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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.

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

9/11-kommisjonens rapport om al Qaida og narkohandel: Godt dokumentert forvirrende

KEAN-KOMMISJONEN om al Qaida, bin Laden og narkohandel:

While the drug trade was a source of income for the Taliban, it did not serve the same purpose for al Qaeda, and there is no reliable evidence that Bin Laden was involved in or made his money through drug trafficking. (s. 171)

http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report.pdf

4. oktober 2001 offentliggjorde 10 Downingstreet “The Powell/Blair White Paper” (som legitimerte invasjonen av Afghanistan, men som ikke “purport to provide a prosecutable case against Usama Bin Laden in a court of law.”) hvor følgende kan leses:

• “Usama Bin Laden and Al Qaida have been based in Afghanistan since 1996, but have a network of operations throughout the world. The network includes training camps, warehouses, communication facilities and commercial operations able to raise significant sums of money to support its activity. That activity includes substantial exploitation of the illegal drugs trade from Afghanistan.

• Usama Bin Laden’s Al Qaida and the Taleban régime have a close and mutually dependent alliance. Usama Bin Laden and Al Qaida provide the Taleban régime with material, financial and military support. They jointly exploit the drugs trade. The Taleban régime allows Bin Laden to operate his terrorist training camps and activities from Afghanistan, protects him from attacks from outside, and protects the drugs stockpiles. …” (Uthevelse tilføyet)

http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/linkscopy/page3554.html

Powell/Blair-dossieret utgjør altså “no reliable evidence” ifølge Kean-kommisjonen.

Noen som ser et problem her?

Mer “upålitelig bevis”:

• US ’seizes al-Qaeda drugs ship’ (BBC)

  A boat containing drugs possibly linked to al-Qaeda has been seized in the Gulf, the US military says.

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  Twelve people on board were detained after it was found to be carrying almost two tons of hashish valued at up to $10m, a Centcom statement said.

  There were “clear ties” between the shipment and al-Qaeda, it added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3335183.stm

• Afghan/Pakistani Drug Connections

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&financing_of_al-qaeda:_a_more_detailed_look=drugs

• CIA Director George Tenet tells a Senate committee in open session that (…) “There is ample evidence that Islamic extremists such as Osama bin Laden use profits from the drug trade to support their terror campaign.” (Uthevelse tilføyet)

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a020200furtherblows#a020200furtherblows

Om kildene over holder vann, er det forunderlig at 9/11-kommisjonen flagrant omgår bevis for koblingen mellom bin Laden og narkohandel.

Om de ikke holder vann, har vi behov for en annen debatt – som vi må ta uansett.

Man trenger ikke være konspirasjonsteoretiker for å mene det.

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En informativ artikkel av Peter Dale Scott:

Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Northern Alliance, and drug-trafficking
URL:
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q3.html

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

Narco Aggression: Russia accuses the U.S. military of involvement in drug trafficking out of Afghanistan

Vladimir Radyuhin, Global Research/Frontline: Narco Aggression: Russia accuses the U.S. military of involvement in drug trafficking out of Afghanistan

Could it be that the American military in Afghanistan is involved in drug trafficking? Yes, it is quite possible, according to Russia’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov.

Commenting on reports that the United States military transport aviation is used for shipping narcotics out of Afghanistan, the Russian envoy said there was no smoke without fire.

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“The Americans are working hard to keep narco business flourishing in both countries,” says Mikhail Khazin, president of the consultancy firm Niakon. “They consistently destroy the local infrastructure, pushing the local population to look for illegal means of subsistence. And the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] provides protection to drug trafficking.”

U.S. freelance writer Dave Gibson recalled in an article published in American Chronicle in December what a U.S. foreign intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told NewsMax.com in March 2002 of the CIA’s record of involvement with the international drug trade. The official said: “The CIA did almost the identical thing during the Vietnam War, which had catastrophic consequences – the increase in the heroin trade in the USA beginning in the 1970s is directly attributable to the CIA. The CIA has been complicit in the global drug trade for years, so I guess they just want to carry on their favourite business.”

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Gammel, men god: Gaping Holes in the ‘CIA vs. bin Laden’ Story

Jared Israel, emperors-clothes.com: Gaping Holes in the ‘CIA vs. bin Laden’ Story

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It has become increasingly evident that the official story, that Osama bin Laden broke with the U.S. Establishment and its Saudi Arabian junior partners a decade ago is false. The claim that he has been trying to destroy the U.S. Empire ever since is an invention. The claim made by the Clinton and Bush administrations, that they have tried, but unfortunately failed, to defeat the wily Mr. bin Laden is full of holes.

Here are a few of the bigger ones

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Ex-lawmaker charged in terror conspiracy

Lara Jakes Jordan, Associated Press/Yahoo! News: Ex-lawmaker charged in terror conspiracy

A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al-Qaida and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan.
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Mark Deli Siljander, a Michigan Republican when he was in the House, was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstructing justice for allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity that authorities said was secretly sending funds to terrorists.

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The Propaganda Preparation for 9/11

by Chaim Kupferberg

The Propaganda Preparation for 9/11

In the immediate aftermath of the destruction of the World Trade Center, the finger of guilt was directed toward the only plausible author for such a sophisticated and ruthless act of terror – Osama bin Laden.

Throughout the late ’90’s, we were informed that bin Laden had declared war on America by reason of the American military presence on Saudi soil in the wake of the Persian Gulf War. We were told how bin Laden, ensconced in Afghanistan, headed up a world-wide terror franchise whose sophistication and global reach dwarfed that of the Iranian-financed Hizballah or Islamic Jihad (previously, the most widely known of the terror organizations among the masses in the Middle East). Bin Laden’s organization, al-Qaida, was presented to us as something entirely new in the annals of terrorism – a far-flung, sophisticated empire of terror, possessing – possibly – weapons of mass destruction, while having no clear or viable state sponsor behind it (as the Afghani Taliban were merely its resident protectors). In short, by September 11, the United States now had a bona fide enemy – and, as they say in criminal justice parlance, a suspect with motive, means, and opportunity.

And while I was a bit taken at how quickly – and confidently – the fingers were pointing only hours after the 9/11 bombings, I was positively shaken by the first red flag that popped up. His name was John O’Neill – or more precisely, he is the seam that shows. Dated September 12, in a Washington Post article by Vernon Loeb, it was revealed that O’Neill, who died in his capacity as head of security for the World Trade Center, was also formerly the New York FBI Counterterror chief responsible for the investigation into Osama bin Laden. That could perhaps be written off as one of those freak synchronicities. There were the other items – reported quite blandly, in that “there’s nothing to see here, folks” tone – that gave me that sinking feeling. Apparently, O’Neill had a falling-out with the Ambassador to Yemen over his investigative style and was banned from returning there. But then there was that other nugget that I had trouble digesting – that O’Neill had resigned from a thirty-year career in the FBI “under a cloud” over an incident in Tampa – and then left to take up the security position at the WTC (only two weeks before!).

The seam that shows…

Pseudo-Reporting

Robert C. Koehler, CommonDreams.org: Pseudo-Reporting

Many U.S. media outlets were quick to give us a primer on Islamic terrorism in the wake of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination last week, even though actual evidence points the finger far more at our ally in the war on terror, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, than it does at the Taliban or al-Qaida.

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