief

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The head of the main US spy agency has warned that Al-Qaeda is training operatives who “look western” and could enter the United States undetected to conduct terrorist attacks.

Central Intelligence Agency Director General Michael Hayden also said the terror network, which over the past 18 months has established a “safe haven” in Pakistan’s tribal areas along the Afghanistan border, has shed its operational reliance on mastermind Osama bin Laden.

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Hayden also stressed that while he was confident Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden was still hiding out near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the Saudi-born fighter no longer has operational control over the terror network.

This now lies with Egyptian militants, he argued, although he said bin Laden remains an “iconic figure,” and the CIA is making “every effort to kill or capture” him along with his Al-Qaeda lieutenants. (Emphasis added throughout)

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AQIKJH – al-Qaida-indoktrinerte-kvasi-jihadist-hvitinger….

Le? Gråte?

Er det virkelig noen som tror at CIA og USA gjør hva de kan for å få has på bin Laden? Hvor vanskelig kan det være, med ressursene de har for hånden? Absurd-Orwelliansk …

Kanskje det snart begynner å demre for folk?

DETTE ER EN KRIG MOT OSS ALLE!

PS – Takk for tipset, Elmer.

Audio: Nafeez Ahmed – “Creating Terror”

Creating Terror – godt foredrag av Nafeez Ahmed fra juli 2007.

• Krigen mot terror i bred historisk kontekst.
• Falskflagg-terror som geo-politisk strategi / strategy of tension.
• Lærer vi den hele og fulle sannhet om nazistene og 2. Verdenskrig på skolen?

Om boken Conjuring Hitler:

“Nazism is usually depicted as the outcome of political blunders and unique economic factors: we are told that it could not be prevented, and that it will never be repeated.

In this explosive book, Guido Giacomo Preparata shows that the truth is very different: using meticulous economic analysis, he demonstrates that Hitler’s extraordinary rise to power was in fact facilitated — and eventually financed — by the British and American political classes during the decade following World War I.“

http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=136681

Vestlige nasjoner finansierer og bruker selv terrororganisasjonene som er “årsaken” til “krigen mot terror”-paradigmet. Løsningen på problemene, blir vi fortalt av terrorkompisane, er blant annet mangfoldige former for overvåkning. Skap et problem. Presenter løsning. Mål oppnådd. Hvilket system har som mål å fjerne folkets friheter – spionere på sine egne? Og hva slags mennesker ?

Deler av Ahmeds konklusjon:

From 1979 until 2007 … this amorphous network designated by the term al Qaeda has functioned seamlessly as a mercenary proxy force mobilized in diverse strategic regions in the service of Anglo-American imperial expansionism. It hasn’t ever had a break. The extent of it is absolutely shocking … Western state sponsorship, indirectly and directly, of al Qaeda as a destabilizing force in strategic regions.

Meanwhile, innocent citizens are being killed. They are being killed since 1993 … yet the policy has not shifted. On the contrary it’s now escalating in the context of developling an even more catastrophic conflict with Iran.

This has damning moral implications. It means that at some level, policy makers are morally indifferent to the deaths of our own citizens in al Qaeda terrorist attacks. Other strategic imperatives, such as the control of increasingly scarce energy resources are more important. There has been a shift of priorities, something in the National Security structure, since 1979, has relegated civilian life way at the bottom.

Audiofil her

Military Charges Accused Embassy Bomber Despite Civilian Indictment / Pentagon Pursues Guantanamo Tribunal for Embassy Bombing Suspect / Statement issued by the Center for Constitutional Rights

Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers: Military Charges Accused Embassy Bomber Despite Civilian Indictment

The Pentagon announced Monday that it will seek to try a Tanzanian man for war crimes in the 1998 East African embassy bombings – a decade after he was indicted in New York in the case and four years after he was taken into U.S. custody.

The decision to bring Ahmad Ghailani before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rather than before a civilian federal court was immediately denounced by the Center for Constitutional Rights, whose lawyers represent dozens of the 280 or so detainees at Guantánamo.

“The only reason the government is now militarizing these criminal acts is to hide what the CIA is doing in its interrogation program behind the secrecy of the commissions,” it said in a statement. . . .

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040108J.shtml

Josh Meyer, The Los Angeles Times: Pentagon Pursues Guantanamo Tribunal for Embassy Bombing Suspect

Nafeez Ahmed – “Ties With Terror: The Continuity of Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period”

This essay was originally submitted as part of the record for Rep. Cynthia McKinney’s congressional briefing; “The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later, A Citizens’ Response: Did the Commission Get it Right?”, re-published with permission of the author. Download the complete transcript and submitted written material from McKinney’s briefing here; 2.5 MB PDF

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Red. anm.: Videoserie (25 deler) av McKinneys orientering: “The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later – A Citizens Response: Did the Commission Get it Right?” (Noen segment mangler…)

Anbefales!

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Nafeez Ahmed – “Ties With Terror: The Continuity of Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period”

An accurate understanding of the history of US relations with the Afghan mujahideen who went on to join al-Qaeda’s international terrorist network is crucial to understanding the anatomy of international terrorism today.

I will attempt here to condense this history in order to capture some of its most striking and significant features. In doing so, I hope to demonstrate as fact a hypothesis that flies entirely in the face of the official narrative – that US relations with the mujahideen did not end with the Cold War, but on the contrary have continued to this day in the post-Cold War era; and that this subtle, hidden relationship contributes directly to the systematic undermining of national security, through the cultivation of the sources of international terrorism. Most importantly, I will show that this conclusion is based on reliable, credible sources from the public record. And further, I must emphasize, I will not delve into any form of theoretical speculation, but will concentrate solely on alerting you to verifiable information that can be subject to further investigation. (Emphasis added/uthevelse tilføyet)

I will divide this presentation into the following sections:

1. The Formation of al-Qaeda
2. The Utility of al-Qaeda Beyond Afghanistan
3. Al-Qaeda in the Balkans
4. Al-Qaeda in North Africa
5. Al-Qaeda in the Asia-Pacific
6. Al-Qaeda in the Caucasus
7. Conclusion

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http://911blogger.com/node/2966

Al Qaeda and the “War on Terrorism”

Michel Chossudovsky, Global research: Al Qaeda and the “War on Terrorism”

One of the main objectives of war propaganda is to “fabricate an enemy”. The “outside enemy” personified by Osama bin Laden is “threatening America”.

Pre-emptive war directed against “Islamic terrorists” is required to defend the Homeland. Realities are turned upside down. America is under attack.

In the wake of 9/11, the creation of this “outside enemy” has served to obfuscate the real economic and strategic objectives behind the war in the Middle East and Central Asia. Waged on the grounds of self-defense, the pre-emptive war is upheld as a “just war” with a humanitarian mandate.

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9-11 Cover-Up, Treason and The Bomb

Dave Lindorff, OpEdNews.com: 9-11 Cover-Up, Treason and The Bomb

In a new article just published Saturday in the Times of London based upon information provided by US government whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, we have not only solid evidence of prior knowledge of 9-11 by high up US government officials, but evidence of treasonous activity by many of those same officials involving efforts to provide US nuclear secrets to America’s enemies, even including Al Qaeda. (Emphasis added/uthevelse tilføyet)

US Military Escalation Gets Underway In Pakistan

Tom Hayden, CommonDreams.org: US Military Escalation Gets Underway In Pakistan

The US government is considering direct military intervention in the tribal areas of Pakistan, risking an escalated conflict with Pashtun nationalism in the name of crushing al Qaeda.

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The consequences of the possible escalation are extremely unpredictable. The alleged al-Qaeda militants are embedded in complex tribal networks in a remote mountainous area. Military action could inflict severe casualties and damage to these traditional communities and inflame anti-American sentiment across Muslim Pakistan. It might accelerate the disintegration of the US-backed Musharraf dictatorship which currently possesses nuclear weapons. (…)

Bhutto’s Assassination: Who Gains?

by F. William Engdahl

Global Research, January 4, 2008

Assassination of prominent political leaders, presumably protected by the best security, is no easy thing. It requires agencies of professional intelligence training to insure that the job is done and that no person is caught alive who can lead to those behind. Typically, from the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo in July 1914 to JFK, the person pulling the trigger is just an instrument of a far deeper conspiracy. So too in the assassination on December 27th, of Pakistani former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto. Cui bono?.

What was behind the murder of Bhutto at the moment her PPP party appeared about to win a resounding election victory in the planned January 8 elections, thereby posing a mass-based challenge to the dictatorial rule of President Musharraf?

Musharraf’s government was indecently quick to blame “Al-Qaeda,” the dubious entity allegedly the organization of Osama bin Laden, whom Washington accused for masterminding the September 11 2001 attacks. Musharraf just days after, declared he was “sure” Al Qaeda was the author, even though, on US pressure, he has asked Scotland Yard to come and investigate. “I want to say it with certainty, that these people (Al Qaeda) martyred … Benazir Bhutto,” Musharraf said in a Jan. 3 televised address. He named Baitullah Mehsud, a militant tribal chief fighting the Pakistani Army, who has alleged ties to al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taleban. Mehsud denied the charge. Had he been behind such a dramatic event, the desired propaganda impact among militant islamists would require taking open responsibility instead.

By linking the Bhutto killing to Al Qaeda, Musharraf conveniently gains several goals. First he reinforces the myth of Al Qaeda, something very useful to Washington at this time of growing global skepticism over the real intent of its War on Terrorism, making Musharraf more valuable to Washington. Second it gives Musharraf a plausible scapegoat to blame for the convenient elimination of a serious political rival to his consolidation of one-man rule.

How the FBI protected Al Qaeda’s 9/11 Hijacking Trainer

How the FBI protected Al Qaeda’s 9/11 Hijacking Trainer: New Revelations about Ali Mohamed

by Dr. Peter Dale Scott

Global Research, October 8, 2006

The following text is an expanded version of Peter Dale Scott’s Talk at Berkeley, September 24, 2006, entitled “9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out.”

I want to talk tonight about using the 9/11 Report as evidence – evidence of what is being suppressed. We can use it in this way because some parts of the Report are accurate and reliable. This base line of reliability helps define other parts of the Report which are misleading, and in a few places I believe dead wrong. These relevant omissions and deceptions should be taken as clues as to what is being suppressed, and where the hidden truth lies.

I shall talk of the Report’s occasional resistance to the truth. Let me give an easy and incontrovertible analogy from the Warren Report. The Warren Report got many things right; but it also minimized the links between Jack Ruby and organized crime.[1] This resistance was a clue that Ruby in fact was crime-related and that this was important. The House Select Committee on Assassinations, even though they got many things wrong, amply confirmed the importance of Ruby’s crime links.

We find similar symptomatic resistance in the 9/11 Report.

1) Here is an easy example: the identity of the hijackers. The FBI had distributed a list naming 18 of the 19 alleged hijackers by 10 AM on 9/11.[2] Within two weeks the identities of at least six of the hijackers were unclear; as men in Arab countries with the same names and histories, and in some cases the same photographs, were protesting that they were alive and innocent.[3] In response to these protests, FBI Director Robert Mueller soon acknowledged that the identity of several of the suicide hijackers was in doubt.[4] But there is no discussion of this problem in the detailed treatment of the alleged hijackers in the 9/11 Commission Report.[5]

In wake of assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Bush administration rushes to defense of Musharraf

Keith Jones, WSWS.org: In wake of assassination of Benazir Bhutto, Bush administration rushes to defense of Musharraf

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There are conflicting accounts of how the assassination occurred. Many news reports are citing witnesses as saying that Bhutto was shot in the neck and torso before her assassin blew himself up. The explosion killed at least 20 other people. However, the New York Times has reported senior Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) officials as saying Bhutto was hit by a rooftop sniper before a second assailant carried out the suicide bombing.

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Before any evidence had been collected, let alone examined, and with key facts about the assassination still in dispute, the US political establishment effectively declared the investigation over, categorically attributing Bhutto’s murder to Al Qaeda or a like-minded Islamicist group. (Uthevelse tilføyet)

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Red. anm.: Noen som ser et mønster her? Det er forunderlig hvordan “det politiske etablissement i USA” støtt er på høyden og peker på mistenkte så godt som umiddelbart etter terroranslag, attentat og lignende.

Men – then again – det er vel bare en indikasjon på hvor god kontroll de har på terrorister og deres organisasjoner. Eller kanskje al-Qaida konstituerer “etablissementets” alltid tilstedeværende syndebukk?

Det er nyttig med slikt om man skal selge en evigvarende krig mot terror.

Fotnote 2 i Peter Dale Scotts stykke How the FBI protected Al Qaeda’s 9/11 Hijacking Trainer:

Richard Clarke heard that the FBI had the names at 9:59 AM, the time of the collapse of WTC Tower 2. See Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terrorism (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 13-14; Thompson, The Terror Timeline, 441. This investigative tour de force is even more amazing when we consider that in the FBI, according to the 9/11 Report (77), “prior to 9/11 relatively few strategic analytic reports about counterterrorism had been completed. Indeed, the FBI had never completed an assessment of the overall terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland.”

Ah, for en utrolig tilfeldighet!

Bhutto Buried As Pakistan Unrest Spreads

Ashraf Kahn, The Huffington Post: Bhutto Buried As Pakistan Unrest Spreads

“We have the evidence that al-Qaida and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto,” Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said.

Red. anm.: Så fint for “Krigen mot Terror”, BushCo og alle nikkedukkene…