From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Oct 18 15:58:31 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:58:31 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Pledge of Action to Stop a Stolen Election! Message-ID: <200410182258.i9IMwVQg005431@users.electricembers.net> ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE http://www.unitedforpeace.org | 212-868-5545 To subscribe, visit http://www.unitedforpeace.org/email =========================================== NO STOLEN ELECTIONS! http://www.Nov3.US We all remember the votes that were never counted in Florida 2000. While we are all working hard for a positive outcome on November 2nd, we also have to be prepared for a repeat of a 2000 stolen election. Below is a pledge for people to sign, supporting efforts to mobilize and protect the vote on November 2nd and making a commitment to protest starting on November 3rd in the case of a fraudulent vote count. By signing this pledge, you will be joining with thousands of others in the November 3rd Urgent Response Network. Please sign the pledge at http://www.nov3.us/ and pass it around far and wide. We are setting up a Fair Elections Advisory Council made up of U.S. and international elections experts who will give us their assessment on election day itself. If they find significant fraud, we will activate the Urgent Response Network on or immediately after November 3rd, calling on people everywhere to engage in protest, including non-violent civil disobedience, in front of their local federal buildings and other appropriate places. We will also be asking those who can to converge in the states where the most serious fraud occurred, as well as in Washington DC. In addition to signing the pledge, please work with other people and groups in your area to protect the vote on November 2nd and to build the Urgent Response Network. Pick a venue for your local protest in the case that the Urgent Response Network is activated, and list the time and place on the website at http://www.nov3.us . We also recommend that you find or organize a place to jointly watch the election results on November 2nd. Let us commit ourselves to making sure that this time around, the person who occupies the White House is the one who won the election. NO STOLEN ELECTIONS PLEDGE OF ACTION: "I remember the stolen presidential election of 2000 and I am willing to take action in 2004 if the election is stolen again. I support efforts to protect the right to vote leading up to and on Election Day, November 2nd. If that right is systematically violated, I pledge to join nationwide protests starting on November 3rd, either in my community, in the states where the fraud occurred, or in Washington DC." Please sign the pledge now at http://www.Nov3.US INITIAL SIGNATORIES: Stewart Acuff, Organizing Director, AFL-CIO Fred Azcarate, Jobs with Justice Patrick Barrett, RadFest: Midwest Social Forum Brian Benford, Madison Common Council Medea Benjamin, CodePink Adrienne Maree Brown, League of Pissed Off Voters Mike Brune, Executive Director, Rainforest Action Network Dennis Brutus, poet Andrea Buffa, Global Exchange Linda Burnham, Women of Color Resource Center Leslie Cagan, United for Peace and Justice John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies David Cobb, Green Presidential Nominee Steve B. Cobble, political strategist Rev. James Demus, III, Director, NAACP, Chicago Southside Charlie Derber, Professor of Sociology, Boston College Karen Dolan, Institute for Policy Studies & Cities for Peace Theresa El-Amin, Southern Anti-Racism Network (SARN) Daniel Ellsberg, author Larry Fahn, President, Sierra Club Lisa Fithian, Root Activist Network of Trainers Arun Gandhi, M.K. 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If China are receiving kickbacks for the subsequent hadover of Osama, it would explain why the US government has just removed all barriers to US companies selling nuke components to them. This article is a translation. During the home stretch of the Northamerican elections, Osama bin Laden could prove to be the ace in the sleeve of president Bush. As we speak, Washington is negotiating a highly secretive agreement with Beijing, the Chinese capital, for the eviction of bin Laden from his sanctuary in the turbulent Muslim provinces of China, in the Northwest of the Great Wall nation. More than five million people, many of them fanatic followers of Osama, live in that region, which can be called one of the most volatile regions of Earth. Thousands of them work for the mafias who specialize in the trafficking of humans and drugs to the West. Last summer, Bin Laden sealed an agreement with the authorities in Beijing, in which he was granted asylum in return for his guarantees that the guerilla war of the Muslim Chinese against the Chinese nation would end. Over the years, tens of thousands of troops of the Popular Liberation Armee had been sent to the region with the intent to squash the insurgents. Since the arrival of the Saudi Osama Bin Laden, the region has been relatively quiet, and the Muslims who live there are allowed to continue their trafficking of humans and drugs. However, Bin Laden could now see himself trapped in his refuge, if an extraordinary agreement between Beijing and Washington would come to pass, in which China would hand over to the United States the most wanted terrorist in the world. The capture of Bin Laden would virtually guarantee the reelection of George Bush Jr., as it would confirm to the millions of undecided voters of the U.S. that the war against terrorism was judstified after Bin Laden had authorized the attacks of 9/11 against New York and Washington. "A new administration Bush would present China as its great new ally in the war against terrorism. China would enjoy in Washington the status of a most favored nation with all of its facets. Contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars would be approved by fast track. The history of human rights violations in China would be ignored," confirmed last week a high-level representative of the Pentagon. He added that only a small number of "members of very high rank" in the Bush administration knew about the plan to "seize Bin Laden in exchange for a special relationship with China." With almost certainty, among them would be the vice-president, Dick Cheney, and the defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld. Agreeing to speak under anonymity, the functionary offered details of the plan to capture Osama Bin Laden as a means to keep Bush in the White House. He explained that this is not the first time that an American administration has resorted to similar maneuvers during an electoral campaign. Towards the end of the presidency of Jimmy Carter, a secret deal was signed between the then future president of the U.S., Ronald Reagan, and Iran, in which the American diplomats, who had been kidnapped in Teheran, the Capital of Iran, would be freed the very day that Ronald Reagan would be inaugurated to the White House. According to Ari Ben-Menashe, the former national security advisor of the Israeli government of Yitzhak Shamir, " they paid an enormous sum of money to the Ayatollas of Iran." Ben-Menashe affirms that this deal formed a pivotal piece in the negotiations that later became known as Reagan's October surprise. Theresa on the campaign trail Theresa, the wife of the senator and democratic candidate, John Kerry, gave to understand that another October surprise could be imminent. Two weeks ago, she surprised the political advisors of her husband by declaring in public: "I wouldn't be surprised if, prior to the elections, president Bush were to capture Osama." Since then, Mrs. Kerry rejected to further comment on her explosive declaration. However, there are rumors in the intelligence community that both she and her husband had been advised that any further comments concerning an agreement that would include the capture of Bin Laden could comprimise the national security of the U.S. Furthermore, also the Washington analyst, Al Santoli, the national security advisor and Californian Congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, and the editor of the respected bulletin China Monitor, affirmed that "an October surprise wouldn't surprise me in the least." In his first confirmed sighting in many months, the refuge of Bin Laden has been pinpointed by an NSA satellite, one of many that the supersecret U.S. agency utilizes in their search for him. His hideout is located near a lake at the border between China and Pakistan. At the other side of the Zaskar mountains, the white summits that majestically look out over Bin Laden's sanctuary, a detachment of special forces of the Pakistani and U.S. armies are awaiting orders to capture Bin Laden, and move him by plane to Pakistan. Escorted by 50 guerillas During the last six months, Bin Laden has been sighted several times in the mountains and open ranges of the Northwest. American intelligence agents in the region are of the opinion that the Saudi millionaire, accompanied by an escort of 50 guerilla mujaheddin, moved East towards Cachemira, and from there crossed into China. The agents furthermore believe that, previously, Bin Laden held various meetings with high officials of Beijing. He convinced them that he would be capable of obtaining peace in their Muslim provinces. "We know about these meetings," confirmed Mansur Ahmed, police chief of Bandipoor, North of Cachemira. "However, they took place on Chinese territory." Bin Laden is accompanied by Ayan al-Zawahiri, his primary advisor and personal physician (Bin Laden suffers from a serious renal ailment). Al-Zawahiri is a surgeon, educated in Cairo, accused of terrosrism in Egypt, and condemned to death for rebellion. After Bin Laden, he is the second most wanted terrorist world-wide. White House sources reject to comment on this issue publicly. "If the negotiations should fail, this would not be the most suitable moment for the president to be seen directly involved in these negotiations," affirmed one source. It is believed that the possibility for such a deal emerged early this year, after Donald Rumsfeld had met with a delegation of the Chinese government during a visit to the far East. Later, George Tenet, then director of the CIA, requested a viability study for an operation to capture Bin Laden. Tenet was informed that the only possibility would be if they could count on the cooperation of the Chinese. "To what extent that collaboration will occur in the few weeks remaining until the elections, will depend to a good extent on the confidence that Bush can inspire in the Chinese that he will be able to live up to his promises," confirmed the functionary of the Pentagon. http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/october2004/151004binladenhandover.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Oct 18 20:14:11 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:14:11 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: Pictures of second Dead Chupacabra !! (Remember these don't Exist ?!) Message-ID: Pictures of second Dead Chupacabra !! 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URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Oct 18 20:15:47 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:15:47 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: Fear The Coming Train Message-ID: Fear The Coming Train Exclusive to Rense.com By Lost Bleu 10-17-4 Note - This Article May Be Linked To But Not Reproduced Without Written Permssion. The NWO's next big investment, under martial law, is the soon-to-be legalized transportation of human cargo for forced labor and execution via none other than independent contractors. I did not begin looking for a Bush/Cheney connection when I began researching this article, but I sadly ended up there. Some will argue with the following connections, but I believe that the connections are relevant and that a researcher with more time and resources could certainly make this a noteworthy endeavor. Thus, I leave you with the following: A few years ago, I first learned of the camps. 600+ FEMA internment camps within these United States. They are what some are calling our future concentration camps. They are there, and there by executive order. It's a fact that cannot be denied. While researching the location of the camps, I was made aware that some, like the ones in Alaska, are only accessible by air and rail transportation. It was this fact that brought me to a new reality. A new found fear of trains. Many researchers have cited the existence of over 107, white, UN railroad cars that have been built by independent contracters in the United States. These cars can hold dozens of prisoners and have, on numerous occasions, been shown to have 135 human shackes in each car. These would be the cars that FEMA would transfer such terrorists/dissidents to their forced labor, internment, or concentration camps. A terrorist who may have only been a peaceful protestor at the Republican National Convention. Or perhaps an individual who had an interest in the wrong book at the library. (A reference to the post 9/11 "What if America, Wasn't America?" line of commercials.) Upon the instigation of martial law, FEMA's infamous "RED and BLUE" List, with over 6 million Americans marked for priority arrest, would determine the location of your camp and your fate. It would be the beginning of many more arrests to come. But even if you deny the existence of that list, this one fact cannot be ignored: someone, for some reason, would be on a train to a FEMA camp in a time of national emergency. Speaking on anonymity, an employee of a manufacturer of railcars stated that Gunderson Rail Car Co. received a contract to build over 400 boxcars. These boxcars were ordered and paid for by the UN. They were white and they had shackles built into them. Shackles possibly for a brother, a sister, a mother, or you. Another company was making the boxcars as well. A company called Thrall Railcar. Thrall Rail Car merged with Trinity Industries, Inc. in October of 2001 to form the Trinity Rail Group. For those of you who believe in David Icke's views on occult symbolism in corporate logos, I'll simply add that Trinity Industries has "3 pyramids" in their logo. If you don't, I'll also add that on the Board of Directors of Trinity Rail Group is Craig J. Duchossois. He is a heavy contributor to the Bush-Cheney 04, Inc. re-election campaign and labeled a Pioneer. A Pioneer is someone who has contributed more than $100,000 to the re-election campaign. Craig J. Duchossois is also Chairman of the The Chamberlain Group. A group that sells access and security products for homes and businesses around the world including biometrics. Now the white boxcars sometimes have been cited to have such labels as "Kansas City Southern" on the side to make them appear more inconspicuous. Boxcars would typically have a number like CSXT 119626 on the side, which is a reporting mark indicating who owns the car and the number being how to route them. Perhaps the people ordering the boxcars, don't want you to know where you're going but simply who sent you there so you know before you die. I chose to find out now. Kansas City Southern is a transportation holding company that has railroad investments in the U.S., Mexico, and Panama. KCS's rail holdings and investments are primary components of a NAFTA railway system that links commerical and industrial centers of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. One of KCS's Directors is Robert J. Druten. Druten is also the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hallmark Cards, Inc. But why would a VP of Greeting Cards be on the Board of Directors for a Railroad Company? Hallmark coincidentally has been chosen every year of Bush's presidency to produce presidential holiday cards. Robert Druten along with Hallmark have also been making re-election campaign contributions to George W. Bush. As previously stated, KCS has railroad investments in Panama. A country that George Bush Sr. invaded before Desert Storm under the pretext of Manuel Noriega's Drug Trafficking. Some say it was the practice invasion for Iraq. So what if KCS has offices in one of the largest drug smuggling ports in the world? If Bush Senior and Junior are truly tied up with KCS, it is entirely possible that key CIA drug smuggling has been primarily coming through our railroad system. From Panama, up through Mexico, into Texas, straight on to Houston, Dallas (a.k.a. Bush Central) all on KCS rail lines (along with Union Pacific). On December 4, 2003, KCS announced in Pro-Homeland fashion that it has become a certified member of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program, which is run by U.S. Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security. It's important to note that one of the motivations for companies to participate in the CTPAT is that they will be rewarded with fewer customs inspections when their cargo arrives in the US. They are agreeing to "self assess" their security under the CTPAT guidelines in exchange for less custom inspections. Sounds like a great program. It almost sounds like letting a student grade his own homework, and for every "A" he gets to skip a day of class. To further play devil's advocate, I believe this announcement simply places them under a more suspect connection to our government and FEMA control by establishing the history of a relationship with Homeland Security. Under executive order #11005 the government can take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities in a time of national emergency. Conveniently, all executive orders that would allot FEMA the ability to suspend the constitution are omitted from their own website in their own "executive orders" section. Why would they even want to control the rails? Why do they not want you to know they have that power? During his role as governor of Texas, George W. Bush met with with Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo on multiple occassions. Incidentally in 2001, President Zedillo was appointed to Union Pacific's Board of Directors. He now has a seat on the boards of the Alcoa and Procter & Gamble corporations and a resume very similar to VP Dick Cheney. Oddly enough, Dick Cheney also served on the Board of Directors for Proctor & Gamble and served on Union Pacific's Board during Zedillo's presidency. What are the odds? Due to a bad economy and poor leadership, Zedillo was bailed out by the Clinton Administration to save his administration. Conditions of the bailout required Mexico to deposit all of its export oil revenues as collateral in the Wall Street branch of the U.S. Federal Reserve. This gave the NWO oil cabal even more control over the world's oil supply. The ex-president also advises the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations, the UN, and David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission. While Zedillo was President and George Bush was governor of Texas, KCS won a $1.4 billon bid which doubled it's track mileage and made it a key player in growing U.S. Mexican trade by operating Mexico's busiest rail line into the United States. Perhaps Zedillo and Bush were discussing more than Border Patrol. Let me go back to Gunderson Rail Car Co. which is a subsidiary of the Greenbrier Companies. The Greenbriar companies are a leading supplier of transportation equipment and services to the railroad industry. One of Greenbrier's major european companies is Greenbrier Germany which was obtained in 2000. Greenbrier Germany is a design and marketing group for rail cars. Perhaps the NWO likes german designs on their transports to concentration camps. They worked so well in the past. On June 17, 2004, the Greenbrier Companies announced that it has received orders from TTX for nearly 7,000 railcars valued at approximately $400 million principally for production in North America. It is the largest single award Greenbrier has ever received. In all, Greenbrier owns over 12,000 railcars and performs management services for approximately 113,000 railcars. I wonder how many boxcars they have "off the record" for those clients that cannot be acknowledged. Finally, TTX has a friend of Cheney's on the Board of Directors, Mr. Robert M. Knight, Jr., Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Union Pacific. They worked together when Cheney was on the Board. Why is a friend of Cheney's giving them the largest single order Greenbrier has ever received? What does Bush/Cheney have planned for 2005-2006. What does the NWO have planned? Bush and Cheney have been shown to have ties to KCS, Union Pacific, Trinity Rail Car, The Chamberlain Group, and The Greenbrier Companies, after only a small amount of internet research. Imagine what you could learn if you followed up on this. After I began writing this article I was outside and heard a train whistle in the moonlight. For a few moments I felt the sensation of a jew in Nazi Germany. Despite any problems one may have with the above information, you still have to acknowledge the camps. Those FEMA internment or what some would call, concentration camps. New camps are going up every day. Camps that can only be accessed by Train. lostbleu at aol.com Thanks to those who information was used from existing websites. Disclaimer MainPage http://www.rense.com This Site Served by TheHostPros http://www.rense.com/general58/fearthecomingtrain.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Oct 18 20:18:10 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:18:10 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: The Socialists Have Bought In Message-ID: http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts74.html The Socialists Have Bought In by Paul Craig Roberts by Paul Craig Roberts British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, have purchased a $6.4 million townhouse in Connaught Square and plan on spending another $900,000 fixing it up. The Blairs already own an $800,000 six-bedroom home in his Sedgefield constituency on which taxpayers have spent $3.6 million to turn it into a terrorist-proof fortress. According to the British press, a down payment of $1.8 million would leave the Blairs with a $324,000 annual mortgage payment on their Connaught Square townhome. The mortgage payment would use up 100% of Blair's pre-tax income as prime minister, leaving the couple to get by on Cherie's income as a lawyer. Blair is banking on his loyalty to President Bush to produce the future income to pay off his mortgage. The British press estimates that Blair, having provided cover for Bush's ill-fated invasion of Iraq, can look forward to earning $3.6 million on the American lecture circuit once he leaves office, along with a $1.8 million book advance and lucrative directorships, Halliburton, no doubt, included. Many have been puzzled why Blair, with Britain's sizable Muslim population, threw in with the American neoconservatives' agenda to attack weaponless, secular Iraq. Modern Britain has as many Muslims as Presbyterians, Methodists, and Jews combined. The answer, it appears, is money. By hiring out Britain's army to the Republicans, Blair struck it rich. According to news reports, one of Connaught Square's true blue residents expressed some concern about the neighborhood with a politician moving in. But it is too late for that. A chief whip already inhabits the posh residential area. Make that chief whiplash. One of the Blairs' neighbors will be a madam who specializes in sadism. According to press reports, whippings are a specialty of her "torture den." "More honest work," quipped one cynic. The British Labour Party, having spent the 20th century dispossessing the British aristocracy of their estates with death duties and super tax, has ensconced itself in the House of Lords with life peerages. The upper house now contains 500 government-created life peers and only 92 hereditary lords. Life peers receive titles, but no country estates. Labour ministers in the Lords are setting about to remedy the situation. Two-thirds of them are cashing in on a housing allowance to purchase country homes. According to the London Times, the Cabinet Office concedes that the taxpayer-funded allowance is large enough to support the mortgage on a $1 million home. Lords ministers do not have to serve constituencies outside London. But what is a Lord without a country home? Some of the proletariat's representatives feel that it is unseemly to purchase million dollar country estates on the taxpayers. Labour Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, whose family is worth $2.7 billion, does not claim the allowance. The question arose: Can a Labour Party tolerate perks for Lords that are denied to commoners? Tony Blair has cleared the way for a less lucrative housing allowance for ministers in the House of Commons. As Commons ministers are often elevated to the Lords at the conclusion of their political careers, they can make it up later. In his great historical novel, The Leopard, Guiseppe di Lampedusa observed that "things have to change so they can remain the same." The aristocracy collected land rents. The socialists collect taxes and hire out Britain's army. October 15, 2004 Dr. Roberts [send him mail] is John M. Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal and a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He is the co-author of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. Copyright ? 2004 Creators Syndicate -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Oct 18 20:24:30 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:24:30 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: Why is war-torn Iraq giving $190, 000 to Toys R Us? Message-ID: Guardian Unlimited Why is war-torn Iraq giving $190,000 to Toys R Us? Naomi Klein Iraqis are still being forced to pay for crimes committed by Saddam Saturday October 16, 2004 The Guardian Next week, something will happen that will unmask the upside-down morality of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. On October 21, Iraq will pay $200m in war reparations to some of the richest countries and corporations in the world. If that seems backwards, it's because it is. Iraqis have never been awarded reparations for any of the crimes they suffered under Saddam, or the brutal sanctions regime that claimed the lives of at least half a million people, or the US-led invasion, which the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, recently called "illegal". Instead, Iraqis are still being forced to pay reparations for crimes committed by their former dictator. Quite apart from its crushing $125bn sovereign debt, Iraq has paid $18.8bn in reparations stemming from Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion and occupation of Kuwait. This is not in itself surprising: as a condition of the ceasefire that ended the 1991 Gulf war, Saddam agreed to pay damages stemming from the invasion. More than 50 countries have made claims, with most of the money awarded to Kuwait. What is surprising is that even after Saddam was overthrown, the payments from Iraq have continued. Since Saddam was toppled in April, Iraq has paid out $1.8bn in reparations to the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), the Geneva-based quasi tribunal that assesses claims and disburses awards. Of those payments, $37m have gone to Britain and $32.8m have gone to the United States. That's right: in the past 18 months, Iraq's occupiers have collected $69.8m in reparation payments from the desperate people they have been occupying. But it gets worse: the vast majority of those payments, 78%, have gone to multinational corporations, according to statistics on the UNCC website. Advertiser links Open a High Interest Saving Account Open a high interest 2.20% saving account with ING Direct.... theconsumerbridge.com Away from media scrutiny, this has been going on for years. Of course there are many legitimate claims for losses that have come before the UNCC: payments have gone to Kuwaitis who have lost loved ones, limbs, and property to Saddam's forces. But much larger awards have gone to corporations: of the total amount the UNCC has awarded in Gulf war reparations, $21.5bn has gone to the oil industry alone. Jean-Claude Aim?, the UN diplomat who headed the UNCC until December 2000, publicly questioned the practice. "This is the first time as far as I know that the UN is engaged in retrieving lost corporate assets and profits," he told the Wall Street Journal in 1997, and then mused: "I often wonder at the correctness of that." But the UNCC's corporate handouts only accelerated. Here is a small sample of who has been getting "reparation" awards from Iraq: Halliburton ($18m), Bechtel ($7m), Mobil ($2.3m), Shell ($1.6m), Nestl? ($2.6m), Pepsi ($3.8m), Philip Morris ($1.3m), Sheraton ($11m), Kentucky Fried Chicken ($321,000) and Toys R Us ($189,449). In the vast majority of cases, these corporations did not claim that Saddam's forces damaged their property in Kuwait - only that they "lost profits" or, in the case of American Express, experienced a "decline in business" because of the invasion and occupation of Kuwait. One of the biggest winners has been Texaco, which was awarded $505m in 1999. According to a UNCC spokesperson, only 12% of that reparation award has been paid, which means hundreds of millions more will have to come out of the coffers of post-Saddam Iraq. The fact that Iraqis have been paying reparations to their occupiers is all the more shocking in the context of how little these countries have actually spent on aid in Iraq. Despite the $18.4bn of US tax dollars allocated for Iraq's reconstruction, the Washington Post estimates that only $29m has been spent on water, sanitation, health, roads, bridges, and public safety combined. And in July (the latest figure available), the Department of Defence estimated that only $4m had been spent compensating Iraqis who had been injured, or who lost family members or property as a direct result of the occupation - a fraction of what the US has collected from Iraq in reparations since its occupation began. For years there have been complaints about the UNCC being used as a slush fund for multinationals and rich oil emirates - a backdoor way for corporations to collect the money they were prevented from making as a result of the sanctions against Iraq. During the Saddam years, these concerns received little attention, for obvious reasons. But now Saddam is gone and the slush fund survives. And every dollar sent to Geneva is a dollar not spent on humanitarian aid and reconstruction Iraq. Furthermore, if post-Saddam Iraq had not been forced to pay these reparations, it could have avoided the $437m emergency loan that the International Monetary Fund approved on September 29. With all the talk of forgiving Iraq's debts, the country is actually being pushed deeper into the hole, forced to borrow money from the IMF, and to accept all of the conditions and restrictions that come along with those loans. The UNCC, meanwhile, continues to assess claims and make new awards: $377m worth of new claims were awarded last month alone. Fortunately, there is a simple way to put an end to these grotesque corporate subsidies. According to United Nations security council resolution 687, which created the reparations programme, payments from Iraq must take into account "the requirements of the people of Iraq, Iraq's payment capacity, and the needs of the Iraqi economy". If a single one of these three issues were genuinely taken into account, the security council would vote to put an end to these payouts tomorrow. That is the demand of Jubilee Iraq, a debt relief organisation based in London. Reparations are owed to the victims of Saddam Hussein, the group argues - both in Iraq and in Kuwait. But the people of Iraq, who were themselves Saddam's primary victims, should not be paying them. Instead, reparations should be the responsibility of the governments that loaned billions to Saddam, knowing the money was being spent on weapons so he could wage war on his neighbours and his own people. "If justice, and not power, prevailed in international affairs, then Saddam's creditors would be paying reparations to Kuwait as well as far greater reparations to the Iraqi people," says Justin Alexander, coordinator of Jubilee Iraq. Right now precisely the opposite is happening: instead of flowing into Iraq, reparations are flowing out. 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SOA Watch immediately sought a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction, alleging that the searches violated individuals' First and Fourth Amendment rights. Two days later, Bush-administration appointee Judge Clay Land dismissed the complaint, effectively upholding the illegal searches. SOA Watch then appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court. YESTERDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2004, THE COURT RULED UNANIMOUSLY THAT THE COLUMBUS CITY SEARCH POLICY AT THE SOA WATCH PROTEST SITE VIOLATES THE FIRST AND FOURTH AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION AND THAT PROTESTERS GATHERING THIS YEAR MAY NOT BE REQUIRED TO PASS THROUGH METAL DETECTORS TO ENTER THE RALLY SITE. "We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War of Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over," Judge Gerald Tjoflat wrote for the three-member court. "Sept. 11, 2001, already a day of immeasurable tragedy, cannot be the day liberty perished in this country." Since September 11, we have seen a dramatic increase in attacks on civil liberties, including the unconstitutional limiting of the ability of citizens to peaceably assemble and "to petition the government for redress of grievances." This ruling has far-reaching implications and importance not only for SOA Watch but also for all of us struggling to uphold human rights and civil liberties. It is more important than ever that we gather again this year at the gates of Fort Benning! We must continue to exercise and uphold these Constitutional rights. Join us November 19-21 to stand up for human rights, for civil liberties, for justice! Find out more about this November's gathering: http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=763 Read the Associated Press article about the ruling: http://www.soaw.org/new/newswire_detail.php?id=539 Read the ruling by the Eleventh Circuit Court: http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200216886.pdf ________________________________________ If you have received this email by mistake or if you don't wish to receive updates from SOA Watch, send a blank email to soaw-unsubscribe at lists.mutualaid.org. To read more about this list visit http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/soaw SOA Watch ~ PO Box 4566 ~ Washington DC 20017 ~ (202)234-3440 ~ www.soaw.org ~ info at soaw.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This group, the "Pink >>Angels", was formed by homosexual attorney Chuck Volz, a senior >>adviser to Philly Pride Presents, organizers of the annual OutFest >>event which receives $22,500 yearly from the City of Philadelphia. >>The "Pink Angels" blocked access to Repent America by forming a >>human chain, refusing to allow the Christians to walk down the >>public sidewalk. Police intervened shortly thereafter, escorting >>Repent America through the human blockade. >> >> While on t! he public sidewalk and street inside the event, >>Repent America began to open-air preach with the use of Scripture >>banners, and to distribute Gospel literature, as members of the >>"Pink Angels" blew loud whistles and carried large signs alongside >>the Christians to block their message and their access to the event >>attendees, while others screamed obscenities. The police refused to >>take action as the Christians were continuously followed, >>obstructed, and harassed. >> >> Repent America obeyed all laws, and even the unlawful >>requests, to move by the Philadelphia Civil Affairs police officers >>in an effort of cooperation. Regardless of Repent America's >>compliance, Chief James Tiano, head of the Civil Affairs Unit, >>without warning, ordered the arrests of the Christians and hauled >>them off to jail, where they spent 21 hours, before being released >>the following day. Ten Christians were individually charged with >>three felonies and five misdemeanors, while a teenager with the >>group w! as charged with a misdemeanor. >> >> "This is one of the most remarkable and unlawful actions by >>police that I have ever witnessed. Their blatant disregard of the >>law by allowing hecklers to impede our way, block our message, and >>then arrest us, is inexcusable, especially by police officers who >>are specially trained to protect civil rights," stated Michael >>Marcavage, director of Repent America. "Christians are now being >>labeled as 'haters' and any speech that homosexuals perceive to be >>intimidating, such as our Christian witness at OutFest, makes them >>a prime target for 'hate crimes legislation'," Marcavage continued. >> >> The three felonies and five misdemeanors include: Criminal >>Conspiracy (Felony), Possession of Instruments of Crime >>(Misdemeanor), Reckless Endangerment of Another Person >>(Misdemeanor), Ethnic Intimidation (Felony), Riot (Felony), Failure >>to Disperse (Misdemeanor), Disorderly Conduct (Misdemeanor), and >>Obstructing Highways (Misdemeanor). "We are cl! early 'not guilty' >>of these crimes, and with the help of our video footage, we shall >>be vindicated of these trumped up charges," Marcavage concluded. >> >> The Christians are scheduled to be arraigned on October 18, >>2004 at 8:00AM in the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center. >> >> Related Articles: >> Protesters to attend OutFest >> >> 'Gays' try to ban protests at events >> Philly Pride seeks court order to pre! vent 'Outfest' >>evangelism >> >> REPENT AMERICA - CALLING A NATION IN REBELLION TOWARD GOD TO >>REPENTANCE >> Repent America is an evangelistic ministry based in the >>birthplace of America, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. >> >> Go to: REPENT AMERICA >> >> NEW AT REPENTAMERICA.COM: LISTEN TO THE BIBLE >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Since March [2004], insurgents have flung more than 800 mortar rounds at Eagle, turning a walk to the mess tent into a life-and-death proposition. On patrol, the soldiers routinely encounter roadside bombs, small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. The constant combat and bleak camp conditions have pumped up the pride of many. They've seen the worst, and they have the swagger to show for it. But seven grueling months also have chipped away at the optimism many had when they arrived, lending a jagged edge to their attitudes about Iraqis, the war and the prospects for success. 'I used to want to be nice and friendly with the Iraqis. Now I don't care. I'm all about getting home. I got a wife and baby, and I'm not going to take a chance that someone might be friendly and find out that they're not,' said Spc. Jarred Mafouz, who's part of a tank crew. A truce that was struck over the weekend between militants in Sadr City and the Iraqi government could be good news for Eagle's soldiers. Or it could collapse and lead to still more fighting, as similar cease-fires have. The Dirty Bird, as Eagle is unaffectionately known, has none of the commodious lounges, movie theaters, bicycle fleets and other amenities that U.S. soldiers enjoy at other camps across Iraq. 'You hear people griping about how the swimming pool isn't working, the chow hall is too small, and I'm like, "We get mortared every night. What are you talking about?'''Pfc. Jeremy Chapman said. The Dirty Bird convenience store consists of one small, dimly lit room lined with half-empty shelves and bizarre items such as dusty tins of sardines and just four magazine titles that were all, inexplicably, about hair: Bridal Star Hairstyles, Short Cuts, Sophisticated Black Hair and Celebrity Hairstyles. 'Yeah. Pretty depressing,' Capt. Matthew Benigni said while giving a visitor a tour. 'If you want something, call home. Care packages are very important here.' While troops at other Baghdad installations have been treated to live performances by the likes of the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, the only entertainers willing to risk playing at Eagle were the members of ThundHerStruck, 'the ultimate all-girl tribute' band to rock group AC/DC. But it's the pounding of mortar rounds, above all else, that makes Eagle one of the worst. Virtually everyone has had a close encounter with an incoming explosive. They've killed one soldier and two contractors and injured about 120, all in a 60-acre camp with little more than 1,000 soldiers. About 25 have been seriously injured, many of them losing limbs. They grumble that the insurgents time their attacks for the breakfast, lunch and dinner hours, forcing the soldiers to don flak jackets and helmets just to get fed. Morning runs are no longer mandatory, given all the shrapnel. 'Everybody's had a close call. I've had about a dozen or so. Everyone's got the same story,' said 2nd Lt. Brian Panaro. 'Close isn't close anymore unless you're covered in dust.' Mafouz remembers speaking to his wife from the camp's phone center when a particularly fierce mortar attack began. One round hit the building, wounding several soldiers who also were trying to call family and friends. 'My wife's on the phone crying her eyes out. The mortars are landing,' Mafouz said. 'I'm saying, `Look, I got to go help these guys.'' Some of the soldiers said they'd become so accustomed to the explosions that they found them comforting. 'They rock you to sleep after a while. Boom. Boom. Boom. You feel the building shake. Like your mother rocking you to sleep,' Chapman said. Chapman, who's been sprayed with tiny bits of shrapnel from a roadside bomb while on patrol, had an equally close call on base when a mortar round landed right outside the company headquarters. 'My bottle of water got a Purple Heart that day,' he said. Given the conditions at Eagle - and the maddening inability to respond to mortar attacks with artillery for fear of hurting civilians - it's little surprise that the soldiers there relish their chances to take the fight to the insurgents' homes, instead of their own. The day after a big operation in Sadr City, Panaro gleefully described to other soldiers how a speeding tank towing a disabled military vehicle demolished marketplaces, sideswiped cars and crushed houses. Asked later if the offensives were wearing the enemy down, Panaro shrugged and said, 'They're like cockroaches. You kill one and there's three more right behind them.' Several doors down, a smiling Benigni watched a video of a Predator drone wiping out a cluster of insurgents with a Hellfire missile. He replayed it for passers-by. 'We're the tip of the spear, man,' he told one of his men as they celebrated and relaxed after the exhausting operation. Usually, though, the mood is less jubilant. Later that day, Benigni worked to raise the spirits of a young officer, likening the long fight with insurgents to a chess match. 'And they're winning,' the young officer replied. 'No, they're not,' Benigni said. 'It seems like it, sir. It seems like they're outsmarting us,' the young lieutenant said. The next day, Benigni's company continued the game, rolling outside the camp's gates to meet with local sheiks and visiting schools to survey reconstruction needs. It was a day of diplomacy and some small progress, the kind of work Benigni said he wanted to focus on more. But when the company returned to Eagle, it had a new assignment, which had nothing to do with reconstruction: Eight hours, beginning at 1 a.m., of watching a long stretch of a crucial road to prevent insurgents from planting any bombs, at least for one night. Benigni and his Humvee crew shared embarrassing stories and crude jokes and occasionally sang songs to stay awake. 'The soldiers at this camp, they know without a shadow of a doubt that they've been in some serious combat, in some of the worst conditions,' Benigni said. 'When they get back home they'll be proud of it.' 'But,' he added, 'you won't have any trouble finding people to complain about it now.' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Oct 18 21:29:49 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:29:49 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] FAIR Action Alert: FBI Shutdown of Indymedia Threatens Free Speech (fwd) Message-ID: FAIR-L Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media analysis, critiques and activism http://www.fair.org/activism/fbi-indymedia.html ACTION ALERT: FBI Shutdown of Indymedia Threatens Free Speech October 15, 2004 In a chilling attack on free speech, U.S. authorities on October 7 seized two internet servers in London belonging to the independent media network Indymedia. More than 20 Indymedia sites around the world were taken down as a result of the raid. The servers were returned on October 14, but no formal charges have been announced and no explanation has been given for the raid. FBI spokesperson Joe Parris told Agence France Presse that the raid was "not an FBI operation" but that the FBI issued the subpoena on behalf of Italy and Switzerland (10/8/04). U.S. authorities have refused to comment further. Rackspace, the U.S.-based company that hosts the Indymedia servers at its London offices, revealed in a press release that the subpoena was issued "pursuant to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), which establishes procedures for countries to assist each other in investigations such as international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering." Rackspace told Indymedia that they could not reveal any information about the subpoena?-apparently the result of a gag order (Indymedia, 10/7/04). Swiss authorities said they have opened an investigation into Indymedia coverage of the 2003 G8 Summit in Evian and that they had asked the FBI to help remove photos of Swiss undercover police from a French Indymedia site (AFP, 10/9/04). The FBI visited both a Seattle-based Indymedia lawyer and Rackspace about the photos, and Indymedia believed the issue had been resolved (Indymedia, 10/9/04). The site was among those housed on the seized servers; Swiss authorities, however, have not indicated that they asked the FBI to seize the servers. An Italian prosecutor investigating an anarchist group reportedly also requested assistance from the U.S. to obtain information about posts on Italian Indymedia, but she apparently also did not request the seizure of the servers (italy.indymedia.org, 10/14/04). While the details of the subpoena remain undisclosed, the FBI's aggressive action against Indymedia is troubling. Indymedia, which provides grassroots reporting on social justice issues and protests, is a decentralized network that allows anyone to post news on its websites. If there is reason to suspect that participants on these websites are involved with criminal activities, shutting down the servers is rather like shutting down the phone system because people have been using the telephone to plot crimes. To silence over 20 media sites around the world with no charges and no explanation strikes a severe blow against freedom of expression and should trouble media outlets worldwide. European media have been covering the story, but in this country, the media have been virtually silent. Aside from two AP articles (10/8/04, 10/14/04), one by UPI (10/11/04) and one in the Hartford Courant (10/13/04), FAIR found no mainstream news outlets reporting on the Indymedia story. This is not the first time Indymedia has been targeted by U.S. authorities. During the Republican National Convention in August, the Secret Service attempted to obtain private records from NYC Indymedia's Internet Service Provider; the ISP refused. The FBI attempted to obtain similar records from Indymedia servers during the massive protests against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas in Quebec City but lost the legal battle (Indymedia, 8/31/04). If there is credible evidence of actual crimes that involve Indymedia websites, then an investigation that respects Indymedia's rights as a media outlet may be warranted. But FBI action that intimidates or silences media around the world under a shroud of secrecy is an extraordinary and grave threat to free speech. ACTION: Please sign the Indymedia solidarity declaration (http://solidarity.indymedia.org.uk/) denouncing the hard drive seizure and demanding a full disclosure of who is involved in the seizure, a copy of the court order, and an independent investigation into any violations of due process. For more information and updates, see: http://www.indymedia.org ---------- Your donation to FAIR makes a difference: http://www.fair.org/donate.html SUBSCRIBE TO EXTRA! 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But seriously. If you read the news you will discover all manner of depressing facts and figures. For instance, US Airways told their employees they will not pay their pensions. But that's not the startling thing. Now it surely is a bummer for US Airways employees, but there was something even more disturbing in the article -- the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., a government agency that supposedly guarantees traditional defined-benefit pension plans, is severely in the red -- to the tune of around 11 billion dollars. In other words, if Joe Free Trade -- the guy who wants to send your job to a Chinese labor gulag -- defaults on your pension there's no money to make sure you don't starve to death when you retire, or are "let go" because you're too old and sick to flip burgers or stock shelves at Wal-Mart. Most of us should realize by now there will be no retirement. Or Social Security. It will be work until you drop. Just like those sweatshop workers in Indonesia or Vietnam. Just like it was in the good old days of the Industrial Revolution in merry old England and right here in the US of A. Look on the bright side: At least your kids don't have to work 12 hour a day, 6 days a week in a garment factory. Not yet, anyway. Remember, John Kerry voted for NAFTA, and Bill Clinton said it would be a great deal for the American worker. Never mind that all those factory jobs that went from Indiana and Pennsylvania to the Mexican maquiladoras are now going to China. Maybe you'll want to think about that in couple weeks when you go to cast your vote at the local school the Ministry of Homeland Security tells us al-Qaeda wants to attack with dirty bombs. Best hope you have family to take care of you in your dotage -- that is if they can afford to take care of you -- otherwise it will be homelessness. I don't know about where you live, but around here the police don't take kindly to homeless people, even grizzled homeless people with Alzheimer's. Looks bad to the real estate investors. Besides, it scares the crap out of the middle class folks driving around in their SUVs because it reminds them what could happen if they lose their jobs (sent to Shanghai) and bank accounts and homes. Nobody wants to be reminded they are a paycheck or two away from homelessness, especially when they are supposed to be casting a fly rod on Golden Pond. Consider what William Poole, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, suggested the other day. He wants to edge up the eligible retirement age for Social Security. Of course, as the president of the Federal Reserve Bank, Poole doesn't have to worry about dumpster diving in his old age as he waits to hit 100 or whatever the eligible retirement age will be by the time this Baby Boomer is too old and enfeebled to work. Of course, it doesn't matter. Because there will be no Social Security by the time I hit 70, let alone 100 or whatever the rich people who rule us decide it will be. According to the so-called experts, around 2018 or so existing payroll taxes just won't cover all the benefits going out. Note: 2018 is precariously close to 2022, when Harry Harrison has us dining on each other. Good old Alan Greenspan, that former Ayn Rand Libertarian who sold his soul to become a central banker. Greenspan provided us with a glimmer of our collective future (or those of us not members of the Fortune 500 millionaire and billionaire club) when he said a few weeks ago: "If we have promised more than our economy has the ability to deliver to retirees without unduly diminishing real income gains of workers, as I fear we may have, we must recalibrate our public programs so that pending retirees have time to adjust through other channels. If we delay, the adjustments could be abrupt and painful." Translation: Bush and the neolibs have decided the rich do not have to pay taxes and have no obligation to be socially responsible in any way or form to those they have worked to the bone all these years. In the meantime, we (the non-rich) will have to pay even more to foot the bill for those now lucky enough to retire. And when our time arrives the "adjustment" could be "painful" -- in other words, if we are lucky, we'll be allowed to queue up in a faith-based soup line. If we're not lucky -- and luck is rarely on the side of the working class -- our rulers will simply let us starve or bioengineer another "La Grippe" influenza pandemic like the one that killed between 20 and 40 million people in 1918-1919. Or maybe our rulers will start handing out Jack Kevorkian pills by the truckload. Remember, it was the Nazis, who loved their kids and who were civilized and sensitive enough to listen to Richard Wagner and Johann Sebastian Bach, who condemned millions of "useless eaters" to starvation, and not just Jews. Dubya's grandfather helped them do it. Please excuse my cynicism. But we have to be realists here. Bush wants to "privatize" Social Security -- that is to say turn it into a sort of casino where we all take our chances on the stock market. How many people lost their pants a few years ago when the stock market "bubble" burst? I don't mean the Big Boys on Wall Street -- those guys rarely lose anything -- but average and gullible people who foolishly believed all the bullshit pedaled about fortunes to be made. Remember what our fearless and Supreme Court appointed leader said: "There's an old sayin' in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee, that says, 'Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.'" Unfortunately, due to incessant brainwashing -- instilled by families, schools, and television -- far too many Americans are fooled over and over again. Is it possible they will be fooled into surrendering their Social Security check to some sleazeball investment banker? Count on it. If you think otherwise, consider the government bailed out looted Savings and Loan banks in the '80s. That scam will ultimately cost us around $1.4 trillion dollars. With the money lost from the S&L scandals, the government could have provided prenatal care for every American child for the next 2,300 years. Dubya's brother, Neil, ran one of those S&L banks into the ground. Guess what? He never severed a minute of jail time. Do you think anybody will serve time after these same criminals squander your Social Security money? Or is it more likely the brother of one of those criminals will be appointed CEO of America, Inc., by a senile Supreme Court? Enough questions. I have to stop now. I have to get back on Monster and CareerBuilder, to look for a job that is not there. Earlier today I went to a web development corporation's web site. I was searching for the "Human Resources" contact number. Guess where that was? India! Maybe in my next life I will come back as an Indian -- or Chinese or Indonesian. It may be better to come back as a cockroach because, as the scientists who understand these sorts of things tell us, the cockroach is tough and resilient and will outlast us all. Cheers! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Oct 18 21:34:57 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:34:57 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: Google Launches PC Hard-Drive Search Tool Message-ID: Yahoo News. Google Launches PC Hard-Drive Search Tool Thu Oct 14, 5:32 PM ET Technology - AP By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. on Thursday became the first tech heavyweight to tackle the daunting task of uncluttering computers, introducing a program that quickly scours hard drives for documents, e-mails, instant messages and past Web searches. AP Photo Related Quotes YHOO GOOG MSFT DJIA NASDAQ S&P 500 34.96 142.00 27.80 9894.45 1903.02 1103.29 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 delayed 20 mins - disclaimer Quote Data provided by Reuters With the free desktop program, Google hopes to build upon the popularity of its Internet-leading search engine and become even more indispensable to the millions of people who entrust the Mountain View-based company to find virtually anything online. The new product, available at http://desktop.google.com, ups the ante in Google's intensifying battle with software giant Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), which owns the world's second most popular search engine. Google's desktop invasion heralds a momentous step into a crucial realm - the challenge of managing the infoglut that has accumulated during the past decade as society becomes more tethered to increasingly powerful computers. "We think of this (program) as the photographic memory of your computer," said Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer Web products. "It's pretty comprehensive. If there's anything you once saw on your computer screen, we think you should be able to find it again quickly." Although its desktop program can be used exclusively offline to probe hard drives, Google designed it to run in a browser so it will meld with its online search engine. Google.com visitors who have the new program installed on their computer will see a "desktop" tab above the search engine toolbar and all their search results will include a section devoted to the hard drive in addition to the Web. The desktop search program could be the bridge to a day when Google begins offering consumers the option of storing some files directly on the company's own computer servers, said Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Watch. "It would be the next logical step if this is a success," he said. As it is, the desktop search program provides Google with a powerful magnet to lure traffic from its chief online search rivals, Microsoft's MSN and Yahoo Inc., both of which have been improving their technology. "Other major search engines will undoubtedly launch similar offerings in the next few months but they will have to match Google's offering to keep their customers happy or best it to gain new converts," Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li wrote in a report Thursday. A smattering of lesser-known companies, such as X1 Technologies of Pasadena, already offer desktop search programs. Google is the first company among high-tech's household names to try to make it easier for people to sift through the information mishmash on computer hard drives. It dispenses with the confinement of Microsoft's current model of files and folders. Google's program trumps Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, which plans to deliver its long-awaited desktop search tool by the end of the year. AOL and another search engine maker, Ask Jeeves, are reportedly close to entering the fray. Yahoo said Thursday that it "remains highly focused on evolving our products to empower users to manage all their digital content wherever it may reside." Google is betting the program will expand its search engine audience and encourage even more online searches than it already processes - a pattern that would yield more advertising revenue, the company's main moneymaker. The company's financial success already has turned its stock into a hot commodity, and Thursday's news provided another lift. Google's shares gained $1.10 to close at $142 on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The stock has surged by 67 percent since its initial public offering price less than two months ago. Leery of raising privacy concerns that have shadowed its recently introduced e-mail service, Google is stressing that the desktop search program doesn't provide a peephole into the hard drive, even when the product connects with the online search engine. "It's totally private," Mayer said. "Google does not know what happens when the hard drive is searched." By default, the program will track performance, bugs and other metrics without recording personal data, the company says. Pam Dixon, executive director for the World Privacy Forum, said she will withhold judgment until she thoroughly reviews the new program. "The key question will be if this thing ever phones home to the mother ship." Despite her reservations, Dixon expects Google's desktop search program to have mass appeal. "I think most people think of their computer hard drives as these black holes of information, so this could be of some real value," she said. Google began working on the program, code named "Fluffy Bunny," about a year ago, Mayer said, in response to a familiar refrain: "Why can't I search my computer as easily as I can search the Web?" Currently compatible only with the Windows operating system, Google's 400-kilobyte desktop program requires about 10 minutes to download on a dial-up connection and takes some five or six hours to index a computer's hard drive. Each program user can select the types of information to be indexed and searched. The product can pore through the files using Microsoft Office applications and several types of e-mail programs, including Microsoft's Outlook and Hotmail and Yahoo. Google's desktop search still doesn't work with the company's new e-mail service, called Gmail. 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For all other permissions contact mruppert at copvcia.com. FTW October 24, 2000 - The success of Bush Vice Presidential running mate Richard Cheney at leading Halliburton, Inc. to a five year $3.8 billion "pig-out" on federal contracts and taxpayer-insured loans is only a partial indicator of what may happen if the Bush ticket wins in two weeks. A closer look at available research, including an August 2, 2000 report by the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) at www.public-i.org, suggests that drug money has played a role in the successes achieved by Halliburton under Cheney's tenure as CEO from 1995 to 2000. This is especially true for Halliburton's most famous subsidiary, heavy construction and oil giant, Brown and Root. A deeper look into history reveals that Brown and Root's past as well as the past of Dick Cheney himself, connect to the international drug trade on more than one occasion and in more than one way. This June the lead Washington, D.C. attorney for a major Russian oil company connected in law enforcement reports to heroin smuggling and also a beneficiary of US backed loans to pay for Brown and Root contracts in Russia, held a $2.2 million fund raiser to fill the already bulging coffers of presidential candidate George W. Bush. This is not the first time that Brown and Root has been connected to drugs and the fact is that this "poster child" of American industry may also be a key player in Wall Street's efforts to maintain domination of the half trillion dollar a year global drug trade and its profits. And Dick Cheney, who has also come closer to drugs than most suspect, and who is also Halliburton's largest individual shareholder ($45.5 million), has a vested interest in seeing to it that Brown and Root's successes continue. Of all American companies dealing directly with the U.S. military and providing cover for CIA operations few firms can match the global presence of this giant construction powerhouse which employs 20,000 people in more than 100 countries. Through its sister companies or joint ventures, Brown and Root can build offshore oil rigs, drill wells, construct and operate everything from harbors to pipelines to highways to nuclear reactors. It can train and arm security forces and it can now also feed, supply and house armies. One key beacon of Brown and Root's overwhelming appeal to agencies like the CIA is that, from its own corporate web page, it proudly announces that it has received the contract to dismantle aging Russian nuclear tipped ICBMs in their silos. Furthermore, the relationships between key institutions, players and the Bushes themselves suggest that under a George "W" administration the Bush family and its allies may well be able, using Brown and Root as the operational interface, to control the drug trade all the way from Medellin to Moscow. Originally formed as a heavy construction company to build dams, Brown and Root grew its operations via shrewd political contributions to Senate candidate Lyndon Johnson in 1948. Expanding into the building of oil platforms, military bases, ports, nuclear facilities, harbors and tunnels, Brown and Root virtually underwrote LBJ's political career. It prospered as a result, making billions on U.S. Government contracts during the Vietnam War. The "Austin Chronicle" in an August 28 Op-ed piece entitled "The Candidate From Brown and Root" labels Republican Cheney as the political dispenser of Brown and Root's largesse. According to political campaign records, during Cheney's five year tenure at Halliburton the company's political contributions more than doubled to $1.2 million. Not surprisingly, most of that money went to Republican candidates. Independent news service "newsmakingnews.com," also describes how in 1998, with Cheney as Chairman, Halliburton spent $8.1 billion to purchase oil industry equipment and drilling supplier Dresser Industries. This made Halliburton a corporation that will have a presence in almost any future oil drilling operation anywhere in the world. And it also brought back into the family fold the company that had once sent a plane - also in 1948 - to fetch the new Yale Graduate George H.W. Bush, to begin his career in the Texas oil business. Bush the elder's father, Prescott, served as a Managing Director for the firm that once owned Dresser, Brown Bothers Harriman. It is clear that everywhere there is oil there is Brown and Root. But increasingly, everywhere there is war or insurrection there is Brown and Root also. From Bosnia and Kosovo, to Chechnya, to Rwanda, to Burma, to Pakistan, to Laos, to Vietnam, to Indonesia, to Iran to Libya to Mexico to Colombia, Brown and Root's traditional operations have expanded from heavy construction to include the provision of logistical support for the U.S. military. Now, instead of U.S. Army quartermasters, the world is likely to see Brown and Root warehouses storing and managing everything from uniforms to rations to vehicles. Dramatic expansion of Brown and Root's operations in Colombia also suggest Bush preparations for a war inspired feeding frenzy as a part of "Plan Colombia." This is consistent with moves by former Bush Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady to open a joint Colombian-American investment partnership called Corfinsura for the financing of major construction projects with the Colombian Antioquia Syndicate, headquartered in Medellin. (See FTW June, 00). And expectations of a ground war in Colombia may explain why, in a 2000 SEC filing, Brown and Root reported that in addition to owning more than 800,000 square feet of warehouse space in Colombia, they also lease another 122,000 square feet. According to the filing of the Brown and Root Energy Services Group, the only other places where the company maintains warehouse space are in Mexico (525,000 sq. feet), and the U.S. (38,000) square feet. According to the web site of Colombia's Foreign Investment Promotion Agency Brown and Root had no presence in the country until 1997. What does Brown and Root, which, according to the AP has made more than $2 billion supporting and supplying U.S. troops, know about Colombia that the U.S. public does not? Why the need for almost a million square feet of warehouse space that can be transferred from one Brown and Root operation (energy) to another (military support) with the stroke of a pen? DRUGS As described by the Associated Press, during "Iran-Contra" Congressman Dick Cheney of the House Intelligence Committee was a rabid supporter of Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North. This was in spite of the fact that North had lied to Cheney in a private 1986 White House briefing. Oliver North's own diaries and subsequent investigations by the CIA Inspector General have irrevocably tied him directly to cocaine smuggling during the 1980s and the opening of bank accounts for one firm moving four tons of cocaine a month. This, however, did not stop Cheney from actively supporting North's 1994 unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate from Virginia just a year before he took over the reins at Brown and Root's parent company, Dallas based Halliburton Inc. in 1995. As the Bush Secretary of Defense during Desert Shield/Desert Storm (1990-91), Cheney also directed special operations involving Kurdish rebels in northern Iran. The Kurds' primary source of income for more than fifty years has been heroin smuggling from Afghanistan and Pakistan through Iran, Iraq and Turkey. Having had some personal experience with Brown and Root I noted carefully when the Los Angeles Times observed that on March 22, 1991 that a group of gunmen burst into the Ankara, Turkey offices of the joint venture, Vinnell, Brown and Root and assassinated retired Air Force Chief Master Sergeant John Gandy. In March of 1991, tens of thousands of Kurdish refugees, long-time assets of the CIA, were being massacred by Sadam Hussein in the wake of the Gulf War. Sadam, seeking to destroy any hopes of a successful Kurdish revolt, found it easy to kill thousands of the unwanted Kurds who had fled to the Turkish border seeking sanctuary. There, Turkish security forces, trained in part by the Vinnell, Brown and Root partnership, turned thousands of Kurds back into certain death. Today, the Vinnell Corporation (a TRW Company) is, along with the firms MPRI and DynCorp (FTW June, 00) one of the three pre-eminent private mercenary corporations in the world. It is also the dominant entity for the training of security forces throughout the Middle East. Not surprisingly the Turkish border regions in question were the primary transhipment points for heroin, grown in Afghanistan and Pakistan and destined for the markets of Europe. A confidential source with intelligence experience in the region subsequently told me that the Kurds "got some payback against the folks that used to help them move their drugs." He openly acknowledged that Brown and Root and Vinnell both routinely provided NOC or non-official cover for CIA officers. But I already knew that. From 1994 to 1999, during US military intervention in the Balkans where, according to "The Christian Science Monitor" and "Jane's Intelligence Review," the Kosovo Liberation Army controls 70 per cent of the heroin entering Western Europe, Cheney's Brown and Root made billions of dollars supplying U.S. troops from vast facilities in the region. Brown and Root support operations continue in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia to this day. Dick Cheney's footprints have come closer to drugs than one might suspect. The August Center for Public Integrity report brought them even closer. It would be factually correct to say that there is a direct linkage of Brown and Root facilities - often in remote and hazardous regions - between every drug producing region and every drug consuming region in the world. These coincidences, in and of themselves, do not prove complicity in the trade. Other facts, however, lead inescapably in that direction. A DIRECT DRUG LINK The CPI report entitled "Cheney Led Halliburton To Feast at Federal Trough" written by veteran journalists Knut Royce and Nathaniel Heller describes how, under five years of Cheney's leadership, Halliburton, largely through subsidiary Brown and Root, enjoyed $3.8 billion in federal contracts and taxpayer insured loans. The loans had been granted by the Export-Import Bank (EXIM) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). According to Ralph McGehee's "CIA Base ?" both institutions are heavily infiltrated by the CIA and routinely provide NOC to its officers. One of those loans to Russian financial/banking conglomerate The Alfa Group of Companies contained $292 million to pay for Brown and Root's contract to refurbish a Siberian oil field owned by the Russian Tyumen Oil Company. The Alfa Group completed its 51% acquisition of Tyumen Oil in what was allegedly a rigged bidding process in 1998. An official Russian government report claimed that the Alfa Group's top executives, oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven "allegedly participated in the transit of drugs from Southeast Asia through Russia and into Europe." These same executives, Fridman and Aven, who reportedly smuggled the heroin in connection with Russia's Solntsevo mob family were the same ones who applied for the EXIM loans that Halliburton's lobbying later safely secured. As a result Brown and Root's work in Alfa Tyumen oil fields could continue - and expand. After describing how organized criminal interests in the Alfa Group had allegedly stolen the oil field by fraud, the CPI story, using official reports from the FSB (the Russian equivalent of the FBI), oil companies such as BP-Amoco, former CIA and KGB officers and press accounts then established a solid link to Alfa Tyumen and the transportation of heroin. In 1995 sacks of heroin disguised as sugar were stolen from a rail container leased by Alfa Echo and sold in the Siberian town of Khabarovsk. A problem arose when many residents of the town became "intoxicated" or "poisoned." The CPI story also stated, "The FSB report said that within days of the incident, Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) agents conducted raids of Alfa Eko buildings and found 'drugs and other compromising documentation.' "Both reports claim that Alfa Bank has laundered drug funds from Russian and Colombian drug cartels. "The FSB document claims that at the end of 1993, a top Alfa official met with Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, the now imprisoned financial mastermind of Colombia's notorious Cali cartel, 'to conclude an agreement about the transfer of money into the Alfa Bank from offshore zones such as the Bahamas, Gibraltar and others. The plan was to insert it back into the Russian economy through the purchase of stock in Russian companies. ". He [the former KGB agent] reported that there was evidence 'regarding [Alfa Bank's] involvement with the money laundering of. Latin American drug cartels." It then becomes harder for Cheney and Halliburton to assert mere coincidence in all of this as CPI reported that Tyumen's lead Washington attorney James C, Langdon, Jr. at the firm of Aikin Gump "helped coordinate a $2.2 million fund raiser for Bush this June. He then agreed to help recruit 100 lawyers and lobbyists in the capital to raise $25,000 each for W's campaign." The heroin mentioned in the CPI story, originated in Laos where longtime Bush allies and covert warriors Richard Armitage and retired CIA ADDO (Associate Deputy Director of Operations) Ted Shackley have been repeatedly linked to the drug trade. It then made its way across Southeast Asia to Vietnam, probably the port of Haiphong. Then the heroin sailed to Russia's Pacific port of Valdivostok from whence it subsequently bounced across Siberia by rail and thence by truck or rail to Europe, passing through the hands of Russian Mafia leaders in Chechnya and Azerbaijan. Chechnya and Azerbaijan are hotbeds of both armed conflict and oil exploration and Brown and Root has operations all along this route. This long, expensive and tortured path was hastily established, as described by FTW in previous issues, after President George Bush's personal envoy Richard Armitage, holding the rank of Ambassador, had traveled to the former Soviet Union to assist it with its "economic development" in 1989. The obstacle then to a more direct, profitable and efficient route from Afghanistan and Pakistan through Turkey into Europe was a cohesive Yugoslavian/Serbian government controlling the Balkans and continuing instability in the Golden Crescent of Pakistan/Afghanistan. Also, there was no other way, using heroin from the Golden Triangle (Burma, Laos and Thailand), to deal with China and India but to go around them. It is perhaps not by coincidence again that Cheney and Armitage share membership in the prestigious Aspen Institute, an exclusive bi-partisan research think tank, and also in the U.S. Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce. Just last November, in what may be a portent of things to come, Armitage, played the role of Secretary of Defense in an practical exercise at the Council on Foreign Relations where he and Cheney are also both members. Speculation that the scandal plagued Armitage, who resigned under a cloud as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, is W's first choice for Secretary of Defense next year is widespread. The Clinton Administration took care of all that wasted travel for heroin with the 1998 destruction of Serbia and Kosovo and the installation of the KLA as a regional power. That opened a direct line from Afghanistan to Western Europe and Brown and Root was right in the middle of that too. The Clinton skill at streamlining drug operations was described in detail in the May issue of FTW in a story entitled "The Democratic Party's Presidential Drug Money Pipeline." That article has since been reprinted in three countries. The essence of the drug economic lesson was that by growing opium in Colombia and by smuggling both cocaine and heroin from Colombia to New York City through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico (a virtual straight line), traditional smuggling routes could be shortened or even eliminated. This reduced both risk and cost, increased profits and eliminated competition. FTW suspects the hand of Medellin co-founder Carlos Lehder in this process and it is interesting to note that Lehder, released from prison under Clinton in 1995, is now active in both the Bahamas and South America. Lehder was known during the eighties as "The genius of transportation." I can well imagine a Dick Cheney, having witnessed the complete restructuring of the global drug trade in the last eight years, going to George W and saying, "Look, I know how we can make it even better." One thing is for certain. As quoted in the CPI article, one Halliburton Vice President noted that if the Bush-Cheney ticket was elected, "the company's government contracts would obviously go through the roof." THE DARK PAST In July of 1977 this writer, then a Los Angeles Police officer struggled to make sense of a world gone haywire. In a last ditch effort to salvage a relationship with my fianc?e, Nordica Theodora D'Orsay (Teddy), a CIA contract agent, I had traveled to find her in New Orleans. On a hastily arranged vacation, secured with the blessing of my Commanding Officer, Captain Jesse Brewer of LAPD, I had gone on my own, unofficially, to avoid the scrutiny of LAPD's Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID). Starting in the late spring of 1976 Teddy had wanted me to join her operations from within the ranks of LAPD. I had refused to get involved with drugs in any way and everything she mentioned seemed to involve either heroin or cocaine along with guns that she was always moving out of the country. The Director of the CIA then was George Herbert Walker Bush. Although officially on staff at the LAPD Academy at the time, I had been unofficially loaned to OCID since January when Teddy, announcing the start of a new operation planned in the fall of 1976 had suddenly disappeared. She left many people, including me, baffled and twisting in the breeze. The OCID detectives had been pressuring me hard for information about her and what I knew of her activities. It was information I could not give them. Hoping against hope that I would find some way to understand her involvement with CIA, LAPD, the royal family of Iran, the Mafia and drugs I set out alone into eight days of Dantean revelations that have determined the course of my life from that day to this. Arriving in New Orleans in early July, 1977 I found her living in an apartment across the river in Gretna. Equipped with scrambler phones, night vision devices and working from sealed communiqu?s delivered by naval and air force personnel from nearby Belle Chasse Naval Air Station, Teddy was involved in something truly ugly. She was arranging for large quantities of weapons to be loaded onto ships leaving for Iran. At the same time she was working with Mafia associates of New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos Marcello to coordinate the movement of service boats that were bringing large quantities of heroin into the city. The boats arrived at Marcello controlled docks, unmolested by even the New Orleans police she introduced me to, along with divers, military men, former Green Berets and CIA personnel. The service boats were retrieving the heroin from oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, oil rigs in international waters, oil rigs built and serviced by Brown and Root. The guns that Teddy monitored, apparently Vietnam era surplus AK 47s and M16s, were being loaded onto ships also owned or leased by Brown and Root. And more than once during the eight days I spent in New Orleans I met and ate at restaurants with Brown and Root employees who were boarding those ships and leaving for Iran within days. Once, while leaving a bar and apparently having asked the wrong question, I was shot at in an attempt to scare me off. Disgusted and heart broken at witnessing my fianc?e and my government smuggling drugs, I ended the relationship. Returning home to LA I made a clean breast and reported all the activity I had seen, including the connections to Brown and Root, to LAPD intelligence officers. They promptly told me that I was crazy. Forced out of LAPD under threat of death at the end of 1978, I made complaints to LAPD's Internal Affairs Division and to the LA office of the FBI under the command of FBI SAC Ted Gunderson. I and my attorney wrote to the politicians, the Department of Justice, the CIA and contacted the L.A. Times. The FBI and the LAPD said that I was crazy. According to a 1981 two-part news story in the "Los Angeles Herald Examiner" it was revealed that The FBI had taken Teddy into custody and then released her before classifying their investigation without further action. Former New Orleans Crime Commissioner Aaron Cohen told reporter Randall Sullivan that he found my description of events perfectly plausible after his thirty years of studying Louisiana's organized crime operations. To this day a CIA report prepared as a result of my complaint remains classified and exempt from release pursuant to Executive Order of the President in the interests of national security and because it would reveal the identities of CIA agents. On October 26, 1981, in the basement of the West Wing of the White House, I reported on what I had seen in New Orleans to my friend and UCLA classmate Craig Fuller. Craig Fuller went on to become Chief of Staff to Vice President Bush from 1981 to 1985. In 1982, then UCLA political science professor Paul Jabber, filled in many of the pieces in my quest to understand what I had seen in New Orleans. He was qualified to do so because he had served as a CIA and State Department consultant to the Carter administration. Paul explained that, after a 1975 treaty between the Shah of Iran and Sadam Hussein the Shah had cut off all overt military support for Kurdish rebels fighting Sadam from the north of Iraq. In exchange the Shah had gained access to the Shat al-Arab waterway so that he could multiply his oil exports and income. Not wanting to lose a long-term valuable asset in the Kurds, the CIA had then used Brown and Root, which operated in both countries and maintained port facilities in the Persian Gulf and near Shat al-Arab to rearm the Kurds. The whole operation had been financed with heroin. Paul was matter-of-fact about it. In 1983 Paul Jabber left UCLA to become a Vice President of Banker's Trust and Chairman of the Middle East Department of the Council on Foreign Relations. ---------- If one is courageous enough to seek an "operating system" that theoretically explains what FTW has just described for you, one need look no further than a fabulous two-part article in "Le Monde Diplomatique" in April of this year. The brilliant stories, focusing heavily on drug capital are titled "Crime, The World's Biggest Free Enterprise." The brilliant and penetrating words of authors Christian de Brie and Jean de Maillard do a better job of explaining the actual world economic and political situation than anything that I have ever read. De Brie writes, "By allowing capital to flow unchecked from one end of the world to the other, globalization and abandon of sovereignty have together fostered the explosive growth of an outlaw financial market. "It is a coherent system closely linked to the expansion of modern capitalism and based on an association of three partners: governments, transnational corporations and mafias. Business is business: financial crime is first and foremost a market, thriving and structured, ruled by supply and demand. "Big business complicity and political laisser faire is the only way that large-scale organized crime can launder and recycle the fabulous proceeds of its activities. And the transnationals need the support of governments and the neutrality of regulatory authorities in order to consolidate their positions, increase their profits, withstand and crush the competition, pull off the "deal of the century" and finance their illicit operations. Politicians are directly involved and their ability to intervene depends on the backing and the funding that keep them in power. This collusion of interests is an essential part of the world economy, the oil that keeps the wheels of capitalism turning." After confronting CIA Director John Deutch on world television on November 15, 1996 I was interviewed by the staffs of both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees. I prepared written testimony for Senate Intelligence which I submitted although I was never called to testify. In every one of those interviews and in my written testimony and in every lecture since that time I have told the story of Brown and Root. I will tell it again at the USC School of International Relations on December the 8th, 2000 - regardless of who wins the election. Michael C. Ruppert www.copvcia.com Sources: - The Center for Public Integrity, "Cheney Led Halliburton to Feast at Federal Trough", Knut Royce & Nathaniel Heller, http://www.public-i.org/story_01_080200.htm - "Le Monde - Diplomatique", April 2000. - The U.S. Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce - The Aspen Institute, www.aspeninst.org - "The Austin Chronicle", August 28, 2000 - The Associated Press, "Study: US Could Save Cost in Balkans" - 10/10/00 - The Associated Press, "Cheney, North Relationship Probed" - 8/11/00 - "The New York Times" Index - The Council on Foreign Relations - "The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush" - Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin - "CIA Base" ? 1992, Ralph McGehee - CIA Inspector General Report of Investigation: Allegations of Connections Between CIA and the Contras in Cocaine Trafficking to the United States. Volume II: The Contra Story - Report 96-0143-IG. - newsmakingnews.com, 27 August 2000, "The Dick Cheney Data Dump" - Securities and Exchange Commission - "Edgar" Data base. - Halliburton/Brown and Root - www.Halliburton.com/brs - The Vinnell Corporation - www.Vinnell.com - "The New York Press," 8/1/00 - "The Los Angeles Times," March 23, 1991. - "The Los Angeles Herald Examiner:, Oct. 11 & 18, 1981 - "The Christian Science Monitor" - Oct. 20, 1994 - "Jane's Intelligence Review" - February 1, 1995. - Written testimony of Michael C. Ruppert for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence dated 10/1/97 - http://www.copvcia.com/ssci.htm - "From The Wilderness" (4/99, 4/00, 6/00) el C. ? COPYRIGHT 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 MICHAEL C. RUPPERT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Michael C. Ruppert P.O. 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Code named Operation Northwoods http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html The names below are mentioned on the listed pages with the name OPERATION NORTHWOODS http://www.pir.org/cgi-bin/nbonlin1.cgi?OPERATION_NORTHWOODS_ This transcript is produced from the teletext subtitles that are generated live for Newsnight. It has been checked against the programme as broadcast, however Newsnight can accept no responsibility for any factual inaccuracies. We will be happy to correct serious errors. news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_1645000/1645527.stm GREG PALAST Has someone been sitting on the FBI? Fri Jan 25 16:25:49 2002 24.16.150.192 Has someone been sitting on the FBI? 6/11/01 GREG PALAST: The CIA and Saudi Arabia, the Bushes and the Bin Ladens. Did their connections cause America to turn a blind eye to terrorism? UNNAMED MAN: There is a hidden agenda at the very highest levels of our government. JOE TRENTO, (AUTHOR, "SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA"): The sad thing is that thousands of Americans had to die needlessly. PETER ELSNER: How can it be that the former President of the US and the current President of the US have business dealings with characters that need to be investigated? PALAST: In the eight weeks since the attacks, over 1,000 suspects and potential witnesses have been detained. Yet, just days after the hijackers took off from Boston aiming for the Twin Towers, a special charter flight out of the same airport whisked 11 members of Osama Bin Laden's family off to Saudi Arabia. That did not concern the White House. Their official line is that the Bin Ladens are above suspicion - apart from Osama, the black sheep, who they say hijacked the family name. That's fortunate for the Bush family and the Saudi royal household, whose links with the Bin Ladens could otherwise prove embarrassing. But Newsnight has obtained evidence that the FBI was on the trail of other members of the] Bin Laden family for links to terrorist organisations before and after September 11th. This document is marked "Secret". Case ID - 199-Eye WF 213 589. 199 is FBI code for case type. 9 would be murder. 65 would be espionage. 199 means national security. WF indicates Washington field office special agents were investigating ABL - because of it's relationship with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, WAMY - a suspected terrorist organisation. ABL is Abdullah Bin Laden, president and treasurer of WAMY. This is the sleepy Washington suburb of Falls Church, Virginia where almost every home displays the Stars and Stripes. On this unremarkable street, at 3411 Silver Maple Place, we located the former home of Abdullah and another brother, Omar, also an FBI suspect. It's conveniently close to WAMY. The World Assembly of Muslim Youth is in this building, in a little room in the basement at 5613 Leesburg Pike. And here, just a couple blocks down the road at 5913 Leesburg, is where four of the hijackers that attacked New York and Washington are listed as having lived. The US Treasury has not frozen WAMY's assets, and when we talked to them, they insisted they are a charity. Yet, just weeks ago, Pakistan expelled WAMY operatives. And India claimed that WAMY was funding an organisation linked to bombings in Kashmir. And the Philippines military has accused WAMY of funding Muslim insurgency. The FBI did look into WAMY, but, for some reason, agents were pulled off the trail. TRENTO: The FBI wanted to investigate these guys. This is not something that they didn't want to do - they wanted to, they weren't permitted to. PALAST: The secret file fell into the hands of national security expert, Joe Trento. The Washington spook-tracker has been looking into the FBI's allegations about WAMY. TRENTO: They've had connections to Osama Bin Laden's people. They've had connections to Muslim cultural and financial aid groups that have terrorist connections. They fit the pattern of groups that the Saudi royal family and Saudi community of princes - the 20,000 princes - have funded who've engaged in terrorist activity. Now, do I know that WAMY has done anything that's illegal? No, I don't know that. Do I know that as far back as 1996 the FBI was very concerned about this organisation? I do. PALAST: Newsnight has uncovered a long history of shadowy connections between the State Department, the CIA and the Saudis. The former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah is Michael Springman. MICHAEL SPRINGMAN: In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high level State Dept officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants. These were, essentially, people who had no ties either to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complained bitterly at the time there. I returned to the US, I complained to the State Dept here, to the General Accounting Office, to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and to the Inspector General's office. I was met with silence. PALAST: By now, Bush Sr, once CIA director, was in the White House. Springman was shocked to find this wasn't visa fraud. Rather, State and CIA were playing "the Great Game". SPRINGMAN: What I was protesting was, in reality, an effort to bring recruits, rounded up by Osama Bin Laden, to the US for terrorist training by the CIA. They would then be returned to Afghanistan to fight against the then-Soviets. The attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 did not shake the State Department's faith in the Saudis, nor did the attack on American barracks at Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia three years later, in which 19 Americans died. FBI agents began to feel their investigation was being obstructed. Would you be surprised to find out that FBI agents are a bit frustrated that they can't be looking into some Saudi connections? MICHAEL WILDES, ( LAWYER) I would never be surprised with that. They're cut off at the hip sometimes by supervisors or given shots that are being called from Washington at the highest levels. PALAST: I showed lawyer Michael Wildes our FBI documents. One of the Khobar Towers bombers was represented by Wildes, who thought he had useful intelligence for the US. He also represents a Saudi diplomat who defected to the USA with 14,000 documents which Wildes claims implicates Saudi citizens in financing terrorism and more. Wildes met with FBI men who told him they were not permitted to read all the documents. Nevertheless, he tried to give them to the agents. WILDES: "Take these with you. We're not going to charge for the copies. Keep them. Do something with them. Get some bad guys with them." They refused. PALAST: In the hall of mirrors that is the US intelligence community, Wildes, a former US federal attorney, said the FBI field agents wanted the documents, but they were told to "see no evil." WILDES: You see a difference between the rank-and-file counter-intelligence agents, who are regarded by some as the motor pool of the FBI, who drive following diplomats, and the people who are getting the shots called at the highest level of our government, who have a different agenda - it's unconscionable. PALAST: State wanted to keep the pro-American Saudi royal family in control of the world's biggest oil spigot, even at the price of turning a blind eye to any terrorist connection so long as America was safe. In recent years, CIA operatives had other reasons for not exposing Saudi-backed suspects. TRENTO: If you recruited somebody who is a member of a terrorist organisation, who happens to make his way here to the US, and even though you're not in touch with that person anymore but you have used him in the past, it would be unseemly if he were arrested by the FBI and word got back that he'd once been on the payroll of the CIA. What we're talking about is blow-back. What we're talking about is embarrassing, career-destroying blow-back for intelligence officials. PALAST: Does the Bush family also have to worry about political blow-back? The younger Bush made his first million 20 years ago with an oil company partly funded by Salem Bin Laden's chief US representative. Young George also received fees as director of a subsidiary of Carlyle Corporation, a little known private company which has, in just a few years of its founding, become one of Americas biggest defence contractors. His father, Bush Senior, is also a paid advisor. And what became embarrassing was the revelation that the Bin Ladens held a stake in Carlyle, sold just after September 11. ELSNER: You have a key relationship between the Saudis and the former President of the US who happens to be the father of the current President of the US. And you have all sorts of questions about where does policy begin and where does good business and good profits for the company, Carlyle, end? PALAST: I received a phone call from a high-placed member of a US intelligence agency. He tells me that while there's always been constraints on investigating Saudis, under George Bush it's gotten much worse. After the elections, the agencies were told to "back off" investigating the Bin Ladens and Saudi royals, and that angered agents. I'm told that since September 11th the policy has been reversed. FBI headquarters told us they could not comment on our findings. A spokesman said: "There are lots of things that only the intelligence community knows and that no-one else ought to know. ============================================ 11/14/2001 Press Office 202-646-5172 ACTIVE FBI SPECIAL AGENT FILES COMPLAINT CONCERNING OBSTRUCTED FBI ANTI-TERRORIST INVESTIGATIONS COMPLAINS THAT SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORISTS ATTACKS MIGHT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED FBI COULD HAVE STOPPED BIN LADEN YEARS AGO (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that an active FBI Special Agent filed a complaint last week concerning FBI/Justice Department interference in and mishandling of terrorist investigations. The FBI Special Agent, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time, alleges that he was retaliated against when he continued to push for and pursue certain terrorist investigations over the objections of his FBI and Justice Department supervisors. The FBI Special Agent, who is represented by Judicial Watch and David Schippers, Esq., filed the complaint last week with the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General (IG) and Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). Based on the evidence, the FBI Special Agent believes that if certain investigations had been allowed to run their courses, Osama bin Laden's network might have been prevented from committing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which resulted in the deaths of nearly 5,000 innocents. Judicial Watch is requesting a full scale, independent investigation into its client's concerns and seeks to hold accountable those responsible for preventing the full investigation of terrorist activity here in the United States and abroad. ###info at judicialwatch.org . 1-888-JW-ETHIC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Yelm Washington (The Ramtha Enlightment Center) governed by the Theosophical Society and Ft Lewis Washington are very close to each other, on a map they appear to look just miles apart. The article I read on the veteran arrested stated that he had sympathy for the people that were accused of shooting down the planes in September of last year. Check out the excerpt from Fritz's book on the two military bases where this guy was stationed. The story already wreaks of a McVeigh soap opera. They continue to use the same tactics. An excerpt from Fritz's Illuminati Formula for a Mind-Controlled Slave: Page 314 In 1987, The Seattle Times, ran a front page story on Lt Col Jim Channon, who worked with the military THETA models. The story is entitled "The New Army's experiment with "New Age thinking" - the idean that the world can be changed by changing the way people think about it, and that the mind has invisible but tangible powers yet to be tapped. Centers were established at Fort Ord, California and in Washington, D.C., to explore the intriguing idea that mind power plus fire power could eith win wars or make them unnecessary. From 1980 to 1982 the proposals were expanded to Ft Lewis Washington by Lt Col Jim Channon.....The Army began by finding young officers enthused with "new thought" and combining them with skeptical scientists. The two groups were dubbed the butterflies (an appropriate name for Monarch mind-control men and the bees.'... One result was an Army think tank at the Pentagon that evaluated the paranormal- unusual psychic or mental phenomena. It brought in proponents of extra sensory perce To be more specific there are weapons that operate in the power of the mind and whose lethal capacity has already been demonstrated." Some of those systems are Monarch systems of the THETA model, and many of those in the military are you men in the Illuminati. Some have been seen at NORAD in Colorado, which helps confirm that THETA models are being employed to bring in the Anti-Christ. (NORAD is a main center for Alex and Janus end-times programming). ========================================================================= Dennis Stewart MKultra and Project Monarch etc Thu Oct 24 19:03:44 2002 208.152.73.131 Perhaps some of you are already aware of the document contained at this link, but Dr. Ellen Lacter recently brought this to my attention. She is another die-hard warrior battling for those victims of satanistic ritual abuse and/or mind control abuses......her website is included by permission..... ======================== Dear Dennis, Please include my web-site. People can contact me through it: http://truthbeknown2000.tripod.com/Truthbeknown2000/index.html Ellen Dennis_Stewart at cisgi.com wrote: I'm going to post this to a list to generate more discussion as we have been heavily involved recently in MKultra and Project Monarch etc discussions.....you want me to include your website? I'll delete your name and email...... Dr. Ellen Lacter wrote: Dear Dennis, I highly recommend this book. She has done her homework on the history, and interweaves released previously-classified documents with her memories of her own abuse by MKUltra, etc. Warmly, Ellen L http://my.dmci.net/~casey/ ==================================================== APFN - ELECTRONIC MIND CONTROL: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/electronic.htm =================================================== Ernesto Cienfuegos Arrest of "Muhammad" as Alleged Beltway Sniper... Smells! Thu Oct 24 17:45:55 2002 208.152.73.19 Arrest of "Muhammad" as Alleged Beltway Sniper... Smells! by Ernesto Cienfuegos La Voz de Aztlan Los Angeles, Alta California - October 24, 2002 - (ACN) You probably woke up this morning to the news that a Black male by the name of "Muhammad" and his stepson had been arrested by the FBI and will most probably be charged with several counts of murder in the sniper shootings that have occurred around the nation's capital. The whole scenario as has been reported in the mainstream media "stinks to high heaven" and appears to have been carefully orchestrated to again blame a Muslim for the deeds of others which many believe may actually be Zionist federal government operatives. There have been many indications that lead some Americans to believe that the "snipings" have a political motive and that they are being carried out by certain entrenched Zionist elements within the FBI, the CIA and the Pentagon. Let us not forget the "Anthrax Terrorist Attacks" that killed a score of people in the same general area in the east coast including many Black U.S postal workers. The investigation by the FBI has been going on for quite some time now yet no one has ever been arrested. The reason is, as many independent news sources have reported, including La Voz de Aztlan, that the "Anthrax Killer", is actually a Zionist microbiologist that worked at the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Anyone who carefully listens to ABC, CBS, NBC and other Jewish owned media outlets and analyses how reports of "terrorist attacks" unfold, will sense that the reports are carefully orchestrated to benefit Zionist interests. This was the case with the early reporting of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma allegedly committed by Timothy McVeigh. Initially, the blame was being carefully directed by the controlled media towards Muslim Fundamentalists. Also, the reporting of the "mother of all terrorist attacks" that occurred on September 1,1 2001, was very suspect during the early morning hours, especially the reporting of Katie Curiac of NBC's "Today Show." This Jewish national news anchor reported, within a few minutes of the second strike on the twin towers, that the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" was to blame. How she was able to immediately determine this, is to this day unknown. Let us not forget that International Zionism has declared war on Islam. The current and imminent attack on Iraq is being led, in large measure, by high level Zionists within the Bush Administration. Many of the terrorist attacks in the U.S. and around the world, including Bali, Indonesia, are being blamed on Muslims in order to garnish support by diverse groups and nations for the "Global War" against Islam by Zionists. Australia, which lost many of its citizens in Bali, is now more willing to join the coalition of Zionist influenced nations, including the USA, in an all out attack against Islamic countries. The Oklahoma federal building bombing, the destruction of the New York Twin Towers, the Anthrax attacks and the Beltway snipings, all fit into an undeniable pattern. We, my fellow Americans, are being led through careful manipulation of events and their reporting by the media towards a national disaster that will cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of misled citizens, and especially those American citizens serving in the US Armed Forces. This Saturday, the nation will hear loud protesting voices in Washington D.C. and in San Francisco, from Americans of all races and faiths, who thankfully are catching on to the evil plans of International Zionism and their lackeys in Congress and the White House. Today, the Los Angeles Times reported that President Bush was told by federal authorities that they were reasonably sure the case had been solved. This was said by a senior administration official on condition of anonymity, reported the Times. Oh yeah . . . sure, we wonder who this senior administration official is and who are these federal authorities? Could they be the same federal authorities investigating the Anthrax case? There are other unconfirmed allegations that the Beltway snipings may actually be the work of federal government Zionist operatives and that they have now found a Muslim "patsy" to blame. On a nationally syndicated radio program, documentary filmmaker Alex Jones said on April 24, 2001 that the Baltimore Sun reported on a shocking, declassified Pentagon document, titled Operation Northwoods. According to the report Operation Northwoods, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for "hijacking jet airliners, attacking US military bases, blowing up US ships and wounding civilians in Miami, Florida and Washington, DC using paramilitary sniper teams." The formerly top secret Pentagon plan stated that "casualty lists in US Newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation." The plan was rejected by President John F. Kennedy, according to the report but now we are seeing similarities between the sniper attacks and the terrorist activities called for in the Northwoods plan. We are now hearing White House officials and the controlled media saying that there is a good chance that al-Qaeda or Iraq are behind the sniper attacks and are warning the American people to look for similar attacks in other cities, thus creating a timely pretext justifying military action to capture Middle Eastern and Central Asian oil supplies in a war with Iraq. Alex Jones stated on the radio program that he consulted with many law enforcement and military experts, including Colonel Craig Roberts, a former US Army Intelligence officer, Marine Corps sniper and the best-selling author of "One Shot One Kill." Colonel Roberts stated on the air that this operation could only be State-sponsored and was clearly the work of a rogue element from the top levels of global intelligence agencies. Colonel Roberts added that the "modus operandi" of the sniper attacks are indicative of a 2-3 man team trained in Special Forces ambush tactics of reconnaissance, insertion, concealment and successful evasion. Best-selling Doubleday author James Bamford, who broke the Northwoods Story in his book, "Body of Secrets" reported that, "the plan, which had been written with the approval of the Chairman and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff called for innocent people to be shot on American streets." Alex Jones said, "In Operation Northwoods, we have a declassified US Government document, approved right up to the President, that advocates carrying out terrorism against the American people to terrify them into accepting tyranny. It is now public knowledge that Roosevelt allowed the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor as a pretext for war and that the Gulf of Tonkin attack that launched the Vietnam War was staged by LBJ. This is all now admitted historical fact, and there is no way to ignore the US government terror plan contained in the Northwoods document. The plan even lists the cities to be targeted, and one of them is DC." Alex Jones added, "There's no doubt about it, the US Government is the number one suspect in the sniper attacks." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Please Distribute Widely ----------------------------- La Voz de Aztlan http://www.aztlan.net/muhammad.htm ================================================ DAVID A .223-caliber rifle was found in the car Thu Oct 24 15:06:36 2002 208.152.73.19 .223 Rifle Recovered from John Allen Muhammad's car in Maryland Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:41:19 -0600 From: spiker spiker at epobox.ws Source: ABCNEWS.com http://abcnews.go.com/ Sources Say Police Believe Two Held Are the Suspects in Sniper Case http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/marylandshootings021024.html Oct. 24 - A .223-caliber rifle was found in the car that two men wanted for questioning in the sniper shooting case were sleeping in at a Maryland rest stop when they were arrested early this morning, ABCNEWS has learned. [Photo] John Allen Muhammad, a.k.a. John Allen Williams, is one of two men taken into custody early Thursday for questioning in the sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C., area. The rifle was found by agents executing a federal search warrant this morning after the arrests of the two men. The arrests were made shortly after 3:30 a.m. ET, after an alert motorist spotted the two men sleeping in a Chevy Caprice parked at a rest stop on Interstate 70 in Frederick County, Md., about 50 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., and notified the authorities. The police who took the call notified the sniper task force, and SWAT teams surrounded the car at a distance and waited for the right moment to move in. In what reporters at the scene described as a "dynamic" move, the SWAT teams closed in on the vehicle and the two men inside were pulled out. They were taken to Maryland State Police barracks in Frederick County, where police compared them to the available mug shots and fingerprinted them. Investigators have not officially called the two men suspects in the case, referring to them as "people of interest," but ABCNEWS' John Miller told Good Morning America police have told him they think the two will emerge as the official suspects in the sniper shootings by this afternoon. A law enforcement source close to the investigation told The Associated Press that "I'm confident that these are indeed the people" sought in the killings. "The evidence is all there and because of things we've received in the communications," the source said on the condition on anonymity. "It fits together with evidence they've collected in the last couple days." License Plate photo http://media.abcnews.com/media/US/images/abc_license_plate_021024_n.jpg Police arrested two men who were sleeping in a car bearing this license plate. The arrests were made at a rest stop on Interstate 70 in Frederick County, Md., about 50 miles northwest of Washington, D.C. (ABCNEWS.com) The arrests took place "without incident," Maryland State Police spokesman Maj. Greg Shipley said. "I don't know what their reaction was, it wasn't an aggressive one," said Shipley. The men were transported to Montgomery County, where the investigation is based. On Wednesday, Montgomery Police Chief Charles Moose announced that arrest warrants were issued for 42-year-old John Allen Muhammad, also known as John Allen Williams, and 17-year-old Lee Malvo. The teenager is believed to be either Williams' son or his stepson. According to ABCNEWS' Miller, the police believe the two individuals in the Chevy Caprice matched the description of the two African-American men in the arrest warrant. The Sniper's Call The break in the case may have come from two phone calls to the tip line, one from someone in Tacoma, Wash., and one that may have come from one of the people involved in the sniper shootings, reportedly frustrated that investigators were not taking him seriously enough. Both callers to the tip line told police that if they wanted to find out more about the sniper attacks, they should look at a shooting at a liquor store in Montgomery, Ala., that occurred on Sept. 21. Two people were shot, one fatally, in that incident. According to The Baltimore Sun, a piece of paper found at that crime scene had Malvo's fingerprints on it, which led the sniper task force to Tacoma, Wash., where Malvo lived with Muhammad. Montgomery Police Chief John Wilson today denied that any note had been found at the scene but would not go into any details about the evidence that was found at the scene. "We do have evidence that we don't want to go into here," Wilson said. "I don't want to let the suspects know too much about what we have to work with." The gun used in the shooting in Alabama was not the same gun used in the sniper shootings in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. But he also said that police in Montgomery, Ala., would like to get an opportuntity to talk to Malvo about the liquor store shootings. "At soime point our investigators are very interested in talking to him about this," he said. In the liquor store shooting, an unidentified gunman killed the store's manager and injured a clerk. Claudine Parker, 52, and Kellie Adams, 24, were locking up for the night when the shooting occurred. The two were walking to their vehicles when they were shot by a person who apparently intended to rob them, according to media accounts of the shooting. Parker was killed and Adams hospitalized with serious injuries. Another line to Muhammad apparently came when police in Baltimore stopped a car Muhammad was driving on Oct. 8, when the vehicle was spotted driving erratically. The car was a station wagon, not the Caprice or a white minivan or box truck such as the vehicle that the task force had described as suspect vehicles in the shooting spree. Muhammad identified himself and he was released after a computer search found no outstanding warrants. 'Duck in a Noose' The announcement of the arrests early today capped a dramatic period that included federal authorities descending Wednesday on a home in Tacoma, and searching the premises for possible evidence in the sniper case. [Map] http://media.abcnews.com/media/US/images/map_tacoma_search_1023.gif Authorities searched a location in Tacoma for evidence connected with the sniper investigation. On the East Coast, authorities announced that a man shot to death Tuesday morning was linked by ballistic evidence to the killings of nine other people and the wounding of three that are believed to be the work of the sniper. In a late-night briefing Wednesday, Moose sent out a message to the sniper - the third time this week the chief has used the media to urge the sniper to communicate with police directly. Moose said he understood that the sniper had attempted to communicate with them on several different occasions, calling several different jurisdictions. The inability to communicate, Moose said, was as frustrating for investigators as it must have been for the sniper. "Our inability to talk has been a concern for us as it has been for you," Moose read. "You have indicated that you want us to do and say certain things. You asked us to say, 'We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose.' We understand that hearing us say this is important to you. However, we want you to know how difficult it has been to understand what you want because you have chosen to use only notes, indirect messages and calls to other jurisdictions." Moose encouraged the sniper to call them at a toll-free number especially for him or send a note to a P.O. box they had established. "If you are reluctant to contact us, we are ready to talk directly with you," he said. "Our word is our bond. If we can establish communications with you we can offer other means of addressing what you have asked us for. Let's talk directly. We have an answer for you about your option. We are waiting for you to contact us." Moose did not further explain his latest message to the sniper and did not take any questions. There are American Indian stories that tell of a rabbit who thinks he is crafty catching a duck in a noose, but then the duck flies off, carrying the rabbit high into the air. When the rabbit gets scared and lets go of the noose, he falls into a hollow tree, where he is trapped and eventually gets so hungry he eats his own fur. "It could be an indicator that the sniper is saying to police that they will not prevail, that the sniper has another surprise but it's way too early to tell that." ABCNEWS' Miller said. Search in Tacoma and Beyond The investigation now shifts to questioning Muhammad and Malvo as well as examining possible evidence seized in Tacoma. Muhammad, sources said, is a Gulf War veteran who may have been stationed at Fort Lewis in Washington state and may have conducted target practice at a Tacoma location that agents with the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms searched on Wednesday. Fort Lewis is a military base that has a sniper training school. Authorities searched the residential complex in Tacoma for evidence connected with the sniper investigation, an FBI source told ABCNEWS. The source said the search was based on information developed in the investigation on the East coast. FBI and ATF agents swept the backyard of the duplex with metal detectors, but the officials would not say what they were looking for. The agents also brought in a backhoe to dig up a tree trunk for police examination. Neighbors told ABCNEWS that Muhammad used the tree trunk, which sources said was being flown to Andrews Air Force Base, for target practice. Lt. Col. Joseph Piek, a spokesman at Fort Lewis, said the FBI had asked for help from the Army base south of Tacoma. But Piek could not confirm TV reports that a Fort Lewis soldier may have once resided at the location that was searched. Local FBI agents said they could not comment on the search, but said it was "consensual." The search, sources said, began after someone phoned in a tip to investigators in Montgomery County, Md., regarding the sniper. FBI agents also visited Bellingham High School, 90 miles north of Seattle, on Wednesday. ABCNEWS' John Miller in Rockville, Md., Pierre Thomas in Washington, D.C., Bob Woodruff in Ashland, Va., Neal Karlinsky in Tacoma, Wash. and ABCNEWS Radio contributed to this report. ============================================================================= Gary Richard Arnold Capitol Killer - A CIA soldier in Arab garb? Thu Oct 24 21:09:43 2002 208.152.73.107 Capitol Killer - A CIA soldier in Arab garb? Will Bush blame "Lee Harvey Muhammad" as the culprit? By: Gary Richard Arnold LEST WE FORGET!!! 1: An FBI Special Agent on September 20th of this year, testified that Khalid Almihdahar, had attended a major terrorist conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and that he had a visa that allowed him to enter and exit the U.S. at will. It Was the FBI superiors that prohibited his arrest. Before the Towers Attack on 911, the FBI Agent wrote an email to Washington "Let's hope the National Security Law Unit will stand behind their decision then, especially since the biggest threat to us now, Osama Bin Laden, is getting the most protection" 2: FBI Special Agent Colleen Rowley of their Minnesota headquarters testified that she was..."repeatedly TOLD TO STOP THE FIELD OFFICE'S INVESTIGATION of alleged conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui WEEKS BEFORE THE ATTACK." 3: It was FBI informant Carol Howe, who had infiltrated a group associated with McVeigh, that claimed the AGENCY HAD PRIOR KNOWLEDGE. Again the FBI seemed to have wanted the incident to occur. 4: In the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center Twin Towers, The FBI HAD INFILTRATED THE TERRORIST CELL with a former Egyptian army officer, who supplied the terrorists with the bomb which destroyed a huge portion of the building. The FBI furnished the bomb- which means-YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAID FOR THE TERRORIST ATTACK! Six people died and a thousand were injured. Why aren't the FBI agents in jail charged with "first degree murder?" They set it up! When are the SHEEPLE out there going to get the message? It's more than obvious that these "acts of terror" are not only desired, but carried out by these New World Order operatives. They create the enemies. They create the incidents. They underwrite these operations. Fareed Zakaria, managing editor of Foreign Affairs, the official publication of the CFR, wrote in September 1996 and admits: "IF SADDAM HUSSEIN DIDN'T EXIST, WE WOULD HAVE TO INVENT HIM. HE IS THE LINCHPIN OF AMERICAN POLICY IN THE MID-EAST" Their own operatives are telling us what they are going to do before they do it. Alexandra Robbins in her newly released book "Secrets of the Tomb", paints us a clear picture of the SKULL & BONES. Specifically how they speak through the sides of their mouths with deadly dialog. Mrs. Robbins reveals that: "In 1989 when the Export-Import bank did not want to extend credit to Iraq, for the benefit of Saddam Hussein..., Bush Sr. was determined the push through credits. By the time the Foreign Aid Appropriations Bill reached the Senate floor in Sept. 1989 with a provision with a barrier against Iraq, Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania (Skull & Bones graduate of 1931) had obtained an amendment stating that President Bush COULD WAIVE THE RESTRICTION on Export-Import bank credits if he found that the provisions application is not in the National interest." On January 17th 1990 issued a formal public waiver INVOKING THAT AMENDMENT. What this means folks is that, Daddy "opium poppy" Bush, used U.S. monies to underwrite Saddam Hussein. Why is that so difficult to understand? It is the job of the "Evilarchy" that's orchestrating this controlled-chaos to keep the Sheeple DUMB ENOUGH-LONG ENOUGH to herd them into the slaughter house where they will have their throats cut. Jr. George and his Government goons are just "Judas Goats" who are guiding the GULLIBLE toward the corrals where they can be killed, controlled or incarcerated. It is obvious that Junior George is NOT THE MASTER MIND behind the scenes thinking this thing through. Any one who makes statements like: "I understand small business growth. I was one" (New York Daily News: 2.19.00) "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it" (Reuters: 5.5.00) "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism, polls and principles. Come and join this campaign" (Hilton Head S.C.: 2.16.00) "The most important job is not to be governor, or fist lady in my case" (San Antonio Express News: 1.30.00) There's no way that the "Moneyarchy" would put this bungling Bonesman in charge of there key (controlled) countries affairs. The Illuminati knew when they selected him that he was not 1st, but ranked 114th in his class, was SNORTING COKE, a drunkard and that his "Crowning Achievement" as a student at the Phillips Academy in Andover Massachusetts, was to elect himself "High Commissioner of STICK BALL." Anyone with an I.Q. over 80 and not mesmerized by the mass media can figure out that Baby Bush is not the brightest bulb in his Daddy's Demonic "THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT" Americas Networks and cable channels are "seething with agents" from the Council on Foreign Relations. This Orwellian organization, existent since 1921, is orchestrating the "setup" and "sell out" of America's Sovereignty. For the last 8 decades, their members have "setup" and "synchronized" chaos and control. Alger Hiss, a Soviet spy, convicted for "High Treason" and perjury, was the First Secretary General of the United Nations Organizational Conference in 1945. Alger was not only a traitor and a spy, he was President Roosevelt's key advisor from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Hiss along with a group of other Globalists wrote the United Nations charter. The mass majority of Junior George's administration, as was Roosevelt's, is comprised of members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Junior's Faustian Father, is a member of the "Cryptic Council", like Lincoln P. Bloomfield who wrote A World effectively controlled by the United Nations-dreamed of establishing a NEW WORLD ORDER on the ashes of America's sovereignty. Bloomfield stressed that to pull this (GLOBAL GOVERNMENT) off, an enemy is needed or else we..."might loose whatever incentive we have for World Government" It is obvious Bush and his Bonesmen are not only "creating the chaos" but "fabricating OUR foes" Bloomfield tells us in his own words, "the order we examine may be brought into, existence as a result of a series of SUDDEN, NASTY and TRAUMATIC shocks." What's happening now in Washington D.C., in Bali and what happened with the World Trade Center are only the first of a series of sudden, nasty and traumatic shocks designed to destroy the United States of America and the freedom for which it stands. Is a pattern emerging? ?2002 freeworldalliance.com Permission is given any website, news paper or periodical for the express purpose of informing the public as long as the text is retained in its original format verbatim and proper credit is given the author! ===================================================================== SNIPER MALVO AN ILLEGAL ALIEN INS HAD HIM AND RELEASED HIM October 24, 2002 9 am Pacific Time American Patrol has learned from a reliable source that John Lee Malvo, one of the sniper suspects, had been in INS custody in Seattle and was released on Jan. 24, 2002 without a bond. He was ordered to return for a deportation hearing on November 20th. Malvo had been in custody for one month for immigration violations. He was released in the custody of his mother. Malvo is Jamaican. Once again, America suffers because our government does not care about its own people. 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Name: DC_sniper.htm|Image=1 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 236 bytes Desc: not available URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Oct 18 23:35:46 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:35:46 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] the terrorist motel Message-ID: DID YOU EVER WONDER HOW THE FBI KNEW ALL THESE NAMES FIVE MINUTES AFTER THE ATTACK ON AMERICA? The Terrorist Motel The I-40 connection between Zacarias Moussaoui and Mohamed Atta by Jim Crogan WHAT HAPPENED AT THE NONDESCRIPT ROADSIDE motel outside Oklahoma City was just a fleeting encounter during the twisted cross-country odyssey of the terrorists who would carry out the September 11 attacks. Mohamed Atta, alleged leader of the plot, and two companions wanted to rent a room, but couldn't get the deal they wanted, so they left. It was an incident of no particular importance, except for one thing. The owner of the motel remembers Atta being in the company of Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called "20th hijacker," who was arrested prior to September 11 and now faces conspiracy charges in connection with the terror assaults. If this recollection is correct, the entire incident, and its absence from the public record, raises new questions about the FBI investigation of Moussaoui and even the 1995 destruction of the Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Already the FBI has endured a withering political and media critique for failing to aggressively investigate Moussaoui and his contacts during his four weeks in custody prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Some FBI officials have responded by characterizing Moussaoui as only a minor player. But the report from the motel owner, if proven, could change that. And it also could force the FBI to reopen its investigation of Middle Eastern connections to the 1995 Oklahoma City blast, because convicted bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols reportedly stayed at the same motel, interacting with a group of Iraqis during the weeks before the bombing. AT PRESS TIME, THE ERRATIC MOUSSAOUI, WHO IS representing himself, was attempting to plead guilty and bring his trial to a close. The 34-year-old French citizen of Moroccan descent had previously filed some 94 hand-scrawled, rambling motions attacking the government's case and its right to prosecute him. But that circus obscures a conundrum of a different sort. The government's case, as outlined in its new six-count conspiracy indictment, is largely circumstantial, lacking any definitive link between Moussaoui and the 19 hijackers identified by federal authorities. All of which makes the apparent shelving of the Moussaoui-Atta sighting all the stranger. In fact, even though multiple sources contend that the FBI interviewed the motel owner, there's no indication that prosecutors were told. It's possible that the FBI found the motel owner's identifications wrong or his story unreliable. But it's still odd that, in interviews with the Weekly, Justice Department prosecutors seemed to know nothing about the motel encounter, especially because agents reportedly told the motel owner they would pass the information on to Moussaoui's defense team. The motel co-owner, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the incident occurred around August 1, 2001, just six weeks before 9/11. "They came in around 10 or 11 a.m. and started talking to my desk clerk," he said. Even though he was working about 10 feet away from the trio, the owner didn't really pay any attention at first. "They were asking my clerk, who no longer works here, about a weekly rate for our rooms." (The former clerk could not be reached for comment.) The motel, explained the owner, sets aside some rooms with small kitchenettes to rent on a weekly basis. "But they were all taken." He said the clerk explained the situation, but the visitors were persistent. "Finally, my clerk asked me to talk to them." The motel owner said that Moussaoui and a man who appeared to be Marwan al-Shehhi -- who helped crash a jetliner into the south tower of the World Trade Center -- were friendly and said a few things, but Atta was clearly the leader. "He did most of the talking and seemed very serious," said the owner, adding, "I was standing face to face, about two feet away from Atta, and talked to the three of them for about 10 minutes. Atta asked if he could rent one of the other rooms at a weekly rate, and I told him no. "I asked him what they were doing here in the area. And Atta told me they were going to flight school. I thought he meant [Federal Aviation Administration] training in Oklahoma City. But Atta told me no, they were taking flight training in Norman. "I said I didn't understand why they wanted to rent one of my rooms, since we were about 28 miles from Norman and there are a lot of reasonably priced motels a lot closer. But he said they had heard good things about my place and wanted to stay there. I told them I was sorry, but we couldn't accommodate them. Atta finally said okay. Then they all thanked me for my time and left." After the attacks, said the motel owner, he recognized his visitors in photos from television reports. "I was really stunned," he said. Then he decided to call the FBI hot line. The motel owner said he didn't hear right back from the FBI. In the interim, he also spoke to a former law-enforcement officer who was investigating reported sightings of Mujahid Abdulquaadir Menepta at the same motel during the mid-1990s. Menepta, reportedly a friend of Moussaoui's, was arrested 30 years ago in Colorado for aggravated robbery and served more than three years in prison. After September 11, Menepta publicly defended Moussaoui, calling him a "scapegoat." The FBI arrested him as a material witness and subsequently charged Menepta with a federal gun violation. He pleaded guilty and in April 2002 was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison. He was never charged with any terrorism-related crime. But during the preliminary hearing on the gun charge, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agent Jeffrey Whitney testified that a confidential source placed Menepta at a meeting of a radical Islamic group in St. Louis where he allegedly threatened to shoot any police officer who entered the mosque. Menepta's attorney challenged the credibility of this report in court. A former desk clerk at the motel -- a different clerk from the one who purportedly dealt with Atta and Moussaoui -- told the Weekly that he remembered Menepta because in 1994 and 1995 -- prior to the Oklahoma City attack -- Menepta frequently visited the motel office. There, he bought coffee and talked for hours to this clerk. The clerk and his wife, who both formerly worked at the motel, said they picked Menepta's picture out of a photo lineup prepared by a law-enforcement officer who had interviewed the motel owner. This officer, who also spoke to the Weekly on condition of anonymity, said that after the motel owner told him about the Moussaoui sighting, he contacted a member of Oklahoma's Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes the FBI. The FBI finally acted on the tip. The motel owner said that on December 19, 2001, he went to FBI offices in Oklahoma City for a formal interview, where he was debriefed by an FBI agent and by Oklahoma City Police Sergeant Jerry Flowers. "We talked for several hours, and I told them everything I knew." The motel owner said he would have taken a polygraph exam but was not asked to do so. The Weekly's law-enforcement source corroborates the December 19 interview. The motel owner never heard from prosecutors in Moussaoui's case but got one more call from the FBI several weeks later. "The agent told me they had passed on a copy of my statement to Moussaoui's defense team, and I might be getting a call from them. But I was under no obligation to talk to them. However, I don't know if that was the truth. Since then, I have never heard from anyone connected to Moussaoui's case." ONE REASON FOR THE FBI'S APPARent lack of interest might be this motel's alleged connection to Timothy McVeigh and a group of Iraqis who worked in Oklahoma City. According to the motel owner and other witnesses and investigators interviewed by the Weekly, McVeigh and several of these Iraqis were motel guests in the months preceding the 1995 bombing. Witnesses also claimed they saw several of the Iraqis moving barrels of material around on the bed of a truck. The motel owner said the material smelled of diesel fuel and he had to clean up a spill. Diesel fuel was a key component of the truck bomb that blew up the Federal Building. The motel owner said he and his staff reported this information to the FBI in 1995. "We did have an ATF agent come out and collect the originals of the room registrations for that period, but we never heard back from them. And I never could get the registrations returned." He added that his previous experience with the FBI made him reluctant to contact them about Moussaoui. "But I decided it was my duty to tell them what had happened. So I did." Former Oklahoma City TV reporter Jayna Davis also interviewed motel staff and former guests. In the process, she collected signed affidavits about their contacts with McVeigh and the Iraqis. She tried twice to give the Bureau this information, but the FBI refused to accept her materials. (The Weekly first reported on her investigation in an article published in September 2001.) The Weekly's law-enforcement source said he has reviewed Davis' material and considers it credible. "Last December I personally took the documents to the Joint Terrorism Task Force," he said. "I told them they should do their own investigation." The response was not encouraging. He said he was later informed that the Bureau brought in an analyst, "but I was told it would probably go nowhere. They were afraid the whole Oklahoma City bombing can of worms would be opened up and the FBI would have to explain why they didn't investigate this material before." The Weekly contacted numerous local and federal investigators and agencies, including the Oklahoma task force, the U.S. Attorney's Office, the FBI and the Justice Department. All declined to comment. Prosecutors on the Moussaoui case also declined official comment, but their reactions suggested they knew nothing of the motel encounter. After being told about the motel owner's interview and allegations, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Spencer responded with a one-word question about the sighting: "When?" Spencer then declined further comment. Another Moussaoui prosecutor, David Novak, also declined comment. But Novak wanted to know the name of the motel owner. Other substantial connections already tie the Sooner state to Moussaoui and, separately, several 9/11 hijackers. According to the Moussaoui indictment, on September 29, 2000, Moussaoui made e-mail contact with Airman Flight School in Norman. Then, on February 23, 2001, he flew from London to Chicago and then to Oklahoma City. What he did in the next few days is unknown or at least not accounted for in the indictment. But on February 26, Moussaoui opened a bank account in Norman, depositing $32,000. From February 26 to May 29, he attended flight school in Norman. Then he suddenly quit the school. Between July 29 and August 4, Moussaoui made calls from public pay phones in Norman to Germany. On August 1 and 3, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh wired Moussaoui a total of about $14,000 from two train stops in Germany to somewhere in Oklahoma. This wire transfer does imply a connection to terrorist plotters because al-Shibh, an alleged al Qaeda member, wired money to other hijackers. On August 3, Moussaoui purchased two knives in Oklahoma City. And on August 10 or 11, an acquaintance drove Moussaoui from Oklahoma to Minnesota for enrollment in a new flight school. Authorities arrested Moussaoui in Minnesota on August 17 on an immigration violation. As has been widely reported, Moussaoui attracted attention because he said he was interested in flying a plane but not learning how to take off or land. He was in federal custody when the 9/11 attacks occurred. As for the terrorists who took part in 9/11, Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi visited the Airman Flight School in Norman in July 2000, according to the Moussaoui indictment. (The motel owner identifies al-Shehhi as the third person with Atta and Moussaoui when they allegedly inquired about a room.) And on April 1, 2001, Nawaf al-Hazmi, who helped hijack American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, was stopped for speeding in Oklahoma and given two tickets. The Oklahoma state trooper found no outstanding warrants and turned al-Hazmi loose. The media has since reported that the CIA had been tracking al-Hazmi, but never told the immigration service or the FBI that he was a suspected terrorist during his 21-month U.S. stay. Authorities have never publicly accounted for Atta and al-Shehhi's whereabouts during the time of the alleged motel encounter. The Moussaoui indictment lays out a tantalizing possible association between Atta and Moussaoui, but never puts the two in the same place at the same time. The link could exist, however, along a dusty Oklahoma roadside, off Interstate 40, at a small motel that is indistinguishable from hundreds of others, except for its possible connection to terrorists. http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/36/news-crogan.php ================================================================ An Oklahoma Mystery New hints of links between Timothy McVeigh and Middle Eastern terrorists by Jim Crogan Representative Bill McCollum Republican Representative Porter Goss EITHER CONVICTED OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBERS Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were part of a conspiracy, possibly involving Middle Eastern and Filipino connections, or they were not. Seven years later, the authorities have still not fully examined this question. But taking on this issue would seem to fit the mission of the House and Senate Intelligence committees, which are jointly investigating intelligence failures by the FBI and CIA before 9/11. Chaired by two Floridians -- Republican Representative Porter Goss and Democratic Senator Bob Graham -- the Committees' began their closed-door work by focusing on two areas: U.S. investigations of terrorism since the CIA established a counterterrorism unit in 1986 and Osama bin Laden's role in sponsoring international terrorism since the mid-1990s. Back in 1995, several Congressional Committees did search for international ties to the Oklahoma City attack, but came up empty, explained former Representative Bill McCollum in an interview. Still, the reports issued by the House Republican Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, which McCollum chaired until 1995, were quite prescient. "The task force was on the mark when it came to their warnings about the emerging threat of Middle Eastern terrorism," McCollum said. "I can tell you that we were very concerned about the possibility of a Middle East connection to Oklahoma City. But we never found any evidence there was one." Yossef Bodansky McCollum, however, said he never heard of the reporting done by TV journalist Jayna Davis, which connected McVeigh and Nichols with Middle Eastern figures in Oklahoma City and the Philippines. Nor did he know of Davis' ongoing communications with Yossef Bodansky, executive director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. "Seffy [Bodansky] never told me anything about that," he said. "This is all news to me." After the bombing, Bodansky marshaled his intelligence sources and began an investigation. He found some of the same Middle Eastern connections uncovered by reporter Davis. "The stories you are telling fit very closely with the stories I have," he told Davis, in a taped conversation on April 24, 1996. In the tape, Davis asks if the names are tied to the bombing. And Bodansky responds, "I didn't get them because I am trying to run a private, one-man census of the Oklahoma City area." The government also turned up experts who believed they found possible evidence of a Middle Eastern signature on the bombing. In 1997, Stephen Jones, lead attorney for McVeigh, filed a motion claiming the defense team had acquired a one-page summary of a government report by two unnamed Israeli experts who examined the Murrah Building. "Their conclusion was the Oklahoma City bombing bore the indisputable earmark of Middle Eastern terrorists," said Jones in an interview. The men were eventually identified as Dorom Bergerbest-Eliom, chief of security for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and Yakov (or Yaskov) Yerushalmi, a civil engineer and Israeli government consultant. Attorney Jones filed a court motion complaining to federal Judge Richard Matsch that the government had wrongly denied the document to McVeigh's defense team. "We never did get the full report," Jones continued. "Judge Matsch reminded the prosecutors they had a legal obligation to turn over any exculpatory material to the defense. However, the judge left it to the Justice Department to decide what was exculpatory." DAVIS, THE FORMER TV REPORTER FOR KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, began investigating the bombing the day after the attack. In seven years, she's accumulated 26 affidavits and more than 100 hours of taped interviews. In particular, she zeroed in on a group of Iraqis who worked for Samir Khalil, a Palestinian-born businessman and owner of a property-management company in Oklahoma City. Davis also did pieces on John Doe No. 2, the mysterious figure identified in initial police bulletins as having been seen fleeing the federal building after the bombing. The FBI later announced that John Doe No. 2 never existed. One of the Iraqis, Hussain Alhussaini, later came forward and identified himself as the person being fingered in Davis' television reports as John Doe No. 2. He sued the reporter for defamation. A federal judge dismissed the suit; Alhussaini has appealed. (See: Heartland Conspiracy, published in the L.A. Weekly, Sept. 28-Oct. 4, 2001.) The TV reporter, who has since quit the station, also interviewed Lana Padilla, Nichols' first wife. She told Davis that McVeigh had given her ex-husband thousands of dollars and paid for his first trip to the Philippines. Nichols, who is now awaiting trial in Oklahoma City on state murder charges, traveled extensively to the islands and eventually married a Filipino woman. Padilla has now been subpoenaed as a prosecution witness in Nichols' state case. Davis also turned up material that appeared to connect Nichols to Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim Murad. Yousef, the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is now serving a life sentence in federal prison. He also had hatched unrealized plans to blow up 12 airliners and to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Murad, a confederate of Yousef, is also in federal custody. He told Philippine police about a plot to hijack an airliner and crash it into CIA headquarters. Murad also claimed in 1996 that a large number of Middle Eastern men were being trained at U.S. flight schools in connection with these plots. This information was passed on to the FBI. What the agency did with it is unknown. Court documents, related to this alleged Filipino connection, were attached to a motion filed by McVeigh's defense team in 1996. One is an FBI memo detailing a conversation between Murad and a U.S. prison guard after the Oklahoma City bombing. Murad told his jailer that the Filipino Liberation Army was responsible for that attack. The memo also cites a note Murad gave his guard, reiterating this claim. Another exhibit from the defense motion is an affidavit filed by Edwin Angeles, a founder of Abu Sayyaf, a Filipino terrorist group. Angeles, who was assassinated by former comrades, wrote in 1996 that he was at a 1991 meeting in Davao City, attended by Yousef, Murad and Nichols, at which, they discussed "bombing activities, providing firearms and ammo" to terrorists and "training in bomb making and handling" of explosives. Nichols, he claimed, was introduced to him as "the farmer." In February 1995 -- months before the Oklahoma City blast -- the House Task Force on Terrorism issued a warning that Middle Eastern Islamists, under the leadership of Iran, were preparing a series of terrorist attacks against the U.S. An update, issued in March 1995 -- just a month before the bombing -- stated the target list had shifted from Washington, D.C., to government installations and buildings in America's heartland. The task force distributed these alerts to federal intelligence and law-enforcement agencies. In 1996, terrorism-task-force director Bodansky gave a copy of the original warning and update to Davis. Reportedly Bodansky, recently passed on Davis' affidavits and taped interviews to the U.S. House Government Reform Committee, about which he refuses to comment. "I work for the government, and I can't talk about Oklahoma City," he said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IN THE NINE MONTHS SINCE THE Weekly first published details of Davis' story, new information has emerged that raises more questions about the FBI's investigation into the bombing: a.. On April 19, 1995 -- immediately after the bombing -- the FBI sent an urgent request to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency requesting 10 Arabic linguists to help in its Oklahoma City bombing investigation. Linguists, serving on a 30-day loan, would not be permitted to monitor electronic surveillance. a.. After McVeigh's arrest, the FBI was contacted by the Defense Department to see if they still needed the linguists. According to an April 22, 1995 memo from the Department of the Army, an FBI agent said the linguists were being used to "monitor wiretaps of radical fundamentalist Islamists to protect the President from possible attack" during his upcoming appearance at an Oklahoma City memorial service. a.. On August 2, 1995, Federal Protective Services special agent Thomas Williams sent a memo to his branch chief, John Crowe, detailing his communication with terrorism task-force director Yossef Bodansky. In it, he states Bodansky told him that a lot of names that came up in NBC reports (by TV journalist Jayna Davis) overlapped with the names of suspects Bodansky had compiled. a.. In a taped conversation between Bodansky and Davis on May 18, 1996, Bodansky tells the reporter that by mid-April, intelligence information suggested that government buildings had been specifically targeted. He said the intelligence had been accumulated over 18 months. He also said he had gotten another warning from Israeli intelligence, a week before the bombing, that an attack would be launched in America's heartland. a.. Also on May 18, Bodansky faxed two notes to Davis in which he provides more details about the task force's intelligence analysis. Bodansky writes that after the bombing, it was determined that Oklahoma City had been "on the list of potential targets." The second note states that "The initial forensic investigation of the explosion in Oklahoma suggested strong similarities to bombing techniques used by Iran-sponsored Islamist terrorists, including the car bomb that destroyed [a] building in Buenos Aires on 18 July 1994." a.. An undated intelligence report by Bodansky discusses alleged terrorist training inside the U.S. that included some "Lilly Whites," people whose background would not tie them to terrorism. Bodansky states the training was ordered by Iran and conducted by Hamas operatives. His intelligence sources told him that the training occurred at a camp near Chicago. The first camp was allegedly held in 1990 and included about 25 trainees, who used code names. One group, he states, was reportedly given instructions on building car bombs from available materials. The second training occurred in 1993. It was specifically for Lilly Whites. They also used code names and were given state-of-the-art car-bomb training. Bodansky's sources also report that at least two of the 1993 participants came from Oklahoma City. a.. During a legal dispute with her former employer Bodansky wrote Davis a letter of support stating, "Having studied the material provided by Ms. Davis very closely, I consider it most sensitive, reliable and important evidence for the Task Force investigation." Bodansky also wrote, "Having carefully studied these tapes, as well as other work of Ms. Davis, I'm convinced that the witnesses she had interviewed provide credible testimony." a.. During a civil suit for defamation against Davis and KFOR-TV, Hussain Alhussaini, a former Iraqi soldier, submitted psychiatric reports from 1997, in which he states that he worked for a while at Boston's Logan Airport (where two of the planes were hijacked on September 11). Alhussaini first told his psychiatrist that he quit his airport job because "If anything happens there, I will be a suspect." Then he later contradicts himself, saying that he wants to look for another job "because he feels unsafe in the environment he works in, in the airport, given the recent events involving his being previously suspected of involvement in the Oklahoma bombing." In a 1998 deposition, Alhussaini states he is still working at the airport and has fears of losing his job. Alhussaini's specific job was never identified. Alhussaini still appears to be living in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Port Authority, which oversees Logan's operations, declined comment on Alhussaini's current work status or his airport duties. http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/35/news-crogan.php =========================================================== News: Dodge City by Jim Crogan THE MAINSTREAM PRESS FINALLY HAS STARTED paying attention to a story the L.A. Weekly broke 10 months ago about warnings that Middle Eastern terrorists were plotting an attack against the U.S. around the same time as the Oklahoma City bombing. ... Crogan News Dodge City Unanswered questions about the Oklahoma bombing THE MAINSTREAM PRESS... Published July 4th, 2002 http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/33/news-crogan.php News: The Terror Watch by Jim Crogan .. Crogan News The Terror Watch A chronology of events leading up to 9/11 FOR THE FIRST TIME... Published May 23rd, 2002 http://www.laweekly.com/search.php?searchfor=Jim+Crogan+&go.x=19&go.y=11 News: McVeigh et al. by Jim Crogan ... Crogan News McVeigh et al. Congressional hearing to examine possible Middle East link to... Published April 4th, 2002 http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/20/news-crogan.php New World Disorder The Oil War UNOCAL's once-grand plan for Afghan pipelines by Jim Crogan Illustration by Spain A victory by the U.S.-led coalition and its Northern Alliance supporters would not only boost America's power and influence in this strategic Caspian region, but it would reopen the door to a potential energy windfall for the West. Afghanistan's oil, gas and coal reserves are waiting to be exploited. And neighboring Turkmenistan, the former Soviet Republic, is loaded with resources, waiting to go to market. But landlocked by Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan on the north and east, Afghanistan and Iran on the south, and bordered by the Caspian Sea to its west, Turkmenistan has struggled to find a viable supply route. A 1995 proposal by UNOCAL, the Southern California oil giant, shows what might be in store and gives a hint of influence the oil-friendly Bush administration could have in charting the future of the strategic region. UNOCAL proposed building twin oil and gas pipelines from Turkmenistan, south through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to a shipping terminal on the Arabian Sea, with a possible pipeline extension into India. To date, the roadblocks have been twofold: Afghanistan's ongoing civil war and the lack of international recognition for the Taliban government. UNOCAL says it has pulled out of the project. see more... http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/02/new-crogan.php ========================================================== 9-11: New World Disorder Heartland Conspiracy Unanswered questions about Timothy McVeigh's and Terry Nichols' possible links to the Middle East by Jim Crogan It is obvious material for conspiracy buffs: Did Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols really act alone, or was some larger terrorist outfit behind the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building? In Oklahoma City, an investigative reporter began asking the question long before the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Jayna Davis, in a series that aired on KFOR-TV in 1995, examined the possible existence of John Doe No. 2, a man witnesses saw with McVeigh outside the federal building moments before the bomb went off, killing 168 people. Her reports also raised questions about the purpose of several trips Nichols made to the Philippines, into areas in which terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden were known to hide out. Davis herself no longer freely talks about her work. She has been sued by a subject of her reports and advised by her attorneys not to grant interviews. Earlier this year, however, she appeared on Fox Network's The O'Reilly Factor and spoke at length about her investigation: "And what we discovered, an intelligence source at one of the highest levels in the federal government later confirmed, was a Middle Eastern terrorist cell living and operating in the heart of Oklahoma City . . . We have (22) sworn witness affidavits that tie seven to eight Arab men to various stages of the bombing plot . . . It really is a foreign conspiracy masterminded and funded by Osama bin Laden, according to my intelligence sources." McVeigh went to his grave denying any foreign involvement in the bombing. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, swore they acted alone, and no proof of a wider plot ever surfaced. The arrests of McVeigh and Nichols came quickly and closed the case for many. Less than two hours after the bombing, a state trooper stopped McVeigh's 1977 Mercury Marquis 80 miles from Oklahoma City because it was missing a license plate. Two days later, Nichols, who was at his Kansas farm on the day of the bombing, surrendered to police. Minutes after the bombing, however, police radios carried a description of a brown Chevrolet pickup with "two Middle Eastern men" inside seen speeding away from the federal complex. A short time later and without explanation, police withdrew the all-points bulletin. The mystery over the truck became the starting point for Davis' investigation. Davis found people in Oklahoma City who said they remembered seeing McVeigh meet with several men they describe as Middle Eastern in the months before the bombing. She also uncovered confidential warnings that a congressional task force issued about a possible Islamic-fundamentalist terror attack on "America's heartland" one month before the Oklahoma bombing. Davis, in her early reports, makes it clear she is not certain of a connection between McVeigh and any terrorist group. And certainly witnesses were primed to view anyone who looked suspicious as "Middle Eastern" in the hours right after the bombing. What Davis wants, she said, is a full federal inquiry into the matter. One big-name lawyer trying to get such an investigation rolling is David Schippers, former chief counsel to the House of Representatives managers who conducted Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. "I've been practicing law for 40 years, and I know what bullshit is," said Schippers. "Jayna gave me a stack of affidavits, signed by credible witnesses, connecting McVeigh to Middle Easterners living in Oklahoma City. She also gave me a ton of supporting documents. I've reviewed this material, and I'm convinced there are solid leads here that need to be investigated." Schippers said he is trying to get the material to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. "I made some calls, but no one would give me the time of day," he said. "I tried like hell to get to Ashcroft, but I just couldn't break through." He said he has not given up, but would not disclose his plans to get a full airing for Davis' findings. The reports, which aired on KFOR in the months after the Oklahoma City bombing, are based on witness statements, court records, government documents and unnamed sources. A federal court order dismissing a lawsuit filed against Davis mentioned several of her findings, which include: a.. A brown Chevrolet truck similar to one seen leaving the federal building had been parked a few weeks earlier -- twice, in fact -- at Samara Properties, according to two employees at the Oklahoma City property-management company owned by Dr. Samir Khalil. In 1991, Khalil pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and spent eight months in federal prison. According to court documents, Khalil denied FBI allegations that linked him to the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Six months before the bombing, Khalil had hired a group of Iraqis for painting and construction work. On the day of the bombing, a former co-worker told Davis they reacted to the news with unrestrained joy. "They even praised Saddam Hussein, vowing to die in his service," a source stated in an affidavit. On April 27, police found a Chevrolet pickup abandoned at an apartment complex in Oklahoma City, stripped of its license plate, inspection tag and other identifying numbers. It had been painted yellow, though it was clear its original color was brown. One resident told Dallas FBI Agent Jim Ellis that the driver was "clean-shaven, with an olive complexion, dark wavy hair, and broad shoulders," in his late 20s or early 30s, and of Middle Eastern descent. The resident also identified him as a Samara employee from KFOR's pictures. a.. An FBI sketch of John Doe No. 2 resembled a Samara employee who described himself as a political refugee who had served in the Iraqi army. The TV station did not name him and digitized his photos to hide his identity. Later, Hussain Al-Hussaini came forward and said he was the man identified by several witnesses as possibly being John Doe No. 2, and sued the station and Davis for defamation and libel, saying he could be easily recognized from their coverage. (Al-Hussaini withdrew the state case, and a federal judge dismissed a second case; Al-Hussaini has appealed.) a.. In an affidavit, a waitress said McVeigh and someone resembling Al-Hussaini came into her bar on April 15. The waitress said the man she had identified from a KFOR photo lineup "asked me if I was married. He spoke with an accent . . . a Middle Eastern accent." She also said the FBI had interviewed her, and showed her photos and sketches of possible suspects. The photos were presumably taken from surveillance cameras near the Murrah Building. The FBI took possession of videos recorded by those cameras on April 19, and has refused to release them. a.. In an affidavit, Mike Moroz, a worker at Johnny's Tire Service, a few blocks from the Murrah Building, said that at about 8:30 a.m. on April 19, the day of the bombing, McVeigh pulled up in his Ryder truck and asked for directions. He insisted there was another man sitting in the truck cab. Moroz told Davis he had picked McVeigh out of a live FBI lineup. He also said Al-Hussaini, as shown in one of KFOR's surveillance photos, could have been the man he saw. a.. A patron at the Social Security office at the Murrah Building, who was wounded in the blast, told Davis she was standing 12 feet away when the Ryder truck pulled up. She said she saw McVeigh and a "foreign-looking man with an olive complexion and thick black curly hair poking out of a ball cap" get out of the truck. She also gave this information to the FBI, even describing the insignia on the cap of the person with McVeigh. She identified him as possibly being Al-Hussaini from KFOR's photos. a.. Employees and guests at a motel near downtown Oklahoma City reported seeing McVeigh with several Middle Eastern men in the months before the bombing. One of those men was identified from KFOR's surveillance photos of Samara Properties as possibly being Al-Hussaini. The others were identified as fellow employees of Al-Hussaini. McVeigh reportedly stayed at the motel, under the name of Bob Kling, an alias he had used before, according to the FBI. The witnesses said they had often seen several of the men moving large barrels around in the back of an old white truck that frequently broke down on the lot. The barrels smelled of diesel, they said, an ingredient in the bomb that destroyed the federal building. According to an FBI report, an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent confiscated the motel's registration records and logs. a.. In a hidden-camera interview, Terry Nichols' ex-wife told of his trips to the Philippines. "Tim bought Terry the first ticket for the Philippines" in 1989, she said. Nichols, who eventually married a woman from Cebu City, traveled, often without his new wife, back and forth to the Philippines, considered by some a hotbed for terrorist activity. His last visit came in November 1994. Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted of masterminding the 1993 Trade Center bombing and a plot to blow up U.S. airliners, operated out of Mindanao and Manila; Yousef received funding from Osama bin Laden; and, according to a motion filed by McVeigh's defense team, an American fitting Nichols' description met with Yousef in 1992 or 1993 in the Philippines. a.. Yossef Bodansky, the executive director of the U.S. House Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, told Davis that terrorist organizations linked to Iran and Syria had been talking about a U.S. terror campaign since late 1994. The task force issued the first of several confidential warnings to federal agencies on February 27, 1995. It said that "Striking inside the U.S. is presently a high priority of Tehran" and went on to warn of attacks on "airports, airlines, telephone systems etc." An update, issued on March 3, 1995, said there was a "greater likelihood that the terrorists would strike at the heart of the U.S." Israeli intelligence sources warned one month before the Oklahoma City bombing that an impending terrorist attack would use "lily whites," which, Bodansky explained, are "people without any distinct background, record of any kind . . . who will never be suspected members of a terrorist group." It is not clear how or whether all of this adds up. Davis has struggled to get the results of her investigation to the public. Twice, she has been sued for libel and defamation, in state and federal courts, by Al-Hussaini, who stepped forward on June 15, 1995, and said that he was living in fear since KFOR and Davis fingered him. He said he was at work when the bombing occurred and denied knowing McVeigh. The federal judge who dismissed his lawsuit said Al-Hussaini's claim that he was at work at the time of the bombing was false. Nineteen months after Al-Hussaini sued in state court, he dropped his lawsuit. Davis said the legal pressure led KFOR to halt airing new material from her bombing investigation. In 1996, Palmer Communications sold the station to the New York Times Co., which was not interested in pursuing the story, Davis said. On March 3, 1997, she resigned. In September 1997, Davis was subpoenaed by the Oklahoma County grand jury, which was looking into the possibility of conspirators in the bombing. Davis gave the jury all of her witness statements. The next day, Al-Hussaini refiled his libel suit in federal court, and two months later, it was dismissed. U.S. District Judge Tim Leonard said that Davis' reports are either true or statements of opinion. Al-Hussaini appealed, and a hearing was held this month, but no ruling has been made. For years, the FBI has refused to comment on Davis' report. This week, the response was no different when the agency was contacted by the L.A. Weekly. Davis has tried twice, with the permission of her sources, to deliver the 22 witness affidavits to the FBI office in Oklahoma City. In 1997, agents said her lawyers needed to first contact federal prosecutors. Her attorney, Tim McCoy, said federal prosecutors rejected the offer, saying they would have to release the documents to McVeigh's and Nichols' defense teams if they accepted them. In 1999, Davis and another attorney who represented her, Dan Nelson, met with Agent Dan Vogel and got him to accept the documents. He, in turn, gave them to the FBI task force investigating the bombing. "However, I was told we gave the affidavits back to her because there was some question of ownership -- whether she or KFOR had legal rights to the material," said Vogel, who has since retired. Asked whether he thought it was odd that the FBI would reject potential leads, Vogel would only say, "That was a decision made by people above me." Davis can't figure out why the FBI refuses to examine her material. "They had hundreds of agents on this case," Davis told Bill O'Reilly. 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Name: OKC_motel.htm|Image=1 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 370 bytes Desc: not available URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Oct 18 23:38:53 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 23:38:53 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] doctor who exposed blair found murdered Message-ID: Doctor who exposed Blair found murdered The Death of Dr. David Kelly Slideshow: Weapons Expert Found Dead in Britain Death deals devastating blow to Iraq arms hunt Martin Bright Sunday July 20, 2003 The Observer David Kelly was about to lead the British hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and had contacted former UN inspectors as recently as two weeks ago to sound them out about a new mission. He was acting as the senior British scientific adviser to the Iraq Survey Group, the body set up by the US Government at the end of May to replace the United Nations weapons inspection regime. One former UN inspector, who worked with Kelly on two missions to Iraq in the Nineties, said he had received an email from the scientist two weeks ago asking him join the survey group mission. Kelly was working directly under Brigadier John Deverell, the British second in command of the survey group. The unit was set up in May and is led by Major-General Keith Dayton, director of operations for the US Defence Intelligence Agency. With offices in Iraq, near Baghdad airport, and a logistics base in Qatar, the survey group has a staff of around 1,400 people drawn from the US, Britain and Australia. Former inspectors said the death of the British Government's most senior chemical and biological weapons scientist would be a devastating blow to the survey group. 'Everybody very much deferred to him. Other experts turned to him, he was a leader and people always listened when he spoke,' one former inspector who had worked with Kelly said. The news that Kelly was to play a central role in the coalition's search for WMD will provoke further questions about the Ministry of Defence's decision to identify him and place him at the centre of a row between Downing Street and the BBC. His prominence also contradicts briefings from the MoD that the man they believed to be the source of BBC reports that the Government had 'sexed up' its claims about Saddam Hussein's arsenal was a junior figure. The survey group has already seized thousands of documents, computer records and reports that are believed to have informed the Government's view that some evidence of WMD programmes would be found, if not the weapons themselves. His death was described as a devastating blow to the search for WMDs by colleagues who had worked with him in Iraq. 'All his knowledge died with him,' a former soldier who worked with him in Iraq said. A UN nuclear inspector said Kelly was present when he was debriefed by the intelligence services on his return from Iraq. 'He was the boffin who used to sit in the background and ask questions. He was very senior on the weapons team in the Nineties and was very trusted by the MoD.' Colleagues said they were appalled that such a senior and respected scientist has been treated so disrespectfully by the Foreign Affairs Select Committee. 'I found that particularly unpleasant,' one said. 'It was nasty and unprofessional. The people who were doing the interrogation were not fit to sharpen his pencils.' The work of hunting for weapons of mass destruction after the war was originally carried out by the 75th Exploitation Task Force of the US army. Despite international demands for the job to be passed to the UN the allies set up the survey group with the aim of combining the work of US, British and Australian intelligence under one roof. Although the US Government refused to allow the post-war inspections to be run under UN auspices, most of the senior staff are former UN weapons inspectors with many years of experience searching for Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,1001793,00.html ====================================================== CHERDAV Doctor who exposed Blair found murdered Fri Jul 18 13:29:18 2003 208.152.73.146 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Doctor who exposed Blair found murdered Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:53:47 EDT From: CHERDAV44 at aol.com To: apfn at apfn.org British Doctor who Told BBC that Blair had Doctored Iraq Dossier Has Apparently Been Found Murdered British authorities say they believe a body found this morning in Oxfordshire is that of Dr. David Kelly, a WMD expert who broke the story of how the Blair dossier on Iraq had been doctored. How convenient for this apparent murder to have occurred during the very 48 hour period that Tony Blair is well removed from the scene of the crime, eh? The British government is already defending itself: "The ministry said Dr Kelly had at no point been threatened with suspension or dismissal for speaking to Mr Gilligan," reports the BBC, "'It was made clear to him that he had broken civil service rules by having unauthorised contact with a journalist, but "that was the end of it", said a spokesman." Or...was it the end of Dr. Kelly? Body 'matches' Iraq expert http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3076801.stm A body matching the description of Dr David Kelly - the weapons expert at the centre of the Iraq dossier row - has been found at a beauty spot close to his home in Oxfordshire. The government says an independent judicial inquiry will be held into the circumstances of his death if the body is confirmed to be that of the MoD adviser. The discovery was made at 0920 BST by a member of the police team searching for Dr Kelly in a wooded area at Harrowdown Hill, near Faringdon. Dr Kelly, 59, had been caught up in a row between the BBC and the government about the use of intelligence reports in the run-up to the war with Iraq. On Tuesday he told the Foreign Affairs select committee he had spoken to BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan but denied he was the main source for a story about claims that a dossier on Iraq had been "sexed up". Dr Kelly left his home in Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, at about 1500 BST on Thursday and his family reported him missing at 2345 BST the same day. The body was found lying on the ground, around five miles from Dr Kelly's home, a police spokeswoman said. Acting superintendent Dave Purnell said formal identification would take place on Saturday and the case was being treated as an "unexplained death". "We will be awaiting the results of the post mortem and also waiting while the forensic examination continues at the scene at Harrowdown Hill," he added. Attention The government announcement of an inquiry if the body is Dr Kelly's came from the prime minister's plane as he flew for a visit to Tokyo. "He is not used to the media glare, he is not used to the intense spotlight he has been put under" Mr Blair's spokesman said: "The prime minister is obviously very distressed for the family. "If it is Dr Kelly's body, the Ministry of Defence will hold an independent judicial inquiry into the circumstances leading up to his death." Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said Mr Blair should consider cutting short his trip to the Far East. Robert Jackson, the Conservative MP in whose constituency Dr Kelly lived, said the "responsibility of the BBC should not go unmentioned" in the case. "The pressure was significantly increased by the fact the BBC refused to make it clear he was not the source," he said. A BBC spokesman said: "We are shocked and saddened to hear what has happened and we extend our deepest sympathies to Dr Kelly's family and friends. Shock "Whilst Dr Kelly's family await the formal identification, it would not be appropriate for us to make any further statement." Earlier this week, Dr Kelly denied being the BBC's main source for the story claiming Downing Street had "sexed up" the dossier about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. MPs on the Commons foreign affairs committee, which questioned Dr Kelly earlier this week, reacted with shock and disbelief at news of his disappearance. Huge media attention has been on Dr Kelly since the Ministry of Defence said he had come forward to admit meeting Andrew Gilligan, the BBC correspondent behind the controversial Iraq story. Mr Gilligan said a source had told him that the dossier on Iraq had been "transformed" by Downing Street. The BBC correspondent has refused to name his source, but the MoD said Dr Kelly had come forward to say it may have been him. Sensitive Government ministers have said they believe he was the source for Mr Gilligan's story. Supt Purnell said a police family liaison officer is with Dr Kelly's family. The official and wife Janice have three daughters, Sian, 32, and twins Rachel and Ellen, 30. Ann Lewis, a neighbour of Dr Kelly, told BBC News Online she was "devastated" for his family, especially his children. She said: "He was a quiet man. He was a man who showed great care and concern for others." Craig Foster, 36, landlord of the Blue Boar public house in nearby Longworth, said Dr Kelly was "a very well liked gentleman". Police say Dr Kelly is an avid walker and has good local knowledge of the many footpaths surrounding his home. A Ministry of Defence spokeswoman said: "We are aware that Dr David Kelly has gone missing and we are obviously concerned." Rules The ministry said Dr Kelly had at no point been threatened with suspension or dismissal for speaking to Mr Gilligan. It was made clear to him that he had broken civil service rules by having unauthorised contact with a journalist, but "that was the end of it", said a spokesman. There must be more to this than we had thought. I do not know what that means, I just think there is John Maples Foreign affairs committee Profile: Dr David Kelly Downing Street says "normal personnel procedures" were followed after Dr Kelly volunteered that he might have been the source of Mr Gilligan's report. It was made clear to Dr Kelly that his name was likely to become public knowledge because he was one of only a small number of people it could have been about, a spokesman said. After questioning Dr Kelly earlier this week, the Commons foreign affairs select committee said it was "most unlikely" he was the main source for the BBC story. And they said Dr Kelly, who has worked as a weapons inspector in Iraq, had been "poorly treated" by the government - a charge strongly rejected by the MoD. Committee chairman Donald Anderson told the BBC his "heart went out" to Dr Kelly's family as the search for the official went on. Another member of the committee, Tory John Maples said he was "speechless" after hearing of the discovery of a body. "If it is (Dr Kelly), it is just awful. What can you say? Nothing," he said. "There must be more to this than we had thought. I do not know what that means, I just think there is." Tory MP Richard Ottaway, another committee member, said: "He is not used to the media glare, he is not used to the intense spotlight he has been put under." The BBC has rejected Mr Anderson's claim that Mr Gilligan was an "unreliable witness" who had changed his story about the Iraq dossier claims when he met the committee in private on Thursday. ======================= The BBC's Helen Simms "His wife is reported to have said he was extremely angry about recent events" watch: http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/39295000/rm/_39295033_kelly16_simms_vi.ram MoD expert 'unused to spotlight' A profile of Iraq weapons expert Dr David Kelly. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3076869.stm BBC NEWS UPDATES: http://news.bbc.co.uk/ APFN Body found in wood matches UK weapons inspector Fri Jul 18 12:56:29 2003 208.152.73.146 Body found in wood matches UK weapons inspector By Gideon Long http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-18-072017.asp?reg=MIDEAST LONGWORTH, England, July 18 - British police found a body on Friday matching that of a mild-mannered scientist who disappeared after becoming unwittingly embroiled in a furious political dispute about the Iraq war. The softly spoken 59-year-old had been thrust into the limelight by a row over whether the British government hyped the threat from Iraq in order to justify joining the U.S.-led war. The political fallout was almost immediate. Prime Minister Tony Blair's government promised an independent judicial inquiry into events leading up to the death of Dr David Kelly, if it is confirmed. Blair has refused previous calls for a wider inquiry into the government case for war in Iraq. Kelly's family reported him missing overnight after he went for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside on Thursday with no coat and stayed out despite a rainstorm. Police found a body in a wood near his home earlier on Friday. ''We can confirm that the body matches the description of Dr Kelly. The body has not been formally identified,'' a police spokeswoman said. Kelly, a microbiologist at the Defence Ministry who had worked for U.N. inspectors in Iraq, had been grilled by parliamentarians on Tuesday after admitting he spoke to a reporter for Britain's BBC radio. The reporter, Andrew Gilligan, said in May a senior intelligence source had told him the government ''sexed up'' data to emphasise the threat from Iraq. That report sparked parliamentary hearings into how the government made the case for war, forced Blair onto the defensive and pitted government officials against the broadcaster in a heated war of words. Blair spoke to top officials about the case from aboard a flight to Tokyo from Washington. ''The prime minister is obviously very distressed for the family of Dr Kelly,'' a spokesman said aboard the flight. If the death is confirmed the defence ministry would hold an independent judicial inquiry, presided over by a judge with access to all government papers, he added. Kelly's discomfort in the spotlight was evident from his demeanour at the foreign affairs committee hearing. Speaking so softly he could barely be heard, he admitted he had met Gilligan but denied telling him Blair's communications chief Alastair Campbell had ordered intelligence on suspected Iraqi banned weapons to be hyped. Kelly appeared shell-shocked when parliamentarians at the hearing described him as ''chaff'' and a government ''fall guy,'' put forward to shield top officials from blame. Kelly's wife Jane described him as deeply upset by the hearing, family friend Tom Mangold, a television journalist, told ITV News. ''She told me he had been under considerable stress, that he was very very angry about what had happened at the committee..,'' Mangold said. Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. ---------------------------------------------------------- Body Found in Hunt for U.K. Expert in Iraqi Arms Row (Update7) http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=ax7JO_mmxKEY&refer=uk uly 18 (Bloomberg) -- A body has been found today during a hunt for a missing armaments expert named by the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense as a possible source for a report that a dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was ``sexed up,'' police said. A police helicopter was dispatched to help search for David Kelly, who failed to return to his home in Southmoor, Oxfordshire, northwest of London, yesterday, Thames Valley Police said. The body of a man matching Kelly's description was found face down in a wooded area near his home at 9:20 a.m. London time, police said. ``The body matches the description in terms of height, age, hair color, that sort of thing,'' police spokeswoman Kate Smith said. The body will be formally identified tomorrow, police said. No information was available on the cause of death. Kelly, 59, a U.K. government weapons adviser, said he met a BBC journalist a week before a government dossier was published that said Iraq was capable of firing weapons of mass destruction with 45 minutes' notice and was a threat to other countries. He denied he told the journalist there was concern in intelligence circles that the dossier exaggerated Iraq's weapons capability. Judicial Inquiry If it is determined that the body is Kelly's, there will be a full, independent judicial inquiry into his death, Godric Smith, a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair, told reporters traveling with him to Tokyo today for the start of an Asian tour. Blair was informed of the body's discovery during the flight. ``This is very distressing news,'' Smith said. ``People should not jump to conclusions.'' If there is an inquiry, Downing Street will cooperate fully by providing materials and witnesses, he said. From the plane, Blair spoke with government defense and legal officials in London about Kelly's disappearance, Smith said. ``The prime minister is obviously very distressed for the family,'' Smith said. A BBC report on the alleged ``sexing up'' of the dossier caused a rift with the government that has dominated the domestic media agenda. There have been calls by legislators for Blair to resign for ``misleading parliament'' over the reasons for going to war with Iraq. No weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq since a U.S.-led coalition invaded it in March. The prime minister's Asian tour follows his stopover in Washington yesterday, where he received 17 standing ovations by U.S. lawmakers during a speech in which he defended his support for the war against Iraq. Publicly Questioned Kelly was publicly questioned Tuesday over the row by a House of Commons committee. He said he didn't believe he was the main source for the BBC story. He also said he didn't think the intelligence services were unhappy with the dossier. The BBC has refused to say whether it relied solely on Kelly for the information. Kelly is a microbiologist and former senior United Nations weapons inspector. He visited Iraq on 37 occasions. Kelly went for a walk at 3 p.m. London time yesterday without wearing a coat on a stormy day. His family called police when he had failed to return home by 11:45 p.m. London time, police said. The BBC report on the allegations surrounding the government dossier was compiled by journalist Andrew Gilligan. Donald Anderson, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee that questioned Kelly, said the weapons adviser had been ``poorly treated'' by the Ministry of Defense since telling officials he had met Gilligan. The Ministry of Defense has challenged that accusation. ``He seemed pretty composed,'' Anderson said of Kelly's appearance before the committee. ``I don't feel the grilling was particularly aggressive.'' Some members of parliament have said Kelly was the ``fall guy'' in an episode that was embarrassing for the government. Pressure ``He did give a hint of the pressure he was under when he said he was unable to get to his house at the moment because of the media intrusion,'' the BBC cited Richard Ottaway, an opposition Conservative member of parliament, as saying. ``He is not used to the media glare. He is not used to the intense spotlight he has been under.'' Ottaway called for an inquiry ``at the highest level'' into the treatment of Kelly. His demand was echoed by Peter Kilfoyle, a member of Blair's Labour Party. ``Dr. Kelly was a reluctant witness,'' said Labour lawmaker Eric Illsley, member of the committee. ``He obviously didn't want to be in the public spotlight.'' Blair Aide Cleared The Foreign Affairs Select Committee cleared the government's director of communications, Alastair Campbell, of ``sexing up'' the dossier. It said the ``jury was still out'' over case for war in Iraq. Anderson said it was ``most unlikely'' that Kelly was Gilligan's source. Smith declined to say whether Blair spoke with Campbell after word reached Blair's plane about Kelly's disappearance. Campbell flew back to London from Washington after Blair's visit. Blair's Downing Street office said Kelly had volunteered the fact that he had met Gilligan and as a result may have been thought of as the source of the information in the BBC report. It was made clear to him his name would be put in the public domain, a U.K. official said. Kelly had said he ``deeply, deeply disliked'' what had happened to him, and his wife said he was angry about it, the BBC's political editor, Andrew Marr, reported. Last Updated: July 18, 2003 10:31 EDT Guardian UK Timeline: Dr David Kelly Sat Jul 19 04:26:12 2003 208.152.73.91 Timeline: Dr David Kelly http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1000991,00.html Friday July 18, 2003 July 8 At 5.55pm the government issues a statement saying a Ministry of Defence official has come forward and admitted meeting BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan on May 22. The official said he met Gilligan, whom he had known for "some months", at a central London hotel, and that he had been asked about weapons of mass destruction and Alastair Campbell. "He says that when Mr Gilligan asked about the role of Alastair Campbell with regard to the 45 minute issue, he made no comment and explained that he was not involved in the process of drawing up the intelligence parts of the dossier," the statement said. "He made no other comment about Mr Campbell. When Mr Gilligan asked him why the 45 minute point was in the dossier, he says he commented that it was 'probably for impact'. He says he did not see the 45 minute intelligence report on which it was based." The government says the official is not one of the senior officials involved in drawing up the September dossier, but an expert who has advised ministers on weapons of mass destruction. The BBC responds, saying the description issued by the government does not match Gilligan's source in important ways - "Mr Gilligan's source does not work in the Ministry of Defence and he has known the source for a number of years, not months," the BBC says in a statement. July 9 Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, writes to BBC chairman Gavyn Davies asking him to confirm or deny whether Dr David Kelly, a renowned microbiologist and advisor to the Ministry of Defence, was the original source of Gilligan's story. The BBC steadfastly refuses to reveal any information about its source, saying it will not be drawn into a trap. Tony Blair's spokesman says the approach is "not an assault on journalistic sources, this is not an assault on the BBC, it is not a vendetta". He insists it is a "genuine attempt to get at the truth behind what is one of the most serious allegations you can make against a government". The BBC responds by saying the story has descended into farce. "The MoD has lost all credibility on this issue. It completely changed its story overnight for spurious reasons, and we intend to draw a line under the matter. We are not going to discuss our source," the corporation says in a statement. The MoD issues a statement saying it has named the official who has come forward in a letter to the BBC, but not naming the source. However, by the end of the day some lobby journalists have mysteriously learnt of his identity. When the Times political reporting team contacts the MoD and put Dr Kelly's name to the department, his name is confirmed. By 11.40pm he has been named as Gilligan's source on the Press Association newswire. Downing Street categorically denies being the source of the leak. In its report on July 10, the Times says Downing Street is "99% convinced" that Dr Kelly is Gilligan's source. July 15 Dr Kelly is called to give evidence before the foreign affairs select committee. Asked by MPs whether he thinks he is the main source for Gilligan's story he says: "No." He admits meeting Gilligan on three occasions since September 2002, including a meeting on May 22 at the Charing Cross hotel in central London. Dr Kelly says that while certain aspects of Gilligan's report tallied with their conversation, his account of Campbell's intervention in the September dossier was not "a factual record of my interaction with him". "From the conversations I had with him, I don't know how he could have had the authority to make the statements he is making," Dr Kelly told the committee. He also admits meeting with Newsnight science correspondent Susan Watts after a talk he had given on November 5 last year, and to speaking to her in several telephone conversations subsequently. MPs on the committee back Dr Kelly's denial, issuing a statement saying he was "most unlikely" to have been the source behind the "sexed up" dossier claim and criticising the government's treatment of him. The committee says Dr Kelly has been "poorly treated" by the defence minister, and Labour member Andrew Mackinlay says he had been used as a "fall guy". Donald Anderson, the chairman of the committee, writes to foreign secretary Jack Straw demanding an apology for the way Dr Kelly was treated. July 16 Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith calls on Tony Blair to apologise for the treatment of Dr Kelly. Speaking at prime minister's questions, Mr Blair refuses to apologise and once again calls on the BBC to name Gilligan's source. "The Ministry of Defence made it clear that of course they don't know who the source is. There's only one body that does - the BBC. All they have to do is say yes or no - why don't they?" asks the prime minister. July 17 At 3pm Dr Kelly leaves his home at Southmoor, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, telling his wife he is going for a walk. Although he is accustomed to walking for several hours at a time in the footpaths near his home, he is dressed inappropriately for the wet weather, wearing only a shirt and not taking a coat with him. When he fails to return home by 11.45pm, his family contacts the police. July 18 Dr Kelly is reported missing by Thames Valley Police. Around 9.20am, police find the body of a male at Harrowdown Hill near to Dr Kelly's home. There are no other reported missing persons in the area, and Dr Kelly is known to have enjoyed walking near the hill, about 45 minutes to an hour from his home. 18.07.2003: Timeline: the Gilligan affair http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,994896,00.html Related articles 18.07.2003: Body found in search for MoD 'mole' http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1000903,00.html Body found in search for MoD 'mole' Chris Tryhorn Friday July 18, 2003 Kelly: Police are searching for missing scientist. Police searching for David Kelly, the alleged mole at the centre of the Iraq dossier row, have found the body of a man. The team of police looking for Dr Kelly throughout the night found a body at 9.20am, nearly 10 hours after Dr Kelly's wife raised the alarm that he was missing. The body was found on Harrowdown Hill, near Dr Kelly's home at Southmoor in Oxfordshire. Police said inquiries were continuing at the scene, and could not give any further details about the body. "The identification of the person has not been established," a police spokesman said. "The body is a male. We have not ruled anything out. Inquiries are ongoing, people are at the scene now. "This is a very early stage in the inquiry and we are waiting for further information to be made available." The spokesman said Dr Kelly's family had been kept abreast of what the police had been doing in relation to the civil servant's disappearance yesterday. He called for news reporters not to contact the Kelly family and to treat them with respect during what is a "sensitive inquiry". Dr Kelly went out for a walk yesterday afternoon and has not been seen since. ? To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email editor at mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857 18.07.2003: 'BBC mole' reported missing http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1000932,00.html 'BBC mole' reported missing Ciar Byrne Friday July 18, 2003 David Kelly, the government adviser named as the possible source for the BBC's report claiming the government "sexed up" a key intelligence dossier on Iraq, has been reported missing by his family. The 59-year-old went missing from his home in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, at 3pm yesterday afternoon after telling his wife he was going for a walk, according to Thames Valley Police. His family contacted police when he had failed to return by 11.45pm yesterday, four days after he gave evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the affair. "We have launched a major search operation. We are very concerned for his wellbeing and are searching all the possible areas where he may be. His family have said this is completely out of character," a spokeswoman for Thames Valley Police told Sky News. Dr Kelly, who volunteered to give evidence to the foreign affairs select committee, admitted to MPs last week he had met the BBC defence correspondent, Andrew Gilligan, on three occasions since September 2002. With two defence ministry police sitting behind him, Dr Kelly confirmed he met Gilligan in a central London hotel on the same day that the reporter said he met his sole source at a central London hotel. But Dr Kelly said he did not believe he could be the primary source of the report at the centre of a bitter row between the BBC and No 10. "I believe I am not the main source. From the conversation I had with him I don't see how he could make the authoritative statements he was making from the comments that I made," Dr Kelly said. Committee members were critical of the government's handling of Dr Kelly, saying he had been the "fall guy" and had been "poorly treated" by the defence minister. However, the Ministry of Defence has stood by its claims that Dr Kelly was the sole source of the story, pointing to Gilligan's evidence that he had relied on one source and that three other sources mentioned had not discussed the September dossier or had done so only later. Dr Kelly has been under enormous pressure since he admitted making contact with Gilligan. He was officially reprimanded for having an "unauthorised" meeting with a journalist, and recently complained that his home was surrounded by journalists. The chairman of the foreign affairs committee, Donald Anderson, said he was "shocked" by the news of Dr Kelly's disappearance. "When he appeared before the committee, yes, he was softly spoken, but he seemed to be pretty relaxed and the committee was not at all aggressive or hostile in our questioning of him," he told Sky News. Dr Kelly was described by police as an avid walker with good local knowledge of the many footpaths surrounding his home, which is near the river Thames. Police said it was not unusual for him to walk for two or three hours at a time, but unusual for him to do this alone. Thames Valley Police has scheduled a news conference on Dr Kelly's disappearance for 10.30am this morning. ? To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email editor at mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857 18.07.2003: Profile: Dr David Kelly http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1000919,00.html Profile: Dr David Kelly Matthew Tempest, political correspondent Friday July 18, 2003 It was on July 9 that Dr David Kelly - a former senior UN weapons inspector - broke into the public consciousness, named in the papers as someone who had had an "unauthorised" meeting with the BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan. According to Dr Kelly's own evidence to the foreign affairs select committee this week he had informed his "line manager" at the MoD himself that he had met Mr Gilligan and could, therefore, at least be perceived to be the source of the Today programme's allegations that the government's dossier was "sexed up". Dr Kelly, an adviser to the government and an expert in biological warfare, had previously worked at the Porton Down research centre. A renowned microbiologist he was an adviser to the Foreign Office before moving to the MoD. He spent seven years as an Unscom inspector in the 1990s, visiting Iraq on 37 occasions. Although he appeared tentative, quietly spoken but calm before MPs, it was in fact his second appearance before the FAC - he also gave evidence last September. Dr Kelly's surprising identification by the MoD came about when the defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, wrote to the BBC chairman, Gavyn Davies, demanding to know whether the official who had come forward was the source of Gilligan's original story which sparked the row. Mr Hoon gave Mr Davies Dr Kelly's name, asking the corporation to confirm or deny that it was the same person as Gilligan's source. Tony Blair's spokesman insisted at the time its approach was "not an assault on journalistic sources, this is not an assault on the BBC, it is not a vendetta". He described it as a "genuine attempt to get at the truth behind what is one of the most serious allegations you can make against a government". How Dr Kelly's identity came into the public domain is unclear. In his session before the FAC, Dr Kelly was accompanied by two MoD "minders" who sat behind the scientist as he was questioned by the panel of MPs. That questioning often became aggressive, with Labour MP Andrew Mackinlay, in particular, first assaulting him for refusing to say, without checking his diary, which other journalists he may have met in the month of May. Later Mr Mackinlay changed tack, dubbing Dr Kelly "chaff" and a fall guy. At all times, Dr Kelly merely retorted that he "accepted the process" of both the MoD's operations, and the FAC inquiry, although, in a comment which received little attention at the time, he said he was unable to check his diary since he was unable to get to his house - presumably due to the media encamping outside. In his evidence on Tuesday, he also admitted meeting Susan Watts of Newsnight, and having met Mr Gilligan on three occasions. He conceded that he may have met other journalists, none of which were authorised by the MoD, but that he had experience of dealing with journalists in the past. However, it was unclear from his evidence whether or not he was the main source of Mr Gilligan's evidence. He denied it, although the dates, and some of the topics discussed, fitted Mr Gilligan's story. Dr Kelly is a former UN weapons inspector and now advises British ministers on weapons of mass destruction an adviser in the proliferation and arms control secretariat. He came from a background in agricultural science. He was chief science officer at Britain's natural environment research council institute of virology and the head of microbiology at the chemical defence establishment in Porton Down from 1984 to 1992. Dr Kelly became senior adviser on biological warfare for the UN in Iraq in 1994, holding the post until 1999. Between 1991 and 1998 he played a key role in inspecting Iraqi weapons after the Gulf war, once saying during a lecture: "When Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, little did I realise that Saddam Hussein would dictate the next 10 years of my life." He also led all the visits and inspections of Russian biological warfare facilities from 1991 to 1994 under the 1992 trilateral agreement between the US, UK and Russia. In September last year he gave evidence to a Commons committee probing the war on terrorism. He was speaking in his role as chief scientific officer and senior adviser to the proliferation and arms control secretariat of the Ministry of Defence, and the non-proliferation department of the Foreign Office. When he spoke to the foreign affairs committee this week, it was in very different circumstances - and under a much brighter media spotlight. 18.07.2003: MPs accuse Gilligan of changing story http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1000678,00.html MPs accuse Gilligan of changing story Michael White, political editor Friday July 18, 2003 The Guardian MPs investigating the Iraqi weapons controversy last night accused the BBC reporter at the heart of the row of being an "unsatisfactory witness" who no longer claimed that Alastair Campbell had "sexed up" the key intelligence dossier. Though the claim by the Labour-dominated Commons foreign affairs committee (FAC) was endorsed by a senior Conservative, it was angrily denied by the BBC, which accused the politicians of staging "an exceptionally aggressive and accusatory" ambush. After interviewing defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan a second time for almost two hours behind closed doors, Labour and Conservative members of the FAC announced that it had been "an unsatisfactory session with an unsatisfactory witness". The reporter, the MPs said, may have unfairly maligned the No 10 communications director by blaming him for the crucial insertion into the September dossier of a claim that Iraq could have weapons of mass destruction ready within 45 minutes. "There is a grave danger of unfairness to Mr Campbell as a result," the MPs said after completing a brief formal report to the Commons. Mr Gilligan immediately took to the airwaves to deny changing his story. "This was an ambush by a hanging jury with only one opposition member [Tory, Sir John Stanley] present for the relevant section of the meeting." Mark Damazar, the BBC's deputy director of news, who attended the session as a non-participant observer, backed Mr Gilligan. "They started with and barely desisted from an unrelentingly hostile tone," he told the Guardian. In public and in private the MPs remained equally emphatic and promised to publish the transcript of their evidence within a week. "Mr Gilligan clearly changed his mind in the course of the evidence, in particular in relation to serious allegations concerning Mr Campbell," said the chairman, Labour's Donald Anderson. "We just couldn't believe it. In the middle bit he was back-tracking," one Labour MP said later. Another claimed he was "increasingly unconvincing" and "came full circle in two hours". But Mr Damazar said that Mr Gilligan had denied - several times - that he was back-tracking during the cross-examination. In a bizarre twist, the former Tory minister John Maples, who did not attend yesterday's FAC session, protested on Channel 4 that the meeting was held without proper notice and that he wanted to "dissociate" himself from it. Mr Maples and Richard Ottaway, another Tory MP absent yesterday, had opposed the recall of Mr Gilligan in the wake of last week's evidence from weapons specialist Dr David Kelly, who defence officials believe was the prime source of the BBC story, though Gilligan and the BBC refuse to either confirm or deny it. The BBC accused the MPs of bad faith, saying that they had failed to provide the corporation with copies of their own dossier of Mr Gilligan's work over many years and had also failed to provide prior notice of the hearing. "The committee was determined to find fault with Mr Gilligan's story but did not succeed. Mr Gilligan defended his journalism with vigour, pointing out among other things that many of his source's allegations have now been corroborated by other evidence. We deeply resent the way the committee was used to attack Mr Gilligan's integrity," said a BBC statement. MPs claimed that at one point Mr Gilligan had said he had tried to convince his source "to come forward and go public, but I failed". Did that mean Dr Kelly was not the source? Mr Gilligan did not answer. The FAC has decided that he could not be, though he did meet Mr Gilligan in a London hotel on May 22, the same day as the vital source. The prime minister's official spokesman said: "The FAC's statement this evening underlines once again that all the questions are now for the BBC to answer. "It should answer those questions rather than criticise a parliamentary committee for expressing a view it does not like. "They are: 1. Do the BBC and its governors still stand by the story in the broadcast on May 29 which was repeated by its defence correspondent in the Mail on Sunday on June 1? "2. Does the BBC still believe that the government, in particular Alastair Campbell, inserted the 45-minute intelligence into the September dossier against the wishes of the intelligence agencies, knowing it to be false?" 17.07.2003: BBC row with government deepens http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1000346,00.html BBC row with government deepens Lisa O'Carroll Thursday July 17, 2003 Gilligan: 'Absolutely' has backing of BBC bosses A new and furious row has flared up between the BBC and the government today after Andrew Gilligan, the journalist who claimed Alastair Campbell "sexed up" intelligence on Iraq, was tonight accused of changing his story by MPs. He was branded an "unsatisfactory witness" by the Commons foreign affairs select committee after giving evidence in a private session today that lasted for more than an hour and a half. The BBC journalist was invited to give evidence for a second time following the appearance of David Kelly, the Ministry of Defence microbiologist who admitted having an unauthorised meeting with Gilligan before the controversial broadcast which contained the allegations about Mr Campbell. But Gilligan hit back immediately, accusing the FAC of "deliberately misinterpreting" his evidence. "I have not changed my story in any way," Mr Gilligan said. He added: "This was an ambush by a hanging jury, with only one opposition member present for the relevant section of the meeting." The committee's chairman, Donald Anderson, said: "Mr Gilligan clearly changed his mind in the course of the evidence, in particular in relation to serious allegations concerning Mr Campbell." He said it was now up to the public to decide who they believed, once a transcript of a private session is made public within the next seven days. But in an interview with Sky News at 7pm, Gilligan said it was he who had asked for the transcript to be published. "I defended my journalism with vigour. ..I am really very shocked with the way in which this inquiry has been turned and diverted into the Alastair Campbell witch-hunt against me." "The committee's inquiry is into whether the government gave accurate information in the run up the Iraq war. It is not into whether Andrew Gilligan's source was right or not, it wasn't into whether Andrew Gilligan is a good journalist or not," he told Sky News. Asked whether he had full backing of his BBC bosses he said: "Absolutely". The latest development is a setback for the BBC, which had been hoping to draw a line under the affair. The corporation has consistently refused to confirm or deny whether Dr Kelly, the MoD scientist, was the single source that inspired the Gilligan story. Following this afternoon's meeting, the BBC hit back furiously with a statement denying that Gilligan had changed his story in any way and accusing the committee of playing politics. "Andrew Gilligan has not changed his story. The committee launched a series of personal attacks on Mr Gilligan in an atmosphere which was largely hostile. "The committee was determined to find fault with Mr Gilligan's story, but did not succeed. Mr Gilligan defended his journalism with vigour, pointing out among other things that many of his source's allegations have now been corroborated by other evidence. We deeply resent the way the committee was used to attack Mr Gilligan's integrity." 16.07.2003: Tory leader attacks government 'deceit' http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,999303,00.html Tory leader attacks government 'deceit' Jason Deans Wednesday July 16, 2003 Campbell: accused of waging a 'personal vendetta' against the BBC's Andrew Gilligan Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has accused Tony Blair and his communications chief Alastair Campbell of creating a "culture of deceit" with their handling of issues such as the Iraq dossier row with the BBC. Mr Duncan Smith, speaking at the last prime minister's questions before parliament breaks for the summer, also accused Mr Campbell of conducting a "personal vendetta" against Andrew Gilligan, the BBC journalist whose Iraq dossier story is at the centre of the dispute. "The prime minister and Alastair Campbell have created a culture of deceit at the heart of government," he said. Mr Duncan Smith called for Mr Blair to apologise to Dr David Kelly, the Ministry of Defence consultant whom the government claimed may have been the source of Gilligan's story. The Tory leader's demands follow a similar request by the Labour chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, Donald Anderson, last night. Following Dr Kelly's appearance before the committee yesterday, Mr Anderson wrote to the foreign secretary, Jack Straw, demanding an apology for the way he was treated. Dr Kelly told the committee he did not believe he was the story's main source, whom Gilligan has refused to name. The committee agreed, later issuing a statement saying Dr Kelly was "most unlikely" to have been Gilligan's source. At prime minister's questions Mr Blair refused to apologise to Dr Kelly and called once again for the BBC to name Gilligan's source. "The ministry of defence made it clear that of course they don't know who the source is. There's only one body that does - the BBC. All they have to do is say yes or no - why don't they?," said the prime minister. Since grilling Dr Kelly the committee has written to Gilligan asking him to give evidence about the source for a second time. The BBC is still considering whether to accede to the committee's demands. ? To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email editor at mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857 15.07.2003: Mole casts doubt on MoD claims http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,998741,00.html Mole casts doubt on MoD claims Ciar Byrne Tuesday July 15, 2003 Kelly: 'The account is not one that I recognise' David Kelly, the Ministry of Defence mole who has admitted talking to BBC correspondent Andrew Gilligan, has told MPs he may not have been the main source for the contentious claims that Downing Street "sexed up" a dossier about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Dr Kelly told the foreign afffairs select committee that he met Gilligan in September 2002, in February before he went to Iraq, and again on May 22 at the Charing Cross hotel in central London. But asked by MPs whether he thought he was the main source for Gilligan's report, Dr Kelly said: "No." "From the conversations I had with him, I don't know how he could have had the authority to make the statements he is making," Dr Kelly said. "It's not a factual record of my interaction with him. The account is not one that I recognise from my conversations with him," he added. However, he said that there were some elements of Gilligan's report that did seem to have stemmed from their conversation, and he admitted that Alastair Campbell's name did crop up in their conversation in May. Gilligan's source alleged that Mr Campbell had put pressure on the intelligence chiefs preparing the dossier last September to include the claim that Saddam Hussein could deploy WMDs within 45 minutes. "The Campbell word did come up from the conversation about Iraq, its weapons and the failure for them to be used," Dr Kelly said. He continued to cast further doubt on whether he was the main source of Gilligan's report for BBC Radio 4's Today programme on May 29, which lead to a damaging row that has raged for weeks. The BBC has always said that Gilligan had known the "senior intelligence source" whom he relied on in his report for several years. When Dr Kelly first came forward and admitted he had briefed Gilligan, the MoD initially stated that he had known Gilligan for a few months, later changing this to years. Today, Dr Kelly told MPs that he met Gilligan for the first time less than a year ago in September 2002, and then on two subsequent occasions. "The approach by Mr Gilligan was to consult with me before he visited Iraq. The outcome of our meeting in February was that he would provide me with feedback of his visit to Iraq." Of their subsequent meeting in May, he said: "It was an occasion when I expected to get information about Iraq, about some of the personalities he's encountered, his experiences during the war and with Iraqi minders before the war." "My conversation with him was primarily about Iraq, his experiences in Iraq and the consequences of the war, the failure to use WMDs during the war and the failure to find - by May 22 - WMDs." Dr Kelly said he could not be sure that he had not alluded to Campbell in his conversation with Gilligan, but said that it "didn't sound" like something he would say. "I find it very difficult to recall a conversation that happened six weeks ago. I couldn't say for certain that such a statement was made." He added that it was not his decision to come forward publicly - "I don't know who made that decision, I certainly did not make it myself" - but said he "accepted" the process that had followed his decision to tell his superiors about the meeting with Gilligan. Dr Kelly also confirmed that he had met Susan Watts, the Newsnight reporter who said she had talked to "a senior official intimately involved with the process of pulling together the September dossier". Watts's source claimed the intelligence services came under heavy political pressure over the evidence that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction could be ready for use within 45 minutes. The BBC has refused to confirm or deny whether Dr Kelly was the main source of Gilligan's story. When he gave evidence to the committee, Gilligan said he had met with a number of contacts to discuss Iraq's weapons. Dr Kelly, the former head of microbiology at MoD research centre Porton Down, has advised the ministry on Iraq, WMDs and weapons inspections for the last decade. ? To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email editor at mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857 15.07.2003: Kaufman calls for BBC press ban 16.07.2003: MPs say scientist not BBC source http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,998630,00.html Kaufman calls for BBC press ban Ciar Byrne Tuesday July 15, 2003 Gilligan: BBC defence correspondent wrote controversial article in Mail on Sunday about Iraq dossier claims BBC journalists should be barred from writing columns for newspapers in the wake of the Iraq dossier row, veteran Labour backbencher Gerald Kaufman said today. Mr Kaufman called on BBC bosses to force defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan to choose between writing "contentious, controversial" articles for the press and working for the corporation. "Just as you sacked Rod Liddle [the Guardian columnist and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today] you ought to give Mr Gilligan a choice between writing controversial polemical articles and continuing to work for the BBC. There's no doubt he should have been told long ago to stop writing these articles," said Mr Kaufman. The MP told members of the BBC's board of governors the same choice should be presented to other senior BBC figures who write for newspapers, including Today presenter John Humphrys and the BBC's political editor, Andrew Marr. Greg Dyke, the BBC director general, said Liddle had been given the choice to leave Today after he wrote a Guardian article about the countryside march that breached the corporation's rules on impartiality. "We didn't sack him, he chose to leave. He was editor of the Today programme and wrote something we regarded as completely unacceptable," said Mr Dyke. "We have many people who present for the BBC, it is not an easy line to draw." He added the BBC changed its guidelines on staff writing for newspapers following Liddle's resignation and said the governors had asked BBC management to review these rules again. In a statement issued last week the BBC's board of governors demanded a review of BBC staff who write for newspapers and magazines. Richard Sambrook, the head of news at the BBC, said: "I agree there's an issue we need to review and report back to the board of governors." Gilligan, the Today journalist at the centre of the row between the BBC and Downing Street over the corporation's coverage of the weapons threat posed by Iraq, wrote about the situation in a piece for the Mail on Sunday. BBC insiders have already admitted the Mail on Sunday article, written shortly after Gilligan's Iraq dossier story was broadcast on May 29, provided unnecessary ammunition for the prime minister's communications director, Alastair Campbell. The article went further than his original BBC report. In the piece Gilligan said his intelligence source alleged claims that Saddam Hussein could launch weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes had been personally ordered by Mr Campbell. ? To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email editor at mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857 14.07.2003: Is Phil Bassett the new Alastair Campbell? http://media.guardian.co.uk/marketingandpr/story/0,7494,998009,00.html Is Phil Bassett the new Alastair Campbell? Westminster is buzzing with speculation about what will happen when Alastair Campbell stands down. Despite apparent protestations from No 10's communications chief that Tony Blair 'couldn't cope' without him, few believe Mr Campbell will hold the same job this time next year. One name is already being touted as favourite to replace him - Phil Bassett Julia Day Monday July 14, 2003 Campbell: believed to be on the verge of resigning The former Times journalist tipped to step into Alastair Campbell's shoes when the prime minister's closest aide quits is married to a baroness, sends his son to one of the country's most exclusive public schools and lives in a ?750,000 manor house. Phil Bassett, the head of the No 10 research and information unit, is well versed in controversy, having played a key role in the government's long-running dispute with the fire service. He is well prepared to step from one of Downing Street's back rooms directly into the media spotlight. Mr Campbell, the government's director of communications and strategy, is believed to be on the verge of resigning and may leave his post when his wife, Fiona Millar, departs her job as Cherie Blair's adviser later this year. Mr Campbell decided to hand over the responsibility for the twice-daily lobby correspondent briefings to Tom Kelly and Godric Smith, two civil servants, following the 2001 election when he was branded "the real deputy prime minister". However, he has never left the spotlight or lost the "chief spin doctor" tag. If Mr Bassett succeeds Mr Campbell he will inherit one of the most controversial positions in government. "He is a real back-room man, hardly any of us know him face to face," said one newspaper Westminster correspondent. "We know very little about him but we won't be surprised if he takes over from Alastair. "Phil Bassett is one of the inner circle and is trusted by Tony Blair. In that sense he could fill Alastair's shoes, although no one could fill them entirely." Mr Bassett, a former industrial correspondent at the Times and the Financial Times, joined Downing Street after the 1997 election. He now shapes the government's strategic media activity and has written many of the newspaper articles Mr Blair has put his name to. He is married to the foreign office minister and future leader of the House of Lords, Baroness Symons, and divides his time between a country house in Hampshire and a mansion flat overlooking Westminster Cathedral. His son attends the ?10,000-a-year public school St Paul's. With his journalistic knowledge of industry, Mr Bassett has become a critic of the trade unions and has helped shape the government's industrial relations strategy. Charlie Whelan, a former press secretary to the chancellor, Gordon Brown, accused Mr Bassett of "spoiling for a fight" with the unions and of using the firefighters' pay dispute as a means of teaching other unions a lesson. Mr Campbell also has a journalistic background, having worked as the political editor of the Daily Mirror. Another political journalist said: "Phil Bassett is very close to New Labour journalists like [the BBC's] Andrew Marr, is very hard working and is clearly keen on replacing Alastair Campbell." Following the row over Mr Campbell's role in the publication of the Iraq weapons dossiers, the subsequent clash with the BBC and calls for the resignation of Mr Blair, the appointment of a communications chief could not come at a more contentious and crucial time for the government. ? To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email editor at mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857 12.07.2003: Speculation grows over Campbell 10.07.2003: MPs will question MoD arms consultant 10.07.2003: Scientist named as BBC contact 09.07.2003: Short attacks 'bully' Campbell 09.07.2003: Hoon names MoD 'mole' in move BBC brands a farce 09.07.2003: BBC rejects deal on naming dossier source 09.07.2003: BBC chairman's letter to Geoff Hoon 08.07.2003: MoD man admits he met Gilligan http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,994183,00.html MoD man admits he met Gilligan Jason Deans Tuesday July 8, 2003 Gilligan: quoted single, 'senior' source in story In an extraordinary development this evening, a Ministry of Defence official has come forward to admit meeting Andrew Gilligan, the journalist at the centre of the Iraq dossier row between the BBC and the government, shortly before he broadcast the story that ignited the whole affair. The government has issued a statement saying that an MoD official has come forward and admitted meeting Gilligan on May 22. Gilligan's story, which quoted a single intelligence source in claiming that Alastair Campbell had "sexed up" last September's Iraq dossier, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme a week later. The MoD official said he met Gilligan, who he had known for "some months", at a central London hotel, and that the BBC defence correspondent asked him about weapons of mass destruction and Alastair Campbell. "He says that when Mr Gilligan asked about the role of Alastair Campbell with regard to the 45 minute issue, he made no comment and explained that he was not involved in the process of drawing up the intelligence parts of the dossier," the statement said. "He made no other comment about Mr Campbell. When Mr Gilligan asked him why the 45 minute point was in the dossier, he says he commented that it was 'probably for impact'. He says he did not see the 45 minute intelligence report on which it was based." The government said the official was "not one of the senior officials in charge of drawing up the [Iraq] dossiers", in a move clearly designed to try and discredit Gilligan's story. "He is not a member of the intelligence services or the defence intelligence staff," the statement added. He said that, as an expert in the field who had advised ministers on the issue and had contributed towards drafts of the historical accounts of UN inspections in the first government dossier, he believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The MoD said the official was an expert on weapons of mass destruction. "We do not know whether this official is the single source quoted by Mr Gilligan. Mr Gilligan told [the Foreign Affairs select committee] he had only one source for his story and that the other three sources he mentioned to the FAC did not talk to him about the September dossier, or did so after the broadcast." The MoD said that, with the agreement of the official concerned, it had now passed his name to the chairman of the parliamentary intelligence and security committee, Ann Taylor, in case the members wanted to interview him as part of their inquiry. Gilligan and BBC News director Richard Sambrook have repeatedly stated that his source was senior enough to make the claims included in the journalist's Today story worth reporting. It is almost certain that the MoD would have had a witchhunt for the intelligence moles who talked to Gilligan, and tonight's statement appears to be designed to put the BBC on the back foot. Earlier today, the corporation's director general, Greg Dyke, insisted he would not be apologising for the story and urged Alastair Campbell to "agree to disagree" and to move on. This latest development shows that the government have no intention of letting up in their war of words, and may mean that the row drags on for weeks. MediaGuardian.co.uk special reports The BBC Iraq: the media war http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,7493,1000991,00.html Kelly: Blair promises public inquiry Jason Deans Friday July 18, 2003 Police outside Dr Kelly's house this morning Tony Blair has promised an independent judicial inquiry if David Kelly has died, journalists travelling with the prime minister on his flight from Washington to Tokyo have said. His spokesman, Godric Smith, came to the back of the plane less than an hour ago to announce the possible inquiry. He said a judge would be named this afternoon by the Ministry of Defence. The development comes as Thames Valley police confirmed the description of the body found near Dr Kelly's home in Oxfordshire matched that of the MoD scientist. A spokesman confirmed there would be no formal identification until tomorrow. "We are currently treating this incident as an unexplained death and we will have to wait for the results of the postmortem," he said. Tony Blair was told of the disappearance of Dr Kelly early this morning and spent much of his flight on the telephone, according to Sky News. The prime minister's spokesman said he was very concerned for the family of Dr Kelly and promised a public inquiry if his death was confirmed. "If it is Dr Kelly, there will be a public inquiry, I urge you not to jump to conclusions," said Godric Smith, the prime minister's official spokesman, who is travelling on the plane with Mr Blair. His comments were reported by the political editor of Sky News, Adam Boulton and by BBC Radio 5. Alastair Campbell, who usually travels with Mr Blair, is not on the plane - he is on his way back to London. Mr Smith said he was unable to confirm whether the prime minister has spoken to Mr Campbell but said there was no reason to believe that he had resigned. "While he understands there will be no formal identification until tomorrow, if it is Dr Kelly the prime minister is obviously very distressed for the family and the Ministry of Defence intends to hold an independent judicial inquiry and there will be an announcement this afternoon as to the name of the judge," Boulton reported. The MoD said Dr Kelly had at no point been threatened with suspension or dismissal as a result of his admission he had spoken to Gilligan. It was made clear to Dr Kelly at the time that he had broken civil service rules by having unauthorised contact with a journalist, but "that was the end of it", said a spokesman. Dr Kelly was given five days to consider his options before the MoD issued its statement on Tuesday July 8 to say an unnamed official had spoken to Gilligan. And he was given an opportunity to talk through the possible ramifications of going public before the statement was released. The MoD spokesman said: "He was first interviewed before the weekend and then asked to think about what the options were over the weekend and a decision was taken to say nothing in the meantime. "He was interviewed again on the Monday and the question of what was the best way forward was talked through with him. "The contents of the statement were cleared with him before it went out and it was flagged up to him that it was possible his name might get into the public domain at some point and that it was likely the intelligence and security committee and foreign affairs committee would want to take evidence from him." The spokesman added that the MoD had offered Dr Kelly the use of alternative accommodation to avoid any press attention at his home address. When he appeared before the committee, Tory MP Sir John Stanley told Dr Kelly he had acted in a "proper and honourable manner" in coming forward to suggest he may have been Gilligan's source but had been "thrown to the wolves" by the Ministry of Defence. Earlier today a scientist colleague of Dr Kelly said it was because he had so much integrity that he had come forward. Professor Alistair Hay said the way Dr Kelly had been treated by politicians before the foreign affairs select committee earlier this week was "absolutely inexcusable". "His whole demeanour during the foreign affairs committee was one of someone who had beaten by the process. I was just so worried by his whole demeanour at the FAC. I just think the pressure is intolerable for someone like him. He is a professional scientist, not somebody who should be a ping pong ball for politicians," Prof Hay told Radio 5 today after police revealed they had found a body near Dr Kelly's home. Dr Kelly had met Gilligan in the Charing Cross Hotel in central London on May 22, a week before the claim that No 10 had inserted intelligence that Saddam Hussein could launch a chemical or biological weapons strike within 45 minutes was broadcast on the Radio 4 Today programme. The story has sparked a lengthy and bitter row between the government, the BBC and critics of the war on Iraq. Dr Kelly told the committee he did not think he could have been the source for the story because Gilligan's account of his conversation with the contact differed from his own version of events. The foreign affairs committee chairman, Donald Anderson, told Sky News: "On the face of it, this appears to be a human tragedy, if the news is now confirmed, and puts much of the discussion which we have had in a very different and personal perspective." Later Richard Ottoway, a Tory MP who was on the committee, said he felt the implications of the latest developments were very serious. He said the committee's conclusion that Dr Kelly was unlikely to have been Gilligan's source was flagrantly ignored by No 10, which reacted by saying it was 99% sure Dr Kelly was the BBC reporter's source. He rejected the idea the committee's questioning of the former weapons inspector had been unduly harsh. Mr Anderson said there was "no way in which government ministers can be blamed" for the way in which Dr Kelly's name became public. And he rejected suggestions that the committee should reconvene to consider its position in the light of today's events. "It is awful, but this is not relevant any more to the work of our committee." ? To contact the MediaGuardian newsdesk email editor at mediaguardian.co.uk or phone 020 7239 9857 http://media.guardian.co.uk/iraqandthemedia/story/0,12823,1001026,00.html Timeline: Dr David Kelly Friday July 18, 2003 July 8 At 5.55pm the government issues a statement saying a Ministry of Defence official has come forward and admitted meeting BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan on May 22. The official said he met Gilligan, whom he had known for "some months", at a central London hotel, and that he had been asked about weapons of mass destruction and Alastair Campbell. "He says that when Mr Gilligan asked about the role of Alastair Campbell with regard to the 45 minute issue, he made no comment and explained that he was not involved in the process of drawing up the intelligence parts of the dossier," the statement said. "He made no other comment about Mr Campbell. When Mr Gilligan asked him why the 45 minute point was in the dossier, he says he commented that it was 'probably for impact'. He says he did not see the 45 minute intelligence report on which it was based." The government says the official is not one of the senior officials involved in drawing up the September dossier, but an expert who has advised ministers on weapons of mass destruction. The BBC responds, saying the description issued by the government does not match Gilligan's source in important ways - "Mr Gilligan's source does not work in the Ministry of Defence and he has known the source for a number of years, not months," the BBC says in a statement. July 9 Geoff Hoon, the defence secretary, writes to BBC chairman Gavyn Davies asking him to confirm or deny whether Dr David Kelly, a renowned microbiologist and advisor to the Ministry of Defence, was the original source of Gilligan's story. The BBC steadfastly refuses to reveal any information about its source, saying it will not be drawn into a trap. Tony Blair's spokesman says the approach is "not an assault on journalistic sources, this is not an assault on the BBC, it is not a vendetta". He insists it is a "genuine attempt to get at the truth behind what is one of the most serious allegations you can make against a government". The BBC responds by saying the story has descended into farce. "The MoD has lost all credibility on this issue. It completely changed its story overnight for spurious reasons, and we intend to draw a line under the matter. We are not going to discuss our source," the corporation says in a statement. The MoD issues a statement saying it has named the official who has come forward in a letter to the BBC, but not naming the source. However, by the end of the day some lobby journalists have mysteriously learnt of his identity. When the Times political reporting team contacts the MoD and put Dr Kelly's name to the department, his name is confirmed. By 11.40pm he has been named as Gilligan's source on the Press Association newswire. Downing Street categorically denies being the source of the leak. In its report on July 10, the Times says Downing Street is "99% convinced" that Dr Kelly is Gilligan's source. July 15 Dr Kelly is called to give evidence before the foreign affairs select committee. Asked by MPs whether he thinks he is the main source for Gilligan's story he says: "No." He admits meeting Gilligan on three occasions since September 2002, including a meeting on May 22 at the Charing Cross hotel in central London. Dr Kelly says that while certain aspects of Gilligan's report tallied with their conversation, his account of Campbell's intervention in the September dossier was not "a factual record of my interaction with him". "From the conversations I had with him, I don't know how he could have had the authority to make the statements he is making," Dr Kelly told the committee. He also admits meeting with Newsnight science correspondent Susan Watts after a talk he had given on November 5 last year, and to speaking to her in several telephone conversations subsequently. MPs on the committee back Dr Kelly's denial, issuing a statement saying he was "most unlikely" to have been the source behind the "sexed up" dossier claim and criticising the government's treatment of him. The committee says Dr Kelly has been "poorly treated" by the defence minister, and Labour member Andrew Mackinlay says he had been used as a "fall guy". Donald Anderson, the chairman of the committee, writes to foreign secretary Jack Straw demanding an apology for the way Dr Kelly was treated. July 16 Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith calls on Tony Blair to apologise for the treatment of Dr Kelly. Speaking at prime minister's questions, Mr Blair refuses to apologise and once again calls on the BBC to name Gilligan's source. "The Ministry of Defence made it clear that of course they don't know who the source is. There's only one body that does - the BBC. All they have to do is say yes or no - why don't they?" asks the prime minister. July 17 At 3pm Dr Kelly leaves his home at Southmoor, near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, telling his wife he is going for a walk. Although he is accustomed to walking for several hours at a time in the footpaths near his home, he is dressed inappropriately for the wet weather, wearing only a shirt and not taking a coat with him. When he fails to return home by 11.45pm, his family contacts the police. July 18 Dr Kelly is reported missing by Thames Valley Police. Around 9.20am, police find the body of a male at Harrowdown Hill near to Dr Kelly's home. There are no other reported missing persons in the area, and Dr Kelly is known to have enjoyed walking near the hill, about 45 minutes to an hour from his home. Reuters WMD Scientist's Death Rocks British Government Fri Jul 18 17:28:40 2003 208.152.73.116 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11298-2003Jul18.html WMD Scientist's Death Rocks British Government Reuters Friday, July 18, 2003; 1:37 PM By Gideon Long LONGWORTH, England (Reuters) - A mild-mannered British scientist was found dead in the woods Friday after being unwittingly dragged into a fierce political dispute about intelligence used to justify war on Iraq. British police said they had found a body matching that of soft-spoken defense ministry biologist David Kelly, a former U.N. weapons inspector, who had been grilled in parliament over allegations the government hyped intelligence to justify war. The political fallout was immediate. Prime Minister Tony Blair, who learned about the discovery of the body while flying from Washington to Tokyo, promised an independent judicial inquiry into the death if the body was confirmed to be Kelly's. But opponents called for Blair to return and face a broader probe into the case he made for war. The shock even sent Britain's pound tumbling half a percent on currency markets as traders weighed the severity of the crisis for Blair. Kelly's family reported him missing overnight after he went for a walk in the Oxfordshire countryside Thursday with no coat and stayed out despite a rainstorm. He had denied being the source for BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, who said in May a senior intelligence source had told him the government had "sexed up" intelligence on Iraq. That report sparked parliamentary hearings into how the government made the case for war, forced Blair onto the defensive and pitted government officials against the BBC. News of Kelly's death completely overshadowed Blair's rapturous reception by the U.S. Congress Thursday, although there was no indication the prime minister would turn back from a scheduled week-long trip to Asia. "The prime minister is obviously very distressed for the family of Dr Kelly," a spokesman said aboard the flight. Opposition Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith said Blair should return from abroad and any inquiry should cover the entire issue of intelligence used to justify the war. "If I was the prime minister, I would cut short this visit and return home. There are very many questions that will need to be asked over the coming days," he said. RELUCTANT WITNESS Kelly had clearly been reluctant to enter the public debate over Iraq intelligence. Speaking so softly he could barely be heard, he admitted to parliament's foreign affairs committee he had met Gilligan, but denied telling him that Blair's communications chief Alastair Campbell had ordered intelligence to be hyped. Kelly appeared shell-shocked when parliamentarians at the hearing described him as "chaff" and a government "fall guy" put forward to shield top officials from blame. Kelly's wife Jane described Kelly as deeply upset, family friend Tom Mangold, a television journalist, told ITV News. "She told me he had been under considerable stress, that he was very, very angry about what had happened at the committee, that he wasn't well," Mangold said. The government said that if Kelly was Gilligan's source, their differing accounts proved the BBC story was wrong. Gilligan, who never named his source, was questioned at a closed-door hearing around the time Kelly vanished Thursday. (Additional reporting by Peter Graff and Dominic Evans in London, and Katherine Baldwin in Tokyo) _____________________________________________________________________ "At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell BBC News Journalists 'must protect whistleblowers' Fri Jul 18 15:46:56 2003 208.152.73.146 Journalists 'must protect whistleblowers' BBC News Friday, 18 July, 2003, 13:56 GMT 14:56 UK The apparent death of Dr David Kelly has put the spotlight back on the BBC 's refusal to name its source for the story that an Iraqi weapons dossier was "sexed up". The missing weapons expert had been identified by the government as a contact of journalist Andrew Gilligan and the possible source of his reports - a claim questioned by the BBC and Dr Kelly himself. The plight of Dr Kelly's family continued as Mr Gilligan made a second appearance before a Commons committee, which said journalists should be forced to name sources if speaking under Parliamentary privilege. It is a demand likely to alarm many journalists, who are expected to honour a long-standing tradition of protecting those who come forward with information. No case has provoked more interest than that of 'Deep Throat', who tipped off journalists about the Watergate scandal in 1973 and has never been formally identified. Mr Gilligan's refusal to name his contact is one of many other examples of journalists standing by their sources - with reporters and their employers often finding themselves the subject of expensive legal actions. 'Golden rule' Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said "whistleblowers" must be protected as they "will not come forward if they think they are going to be grassed up at a later stage". He called on reporters not to be swayed, arguing that one of the key roles of journalists was to expose wrong doing and bad practice by public institutions and big corporations. "For that reason it is the golden rule of journalism that we don't betray our sources and are prepared to go to prison to uphold that principle," he told BBC News Online. "It is not our job to act as information providers for state institutions. They have thousands of people employed to do that work." 'No dilemma' It is a position backed by Robin Ackroyd, who was ordered by the High Court to say who gave him medical information about Moors murderer Ian Brady, which he used in a story for the Daily Mirror. Mr Ackroyd, who won an appeal against the decision but still faces an ongoing legal battle, said: "Journalists protect their sources because they have a professional duty of confidence to them. "It is not a standpoint we take because we are being difficult or precious." The freelance journalist said Andrew Gilligan deserved the support of the media and the public and that the Commons committee had been naive to expect him to name names. He said: "Journalists must stand their ground. And they do stand their ground. "I have never had one iota of doubt about my own position. I simply have no dilemma. "I do not reveal confidential sources of information as an overriding matter of conscience." Bloody Sunday Last year journalists were also forced to protect their sources under questioning at the Bloody Sunday inquiry into the events of 30 January 1972, when 13 civilians were shot dead by British army soldiers. A 14th person died later. BBC reporter Peter Taylor refused to reveal several republican, British Army and police sources to the investigation. Mr Taylor said: "My motivation is simply my wish to preserve my ability to carry out my duties as a journalist and to protect those who have assisted me in the past." Under cross examination at the inquiry, former Sunday Times reporter Derek Humphry refused to reveal the identities of two republicans. They were the head of the Bogside IRA and a woman who was reported to be at a hastily arranged meeting of Provisionals when the shootings on Bloody Sunday started. Cruise Missiles But journalists are not always able to defend their sources. Sarah Tisdall famously received a six-month jail sentence in 1983 after the Guardian named her as the source of its story about the arrival of Cruise Missiles in the UK. She had been a clerk in the office of the Foreign Secretary Michael Heseltine and had passed documents on to the paper. The paper named her after it was ordered by a court to reveal its contact. Ms Tisdall ended up spending four months in prison. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3076813.stm ---------------------------------------------------------- President Delivers "State of the Union" For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary January 28, 2003 CLICK: Ghulam Muhammed Blair in trouble Fri Jul 18 14:08:49 2003 202.68.150.4 Friday, July 18, 2003 A LETTER TO THE EDITOR There is no way; Tony Blair can assuage people's horror at the death of Dr. Kelly as being a by-product his government's tireless efforts to put a lid on the ongoing scandal ready to explode, now that the bogus intelligence cited by Blair and company has turned out to be a fraud perpetrated on the British public. Dr. Kelly had appeared before the parliamentary enquiry denying that he was the source to alert BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan, about the spin doctoring of intelligence reports to sex up the case to invade Iraq. More than even Bush, Blair fought both a skeptical nation and his own divided party to persist in going to war by declaring the Saddam can deliver his WMD within 45 minutes. At least Bush has the Jewish cabal to take the heat for imposing a self-serving agenda on the willing Bush coterie. The public in Britain should be wondering as to who was blackmailing Blair to take such a politically suicidal course. In the event this has turned out to be very ugly. And criminal. Nothing will save Blair now, even if he is personally not involved in any way with the death of Dr. Kelly. Blair had gone on a limb to support America's illegal war and much before Bush will reap the bitter harvest of his own perjuries coming to haunt him, Blair will be lucky, if he can wiggle out of this mess. GHULAM MUHAMMED, P.O.BOX: 16685, BANDRA WEST, MUMBAI - 400 050 ghulam_muhammed2 at yahoo.co.in Gentle man with core of steel Dr Kelly wanted to help journalists understand a complex topic Friends and colleagues have been paying tribute to Dr David Kelly. Scott Ritter, who worked with him as part of the UN weapons inspections team in Iraq, said he was a man of "integrity, character, and somebody who cared deeply about his country". Mr Ritter, who lead the UN inspection team up until it left Iraq in 1998, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Dr Kelly was somebody who had doggedly pursued the Iraqi biological weapons program and who had never caved in to pressure. He said: "My experience of David is that he is a man who does his job and does it quietly. "While a gentle man, he had a core of steel in him. I've seen him interact with Iraq government officials; there was no give in this man." Tremendous loss Tom Mangold, a television journalist and close friend of Dr Kelly, said he had made himself available to many serious journalists because he wanted to help them understand a complex topic. Mr Mangold said: "He was a man whose brain could boil water, he used words with tremendous precision, he used them as weapons. "There was nothing he didn't know about biological warfare and there wasn't much he didn't know about WMD." Mr Mangold said Dr Kelly had not been particularly interested in journalism or journalists. "He was passionately interested in what happens in Iraq," he said. "That was one of the reasons why Saddam Hussein wanted him out more than anybody else." Great loss Richard Butler, former chief United Nation weapons inspector in Iraq, said he had known David Kelly well. "He was one of the lead biologists on my team. I liked him as a man. Above all I had a deep faith in his honesty and professional integrity. He's a great loss. "I will never forget the way he always insisted to me no matter what political pressure that was put on us, that we had to tell the truth, absolutely the truth, maybe this is part of why these terrible events have taken place." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3079775.stm From: Dstacey To: Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 5:02 AM Subject: Dr. Kelly: was he assassinated? The strange death of Dr. Kelly in England raises the possibility that he was assassinated. Many would doubt that there could be an assassination effort involving governments. Here are a couple of recent items on the subject. In the first, THE PEGASUS FILE: A former CIA deep-cover agent turns whistleblower at great risk. His shocking allegations expose powerful names controlling the international drug trade in very high places, an article by David G. Guyatt appearing in NEXUS Magazine( http://www.nexusmagazine.com/pegfile1.html ), the story of Chip Tatum,a 25 year deep cover CIA agent, contains some information about "Pegasus" the code name for an assassination team that he ran under George H. W. Bush. The second and third items relate to the Mossad and Israel's assassination capability. +++++++++++++++ PEGASUS: ASSASSINATION & NEUTRALISATION Tatum has gone into considerable additional detail regarding the role of Pegasus as he knew it. He believes Pegasus was established during the Eisenhower years as a secret group inside the CIA to spy on that agency on behalf of the President. At some point - believed to be after the assassination of President Kennedy - Pegasus went AWOL from direct US Government control and came under the direction of an international Board of Directors which Tatum alleges now includes George Bush and Henry Kissinger. The directors of Pegasus meet once a year in secret conclave following G7 meetings. The group has "representation" from a number of intelligence agencies throughout the world. Included are the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) as well as agents from British, Israeli, Turkish and Danish Intelligence plus "others who performed various functions for Pegasus".7 The mission of Pegasus, Tatum explains, is "to 'align' world leaders and financiers to our [US] policies and standards". One of Tatum's Pegasus duties included flying "Archer Teams" (four-man hit teams) in his helicopter to their insertion point.8 He states that Enrique Bermudez was assassinated in 1991 by a Pegasus team, adding he "was shot in the back of the head while walking down the street...from about 150 yards". Bermudez, known as "Commander Three Eight Zero" was the senior Contra leader. Tatum received two broken ribs when he came under small-arms fire during the assassination.9 Following the Nicaraguan war, Bermudez sought a prominent position in the new government. Spurned by President Chamorro, "Commander 380" tried to pressure George Bush to intercede on his behalf, threatening to expose Bush's role in the cocaine trafficking enterprise. According to Tatum, Bush ordered his disposal. Another Pegasus assassination was that of General Gustavo (Dr Gus) Alvarez Martinez, the "cooperating" Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief, Honduras. Alvarez was assassinated in 1989, following his demand for a bigger split of the cocaine profits. Tatum also describes his involvement in the assassination of Amiram Nir, the former Israeli Mossad agent who went under the assumed name of Pat Weber. Nir was scheduled to testify to the Senate subcommittee and it was feared he would reveal the truth. He perished, following the shooting-down of his aircraft with missiles from Tatum's helicopter. Other "neutralisations" verge on the bizarre. An individual who must remain nameless for a variety of reasons - but whose name is known to this writer - underwent an experience that is both horrific and chilling. Readers are warned that what follows is not at all pleasant. For the sake of ease, I shall call this individual "Mr X" or, simply, "X".10 Mr X was a leader of one of the largest CIA-backed Contra groups. He recently testified before the US Senate Intelligence Committee. Formerly, X was a senior executive in a South American subsidiary of a leading US soft drinks corporation. During his Senate testimony, he denied any knowledge of CIA involvement in the narcotics trade, adding that condoning such activity would have been foreign to his way of life. Not so, says Tatum. Mr X had been recruited into the CIA by then-Director William Casey, with the assistance of Oliver North. In 1990, when Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega announced there would be "free elections", X was ecstatic. He began jostling for position and asked President Bush to ensure he be given a prominent position in the new government - in return for his years of toil at the behest of the CIA and the Enterprise. The pressure came in a form that Bush could not ignore. Failure to help his friend would result in X's intimate knowledge of Bush's involvement in the dope trade being made public. His threat left Bush with a sour taste. A Pegasus team was assigned to "neutralise" him in early 1990. Mr X, Tatum states, "fancied himself a lover of women. Tall, large-breasted blondes were his favourite. It was determined that, if effectively neutralised, [X] could be an asset. Therefore, it was decided that intimidation would be used to control [X]." They chose to use the drug Scopolamine, which also went by the nickname "Burundanga" or "the Voodoo drug". The drug is extracted from the pods of a flowering shrub that grows in remote regions of South America. In its processed, powdered form, Scopolamine is "void of smell, void of taste". When properly administered "it causes absolute obedience" without this being "observable by others". Importantly, the target will not recall any of the events that occurred during the period they were under the spell of the drug. In outlining these details, Tatum adds that it is important to administer the drug in the correct dosage, for he has known targets to die from too high a dose. Others have "remained under the influence of Burundanga for up to three weeks". Precise dosage can be achieved by liquid ingestion, the powder being readily soluble. Ingestion via cigarettes is also an optimum method of ingestion. It is fast-acting and takes no more than 20 minutes to work. Tatum states that X was invited to spend a relaxing weekend at a luxury hotel as a guest of his friend George Bush. His host for the weekend was a trusted 18-year veteran field-intelligence officer. The evening started with cocktails and was followed by a fine meal. "'Nothing but the best' were the orders." Following the meal, he was ushered into the suite of a "blonde bombshell" supplied by the CIA. Mr X had already ingested a dose of Burundanga during pre-dinner cocktails. X was gallant with the blonde as they both moved into the bedroom where video cameras were already set up in one corner. In short order, the blonde had X standing naked in front of her and began to indulge his desires. All the while, the video cameras whirred. Slowly stripping off, the "blonde" revealed his manhood in all its glory. Mr X was instructed to reciprocate the favour and perform fellatio. He obliged, his intimate activities recorded at 24 frames a second on videotape. Tatum says the male prostitute was hired from a bar in New York and killed that same evening. Two weeks later, X - wholly unaware of the events of that evening - was visited in Nicaragua. He was presented with a copy of the video footage, along with instructions. Tatum says that X can never allow that video to be seen: "Not only does it reveal his homosexuality, but it also reveals his bestiality and satanic worship rituals." As frame after frame flicked by, X reportedly wept, forced to watch himself kill his homosexual "lover" and then engage in the most grisly cannabalistic ritual imaginable. Neutralised, Mr X became a leading member of the Nicaraguan government a few short weeks later.11 ++++++ 7<>. I wrote this sentence based on information provided to me and also extracted from a long list of Q&As prepared by author Rodney Stich for Tatum's attention (and now in my possession). In reviewing this article for errors and omissions, Tatum stated that "there were no US DEA or ATF agents in Pegasus". This appeared to conflict with an earlier reply to one of Stich's questions which stated, in part, that "DEA was represented. We had DEA agents, ATF agents." Naturally, I wanted this clarified and asked Tatum to explain this quite significant amendment. He replied, advising that "there were joint missions where DEA and ATF agents were used...they were not officially part of Pegasus". Nancy Tatum advises that since Chip Tatum was in prison at the time he answered questions submitted by Stich, the "misunderstanding" was hers. 8<>. Tatum adds that he also "flew fixed-wing, multi-engine props and jets...for the various missions" and he was not limited to rotary-wing aircraft. 9<>. These injuries occurred during the departure of the "Team", six hours after the assassination itself, when they came under anti-aircraft fire as they flew low-level across the border. Tatum was wearing two Kevlar (lightweight body armour) vests which absorbed the impact of incoming rounds. 10<>. Tatum has provided me with the name of this individual, a well-known politician. He also asked that I consider excising this account from the article, for a variety of understandable reasons. I have elected to keep it, as I believe it is both an important and highly significant account. 11<>. I phoned and spoke with Ron Lard, an official at the DEA HQ, Virginia, to ask about the properties of Burundanga. He was unable to provide any information. However, through other sources I can confirm that this drug is well known to cause both amnesia and a zombie-like trance in which the target follows all orders. Dr Camilo Uribe, head of Bogot?'s toxicology clinic, says "it's like chemical hypnotism". See Wall Street Journal, 3 July 1995. Israeli Operatives Will Assassinate People Inside the U.S. and Other Allied Nations :. Israel is embarking upon a more aggressive approach to the war on terror that will include staging targeted killings [this means assassinations] in the United States and other friendly countries, former Israeli intelligence officials told United Press International. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has forbidden the practice until now, these sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Israeli statements were confirmed by more than a half dozen former and currently serving U.S. foreign policy and intelligence officials in interviews with United Press International. http://www.cryptogon.com/2003_01_12_blogarchive.html#87535042 Kidon: Mossad's Assassination Squad :. Interesting article about Israel's wet workers by Gordon Thomas: A killing war between Israel's Mossad and Islamic fanatics came closer this weekend in Britain. The Israeli intelligence agency has sent four members of its kidon assassination squad to this country, to join fifteen other handpicked katsas, its relentless field agents. Their brief is to "disable" any of the "close to 50" British Muslims that the extremist Islamic group, Al-Muhajiroun, last week boasted were ready to carry out suicide missions similar to the one in Tel Aviv. Al-Muhajiroun spokesman, Asif Butt, said the 50 were "primed and ready to go". The threat was sufficient for Mossad to send its own termination squad to head off any further threat to Israel or to synagogues and other Jewish institutions in this country. "In Mossad-speak 'disable' means taking them out permanently", said an MI5 source grimly. "We know from past experience that the kidon can make murder look like an accident. It is their speciality". Two of the kidon are women. They have been trained to be ready to sleep with someone to obtain vital information. Former Mossad chief Meir Amit said that "sex is a woman's weapon. Pillow talk is not a problem for her. But it takes a special kind of courage - to sleep with the enemy". Mossad often operates outside the law of this country - or any country. http://www.cryptogon.com/2003_06_29_blogarchive.html#105723670164412953 From: "Donna ." > BCC to: Subject: Kelly case arouses Mid-East suspicions Date sent: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:45:51 -0500 Last Updated: Sunday, 20 July, 2003, 16:52 GMT 17:52 UK Kelly case arouses Mid-East suspicions Middle East media have been looking at the death of Dr David Kelly, the weapons inspector at the heart of the BBC 'mole' row. Several newspapers consider his death as being at least suspicious. Others accuse the government of "assassination". The issue of the causes of the war in Iraq has been progressing like a large ball slowly rolling down the hill, seemingly unstoppable. The scenario doubled its momentum with the death of British expert David Kelly, which stamped the affair with a tormented human image and with a whiff of conspiracy. Yediot Aharonot - Israel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- David Kelly - the British Government's adviser on Iraqi weapons who was dispatched to Baghdad before the war, among the UN inspectors without anybody finding anything of importance - was assassinated! Al-Jumhuriyah - Egypt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- The scandal has now started to go beyond its political dimensions to encompass the physical elimination of all those who want to demonstrate the falseness of the main accusation against Iraq over its possession of WMD... as is the case with the British weapons expert, David Kelly. Al-Watan - Saudi Arabia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- The suspicious death of David Kelly, a member of the UN arms inspectors team, is a big disgrace for the British and American governments... While they deafen the world with their cries of support for human rights, they resort to lies, deceit, threats and killings in order to perpetuate their dirty and inhuman rule. Jomhuri-ye Eslami - Iran ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- The suspicious death of the British weapons specialist David Kelly has plunged the cabinet of the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in a serious crisis....The question now is why the British government tried to forge the "Iraq dodgy dossier"? Tehran Times - Iran ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Getting rid of Kelly is undoubtedly a strong and final warning to the British media and media men that challenging the state in the "secrets" of war leads to destruction, even if these secrets are fabricated. It remains to be seen to what extent Kelly's absence can serve the images of Blair and Bush. Al-Hayat - London ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Time has proved that Washington and London deliberately exaggerated the Iraqi threat to justify their launching of the war, and that what happened was carefully planned. Al-Thawrah - Syria ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- His death shows that the information used by the British government on Iraq's WMD was false and that the British government lied to the people about the war against Iraq. Iranian radio ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3082203.stm How long will it take to drag it out of them that he WAS assassinated? Madd Maxx- --------------------------- BBC says Kelly was weapons source http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3081027.stm The BBC has disclosed that Dr David Kelly was the principal source for its controversial report claiming Downing Street "sexed up" an Iraq weapons dossier. BBC director of news Richard Sambrook broke the news after speaking to the family of the Iraq weapons expert, who was found dead on Friday. He said the corporation believed it correctly interpreted and reported the information obtained from Dr Kelly during interviews. BBC journalist Andrew Gilligan, the author of the report, added that Dr Kelly had not been "misquoted or misrepresented". Mr Sambrook said the BBC had, until now, owed Dr Kelly a duty of confidentiality and was "profoundly sorry" that his involvement as the source for the reports had ended in tragedy. Prime Minister Tony Blair, speaking as he left Korea for China, said: "I am pleased that the BBC has made this announcement. Whatever the differences, no one wanted this tragedy to happen. Dr Kelly expressed very similar concerns about Downing Street interpretation of intelligence in the dossier and the unreliability of the 45-minute point to Newsnight. Andrew Gilligan BBC journalist "I know that everyone, including the BBC, have been shocked by it. The independent Hutton Inquiry has been set up, it will establish the facts. "In the meantime our attitude should be one of respect and restraint, no recrimination, with the Kelly family uppermost in our minds at this time." Earlier Mr Blair said he would accept responsibility for all the actions of government ministers and officials, but ruled out recalling Parliament. Police confirmed on Saturday Dr Kelly, a senior Ministry of Defence adviser, had bled to death from a cut to his wrist. 'Not source' In an e-mail reportedly sent to a New York Times journalist hours before his death, Dr Kelly had apparently warned of "many dark actors playing games". The Sunday Times says Dr Kelly told one of its reporters that he felt betrayed by the leaking of his name by the Ministry of Defence and was under "intolerable" pressure by being placed at the centre of the weapons row. In the end the government is my responsibility and I can assure you the judge will be able to get to what facts, what people, what papers he wants Tony Blair Prime minister Last week Dr Kelly had told MPs he had spoken to Mr Gilligan, but said he did not believe he was the main source for a story about claims that a dossier on Iraq had been "sexed up" to boost public support for military action. He told the MPs: "From the conversation I had I don't see how he could make the authoritative statement he was making from the comments I made." According to television journalist Tom Mangold, a friend, Dr Kelly believed he was the source for about 60% of Mr Gilligan's report. Responsibility The government has set up an independent judicial inquiry, led by Lord Hutton, into the circumstances surrounding Dr Kelly's death. Both Mr Blair and the BBC have said they will cooperate fully. The BBC statement prompted Dr Kelly's local MP, Tory Robert Jackson, to call for the resignation of the BBC chairman Gavyn Davies. Ex-Labour minister Glenda Jackson has called for Tony Blair to quit, saying the blame for Dr Kelly's death lay with Downing Street, which, she said, used a battle with the BBC to divert attention from the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has called for Parliament to be recalled and for a broadening of the inquiry to investigate the government's handling of intelligence on Iraq. But the prime minister told Sky News' Sunday With Adam Boulton programme that a recall of Parliament would "generate more heat than light" and that Dr Kelly's family should be allowed time to grieve. Mr Blair said he would take responsibility for the actions of officials such as his communications director Alastair Campbell: "In the end the government is my responsibility and I can assure you the judge will be able to get to what facts, what people, what papers he wants." He added: "At the present time this is far more something to do with the personal tragedy of Dr Kelly and I think that's actually what should be uppermost in our minds and has been in mine." Asked if he had the appetite to go on as prime minister, Mr Blair replied: "Absolutely." Obsession Dr Kelly's family said he was a "loving, private and dignified" man and appealed for time to grieve. His body was discovered in woodland near his Oxfordshire home on Friday morning, with a knife and a packet of painkillers close by. Events over recent weeks made David's life intolerable and all of those involved should reflect long and hard on this fact Kelly family statement Richard Butler, former chief UN weapons inspector, said it appeared the British, American and Australian governments had "pumped up" the threat in the run-up to war. Mr Butler told BBC Radio 4's The World This Weekend that Dr Kelly, a friend and colleague, was a "good man... of probity and integrity". "It follows logically from that, if he thought that things were being pumped up, he would have objected to it." Dr Kelly is survived by his wife, Janice, and three daughters Sian, 32, and 30-year-old twins Rachel and Ellen. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk_politics/3081027.stm Published: 2003/07/20 17:44:18 GMT ? BBC MMIII ############################################## For liberty in our lifetimes. by ANY means necessary. Madd Maxx- "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say goodbye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst; the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Without Justice there is Just_Us! 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The plane that crashed in the sea near Russia.. that was brought down by missle.. Their names not published.. (that I know of ).... What did these scientists know that was so important that they had to be silenced..????. (OR, what CURE could they have come up with to what's about to be DELIBERATELY RELEASED??) Missing / Dead Scientists Another Leading Scientist Found Dead (The Times, UK) Dr Ian Langford, Senior Research Associate in CSERGE, in the UK British News February 13, 2002 Mystery death of scientist By Michael Horsnell DETECTIVES were last night trying to unravel the circumstances in which a leading university research scientist was found dead at his blood-spattered and apparently ransacked home. The body of Ian Langford, 40, a senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia's Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, was discovered on Monday night by police and ambulancemen. The body was naked from the waist down and partly wedged under a chair. It is understood that doors to the terraced house were locked. A post-mortem examination failed to establish how Dr Langford, who lived alone in the house in Norwich, died. Dr Langford began working at the university in 1993 after gaining his PhD in childhood leukaemia and infection following a first-class honours degree in environmental sciences. He worked most recently as a senior researcher assessing risk to the environment. Professor Kerry Turner, director of the centre, said: "We are all very shocked by this appalling news. Ian was without doubt one of Europe's leading experts on environmental risk, specialising in links between human health and environmental risk. He was known for his work on the effects on health of bathing water and air pollution, for example. He was one of the most brilliant colleagues I have ever had." http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-206921,00.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Career In Microbiology Can Be Harmful To Your Health Especially Since 9-11 by Michael Davidson ? Copyright 2002, From The Wilderness Publications, www.copvcia.com, All rights reserved. May be recopied, distributed for non-profit purposes only; May not be posted on an Internet web site without express written authorization. Contact service at copvcia.com for permission. [ -- As FTW has begun to investigate serious discussions by legitimate scientists and academics on the possible "necessity" of reducing the world?s population by more than four billion people, no stranger set of circumstances since 9-11-01 adds credibility to this possibility than the suspicious deaths of what may be as many as 12 world-class microbiologists. Following on the heels of our two-part series on the coming world oil crisis, this story by Michael Davidson, FTW's new staff writer, and a graduate of the Syracuse University School of Journalism, is one which takes on a unique significance. Special thanks to Jeff Rense, www.rense.com and researcher Ian Gurney for bringing five of these deaths to FTW?s and the world?s attention first. - Revised February 15, 2002 - In our original story we incorrectly reported the original date of disappearance of Dr. Don Wiley. That has been corrected in this version of the story. -- MCR] ---------------------- FTW - February 14, 2002 -- How many microbiologists does it take to change a light bulb? Whatever you think the answer may be, change that light bulb soon. Microbiologists are dropping like flies. In the five-week period from November 16, 2001 through December 23, 2001, five world-class microbiologists in different parts of the world were reported dead. Four undoubtedly died of "unnatural" causes, while the fifth's death is quite questionable. In the ten weeks prior to December 12, 2001, two additional microbiologists were killed, and possibly another five. The period also saw the deaths of three Israelis holding high-level positions in either medical research or public health. On November 16, 2001, Dr. Don C. Wiley, 57, vanished, and his abandoned rental car was found on the Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, TN. On December 10, 2001, Dr. David Schwartz, 57, was found murdered in his rural home in Loudon County, Virginia. On December 12, 2001, Dr. Benito Que was found comatose in the street near the laboratory where he worked at the University of Miami Medical School. On December 14, 2001, Set Van Nguyen was found dead in the airlock entrance to the walk-in refrigerator in the laboratory he worked at in Victoria State, Australia. And on December 23, 2001, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, 64, was found dead in Wiltshire, England, a village near his home. Before these deaths, on October 4, 2001, a commercial jetliner traveling from Israel to Novosibirsk, Siberia was shot down over the Black Sea by an "errant" Ukrainian surface-to-air missile, killing all on board. The missile was over 100 miles off-course. Despite early news stories reporting it as a charter, the flight (Air Sibir 1812) was a regularly scheduled flight. According to several press reports, including a 12/05/01 article by Barry Chamish and one on 1/13/02 by Jim Rarey (both available at www.rense.com), the plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as four or five passengers who were microbiologists. Both Israel and Novosibirsk are homes for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk is known as the scientific capital of Siberia. There are over 50 research facilities there, and 13 full universities for a population of only 2.5 million people. At about the time of the Black Sea crash, Israeli journalists had been sounding the alarm that two Israeli microbiologists had been murdered, allegedly by terrorists. On November 24, 2001 a Swissair flight from Berlin to Zurich crashed on its landing approach. 24 of the 33 persons on board were killed, including the head of the Hematology department at Israel's Ichilov Hospital, as well as directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and Hebrew University School of Medicine. They were the only Israelis on the flight. The names of those killed, as reported in a subsequent Israeli news story but not matched to their job titles, were Avishai Berkman, Amiramp Eldor and Yaacov Matzner. Besides all being microbiologists, the five scientists who died within five weeks of each other pose severe problems with "official" explanations of their deaths. And four of the five were doing virtually identical research; research that has global political and financial significance. A MEMPHIS MYSTERY Dr. Don C. Wiley, of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard University, was one of the most prominent microbiologists in the world. He had won many of the field's most prestigious awards, including the 1995 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work that could make anti-viral vaccines a reality. He was heavily involved in research on DNA sequencing, and was last seen at around midnight on November 16, leaving the St. Jude's Children?s Research Advisory Dinner at The Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN. Associates attending the dinner said he showed no signs of intoxication, and no one has admitted to drinking with him. His rented Mitsubishi Galant was found about four hours later, abandoned on a bridge across the Mississippi River, headed towards Arkansas. Keys were in the ignition, the gas tank full, but the hazard flashers had not been turned on. Wiley?s body was found on December 20, snagged on a tree along the Mississippi River in Vidalia, LA, 300 miles south of Memphis. Until his body was found, Dr. Wiley's death was handled as a "missing person" case and police did no forensic examinations. Early reports about Wiley's disappearance made no mention of paint marks on his car, or a missing hubcap which turned up in subsequent reports. The type of accident needed to knock off the hubcaps (actually a complete wheel cover) used on recent model Galants would have caused marked damage to the sheet metal on either side of the wheel, and probably the wheel itself. No body or wheel damage to the car has been reported. Wiley's car was found about a five minute drive from the hotel where he was last seen. There is a four-hour period in his evening that cannot be accounted for. There is also no explanation as to why he would have been headed into Arkansas late at night. Dr. Wiley was staying at his father?s home in Memphis. The Hernando de Soto Bridge carries Interstate 40 out of Memphis, across the Mississippi River into Arkansas. It was early Sunday morning (or late Saturday night depending on your point of view) in one of America's premier music and nightclub towns. The traffic on the bridge was reduced to a single lane in each direction. This would have caused all eastbound traffic out of Saturday-night Memphis to slow down and travel in one lane. Anything in the other two closed lanes would have been plainly obvious to every passing person. There are no known witnesses to Dr. Don Wiley stopping his car on the bridge. On January 14, 2002 (almost two months later) Shelby County Medical Examiner O.C. Smith announced that his department had ruled Dr. Wiley's death to be "accidental"; the result of massive injuries suffered in a fall from the Hernando de Soto Bridge. Smith said there were paint marks on Wiley's rental car similar to the paint used on construction signs on the bridge, and that the car's right front hubcap was missing. There has been no report as to which construction signs Dr. Wiley hit. There is also no explanation as to why this evidence did not move the Memphis police to consider possibilities other than "missing person." Mr. Smith theorizes that Wiley pulled over to the outermost lane of the bridge (that lane being closed at the time) to inspect the damage to his car. Smith's subsequent explanation for the fall requires several other things to have occurred simultaneously: ? Dr. Wiley had to have had one of the two or three seizures he has per year due to a rare seizure disorder known only to family and close friends, that seizure being brought on by use of alcohol earlier that evening; ? A passing truck creating a huge blast of wind, roadway bounce due to heavy traffic; and, ? Dr. Wiley had to be standing right at the edge of the guard rail which, because of Wiley's 6' 3" height, would have come only to his mid-thigh. These conditions would have put Wiley?s center of gravity above the rail, and the seizure would have caused him to lose balance as the truck created the bounce and blast, causing him to fall off the bridge. Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, and the Executive Director of Research and Development at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. He was extremely well respected in biophysics, and regarded as an authority on DNA sequencing. Co-workers became concerned when he didn't show up at his office, and he was later found dead at home. Loudon County Sheriff's officials said he was "apparently" stabbed. It has been theorized that Dr. Schwartz may have interrupted a burglary in progress. Nothing, however, has indicated that investigators found evidence of unauthorized entry, or anything missing. An adult and two teen-agers have been arrested in the case. The three are said to have a fascination with both swords and Satanism, and the murder may have been part of a ritual. The Loudon County Sheriff Criminal Investigation Division will not release any additional information on the case, which remains open. Dr. Benito Que was found comatose on a street in Miami, FL. He had left his job at a research laboratory at the University of Miami Medical School, apparently heading for his Ford Explorer parked on NW 10th Ave. The Miami Herald, in its only story on Dr. Que, referred to the death as an "incident", and quoted Miami police as saying his death may have been the result of a mugging. Police made this statement despite saying there was a lack of visible trauma to Dr. Que's body. Among Dr. Que's friends and family there is firm belief that Dr. Que was attacked by four men, at least one of whom had a baseball bat. Dr. Que's death has now been officially ruled "natural", caused by cardiac arrest. Both the Dade County medical examiner and the Miami Police will not comment on the case, saying it is closed. The public relations office at the University of Miami Medical School says only that Dr. Que was a cell biologist, involved in oncology research in the hematology department. Set Van Nguyen was found dead at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's animal diseases facility in Geelong, Australia. He had worked there 15 years. In January, 2001, the magazine Nature published information that two scientists at this facility, using genetic manipulation and DNA sequencing, had created an incredibly virulent form of mousepox, a cousin of smallpox. The researchers were extremely concerned that if similar manipulation could be done to smallpox, a terrifying weapon could be unleashed. According to Victoria Police, Nguyen died after entering a refrigerated storage facility. "He did not know the room was full of deadly gas which had leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system, Unable to breathe, Mr. Nguyen collapsed and died" says the official report. Nitrogen is not a "deadly" gas, and is a part of the air. An extreme over-abundance of nitrogen in one's immediate atmosphere would gradually cause shortness of breath, lightheadedness, and fatigue; conditions a biologist would certainly recognize. Additionally, a nitrogen leak in a laboratory's refrigerator system sufficient to fill the room with nitrogen would set off gas system alarms, and would be so massive as to cause complete failure of the refrigeration system, causing the temperature to rise, also setting off alarms that every one of these systems is equipped with as a standard safety procedure. A RUSSIAN, BRITISH INTELLIGENCE AND OLD CORPSES In 1989, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik defected from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) to Great Britain while on a trip to Paris. He had been the #1 scientist in the FSU's bioweapons program. On November 23, 2001, Pasechnik's death was reported in the New York Times as having occurred two days earlier. The New York Times obituary indicated that the announcement of Pasechnik's death was made in the United States by Dr. Christopher Davis of Virginia, who stated that the cause of death was a stroke. Dr. Davis was the member of British intelligence who de-briefed Dr. Pasechnik at the time of his defection. Dr. Davis says he left the intelligence service in 1996. When asked why a former member of British intelligence would be the person announcing the death of Dr. Pasechnik to U.S. media, Dr. Davis replied that it had come about during a conversation with a reporter he had had a long relationship with. The reporter Davis named is not the author of the Times' obituary, and Dr. Davis declined to say which branch of British intelligence he served in. No reports of Pasechnik's death appeared in Britain for more than a month until December 29, 2001, when his obituary appeared in the London Telegraph. Doing a Google search on the Web for "Vladimir Pasechnik" brings up, among many, two links to that obituary in the London Telegraph. Attempts to access either of those links resulted in "Page Not Found". Vladimir Pasechnik spent the ten years after his defection working at the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research at the UK Department of Health, Salisbury. On February 20, 2000, it was announced that, along with partner Caisey Harlingten, Dr. Pasechnik had formed a company called Regma Biotechnologies Ltd. Regma describes itself as "a new drug company working to provide powerful alternatives to antibiotics." Like three other microbiologists detailed in this article, Pasechnik was heavily involved in DNA sequencing research. During the anthrax panic of this past fall, Pasechnik offered his services to the British government to help in any way possible. Despite Regma having a public relations department that has released many items to the press over the past two years, the company has not announced the death of one of its two founders. Early October saw reports that British scientists were planning to exhume the bodies of 10 London victims of the 1918 type-A flu epidemic. An October 8, 2001 report in The Independent said that the victims of ?the Spanish Flu? had been victims of ?the world?s most deadly virus.? British scientists hope to uncover the genetic makeup of the virus, making it easier to combat. Professor John Oxford of London's Queen Mary's School of Medicine, the British government's flu adviser, acknowledges that the exhumations and subsequent studies will have to be done with extreme caution so the virus is not unleashed to cause another epidemic. The uncovering of a pathogen's genetic structure is the exact work Dr. Pasechnik was doing at Regma. Pasechnik died six weeks after the planned exhumations were announced. The need to exhume the bodies assumes no Type-A flu virus sample exists in any lab anywhere in the world. ANTHRAX CURES AND THE RUSSIAN Almost immediately at the outset of the anthrax scare, the Bush administration contracted with Bayer Pharmaceuticals for millions of doses of Cipro, an antibiotic to treat anthrax. This was done despite many in the medical community stating that there were several cheaper, better alternatives to Cipro, which has never been shown to be effective against inhaled anthrax. The Center for Disease Control's (CDC) own website states a preference for the antibiotic doxycycline over Cipro for inhalation anthrax. CDC expresses concerns that widespread Cipro use could cause other bacteria to become immune to antibiotics. After three months of conflicting reports it is now official that the anthrax that has killed several Americans since October 5 is from US military sources connected to CIA research. The FBI has stated that only 10 people could have had access, yet at the same time they are reporting astounding security breaches at the biowarfare facility at Ft. Detrick, MD; breaches such as unauthorized nighttime experiments and lab specimens missing. The militarized anthrax used by the United States was developed by William C. Patrick III, who holds five classified patents on the process. He has worked at both Ft. Detrick, and the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. Patrick is now a private biowarfare consultant to the military and CIA. Patrick developed the process by which anthrax spores could be concentrated at the level of one trillion spores per gram. No other country has been able to get concentrations above 500 billion per gram. The anthrax that was sent around the eastern United States last fall was concentrated at one trillion spores per gram. In recent years Patrick has worked with Kanatjan Alibekov. Now known by the Americanized "Ken Alibek", he defected to the U.S. in 1992. Before defecting, Alibek was the #2 man in the FSU's biowarfare program. His boss was Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik. A PATTERN? The DNA sequencing work that the above microbiologists were doing is aimed at developing drugs that will fight pathogens based on the pathogen's genetic profile. The work is also aimed at eventually developing drugs that will work in cooperation with a person's genetic makeup. Theoretically, a drug could be developed for one specific person. That being the case, it's obvious that one could go down the ladder, and a drug could be developed to effectively treat a much broader class of people sharing a genetic marker. The entire process can also be turned around to develop a pathogen that will affect a broad class of people sharing a genetic marker. A broad class of people sharing a genetic marker could be a group such as a race, or people with brown eyes. ANTHRAX About 10 weeks before 9-11, in June, 2001, senior government officials gathered at Andrews Air Force Base for an extremely complex war game called Dark Winter. One Dark Winter scenario had several major media outlets receiving letters demanding the immediate removal of all U.S. military forces from Saudi Arabia and the waters of the Persian Gulf. The demand is backed by the threat of biological attacks using anthrax, smallpox and plague. Another part of the Dark Winter exercise involved a terrorist smallpox release in Oklahoma City infecting 300,000 people, killing a third in about three weeks. Analysis of the exercise concluded that dealing with the epidemic was impossible due to an inadequate vaccine supply. In 1998, the BioPort Corporation was founded for the express purpose of buying the Michigan Biologic Products Institute from the State of Michigan. MBPI was the only firm in the U.S. making Anthrax vaccine, and their sole client was the U.S. government. Until recently, BioPort has not been able to deliver any vaccine due to continuous problems with the FDA in areas such as sterility, contamination, as well as improper procedures and record keeping. BioPort now has on its Board of Directors Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. In October 1985 Crowe was appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He retired from that position in 1989 and was appointed US Ambassador to Britain. Admiral Crowe, a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations, was given ownership of 22.5% of BioPort's stock without investing any money. Crowe's role at the company was to facilitate cooperation and good relations with government agencies and to secure military contracts from the Department of Defense. After four years of constant factory violations that prevented the vaccine from being shipped, on December 13, 2001 the FDA began re-inspecting the BioPort anthrax facility in Lansing, MI. On January 14, 2002 The FDA issued a full approval of the facility, and on January 31 BioPort got final approval to distribute their anthrax vaccine. BioPort's anthrax vaccine is quite controversial, with a great deal of debate about both its safety and efficacy. SMALLPOX An October 17, 2001 story in USA Today reported that the US government wanted to order 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine. Apparently, that wish has been granted. On November 28, 2001 a British vaccine maker, Acambis, announced that it had received a $428 million contract to provide 155 million doses of smallpox vaccine to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This was Acambis' second contract. The company is already in the process of producing 54 million doses. The U.S. government has 15.4 million doses stockpiled, and HHS plans to dilute them five to one. The two contracts and the dilution program will bring the total HHS stockpile to 286 million doses. Smallpox was officially declared eradicated by the World Health Organization in 1977, after treating the last known case in Merca, Somalia. According to Steven Black, a director of the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, vaccinating the entire U.S. population for smallpox will probably result in 600 to 1,000 deaths, and several thousand cases of encephalitis. Chief of the infectious disease department at Thomas Jefferson University Medical School, Roger Pomerantz, warns about the complete lack of knowledge about the reaction to the vaccine of people under the age of two or over 65. He also expressed great concern about the reaction of persons with weakened immune systems, such as those with transplants, people undergoing chemotherapy, and those with HIV/AIDS. MEHPA A LAW FROM HELL On October 5, 2001 a meeting was convened of the Center for Law and the Public Health (CLPH). This group is run jointly by Georgetown University Law School and Johns Hopkins Medical School, and was founded under the auspices of the Center for Disease Control (CDC). CLPH was formed one month prior to the 2000 Presidential election. The purpose of the 10/5/01 meeting was to draft legislation to respond to the then current bioterrorism threat. After working only 18 days, on 11/23/01 CLPH released a 40-page document called the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA). This was a "model" law that HHS is suggesting be enacted by the 50 states to handle future public health emergencies such as bioterrorism. A revised version was released on 12/21/01 containing more specific definitions of "public health emergency" as it pertains to bioterrorism and biologic agents, and includes language for those states that want to use the act for chemical, nuclear or natural disasters. Under the terms of MEHPA, after declaring a "public health emergency", without consultation with public health authorities, law enforcement, the legislature or courts, a state governor or anyone he/she decides to empower, can, among many other things: ? Require any individual to be vaccinated. Refusal constitutes a felony and will result in quarantine. ? Require any individual to undergo specific medical treatment. Refusal constitutes a felony and will result in quarantine. ? Seize any property, including real estate, food, medicine, fuel or clothing, an official thinks necessary to handle the emergency. ? Seize and destroy any property alleged to be hazardous. There will be no compensation or recourse. ? Draft you or your business into state service. ? Impose rationing, price controls, quotas and transportation controls. ? Suspend any state law, regulation or rule that is thought to interfere with handling the declared emergency. When the Federal government wanted the states to enact the 55 mph speed limit, they coerced the states using the threat of withholding federal monies. It is reasonable to assume the same tactic will be used with MEHPA. As of this writing, the law has been passed in Kentucky. It has been introduced in the legislatures of Arizona, California, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. It is expected to be introduced shortly in Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, and Wisconsin. MEHPA is being evaluated by the executive branches in North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington, DC. So now we come to the end of the story, and it's reasonable to ask "What?s the connection between dead microbiologists, vaccine contracts and MEHPA?? The research the microbiologists were doing could have developed methods of treating diseases like anthrax and smallpox without conventional antibiotics or vaccines. Pharmaceutical contracts to deal with these diseases will total hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars. If epidemics could be treated in non-traditional ways, MEHPA might not be necessary. Considering the government?s actions nullifying many civil liberties since last September, MEHPA seems to be a law looking for an excuse to be enacted. Maybe the microbiologists were in the way of some peoples' or business' agendas. We also know that DNA sequence research can be used to develop pathogens that target specific genetically related groups. One company, DynCorp, handles data processing for many Federal agencies, including the CDC, the Department of Agriculture, several branches of the Department of Justice, the FDA and the National Institute of Health. On 11/12/01 DynCorp announced that its subsidiary, DynPort, had been awarded a $322 million contract to develop, produce, test, and store FDA licensed vaccines for use by the DoD. It would be incredibly easy for DynCorp to hide information pertaining to the exact make-up, safety, efficacy and purpose of the drugs and vaccines the U.S. government has contracted for. One thing is certain: the small and elite community of world class microbiologists is well aware that its numbers are shrinking and these dead microbiologists were among the few who could have answered these important questions. http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/02_14_02_microbio.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JEFF RENSE INTERVIEWS PATTY DOYLE & Dr. WILEY'S SISTER Superb Interview on the Jeff Rense show with Patricia Doyle, PhD and Pamela McIsaac (Dr. Wiley's Sister) (Move show position forward to 01:00:50) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Was Dr. Robert Schwartz Murdered in an HHMI secluded Farmhouse? There are still so many questions regarding the "flurry" of deaths of major scientific researchers in the span of a few weeks. Dr. Wiley was associated with Howard Hughes Med. Inst. lab at Harvard. Dr. Robert Schwartz founded the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology. He was also responsible for grant funding of various research projects. Va. Center for Innovative Technology is also affiliated with Va. Biotech Association. It was reported that Dr. Robert Schwartz was murdered in a secluded farmhouse outside of Leesberg, Loudon County, Va. Was this the same HHMI farmhouse? I have been going over archive news reports and found the following that is of interest. Also, in 1996 Dr. Tsunao Saitoh world class scientist, CJD, Alzheimer Disease neurological researcher was murdered along with his daughter in what LaJolla police call a very professional hit. Dr. Saitoh had been associated with HHMI, Columbia Univ. lab before taking a position at UCSD. In 1994, Jose Trias and his wife were murdered in their Chevy Chase, Md. home. They had met with a friend and journalist the day before their murder. They told him that they planned to come foward and divulge HHMI funding of "special ops" research. Grant money that comes (as they put it) in the front door of HHMI, but is diverted "out the back door" to special black ops research projects. What research was going on at the HHMI farmhouse? Was there a lab there as well as offices? Was Dr. Schwartz expertise in DNA sequencing being used in HHMI special research? What about Dr. Wiley's expertise i.e. infectivity and immunity of viruses, bacterias and mycoplasmas? Patricia Doyle, PhD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Loudon Facility a Major Shift for Hughes Medical Institute By Rob Terry, Washington Techway Thursday, February 1, 2001; 3:17 PM The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's planned computational biology center in Loudoun County has the potential to bring Northern Virginia a newfound visibility in life sciences research, and not just because of HHMI's endowment and worldwide reputation.It also represents a major shift in HHMI operations, a first-of-its-kind, stand-alone, research-and-development outpost that will bring 200 to 300 scientists, and possibly up to 500 total jobs, when construction is complete. At least 500,000 square feet of space is planned for the 281-acre site, bordered by the Potomac River to the north and Route 7 to the south. Initial construction, to begin in 2003 and be completed in 2005, calls for laboratories for up to 24 investigators, plus their staff. Lab space and housing will be available for visiting researchers, scientific support teams and administrators, as well. One HHMI executive likens the center's concept to that of Bell Labs, AT&T's famed research and development institution (now the R&D arm of Lucent), home of such seminal inventions as the transistor, the laser and communications satellites. The modern history of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute began in 1984. A new board of trustees was appointed to oversee the scientific and philanthropic organization created by reclusive aviation-industrial magnate Howard Hughes. The board decided to sell the organization's primary asset, the Hughes Aircraft Co., to General Motors for $5 billion. The sale was a strategic shift that set in motion a chain of events bringing HHMI to its current place of prominence as the nation's largest private medical research organization, with an endowment of $13 billion. Currently, 3,000 scientists lead 350 research groups at 72 sites through partnerships with host institutions, focusing on six primary areas: cell biology, genetics, immunology, neuroscience, structural biology and computational biology. HHMI funds each investigator an average of $600,000 to $1.5 million annually, then largely leaves them alone. Institute investigators - which in the past included HHMI President Thomas Cech when he was at the University of Colorado, where he still runs his lab, and Gerald Rubin, HHMI's vice president for biomedical research and a genetics professor and an HHMI investigator at the University of California, Berkeley - praise the freedom and lack of bureaucracy. HHMI also distributes about $100 million a year on science education grants. Reported by Washington Techway, http://www.washtech.com/washtechway -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hughes Medical Institute Boosts Virginia's Biotech Vision By Rob Terry, Washington Techway Staff Writer Thursday, February 1, 2001; 9:05 AM On Jan. 25, about 20 members of Virginia's nascent biotechnology community gathered in a seventh-floor conference room at the Center for Innovative Technology for lunch, once again chewing over the vision. Three speakers outlined a future of medicine and science radically impacted by genomics discoveries and powerful computing tools. And again the underlying subtext, the tantalizing scenario that hadn't quite come to pass over the last several years, was the same: What would spur Northern Virginia's emergence as a biotech hub, a center of research prominence capable of spinning off groundbreaking startups? The official announcement made one week later could set those wheels in motion: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the largest private biomedical research organization in the United States, will build a $500 million campus in Ashburn devoted to bioinformatics and other advancements in computational biology. "Northern Virginia has always been trying to get their toehold in biotech," said Walt Plosila, vice president with Battelle Memorial Institute in Cleveland, and former director of the High Technology Council of Maryland. "This certainly would be a major anchor for them." Virginia is currently home to about 160 life science companies, roughly 65 of which are in Northern Virginia. Maryland has about 255 life science companies. The choice of Loudoun County - HHMI bought the Janelia Farm site in December for $53.7 million - represents for Northern Virginia probably the region's greatest biotech coup since American Type Culture Collection announced in 1994 it would leave Rockville for Manassas and become Virginia's largest biotech company. The 10-year project in many ways underscores the unique nature of Chevy Chase, Md.-based HHMI, and the enormous advantages and resources available to it. With such a huge endowment - $13 billion - and such a stable of scientific talent, clustering, economic incentives and the like are the least of HHMI's concerns. And Loudoun County will get to reap the benefits. County officials may be praising their good fortune - much the way Montgomery County officials give thanks for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, without which there would be no "DNA Alley" up the Interstate 270 corridor - for years to come. "We think it could have substantial impact," said HHMI President Thomas Cech, a 1989 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry who took the reins at the institute last January. "As soon as people know the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is located there, and especially [with] this kind of activity. I mean, we're going to be bringing a lot of the most exciting scientists in the country, who will be passing through there every year. We're going to have all of our scientific meetings out there at the farm [Janelia Farm is the name of the site] instead of having them here at headquarters. There will be I think a lot of opportunity for collaboration." While small biotech clusters have formed in Blacksburg, Charlottsville and Roanoke, efforts in Northern Virginia have suffered through fits and starts. Entrepreneurial energy, and available capital, was channeled into dot.coms, information technology and Internet infrastructure companies. Biotech companies were expected to cluster around American Type Culture Collection at Innovation at Prince William, a tech park outside Manassas. George Mason University's School of Computational Sciences is there as well but otherwise shares space with chip maker Dominion Semiconductor and Lockheed Martin. The perception of Northern Virginia as a biotech hub just hasn't quite caught on, said Jerry Coughter, biotechnology director for the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology. "[The HHMI project] is perfect for us because nobody wants to do the 10-year, $500 million investment in biopharmaceuticals. Particularly around here, where you're used to Internet time," he said. Travis Sample, a professor of business administration at Shenandoah University who, along with colleague Jim Wong has a business plan on how to position the region as a bioinformatics hub, said the HHMI center's impact "is going to be bigger than AOL," largely because of the region's Web and IT dominance. "It wouldn't have happened three years ago here, because of the infrastructure. We're ready now," he said. For HHMI this newest strategic shift, in the works over the past year, will put HHMI at the forefront of cutting-edge bioinformatics discovery. Cech and his management team had to figure out how the institute could get the greatest impact out of the healthy annual return the endowment was providing: Should they funnel an extra $50 million into funding roughly 50 more investigators? Or would bringing on those investigators create additional layers of administration and change the character of the institute? "We felt we could probably do something that would take greater advantage of the institute's flexibility," said Gerald Rubin, HHMI's vice president for biomedical research. Cech wants the new center to be a catalyst for new avenues of HHMI scientific collaboration and information sharing. "It's a completely new concept for us and we think it's completely new for the country," Cech said. "The subject material that we're going to be tapping is not unique. There are many other institutions that have recognized that making more of an investment in imaging, proteomics and bioinformatics is the way to go over the next 10 to 20 years. So we overlap a lot in those concepts with what's being done at Berkeley and Stanford and Harvard and Princeton and other places. "What I think is unique is this emphasis on dissemination of information to the community. Instead of it being a competitive situation, where we're building this to get a leg up on our competitors, the opposite of that is we're building this to increase everyone's competitiveness, in terms of solving problems rather than competing with each other, and trying to have as open and sharing a mode of operation as possible." HHMI management, with the help of commercial developer Mark Winkler Co. in Alexandria, narrowed their search to about six sites using a basic criteria: They wanted the center to be an hour's drive from headquarters in Chevy Chase, on a site at least 100 acres and no more than an hour's drive to an airport. They wanted plenty of space, "to be on a piece of land large enough where we could control the environment," said Rubin. That factor worked against Montgomery County. Space is running out in DNA Alley. The Janelia Farm site, on the other hand, is eight miles from Dulles International Airport. "I would have preferred something closer," Rubin, a Montgomery County resident, noted with a laugh. "We wouldn't have been very happy with the site Celera [Genomics, at a busy Rockville intersection] is on, which is very nice. We need something bigger." Plosila, who vividly remembers Montgomery County's emergence as a biotech center and the contest to keep American Type Culture Collection from leaving, knows full well the impact major research institutions have on geographic areas developing that all-important critical mass of high-tech companies. Northern Virginia, he notes, traded on its Department of Defense contacts to become known as an IT and Internet hub. NIH fueled Maryland's biotech ascension. And an NIH-affiliated research center, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, combined with IBM to help put Research Triangle in North Carolina on the map. "This could help create a cluster, clearly on the bioinformatics side," Plosila said. Promising bioinformatics startups like LabBook in McLean are already mining reams of biological data. And American Type Culture Collection has launched a bioinformatics sciences program. "I don't think the significance of the Hughes thing can be overstated," said CIT's Coughter. "It works on so many levels. The first thing is it brings some prominence. . You can start to change the mindset. Look at how long it's taken people to get used to the idea of going to Frederick," he added, pointing to the rural Maryland city now home to manufacturing centers for MedImmune and Invitrogen. It's a prominence that Leslie Platt, head of a McLean-based Ernst & Young health sciences group, asked everyone seated in the seventh-floor conference room to imagine at the Jan. 25 CIT lunch. "Look out the window here," said Platt, scanning the construction cranes dotting the skyline and the traffic streaming up and down the Dulles Toll Road. "This is meltdown central for the next information technology revolution." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Building the 'Bell Labs' of Biology By Terence Chea, Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, February 1, 2001 Since its founding almost 50 years ago, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, one of the world's premier research organizations, has been an institute without walls. With headquarters in Chevy Chase, the institute employs a select group of more than 350 leading scientists who work out of laboratories at more than 70 "host" universities and research institutions scattered around the country. Now for the first time the institute is laying out plans to create its own research complex, to be built on 281 acres of picturesque farmland in rural Loudoun County. The institute, which purchased the property known as the Janelia Farm in December, will announce today plans to spend $500 million over the next 10 years to construct a research campus where scientists from all walks of academic life can gather to contemplate some of the most vexing problems of biology and medical science. Howard Hughes officials say the new research center will initially focus on the emerging field of computational biology, also known as bioinformatics, which taps the power of computers to interpret vast quantities of biological data from projects such as the mapping of the human genome. "We think the next decade will see a massive explosion in this area," said Thomas R. Cech, the institute's president. "These are brand-new fields that have very few practitioners now, but everybody sees it as the wave of the future." Launched in 1953 by Howard Hughes, the founder of Hughes Aircraft Co., the institute is one of the world's largest private medical research organizations, with an endowment of more than $12 billion and an annual budget of $667 million. After the federal government, it spends more money on basic biomedical research than any other organization. The idea for the new research center was hatched not long after Cech, a Nobel laureate and Howard Hughes scientist for 12 years, took over as the institute's president about a year ago. Cech and other institute officials wanted to create an environment in which scientists are free to dream up new ideas. "Some say it sounds like the Bell Labs of biology," Cech said, referring to the research organization that invented the transistor, the laser and other pervasive technologies. "People are freed from the constraints of having to write research grants. They're given generous support and are free to invent and think up new ways of solving these problems." When the research facilities are finished, institute officials hope to attract a mixture of biologists, chemists, computer scientists and other specialists who can pool their expertise to create cutting-edge technologies that answer the future needs of biomedical research. Initial plans call for the construction of a laboratory research facility and housing complex, which are scheduled to be completed by 2005. The institute will later announce plans for other facilities, which may include a science education center, Cech said. The institute plans to hire a permanent staff of 24 chief scientists, their research staffs and administrative personnel, totaling about 300 employees, who will work at the new campus. The institute will also invite up to 24 visiting scientists, who can live and work on campus for weeks to years at a time. The new facility will be open to both Howard Hughes researchers and outside scientists with ideas for innovative projects. The research center will be built in Ashburn, about four miles east of Leesburg and eight miles from Washington Dulles International Airport. The property was purchased for $53.7 million. It is a rustic piece of land, bounded by the Potomac River to the north and Virginia Route 7 to the south, that is home to a historic Normandy-style manor house as well as three recently-completed office buildings. Although the institute does not harbor its own commercial ambitions, Cech said it has the potential to stimulate the local biotechnology industry. Across the country, many biotech companies have been founded based on discoveries made by Howard Hughes researchers. "Clearly, it benefits the region," said John Holaday, chairman and chief executive of Rockville biotechnology firm EntreMed Inc. and chairman of the Maryland Bioscience Alliance, a not-for-profit organization that promotes Maryland's biotech industry. "The name Howard Hughes itself evokes excellence." Although the center plans to first concentrate on the field of computational biology, Cech said the center's focus could change as the demands of biomedical research change. "This is a very rapidly moving landscape of opportunity and we want to be at the very forefront of it," Cech said. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Washinton Techway / Washington Post Links: Hughes Medical Institute Boosts Virginia's Biotech Vision http://www.washtech.com/news/biotech/7128-1.html Loudon Facility a Major Shift for Hughes Medical Institute http://www.washtech.com/news/biotech/7129-1.html Building the 'Bell Labs' of Biology http://www.washtech.com/news/biotech/7126-1.html http://www.stormtronic.co.uk/9-11/schwartz-hhmi.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Missing Scientist Found Dead in Mississippi River (Reuters) (site down 02/22/02) The body of a Harvard scientist missing for more than a month since his rental car was left parked on a bridge over the Mississippi River has been found downstream, police said Workers at a hydroelectric plant in Louisiana found the body of Don Wiley on Thursday, about 300 miles south of where the molecular biologist was last seen on Nov. 18 at a medical meeting in Memphis Police identify body found in Mississippi River as missing scientist December 22, 2001 Posted: 5:42 PM EST (2242 GMT) MEMPHIS, Tennessee (CNN) -- Police on Saturday identified a body discovered in the Mississippi River this week as that of a Harvard University biochemist, missing for more than a month. The body of Don Wiley, 57, was found Thursday in the waters of a hydroelectric plant along the river near Vidalia, Louisiana, across from Natchez, Mississippi, said Memphis Police Director Walter Crews. "Identification on the body was that of Dr. Don Wiley," he said. The medical examiner confirmed the identity through dental records, according to Memphis Police Lt. Walter Norris. "However, the medical examiner has not released the cause of death," Norris said. The renowned biochemist disappeared in the early morning hours of November 16 in Memphis. He had gone there to attend a scientific meeting at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and to visit family. At 4 that morning, his rental car was found abandoned on the Hernando de Soto Bridge that spans the Mississippi River. The car doors were unlocked, and the key was in the ignition. The car's gas tank was full. Wiley had not been heard from since then. "We began this investigation as a missing person investigation," Crews said. "From there it went to a more criminal bent. We've deferred it to homicide in the event there is some criminal activity." Wiley was considered one of the world's leading researchers of deadly viruses -- among them AIDS and the Ebola virus. Ebola is a highly contagious disease that kills 50 percent to 80 percent of its victims. There is no vaccine. Memphis police said there is nothing to suggest the doctor's expertise had anything to do with his disappearance. His family said it is out of the question that the successful researcher would commit suicide. Dr. William Evans from St. Jude said that hours before Wiley vanished he appeared upbeat and happy during a banquet at the Peabody Hotel. http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/12/22/missing.scientist/ ================================================== VIDEO The case worries U.S. investigators because Dr. Wiley specializes in dangerous viruses. CNN's Martin Savidge reports (November 28) Play video (QuickTime, Real or Windows Media) Play video (QuickTime, Real or Windows Media) Professor Don C. Wiley Harvard biochemistry professor Don C. Wiley has been declared missing after his abandoned rental car was discovered on a highway outside of Memphis, Tenn. The car, discovered on Interstate 40-which runs between Memphis and Arkansas-had the keys in the ignition, the hazard lights off and a full tank of gas. Scientist's disappearance confounds police November 28, 2001 Posted: 12:35 PM EST (1735 GMT) From Martin Savidge CNN MEMPHIS, Tennessee (CNN) -- Dr. Don C. Wiley went to Memphis to attend a scientific meeting at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and to visit family. But in the early hours of November 16, the renowned Harvard University biochemist disappeared. Now Memphis police are exploring several theories involving suicide, robbery and murder. They also wonder if the disappearance could be connected to his expertise. "We began this investigation as a missing person investigation," said Walter Crews of the Memphis Police Department. "From there it went to a more criminal bent." At 4 a.m., the 57-year-old's rental car was found abandoned on the Hernando de Soto Bridge that spans the Mississippi River. The car doors were unlocked, the key still in the ignition, the tank full. He hasn't been heard from since. Wiley is seen as one of the world's leading researchers of deadly viruses, including HIV and the Ebola virus. The case worries U.S. investigators because Dr. Wiley specializes in dangerous viruses. CNN's Martin Savidge reports (November 28) Ebola is one of the most frightening diseases known to man. It's highly contagious, killing 50 to 80 percent of its victims, and there's no vaccine. Some nations outside the United States reportedly have experimented with the virus as a possible weapon of war or terror. Memphis police say there is nothing to suggest the doctor's disappearance has anything to do with his background, but his family says it is just as out of the question he committed suicide. Married with two young children, he was at the pinnacle of his career. He was last seen at a banquet at the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis the night he vanished. Those who saw him last say he showed no signs of a man contemplating his own death. "It's inconceivable to us who were with Don that night and the day before that there was any possibility he would do any harm to himself," said Dr. William Evans of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. "We've simply dismissed that as a possibility." Wiley left the hotel around midnight. The bridge where his car was found is only a five-minute drive away and in the wrong direction from where he was staying, leaving authorities with a four-hour, unexplained gap until his vehicle was found. Police, who are scanning surveillance tapes from late-night convenience stores and gas stations, say there are a number of interesting elements to Wiley's disappearance, not the least of which is his background. http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/28/missing.scientist/index.html HAS PROFESSOR WILEY BEEN "DISAPPEARED"? http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/wiley.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Published on Tuesday, December 04, 2001 Memphis Police Got Late Start On Wiley Search Slow weekend could have cost investigators key evidence By DANIEL K. ROSENHECK and ELISABETH S. THEODORE Crimson Staff Writers MEMPHIS-Memphis police waited four days after Harvard professor Don C. Wiley's disappearance to launch a full investigation into explanations other than suicide, possibly losing crucial evidence. Both Wiley's sister-in-law and a Memphis police officer familiar with the investigation said the preliminary police inquiry-handled by the police department's Missing Persons bureau-did not include the forensic tests and area canvassing conducted by Homicide bureau detectives when they took over the case four days later. Wiley, Harvard's Loeb professor of biophysics and biochemistry, was last seen after a banquet at the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis on midnight Nov. 15. His rental car was found abandoned on a bridge over the Mississippi River four hours later. Susan Wiley, Wiley's sister-in-law, said Missing Persons investigators told her the day after the disappearance that they were only actively investigating suicide at that point. When she urged them to explore other possibilities and dust the abandoned rental car for fingerprints, she said she was told, "Let us do our job." "They certainly weren't beating the bushes," she said. "I don't think they did much. I have absolute faith in the people investigating it now." Missing Persons is a branch of the Memphis Police Department's (MPD) general assignment bureau. "[They] seldom get out of the office. [They] make telephone calls and put information in the computer," the MPD officer said. The Missing Persons bureau does not do the field work that characterizes the Homicide bureau. The MPD officer familiar with the investigation said the department's heightened response and the shift to Homicide were a direct result of pressure from Harvard and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which sponsored the convention Wiley attended Nov. 15. "It was transferred from [MPD's Missing Persons bureau] to Homicide because it was a high-profile case," the officer said. Susan Wiley said police told her they made the switch because Homicide had more manpower than Missing Persons, and MPD spokesperson Latanya Able said the bureaus frequently worked together. Able said that the homicide department conducted forensic tests on Wiley's car when they took over the case. By this time, the car had been handled and removed from the bridge. Able would not comment on the results of the tests, but Susan Wiley said that police told her they found just two partial fingerprints. Tests are rarely done at the scene of the crime without signs of foul play, according to the MPD officer. But Susan Wiley said that Sgt. Robert Shemwell, the homicide detective in contact with the family, told her that the car's missing hubcap and the yet-unexplained streaks of yellow paint on its bumper indicated that, even at first sight, the disappearance was not a clear-cut suicide. Tennessee Department of Transportation official Bob Parrish said that the car, parked in a construction zone on the Hernando de Soto Bridge, was moved promptly, letting construction work continue the next morning. A half-inch of rain also fell in Memphis Nov. 19, the day before homicide detectives took over. According to James Burke, a state-certified private investigator in Boston, any precipitation could have compromised forensic evidence on the bridge and its railings. Wiley would have had to climb over the bridge's high railings in order to jump off, MPD spokesperson Richard True said. Within days of taking over the case, homicide detectives also scanned surveillance videos at local stores for evidence of Wiley's activity after he left the hotel, put up posters with Wiley's picture and interviewed Peabody employees, conference attendees and others in the area around midnight on Nov. 15. According to True, the department has assigned three full-time detectives to work exclusively on the Wiley case and can add more as needed. Able stressed that Wiley is still being investigated as a missing person, not a suicide. But the MPD officer said, "We probably know where he is right now, but no one wants to believe us. Ninety-nine percent of abandoned cars we find, [the drivers] go in the river." Able, who took over responsibility as the MPD spokesperson on the Wiley case yesterday, declined to comment on any of the evidence Susan Wiley says Shemwell discussed with her. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=160979 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Published on Friday, November 30, 2001 Colleagues Doubt Wiley Suicide Theory Memphis police fail to turn up additional leads in disappearence By JENIFER L. STEINHARDT Contributing Writer Two days after the Memphis police declared Loeb Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry Don C. Wiley likely to have committed suicide, colleagues of the professor, now missing for 15 days, have expressed doubt that he took his own life. Hidde Ploegh, Mallinckrodt professor of immunopathology, said that despite the police department's statements yesterday, he is not convinced that Wiley committed suicide. "What the police say is one thing, and what happened, I don't think anyone knows," he said. "I think there are no new facts to shed light on [the situation] and anything people add should be labeled as speculation." Since Wiley's disappearance, rumors have circulated that he was perhaps distraught about not winning the Nobel Prize in 1996, when two scientists working on similar research received the award. Jack L. Strominger, Higgins professor of biochemistry at Harvard who shared the Lasker Award in 1995 and the Japan Prize in 1999 with Wiley, said that "from everything I know, there is no possibility that he committed suicide." The Lasker Award is awarded to clinical scientists annually and is considered "a precursor to receiving the Nobel Prize," said Philippa Marrack, a professor of immunology at the National Jewish Medical Center and an investigator with Wiley for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Since 1962, more than half of those who won the Lasker Award went on to receive the Nobel Prize, most within two years of receiving the Lasker. The year after Wiley received the Lasker Award, the Nobel Prize went to scientists Peter Doherty and Rolf Zinkerngel who had shared the Lasker Award with Wiley in 1995. They had done earlier but similar work to Wiley's on immunology, said William Evans, deputy director at St. Jude's Hospital which hosted the banquet in Memphis where Wiley was last seen. A total of five people, including Wiley, were conducting the research, and only two of the five were awarded the Nobel Prize. Marrack said she believes Wiley knew why the two recipients were selected. "The Nobel Prize that year was given for biological discoveries rather than the structural solutions [which Wiley worked with]," said Marrack, a colleague of Wiley's for more than 15 years. Marrack said she never discussed the 1996 Nobel Prize with Wiley but emphasized that he wasn't the only candidate not to receive the Nobel Prize that year. "It wasn't just Don Wiley; there were others, and they didn't throw themselves off bridges," said Marrack. Marrack said she does not believe Wiley committed suicide. "He didn't seem to be a person who would do that, not under any circumstances, and especially in his father's town. He cared about his family," she said. James Davis, a colleague of Wiley's and head tutor for the Chemistry Department, said he doesn't "know anymore what to think." "I walked across campus with Don three weeks ago, and he seemed as cheery-eyed as ever," he said. "I'm mystified. It's extremely hard to believe that he would take his own life, given what people know about his personality and sunny disposition." Evans said that at the conference in Memphis where Wiley was last seen the scientists did not discuss this year's Nobel Prizes, whose recipients have already been announced and will receive their awards on Dec. 10 in Stockholm. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=160940 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Published on Monday, December 03, 2001 Wiley's Family Says Suicide Highly Unlikely Family considers hiring a private investigator to search for clues By DANIEL K. ROSENHECK and ELISABETH S. THEODORE Crimson Staff Writer MEMPHIS-While police have emphasized the possibility that missing Harvard professor Don C. Wiley committed suicide, Wiley's family members said Saturday that investigators have told them there is no evidence besides his rental car-found abandoned on a bridge-to support that theory. "I hate that suicide keeps getting brought up as the possibility rather than one of many," Wiley's sister-in-law, Susan Wiley, said in her home Saturday. "I just don't think he committed suicide." Wiley, Loeb Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry, was last seen at midnight Nov. 15 at the banquet for a scientific meeting in Memphis. There were no signs of foul play when his car was found on the Hernando de Soto Bridge-over the Mississippi River-four hours later. Memphis Police Department (MPD) Lt. Richard True, the department's spokesperson for the Wiley case, said last week that based on past cases with similar evidence, "indications are [Wiley] parked the car on the bridge and took his own life." But Susan Wiley said that Sgt. Robert Shemwell, an investigator on the case, stressed to her after True's comments were published that the MPD was treating the disappearance as a missing persons case rather than a suicide. The MPD prohibits investigators from commenting publicly, and recently directed supervisors on the case to reroute all inquiries to True. Family and colleagues who saw Wiley right before his disappearance agree that his behavior was pleasant and unremarkable, and that he was at the pinnacle of his career. Even if Wiley were suicidal, his brother Greg Wiley said, jumping off a Memphis bridge would be a highly unlikely method because the professor was "terrified of heights." Greg Wiley added that his brother was protective of their father-whose wife, Wiley's mother, died last year-and would not have done something to cause him pain so close to the family's hometown. "He wouldn't have done it in Memphis," Greg Wiley said. Wiley's father, Bill Wiley, said the family had not yet decided whether they would hire a private investigator, but were considering the possibility. But while the family doubts that Wiley took his own life, Bill Wiley said hope that his son is still alive is dwindling. "We always hold out hope, but it's down to five percent or so," he said. "It's been two weeks." According to True, tips to the department have spiked since the reward for "information leading to the arrest and charge" of anyone connected with the disappearance has increased. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which has helped to oversee Wiley's lab for the last two weeks, added $15,000 on Thursday to the $5,000 contributed by Harvard and $5,000 of private donations from members of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, which sponsored the banquet Wiley attended at the Peabody Hotel where he was last seen. But while Wiley's brother and sister-in-law said that they appreciated the MPD's thoroughly investigating all leads, the tips Shemwell told them about seem unlikely to make a major contribution to the search. "They had someone who said they saw him at a garage sale," Susan Wiley said. True himself cautioned that tips inspired by rewards have a low success rate. "Most of these leads will turn out to be nothing," he said. "But if one lead out of 500 turns out to be conclusive, it's worth it." Employees at the Peabody say they have told the MPD and the hotel all they remember of Wiley's behavior that evening. One Peabody staff member said Wiley had been given a handmade American flag pin made out of beads and safety pins that night, and that he planned to wear it the next day at the conference's closing session. The employee said Wiley, who stayed for cocktails at the Peabody's lobby after the banquet ended, was the last of the conference attendees to leave the bar. At Harvard, administrators are waiting for an announcement from Memphis before they address Wiley's academic commitments. Wiley is scheduled to co-teach Biological Sciences 56: "Structure, Function, and Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules" with Higgins Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Stephen C. Harrison in the spring. Andrew P. McMahon, Baird professor of science and chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, said the department has made no changes to its spring course offerings as a result of Wiley's disappearance. If necessary, changes will be made "in enough time to be able to teach the course," McMahon said. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=160971 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Va. Scientist Was Killed With Sword 3 Suspects Interested in Occult and Witchcraft, Friends Say Michael Paul Pfohl and Katherine Erne Inglis, above and Kyle Hulbert have been charged in the killing of Robert M. Schwartz. (Loudoun County Sheriff's Office) _____From The Post_____ . Daughter Charged in Slaying of Scientist (The Washington Post, Feb 2, 2002) . Va. Slaying Suspects Allegedly Talked With Victim's Daughter (The Washington Post, Feb 1, 2002) . Suspect in Slaying Has Mental History (The Washington Post, Dec 19, 2001) . Slain Physicist Remembered, Mourned in Va. (The Washington Post, Dec 16, 2001) . Three Charged In Va. Scientist's Fatal Stabbing (The Washington Post, Dec 13, 2001) . Scientist Found Slain In His Loudoun Home (The Washington Post, Dec 12, 2001) By Maria Glod and Josh White Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, December 14, 2001; Page A01 The three young friends accused of killing a respected Loudoun County scientist were fascinated with fantasy worlds, witchcraft and the occult, and the slaying had overtones of their fixation, friends and law enforcement sources said yesterday. At least one was involved in a self-described coven and dabbled in self-mutilation and drinking blood, those who know him said. The trio's curiosities turned deadly Saturday when they carried out "a planned assassination" using a two-foot sword, a prosecutor said. Kyle Hulbert, 18, the purported ringleader of the plot, bounced among foster homes, wore black and spent countless hours in Internet chat rooms. He was known to some as "Demon." Katie Inglis, 19, a talented artist who often was teased in high school because she was quiet, abruptly left a Navy basic training camp in Illinois in May. And Michael Pfohl, 21, Inglis's boyfriend, painted his nails dark colors and often spoke of violence. Loudoun law enforcement authorities said the three piled into a black Honda Civic on Saturday and drove in the rain up the steep, winding dirt road to Robert M. Schwartz's isolated fieldstone-and-log farmhouse. Authorities are uncertain what exactly went on inside, but they said that Schwartz, 57, was stabbed and slashed repeatedly with the sword and that an "X" was carved in the back of his neck. During a hearing yesterday in Loudoun District Court, Commonwealth's Attorney Robert D. Anderson said, "There were statements made that these individuals were involved in the planning, execution and cover-up of this planned assassination." County officials will not comment on a motive in the slaying. They said the three suspects are acquainted with Schwartz's younger daughter, Clara. Law enforcement sources said detectives are investigating whether Robert Schwartz may have been killed because he would not allow Clara to associate with the others. Clara Schwartz has not been accused of any wrongdoing. Pfohl and Inglis, who were arrested Wednesday in Manassas, were ordered held without bond yesterday and remain at the Leesburg jail. Hulbert, who was arrested Tuesday night at his girlfriend's house in Millersville, Anne Arundel County, is scheduled to be brought to Loudoun on Monday, prosecutors said. All are charged with murder. Loudoun Public Defender Bonnie Hoffman, who was appointed to represent Inglis, did not return calls. Prosecutors said they do not know whether Pfohl and Hulbert have hired lawyers. Pfohl's family declined to comment. Matt Hulbert, Kyle Hulbert's father, said his son has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. "Kyle has serious, serious mental issues," Matt Hulbert said. "He has been off his medication for three months." Investigators are interviewing the suspects and their friends and family members and searching computer records to piece together the connections among Hulbert, Pfohl and Inglis -- and Clara Schwartz. Friends said that Pfohl and Inglis have been dating for years and that the two often hung out with Hulbert. One friend said Hulbert was especially close to Pfohl, calling him "my brother." Inglis and Clara Schwartz graduated from Loudoun Valley High School last year. The suspects favored all-black outfits, long black coats and colored hair, neighbors and friends said. None of the three was employed, according to neighbors and court records. Fran Broomall, 55, of Woodbridge, who let Hulbert live with him for a few months this year, said Hulbert seemed obsessed with the occult but was not dangerous. "He was into witchcraft, and some of the people he was running with -- a coven they called it -- would get together and talk about things of that nature," said Broomall. "But Kyle never came across as a person to be afraid of. He didn't go out of his way to look for trouble." Hulbert's "coven," it appears, was a ragtag group of young men and women who apparently delved into the mystical. They read books on witchcraft and donned dark outfits. They were obsessed with blood and corresponded in letters and on the Internet about drinking it, according to letters left behind at Broomall's home. Self-mutilation was common, and Broomall said Hulbert often had fresh cuts. The leader of the coven, who asked not to be identified, said that Pfohl and Inglis were not members but shared their interests. She said the coven is peaceful. Hulbert sometimes carried weapons. He was arrested Oct. 8 at Potomac Mills Mall on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, court records say. Broomall said the weapon was a foot-long knife, adding that police also confiscated his "throwing cards" -- a set of sharp-edged metal weapons. Law enforcement sources said scores of knives and an altar were found during a search of the home Pfohl and Inglis shared in Haymarket. Inglis, who used to live with her parents in a rural part of Loudoun, was shy, former classmates said. They said she excelled in art class and often read fantasy novels. In January, Inglis reported to the Naval Recruit Training Command center in Great Lakes, Ill., Navy officials said. She had been training to work in aviation but left May 28. Her discharge is pending. Inglis's parents could not be reached for comment, but John Kerkham, a friend and neighbor who spoke last night to Inglis's father, Robert, said he was distraught and baffled by the arrest. "She was the last girl in the world I would have thought would be involved in this, though I think she might have been easily led," Kerkham said. Perry Nicholson, who owns the Sweet Springs Country Store about a mile from the Inglis home, said Pfohl was first seen in the area about three years ago. Shortly afterward, Nicholson said, Pfohl came by and asked for lessons at the shooting range Nicholson operates. Nicholson said Pfohl often spoke of the military and said he wanted to join the Special Forces. "He was always talking about violent stuff," Nicholson said. On Friday, Hulbert appeared in Prince William County General District Court and pleaded guilty to trespassing -- the October concealed-weapons charge was dropped -- and was released on the condition that he perform 25 hours of community service and stay on good behavior. The next day, police said, he and his friends drove to Schwartz's house. Schwartz's family members, who are gathering at his parents' house in Silver Spring, are trying to tune out the grisly details of the crime and focus on happy memories. Schwartz's three children, Catherine, Clara and Jesse, are there, as are some of his six siblings. The family has planned a funeral tomorrow in Purcellville. "This is so unbelievably awful, what happened," sister Maria Schwartz said. "All of his children are beside themselves. We're trying to pull together as a family." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A41401-2001Dec13 ==================================================== Three Charged In Va. Scientist's Fatal Stabbing Suspects Friends of Daughter, Police Say By Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 13, 2001; Page B01 Three people were charged with murder yesterday in the slashing death of a respected Loudoun County biophysicist in what law enforcement sources say was a particularly vicious killing. Loudoun County authorities said the three suspects are friends of the teenage daughter of the slain scientist, Robert M. Schwartz, but would not comment on a motive. Schwartz, who worked at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, was found dead Monday afternoon in his secluded farmhouse southwest of Leesburg. Sources said Schwartz was stabbed several times in what they described as a ritualistic slaying. One source said his body was found facedown and an "X" was carved into the back of his neck. The killing had "cult overtones," the source said. Kyle Hulbert, 18, of Woodbridge, was arrested Tuesday night outside a home in Millersville, authorities said. Michael Pfohl, 21, and Katherine Inglis, 19, both of Haymarket, were arrested yesterday afternoon when Loudoun authorities who were following them stopped their car in Manassas. Loudoun Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson, who announced the arrests at a news conference last night, said that detectives have not determined a motive in the slaying and that the investigation is continuing. He said he did not know whether more arrests would be made. Simpson said the three suspects are friends of Schwartz's youngest daughter, Clara, 19, a student at James Madison University. He said he did not know how the four are acquainted and described them only as "local friends." "Investigators will only reveal that the three individuals charged are acquaintances of the victim's adult daughter," Simpson said. "We don't know how familiar they were with the father, but we know they knew him. Whether they came in with this intent or this was a discussion that went bad, we don't know." Simpson said investigators were interviewing the three late yesterday evening. "If they continue to cooperate we'll know more soon," he said. Loudoun investigators have been working round-the-clock interviewing friends and family and searching two residences in Prince William County, officials said. Investigators also impounded a car and are checking e-mail communications. Maryland and Virginia state troopers, as well as officers from Prince William, Manassas and Anne Arundel, have assisted. Schwartz, 57, who was well-known and respected in the national scientific community, was found dead Monday after co-workers at the center asked a neighbor to check on him because he hadn't shown up for work and then missed a 1 p.m. meeting. He was last seen Friday. Officials said there was no indication of forced entry into Schwartz's fieldstone-and-log home and no sign that anything was stolen. Schwartz had lived alone since his children went away to college, friends said; his wife, Joan Radius, died of cancer about four years ago. Sources said the suspects were seen by witnesses Saturday when their car became stuck on the winding dirt road that leads to the Schwartz home. A tow truck driver helped free the car. Law enforcement officials said the three suspects do not go to school with Clara Schwartz. No one was home at Inglis's house, and the people who answered the door at Pfohl's house declined to comment. Hulbert's family could not be located. Kathleen Tatum, who lives in Pfohl's Haymarket neighborhood, said he seemed reserved. "They are a very nice family, very quiet," Tatum said. "Nothing ever was strange. It's a shocker." Brad Hager, a friend of the Schwartz family, said Schwartz had been close to his three children, Clara, Catherine and Jesse, especially since their mother died. "He was very dedicated to his children," Hager said. "It's a sad thing, whoever did this." Hager said that he spoke to Schwartz recently, and that Schwartz had said he was looking forward to a holiday trip to St. Thomas that he had planned for the family. Catherine Schwartz also is a student at James Madison, Hager said. He said Jesse Schwartz had been taking classes at North Carolina State University. Colleagues at the center said Schwartz often talked about his children and his pets, which included a dog, goats and a bird. "He was an open guy," said Anne Armstrong, the center's president. "We knew all about his kids and his horse." Armstrong said Schwartz was a leading researcher on DNA sequencing analysis and biometrics. He worked for the past 15 years with the center, where he most recently served as executive director of research and development and university relations, helping to administer grants. Colleagues in the biotechnology community described Schwartz as a brilliant scientist who was skilled at translating complex scientific data to computers so it could be more easily analyzed. "He was well-known and highly regarded," said Mark Herzog, executive director of the Virginia Biotechnology Association. "We have just been receiving so many phone calls and e-mails expressing condolences from all around the country." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A34695-2001Dec12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People Are Getting Smarter By Barry Chamish chamish at netvision.net.il 12-5-1 After eight lectures in New York, New Jersey and Toronto, I conclude that people are getting smarter. They demanded to know less about Rabin and more about New World Order this tour around. Toronto comments: * "Israeli biological and nuclear scientists are being knocked off one by one and this covert war is going unnoticed. A plane carrying scientists to Russia's biological warfare center at Novosibirsk was blown up over the Black Sea and no one questions that the Ukrainian missile that supposedly did the job was a hundred miles out of range. Then a Swissair Corsair crashes killing the head of Ichilov Hospital's Hematology department, as well as directors of the Hebrew University School Of Medicine and the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and not a word of suspicion is raised. After that, one of the country's most prominent nuclear scientists, Baruch Zinger is assassinated and still, no one is putting the pieces together. Your front line against nuclear and biological attacks is being picked off in a covert murder campaign and your government is taking no security precautions to stop the intellectual slaughter. Or if it is, your public is totally unaware of the daily danger to its most educated citizens." * "Three suicide and car bombers make it to downtown Jerusalem and your media isn't questioning the security establishment? Think about this "breakdown." Each bombing requires about thirty people for surveillance, engineering, hideouts and more. Over a hundred backup people were required to make the operation work and the GSS (Shabak) had no intelligence beforehand? I don't buy it. It's a fair bet that you have traitors in the GSS withholding information from the army. You can count on the fact that there are Israeli plants who believe in this New World Order and are abetting the bloodshed." * "I've done a little research into Shimon Peres' childhood and there's one item which has been overlooked that may explain everything. It turns out his father went to Palestine and left his wife back in Poland. He reportedly shacked up with an Arab woman and fathered children with her. That may not be the first time he had children with a gentile woman. In Poland during the 20s, Jewish children were sent to their own schools. Peres received his elementary school education at a Jesuit school." * (From the same source. He phones Israel and is faxed an article from Maariv about the ownership of the PLO's public phone company Paltel. It is 40% owned by the Bin Laden family of Saudi Arabia and 40% by Arafat himself. BUT 2.46% of shares are owned by Shimon Peres). "Have a look at this Peres/Bin Laden business connection," he says. New York: I make a pilgrimage to Ground Zero. I've seen pictures of wartime Berlin and Hiroshima, but the devastation is more complete here. I view the wreckage from the fifth floor office of an acquaintance's office, then stare transfixed at the destruction of the remaining evidence from street level for an hour. When I return to my hotel, my face is beet red and blistered. There was something highly caustic, perhaps toxic, in the air. * "They're hiding the real death figures. They've got it down to only 3200 now. Now I'll tell you why that can't be. Only one company released its fatality figures, Cantor Fitzgerald. They lost 700 employees working on four floors. Even accounting for their being on top floors, you take 220 storeys and do the math, you get a figure of 42,000. And that's just employees, not visitors. The New York Times prints whatever deceased they can collect through the obituaries and that's the only source of deaths available. Where is the official fatality list? It's been two months and no list of the dead has been published. After any other tragedy, the list is made public immediately. Why hasn't a list been compiled and released of the World Trade Center dead already?" * "I knew the story of the plane hijackings was baloney when the Times published the, supposedly, only black box transcripts which survived. Four planes, and only one black box survived. Did you read the cockpit recording? It was straight out of Dragnet; 'Don't do anything stupid,' says the terrorist. "But if you think that was contrived, look at the stupid story they told us about Flight 93. This was the plan that went wrong. To get the other three planes to crash into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, you had to override their autopilots. They were set from Logan and Newark to Los Angeles, and had to be switched off and the plane flown manually, or reset to the coordinates of their targets. And all the while this was happening, not one pilot activated the Mayday signal. "However, something went wrong with Flight 93, and the plane kept flying west. There was a snafu and the autopilot wasn't overrided. So it was shot down 80 miles from Pittsburgh. It absolutely had to have been because parts of the tail were found eight miles from the nose. A plane can't crash land and thrust its tail eight miles backwards. Only a midair explosion can do that. "So look at the scenario of heroism they paint to cover up the missile attack on the plane. They've got three terrorists with little box cutters gathering together a half dozen of the toughest passengers you'd find on any plane. One is a wrestler, the other a rugby player, the rest six feet tall and 190 pounds minimum. You've got the front line of the Green Bay Packers all together and no one rushes the little terrorists with their pint sized blades. "Next, the terrorists decide to let the passengers call home on their cellphones. Sure, that makes sense. You're supposedly on the way to Washington, ninety minutes flying time away, to bomb the Capitol building, and you alert the entire defense establishment that you're coming. That's the way to make your mission a success alright. "And in the final act of the drama, Rambo is heard on one phone telling the troops, 'Let's roll, boys.' And to make sure the public buys this ridiculous story, they roll out the pregnant wife and stick her on the same flight a few days later. "Nothing about the scenario rings true because it didn't happen. If you want to get to the truth about what happened on the three planes which did hit their targets, start examining the one that missed." Good advice from one of the many people who have wised up, we hope, in time. ___ The author's books, including, THE LAST DAYS OF ISRAEL are available through www.amazon.com, The new e-mail address for the 2nd edition of Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin is milt1 at pop.gis.net The Hebrew and English editions are available from the author as well. Please visit http://www.webseers.com/rabin The toll free numbers to inquire about all books are: USA - 1 877 RABINYY 7224699 ISRAEL - 1 800 RABINY 722469 http://www.rense.com/general17/smart.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following is a comment from Dr. Patricia Doyle; "Something big happening. I am getting very close. I think that biotech and govt. needed massive funding for this genetic bioweapon project and that is why anthrax was mailed. I think we now have a "target" weapon, i.e. ethnic or racial target weapon. Something BIG is happening. My guess is that this has to do with Dr. Wiley. Quite possibly both scientists stumbled onto something. Does the US have a "genetic" bioweapon?? My guess is these researchers have stumbled upon a bioweapons black ops project and were killed." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Marconi Deaths 12-22-1 The Independent - London August 26, 1988 The police said it was suicide, and no doubt they were right. Ex-Brigadier Peter Ferry, a marketing manager at Marconi's Command and Control Systems centre at Frimley, Surrey, had apparently killed himself by inserting power main electric wires into his mouth and then turning on the power. The method chosen was perhaps marginally more grisly than in the case of several other Marconi employees. In 1986, for example, Ashad Sharif, a computer analyst who worked for Marconi Defence Systems in Stanmore, Middlesex, tied one end of a rope around his neck, another to a tree, and put his car into gear. Two months earlier, the body of Vimal Dajibhai, a software engineer responsible for checking the guidance systems of Tigerfish torpedos for Marconi Underwater Systems, was found under Clifton suspension bridge at Bristol. In March 1987, David Sands, a project manager working on secret satellite radar at Marconi's sister company Easams, in Camberley, drove up a slip road on his way to work and into a cafe at an estimated 80mph. A year later, Trevor Knight, a computer engineer at Marconi's space and defence base in Stanmore, died in his fume-filled car at his home in Hertfordshire. Earlier, two other Marconi employees, Victor Moore, a design engineer, and Roger Hill, a draughtsman, had killed themselves, both seemingly as a result of work pressures. There have been at least half a dozen more untoward deaths among defence scientists and others working in the defence field. Marconi is not alone, but it is well in the lead. The best efforts of investigative journalists have failed to establish a link either between the various deaths or between the deaths of the Marconi staff and the Ministry of Defence inquiry, now two years old, into some (pounds)3bn worth of defence contracts awarded to GEC-Marconi. No doubt in several instances pressure of work was the main factor: in a field where millions of pounds hang on the securing of contracts, it can be intense, especially if the Ministry of Defence investigators are hovering, as they had been at Frimley, Brigadier Ferry's base. It is hard to believe, however, that other factors have not also been at work. The pressure of work is also fierce in the money markets of the City, where equally large sums are at stake. Yet the suicide rate remains unremarkable. Mr Ferry's death on Tuesday must add to the concern already aroused by the alarming sequence of deaths in the defence industry. He had apparently been depressed since his car collided with a lorry a month ago; but suicide seems an extreme reaction. In such instances where no foul play is suspected, the inquiries of both police and coroners are likely to be brief, partly for the sake of the distressed relatives. They will not be concerned with establishing a connection with comparable deaths in different counties. Since these cases have been spread wide, there is now a case for pulling the threads together. It may be that there is no conspiracy and no concerted skullduggery. But these have been talented men. To allay anxieties, a senior police officer should be appointed to head a coordinated investigation into the underlying causes of so high a death rate. http://www.rense.com/general18/themarconideaths.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Very Mysterious Deaths Of Five Microbiologists By Ian Gurney www.caspro.com 12-20-1 It is a story worthy of a major conspiracy theory, the script for a Mel Gibson "Who dunnit?" action movie, or a blueprint for a contrived and unbeleivable episode of "The X Files". Except the facts surrounding this story are just that. Facts. The Truth. Five emminent microbiologists, leaders in their particular field of scientific research, either dead or missing in the last eight weeks, and a bizzare connection between one of the dead scientists and the mystery surrounding the death by Anthrax inhalation of a sixty one year old female hospital worker in New York. Sounds far fetched? Read on. Over the past few weeks several world-acclaimed scientific researchers specializing in infectious diseases and biological agents such as Anthrax, as well as DNA sequencing, have been found dead or have gone missing. First, on Novemeber 12th, was Dr. Benito Que, a cell biologist working on infectious diseases like HIV, who was found dead outside his laboratory at the Miami Medical School. Police say his death was possibly the result of a mugging. The Miami Herald reported that: "The incident, whatever it may have been, occurred on Monday afternoon as the scientist left his job at University of Miami's School of Medicine. He headed for his car, a white Ford Explorer parked on Northwest 10th Avenue. The word among his friends is that four men armed with a baseball bat attacked him at his car." On November 16th, within of week of Dr. Que's assault, Dr. Don C Wiley, one of the United States foremost infectious disease researchers was declared missing. Bill Poovey, a journalist with Associated Press wrote: "His rental car was found with a full tank of petrol and the keys in the ignition. His disappearance looked like a suicide, but according to colleagues and Dr. Wiley's family, the Harvard Scientist associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute would NEVER commit suicide. Associates who attended the St. Jude's Children Research Advisory Dinner with Dr. Wiley, just hours before he disappeared, said that he was in good spirits and NOT depressed. He was last seen at the banquet at the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis the night he vanished. Those who saw him last say he showed no signs of a man contemplating his own death." Wiley left the hotel around midnight. The bridge where his car was found is only a five-minute drive away and in the wrong direction from where he was staying, leaving authorities with a four-hour, unexplained gap until his vehicle was found. Now Memphis police are exploring several theories involving suicide, robbery and murder. "We began this investigation as a missing person investigation," said Walter Crews of the Memphis Police Department. "From there it went to a more criminal bent." Dr. Wiley was an expert on how the human immune system fights off infections and had recently investigated such dangerous viruses as AIDS, Ebola, herpes and influenza. From the United States, the story moves to England. On November 23rd, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, a former microbiologist for Biopreparat, the Soviet biological-weapons production facility was found dead. The Times was the only newspaper to provide an obituary for Dr. Pasechnik, and said: "The defection to Britain in 1989 of Vladimir Pasechnik revealed to the West for the first time the colossal scale of the Soviet Union's clandestine biological warfare programme. His revelations about the scale of the Soviet Union's production of such biological agents as anthrax, plague, tularaemia and smallpox provided an inside account of one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War. After his defection he worked for ten years at the U.K. Department of Health's Centre for Applied Microbiology Research before forming his own company, Regma Biotechnics, to work on therapies for cancer, neurological diseases, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. In the last few weeks of his life he had put his research on anthrax at the disposal of the Government, in the light of the threat from bioterrorism." Back to the United States, and on December 10th, Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was found murdered in Leesberg, Virginia. Dr. Schwartz was a well-known DNA sequencing researcher. He founded the Virginia Biotechnology Association where he worked on DNA sequencing for 15 years. On Wednesday, December 12th the Washington Post reported: "A well-known biophysicist, who was one of the leading researchers on DNA sequencing analysis, was found slain in his rural Loudoun County home after co-workers became concerned when he didn't arrive at work as expected. Robert M. Schwartz, 57, a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, was found dead in the secluded fieldstone farmhouse southwest of Leesburg where he lived alone. Loudoun sheriff's officials said it appeared that Schwartz had been stabbed." And so to Victoria State, Australia, where, on December 14th, a skilled microbiologist was killed at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's animal diseases facility in Geelong, Australia. This is the same facility that, as the journal Nature announced in January this year: "Australian scientists, Dr Ron Jackson and Dr Ian Ramshaw, accidentally created an astonishingly virulent strain of mousepox, a cousin of smallpox, among laboratory mice. They realised that if similar genetic manipulation was carried out on smallpox, an unstoppable killer could be unleashed." The microbiologist who died had worked for 15 years at the facility. His name was Set Van Nguyen. Victoria Police said: "Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died after entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. His body was found when his wife became worried after he failed to return from work. He was killed after entering a low temperature storage area where biological samples were kept. He did not know the room was full of deadly gas which had leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system. Unable to breathe, Mr. Nguyen collapsed and died." Now for the intriguing part of this story. On Friday, November 2nd, the Washington Post reported: "Officials are now scrambling to determine how a quiet, 61-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, riding the subway each day to and from her job in a hospital stockroom, was exposed to the deadly anthrax spores that killed her this week. They worry because there is no obvious connection to the factors common to earlier anthrax exposures and deaths: no clear link to the mail or to the media." The name of this quiet 61 year old hospital worker was Kathy Nguyen. Copyright Ian Gurney, December 2001. Ian Gurney is the author of "The Cassandra Prophecy" www.caspro.com http://www.rense.com/general18/five.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dead And Missing Scientists, Armageddon, Genetic Bioweapons And The Return Of The Lost Tribes Of Israel From Patricia Doyle, PhD dr_p_doyle at hotmail.com 12-13-1 Over the past few weeks several world-acclaimed researchers, geniuses by many accounts, specializing in infectious diseases, as well as DNA sequencing have been found dead or have gone missing. I believe these scientists were unaware of their participation in the developing of a genetic bioweapon that will wipe out as much as one third of the population on planet earth. In Novemeber, Dr. Benito Que, cell biologist working on infectious diseases like HIV was found comatose outside of his lab at the Miami Medical School. Within of week of Dr. Que's assault, Dr. Don C Wiley, foremost infectious disease researcher was declared missing. His rental car was found with a full tank of gas and the keys in the ignition. His disappearance made to look like a suicide. According to colleagues and Dr. Wiley's family, the Harvard Scientist associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute would NEVER commit suicide. Associates who attended the St. Jude's Children Research Advisory Dinner with Dr. Wiley, just hours before he disappeared, said that he was in good spirits and NOT depressed. On November 23rd, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, the foremost Soviet Biopreparat scientist who was responsible for aerosolizing plague and was the successful developer of binary weapons known as the 'Novichok group' of weapons was found dead. Dr. Pasechnik defected from the Soviet Union in 1989 while visiting the UK where he lived until his death in November. There were NO media reports of his death for one full week. At that time, an official from the UK intel community announced that Dr. Pasechnik had 'a stroke.' No autopsy or futher details were forthcoming. On December 10th, Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was found murdered in his secluded farmhouse in Leesberg, Va. Dr. Schwartz was a well-known DNA sequencing researcher. He founded the Virginia Biotechnology Association where he worked on DNA sequencing in his lab for 15 years. Halfway around the world in December, a skilled microbiologist was killed at CSIRO's animal diseases facility in Geelong, Australia. He had logged 15 years' experience with the unit. Victoria Police said Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died after entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. His body was found when his wife became worried after he failed to return from work. I believe there a cabal exists in the US and that this group is responsible for the anthrax hoax mailings of 1998 and the recent, deadly anthrax mailings of 2001. This cabal consists of some members from the highest levels of Government, the Military and the Biotech Industry. There appears to be a clandestine plan to develop a virulent infectious disease and quite possibly a 21st century version of the 1918 Spainish flu or other virus. This pathogen is going to be genetically-altered to only infect a certain group of people. I believe that Dr. Wiley's research of immunity factors of viruses, bacterias and mycoplasmas will be used to create a pathogen that will NOT infect (will leave untouched) a designated genetic type. This portion of the genetic target weapon was no doubt developed with research from Dr. Schwartz. In essence, a doomsday bioweapon can be released with a guarantee that the genetic code of certain individuals, and the virus itself, will protect these individuals from infection. If an unaltered pathogen were released, such as a virulent strain of Ebola or other level 4 bioweapon, those who release it would also fall victim to it. A type of MAD, mutually assured destruction, has thus far prevented the release of Level 4 pathogens. However, if there was a bioweapon that would NOT kill those who release it, then we would see a worldwide pandemic with a protected group left unaffected by the pandemic or "plague." ___ It has been stated throughout the Bible that when the lost 10 tribes of Israel return to their homeland to fight and win the battle of Armadeddon and Solomon's temple is rebuilt, the return of the Messiah and end of the world as we know it will be at hand. 9 of the 10 tribes have been found. They have been found in areas of the world now involved in the Afghan war. One of the missing tribes is thought to be Pathan peoples of Afghanistan. Other tribes have been found in Uzbekistan, in India on the border of Burma as well as in Pakistan on the border of Afghanistan. A tribe that consists only of direct desendants of Biblical priests has been found on an island off the coast of Tunisia. There is but one tribe to be found, that is the tribe of Asher. I believe that we are going to see the prophecy of the return of lost tribes to Israel fulfilled this year. At that time, there will be a release of the genetic bioweapon created in the US under the direction of a cabal who take orders from the Antichrist. Before the year 2001 ends, there will be more leading scientists murdered as well as those who try to bring public attention to this plot. The year 2002 will usher in the year of "Asher." The last lost tribe will be found, and the progeny of the 10 lost tribes will return to Israel to fulfill biblical prophecy. I am not a visionary, but, I do recognize the situation at hand. The deaths of world-renowned scientists in the field of infectious diseases is a warning that the last days are here. By connecting the dots, so to speak, with regard to each scientists specialized field, I believe we can conclude a major bioweapon is in the process of development and will soon be unleased upon the world. Furthermore, I believe that the anthrax (hoax) mailings of 1998 as well as the anthrax mailings of 2001 were perpertrated by the same cabal working on the ultimate genetic bioweapon. The purpose of the mailings was not to kill people, at this time. The purpose was two-fold: The mailings were intended to panic the public into allowing the Government to subvert the constitution and take away many of our freedoms. This has been accomplished. Additionally, it also created a way to force mass vaccinations of the public. This part is being talked about and is clearly in the offing. The panic caused by the anthrax mailings also inculcated within the Government, Congress, Military - and the public to be sure - a relaxed attitude regarding our involvement in offensive bioweapons research. It enabled the bioweaponeers to proceed with their plans to create a genetic bioweapon without large outcry. There is still time, and we, the public, can stop those who plot against humanity and God. We can contact our representatives in Congress and demand some answers regarding the source of the anthrax mailings, as well as demand an investigation into the recent deaths of major infectious disease researchers. It seems obvious that the supply of anthrax used in the recent mailings originated in Ft. Detrick's biowar lab. I believe that the anthrax used in the mailings was actually part of the US bioweapons stocks which were supposedly 'destroyed' in the 1970s. Becton Dickinson Co. was hired as an outside contractor by Ft. Detrick and given the responsiblity of eradicating our stores of bioweapons. It is my opinion that some of these weapons were not incinerated and were simply diverted to other agenices. Please write to your representatives and demand some answers... Thank you, Patricia Doyle http://www.rense.com/general18/returb.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revealed - Another Top BioWarfare Scientist Murdered From Patricia Doyle, PhD dr_p_doyle at hotmail.com 12-12-1 As I mentioned on your program, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik was responsible for viability of plague as aerosolized bioweapon. He came up with polymer coating. He also worked on binary weapons, such as substance A232 and substance 233 Novichok. Scientists, drop like flies, has to make you wonder. All in the past month, by the way Patricia ___ On November 23, 2001, the New York Times reported the death, two days earlier, of Vladimir Pasechnik, former director of the Institute of Ultra Pure Biochemical Preparations, a component of the Soviet biowarfare establishment, Biopreparat. Pasechnik had defected to Britain in 1989. In England Pasechnik was employed by Porton Down until he joined in the creation of a private company several years ago. With the exception of the Times obituary Pasechnik's death went unreported for almost a week. Interestingly, the Times was apparently informed of Pasechnik's death by the U.K. Ministry of Defense representative on the team which had debriefed Pasechnik after his defection. In Russia the National News Service commented: "The chief developer (while in Soviet Union) of the military grade plague as well as several successful types of binary weapons died, according to the New York Times obituary, from the stroke, although the fact that the newspaper quotes a former member of British intelligence rather than the doctor, makes people to believe in the other versions of death of the person who knew too much." While the 'other versions' of Pasechnik's death and the substance of those matters of which he "knew too much" are not revealed, the coincidence of Pasechnik's death and the recent rash of anthrax-related illnesses and deaths is certainly interesting. http://www.rense.com/general17/another2.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And Another Strange Death - Top DNA Scientist Murdered From Patricia Doyle, PhD dr_p_doyle at hotmail.com 12-12-1 It would appear that we have a "simple" case of burglary victim coming home and catching burglars in the act. As a result Dr. Robert M. Schwartz, age 57 was killed. ...OR, was Dr. Schwartz death made to look like a simple burglary/murder case? Maybe this case is not really so simple, especially when you add it to the case of the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Don C. Wiley, leading Harvard Researcher who worked on AIDS, Ebola, Smallpox, and Infectious Influenza. Dr. Wiley specialized on "infectivity" of viruses, bacterias and mycoplasmas. Dr. Wiley disappeared on Nov. 28, 2001. His car was found with full tank of gas, keys in the ignation on the Hernando De Soto Bridge over the Mississippi River in Tenn. Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was a leading researcher on DNA sequencing analysis was found dead in the secluded northern Virginia farmhouse where he lived alone, police said. We're all stunned," said Anne Armstrong, president of the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, a nonprofit agency where Schwartz worked. "We don't know anything. What we're assuming is maybe he walked in on something." Dr. Schwartz was a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, worked at the center for almost 15 years and had served as executive director of research and development and university relations, Armstrong said. He also worked on the first national online database of DNA sequence information. On November 16, a cellular biologist at the Miami Medical school was found comatose by Miami police. Police are calling Dr. Benito Que's case a mugging. Moreover, Dr. Que showed no sign of trama to the head. All three researchers appear to have simple explanations for their demise, disappearance, or assault. When you begin to connect the dots, the above cases do not appear to be so simple. Patricia Doyle http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/ http://asia.cnn.com/2001/US/11/28/missing.scientist/ __ Comment From From Name Withheld 12-12-1 Dear Sirs: In today's Washington Post, Wed. Dec 12th, on the front pg of Metro Section is an article entitled: "Scientist Found Slain In His Loudoun (County) Home" 1st paragraph: "A well-known biophysicist who was one of the leading researchers on DNA sequencing analysis was found slain in his rural Loudoun County home after co-workers became concerned that he didn't come to work Monday, authorities said yesterday. Robert M. Schwartz, 57, a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association." Am I mistaken, or is this another of a long list of top-level (Harvard, etc) scientists in this field who have recently been abducted, disappeared, or killed....????? I saw an article, and I think it was by Barry Chamish, listing the experts in this field who, he says, are being killed off..... (I think it was this field, or at least the field pertaining to bioterrorism info and genetics) - and he says it is deliberate. http://www.rense.com/general17/top.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scientist Found Slain In His Loudoun Home Peers Alarmed When He Missed Work By Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 12, 2001; Page B01 A well-known biophysicist who was one of the leading researchers on DNA sequencing analysis was found slain in his rural Loudoun County home after co-workers became concerned that he didn't come to work Monday, authorities said yesterday. Robert M. Schwartz, 57, a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, was found dead in the secluded fieldstone farmhouse southwest of Leesburg where he lived alone. Friends said Schwartz's wife died of cancer several years ago and their three children are away at college. Loudoun sheriff's officials said an autopsy will be conducted today at the medical examiner's office in Fairfax County. Sources said it appeared that Schwartz had been stabbed. Loudoun Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson said Schwartz was last heard from Friday. Co-workers at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, a government-funded nonprofit agency in Herndon that was created by the General Assembly in 1984, asked neighbors to check on Schwartz when he didn't show up for work Monday and then missed a 1 p.m. meeting. "We're all stunned," said CIT President Anne Armstrong. "We don't know anything. What we're assuming is maybe he walked in on something." Simpson declined to say whether investigators have any suspects but said officers worked all night Monday gathering evidence and preparing a search warrant for an undisclosed location. "We have some leads we are following up on," Simpson said. Armstrong called Schwartz "one of the smartest people I ever met" and said Schwartz worked at CIT for almost 15 years. Recently he served as executive director of research and development and university relations, helping to administer public grants. According to CIT's Web site, Schwartz graduated cum laude from Catholic University and has a doctorate in biophysics from Stanford University. He worked at both Georgetown University and the University of Maryland and contributed chapters to the Nucleic Acid Sequence Database. He also worked on the first national online database of DNA sequence information. Robert G. Templin, who worked at CIT for about six years, described Schwartz as a brilliant scientist who had a gift for explaining complex scientific subjects in simple language. "He was the kind of person who could live in the scientific world or the business world or the everyday world of Virginia citizens and explain why science is important," Templin said. Neighbors described Schwartz as a quiet man who always stopped to help if a car was stuck on the narrow dirt road leading to their homes. They said he adored his farmhouse and the horse and three goats he kept in a grassy fence-lined pasture. He also had a dog and a bird. "He enjoyed rural living," Templin said. "Outside of his professional work, his children and family were his major focus." Armstrong said she last spoke with Schwartz on Friday at the CIT office in Herndon. "He was concerned about getting home because he had to muck out the horse stall," she said. Armstrong said Schwartz's assistant came to her Monday when he didn't come into the office. "She said, 'Did Bob tell you he was going to be anyplace different today?' " Armstrong recalled. "She said he never goes anyplace without calling." When Schwartz still hadn't arrived for a 1 p.m. meeting, Armstrong said, they asked a neighbor to check on him. "We know very little about the circumstances of Bob's death, except that the Loudoun County authorities have informed us they are treating it as a crime," Armstrong said. "If that is the case, it is a senseless and random act of violence against a brilliant man." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A28864-2001Dec11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Researcher Slain Leading Biophysicist Found Dead in Va. Farmhouse The Associated Press L E E S B U R G, Va., Dec. 12 - A leading researcher on DNA sequencing analysis and founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association was found dead in the secluded farmhouse where he lived alone, police said Tuesday. Robert M. Schwartz, 57, was found by neighbors Monday after co-workers called them to say Schwartz had uncharacteristically skipped work and missed a meeting. An autopsy will determine Schwartz's cause of death, but sources told The Washington Post for a story today that it appeared Schwartz had been stabbed. "We're all stunned," said Anne Armstrong, president of the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology, a nonprofit agency where Schwartz worked. "We don't know anything. What we're assuming is maybe he walked in on something." Loudoun Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson said investigators worked all night at the secluded farmhouse where Schwartz lived, and that detectives had some leads. Schwartz worked at CIT for almost 15 years and had served as executive director of research and development and university relations, Armstrong said. He also worked on the first national online database of DNA sequence information. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/slainresearcher011212.html ========================================= Scientist Found Slain In His Loudoun Home Peers Alarmed When He Missed Work By Maria Glod Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 12, 2001; Page B01 A well-known biophysicist who was one of the leading researchers on DNA sequencing analysis was found slain in his rural Loudoun County home after co-workers became concerned that he didn't come to work Monday, authorities said yesterday. Robert M. Schwartz, 57, a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, was found dead in the secluded fieldstone farmhouse southwest of Leesburg where he lived alone. Friends said Schwartz's wife died of cancer several years ago and their three children are away at college. Loudoun sheriff's officials said an autopsy will be conducted today at the medical examiner's office in Fairfax County. Sources said it appeared that Schwartz had been stabbed. Loudoun Sheriff Stephen O. Simpson said Schwartz was last heard from Friday. Co-workers at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology, a government-funded nonprofit agency in Herndon that was created by the General Assembly in 1984, asked neighbors to check on Schwartz when he didn't show up for work Monday and then missed a 1 p.m. meeting. "We're all stunned," said CIT President Anne Armstrong. "We don't know anything. What we're assuming is maybe he walked in on something." Simpson declined to say whether investigators have any suspects but said officers worked all night Monday gathering evidence and preparing a search warrant for an undisclosed location. "We have some leads we are following up on," Simpson said. Armstrong called Schwartz "one of the smartest people I ever met" and said Schwartz worked at CIT for almost 15 years. Recently he served as executive director of research and development and university relations, helping to administer public grants. According to CIT's Web site, Schwartz graduated cum laude from Catholic University and has a doctorate in biophysics from Stanford University. He worked at both Georgetown University and the University of Maryland and contributed chapters to the Nucleic Acid Sequence Database. He also worked on the first national online database of DNA sequence information. Robert G. Templin, who worked at CIT for about six years, described Schwartz as a brilliant scientist who had a gift for explaining complex scientific subjects in simple language. "He was the kind of person who could live in the scientific world or the business world or the everyday world of Virginia citizens and explain why science is important," Templin said. Neighbors described Schwartz as a quiet man who always stopped to help if a car was stuck on the narrow dirt road leading to their homes. They said he adored his farmhouse and the horse and three goats he kept in a grassy fence-lined pasture. He also had a dog and a bird. "He enjoyed rural living," Templin said. "Outside of his professional work, his children and family were his major focus." Armstrong said she last spoke with Schwartz on Friday at the CIT office in Herndon. "He was concerned about getting home because he had to muck out the horse stall," she said. Armstrong said Schwartz's assistant came to her Monday when he didn't come into the office. "She said, 'Did Bob tell you he was going to be anyplace different today?' " Armstrong recalled. "She said he never goes anyplace without calling." When Schwartz still hadn't arrived for a 1 p.m. meeting, Armstrong said, they asked a neighbor to check on him. "We know very little about the circumstances of Bob's death, except that the Loudoun County authorities have informed us they are treating it as a crime," Armstrong said. "If that is the case, it is a senseless and random act of violence against a brilliant man." http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A28864-2001Dec11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - NATIONAL Scientist dies in lab airlock A microbiologist killed at CSIRO's animal diseases facility in Geelong had logged 15 years' experience with the unit, police said today. Victoria Police said Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died yesterday morning after entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. His body was found when his wife became worried after he failed to return from work. Releasing his name today, police said Mr Nguyen had worked for CSIRO's Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) as a microbiologist for 15 years. He was killed after entering a low temperature storage area where biological samples were kept. advertisement advertisement Police said he did not know the room was full of deadly gas which had leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system. Unable to breathe, he collapsed and died. Safety authorities are still investigating. Mr Nguyen's death brings Victoria's workplace death toll to 29 this year http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/12/national/national104.html Scientist dies in lab airlock (Sydney Morning Herald) A microbiologist killed at CSIRO's animal diseases facility in Geelong had logged 15 years' experience with the unit, police said today. Victoria Police said Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died yesterday morning after entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Russian Surgeon, 24, Dies on Highway While Fleeing Police By Masha Herbst Associated Press Writer Published: Dec 11, 2001 WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) - A 24-year-old Russian surgeon studying in Connecticut was fatally struck by a car as he fled a store with three stolen rolls of film, police said. Doctors who worked with Roman Kuzmin at Waterbury Hospital said they were stunned to hear of his death Sunday evening and many couldn't believe the circumstances. "I think that's rubbish," said Ted Kennon, a Yale physician who worked closely with Kuzmin. "I'd be very surprised if there was anything to that." According to police, Kuzmin was carrying the film when he walked out of BJ's Wholesale Club in Waterbury and security guards chased him across a parking lot after an alarm sounded. By the time two police officers arrived, Kuzmin had fled into a ravine that runs along Interstate 84, Capt. Paul Bruce said. When the officers' flashlights came upon Kuzmin, he scrambled up the embankment and onto the highway. "The officers warned him to stop, not to go into the highway," Bruce said. Kuzmin left Vladivostok in September to study orthopedic surgical techniques at Waterbury Hospital under a Keggi Othopedic Foundation program. Dr. Kristaps Keggi, who organized the program, said Kuzmin was "very able, very bright - a superb student and a superb individual." Keggi said he thought it impossible that the young man would steal. He said Kuzmin was so honest that he refused to take toilet paper from the surgeon's lounge when he ran out at his apartment. Kuzmin's parents have begun the 6,400-mile journey to Waterbury and are expected to arrive Wednesday evening to claim their son's body, Keggi said. Igor Kuzmin is a prominent orthopedic surgeon in Vladivostok. "It's an amazing loss for us personally, and an amazing loss for Russia too, because he was a man who was going to be a leading person in Russian orthopedic surgery, without question," Keggi said. AP-ES-12-11-01 1501EST http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAYKL854VC.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harvard professor's body found Autopsy planned in Tennessee By David Abel, Globe Staff and Michele Kurtz Globe Correspondent, 12/21/2001 ive weeks after Harvard biochemist Don C. Wiley mysteriously disappeared in Memphis, police yesterday found his body floating 320 miles to the south in a tributary of the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The body was discovered shortly before 10 a.m., snagged on a tree in log-strewn water next to a hydroelectric station in Vidalia. Police found a wallet with documents that identified the body, which matched the height and weight of the 57-year-old nationally acclaimed specialist in infectious diseases. FBI officials in New Orleans notified Memphis police at 3:15 p.m. yesterday, and officials last night sent the remains to the Shelby County medical examiner's office in Memphis for an autopsy to determine the cause of death. ''That is all we know right now,'' said Officer Latanya Able, public information officer for the Memphis Police Department. ''This is very sad and our hearts go out to the family.'' After holding out hope for more than a month that his older brother would be found alive, Greg Wiley said last night that he and his family were accepting his death. ''This is all really kind of mind-boggling,'' he said. ''All we can do is wait and see. It now seems like he's really not with us anymore.'' Wiley was last seen around midnight on Nov. 14 at the Peabody Hotel, while attending a two-day annual meeting of the scientific advisory board of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. At 4 a.m., police found Wiley's rental car on a mile-long bridge that spans the Mississippi River, with his rental car contract in the glove compartment, the keys in the ignition, and a full tank of gas. The Mitsubishi Galant was pointed west, the opposite direction from Wiley's father's Memphis home, where the professor had planned to spend the night. Police combed the river and the city but could not find any clues as to what happened to the professor, whose work had received the prestigious Lasker and Japan awards. Wiley had planned to spend the weekend with his wife and two young children in Memphis, and the family had bought tickets to visit Graceland. His family and friends said he would not commit suicide. Wiley had no apparent history of mental health problems, no family or financial problems, and he was actively involved in raising his children, ages 7 and 10. His wife, Katrin Valgeirsdottir, said she and her husband had bought tickets for a Christmas trip to Iceland, for which Wiley had been spending time learning Icelandic, her native language. In a statement, Harvard president Lawrence Summers said last night, ''All of us are profoundly saddened by today's news. Don Wiley was a brilliant biologist and a greatly admired member of this community. His loss leaves a tremendous void.'' Wiley, an expert on how the immune system fights infection, had studied the Ebola virus, HIV, herpes, and influenza. The professor was most widely known for his work in X-ray crystallography. He was widely regarded as the nation's foremost expert in using special X-ray cameras and mathematical formulas to make high-resolution images of viruses http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:8EJRwr3RQsEC:www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/355/metro/Harvard_professor_s_body_found%2B.shtml+Police+Search+for+Harvard+Professor&hl=en -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top Deadly Contagious Virus: Harvard Professor Goes Missing From Patricia Doyle, PhD dr_p_doyle at hotmail.com 11-23-1 Hello Jeff - I wonder if this scientist might be a missing link in the Anthrax cases? He might have been blackmailed into providing anthrax. Who knows? Given his expertise in deadly INFECTIOUS viruses, especially flu, I wonder if we are going to be hit with a virulent and deadly flu epidemic? Patricia Harvard Professor Missing By Douglas Belkin - Boston Globe Staff and Jenny Jiang - Globe Correspondent 11-21-1 A world-renowned Harvard scientist and expert in highly contagious and deadly viruses mysteriously disappeared in Tennessee early last Friday, leaving a rental car on a Memphis bridge. Don C. Wiley was in town to visit relatives and attend the annual meeting of the scientific advisory board of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. Police said there were no signs of foul play, just the car with the keys in the ignition on a bridge that spans the Mississippi River. Police found the car five hours after Wiley left a dinner at a posh hotel several blocks from the bridge. ''This is totally unexpected. He was fine on Thursday night,'' said Dr. Joseph Mirro, executive vice president at St. Jude's Hospital. The disappearance of the popular, gregarious scientist has shaken the scientific board and the staff and directors of the hospital, Mirro said. ''This is a terrible event and a great loss to the scientific community,'' he added, assuming the worst. ''He is an extremely brilliant scientist in medicine and understanding biology.'' In Cambridge, Wiley's wife, Katrin Valgeirsdottir, said she was planning to fly down on Friday to meet her 57-year-old husband with their children, ages 7 and 10. He also has two other children, ages 26 and 34, she said. ''He would never vanish. He wouldn't commit suicide,'' she said. ''I have no idea what has happened.'' An award-winning professor of biochemistry and biophysics at Harvard, Wiley built the first model of the structures of influenza viruses and human cells that allow the disease organism to infect humans. In 1985, Wiley began researching how drugs might block the process, using a method called X-ray crystallography, in hopes of conquering maladies ranging from the common cold to HIV. The researcher for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Harvard had flown to Memphis Wednesday evening, police said, and stayed with his father in Germantown, a suburb. Wiley's brother and sister-in-law also live in the area. On Thursday, Wiley met with the other 14 members of the board, and was one of 150 people attending a dinner that evening. Memphis police Lieutenant Joe Scott said that witnesses described him as being in a good mood when he left the dinner. ''No one detected that he was despondent or was having any difficulties in any way,'' Scott said. At 4 a.m. Friday, police found Wiley's rented Mitsubishi Galant on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge, which links Tennessee to Arkansas. Memphis police said the doors were unlocked, the key was in the ignition, and the hazard lights had not been turned on. The car had a full tank of gas. Scott said the bridge is about 100 feet high, and has been the scene of a handful of suicides each year. Sometimes the bodies aren't found for weeks, he said. ''We are investigating every angle we can think of,'' Scott said. Wiley's research focuses on the structure of viruses and proteins in the human immune system. Herman Eisen, an MIT professor emeritus and friend of Wiley's, said suicide ''just doesn't fit.'' Wiley ''was extremely successful at what he did. He seemed stable and outgoing, he ran a large research group very effectively. People held him in very high regard.'' Globe correspondents Fran Riley and Jana Benscoter contributed to this report. This story ran on page B1 of the Boston Globe on 11/21/2001. ? Copyright 2001 Globe Newspaper Company http://www.rense.com/general17/topdeadlycontagious.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- American Patriot Friends Network "...a network of networkers..." 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Could be a cover for secret bunkers for pentagon big-wigs - courtesy of the taxpayer - to hide in if an emergency should arise - Who Knows ? I just thought you might recognize to artwork design as something symbolic from history - perhaps the total art would be better seen without by highlighting and I would send a clean copy but the last one took 45 minutes to up-load somehow the shape of the entire artwork seems familiar -fonebone WEBFAIRY - I THINK I FOUND A SECOND and third OCCULT SYMBOLS UNDER CONSTRUCTION Clockwise - the next segment of the pentagon from the original segment cited --- the one bordering the river also has artwork under construction yet barely discernable albeit almost complete - Innocent artwork of a overzealous and egotistic artist with taxpayers funds to squander ? or - is this second symbol attached to a pentagon segment another occult symbol with a mysterious message or meaning - even the two useless access roads are woven cleverly into the symbolic artwork this segment also is somewhat incomplete so as to obscure the finished design -- or hide something in plain view. Clockwise -the next pentagon segment also appears to be under construction, again clockwise, we have a completed symbolic artwork -again symmetrically aligned to a pentagon segment - this small design may be later expanded into the parking areas if needed - seems too modest by pentagon standards So! four of the five pentagon segments have artwork completed or under construction - the only segment without any symmetrical artwork appears to be the segment hit during 9-11 I wonder if this all has any meaning at all oh well have a nice holiday -fonebone > http://www.rense.com/general44/gikdeb.htm > Webfairy wrote: > Here's the occult symbolisms you found, but in Jerusalem!! > This will make it much easier to demonstrate what you were finding in the > Pentagon satellite picture!! WOW NOTE how the four-sided shape sits ontop of the artwork just like the pentagon park that forms the interior of the pentagon sits upon the artwork under construction - very interesting !!! -fonebone I think the israeli artwork looks closer to the 2nd one - the one that ends into the potomac river and looks vaguely like a temple or alter - I do see hints of the israeli symbol in the artwork under construction as well What dorkes me the most is the knowledge of the treatment of the wounded that return - stuffed into barracks with no indoor toilets or amenities other that mosquito screens on the windows that artwork monies should be dead last on the list of national priorities - no ! however - not surprising - any government the would look the other way as heroin was stuffed in the carcasses of their returning heroes -then allows this poison to infect it's own citizens - happy new year - fonebone The Occult Technology of Power http://www.rexresearch.com/articles/ocultech.htm#1 >occult means hidden- so how is it hidden? -fonebone replies: these artworks can only be discerned when viewed from above and per the definition above--are indeed hidden -and therefore my usage of the term "occult" is precise - further ,the artwork is skillfully disguised to blend in with or perhaps more correctly -meld into the symbolic artwork - the existing highways and overpasses further obfuscating the artwork from the uneducated eyes - a few questions How much taxpayer monies are being expended on these artworks - still under construction that did not slow or cease after the 9-11 attack ? - mysterious Who ordered the design and construction of these artworks and how was this entire project funded ? -mysterious What is their hidden meaning and who holds the "secret" of these "occult" artworks? -mysterious >From S1[V3R W0[F First See http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1399.cfm If you use the shape of the Massonic Coffin like the construction in Pentagon you will obtain something like this. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Deathbed confession implicates USG withholding of key evidence in OKC bombing case Oklahoma City Bombing Weeks Before 1995 Oklahoma Bombing, Government Warned of Possible Terror Attacks Victims' Mother Asks Why No ATF Were Killed in Bombing Bombing sent grandmother on long quest CHANDRA LEVY: UNRAVELING GOVERNMENT COVERUPS? Those Who Died The 168 Lives Lost on April 19, 1995. Was FBI early arrival in OKC? Unresolved Deaths in OKC WHO KILLED TERRY YEAKEY? The big bad wolf is dead? Lead in Oklahoma Bombing McVeigh's death certificate Open letter to John Ashcroft JOHN ASHCROFT AND THE OKC BOMBING Devvy Kidd/February 8, 2001 Did A Lawsuit Stop McVeigh's Execution? Open letter to John Ashcroft The Murrah Building Cover-up (literally). UPDATE: Oklahoma Bombing Cover-Up Jane Graham Information "High Explosives" WHICH HAD A TIMER ON IT Oklahoma Bombing Affidavits: Additional Bomb Experts say Murrah Building damage not done by truck blast alone "John Doe #2 Identified: But Can We Get The FBI To Arrest Him?" OKC Bombing ~ What Is The Government Hiding Air Force Photos and JANE GRAHAM Fed Implicated in OKC Bombing Mind Control & Timothy McVeigh's Rise from "Robotic" Soldier to Mad Bomber Secret Pentagon Report on Oklahoma City Bombing--Evidence of an Inside Job? OKC BOMBING WAS VIA EM BEAM WEAPON!!! THE NEW AMERICAN: Oklahoma City Bombing INSIDE THE NEW OKLAHOMA CITY FBI DOCUMENTS Lawsuit filed for stay of execution for Tim McVeigh ELOHIM, TERROR, AND TRUTH DREAM BUST OF THE CENTURY Fed Informant Documents Treason in OKC Bombing Experts also say the way the Murrah building fell.... Blowing the Lid Off the O.K. City Bomb Third Suspect Identified in Oklahoma Bombing The McVeigh aftermath Oklahoma Bombing Grand Jury Loses Credibility FBI Scandals and Death Threat Bring No Closure The Oklahoma Bombing Timothy McVeigh Convicted but Jury is Still Out Many, Many Questions Still Haunt Oklahoma The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror OKC Bombing- Death of a Hero: Terry Yeakey- Part II Police Officer Murdered to cover up OKC Bombing UNRESOLVED DEATHS IN OKLAHOMA OKC Murders OKC Blast Linked To Bin Laden - FBI Refused To Accept Evidence Government's Prior Knowledge Oklahoma City Bombing Update - An e-mail I recieved OKC Trial Transcripts Terry Nichols What You Won't Hear In The News!! CHANDRA LEVY: UNRAVELING GOVERNMENT COVERUPS? Site search Web search powered by FreeFind OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING COVER-UP http://www.apfn.org/apfn/OKC_motel.htm "WE ARE APT TO SHUT OUR EYES AGAINST A PAINFUL TRUTH... FOR MY PART, I AM WILLING TO KNOW THE WHOLE TRUTH; TO KNOW THE WORST; AND TO PROVIDE FOR IT." ---- Patrick Henry http://www.apfn.org The Middle Eastern connection to Oklahoma City http://www.apfn.org/OKC/middle_eastern.htm OKC Blast Linked To bin Laden-FBI Refused To Accept Evidence http://educate-yourself.org/nwobinladenokcbomblink21mar01.html Execution Eye Witness - Susan Carlson, Media Witness: 4 min. 27 sec. "he appeared to be still breathing or what appeared to be shallow breathing, even after being pronounced dead and his eyes remained open". Windows Media Player) - See and hear this first. Execution Eye Witness http://www.apfn.org/movies/mcveigh-lives.WMV http://okcbombing.org/ To Order the " Final Report" on the OKC bombing: Call toll-free 800-334-5597 Update: Check News Update for more information. Any questions, email: info at okcbombing.org For more information write to: Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee PO Box 75697 Oklahoma City, OK 73147 [[We bought this book "Final Report" and highly recommend it!]] Transcript of the Press Conference http://www.apfn.org/OKC/press.htm The Terrance (Terry) Yeakey Incident Terrance (Terry) Yeakey was a courageous young black Oklahoma City police officer who was on duty near the Murrah Building the morning of that building's bombing. Officer Yeakey entered the bombed out Murrah building and saw things that apparently caused him to be murdered. The hideous details are within these audio tapes Part 1 http://www.apfn.org/audio/tyeakey1.rm Part 2 http://www.apfn.org/audio/tyeakey2.rm M.L. Montgomery wrote in message 35A0E386.2CAD563 at swbell.net... I don't know about this story, however Officer Yeakey was a DARE officer for Mustang (Oklahoma) Schools in addition to being involved in the Murrah Building Bombing rescue efforts. My son was one of his students and Officer Yeakey had a *profound* effect on him and the other students. Many of his DARE students attended his funeral and all, including my son, received counseling. Our understanding was that Officer Yeakey, despondent over the break-up of his marriage and suffering post-traumatic stress from his role in the bombing, took his own life. http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=35A2E846.2440A0 at lr.net Suspicious Deaths In the first minutes and hours following the blasts that devastated the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, the morning of April 19, 1995, a number of selfless individuals risked life and limb to rescue many of the victims. Among them were Oklahoma City police officers, Terrance Yeakey, Gordon Martin and Ken Griffin, a number of Oklahoma City firefighters, Dr. H. Don Chumley, G.S.A. employee Mike Loudenslager and others. http://groups.google.com/groups?ic=1&selm=cNVu4.253$JY.490 at pravda.msen.com DAVID KULKENDORFER (Oklahoma County Sheriff's Reserve Deputy): Excerpt: Well, later on, during the evening, a lot of public officials started to show up. The mayor showed up with a contingency, and the district attorney, the governor, and several dignitaries. I was standing approximately in front of the Water Resources Building, to try to keep people out and watching the search and rescue. As I looked to my left, I could see Congressman Istook kind of working his way east to west. Well, he worked his way up to me and he stopped to my left and introduced himself and we kind of small-talked a little bit about, "How's everything? It's a bad, bad, bad deal." And he made the comment to me, he says, "Yeah, we knew this was going to happen." And I said, "Excuse me?" And he says, "Yeah, we knew this was going to happen. We got word through our sources that there is a radical fundamental Islamic group in Oklahoma City and that they were going to bomb the federal building." http://www.apfn.org/OKC/ISTOOK1.TXT USA vs TERRY LYNN NICHOLS okc2.wmv The following .pdf documents were sent to APFN to upload for Public viewing, Compliments of MR. HARMON L. TAYLOR P O BOX 516104 DALLAS, TX 75251 Phone: (214) 361-0401 Fax: (214) 361-0306 State Bar of Texas Appellate Section http://www.tex-app.org/bylast.php?firstletter=T #### http://www.apfn.org/pdf/brief.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/whywebother.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/letter.html http://www.apfn.org/pdf/ohreally.html http://www.apfn.org/pdf/CoverSheet.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/SummonsLappin.pdf Notation for the following document: It may make perfect, intuitive sense why Lappin is the Defendant. It may not be quite so clear why the State AG is also named, and as a Necessary Party. It's in the pleadings, but let me address that here, briefly. Land ownership in the "constitutional Government" depends upon a couple of things, both of which are found in Article I, section 8, clause 17. First, there must be evidence of transfer of title to the property, such as by a Deed, and secondly, there must be Consent by the State Legislature of the State in which the property is found. For the Murrah Building, neither of these forms of evidence of ownership in the "constitutional Government" have ever shown up; not in the deed records, not in the legislative records, not in either trial (McVeigh or Nichols). Therefore, it is safe to conclude that these documents don't exist regarding the Murrah Building. Conclusion: The land on which stood the Murrah Building was never owned by the "constitutional Government." If the distinction between the "federal government" and the "constitutional Government" is a topic for which additional information would be helpful, I can also send my "Dissertations on Definitions" page from legalreality.com, which explores, in some detail, what the term "federal" means. In sum, "federal" means "federal." It doesn't mean "national." It most certainly doesn't mean "constitutional." "Federal" has everything to do with private obligations and nothing to do with the Constitution. The "federal government" does not arise from the Constitution, which also means that the Constitution is not the language by which we can limit the "federal government." The fact that the Murrah Building and that property are characterized, and properly so, as a "federal enclave" is the confession that it is, in fact, private property. Apply this line of thought one more time. As it turns out, the property on which sits the "United States" Penitentiary in Terre Haute also has a flagrant problem with title, from the point of view of the Constitution. Thanks to excellent and very much appreciated assistance in Indiana, we were able to locate a deed transferring title "to the United States of America, or its successors," for that property. However, and also thanks to excellent and very much appreciated assistance in Indiana, in particular through the Notre Dame School of Law library, we were completely unable to locate any act by the State Legislature in Indiana "consenting" to that transfer of title. Therefore, we know that the "constitutional Government" never owned that property, either. And, again, the proper characterization of that property's being a "federal enclave" is the confession that it, too, is private property. Here's the legal consequence of these conclusions. Since this property is not owned by the "constitutional Government," that makes it property that is subject to the authority of the "state." And, since we cannot find any formal business organizational documents telling us that the "United States" Penitentiary in Terre Haute is a "for profit" business enterprise, we must presume the possibility that it is a "not for profit" business enterprise. When a "not for profit" business entity gets sued, it is the traditional rule that the AG of the "state" must be included as a Necessary Party, especially in matters sounding in equity, which this one most certainly did. The reason is that the "state" AG is a necessary party to all suits involving public charitable trusts, and if the "state" AG is not included, then the entire matter can be dismissed at the whim of the AG, at practically any stage, including post-judgment, based solely on failure of proper notice to the "state" AG. Some "states" may have rules that vary some from this, but this is the traditional gist of the matter. In sum, because, through a "no evidence" line of proof, we CAN establish that the "United States" Penitentiary in Terre Haute is not sitting on property owned by the "constitutional Government," we know that it is a business entity subject to the authority of the State of Indiana. That being the case, and not having affirmative proof that it is, in fact, a "for profit" business enterprise, of some organizational structure or other, the question arises that it very well may be a public charitable trust, and if that's the case, then the Indiana AG is a necessary party to the suit. The Indiana AG's Office never provided proof, one way or the other, as to any Consent by the Indiana Legislature or of the "for profit," or "not for profit," character of that Penitentiary. So, we still don't know, for certain, but the series of reasonable and still unanswered questions continues to give us a clue. per the above article: http://www.apfn.org/pdf/SummonsINAG.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/Appearance.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/mphv.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/origcomp.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/grahamaff.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/mti.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/brief.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/AppearanceUSAG.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/AppearanceINAG01.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/AppearanceINAG02.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/mlvsuppl01.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/mtroupd01.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/Opinion01.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/ResponseUSAG.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/ResponseINAG.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/briefshwcse.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/Opinion02.pdf Notation On the Notice of Appeal: This is an interesting part of the story. That weekend was a wild one. I think I traveled close to 1200 miles, all within Texas. To make a long story short, I was enroute from Dallas to Houston to pick up my Sister and Niece, so that we could go to a High School Reunion function in Austin, and, in the rain, on I-45 South, about the Woodlands, I pulled over, hand wrote out the Notice of Appeal, and faxed it to Indiana from a truck stop. Rather than rushing into the appeal, it took me until about 3:30 or so, to get in touch with one more valuable opinion on this issue. He heard what I could tell him in 10 minutes, on two different phone calls of about that length, and he found value in the position. That's when I filed the appeal, and it was literally about 10 minutes prior to "closing" in Indiana when the Notice arrived. Turns out they'd been expecting it pretty much all day. VERY helpful clerk and staff on this one. VERY helpful. The best way to appreciate this one is probably by our getting a certified copy of the one on record with the court. I've got the "original" around here, somewhere, but I'm thinking that with the "stamps" and all on it, it'll at least look like a Notice of Appeal! Harmon http://www.apfn.org/pdf/MSTAY-1.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/mrehringtro-1.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/mtro-1.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/mrehringtro-1.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/AFFIDHLT-1.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/Opinion03.pdf http://www.apfn.org/pdf/Opinion04.pdf Notation: for the following document Key to the appellate court opinions is the characterization that the claims made were "without authority," and that the claims have "no merit." While the rest of the court's discussion is interesting, this part of the opinion tells us everything we need to know. The appellate court went beyond addressing the issues raised and addressed the question asked, which is along the lines of, "How in the world can this be happening, legally speaking?" Since the essence of these claims comes straight out of the Constitution, the lesson is that the Constitution is "without authority," and that the Constitution has "no merit," in the "United States" "court" system. Said another way, the Constitution is not "admissible evidence of Law," and, that being the case, the Constitution is not the Supreme Law of the Land. From that point of view, given that the "federal government" arises from private obligations, not the Constitution, it makes sense that the Constitution is completely irrelevant, and that is provides absolutely no limitations on the "federal government," whatsoever. THAT's how the "feds" do what they do, legally speaking. Thus, in sum, to solve any problem, it helps greatly to identify it correctly, first. Here, not only do we need to learn to distinguish between the "federal government" and the "constitutional Government," but also we need to learn that there is presently no "constitutional Government" in operation, but only the "federal government." The cite to Devvy's web page that contains the indictment language is still a good link to that. Since the Constitution was not "admissible evidence of Law" for this case, that got me started trying to find when it stopped being the Supreme Law of the Land. Right now, I'm satisfied that it had to have occurred prior to 1850. In the early 1850's, Lysander Spooner witnessed the "court's" giving the "jury" the instructions to follow the "law" given by the "court." This is a complete abrogation of the Law stated in Brailsford v. Georgia, meaning, telling us, giving us "notice," that the "United States District Court" in Massachusetts was no longer bound to the Constitution or to the prior opinions of the Supreme Court. In other words, the Constitution, and the "constitutional Government" it created, got deep-sixed at or before those cases came on for trial in the early 1850's. Another interesting indicia of the non-existence of the "constitutional Government" is the "popular vote" of 1824. Five Presidents, four of them for two terms each, were elected per Article II, section 1. That's nine elections before the thought ever existed of any "popular vote," a concept found nowhere in the Constitution for choosing a President. And, even with the 12th Amendment (1804), there were still 20 years before the "popular vote" made its entrance. How fitting is it that John Quincy Adams, the sixth President, won neither the "popular vote" nor the Electoral Vote? It definitely earmarks that event for our study. The legal reality of the non-existence of the "constitutional Government" just didn't sink in until I read the 7th Circuit's opinion in this case. Now, it's as clear as day. Since it took the padded 2x4 of the 7th Circuit to get me "over" that barrier, I don't realistically expect anything short of personal experience to persuade anyone else, either. But, then, there's always hope! To combine the attached notes with these, here's one perspective, with which I'll close this note. The State is the sine qua non regarding the "constitutional Government." Without States, there is no "constitutional Government." Starting with Article I, if there are no States, then there are no Representatives, for Representatives represent People in the States. And, if there are no States, then there are no Senators, for Senators represent the States, directly, in that legislative process. (You're right, of course, to look to the so-called 17th Amendment (1913). However, I've already traced the non-existence of the "constitutional Government back to 1850, so this particular "notice" to us, in 1913, that the States no longer exist, and, therefore, that the States have no more need of representation in Congress, is about 60 years "late.") The entire purpose of the Senate is to have the States, as such, participate in the legislative process. If there are no States, then not only is there no Congress, but also there is no need even for a Senate. Thus, where there are no States, there is no Congress. Continuing with Article II, where there are no States, there is no President. From where come the Electors? Right, the States. The Electors hold an Office in the "constitutional Government," which exists for the sole purpose of choosing the President. If there are no States, then there are no Electors. Where there are no Electors, there is no President. Thus, where there are no States, there is no President. Continuing with Article III, where there are no States, there are no Judges. From where come the Judges? Right, the President nominates and appoints, and the Senate gives Advice and Consent. Thus, where there is no President, there is no nomination or appointment, and where there is no Senate, there is no Advice or Consent. Thus, where there are no States, there are no Judges. In sum, where there are no States, there is no "constitutional Government," for not one Office can be filled. Thus, it behooves us to learn the difference between the "federal government" and the "constitutional Government," and, even more importantly, the present non-existence of the "constitutional Government." The "federal government" is the "government" "of the banks, by the banks, for the banks." For it to be curbed, we start by ceasing to "trade with the enemy." Harmon per the article above http://www.apfn.org/pdf/THlitovervw.pdf Open Letter to President George W. Bush Re: Stay of Execution by Harmon L. Taylor http://www.apfn.org/apfn/OKC_execution.htm Download free Windows Media Player 7 CLICK HERE Oklahoma Cover-Up Part 1 (47 min, 22 sec) okc_1.avi Oklahoma Cover-Up Part II (13 min, 26 sec) okc_2.avi WHO had access to the Murrah Building? Who were the Two Men Jane Graham saw? Click Here for pictures & clip Filed last Friday afternoon (05/11/01) by a Dallas lawyer representing Jane Graham and V.Z. Lawton, two bombing victims who were in the destroyed federal building at the time, the lawsuit asks the federal court governing Terre Haute prison to stay McVeigh's execution pending a civil suit the victims have filed - claiming that McVeigh is an indispensable witness in that lawsuit, which is now in the discovery phase. "There was a waving motion....like an earthquake...then seconds later an explosion came from BENEATH straight UP through the floor" according to Jane C, Graham, who was on the nineth floor of the Murrah Building at 9 am on April 19, 1995. Video Affidavit of Murrah Federal Building Bombing witness/survivor Jane C. Graham: Oklahoma Cover-Up Part 3 (47 min, 29 sec) okc_3.avi FBI Still Keeping the Lid on Eyewitness Reports http://www.apfn.org/thewinds/archive/government/okc_secrets01-98.html See Pictures from film: No Large Crater - Debris out, rather than IN - Shaking BEFORE Explosion There Was MORE Than One Bomb - A Classic Cover Up! Download Acrobat Reader here Refusal of Jane C Graham's (witness/survivor) Testimony to the Grand Jury http://www.apfn.org/pdf/graham.pdf Although the FBI interviewed Graham, they never showed her any pictures or brought her before a sketch artist. "They only wanted to know if I could identify McVeigh or Nichols," she said. "I said it was neither of these two gentlemen. The Oklahoma City Bombing- Were there additional explosive charges and additional bombers? http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/ok.html What Really Happened in the Oklahoma City Bombing? Many Victims' Families Believe FBI Knew Bombing Was Being Planned; http://www.comeandtakeit.com/okc1.html JOHN ASHCROFT AND THE OKC BOMBING Devvy Kidd February 8, 2001 The new Attorney General, John Ashcroft, has a reputation as being very religious with an abundance of personal integrity. Having said that, now that he is confirmed, I would ask you to join me in burying his office with a demand that he re-open the Oklahoma City bombing. Why? http://www.devvy.com/ashcroft_20010206.html THE RYDER TRUCK IN THE SECRET ARMY COMPOUND. The Oklahoma City Bombing Were there additional explosive charges and additional bombers? http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/ok.html Waco Scandal Demands New Look at OKC Bombing Former Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Key is about to release a stinging 150-page report on the Oklahoma City bombing. Key says evidence surrounding the tragedy doesn't match up with the official government claims. Why, then, is the government lying about what happened? http://www.front14.org/nation/newlook.htm The Aryan Republican Army, Elohim City, and the OKC Bombing http://www.apfn.org/apfn/ara_okc.htm Index for The John Doe Times Volumn 5 The Truth Shall Set You Free...or in this case hang your coconspirators.... http://xld.com/public/jdt/jdindx5.htm Volume 5, No. 1 - 16 March 1997 ** DESPERATE FEDS SCREW UP AND INDICT CAROL HOWE. ** CAROL HOWE, POLITICAL PRISONER? ** FBI SNITCH RICHARD SCHRUM RAISES HIS WEASELY HEAD AGAIN -- DOING THE BIDDING OF THE PROSECUTION TEAM? ** "I'M NOT KEEPING MY MOUTH SHUT ANY LONGER ABOUT OKLAHOMA CITY!" ** WHY THE KEHOE BOYS ARE ON THE RUN: THE MUELLER MURDERS http://xld.com/public/jdt/jdindx5.htm OK Bomb Articles On Konformist.com Subject: Konformist: OK Bomb Articles On Konformist.com Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 04:28:48 -0000 From: "Robert Sterling" robalini at aol.com Reply-To: konformist-owner at yahoogroups.com To: konformist at yahoogroups.com Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com http://www.konformist.com/2001/okbomb-fbi.htm http://www.konformist.com/2001/okbomb.htm http://www.konformist.com/2001/okbomb-fbi.htm Jim Redden pdxs at pop.ptld.qwest.net NATION/SPECIAL INVESTIGATION TIME CNN IMPACT WHO IS ROBERT JACQUES? THE FBI WANTS TO TALK TO A MISSING ASSOCIATE OF MCVEIGH'S http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/970317/nation.who_is_robert.html PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS OF PETITIONER-DEFENDANT, TIMOTHY JAMES McVEIGH AND BRIEF IN SUPPORT http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/mcveigh/index.html John Loeffler Charles Key Interview on OKC Bombing Tue Jul 3 15:57:21 2001 Charles Key Interview on OKC Bombing (Archived) Steel on Steel Radio Program - Hosted by John Loeffler 6/02/2001 Do We REALLY Know What Happened in Oklahoma City? -- Will We Ever? Guest: Charles Key / Host: John Loeffler This is an excellent interview of former Oklahoma state representative Charles Key by John Loeffler on his Steel on Steel program June 2. It's archived in either RealAudio or MP3. John asks the important questions. LISTEN RealPlayer: http://216.10.100.20/ramgen/sos/so010602.rm LISTEN MP3: http://www.steelonsteel.com/mp3/so2001-0602.mp3 Steel on Steel is a weekly program dedicated to the sharpening of ideas, news, commentary, interview, information, and debate, much of which you will NOT hear elsewhere. Our goal and pledge is to put together 90 minutes of solid news that the mainline media are ignoring by ignorance, bias, and/or neglect. Hosted by John Loeffler HOME: http://www.steelonsteel.com/index.html OKC - now who's the kook? 03/18/02 Larry Johnson former CIA agent just said on TV's FOXNEWS Monday at 7:18 CST that the FBI did not pursue any of the leads or ties in the OKC bombing to Muslim terrorists. He admitted all the John Doe 2 sightings were good leads to a middle eastern person... the have now identified (or now admitted) that at least two of the people seen with McViegh were members of the Iraq Republican Guard...and now FBI agent Vogel who was in charge of the OKC investigation has said he feels "guilt ridden" because the if they had chased the leads they might have prevented September 11's attack. Vogel says he was told not to pursue it by higher level officials. O.J. SIMPSON: DIVERSION FROM WACO/SUMMER OF 1993 O.J. Simpson was never indicted!! by Harmon L. Taylor, TX Attorney http://www.apfn.org/apfn/OJ.htm ==================================== The Calgary Herald FBI hid Oklahoma bombing files, court told Sat Mar 13 01:41:12 2004 FBI hid Oklahoma bombing files, court told Judge reviews allegations of tainted jurors The Associated Press - Thursday, March 11, 2004 http://www.canada.com/calgary/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=9f6d9082-9f09-4a06-a085-a47137721f41 site down Terry Nichols' attorneys say more than a dozen FBI documents that raise the possibility of additional accomplices in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing weren't turned over by state prosecutors or the federal government for Nichols' murder trial defence. The documents, cited in a recent series of Associated Press stories, include two 1990s teletypes from then-FBI director Louis Freeh's office citing possible connections between Timothy McVeigh and a gang of white supremacist bank robbers, the lawyers said. Nichols, in federal prison, began trial this month on Oklahoma state murder charges alleging he assisted McVeigh in building the deadly bomb. The judge has said he will dismiss the charges with prejudice -- making it very hard for prosecutors to resurrect the case -- if Nichols' lawyers can prove documents that could have aided their defence were withheld. Under a Supreme Court ruling, prosecutors and the government are obligated to turn over to defence lawyers all materials that could help clear a defendant, such as evidence that points to other suspects or casts doubt on prosecution witnesses. Nichols' attorneys agreed to review the materials cited in the AP story and identify which they could not find among the massive files prosecutors and the government provided them. In all, they identified 13 FBI documents and a handful of other materials. "To our knowledge, we have not received these documents from the state or federal government," lead attorney Brian Hermanson said Wednesday. In addition, the lawyers said they did not receive any information from prosecutors concerning the FBI's unsuccessful efforts to get permission to interview McVeigh in 2001 to resolve lingering questions before his execution. The prosecutor, Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane, said, "Everything the federal government has provided to us has either been given or made available to the Nichols' defence team." Nichols, 48, is serving a life prison sentence for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 people. The eighth day of jury selection in Nichols' trial began Wednesday amid revelations that some prospective jurors said they would lie to be selected to possibly convict and sentence the bombing conspirator. Judge Steven Taylor said a new line of questioning will be developed to address allegations by one prospective juror that others were willing to lie to get on the jury. "I'm going to deal with this," Taylor said. The issue was revealed as the prospective juror said she overheard other possible panelists say they would say anything to get on the jury. The woman was retained on the panel. "I'll do whatever it takes to get up there," she paraphrased one of them as saying. "I'm going to say what I can to get on the jury. My decision is already made." ? The Calgary Herald 2004 ================================= Oklahoma City Bombing Questions - packrat at texas.net http://www.stopcovertwar.com/McVeigh.html Jayna Davis - From Oklahoma City to the Middle East http://www.jaynadavis.com/story.html http://www.jaynadavis.com/story-oklahomamag.html The Oklahoma City Bombing - many unanswered questions http://www.akdart.com/okc.html Subscribe to apfn-1 Powered by groups.yahoo.com American Patriot Friends Network [APFN] "...a network of networkers..." 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Presumably, that's because the 1995 terrorist attack was the exclusive work of homegrown extremists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. Or was it? Even though McVeigh went to his death denying any larger plot, serious questions remain unanswered. Did John Doe No. 2 ever exist? If so, who is he? If not, why did a second suspect initially emerge? What material or witnesses did the bureau use to create its three sketches of this alleged co-conspirator? And then there's that troublesome FBI-authorized all-points bulletin issued just minutes after the truck bomb exploded. The alert sent members of Oklahoma City law enforcement searching for two Middle Eastern-looking men seen speeding away from the blast area in a brown Chevy pickup with tinted windows and a bug shield. The APB was abruptly cancelled several hours later without explanation. The evidence that the Oklahoma City bombing involved a larger conspiracy, one with Middle Eastern connections, is compelling. And the trail begins with that mysterious pickup. The week after the bombing, Jayna Davis, a veteran Oklahoma City reporter at KFOR-TV, got a tip, which began her investigation of a local property management company. Dr. Samir Khalil owns Samara Properties, and several former employees told Davis they had seen a pickup, matching the APB's description, at the office. Davis discovered that Khalil, a Palestinian expatriate, had pled guilty in 1991 to several counts of insurance fraud and served eight months in a federal prison. Khalil's court papers indicated that the FBI investigated him for alleged connections to the Palestine Liberation Organization. But Khalil vehemently denied any PLO links. And he's never responded to my calls for comment. Former Samara employees also told Davis that six months before the bombing, Khalil hired a group of Iraqi refugees to do painting and construction work. This group had allegedly fled Iraq to escape Saddam Hussein's regime. But a Samara employee told Davis he saw them cheering the terror attack and vowing to die in Saddam's service. Davis then used surveillance camera to take pictures of these Iraqis. Eventually, she focused on one man, Hussain Alhussaini (also known as Al-Hussaini Hussain), who seemed to match the last FBI profile sketch and description of John Doe No. 2. Over the next several months, she interviewed witnesses who said they saw McVeigh in the company of a Middle Eastern-looking man in the days and hours before the bombing. Using KFOR's photo line-up, they identified that individual as Alhussaini. Perhaps the most intriguing statements she collected came from a host of staff members at a motel near downtown Oklahoma City. They reported seeing McVeigh with a number of Middle Eastern men at the site in the months preceding the bombing. Using KFOR's photos, those men were identified as Samara employees. Alhussaini was included in that group. The motel witnesses also said they saw several of the Iraqis moving large barrels around in the back of an old white truck. The barrels, they alleged, emanated a strong smell of diesel fuel, one of the key ingredients used in the Oklahoma City bomb. Davis also discovered that the mysterious brown Chevy pickup was impounded by the FBI on April 27, 1995. The pickup had been abandoned in an apartment building lot. According to the police report, the truck had been stripped of its license plate, inspection tag and all its vehicle identification numbers. It also was spray-painted yellow, but the original color was listed as brown. One resident at the complex told the FBI the driver was "clean-shaven, with an olive complexion, dark, wavy hair and broad shoulders," in his late 20s or early 30s and of Middle Eastern descent. Davis also used a hidden camera to interview Lana Padilla, Terry Nichols' ex-wife, about Nichols' repeated trips to the Philippines, a hotbed for terrorist activity. "Tim bought Terry the first ticket for the Philippines," Padilla said. That trip occurred in 1989. His last visit came in November 1994. Ramzi Yousef, the Iraqi convicted for masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a plot to blow up U.S. airliners, operated out of Mindanao and Manila in the Philippines. Yousef received funding from Osama bin Laden. According to a motion filed by the McVeigh defense team, an American fitting Nichols' description met with Yousef in the Philippines in 1992 or 1993. Davis eventually aired a number of pieces, taking care to disguise the Iraqi's identity. However, Alhussaini voluntarily stepped forward on June 15, 1995, to publicly claim that KFOR and Davis had labeled him as John Doe No. 2. Alhussaini told Channel 9 in Oklahoma City he was living in fear. He claimed to be working at one of Khalil's properties when the bombing occurred. And he produced a handwritten time sheet as proof. The former Iraqi soldier also denied knowing McVeigh, and demanded a public apology from KFOR. KFOR and Davis stood by their reports and countered with witnesses who contradicted Alhussaini's assertions, including the time sheet, which was labeled a fabrication. Alhussaini responded by filing a state civil libel suit. However, he withdrew the suit the day before a judge was scheduled to rule on KFOR's motion for summary judgment. Meanwhile, Alhussaini's suit froze KFOR's coverage of the story. And Davis eventually quit after The New York Times bought the station and the investigation was stopped. The former reporter, who had collected 22 signed affidavits from the witnesses she interviewed, was called to testify before a state grand jury that examined the bombing in 1997. With the witnesses' permission, she gave the grand jury the affidavits. Alhussaini then refiled his libel suit in federal court. Once again attorneys for KFOR and Davis filed for a dismissal. On Nov. 17, 1999, U.S. District Judge Tim Leonard granted their motion. In his ruling, Leonard stated that all the facts in Davis' report were either true or statements of opinion, and did not libel the plaintiff. Alhussaini then appealed the ruling. A hearing was held on Sept. 10; a decision is pending. Alhussaini moved from Oklahoma City and was reportedly living in the Boston area. His lawyer declined to give me a phone number for his client. According to 1997 medical records produced during his federal suit, Alhussaini said he had worked for a while at Boston's Logan Airport (where two of the planes were hijacked on Sept. 11). Quoting from those records, Alhussaini first told his psychiatrist that he had quit his airport job because, "If anything happens there, I will be a suspect." However, he later told his doctor that he "wanted to look for another job because he feels unsafe in the environment he works in, the airport, given the recent events involving his being previously suspected of involvement in the Oklahoma bombing." Alhussaini's specific job at the airport was never identified. I contacted the Massachusetts Port Authority, which oversees Logan, to obtain dates of employment. A spokesperson said the agency would not release any information. During the course of her investigation, Davis made contact with Yossef Bodansky, executive director of the 13-year-old Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. Bodansky told Davis the task force had warned of an impending Islamic-sponsored terrorist attack in America's heartland back in 1995. On Feb. 27, 1995, the task force had issued its first confidential warning to federal agencies that Islamic terrorists "may soon strike Washington D.C., specifically the Capitol and the White House." This confidential alert, which he said was quietly distributed to federal intelligence agencies and law enforcement, claimed the attacks were to begin after March 21, 1995. "Striking inside the U.S. is presently a high priority for Iran," stated the warning. The alert also stated that upcoming terrorist strikes might be directed against "airports, airlines and telephone systems." In light of Sept. 11, it was a telling note. On March 3, 1995, the task force issued an update. This "super-sensitive" alert stated there was a "greater likelihood the terrorists would strike at the heart of the U.S." Bodansky also told Davis that after the truck bombing, he reviewed intelligence data that confirmed, "Oklahoma City was on the list of potential targets." Bodansky gave Davis copies of the task force's original alert and some of his confidential notes detailing the update and Oklahoma City's target status. His material notes an independent warning from Israeli intelligence a month before the bombing. The warning indicated a terrorist attack was impending and that "lilly whites" would be activated. Lilly whites, Bodansky writes, were people without any background or police records who would not be suspected members of a terrorist group. Now President Bush has labeled Iran, Iraq and North Korea an "axis of evil." And hyperbole aside, details of Iran's alleged involvement in terrorism were included in last summer's U.S. Department of Justice indictment issued in connection with the Khobar Towers attack in Saudi Arabia. Moreover, Bodansky told me that Iran and Iraq agreed to cooperate in terrorist operations against the West. Over the past seven months, I reviewed all of Davis' documents, including the material she got from Bodansky. I also conducted my own follow-up interviews and found no holes in her investigation. As for Davis, she's tried twice to give her material to the FBI. According to her attorney Tim McCoy, Department of Justice attorneys prosecuting Nichols rejected Davis' documents in 1997 because they didn't want more material to turn over to the defense. McCoy testified to this at a recent hearing in Nichols' state murder case. In 1999, former FBI agent Dan Vogel accepted the material, but he said that higher-ups later rejected it because the agency questioned Davis' ownership rights. I called the bureau but it declined to explain this strange turn of events. Perhaps if Vogel had been allowed to testify at a recent hearing in Nichols' Oklahoma murder trial, details would have been forthcoming. But the Justice Department refused to let him take the stand. Is this a case of FBI incompetence, political interference or the Justice Department's desire not to complicate a seemingly open-and-shut case against McVeigh and Nichols? I don't know. I do know that too many questions remain unanswered. 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Perhaps it was an organization with a hidden propaganda agenda to build up bin Laden as the next incarnation of Hitler. Now, since we're only musing here, I wonder who that could be? ] http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22122 ? 2001 WorldNetDaily.com 3-21-1 A former investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City last night told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly she has gathered massive evidence of a foreign conspiracy involving Saudi terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the 1995 bombing of the federal building that killed 168 people. Jayna Davis, former reporter for KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, says she took her evidence -- including hundreds of court records, 24 sworn witness statements and reports from law enforcement, intelligence and terror experts --to the FBI, which refused even to accept the material. Two men were convicted of murder and conspiracy charges in the bombing -- Timothy McVeigh, who faces execution May 16, and Terry Nichols, who yesterday asked that Oklahoma charges against him be dismissed as he has already been convicted in federal court. Nichols, 45, is serving a life prison sentence for his federal conviction on eight involuntary manslaughter counts and conspiracy for the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. State prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Nichols. But defense attorneys said yesterday constitutional protection against double jeopardy bars the state from seeking the death penalty. Davis said federal authorities investigating the bombing decided early on in the probe that the blast was the result of a domestic conspiracy, not a foreign one, ignoring all evidence to the contrary. She said a Middle East terrorist cell was in operation only blocks from the federal building, and that an Iraqi national who formerly served in Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard was in contact with McVeigh the day of the bombing. She said this suspect arrived at the crime scene in a Ryder truck moments before the blast and sped away in a brown Chevrolet pickup truck immediately after. An all-points bulletin was issued for this suspect, but was later withdrawn inexplicably. Davis said her evidence indicates a conspiracy involving McVeigh, Nichols and at least seven men of Middle Eastern ethnic background. She called bin Laden the mastermind of the conspiracy. "The evidence we have gathered definitely implicates McVeigh and Nichols," she said. "I want to make that very clear. They were in it up to their eyeballs." Davis also points to court records offered in the Nichols defense that suggest he had contacts with a member of bin Laden's terrorist organization in the Philippines prior to the bombing. When she took her hundreds of pages of documentation of conspiracy in the bombing to the FBI, Davis said agents "turned me away and refused to take my statements." "I was flabbergasted," she told O'Reilly. "I am unable to imagine any reason they would not accept it." Related Story: Jan. 16, 1998, "We Knew This Was Going to Happen" (another 'authorless' article) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Oct 19 00:27:49 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:27:49 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] terror trail Message-ID: TRAIL OF TERROR Terror Trail: WTC, OKC, 9-11 -------------------------------------------------------------------- by William F. Jasper Journalists and congressional investigators are beginning to trace the terror trail backward from 9-11 to Oklahoma City and the earlier World Trade Center bombing. Ramzi Yousef, the reputed mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, sits in a federal maximum-security prison in Florence, Colorado, serving a life sentence. Terry Nichols, the convicted co-conspirator of Timothy McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing, is incarcerated in the Oklahoma County Jail. He faces a life sentence without parole for the deaths of eight federal law enforcement agents in that 1995 bombing, as well as an upcoming state trial for the deaths of the 161 men, women, children, and unborn baby not named in the federal indictment. Osama bin Laden, the alleged instigator of the September 11th holocaust, is on the run (if alive) with a $25 million bounty on his head. This terrorist trio has more in common than shared infamy; evidence indicating that they are actual co-conspirators in a global terrorist network continues to mount. At long last, journalists and congressional investigators are beginning to connect the dots and trace the terror trail backward from last year's 9-11 attack to Oklahoma City and the earlier World Trade Center bombing. The Dallas CBS television affiliate, Insight magazine, the Toronto Star, the Village Voice, FOX TV's Bill O'Reilly, the Indianapolis Star, the Manila Times, and other media channels have begun to tread where previously only The New American had dared to go. Some even suggest that 9-11 might have been prevented if officials had fully investigated the Oklahoma City bombing conspiracy. Even the Establishment press is coming close to breaking out of its self-imposed muzzle on this subject. The lead story in the major broadcast and print media for June 4th announced that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, already one of the FBI's 22 "Most Wanted" for earlier terrorist acts, is now also being sought by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials as a key operative in the Black Tuesday attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A federal jury has charged Mohammed, a 37-year-old Kuwaiti, for collaborating with Yousef on both the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a failed 1995 terror plot to bomb multiple airliners in a single day, or, as an alternative, to hijack and crash airliners into famous U.S. buildings. Both Yousef and Mohammed have long-established ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist organization. According to the New York Times' James Risen, a detailed financial investigation of the money trail from the 9-11 plot over the past few months has led officials to believe that Mohammed played a far more prominent role than they had earlier suspected. The developing evidence, said Risen, "could also help explain why Al Qaeda decided to attack the trade center again, to try to finish the job that Mr. Yousef started nearly nine years earlier." The growing media acknowledgment that the 1993 and 2001 World Trade Center (WTC) attacks are directly connected is a major development; the same trail of evidence will lead honest inquirers to realize that the OKC bombing and other major attacks are also part of an ongoing, coordinated terror offensive. All of which is immensely pertinent to the current hot debate over who knew what and when they knew it, concerning our incredible 9-11 intelligence failures. Answering these questions is essential not only for establishing accountability for these deadly failures, but, more importantly, for averting future terrorist events. They are crucial to fixing the policies allowing the terrorist networks to enjoy easy access to, and operational freedom within, the United States. Bojinka: The Manila Connection The trails of Yousef, Nichols, and bin Laden converge in the Philippines as early as 1991. Bin Laden and his brother-in-law, Mohammed Khalifa, set up al-Qaeda operations in the Philippines in the early 1990s, working closely with the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group. Intelligence experts believe Yousef, an Iraqi, is an operative for Saddam Hussein's intelligence service. Yousef and his co-conspirators are not "Islamic fundamentalists"; they were known for being very secular: drinking alcohol, partying, frequenting night clubs, "shacking up" with women, and using profanity. Dr. Laurie Mylroie, perhaps the leading authority on Yousef, writes in her book, The War Against America, that "Yousef is definitely not a radical Muslim.... If Yousef ever spent any time [fighting] in Afghanistan, he would have been in Najibullah's [Communist] camp rather than with the Islamic mujahedin." According to the signed statement of confessed Abu Sayyaf terrorist Edwin Angeles, he met in Davao City on the Philippine island of Mindanao in 1991 with Nichols, Yousef and other co-conspirators in the 1993 WTC bombing. Angeles, aka Ibrahim Yakub, a co-founder and second-in-command of the Abu Sayyaf Group, said in his handwritten statement: I certify that Terry Nichols was known to me personally during our meeting with Abdul Hakim Murad, Wali-Khan and Ahmed Youssef [Ramzi Yousef] in [unintelligible] Davao City on Nov. 1991; Aim to establish a group and organize a Muslim and non-Muslim youth for a cause; we will also to [sic] plan for following: bombing activities; providing firearms and ammo; training in bomb making and handling.... Abdul Hakin Murad and Wali-Khan Amin Shah were convicted along with Yousef on September 5, 1996 in the so-called Bojinka Plot, and presently reside in American prisons. Bojinka (Serbo-Croatian for "loud bang") was Yousef's code name for his terror scheme to blow up 11 U.S. jetliners in a single day. A variation of the plan called for crashing or "dive-bombing" planes into U.S. buildings, as Yousef's al-Qaeda comrades did last September 11th. The plot was foiled when the Manila apartment Yousef and Murad shared caught on fire from chemical bomb components they were mixing. Murad was captured in the Philippines following the apartment fire, but Yousef escaped, as he did following the 1993 WTC bombing. With cooperation from Murad and Shah, Yousef was later tracked down and captured in Pakistan, where he was hiding in a guest house rented by a bin Laden company. Murad's statements to Philippine police and to U.S. officials have been largely ignored, but have huge significance for the OKC and 9-11 attacks, as well as potential future attacks. Important information in Murad's file statements include: Suicide hijackings. A January 20, 1995 Philippines police report tells of the Yousef/Murad plot presaging the 9-11 attack, in which Murad said he had planned to "hijack said aircraft, control its cockpit and dive it at the CIA headquarters. There will be no bomb or any explosive that he will use in its execution. It is simply a suicidal mission that he is very much willing to execute." Another hijacker was to fly a second plane into the Pentagon or the World Trade Center. Hijacker pilot training. Murad detailed his pilot training instruction at several flight academies in the United States. The importance of this could not have been lost on federal authorities. In 2001, in the months preceding the 9-11 attacks, U.S. prosecutors focused on al-Qaeda use of U.S. flight schools in their high-profile trial of four men charged in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Essam al-Ridi, an Egyptian trained at a Texas flight school, was one of their star witnesses. Ihab Ali Nawawi, identified by prosecutors as a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and a bin Laden confederate, had received pilot training at the same school in Norman, Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City, where some of al-Qaeda's 9-11 hijackers were trained. Shoe bombs. The world was introduced to shoe explosives when passengers aboard American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001, subdued Richard Reid, a British al-Qaeda recruit, while he was attempting to ignite his shoe bomb. Abdul Hakim Murad's Philippine police report for March 4, 1995 notes that Yousef "taught Murad how to smuggle chemicals and explosive devices inside the airport passing through several [of the] airport's security arrangements," and that Yousef would hide detonators and timing devices inside his shoes. Yousef used these methods on December 11, 1994 to smuggle a bomb on board Philippines Airline Flight 434. On this practice run for the multiple-flight Bojinka plan, the bomb detonated, killing a Japanese passenger, but did not destroy the jetliner. The Philippine police officials most closely involved in the Bojinka investigation have expressed shock at the failure of U.S. officials to apply the lessons of that case. "It's so chilling," says Senior Inspector Aida D. Fariscal, the policewoman who uncovered the plot at Yousef's smoking apartment. "Those kamikaze pilots trained in America, just like Murad." "The FBI knew all about Yousef's plans," she said, in an interview with former Wall Street Journal reporter Matthew Brzezinski for the Toronto Star. "They'd seen the files, been inside 603 [the apartment bomb factory]. The CIA had access to everything, too.... This should have never, ever been allowed to happen. All those poor people dead." General Avelino "Sonny" Razon, one of the lead investigators in the Bojinka case, was so shocked at what he saw on September 11th, reported Brzezinski, "that he jumped on a plane in Cebu, where he was now police chief, and flew to Manila to convene a hasty press conference." Razon stated that there was simply "too much coincidence" between 9-11 and Bojinka, particularly since the attacks had occurred within one week of the anniversary of Yousef's conviction for the Bojinka plot on September 5, 1996. "We told the Americans about the plans to turn planes into flying bombs as far back as 1995," Razon complained to reporters. "Why didn't they pay attention?" There was much, much more that U.S. officials had not paid attention to. On April 19, 1995, Abdul Hakim Murad sat in jail in New York awaiting trial on the Bojinka plot when news of the Oklahoma City bombing reached him via radio. Murad reportedly told prison guard Lt. Philip Rojas that the bombing was the work of the "Liberation Army." Sufficiently concerned about this statement, prison officials notified the FBI, which sent two agents to investigate. The standard FBI report on the incident, known as a "302," states that "Murad responded to the guard's question by stating that the Liberation Army was responsible for the bombing." The FBI 302 then notes: "A short time later, Murad passed a note to the guard, again claiming that the Liberation Army was responsible for the bombing in Oklahoma City." According to Edwin Angeles - who, remember, was a leader of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines and a co-conspirator with Yousef, Nichols, Murad and Shah - the "Liberation Army" Murad referred to was the Palestine Liberation Army, working with Islamic Jihad. And according to the U.S. Justice Department, Islamic Jihad and al-Qaeda have virtually merged into one group. Adding to the significance of all this is Oklahoma bombing co-defendant Terry Nichols' role. Tying In Terry Nichols In addition to the testimony of Edwin Angeles, considerable circumstantial evidence exists linking Nichols to the Bojinka plot. There is even more evidence tying the Oklahoma City bombing to Middle Eastern terrorist elements. Consider: . Nichols made many trips to the Philippines, sometimes staying for weeks or months, without any known means of support. Some of these trips coincided with the period during which Yousef was operating out of the Philippines. Moreover, the areas in which Nichols chose to stay were remarkable for an American because they were areas of the Philippines known for strong Islamic activism and Abu Sayyaf activity. . Nichols renounced his U.S. citizenship and married a Filipina whose family was known to have connections to Abu Sayyaf. . Nichols' Filipino father-in-law, Eduardo Torres, stated that he had seen a book in Nichols' luggage on how to build bombs. . The Justice Department's star witness in the OKC bombing trial, Michael Fortier, testified that a few months before the Oklahoma bombing Nichols had been unable to detonate even a small milk carton of ANFO. Yet Nichols and McVeigh were credited with constructing and detonating an ANFO bomb, not only bigger than anything ever previously set off in the U.S. by terrorists, but one also nearly 100 percent efficient in burning all of its explosive components. A more likely explanation is that they had help from experts like Yousef. . Nichols made many unexplained telephone calls to the Philippines, including some to untraceable numbers. This would seem to fit Yousef's modus operandi of using rental cellular phones to avoid surveillance. . Nichols was in the Philippines when the apartment fire foiled the Bojinka plot. Like Yousef, he fled, breaking the excursion ticket he had purchased earlier and booking a one-way ticket back to the United States. . U.S. federal undercover informant Cary Gagan has stated that Nichols was present at a meeting in Henderson, Nevada, involving Iranian or other Middle Eastern individuals, where some of the plans for the OKC bombing were made. There is also the matter of Nichols' strange behavior, as reported by his ex-wife, Lana Padilla, in her book, By Blood Betrayed: My Life With Terry Nichols and Timothy McVeigh. Lana Padilla recounts an incident which occurred on November 22, 1994, before Nichols took off on his final trip to the Philippines. He had just spent two weeks at her home in Las Vegas visiting their son Josh. Padilla explains that she had allowed him to stay there because she believed him to be broke. She drove him to the airport for a flight going first to Los Angeles, and then on to Cebu City. Before he left, Nichols gave her a folded brown paper bag and told her, "If I'm not back in sixty days, open it and follow the instructions." Those ominous words, together with Nichols' melancholic behavior and Josh's reaction as they drove away from the airport, caused alarm. "I'm never going to see my dad again," Josh sobbed. Figuring that her ex-husband might be contemplating suicide, she opened the package. It contained a sealed letter to Timothy McVeigh's sister Jennifer, Nichols' life insurance policy, a key chain with nearly a dozen keys, and two hand-written lists of things for Padilla to "Read and Do Immediately." On the "Do" list were instructions to find a plastic bag hidden behind a drawer in Padilla's kitchen. Following Nichols' directions, she was astonished to find a plastic bag stuffed with $20,000 in twenties and hundreds. Nichols' list also referred to a storage unit rented under the alias of Ted Parker which would yield even more surprises: ". wigs, masks, panty hose, freeze-dried food, and various gold coins . along with gold bars and silver bullion stacked neatly in boxes. There were also some small green stones that appeared to be jade. I estimated at least $60,000 street value in precious metals!" Inside the letter to Jennifer McVeigh was another sealed and stamped envelope addressed to Timothy McVeigh containing two hand-printed notes. One read: "If you should receive this letter then clear everything out of CG 37 by 01 Feb 95 or pay to keep it longer, under Ted Parker.... Your [sic] on your own. Go for it!!" A postscript said, "Also liquidate 40," and, "This letter would be for purpose of my death." Others Unknown In the immediate aftermath of the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, The New American began reporting on the extensive eyewitness testimony and law enforcement documentation concerning the involvement of Middle Eastern individuals. Regular readers of The New American will recall that shortly after the explosion an "all points bulletin" went out over the Oklahoma City Police radio band. The APB told law enforcement officers to be on the lookout for a "late model, almost new, Chevrolet, full-size pickup. It will be brown in color with tinted windows, smoke-colored bug deflector on the front of the pickup." The APB also stated that the vehicle was occupied by "Two Mideastern males, 25 to 28 years of age, six feet tall, athletic build, dark hair and a beard...." In its 11-count indictment handed down on August 10, 1995, the federal grand jury in Oklahoma City charged that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols "did knowingly, intentionally, willfully and maliciously conspire, combine and agree together and with others unknown to the Grand Jury to use a weapon of mass destruction . resulting in death, grievous bodily injury and the destruction of the building." (Emphasis added.) A multitude of credible witnesses had reported seeing Timothy McVeigh on the morning of the bombing or in the days immediately before it with individuals other than Terry Nichols. Some of those witnesses described the individuals as appearing to be of Middle Eastern or Arabic ethnicity. One individual identified by witnesses as a suspect seen fleeing from the immediate vicinity of the Murrah building right after the blast was Hussain al-Hussaini, a former Iraqi soldier who had entered the U.S. after the Persian Gulf War as a refugee. Al-Hussaini was the subject of a series of investigative reports on the OKC bombing by KFOR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City. We do not know if al-Hussaini, or other former Iraqi soldiers with whom he associates, were involved in the bombing, but, as we have reported previously, strong evidence supports that conclusion. It is obvious that additional accomplices assisted McVeigh and Nichols. The extensive evidence reviewed and uncovered during our seven-year investigation of the bombing points to the involvement of a network of Middle Eastern terrorist cells. President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno, however, were determined to pin the blame on their political opposition, the "anti-government" forces of the "radical right." They went to extreme lengths to twist, cover up, and destroy any evidence and exclude all witnesses that might contradict this thesis. The OKC bombing terrorists they allowed to escape very likely played a role in the even more monstrous 9-11 attacks. And they will strike again, if they are not rooted out. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Oct 19 00:29:27 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:29:27 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] precurser to 9-11 Message-ID: CURRENT NEWS OKC Bombing: Precursor to 9-11? by William F. Jasper Evidence links the OKC bombing to Middle Eastern terrorists, and the failure of officials to examine this evidence in 1995 may have set the stage for the September 11th attacks. The Black Tuesday terror attacks on America have prompted some journalists to take a look at the abundant evidence of Middle Eastern terrorist involvement in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the possible connection of that event to the more recent 9-11 attacks. A recent example is Insight magazine. A December 3rd article by Kelly Patricia O'Meara reports that Timothy McVeigh's convicted co-conspirator Terry Nichols "reportedly attended a meeting in the early 1990s on the predominantly Muslim island of Mindanao, a hotbed of fundamentalist activities, at which Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah were present. The themes of the meeting were 'bombing activities, providing firearms and ammunition, training in making and handling bombs.' Yousef was the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing in 1993; Murad and Shah were convicted in a 1996 conspiracy to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners." O'Meara interviewed Iraq expert Dr. Laurie Mylroie, author of the newly released book, The War Against America: Saddam Hussein and The World Trade Center Attacks. A consultant to the McVeigh defense team, Mylroie told Insight that "the connection of Terry Nichols, the Philippines and Ramzi Yousef is a very important point that neither the FBI nor the press pursued." Mylroie added, "I doubt that Nichols has ever been asked about his connections to Yousef because the government didn't want to know. It wanted to say, 'Here are the perpetrators; we arrested them and we brought them to justice. Case closed.'" Dr. Mylroie's book marshals convincing evidence that Ramzi Yousef was acting as an agent for Saddam Hussein. The foreword to her book was penned by former CIA Director R. James Woolsey two weeks after the September 11th attacks. In that piece and other articles since Black Tuesday, Woolsey has expressed his support for her thesis and stated his belief that Hussein was behind both the 1993 and the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center Towers. He scorches the Clinton administration (under which he served) for an unwillingness to look at the evidence of state sponsorship of these acts of terrorism. Familiar Ground All of this is familiar ground to regular readers of this magazine. For nearly seven years THE NEW AMERICAN has been publishing stories concerning evidence pointing directly toward Iraqi involvement with McVeigh and Nichols in the bombing (see www.thenewamerican.com/focus/okc/). In "A Tale of Intrigue," in our December 25, 1995 issue, for instance, we reported on the evidence pointing toward a possible connection between Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef in the Philippines. It is a theme we have returned to many times, as additional supporting evidence has developed. In our October 16, 1995 issue ("Startling OKC Developments"), we reported on the series of stories by Jayna Davis, an investigative reporter for the Oklahoma City NBC affiliate, KFOR-TV. Mrs. Davis had interviewed eyewitnesses who had seen individuals identified as being of Middle Eastern extraction speeding away from the Murrah Federal Building in a pickup truck immediately before the blast. Her investigative reports pointed to at least one Iraqi "refugee," a former soldier in Saddam Hussein's army, who was living in Oklahoma City. He had come to the U.S. under a controversial Clinton program that had brought several thousand Iraqis here for resettlement - without screening and security checks to weed out Saddam's agents posing as refugees. Mrs. Davis also located credible witnesses who placed this Iraqi in the company of Timothy McVeigh in the days prior to the bombing. KFOR aired several stories with video footage of the Iraqi bombing "suspect," but digitally blurred his face and did not identify him by name. They identified him only as a "possible John Doe No. 2," presented the considerable evidence pointing to him as a prime suspect, and asked why federal authorities were completely uninterested in questioning him or looking at the evidence. The Iraqi suspect, Hussain Al-Hussaini, identified himself publicly when he launched a defamation lawsuit against Davis and KFOR. Rather than looking objectively at Jayna Davis' excellent research, virtually all of the Oklahoma City and national media adopted the Bill Clinton-Janet Reno thesis that the OKC bombing was a domestic "right-wing" attack, and rejected out of hand any evidence of foreign ties to the bombing. A careful review of Davis' extensive evidence and our own parallel investigation quickly convinced this writer that Davis was on solid ground. O'Meara's Insight item singles out as a prime co-conspirator suspect an individual whom this magazine has reported on extensively. O'Meara points directly at a notorious leader of the Ku Klux Klan and White Aryan Resistance, Dennis Mahon, who, she says, was "long suspected of being a player in the conspiracy to bomb the Murrah building." The story notes - as we have reported several times in the past - that "the Iraqi government has given Dennis Mahon thousands of dollars over the past six years, and Mahon has been banned from entering Canada and the United Kingdom and is classified by Interpol as an international terrorist." "The FBI did not bother to interview Mahon in connection to the Oklahoma City bombing," notes O'Meara. That is true; while the Clinton/Reno Justice Department and FBI bragged about the thousands of agents involved in the OKC investigation and the tens of thousands of interviews they conducted, the government never explained why obvious suspects like Mahon and Al-Hussaini were never questioned. New Evidence Last October, Paul Bedard, a writer for U.S. News & World Report, dropped a potential bombshell when he reported that top Pentagon officials believe that Timothy McVeigh was an Iraqi agent and claimed that McVeigh was in possession of Iraqi telephone numbers. In a short item entitled "McVeigh's ghost" that appeared in Bedard's Washington Whispers column on October 29th, U.S. News reported: Some dismiss it as being akin to Elvis sightings, but a few top Defense officials think Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh was an Iraqi agent. The theory stems from a never-before-reported allegation that McVeigh had allegedly collected Iraqi telephone numbers. Why haven't we heard this before about the case of the executed McVeigh? Conspiracy theorists in the Pentagon think it's part of a coverup. Mr. Bedard subsequently appeared on Fox TV's Fox and Friends show, where he stated that McVeigh "had information about Iraq which has led some officials to think that he was an Iraqi agent and maybe was doing Saddam Hussein's business in Oklahoma City." Mr. Bedard's reports were the first ever to allege that Timothy McVeigh possessed Iraqi telephone numbers. If true, this would mean that highly significant information had been covered up; nothing of this sort came out during the McVeigh or Nichols trials. On September 13th, two days after the 9-11 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., listeners to WRRK in Pittsburgh, Pa., were stunned to hear Chicago attorney David Schippers state that he had attempted to warn Attorney General John Ashcroft and other federal officials about the catastrophic attack weeks before it occurred. Schippers, the author of Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment, gained international fame as the chief investigative counsel for the Judiciary Committee in the House of Representatives' successful impeachment of President Bill Clinton. According to Mr. Schippers, he had received information from intelligence sources, including FBI agents, that a massive terrorist attack was being planned for lower Manhattan (where the World Trade Center was located). Schippers said that he began trying to get this information to Ashcroft six weeks before the Black Tuesday attacks. Currently representing Jayna Davis, Schippers had attempted even earlier to get her information concerning the OKC-Iraq connection to the attorney general. In both cases, he said, he had been stymied by lower-level Department of Justice officials who would not give him access to Mr. Ashcroft or any of his top lieutenants. Mr. Schippers repeated these charges in several other radio and print interviews. On March 20, 2001, Fox TV's Bill O'Reilly interviewed Jayna Davis, providing the first major national coverage of her OKC-Mideast research. Subsequently, Mr. O'Reilly has focused his program, "The O'Reilly Factor," on a related aspect of the OKC-Mideast connection, achieving some very positive results. His September 26th broadcast entitled "What is Going On at the University of South Florida?" asked some piercing questions of USF Professor Sami Al-Arian and his connections to the Islamic Jihad terrorist group. We had asked similar questions in a detailed article ("America the Vulnerable," September 14, 1998) about Al-Arian, Ramadan Shallah, Khalil Shikaki, and others at USF connected to Islamic Jihad and Hamas. That article pointed out that Al-Arian and company were operating through USF-affiliated "think tanks" such as the World Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE) and the Islamic Committee for Palestine (ICP) to give terrorist leaders access to the U.S. and to radicalize American Muslims for recruitment into the extremist networks. We noted therein that an ICP/WISE speaker, Kamal Helbawi, a Hamas leader based in Pakistan, was one of several militants who had addressed Muslims in a very inflammatory speech at a conference in Oklahoma City. "Oklahoma City has played host to other leaders associated with Hamas, ICP, WISE, and other suspected terrorist fronts," we reported. "And evidence developed by this magazine and other investigators indicates that locally based and foreign individuals associated with these long-established terrorist networks were involved in the April 19, 1995 bombing. Unless officials are pressured to conduct an honest and thorough investigation, more atrocities and tragedies are sure to follow." Thanks to Bill O'Reilly's coverage on Fox, USF announced last December 19th that Dr. Al-Arian was being dismissed from employment at USF. That will be a rather empty victory, however, if federal immigration, intelligence, and law enforcement officials do not follow up with an intensive investigation into the vast terrorist support network within this country, of which Al-Arian's USF band appears to be a significant part. Many people held high hopes that the important OKC-Mideast evidence that the Clinton-Reno regime had suppressed would be acted on under the new Bush-Ashcroft management. But the Department of Justice under Ashcroft is thus far following the Reno script on OKC. On October 29th, Oklahoma Judge Ray Dean Linder ruled that, because of objections from the Bush-Ashcroft Justice Department, retired FBI Agent Dan Vogel would not be allowed to testify about evidence he had received concerning Mideast connections to the OKC bombing. Vogel, an Oklahoma City FBI Special Agent, had volunteered to testify in the upcoming state trial of Terry Nichols, who has already been convicted on federal charges as an accomplice with Timothy McVeigh in the bombing. Among the things that Mr. Vogel could testify about is that he received 22 affidavits and more than 30 witness statements describing sightings of Middle Easterners with McVeigh. The information was transmitted to him at the FBI's Oklahoma City office on January 28, 1999 by reporter Jayna Davis, accompanied by her husband, Drew Davis, and her attorney, Dan Nelson. Mr. Vogel has said that he is willing to testify before a congressional committee if he is subpoenaed to do so. Last November 17th, Indianapolis Star writer James Patterson wrote a story on the Davis-Vogel-OKC-Ashcroft developments that was picked up nationally by the Associated Press. In the article, entitled "Missing evidence from Oklahoma City," Patterson wrote: "The FBI doesn't want to talk about it, but the evidence keeps mounting. Critical evidence that several Middle Eastern men may have been connected to the Oklahoma City bombing appears to have been kept from the public by the FBI." "Officially, the FBI has dismissed the possibility of a John Doe No. 2, an olive-skinned man whose sketch they released immediately after the bombing, or other suspects," said Patterson. "But current and former FBI agents in Oklahoma City say they received documents pointing to another person or even a cell of Middle Eastern operatives. At a minimum, Congress should question one former FBI agent who says he obtained 22 affidavits and more than 30 witness statements describing sightings of Middle Easterners with McVeigh." The Star article states that FBI "agents believe if that evidence had not been suppressed by the FBI, it could have helped uncover plans leading to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon." Patterson quotes an unnamed former FBI agent as stating: "We did have some Oklahoma connections to the events in Washington, D.C., and New York City. We did find out that one of these individuals was trying to take flight training at a Norman [Okla.] flight instruction school." Why do the Bush administration and Congress continually avoid looking at this evidence, especially the more recent evidence Mr. Schippers claims to have about forewarning of the 9-11 attacks? It is absolutely imperative that Congress and the White House be held accountable for this gross dereliction of duty and obstruction of justice. How many more attacks must we suffer and how many more lives must be lost before this very reasonable, common-sense request to investigate prime suspects and examine available, credible evidence is finally acted upon by officials in Washington? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Feature Articles ? Communities joined in aftermath of loss - Oklahoman (Apr 19, 2002) ? Key Report on OKC Bombing - The New American (Jul 11, 2001) Related Web Sites ? Timoth McVeigh Death Certificate - fascimile of the document filed with the Vigo County, Indiana health department. From the Smoking Gun. ? Oklahoma City National Memorial - official site of the memorial museum located in Oklahoma City dedicated to remembering the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. ? After Oklahoma City - features interviews, analysis, and related news about the bombing, McVeigh's trial and conviction, and execution proceedings. From PBS' Online NewsHour. More... The September 11th terrorist attacks required extensive planning. Our intelligence services knew enough to have responded better. John Philip Walker Lindh, better known as the "American Taliban," is accused of conspiring with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network to kill American citizens. According to the federal criminal complaint, Lindh's role in the terrorist conspiracy "began in May or June of 2001." It was then that Lindh "agreed to attend an al-Qaeda training camp for additional and extensive military training, knowing that America and its citizens were the enemies of bin Laden and al-Qaeda and that a principal purpose of al-Qaeda was to fight and kill Americans." While at the training camp, Lindh allegedly learned that "bin Laden had sent forth some fifty people to carry out twenty suicide terrorist operations against the United States and Israel." Significantly, the indictment does not accuse Lindh of actively participating in the terrorist plot. During a visit with senior al-Qaeda official Abu Mohammad Al-Masri, the self-exiled American was invited to take part in "operations against the United States and Israel." Lindh allegedly declined to carry out terrorist missions, choosing instead to fight on the front lines of the Taliban's civil war with its Northern Alliance rivals. The case against Lindh rests heavily on proving that he had foreknowledge of al-Qaeda's plot to commit mass murder. To make that case it is not necessary to prove that Lindh actually killed Americans, or that he had specific knowledge regarding the target of the attack, or the means by which it would be carried out. The burden on the prosecution is to validate its conspiracy theory against Lindh by proving that the defendant knew the attack was coming, and freely chose to associate with the terrorist cabal who plotted the atrocity. Federal authorities will be much more eager to prosecute Lindh than to question how he was able to penetrate to the very core of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. This eccentric, alienated California teenager fascinated with radical Islam managed to do what highly skilled intelligence professionals supposedly could not: Insinuate himself so deeply into al-Qaeda - even meeting "The Evil One" himself on one occasion - that he obtained critical intelligence about the forthcoming attack on America. Lindh stands accused of hideous crimes. But from the federal government's perspective, Lindh is dangerous for another reason: His success as an infiltrator underscores the consummate failure of our hugely expensive "intelligence community" to protect our nation from foreign attack. But the trial could pose an even graver threat to the intelligence community if it prompts the public to think seriously about the charges against the "American Taliban." What if it can be demonstrated that federal authorities responsible for defending our nation knew as much about the impending terrorist attack as Lindh did? What would be the political, moral, and legal liabilities of officials who were in possession of such knowledge, and failed to act upon it? FBI Whistleblowers As we will show, the feds knew no later than June that an attack from bin Laden was coming. By August it had identified several key co-conspirators, and had one in custody. And two days after the attack Chicago attorney David Schippers - a lifelong Democrat who was chief investigative counsel in the Clinton impeachment - disclosed that he had attempted to warn Attorney General John Ashcroft about the coming attack. As previously reported in this magazine ("OKC Bombing: Precursor to 9-11?" in our January 28, 2002 issue), Schippers told a Pittsburgh radio audience on September 13th that he had learned from FBI agents in Minnesota and Chicago that a massive terrorist attack had been planned for lower Manhattan. He had developed this information six weeks before the Black Tuesday atrocity. However, Justice Department officials repeatedly spurned Schippers' attempts to provide the information to Ashcroft; one of them reportedly sneered, "We don't start our investigations at the top." This is a curious objection, given Schippers' credentials and professional standing - and given that Ashcroft himself had warned in June that "Americans are a high-priority target for terrorists." Three veteran federal law enforcement agents confirmed to THE NEW AMERICAN that the information provided to Schippers was widely known within the Bureau before September 11th. Because these individuals face possible personal or professional retaliation, they agreed to speak with us on condition of anonymity. Two of them, however, have expressed a willingness to testify before Congress regarding the views they have shared with us. "I don't buy the idea that we didn't know what was coming," a former FBI official with extensive counter-terrorism experience commented to THE NEW AMERICAN. "Within 24 hours [of the attack] the Bureau had about 20 people identified, and photos were sent out to the news media. Obviously this information was available in the files and somebody was sitting on it." This former FBI agent noted that before Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called "Twentieth Hijacker," was detained in Minneapolis, he had undergone flight instruction in Oklahoma, "where we know that Arab terrorist networks have been established for many years." An active federal counter-terrorism investigator told THE NEW AMERICAN that it was well known "all over the Bureau, how these [warnings] were ignored by Washington.... All indications are that this information came from some of [the Bureau's] most experienced guys, people who have devoted their lives to this kind of work. But their warnings were placed in a pile in someone's office in Washington.... In some cases, these field agents predicted, almost precisely, what happened on September 11th. So we were all holding our breath . hoping that the situation would be remedied." According to the former FBI agent quoted above, the Bureau could have prevented the Black Tuesday massacre if it had adequately investigated the Middle East connection to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. This assessment is supported by another former FBI agent who spoke with this magazine. "We knew that there were Arab terrorist groups working in Oklahoma during the mid-1990s, but nothing was done about it," he recalls. "We were constantly getting information about terrorist groups working in the area, and it would be put in what was called a 'zero file.' Once you sent it in, you were never told to act on it. And you were never told to follow up on it." Nor were the agents allowed to share that intelligence with state and local police: "We had a dissemination form that we could use in sharing intelligence with local law enforcement. We'd have to get clearance to give the information out. And this led to a favorite saying of administrative people in the Bureau: 'This is on a need to know basis, and the locals don't need to know.'" "This is pretty appalling," comments the first former agent. "The FBI has had access to this information since at least 1997. We're obviously not doing our job. I never expected to see something like this happen in our country, but in a way I wasn't shocked when it did. There's got to be more to this than we can see - high-level people whose careers are at stake, and don't want the truth coming out.... What agenda is someone following? Obviously, people had to know - there had to be people who knew this information was being circulated. People like [the Black Tuesday terrorists] don't just move in and out of the country undetected. If somebody in D.C. is taking this information and burying it - and it's very easy to control things from D.C. - then this problem goes much, much deeper.... It's terrible to think this, but this must have been allowed to happen as part of some other agenda." Negligence - or Worse? When one talks of hidden agendas behind the official story of the Black Tuesday attack, he can expect to be denounced as a "conspiracy theorist." In fact, President Bush himself condemned such supposedly irresponsible talk during his November 10th address to the UN General Assembly. "We must speak the truth about terror," insisted the president. "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th - malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty." The president's denunciation of "conspiracy theorists" was echoed in a January 14th "news analysis" by James Rosen, a Washington correspondent for the McClatchy News Service. "Even in the wake of unspeakable evil, some people can't leave bad enough alone," groused Rosen. "While the vast majority of Americans accept their government's claim that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda network launched the attacks, a number of boisterous malcontents are peddling alternative explanations." It hardly detracts from the guilt of bin Laden and his henchmen to point out that there are plausible "alternative explanations" to the government's account of Black Tuesday - namely, that our conscientious federal law enforcement and security agencies were caught completely off-guard by an attack they could not prevent. There is evidence that the feds knew of bin Laden's impending terrorist strike no later than June. And we know for certain that by August, federal authorities had identified several key co-conspirators, and had one in custody. On June 23rd, air industry officials received a remarkably detailed warning about a threat from Osama bin Laden's terrorist network to use airliners to attack Americans. Citing a report from the Arabic-language MBC satellite television channel, the AirlineBiz.com news service reported: "In recent years, U.S. citizens have found themselves the target of several attacks by the terror network of Osama bin Laden. One such attack involved a plot to destroy 12 U.S. airliners in Asia. A jury found Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the scheme, and two other defendants, guilty on all counts. Yousef is also the alleged mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center...." The scheme to use jetliners as terrorist weapons, called "Project Bojinka," had been uncovered by police in the Philippines in 1995, and the details had been provided to American law enforcement officials. (See "Could We Have Prevented the Attacks?" in our November 5, 2001 issue.) The significance of bin Laden's threats was not lost upon Bob Monetti, president of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, which was destroyed by a terrorist bomb in 1988. "I hope the airlines are watching this situation closely," declared Monetti. "The airlines are at risk. They need to take all appropriate measures and counter-measures to ensure the safety of their passengers." According to the June 23rd AirlineBiz.com report, the Arabic satellite television network MBC claimed that "the next two weeks will witness a big surprise." An MBC reporter who had met with bin Laden in Afghanistan on June 21st predicted that "a severe blow is expected against U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide. There is a major state of mobilization among the Osama bin Laden forces. It seems that there is a race of who will strike first. Will it be the United States or Osama bin Laden?" Despite such detailed advance warnings, bin Laden won that "race." Ignoring the "20th Hijacker" By September 11th, federal authorities not only had 10 weeks' advance notice of an impending attack from bin Laden, they also had one of the alleged plotters in custody. This was acknowledged by CIA Director George Tenet as the 9-11 attack was underway. Amid reports of the suicide hijackings, Tenet was overheard saying: "I wonder if it has anything to do with this guy taking pilot training." Tenet "was referring to Zacarias Moussaoui, who had been detained in August after attracting suspicion when he sought training at a Minnesota flight school," observed the January 27th Washington Post. After the suspect was taken into custody, "the FBI had asked the CIA and the National Security Agency to run phone traces on Moussaoui, already the subject of a five-inch-thick file in the bureau." According to the December 29th Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Moussaoui raised suspicions at the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Egan [Minnesota]" when he showed up in August for instruction in piloting jumbo jets. He "first raised eyebrows when, during a simple introductory exchange, he said he was from France, but then didn't seem to understand when the instructor spoke French to him," recalled the paper. "Moussaoui then became belligerent and evasive about his background.... In addition, he seemed inept in basic flying procedures, while seeking expensive training on an advanced commercial jet simulator." Flight school employees "began whispering that he could be a hijacker," reported the February 8th New York Times. John Rosengren, director of operations at the school, recalled that Moussaoui's instructor was "concerned and wondered why someone who was not a pilot and had so little experience was trying to pack so much training into such a short time." "The more he was able to talk to him, the more he decided he was not pilot material," observes Rosengren. In addition, "There was discussion about how much fuel was on board a 747-400 and how much damage that could cause if it hit anything." By this time, Moussaoui's instructor had already scurried to a telephone to call the FBI's Minneapolis office. "Do you realize how serious this is?" he asked an FBI agent during the August 15th phone conversation. "This man wants training on a 747. A 747 fully loaded with fuel could be used as a weapon!" The FBI arrested Moussaoui the next day. However, notes the Star-Tribune, "the Minneapolis agents were unable to persuade FBI lawyers in Washington, D.C., to seek a warrant to search his possessions under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which requires evidence that the suspect is an agent of a foreign power or a terrorist group." The frustrated field agents were trying to gather sufficient evidence to get a warrant when Moussaoui's alleged co-conspirators piloted jetliners into the Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. Charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder, Moussaoui is not the only member of the Black Tuesday plot whom federal authorities knew about. On the morning of September 11th, noted the December 30th New York Times, "two people already identified by the government as suspected terrorists boarded separate American Airlines flights from Boston using their own names." Federal officials were also aware of a third hijacker, Hani Hanjour, who had come to the attention of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) while studying at the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Phoenix. Officials at the school had raised questions about Hanjour's inability to speak English, the international language of aviation. When they expressed concerns to the FAA, the agency stepped in to provide assistance - to Hanjour. According to the Star-Tribune, "An FAA representative sat in on a class to observe Hanjour . and discussed with school officials finding an Arabic-speaking person to help him with his English...." Hanjour returned the favor by plowing American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon. A Limited Inquiry? As Congress probes the security issues raised by the Black Tuesday attack, the investigation must be framed by a question similar to that dealt with in the "American Taliban" trial: What did our federal security and intelligence agencies know of the impending attack, and when did they know it? Recall that Lindh supposedly learned of the terrorist plot in May or June of last year. Evidence available in the public record makes it clear that the Justice Department and other branches of the federal government were aware of at least as much as Lindh is accused of knowing. Unfortunately, Congress seems content thus far to defer to the White House's desire to limit the scope and intensity of any inquiries into the tragedy. In meetings and phone conversations with congressional leaders, President Bush and Vice President Cheney "expressed the concern that a review of what happened on September 11 would take resources and personnel away from the effort in the war on terrorism," Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) told CNN. Daschle promised that he would "limit the scope and overall review of what happened." Congressman Porter Goss (R-Fla.) and Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.), who head the intelligence committees in their respective houses of Congress, extended similar assurances as the joint congressional investigation began in February. "This is not a who-shall-we-hang type of investigation," stated Rep. Goss. "It is [a] 'where are the gaps in America's defense and what do we do about it' type of investigation" - a "forward-looking" inquiry intended to bring about needed reforms. But without accountability, "gaps" will handicap even the most comprehensive security system. As Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz observed, "How can we prevent future attacks if we don't understand how we missed the last one?" Those responsible for the lethal "intelligence failure" of September 11th must be made to answer for their inaction. The congressional investigative panel has subpoena power. It should use it to summon responsible figures from the FBI, CIA, National Security Agency, and other federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. These officials should be subject to congressional scrutiny at least as severe as that being devoted to the actions of Enron officials - whose alleged crimes, serious as they may be, did not contribute to the death of thousands of American citizens. In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, CIA director Tenet "objected to the very word 'failure' in connection with the intelligence gathering ahead of the devastating surprise attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon," reported the New York Times. "The director said the CIA knew 'in broad terms' last summer that terrorists might be planning major operations in the United States. But, he said, 'we never had the texture' - meaning enough specific information - to stop what happened." Much the same can be said of John Walker Lindh: He knew "in broad terms" that the attacks were coming, even though the specific "texture" was not explained to him. For refusing to act to prevent the massacre, Lindh has been charged with conspiracy to murder Americans. In contrast, the FBI and CIA, which had the same intelligence as Lindh, have been rewarded with generous budget increases. Though administrators of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies would prefer to cloak the issue in self-serving euphemisms, Black Tuesday was - at best - a singular intelligence failure, for which those officials must be held responsible. And if, as one of the above-quoted former FBI counter-terrorism agents suggests, efforts to prevent that attack were compromised because of covert "agendas" in Washington, Congress must be prepared to take even more serious action. In any case, the American public must demand that Congress ask unpleasant questions about federal foreknowledge of the 9-11 atrocity - and that the inquiry unflinchingly follow the facts wherever they lead. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fc.gif Type: image/gif Size: 102 bytes Desc: not available URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Oct 19 00:41:17 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:41:17 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] (no subject) Message-ID: CURRENT NEWS The OKC Bombing Chronology You're NOT Supposed To Know From Brasscheck 06-14-01 "Sgt. McVeigh was an outstanding soldier. He did what he was told, anticipated what had to be done (and) took pride in his work," - Capt. Jesus Angel Rodriguez, McVeigh's commanding officer during the Gulf War, testifying at his sentencing hearing ____ It's called a Reichstag Fire The OKC Chronology you're not supposed to know 1. A second bomb found inside the building SUSANNE SEALY, Correspondent: Yes, LEA [sp], I can. The Oklahoma City police and the FBI have confirmed there is another bomb in the Federal Building. It's in the east side of the building. They've moved everybody back several blocks. CNN SHOW: NEWS 11:27 am ET - LIVE April 19, 1995 Transcript # 920-19 2. Forget the people, get those papers OKLAHOMA CITY -- Hours after a bomb ripped apart the federal building, some rescue workers were stopped from searching for survivors while federal officials removed boxes of documents. "You'd think they would have let their evidence and files sit at least until the last survivor was pulled out," one angry rescue worker told The News. The worker and a firefighter said that 10 to 12 hours after the 9 a.m. blast April 19, federal officials began limiting the number of rescue workers in the building to a dozen, confining them largely to the lower right side of the battered structure. Source: New York Daily News 3. FBI quietly drops pursuit of John Doe No. 2 Denver, Colo. -- An internal FBI memo indicates FBI agents suspended their search for the elusive Oklahoma City bomb suspect John Doe No. 2 in the critical weeks soon after the April 1995 blast, belying assurances by federal officials at the time that the search was continuing. The memo, the existence of which is publicly disclosed for the first time here, undercuts the government contention that federal agents have done everything they can to find the mystery suspect... In the memo, San Francisco-based FBI agent Thomas Ravenelle writes that he's discontinuing efforts to investigate a lead relating to attempts to find and identify John Doe No. 2 "in view of the fact that the Oklahoma City Command Post has directed all offices to hold (John Doe No. 2) leads in abeyance." Source: 1997 Digital City Denver 4. McVeigh's first confession faked by newspaper "The document containing a purported confession by alleged Oklahoma City bomber Timothy J. McVeigh, published by the Dallas Morning News, was fabricated by an investigator for the defense team, a friend of the investigator said yesterday." The Washington Post 03/05/97 By Lois Romano and Tom Kenworthy, Washington Post Staff Writers 5. DOJ report calls FBI's OJC bomb blast conclusions: "incomplete... inappropriate... scientifically insupportable" "Williams' report contains several serious flaws. His opinion as to the VOD of the main charge was unjustifiable; his statement of the VOD of ANFO was incomplete; his categorical identification of the main charge as ANFO was inappropriate; his estimate of the weight of the main charge was too specific and based in part on improper grounds; his conclusion as to the containers for the main charge was unjustifiably categorical; his categorical identification of the initiator for the booster was improper; his conclusions concerning a non-electric detonator, the fuse, and the time delay were scientifically insupportable; his conclusions were not supported by the contents of the report; and he included some AE dictation in a selective or confusing way. These errors were all tilted in such a way as to incriminate the defendants. We are troubled that the opinions in Williams' report may have been tailored to conform to the evidence associated with the defendants. We conclude that Williams failed to present an objective, unbiased, competent report." Source: The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory Practices and Alleged Misconduct in Explosives-Related and Other Cases (April,1997) - A USDOJ/OIG Special Report http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/fbilab1/fbil1toc.htm ============================ * A timely terrorist He wanted to start a revolution, but even with years of prison to sort out his thoughts he never found the time to write even the briefest of manifestos. Fellow inmates said he spent his time reading car magazines. He wanted to protest the murder of innocent women and children - so he murdered innocent women and children. He was a crack marksman, good enough to reportedly haven taken the head off an Iraqi soldier in a machine gun nest at 1,000 yards - but he chose a complex truck bomb, something he had no training or experience with, to deliver his violent message. Tim McVeigh was a most convenient and cooperative terrorist. The government wanted the world to believe that a single truck bomb loaded with fertilizer destroyed the Murrah Building - and at the end of his life, McVeigh apparently told two journalists that the story was true. That he lit the fuse personally in traffic while on the way to the building. You can read all about it in the mass market book that came out just before the execution. The country needed someone to be arrested quickly, sit in jail for a few years, not implicate anyone else and then die at the hands of an executioner in order that the nation might "heal" - and he proved to be the right man for the job. The government apparently wanted him gone fast, due process be damned - and he seemed to have no problem with that. A Constitution-shredding anti-terrorist bill languished in Congress, unpassable, and needed a massive demonstration of extreme violence against the federal government and innocent people - and Sgt. McVeigh delivered a Ryder truck to the front of the Murrah Building right on time. A remarkable confluence of purposes for two forces supposedly at odds with each other. ======= * Dead and gone? Just in case you're curious, Timothy McVeigh's body won't be autopsied, reportedly at his request, even though though conducting an autopsy of executed prisoners is standard procedure in US prisons. Federal Judge Richard Matsch, who made the ruling, must have a heart after all. In addition to the no autopsy ruling, a signed agreement between McVeigh and the government states that pictures, X-rays and other medical information gathered by the coroner's office after McVeigh's death will remain confidential. Source: http://www.crimelynx.com/mcvautop.html The body will be cremated. By now, it may already have been - again at McVeigh's request and with Judge Richard Matsch's approval. The execution itself? Here's an excerpt of the first eye witness account of the execution broadcast by MSNBC just minutes after it was over: "The shallow breathing continued... or what appeared to be shallow breathing... even after they pronounced him dead." - Susan Carlson. Reporter. WLS Chicago See her say it yourself in streaming video before it's taken down: http://www.apfn.org/movies/mcveigh-lives.WMV The execution was not videotaped, again by court order, so all we know of what happened at the end are from the eye witness accounts. No body. No video. No photographs. Not even an X-ray - and a sealed coroner's report. Did "Timothy McVeigh" die on Monday? It depends on which one you mean... The one on the left, the McVeigh we know from the media? Or the one on the right, a man identified as an ATF agent photographed during the Waco Branch Davidian trial (published months before the OKC bombing.) (Pics here: http://www.busprod.com/hellion/okc/IMAGES/atf-tim.jpg) Call it a Reichstag Fire. No one believed the audacity of it in 1933 either. ================ * History Lesson "On Feb. 27, 1933, a fire destroyed part of the Reichstag building. Hitler immediately accused the Communists of having set the fire. President von Hindenburg proclaimed a state of emergency and issued decrees suspending freedom of speech and assembly." The following day a law was passed ... "People were not sent to Dachau as a punishment for a crime after being convicted by a court of law, but rather as a preventive measure because they were suspected of being a danger to the state. Such a person was called a Schutzh?ftling and the order for preventive custody was a Schutzhaftbefehl. Prisoners who were arrested and taken to Dachau were told: "Based on Article One of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State of 28 February 1933, you are taken into protective custody (Schutzhaft) in the interest of public security and order. Reason: suspicion of activities inimical to the State." And remember, if you speak against the state, you're a dangerous nut, just like that Timothy McVeigh...And he sure got what he deserved, didn't he? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Oct 19 00:45:33 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:45:33 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] government involvement in OKC bombing!? Message-ID: NEWS ARTICLES Reasons to suspect government involvement in the OKC bombing 1.. They had the most to gain. 2.. The ATF were already on the scene in bomb squad gear - before the bombing 3.. The ATF lied about their own heroics. They reported free falling in an elevator several stories. The elevator inspectors testified that the elevators locked in place as they were designed and did not free fall. 4.. The destruction pattern is vehemently denied by independent experts as having been possible by a truck on the street. 5.. Columns were knocked out that were further away from the blast than weaker columns that were closer to the blast that remained. 6.. Seismographs indicated multiple blasts. Seismographs of the raising proved the multiple shocks were not the building collapse. 7.. Reports of pulverized concrete and remaining re bar indicate contact explosives. 8.. Destruction of the building was done in spite of no safety hazard before independent investigators could inspect the columns to determine what kind of blast toppled them. 9.. Only like minded investigators were allowed to investigate the destruction. 10.. Trim, sheet rock, furring strips were in place close to the bomb while steel and concrete columns were decimated FURTHER away. 11.. The rest of the building was structurally sound, almost impossible if a street bomb cause all the damage. 12.. The collapsed columns and header beams fell straight down. A blast from the street would have sent them flying away from the blast. Contact explosives in the columns would cause them to fall straight down. 13.. Calculations of blast pressure of 4800 pounds of ammonium nitrate would produce 0.5 million pounds at 4.5 feet but only 375 pounds at A5 in the picture below. At the B-row it would be 27-38 pounds per square inch and at A7 only 25-35 psi. The yield strength of concrete is about 3500 psi. 14.. The EglinTest Structure, a reinforced concrete 3 story structure provides "concrete" data on blast effects. The blast effects tests were conducted by the Wright Laboratory at Eglin Air Force. It used a blast approximately half as powerful as the alleged OKC truck bomb. Only the first story wall was knocked out with pressures of 90 to 130 psi. The bomb was 830 pounds of Tritonal (roughly 2200 pounds of ANFO) at ground level 25 feet away. No columns were knocked down. The columns were 14 inch. The walls were 6 inch concrete panels. 15.. After reviewing the Eglin Test a number of civil engineers have also concluded that the Murrah Building destruction was not the result of just the truck bomb. That includes Mike Smith of Cartersville, Georgia, commissioned to review the Eglin study. He stated that even if the ANFO device was constructed with racing fuel the 4800 pound device could not have damaged the columns and beams of the building enough to produce a catastrophic failure. 16.. Robert Frias of Arlingon Texas with 40 years of engineering practice concurred that the truck bomb could not have done the damage. 17.. Alvin Norberg of Auburn, California with 50 years engineering experience and experience on over 5000 construction projects also concluded that the destruction had to be done from mechanically coupled devices. 18.. Kenneht Gow of Whittier, CA with 50 years experience in aerospace also agreed internal explosives must have been used. 19.. The grand jury was not permitted to interview any witnesses that testified to a John Doe II, many suspect this was the government agent involved. 20.. A light pole just yards from the blast was left standing. Few believe the truck blast could have been "that" directional. They would have to use a lot of sand bags or other weight to do so. That would have left less room in the truck for explosive! 21.. A comparable bomb in Bogota of the DAS (Columbia Police) building in the last picture did very little structural damage. The DAS building bomb caused damage for 26 blocks. Survivors described it as a "mini A-bomb". It was 1300 pounds of dynamite which is much more powerful pound for pound than ammonium nitrate mixture. 22.. I recall seeing an editorial about a State department or FBI spokesman quoting Hitter's burning of the Reichstag speech after the bombing almost verbatim. (Hitler caused the burning and blamed it on his enemies.) 23.. Bob Ricks - the FBI PR man at Waco was appointed director of public safety in OK after the bombing. 24.. Larry Potts who gave the shoot to kill order at Ruby Ridge was appointed director of the FBI investigation in OK 25.. James Nichol's hearing tape was blank after FOI prosecution to obtain it. 26.. Witnesses and helpers were frequently told to shut up. Many were pressured to change their stories. 27.. Grand Jury was prohibited from questioning any of the numerous witnesses that claimed to have seen a John Doe 2. 28.. Fortier originally denied believing McVeigh had any thing to do with the bombing until the FBI raided his home. 29.. FBI crime lab implicated with much falsifying of evidence. 30.. Witnesses admitted they were pressured by the FBI to implicate McVeigh. 31.. Over 100 documents have been sealed by court order. 32.. McVeigh defense was not allowed to explore the possibility that other people that may have been involved. This would prevent any defense that McVeigh was set up. ...When was the last time your license plate fell off? How could he hope to have any defense except a frame up given that he had considered the very act he was convicted of? 33.. The aerial photo of a secretly loaded Rider truck the week before the bombing at an army base nearby together with other reports of 2 trucks involved. Furthermore at this site there were drums and mixers that look like the necessary equipment to make a fertilizer bomb. This photo is disputed as to the date and location. The pilot who took the picture has not come forward to affirm it's authenticity. This is a popular internet controversy. 34.. At the trial there was only a tiny embedded fragment of possible fertilizer remains (ammonium nitrate) introduced as evidence that it was a fertilizer bomb yet the FBI "knew" it was a fertilizer bomb within 24 hours. Other experts say it is nearly impossible to have such total elimination of fertilizer. 35.. McVeigh's selling merchandise in a newspaper months earlier under a fake name was almost immediately disclosed by the Washington Post from ADL sources. How was this possible if McVeigh was not already the target of investigation? It was alleged that he used income from this to finance the bombing. The Post story reported the ads to run Aug 9, 1993 but the newspaper reported that it was actually run Aug 16, 1993. Thus the ADL was privy to knowing McVeigh's INTENTIONS to run the ad and not from actually following the placement of the ad. Thus the ADL had a contact in McVeigh's inner circle of friends. The magazine (Spotlight) had a number of events indicating an attempt to implicate them in the OKC bombing. The phone card used by McVeigh was from Spotlight. Someone called and complained that the card (Daryl Bridges) didn't work. Staff at Spotlight used the number to verify that it did work. (Thus creating a "link" to Spotlight) Two days before the bombing a letter from OKC including a "Black Sunday" Depression postcard of Oklahoma in 1935 and a copy of a Spotlight article 12 years old about Gordon Kahl ( a patriot gunned down by the Feds after he killed FBI agents shooting at his son). Spotlight's attorney Mark Lane turned over the information to the FBI and now the FBI claims to have lost it. 36.. The 155 page brief filed by Stephen Jones is very specific about government involvement. The judge of course did not allow any argument indicating accomplices or agent provoceturs. 37.. CNN reported in June of 1995 that McVeigh was under surveillance 2 years earlier at an Arizona gun show as expressing violent attitudes toward the BATF and FBI. 38.. The Washington Post reported June 3, 1995 that one of McVeigh's associates first tipped the FBI might have been involved in the bombing contradicting the claim that an eagle-eyed police officer spotted McVeigh;s resemblance to the bombing suspect. 39.. How did the truck axle that identified the truck not get blasted into the crater but instead bounced a couple blocks away and stayed in good shape. It had to be put back in its spot to be photographed. Controversy has arisen that the original axle the government evidenced was a light truck axle and later replaced with a heavier one. 40.. Cary Gagan was recruited by the FBI as an informant. He reported to the FBI he had been asked to drive a truck transporting a detonator to the abandoned Stapleton Airport to blow up a federal building. He claims to have been attacked and told to shut up. He has filed suit in Denver - case 97 S 308. 41.. A member of the OKC Fire Department stated that he was called about a week before the bombing and told to be in a state of extra "readiness" because of a bomb threat to the federal building. 42.. Miss Carol Howe, on the BATF payroll for $120 per week also told BATF in Tulsa that a terrorist was planning to blow up the Federal Building on April 19. She also named Andreas Strassmeir as one who was connected to the conspiracy. (Many believe Strassmeir was a government agent.) Former Tulsa beauty queen Howe is now charged with conspiring to make a bomb threat and possession of a destructive device. 43.. Two key witnesses have mysteriously died. Yeakey, OKC police officer cited for extraordinary bravery after the OKC bombing became disillusioned about the police force, writing in a letter that they falsified information and covered up what was happening. Yeakey's ex-wife said that about 2 weeks before his death he would show up 2 or 4 in the morning and talk about getting remarried and getting an insurance policy so she and the kids would be taken care of. She knew his death was not suicide - the official report. He would have known that insurance doesn't pay for suicide until after a few years. The other death was a Dr. Chumley who refused to falsify reports concerning injuries that BATF agents suffered when the building was bombed. He died Sept 24, 1995 when his plane suddenly plunged into a field. 44.. Johnnie Cochran has been retained by more than 300 relatives of the victims in OKC. They are also alleging a botched sting operation. The Sunday Times of London reported that the BATF was about to arrest a group of "neo-Nazis" who were said to be plotting to blow up federal buildings in Oklahoma. 45.. A dynamite wrapper and nitroglycerin were found at the bomb site. Dynamite contains ammonium nitrate. 46.. An Inspector General of the Justice Department report concluded that the fertilizer hypothesis was not based on forensic evidence from the crime scene but was conjured out of thin air after ammonium nitrate fertilizer was found at the home of Terry Nichols. 47.. The government apparently "botched" handling Tim McVeighs property when he was picked up by the FBI. An undeveloped roll of film was missing. The jail employee said it was picked up by someone else. Did it contain photo's of John Doe #2? Government agents? (This was revealed in trial testimony by Deborah Thompson of the Nobel County Jail.) 48.. Detectives were ordered not to look for finger prints in Nichol's home. Why? Would they find someone they wanted to protect? 49.. The trial also revealed many oddities. McVeigh's fingerprints were not on anything in Elliot's body shop where the truck was rented. Not on the contract. Not on the storage locker where the explosives were kept. Not on the ammunition cans. Not in the Dreamland Motel. The only thing they were on was the receipt for the fertilizer - which he was not involved in the transaction! 50.. If McVeigh/Nichols had cased the Federal building, why did they have to stop to ask directions? If a bomber was going to ask directions wouldn't they ask for the location of a nearby building instead? 51.. Why would McVeigh use his own name and give the Nichols as a reference if he were en route to a bombing? 52.. Why would Elohim City not be a target for identifying co-conspirators since: a.. Elohim City housed gangsters calling themselves Aryan Republican Army b.. Make videos of themselves boasting nuclear, chemical and biological warfare capabilities c.. McVeigh calling a German ex-soldier running the enclave's security who's expertise is explosives d.. The gangsters were wanted for a 2 year spree of 22 bank robberies. A grand jury handed down indictments Jan 30, 1997. e.. A convicted murderer Richard Snell venerated as a martyr was scheduled to die on the day of the bombing and repeatedly predicted a bombing or explosion the day he died. f.. The same murderer was involved in a plot to attack the Murrah Building 12 years earlier g.. An ATF informant in their camp informed the ATF that the security director /explosives expert announced it was time to go to war and blow up federal buildings h.. The same informant (Carol Howe) tells the FBI and ATF that McVeigh and John Doe #2 at the compound. Carol had a falling out with Mahon of Elohim City. When they broke up he threatened her and she reported it to the police. The ATF found out and she began to work as an informer for the ATF. When McVeigh's defense asked for her informant records, the ATF said they didn't exist. When it was evidenced that the records did exist, Judge Matsch angrily ordered the records be delivered to the defense and threatened the prosecutors with removal from the case if they lied to him one more time. Seem's to defy understanding that the FBI did not investigate anyone at the compound. The AP (Paul Query) quoted an unnamed official in Washington as saying the "Elohim City is not a current subject of interest." Yet the ATF and FBI has gone on a rampage post OKC raiding gun dealers, militia groups and others and many of their cases fell apart in court. Hmm. 53.. The Washington Post acknowledged May 10, 1997 how selective the prosecution was in only calling witnesses who would identify McVeigh. They did not call the person who delivered the Chinese food (although they called the owner to testify that "Kling" ordered the food) because the delivery man said the person taking the food was NOT McVeigh! 54.. Was Iraqi Toval - who was deported 10 days after the bombing "under escort and airtight security" and reported by witnesses to have been in McVeigh's company prior to the bombing - the real John Doe #1? Was McVeigh mistakenly identified considering quite a number of witnesses were pressured by the FBI to identify McVeigh? 55.. According to testimony, the residue found on McVeigh's clothing, earplugs, but not shoes or carpet can be from gunpowder. McVeigh did target practice shooting. 56.. Dr. Whitehurst, supervisory special agent and bombing specialist in the FBI's forensics lab in Washington charged that some of his colleagues have been falsifying evidence for years. He seems to have made remarks regarding the McVeigh residue tests. 57.. The "officially authorized" book In Their Name erroneously depicts the location of the bomb crater in an attempt to explain away Gen. Partin's analysis showing that there had to be other explosives. Column B3 collapsed but the truck was parked between A4 and A5. B4 would have received 40% of the blast pressure but did not come down 58.. In Martin Keiting's (brother of OK governor Frank, former FBI agent and assistant secretary of Treasury who supervised the Secret Service, U.S. Customs and BATF; Uncle Barney headed the Navy's foreign intelligence collection unit; Martin has numerous intelligence contacts) book The Final Jihad completed in 1991 but released in 1996 conveyed some remarkable coincidences. The terrorist network was in Oklahoma. A key figure was Tom McVey. The terrorists were arrested on a minor traffic violation by an unsuspecting highway patrolman. However, the villains in the book were KGB, North Korean and East German hard liners who's plans are carried out by Middle Eastern fanatics. 59.. The government's position of a single blast is based on FaAA's (Failure Analysis Associates of Menlo Park, CA) analysis which explains how a vacuum behind the blast shock wave causes debris to be scattered outside the building instead of into the building. The July 1997 issue of Popular Mechanics has an article on this. They fail to mention any of the substantial reasons so many experts are willing to testify that a single bomb could not have caused all the damage. 60.. The Strassmeir connection has a number of bizarre twists. When his station wagon was impounded by Oklahoma Highway patrol there were papers that appeared to be classified detailing negotiations by Strassmeir on behalf of Petruskie Associates of Manassas, Virginia to buy Boeing 747's from Lufthansa Airlines. This doesn't fit the impoverished log cabin setting of Elohim City - negotiating multimillion dollar deals. It was released by someone claiming to be from the State Department when they told the police Strassmeir had diplomatic immunity. He was the same head of security at Elohim City that led the cry for bombings to begin. Vincent Petruskie (Strassmeir's Lufthansa partner) was described by Strassmeir as a former CIA guy who my father had known. Petruskie told The New American magazine that Andi wanted to work for the U.S. government - DEA, Justice - undercover. He thought his background with military and German government would help. Strassmeir fled to Germany through Mexico just as the U.S. government decided they "wanted" to talk with him. Which they finally did by phone. 61.. British journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard reported additional evidence that Strassmeir gave additional testimony he was a U.S. undercover operative and there was an inside informant. In the Sunday Telegraph (Britains largest daily paper) Evans-Pritchard asked Strassmeir if the informant would ever speak out. Andi replied "How can he? What happens if it was a sting operation from the very beginning? What happens if it comes out that the plant was a provocateur? What then? The relatives of the victims are going to go crazy, and he's going to be held responsible for the murder of 168 people? Of course the informant can't come forward. He's scared stiff right now." 62.. Arlin Adams and other members of militia groups put together the "Unwanted" poster below and militia groups in Philadelphia began posted them in Brescia's neighborhood. He was shortly thereafter arrested and charged in the ARA bank robbery spree. Brescia had played in a skinhead rock band at Elohim City, disappeared for several months after Strassmeir returned to Germany. He surfaced at his parent's home in Philadelphia. He was arrested January 30, 1997. The fed's still have no interest in him as to possible connections to the OKC bombing. OKC bomb damage pattern Columns near blast with sheet rock Bogota DAS bldg Summary Why didn't McVeigh's defense get to use the "conspiracy card". Why did the judge disallow any defense premise of McVeigh being framed? Why couldn't even the grand jury interview any witnesses that identified a John Doe #2? Sounds like the "show" trials in any other communist country! The people just want a conviction, not the truth! Richard Matsch allowed victim testimony - which had nothing to do with proving who committed the crime - on the pretense that there had to be proof that a crime had been committed. So we can conclude that the judge has a low opinion of the Jury's intelligence. Matsch is reportedly a very pro-government judge - He does what the prosecution wants. It seems McVeigh was involved, and if so, is guilty of murder. But what also seems glaringly obvious, is that the government was aware, as in the World Trade Center bombing, and has acted guilty of a cover up. 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Name: bomb3.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 61983 bytes Desc: not available URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Oct 19 00:52:08 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 00:52:08 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] (no subject) Message-ID: TRAIL OF TERROR An Oklahoma Mystery New hints of links between Timothy McVeigh and Middle Eastern terrorists By Jim Crogan July 24, 2002 LA Weekly -------------------------------------------------------------------- EITHER CONVICTED OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBERS Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were part of a conspiracy, possibly involving Middle Eastern and Filipino connections, or they were not. Seven years later, the authorities have still not fully examined this question. But taking on this issue would seem to fit the mission of the House and Senate Intelligence committees, which are jointly investigating intelligence failures by the FBI and CIA before 9/11. Chaired by two Floridians -- Republican Representative Porter Goss and Democratic Senator Bob Graham -- the Committees' began their closed-door work by focusing on two areas: U.S. investigations of terrorism since the CIA established a counterterrorism unit in 1986 and Osama bin Laden's role in sponsoring international terrorism since the mid-1990s. Back in 1995, several Congressional Committees did search for international ties to the Oklahoma City attack, but came up empty, explained former Representative Bill McCollum in an interview. Still, the reports issued by the House Republican Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, which McCollum chaired until 1995, were quite prescient. "The task force was on the mark when it came to their warnings about the emerging threat of Middle Eastern terrorism," McCollum said. "I can tell you that we were very concerned about the possibility of a Middle East connection to Oklahoma City. But we never found any evidence there was one." McCollum, however, said he never heard of the reporting done by TV journalist Jayna Davis, which connected McVeigh and Nichols with Middle Eastern figures in Oklahoma City and the Philippines. Nor did he know of Davis' ongoing communications with Yossef Bodansky, executive director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. "Seffy [Bodansky] never told me anything about that," he said. "This is all news to me." After the bombing, Bodansky marshaled his intelligence sources and began an investigation. He found some of the same Middle Eastern connections uncovered by reporter Davis. "The stories you are telling fit very closely with the stories I have," he told Davis, in a taped conversation on April 24, 1996. In the tape, Davis asks if the names are tied to the bombing. And Bodansky responds, "I didn't get them because I am trying to run a private, one-man census of the Oklahoma City area." The government also turned up experts who believed they found possible evidence of a Middle Eastern signature on the bombing. In 1997, Stephen Jones, lead attorney for McVeigh, filed a motion claiming the defense team had acquired a one-page summary of a government report by two unnamed Israeli experts who examined the Murrah Building. "Their conclusion was the Oklahoma City bombing bore the indisputable earmark of Middle Eastern terrorists," said Jones in an interview. The men were eventually identified as Dorom Bergerbest-Eliom, chief of security for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., and Yakov (or Yaskov) Yerushalmi, a civil engineer and Israeli government consultant. Attorney Jones filed a court motion complaining to federal Judge Richard Matsch that the government had wrongly denied the document to McVeigh's defense team. "We never did get the full report," Jones continued. "Judge Matsch reminded the prosecutors they had a legal obligation to turn over any exculpatory material to the defense. However, the judge left it to the Justice Department to decide what was exculpatory." DAVIS, THE FORMER TV REPORTER FOR KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City, began investigating the bombing the day after the attack. In seven years, she's accumulated 26 affidavits and more than 100 hours of taped interviews. In particular, she zeroed in on a group of Iraqis who worked for Samir Khalil, a Palestinian-born businessman and owner of a property-management company in Oklahoma City. Davis also did pieces on John Doe No. 2, the mysterious figure identified in initial police bulletins as having been seen fleeing the federal building after the bombing. The FBI later announced that John Doe No. 2 never existed. One of the Iraqis, Hussain Alhussaini, later came forward and identified himself as the person being fingered in Davis' television reports as John Doe No. 2. He sued the reporter for defamation. A federal judge dismissed the suit; Alhussaini has appealed. (See: Heartland Conspiracy, published in the L.A. Weekly, Sept. 28-Oct. 4, 2001.) The TV reporter, who has since quit the station, also interviewed Lana Padilla, Nichols' first wife. She told Davis that McVeigh had given her ex-husband thousands of dollars and paid for his first trip to the Philippines. Nichols, who is now awaiting trial in Oklahoma City on state murder charges, traveled extensively to the islands and eventually married a Filipino woman. Padilla has now been subpoenaed as a prosecution witness in Nichols' state case. Davis also turned up material that appeared to connect Nichols to Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim Murad. Yousef, the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is now serving a life sentence in federal prison. He also had hatched unrealized plans to blow up 12 airliners and to assassinate Pope John Paul II. Murad, a confederate of Yousef, is also in federal custody. He told Philippine police about a plot to hijack an airliner and crash it into CIA headquarters. Murad also claimed in 1996 that a large number of Middle Eastern men were being trained at U.S. flight schools in connection with these plots. This information was passed on to the FBI. What the agency did with it is unknown. Court documents, related to this alleged Filipino connection, were attached to a motion filed by McVeigh's defense team in 1996. One is an FBI memo detailing a conversation between Murad and a U.S. prison guard after the Oklahoma City bombing. Murad told his jailer that the Filipino Liberation Army was responsible for that attack. The memo also cites a note Murad gave his guard, reiterating this claim. Another exhibit from the defense motion is an affidavit filed by Edwin Angeles, a founder of Abu Sayyaf, a Filipino terrorist group. Angeles, who was assassinated by former comrades, wrote in 1996 that he was at a 1991 meeting in Davao City, attended by Yousef, Murad and Nichols, at which, they discussed "bombing activities, providing firearms and ammo" to terrorists and "training in bomb making and handling" of explosives. Nichols, he claimed, was introduced to him as "the farmer." In February 1995 -- months before the Oklahoma City blast -- the House Task Force on Terrorism issued a warning that Middle Eastern Islamists, under the leadership of Iran, were preparing a series of terrorist attacks against the U.S. An update, issued in March 1995 -- just a month before the bombing -- stated the target list had shifted from Washington, D.C., to government installations and buildings in America's heartland. The task force distributed these alerts to federal intelligence and law-enforcement agencies. In 1996, terrorism-task-force director Bodansky gave a copy of the original warning and update to Davis. Reportedly Bodansky, recently passed on Davis' affidavits and taped interviews to the U.S. House Government Reform Committee, about which he refuses to comment. "I work for the government, and I can't talk about Oklahoma City," he said. -------------------------------------------------------------- IN THE NINE MONTHS SINCE THE Weekly first published details of Davis' story, new information has emerged that raises more questions about the FBI's investigation into the bombing: a.. On April 19, 1995 -- immediately after the bombing -- the FBI sent an urgent request to the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency requesting 10 Arabic linguists to help in its Oklahoma City bombing investigation. Linguists, serving on a 30-day loan, would not be permitted to monitor electronic surveillance. a.. After McVeigh's arrest, the FBI was contacted by the Defense Department to see if they still needed the linguists. According to an April 22, 1995 memo from the Department of the Army, an FBI agent said the linguists were being used to "monitor wiretaps of radical fundamentalist Islamists to protect the President from possible attack" during his upcoming appearance at an Oklahoma City memorial service. a.. On August 2, 1995, Federal Protective Services special agent Thomas Williams sent a memo to his branch chief, John Crowe, detailing his communication with terrorism task-force director Yossef Bodansky. In it, he states Bodansky told him that a lot of names that came up in NBC reports (by TV journalist Jayna Davis) overlapped with the names of suspects Bodansky had compiled. a.. In a taped conversation between Bodansky and Davis on May 18, 1996, Bodansky tells the reporter that by mid-April, intelligence information suggested that government buildings had been specifically targeted. He said the intelligence had been accumulated over 18 months. He also said he had gotten another warning from Israeli intelligence, a week before the bombing, that an attack would be launched in America's heartland. a.. Also on May 18, Bodansky faxed two notes to Davis in which he provides more details about the task force's intelligence analysis. Bodansky writes that after the bombing, it was determined that Oklahoma City had been "on the list of potential targets." The second note states that "The initial forensic investigation of the explosion in Oklahoma suggested strong similarities to bombing techniques used by Iran-sponsored Islamist terrorists, including the car bomb that destroyed [a] building in Buenos Aires on 18 July 1994." a.. An undated intelligence report by Bodansky discusses alleged terrorist training inside the U.S. that included some "Lilly Whites," people whose background would not tie them to terrorism. Bodansky states the training was ordered by Iran and conducted by Hamas operatives. His intelligence sources told him that the training occurred at a camp near Chicago. The first camp was allegedly held in 1990 and included about 25 trainees, who used code names. One group, he states, was reportedly given instructions on building car bombs from available materials. The second training occurred in 1993. It was specifically for Lilly Whites. They also used code names and were given state-of-the-art car-bomb training. Bodansky's sources also report that at least two of the 1993 participants came from Oklahoma City. a.. During a legal dispute with her former employer Bodansky wrote Davis a letter of support stating, "Having studied the material provided by Ms. Davis very closely, I consider it most sensitive, reliable and important evidence for the Task Force investigation." Bodansky also wrote, "Having carefully studied these tapes, as well as other work of Ms. Davis, I'm convinced that the witnesses she had interviewed provide credible testimony." a.. During a civil suit for defamation against Davis and KFOR-TV, Hussain Alhussaini, a former Iraqi soldier, submitted psychiatric reports from 1997, in which he states that he worked for a while at Boston's Logan Airport (where two of the planes were hijacked on September 11). Alhussaini first told his psychiatrist that he quit his airport job because "If anything happens there, I will be a suspect." Then he later contradicts himself, saying that he wants to look for another job "because he feels unsafe in the environment he works in, in the airport, given the recent events involving his being previously suspected of involvement in the Oklahoma bombing." In a 1998 deposition, Alhussaini states he is still working at the airport and has fears of losing his job. Alhussaini's specific job was never identified. Alhussaini still appears to be living in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Port Authority, which oversees Logan's operations, declined comment on Alhussaini's current work status or his airport duties. An analysis of raw news footage and reports in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City, Okla., shows local television reporters stating repeatedly that two additional, sophisticated, undetonated explosive devices were found by investigators on the scene. The television reports raise questions about the official government version of events that an "extremist" and his friend acted alone, using a Ryder rental truck and a 1,200-pound ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, or ANFO, bomb to destroy the face of the building. For example, initial news broadcasts by KWTV-9, KFOR TV-5 and Channel 4 News all feature reports confirmed by state, local and federal officials that a total of three bombs had been placed inside the Murrah building. TV news footage showed Oklahoma County Sheriff's Department bomb squad vehicles being brought to the scene within a half-hour of the explosion, "amid reports" that "more bombs have been found" by rescuers. Also, reporters at the scene confirmed that the two other bombs were larger than the first one, and that the bomb that had exploded blew up inside -- not outside -- the building. Reports said the other two bombs were found on the east and west sides of the building; the explosion occurred at the front, or north side, of the building. In one clip, the medical director for St. Anthony's Hospital told reporters that local OKC police had informed him that rescue efforts had been called off temporarily "because of the other bombs found in the building. ." And, TV-9 reported that "the U.S. Justice Department has confirmed" that other bombs were found in the structure. In subsequent reports, within the first few hours of the explosion, news crews were reporting that federal and local authorities had confirmed that the two other explosives had been "defused" and "moved off site." The 'lone' suspects Timothy McVeigh, now 32, was convicted in 1997 for his role in the April 19, 1995, bombing, and is scheduled to be executed by the government May 16 at a federal prison facility in Terre Haute, Ind. The Justice Department said Friday that bombing survivors and victims' families would be able to view the execution via closed-circuit television. He will be the first federal prisoner executed in 36 years. In 1997, he was convicted in the bombing deaths of 168 people, including 19 children. McVeigh has said he bombed the Murrah building in retaliation for the FBI's raid on a Branch Davidian religious facility April 19, 1993, in Waco, Texas, which led to a fire that killed 80 men, women and children. McVeigh said he did it to give the federal government "dirty for dirty." Meanwhile, Terry Nichols, also convicted in 1997 as an accomplice in the OKC attack, is currently serving a life sentence in federal prison. But he also faces Oklahoma state charges of capital murder pressed by prosecutors who have pledged to seek the death penalty. Early news reports indicated government sources were saying that "bombs were brought into" the Murrah building, and that because they were able to find undetonated devices, authorities would be able to "find out who is responsible" for the bombing. In one clip, Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating also confirmed the presence of other explosives. "The reports I have are that one device was deactivated . [and] apparently, there was another device. Whatever did the damage to the Murrah building was a tremendous . a very sophisticated explosive device. ." Keating was heard saying. One TV news report then said that then-President Bill Clinton "has called Gov. Keating . and said three FBI anti-terrorist teams" were being sent from Washington, D.C., to OKC, ostensibly to investigate the incident. The report further stated that "the White House and Justice Department . have said [the bombing] was the work of a sophisticated group . and would have to have been carried out by an explosives expert." McVeigh and Nichols were not explosives experts, critics of the government's official version of events point out. Later in the day and into the next day, details of the official explanations and information that had been witnessed or confirmed early on by news organizations, reporters and authorities handling the rescue efforts began to change. Within 24 hours, federal officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms were saying that the explosion had not occurred within the building itself but instead the damage had been caused by a "car" parked in front of the building, loaded with the ANFO bomb. Soon afterward, the "car" became a Ryder rental truck and the explosives grew in size, to about 4,500 pounds. Also, officials began to discount the second- and third bomb story, instead focusing only on the outside, north-face explosion as the one and only explosive source at the entire complex. At one point, news reports began to suggest that officials believed the outside explosion was intended to set off the other explosions inside, but witness statements began to be reported that would refute the single-bomb claim. Witnesses interviewed by local TV affiliates said they felt the Murrah building "shake and shift" for several seconds before "glass blew in" on top of them. One witness said he saw the ceiling collapse as he dove under his desk, "several seconds before the glass came in at me." Experts began to theorize that the ANFO bomb in the Ryder truck was indeed integral to what happened, but not as Washington said. Rather, they theorized that the ANFO explosion -- which came after the internal explosion -- was intended to mask that first explosion and gave the government plausibility for its single-bomb-outside-the-structure version of events; the version that eventually became widely accepted. Backup evidence In the years following the bombing, independent investigators, journalists and bomb experts have studied the available evidence and found new evidence to suggest the earliest reports of what happened just over six years ago were probably the most accurate. For instance, one particular website has published official government documents and statements that substantiate the 3-bomb reports first aired by local television news. A Department of Defense Atlantic Command memo, issued one day after the bombing, says ". a second bomb was disarmed; a third bomb was evacuated. ." A Federal Emergency Management Agency "SitRep" (situational report), dated April 20, 1995, also confirms the presence of three bombs inside the building. And a U.S. Forces Command daily log report from the same day said: "Two more explosive devices were located vicinity the explosion site. Evidently intended for the rescuers." Finally, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol radio log said, "OC Fire Dept. confirms they did find a second device in the bldg/OK. ." Also, independent engineers, explosives experts and military analysts conducted studies of the available evidence, many concluding that the government's "single truck-single bomb" explanation was technically impossible. Perhaps one of the most dominant of these was conducted by Brig. Gen. Ben K. Partin, a retired Air Force officer with decades of military experience in the design of explosives and warheads. His exhaustive study, completed July 30, 1995 -- less than three months after the bombing -- also concluded that explosive charges, or "demolitions," were most likely placed inside the structure at key points designed to "bring the building down. ." Coming to closure Despite those early reports and later studies that appear to substantiate the information contained in them, federal prosecutors and the FBI were resolute in discounting much of it when the case went to trial. Instead, the Justice Department's cases were entirely built on McVeigh, Nichols, and the Ryder truck bomb theory. Even though McVeigh is scheduled to be executed in just a few short weeks, and even if Nichols ends up with a similar fate, there will always be questions from some who remain convinced -- as those early reporters were -- that something other than Washington's official version really happened that fateful day in 1995. Many questions will probably never be answered, however. The Murrah building was demolished two weeks after the attack; the site was covered with dirt and the building materials were trucked to an off-site dump manned by armed guards and buried. Further independent analysis of the materials was not, and has not, been permitted. Other questions still nag critics of the government case: a.. Two weeks after the bombing, Time and Newsweek magazines both ran "artist's conceptions" of the "immense 30-foot crater" allegedly left by the Ryder truck bomb. But news footage in the aftermath of the bombing showed no such crater. a.. Domestic anti-terrorist bills were stalled in Congress before the bombing, but sailed through to become law shortly afterward. a.. Witnesses reported seeing three men in the parking garage of the Murrah building (it had nine stories above ground and had a four-floor parking garage underneath) working with "electrical equipment and pointing at various parts of the garage in the days before the attack. Many survivors reported that some of these men were dressed in Government Services Administration uniforms but had never seen them before or since. a.. An independent aerial photo was taken of a Ryder truck the size used in the attack parked at an Army facility near Camp Gruber-Braggs, Okla., outside of OKC, in the days leading up to the attack. a.. One London journalist, Ambrose Evans Pritchard, uncovered evidence that suggested the entire OKC bombing was a government sting operation gone awry. BATF and FBI officials were working on a case involving a "Christian Identity" group prone to violence and plotting the OKC attack, operating out of Elohim City, Okla., but failed to arrest them before the bombing occurred. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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A page listing flight-training schools in Florida torn out of a magazine and a form that comes with the Microsoft Flight Simulator 98 program that simulates flying airliners provided additional evidence linking Osama bin Laden to the Sept. 11 attacks. The Times followed up with a story the next day that focused mainly on the notes and drawings of one unnamed individual who had described some proposed new weapons that a reporter for the London Sunday Times had described as "unnerving for the layman." The New York Times story by Rhode and James Glanz countered that opinion with evidence provided by scientists that the grandiose weapons for which this individual had drawn up plans were totally impractical. "But," the Times said, "chemical formulas written by him and by another man, a Bosnian, who left notes behind at the Taliban Defense Ministry in the same quarter of Kabul, show clearly that they knew how to make crude explosives. In an apparent reference to the Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh, one chemical formula at the Defense Ministry is annotated in Bosnian, 'Was used in Oklahoma.' " This had been described toward the end of Rhode's story the previous day a little differently. Discussing the house that bore the Taliban and Ministry of Defense seals, Rhode had written, "Upstairs, a room labeled 'special office,' had been mostly emptied, but numerous papers remained in desk drawers. Most of them were notebooks from students. One gave a detailed description of various ways to make nitroglycerin, dynamite and fertilizer bombs. A note next to one of the explosive formulas said, 'the type used in Oklahoma.' " That was the biggest news in the story if the formula was not ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, the ANFO bomb that Timothy McVeigh is supposed to have used to blow up the Murrah Building. "Supposed to have used" has to be said, because there is a lot of evidence that an ANFO bomb alone could not have caused all the damage done to the Murrah Building and that smaller powerful bombs inside the building caused much, if not most, of it. Since the ANFO that the FBI says was in the Ryder truck failed to demolish a low concrete wall between it and the building, or knock down a nearby lamp post, it could not have destroyed the more distant reinforced concrete building. The inspector general of the Justice Department said in his report on the FBI Crime Laboratory that the FBI analysis of the Oklahoma City case "merits special censure" because conclusions about an ANFO bomb were "incomplete," "inappropriate," "flawed" and nonscientific. If Al-Qaeda knew more than the FBI about the formula for the bombs used in Oklahoma City, that would show that it was involved in the bombing. The New York Times failed to acknowledge this, perhaps because its story did not make it crystal clear that the notation, "the type used in Oklahoma," meant that in Oklahoma, bombs made of nitroglycerin, dynamite and ammonium nitrate (a fertilizer), not just ANFO, were used. A London Sunday Times story featured the information about the Oklahoma bomb and made it clear that the formula was not ANFO. It said, "On one page, under the title Explosivija za Oklahomu, the owner of the notebook had scribbled formulas with inscriptions in English for TNT, ammonium nitrate and nitroglycerine. The Oklahoma bomb was made from ammonium nitrate and fuel oil." That made it clear that there was a difference, but the story didn't discuss its signifi-cance - the revelation that more sophisticated bombs were used in Oklahoma City and bin Laden knew it. This suggests that the Murrah building was his second attack on a U.S. building. Many people saw swarthy John Does with McVeigh and Nichols. It is believed that they are shown on surveillance tapes the FBI seized. The Kabul discovery should force the release of those tapes and a revival of the search for the John Does. Reed Irvine is chairman of Accuracy in Media. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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COSBY: I'm going to read some information that we obtained here at Fox News - something else you wrote that, more importantly, that the congressional task force learned: That two "lily whites" - these are people sort of considered non-Middle Easterners - had been recruited to carry out the bombing of an American federal building. BODANSKY: "Lily whites" are people that have no - nothing to do with ethnic background, that's not true. "Lily whites" is the term used for people who have no past known encounter with security authorities anywhere in the U.S. or anywhere in the world. And therefore, there's no way they will raise an alarm bell with the security authorities once they're involved in something. COSBY: So these are people who would sort of be out of the scope? BODANSKY: It can be somebody from the heart of Africa, somebody from the middle of Australia or anywhere else. (End of Excerpt) Couple Bodansky comments with a report on Judicial Watch Radio last week, where Judicial Watch co-counsel Mike Johnson detailed a very specific warning that came just hours before the OKC bombing from Washington, D.C.'s then-top terrorism expert. "Vincent Cannistraro, who is the former Chief of Counter-Terrorism for the CIA, called Special [FBI] Agent Kevin L. Foust, and informed him that one of his best sources from Saudi Arabia intelligence specifically advised him that there was a squad of people currently in the United States, very possibly Iraqi, and I'm quoting, 'who have been tasked with carrying out terrorist acts against the United States,'" said Johnson. "The Saudi informant, who's part of the Saudi Counter-Terrorism Service, told him that he had seen the list and that 'first on the list was the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.'" Johnson said other targets on the Saudi informant's list included Immigration and Naturalization Service offices in Houston and what was then the FBI's counterterrorism headquarters in Los Angeles. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Oct 19 01:21:55 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:21:55 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] (no subject) Message-ID: TRAIL OF TERROR John Doe # 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- This John Doe, referred to as JD#3, stayed with Timothy McVeigh at the Dreamland Motel a few days before the OKC Bombing. He and McVeigh ordered Chinese food to be delivered to their room. When Jeff Davis the Chinese food delivery person, came to the motel room to make the transaction, JD#3 opened the door and paid for the food. Jeff Davis said the door was opened wide and he could clearly see McVeigh sitting on the bed. When the FBI interviewed Davis, they tried to influence him to believe that he was mistaken in thinking he did the transaction with JD#3 and that it was really Tim McVeigh. Jeff Davis was very adamant that there were two people and that McVeigh was sitting on the bed when he delivered the Chinese food. Jeanne Boylan, the famous sketch artist who has worked with the FBI, TV networks and law enforcement all over the world. She has conducted or assisted with thousands of interviews and profiles. Ms. Boylan's interview with Jeff Davis is included in her book "Portraits of Guilt" published by Pocket Books. If you have seen this man or believe you know his identity, please contact us at: 405-951-5900 or okbic at coxinet.net. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Both deaths took place under questionable circumstances. The supposed suicide is Oklahoma City Police Officer Terrance Yeakey. Also Dr. Howard D. Chumley was killed when his airplane crashed on a flight from Amarillo, Texas to Guthrie, Oklahoma. Yeakey is one of those cited for extraordinary bravery right after the bombing of the Alfred E. Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City in his case for rescuing four people from the devastated structure before he fell through a floor and injured his back. Official reports claim Yeakey slashed his wrists, one twice and the other three times, placed two slits in a vein at the bend of the elbow of one arm and four at the bend of the elbow of the other, and then stabbed himself with the knife in both sides of the throat, near the jugular vein. Then he walked one-and-a-half miles where he shot himself in the side of the head. The bullet entered the upper temple on the right side and exited below the upper jaw bone on the left side, meaning the gun would have been pointed in a downward angle -- a most unlikely way for a person bent on suicide to hold a gun. Hard To Believe "The burning question here is why he didn't just shoot himself in the first place, if suicide was his aim," one investigator remarked. Police in Oklahoma claim that Yeakey had become depressed because of guilt that he was unable to save more people. He was scheduled to receive the Oklahoma City Police Department's Medal of Valor. Yeakey, police claim, left no suicide note. However, The Spotlight has obtained a copy of a letter he sent to a victim of the bombing who was questioning the federal government's claims about the cause of the tragedy and those accused as the perpetrators. Highlights from his letter follow: The man that you and I were talking about in the pictures I have made the mistake of asking too many questions as to his role in the bombing and was told to back off... I was told by several officers he was a ATF agent who was overseeing the bombing plot and at the time the photos were taken he was calling in his report of what had just went down! Knowing what I know now and understanding fully just what went down that morning makes me ashamed to wear a badge from Oklahoma City's Police Department. I took an oath to uphold the law and to enforce the law to the best of my ability. This is something I cannot honestly do and hold my head up proud any longer if I keep my silence as I am ordered to do... The sad truth of the matter is that they have so many police officers convinced that by covering up the truth about the operation gone wrong, that they are actually doing our citizens a favor. What I want to know is how many other operations have they had that blew up in their faces? Makes you stop and take another look at Waco... Even if I tried to explain it to you the way it was explained to me and the ridiculous reason for having our own police department falsify reports to their fellow officers, to the citizens of the city and to our country, you would feel the way I do about all of this... According to his death certificate, Yeakey's body was found in a field about two-and-a-half miles west of the El Reno (Oklahoma) Reformatory. "About two weeks before his death, he'd come into my home at strange times -- 2:30 in the morning, 4 in the morning, unannounced, trying to give me life insurance policies," Yeakey's ex-wife stated. "He kept telling me we needed to get remarried immediately, or me and the girls would not be taken care of... I mean, why would a guy tell you to take a life insurance policy, knowing damn well it wouldn't pay for a suicide? He obviously knew he was in danger..." Two key pages are missing from the letter, which was apparently written on a computer. Independent investigators have verified the letter to be authentic, according to retired FBI Senior Special Agent Ted L. Gunderson. According to reports, described to The Spotlight by Gunderson, Chumley was approached shortly after the bombing and asked to falsify reports concerning injuries that BATF agents suffered when the building was bombed. The physician flatly refused to make any reports of injuries that didn't occur. When he learned that another doctor in the Oklahoma City area had agreed to make the false reports, he objected and threatened to turn the physician in to medical authorities. Chumley was killed on September 24, 1995 while the plane he was piloting from Amarillo to Guthrie was in a climb and suddenly plunged into a field. He was killed instantly. hello how r u -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Murrah Building in Oklahoma City -- was carried out not just by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols but also by a vast network of Muslim extremists. Such claims won little attention, and even ardent advocates say they had all but given up the cause. But when Jose Padilla was accused of plotting to detonate a so-called dirty bomb and his photo appeared in newspapers and on television, members of a hard-core group of conspiracy theorists did double-takes. SPECIAL PAGE Go to Aftermath of Terror1 "I thought, boy, he looks a lot like the John Doe 2 sketches," said Charles Key, a former state representative from Oklahoma who leads a private group called the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee. The FBI, which isn't taking these claims seriously, now says that John Doe 2 probably never existed. But he was once a prime suspect in the April 19, 1995, bombing when a Ryder truck filled with nearly 5,000 pounds of fertilizer and fuel oil blew up, killing 168 people. Witnesses at the time said they remembered seeing two men at the Ryder truck-rental outlet in Junction City, Kan., where investigators traced the rented vehicle. Two men were also reportedly seen eating at a Denny's restaurant in Junction City five days before the attack. One of the men is believed to have been Mr. McVeigh. The other was never identified and never found. John Doe 2 was the subject of an intensive manhunt. Authorities offered a $2 million reward on his head. The FBI described him as a white male in his late 20s or early 30s, about 5-foot-9 or 5-foot-10. His sketch, released by the FBI the day after the bombing, shows dark hair swept straight back, strong eyebrows, a square jaw and a powerful neck. Mr. Padilla, who is Hispanic, appears to have a more rounded jaw, but his other features closely match those of the sketch. FBI sketch of John Doe 2 (top); Jose Padilla Still, FBI officials dismiss talk of any likeness. "We couldn't find any evidence to indicate there was a John Doe 2 despite what people were saying," said one FBI official. As for the Padilla link, he said, "You're kidding, right?" Bryan Preston, a writer and TV producer in Towson, Md., was watching a call-in news show last week when a caller mentioned a resemblance between Mr. Padilla and John Doe 2. Mr. Preston dug up the old police sketch of John Doe 2 and posted it on his personal Web site. "I've never bought into conspiracy theories," Mr. Preston says, "but I can't help but thinking maybe there's more to the story here." Since Mr. Padilla's arrest, others who suspect a connection have scoured the Internet, books about the bombing and media reports about Mr. Padilla for clues linking him to the Oklahoma City bombing. For some, the fact that Mr. Padilla, born in New York and raised in Chicago, appears to have been in the U.S. and out of jail at the time of the bombing is enough cause for suspicion. Some say they just don't believe Messrs. McVeigh and Nichols acted alone. Mr. Key says members of his committee will soon begin asking witnesses who say they saw John Doe 2 to look at photos of Mr. Padilla. American Politics Journal posted the sketch and photos of Padilla to their Web site without comment. A spokesman for the political journal said the publication had no official position on the question, but placed the photos and sketches on their site for readers to draw their own conclusions. In Tampa, Fla., radio talk-show host Glenn Beck noted the resemblance on his show last week and posted a story about it at his Web site asking listeners if they think Mr. Padilla could have been involved with the Oklahoma City bombing. Almost 70% said yes. Stephen R. Jones, Mr. McVeigh's attorney, has spoken often of his attempts to prove his client was part of a broader conspiracy, although Mr. McVeigh himself denied it. While preparing their case, members of Mr. Jones's team traveled several times to the Philippines, where Mr. Nichols had visited, to research possible contacts he may have had with foreign terrorists, including associates of Osama bin Laden. Mr. Jones says his client didn't cooperate in that investigation but that Mr. McVeigh was so adamant in refusing to point fingers that it raised Mr. Jones's suspicions. After his conviction, Mr. McVeigh reportedly told authors researching a book about the bombing that he planted the explosives to teach the government a lesson. Mr. McVeigh, who was executed on June 11, 2001, never named accomplices. Then there's the detail that so tantalizes many conspiracy theorists: Lana Padilla is the former wife of Mr. Nichols, charged as Mr. McVeigh's accomplice and sentenced to life in prison. Ms. Padilla laughed when a local television talk show called to ask her about the matching names. She says she's never met Jose Padilla and isn't related to him. But she, too, believes there was a larger conspiracy at work. After the bombing, she gave police a letter she received in 1994 from Mr. Nichols before one of his trips to the Philippines. In the letter, she says, he suggested he was "afraid of something or somebody." Ms. Padilla speculates he was worried he might be harmed if he identified his co-conspirators. The more she looks at the mug shots, the more intrigued she becomes. "At first I found it funny," she says. "Now I think we should investigate this." Email Article -- Gary Fields contributed to this article. Write to Jay Krall at jason.krall at wsj.com2 and Jonathan Eig at jonathan.eig at wsj.com3 URL for this article: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1024266871405783640.djm,00.html Hyperlinks in this Article: (1) http://online.wsj.com/page/0,,2_0800,00.html (2) mailto:jason.krall at wsj.com (3) mailto:jonathan.eig at wsj.com Updated June 17, 2002 12:09 a.m. EDT Copyright 2002 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. 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Name: pa_i_getgear.GIF Type: image/gif Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Oct 19 01:28:40 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:28:40 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] (no subject) Message-ID: CURRENT NEWS Something is very wrong here with the OKC Bombing coverage!!! Hi Guy's, Just watched a documentary on the OKC bombing and it shows the live coverage chronology of the bombing. It is very interesting to hear and see what happened in the early hours. First they were reporting a bomb going off INSIDE the building,,, then Authorities confirmed the finding of a second bomb INSIDE the building on the east side,,,,, then a 3rd. bomb also unexploded was found and rescuers, media etc are all moved back,,,,,,,,,, St. Anthony's Hospital in a press conference reports that Medical teams unable to enter building while bomb experts defuse unexploded bombs. Justice Dept. confirms second bomb,,,, now a third bomb is found in the building,,,,, Gov Frank Keating in telephone interview confirms that 2nd, and 3rd. bombs are much larger than the first one. Clinton sends three FBI anti terrorist squads to the site because " it is the work of a sophisticated group of terrorists and the bombs are very sophisticated" An hour later as reported on Channel 5 a fourth bomb is discovered on the west side of the building,,, meanwhile rescue efforts cannot begin until the whole building is searched. Still later, the ATF reports that 4 bombs were placed but only one exploded. 5 hours have passed and rescue squads still can't enter the building because of the danger. Now it is reported and confirmed that the bomb was actually a car bomb that exploded outside and they estimate it was 1200 lbs. of explosive used,,,, this later becomes a Ryder truck and was 4800 lbs. So when YOU look at the chronology we went from a very sophisticated bomb inside the building to four sophisticated bombs inside then to a 1200 lb bomb in a car to a Ryder truck outside with 4800 lbs. of unsophisticated fertilizer and kerosene. What is wrong with all this? Seems the media spun the story for the benefit of someone, while the rescue people were held back for hours. It just isn't right. One last thought for You to consider, there was a number of Anti Terrorism bills stalled in congress at the time. After the bombing those stalled bills which would severely curtail a citizen's right to defend themselves were easily passed. The Bills gave much greater powers to the ATF and the FBI. Connect the dots. Sincerely, Enki / concerned citizen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Jose Padilla's Oklahoma City Connection Was Jose Padilla, the American citizen suspected of plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the U.S., connected to the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in April of 1995? Christopher Brady Posted: Thursday June 13, 2002 06:13AM ET Glenn Beck Program Exclusive Jose Padilla is the focus of great speculation by Americans today. How can the U.S intelligence agencies have known that Padilla was plotting to detonate one of the most sinister types of weapons of mass destruction? Is it because these agencies had received reports, as John Ashcroft claims, that Padilla and his accomplices had been meeting and gathering information on how to build these deadly devices? Or because these agencies have known of him all along, and had chosen to simply wait for his return to the United States? Jose Padilla (LEFT) is shown here next to a sketch of John Doe No. 2 (RIGHT). John Doe No. 2 was initially suspected in the OKC bombings in 1995. This article explores a premise that seems so unlikely, a premise that can't possibly have any basis in truth. However, further investigation reveals that this scenario, in fact, makes absolute sense, and puts all the pieces together. From the streets of Chicago to the sandy deserts of Pakistan and back to the U.S. to bring destruction to Oklahoma City, Jose "Abdullah al Muhajir" Padilla, is John Doe No. 2. Universally Accepted History of Oklahoma City Anybody within 20 miles of downtown Oklahoma City on the morning of April 19, 1995 remembers the frightening sound and the awful "thump." In those first few seconds after 9:02 on that morning, the only question heard was, "What was THAT?" A massive bomb inside a rental truck had exploded, blowing half of the nine-story Murrah Federal Building into oblivion. A stunned nation watched as horrifying images and screams and shouts of pain and confusion were broadcast on television. Just 90 minutes after the explosion, an Oklahoma Highway Patrol officer pulled over 27-year-old Timothy McVeigh for driving without a license plate. Shortly before he was to be released on April 21, McVeigh was recognized as a bombing suspect and was charged with the bombing. When McVeigh's ex-Army associate, Terry Nichols, was wanted for questioning, Nichols voluntarily surrendered to police in Herington, Kansas, and was later charged in the bombing. In June 1997, a jury convicted Timothy McVeigh of bombing the Oklahoma City Federal building, a terrorist attack that left 168 people dead. On December 23 1997, a jury found Terry Nichols guilty of involuntary manslaughter and of conspiring with McVeigh. Nearly six months later, Nichols was sentenced by a federal judge to spend the rest of his life in prison. On Monday, June 11, 2001 Timothy McVeigh was put to death by lethal injection at 7:14 a.m. in Terre Haute, Indiana. Terry Nichols is currently serving out his sentence in Federal prison while maintaining his innocence. This is the universally-accepted version of history. However, overwhelming evidence suggests that there is much more to the events in Oklahoma City than the story of a couple of anti-government ex-Army radicals acting alone. Getting the Facts in Order The factual fallout from the OKC bombing was riddled with confusion. Various reports were later debunked, many reports were simply ignored. The following is in-depth look at some of the happenings that occurred during the morning of April 19, 1995. a.. An FBI All Points Bulletin was issued shortly after the blast for all law enforcement to be on the lookout for a late model Chevrolet pickup "occupied by Middle Eastern subjects" seen fleeing the blast area "at a high rate of speed." b.. At least four witnesses have attested to seeing young men of apparent Middle Eastern appearance acting in a suspicious manner in front of, or in the immediate vicinity of, the Murrah Building before and right after the explosion. c.. On April 19, 1995, the head of Saudi Arabia's Intelligence Service called the CIA's former chief of Counterterrorism Operations to report that Saddam Hussein had hired seven Pakistani terrorists to bomb targets in the U.S., one of which was the Murrah Building. d.. There is a superabundance of evidence of neo-Nazi operatives in Europe and the U.S. either collaborating with Arab and other Middle Eastern terrorists, or acting under the direction of the Soviet KGB and its surrogate services in Eastern Europe. e.. Some elected officials and terrorist experts pointed out that militant leaders of the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad had addressed a radical Islamic conference in Oklahoma City, and that the militants' statements had been recorded for a PBS documentary. While evidence certainly substantiates the involvement of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, there is also enough evidence to show that they did not act alone. John Doe No. 2 The calendar moves to the December 2, 1997 trial of Terry Nichols. A mysterious suspect -- never identified and never found -- dominates the Oklahoma City bombing case today as defense lawyers attempt to shift attention away from defendant Terry L. Nichols. The defense launched its case with a stream of witnesses who claimed that convicted bomber Timothy J. McVeigh was seen with a man who did not fit the description of Nichols around the time of the April 19, 1995 blast. Looming on courtroom evidence monitors was the now-famous FBI sketch of John Doe No. 2, the bombing suspect never located by the authorities, the bombing suspect who is, according to the FBI, no longer being sought. The government now takes the position that John Doe No. 2 was actually an innocent Army private who happened to be at Elliott's Body Shop the day after McVeigh rented the truck. This was the case put forth by the lawyers for Terry Nichols. The government maintains that there was no John Doe No. 2, that the very idea of a second co-conspirator was all just a big misunderstanding. Evidence proves otherwise. A former Elliott's employee, Vicki Beemer, testified that two days before the bombing, McVeigh had been accompanied by a second man. A nurse from Herington, Kan., told jurors that she saw a Hispanic-looking man riding with McVeigh in the passenger seat of a Ryder truck several days before the blast. Numerous others testified that they saw a man resembling the sketch of John Doe No. 2 in or near a Ryder truck in the days preceding the bombing. The resemblance between John Doe No. 2 and Jose Padilla is uncanny. Some might say that his hair in the photo doesn't match the hair in the sketch. However this can be easily explained away by noting that John Doe No. 2 was actually wearing a hat, and that the sketch is just a best guess effort. FBI sketch of John Doe No. 2 (LEFT). This variation of the sketch depicts the suspect wearing a hat. This current photo of Jose Padilla (RIGHT) has been enhanced to show what he might look like if he was wearing a hat. Many witnesses describe John Doe No.2 as: Hispanic, 5'10", 170 pounds., 25 to 26 years old, dark hair, robust, prominent lips, bushy eyebrows, with a strong, angry look upon his face. Descriptions of Jose Padilla at the time would have been similar to those of John Doe No. 2. But the connection between Padilla and John Doe No. 2 does not end with similar physical characteristics. Background of Jose Padilla Jose Padilla has an extensive criminal record -- including an involvement in a gang-related murder when he was 15 years old. Padilla was born in Brooklyn, N.Y.and moved to northwest Chicago at age 5. As a teenager, he was a member of a street gang. He spent time in juvenile detention in 1985 for an armed robbery that left one victim dead of stab wounds. Later, armed with a baseball bat, Padilla and a knife-wielding accomplice robbed three men. One man fled, but the two thieves chased him, and Padilla' s accomplice stabbed him in the stomach. As a juvenile, Padilla was convicted aggravated battery, armed robbery and attempted armed robbery and was in custody in Illinois from November 1985 to May 1988. After serving time on murder and assault charges, Padilla moved to Florida, but quickly found himself in trouble again when he was convicted of both aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony and discharging a firearm from a vehicle. Despite his already lengthy criminal record, he was sentenced to just a year on probation. In 1992, one year after he was released from probation, Padilla was convicted in Florida of aggravated assault with a firearm. While serving time in the Broward County Jail, Padilla was accused of battery on a jail officer and resisting without violence in January 1992. He settled the charges with guilty pleas after spending 10 months behind bars. It was either during or after serving those 10 months in the Broward County Jail that the man raised as a Roman Catholic converted to radical Islam with his future wife, Cherie Maria Stultz. Following Padilla's release, he and Stultz worked at a Taco Bell restaurant in Davie, near Fort Lauderdale, close to about 20 Islamic centers or mosques. Padilla disappeared after two years, and the couple later divorced. By 1998, Padilla had moved to Egypt. His goal, according to officials, was to further explore Muslim teachings and traditions. He stayed about two years, aligning himself with illegal underground extremist mosques. Putting the Pieces Together Even though McVeigh went to his death denying any larger plot, many questions remain unanswered. Did John Doe No. 2 ever exist? If he did, who is he? If there is no John Doe No. 2, why did a second suspect initially emerge? What items or witnesses did the bureau use to create its three sketches of this alleged co-conspirator? The evidence that the Oklahoma City bombing involved a larger conspiracy, one with Middle Eastern connections, is compelling. And the trail begins with that mysterious FBI APB. In the week following the bombing a Oklahoma City, a reporter at television station received a tip about some suspicious activity and began an investigation of a local property management company. The reporter had been told by several former employees of the management company that they had seen a pickup truck at the office, a truck that matched the description in the APB. The reporter discovered that the owner of the property, a Palestinian expatriate, had pled guilty in 1991 to several counts of insurance fraud and served eight months in a federal prison. Court papers indicated that the FBI had investigated him for alleged connections to the Palestine Liberation Organization. Former employees told the investigator that six months prior to the bombing, the owner of this management company had hired a group of foreign refugees to do painting and construction work. This group had allegedly fled from Iraq to escape Saddam Hussein's regime. An employee told the reporter that he saw these "refugees" cheering the Oklahoma terror attack and vowing to die in Saddam's service. The reporter used surveillance equipment to photograph these foreign refugees, and focused on one man who seemed to match the last FBI profile sketch and description of John Doe No. 2. Over the next several months the reporter interviewed witnesses who said they saw McVeigh in the company of a foreign-looking man in the days and hours before the bombing. Witnesses also said they saw several of the refugees moving large barrels around in the back of an old white truck. The barrels, they alleged, emanated a strong smell of diesel fuel, one of the key ingredients used in the Oklahoma City bomb. Who was this man, the one who resembled John Doe No. 2? His name was Al-Hussaini Hussain who later filed a defamation lawsuit in Oklahoma County District Court against the television station and the reporter, charging that the news station had falsely accused him of being John Doe No. 2. The lawsuit was later dropped since the station had never directly targeted him as John Doe No. 2. However Al-Hussaini Hussain is just one of many who were mentioned as a possible John Doe No. 2. Some would suggest that Hussain was given up as a target to deflect attention from the real John Doe No. 2. Middle Eastern Ties After the bombing came the finger-pointing and assignation of blame. However, since the Clinton-Reno Justice Department laid down the official line that the Oklahoma bombing was a purely domestic terrorist act, an eerie silence had descended over the case.. Oliver Revell, former FBI Assistant Director in Charge of Investigation and Counterterrorism, was quoted in news accounts as saying, "I think it's most likely a Middle East terrorist. I think the modus operandi is similar. They have used this approach." According to court documents filed in the McVeigh trial, an FBI communiqu? on the day of the bombing suggested the attack may have been in retaliation for the prosecution of the World Trade Center bombers. The communiqu? was clear: "We are currently inclined to suspect the Islamic Jihad as the likely group." Terrorist expert Neil C. Livingstone was quoted in The Globe on May 16, 1995 with this observation: "There is a remarkable similarity between the methods used by Islamic terrorists in the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the attack on the World Trade Center, and the bombing in Oklahoma. The truckload of explosives is almost a signature or calling card, and it is the weapon of choice among these groups." Livingstone, the author of several books on terrorism, continued: "Very typically, these terrorists have found homegrown radicals to use as dupes in the actual bombings. They have supplied the money and the technical expertise and highly skilled operatives to guide a project and then get out of town before they can be apprehended." One investigator from 1995 said he was more than "inclined to suspect" Islamic Jihad. His investigation, he told this reporter, directly ties suspects from the Oklahoma City bombing to an Islamic Jihad cell in Florida. The Florida cell, he believes, is tied into the network of Osama bin Laden. Padilla's whereabouts are unknown from 1994 to 1998. In all likelihood, he was still living somewhere in Florida and could have been involved with some of the Middle Eastern terrorist organizations that have possible ties to the Oklahoma City bombings. Additionally, according to a report from the Associated Press filed on Tuesday, June 11, 2002, Padilla was a prot?g? of a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, traveling at his mentor's request to meet with other terrorists and using the Internet to research how to build a radioactive weapon. Conclusion So what exactly what happened in OKC on the morning of April 19, 1995? Was it really just two anti-government ex-Army radicals? Did they construct this idea by themselves? Did they carry out the whole thing by themselves? Are all the witnesses who say there were more people involved simply mistaken? How about Padilla? How does he fit into this puzzle? Some might not believe that Jose Padilla was John Doe No. 2. However, it is certainly plausible to counter that a man convicted of murder as a youth, a man linked with extreme Islamic mosques, could move to the Middle East, become a part of the worlds most wanted terrorist organization and attempt to carry out a plot to kill tens of thousands of Americans. You must consider all of the facts. Consider all of the possibilities. Consider the improbable, the improvable, the unbelievable. Then consider Padilla. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 2002 - Glenn Beck Program. http://www.glennbeck.com "For more information write to: Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee 1900 N. MacArthur Blvd. Suite 227 Oklahoma City, OK 73127 Phone: 405-951-5900 Email: info at okcbombing.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: padilla_beck.htm|Image=0 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1054 bytes Desc: not available URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Oct 19 01:34:44 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:34:44 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] (no subject) Message-ID: THE TRUTH OF THE OKC BOMBING John Quinn / NewsHawk This analysis, reprinted below, of the destruction of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City is corroborated by virtually every unbiased, uncompromised and intelligent rendition and breakdown of the events we've ever seen; INCLUDING the accounts and witness testimony which were reported DIRECTLY from the scene of the disaster on the morning of the massive disaster, by the news and media crews present. There is NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that the Murrah building was NOT destroyed by a Ryder truck filled with fertilizer-based explosives and parked across the street. NOT, NOT, NOT. This utter fabrication and distortion of truth and reality which OUR federal government has continually foisted upon the public is a COMPLETE, UTTER, HEINOUS, MALICIOUS AND EVIL LIE--propounded to the far corners of the earth--for reasons which remain somewhat uncertain. Except for this: the destruction of this building--and the subsequent gargantuan, megalithic Hitler-like "Big Lie" OUR government spewed unilaterally and endlessly subsequent to the horrendous event, to the effect that the building was "bombed" by radical, right-wing "militia" fanatics Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols using the truck bomb--figured BIG in hyping the public and Congress to support the passage of the Anti-Terrorist Bill. The bill was a dead duck until the destruction of the Murrah Building and the overwhelming propaganda campaign of incredible lies that OUR government promulgated about the event. And, the VAST majority of the sickeningly spineless, gutless, BRAINLESS and staggeringly INEFFECTUAL and worthless major news media organizations bought the government's lies and regurgitated them verbatim; over and over and over again. The feds WANTED that bill passed no matter what: and with consummate evil they manipulated public perceptions of the OKC bombing to make it appear the American "militia" movement, infested with violent, demented, dangerous and homicidal lunatics, was responsible; and that this terrorist militia movement and other terrorist organizations must be fought with such methods and tactics as the Anti-Terrorism Bill would provide. We are now living with the effects of this frightening and unconstitutional Anti-Terrorism Bill and our federal government's continual, widespread and abusive implementation on a daily basis of the tactics and procedures provided for by the bill. NewsHawk? Inc. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Subject: IMPORTANT: THE TRUTH OF THE OKC BOMBING Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:46:29 -1000 From: "Don Stacey" What REALLY happened to the Murrah Office Building in Oklahoma City? The "lone nut" story of Timothy McVeigh never seemed right even before the grossly inconsistent evidence began streaming forth. At first, it was just haunting questions. Why was a major office of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms in the building totally empty during normal business hours on that morning? Why did BATF personnel lie about it? Why were no children of the BATF personnel at the day care center that day? Why had a judge been warned not to come to work that day? Why had the fire department been alerted before the explosion? Why had several people reported seeing a bomb squad truck at the Murrah building before the explosion? Subject: What really happened in Oklahoma City? Order the Video "What Really Happened" THE OKLAHOMA CITY INVESTIGATION: A SICK $89 MILLION JOKE When the US military destroyed a $100,000,000 manufacturing plant in Sudan a few months ago, I found myself thinking about the Anti-Terrorist Act, one of the legal theories that "justified" the assault. We've since learned that: 1) the factory made medicine not chemical weapons, 2) enemy "du jour" Osama ben Laden appears not to have had any financial connection to it, and 3) the CIA had been warned long in advance of at least one of the embassy bombings that made our "counterattack" necessary. Now, just a few months later, the news media has largely forgotten the story. As for the disastrous effect the loss of this plant will have on Sudan and its neighbors, that obvious question doesn't have seem to crossed the minds of anyone in the US news media. The media, right, left and in between, has taken a similarly supine attitude towards the Anti-Terrorist Act. Should we really have a law which allows our government to do such things? And how in the world did we end up with a law like this in the first place? The last question is easy to answer: The Anti-Terrorism Act was unpassable until 168 people were killed in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. And we all know what happened in that city on that day. Timothy McVeigh, a loner, a nut, a malcontent drove a Ryder truck packed with explosives made of fertilizer to the front of the A. P. Murrah Federal Building and set it off. There's just one small problem with the story: it defies the laws of physics and common sense. "You've got to see this!" I was first clued in to the gaping holes in the Oklahoma City story by a video sent to me by one of my readers. Among other things, I document instances of election fraud, the crime that "never happens" in the US. My readers come from all over the political spectrum, from Marxists who see election fraud as yet another proof of the untenability of capitalism to rabid Rush-ites who are sure it's all a part of a liberal plot. Fortunately for my sanity, because I correspond with my readers on a regular basis, most fall somewhere in the middle. One day a video arrived with a note saying in essence: "You've got to see this!" So I popped it in the VCR. What I saw shocked, but didn't surprise me. The video was made up of footage taken from live local TV news reports right after the bombing in Oklahoma City. The same theme was consistent throughout all the broadcasts: "A bomb has gone off inside the Murrah building and the bomb squad is clearing out rescue workers because additional bombs have been found." Also included with this tape was a video of a public access interview with one Benton Partin, a retired Air Force Brigadier General. In it he makes the case that the major damage to the Murrah Building could only have been done by a bomb or bombs inside the building. His presentation was logical and his logic was unassailable. More on this later. I don't need to have a ton of bricks fall on me to appreciate the obvious and I filed all this away as yet another example of the stupendous ineptitude of the US news media. Can't they get anything right? Can't they do anything other than rewrite government and corporate press releases? What's happened to independent reporting, seeking the truth, and all the other stuff I still naively believe is the reason we have a news media in the first place? The great "militia kook" conspiracy hoax Months later, I casually mentioned to a group of fellow journalists that we still don't know what damaged the Murrah Building so severely and one of them was all over me: "Don't you know that all those doubts are from stories planted by right wing militia kooks?" No actually, I didn't know that. What I do know is that for several hours after the blast, the local media quite clearly and unequivocally referred to a blast inside the building, as did many of the eye witnesses and victims who were interviewed live on the scene. The anchors even read from a Justice Department press release that said the same thing. But then the story changed. And the live feeds from the street stopped. Now it was a truck bomb parked in front of the building that did all the damage. Despite how you may disrespect local TV reporters, and how much many of them have earned that disrespect, they are pretty good at sticking microphones in people's faces and letting them talk. And when they don't start out with a preprogrammed agenda, they sometimes let the truth slip through. Is it likely that right wing militia nuts seeded the street with victims and local officials to spread the "rumor" that there was a bomb inside the building? Is the FBI, which has been caught in so many lies they have filled several books, a likely source of reliable information about a tragedy they may have inadvertently had a hand in? (The Bureau had been warned the Murrah Building was a target for attack, but did nothing to protect the occupants.) "But what about Partin? Surely he can't know what he's talking about. Surely he's a militia kook who dreams at night of overturning the federal government." What about Partin No, actually Partin is a man whose attitudes would be considered absolutely typical and mainstream in many parts of the country . He's a self-described Christian and proud of it, he hates Communism, and he believes its philosophy is the single biggest threat to American freedom. These attitudes are hardly uncommon among career military men. In fact, it would have been hard to rise to the level of Brigadier General during the Cold War without holding them. Furthermore, not only does he not hate the "guv'ment," he's been steadily involved in mainstream political activities since his retirement from active duty. How mainstream? How about chairman of the Republican Party in Fairfax County, Virginia for four years? His solution to this country's problems? Getting more people to become involved in the political process. Partin's complete resume is available to anyone who'd like to read it. He's a thesis short of being a PhD. engineer and was trained by the Air Force in the fine art of using conventional weapons to blow things up. The Air Force thought highly enough of his expertise in this area to make him Commander of the Air Force Armament Laboratory, the Air Force's chief R&D facility in Elgin, Florida. What's complicated about this? Like many people who thoroughly grasp a subject, Partin is the soul of clarity when explaining his science to novices. Take the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, for example. One look at the pictures of the damage tells you at least part of force which killed our fellow citizens came from deep within the building. Why? The severe damage to supporting columns inside the building. This kind of damage can only be done by charges placed on or drilled into a column and absolutely cannot be done by the air blast generated by a bomb denonating in the street. (If you have an emotional need to doubt this, as many seem to do on this subject, contact a demolition company and ask them.) Consider this example that is within the experience of many people. Take a small firecracker and blow it up a few inches from your hand. What happens? Nothing. Take that same small charge and blow it up in your hand. What then? Bye-bye fingers. Or imagine you want to blow up a watermelon (a typical kid thing to do.) Where do you put the charge? In the watermelon, of course. Setting off the charge near the watermelon won't do a thing. Let's take another example. You want to knock somebody out. Do you score any points why swinging with all your might but not connecting? No. The force needs to be laid on very directly, otherwise all you produce is a strong breeze. What about a truck bomb parked in the street in front of a building? Surely that is a dangerous thing. It is. The shock wave generated by an explosion can shatter windows and send razor sharp shards of glass and other debris flying through the air. It will blow over a frame building. But it can't crumble a concrete support pillar many feet away. The force of a blast falls off dramatically the further you get away from the explosion. Support columns are designed to withstand huge loads, over 3,000 pounds per square inch. They simply cannot be taken down by the air blast of an explosion that, by the time it reaches it, is only exerting 25 to 35 pounds per square inch. On the other hand, a very modest charge, when place on or in a concrete column can take it down with ease. In fact, how many pounds of explosives would you venture to guess it took to take down the entire Murrah Building when it was decided for reasons of "closure" (no valid engineering or investigative reason) to demolish the entire building? Just 150 pounds of explosives - total - placed in strategically in small charges throughout the building right on the support columns was all that was needed. In demolishing concrete structures, proximity is not just an important thing, it's everything. Partin offers a much more thorough and technical explanation of all this (complete version) (short summary version), but you don't need to be an engineer or an expert to grasp the basic point: you can't demolish a concrete column designed to withstand hundreds of pounds of pressure with the air shock wave of an explosion. Motives In Benton Partin we have a man who is profoundly experienced in what he is talking about and who has no reason to cry "wolf." He's quite comfortable in his Virginia retirement after a distinguished 29 year military career and has little to gain from embarking on a career as a "conspiracy theorist" at this point in his life. You'd think that the law enforcement agencies charged with investigating the tragedy would make use of his observations. And that the news media, which seems to so hungry for "experts" in various fields to fill the dead air, would jump on the chance to present his conclusions to the public. From a pure ratings point of view, it's got to be a winner, right? Wrong. Yes, the FBI interviewed Partin, but did nothing with his carefully prepared and highly informed comments. When Timothy McVeigh was tried in Denver, the prosecution did call a munitions expert to the stand, but it was necessary for them to go to the UK to find one who could explain how a truck bomb destroyed a concrete support pillar deep within the interior of a modern office building. Think about that for a moment. There are thousands of individuals in this country, in the construction, mining, and demolition industries, not to mention the military, who could speak to the nature of the "fingerprint" of the explosion in the Oklahoma City bombing, but, for some reason, the prosecution had to go to England to find one who could explain how, in this one singular instance, the laws of physics and common sense were suspended. Partin did make it onto one network TV program, but only a few seconds of the hours of his taped comments were broadcast. The host, who had left the interviewing tasks to others and who had not even bothered to meet Partin, framed Partin's remarks in the finished segment with this comment: "General Partin, a retired military man, is not an engineer." Perhaps Partin hid his light under a bushel and wasn't aggressive enough in raising his concerns? No. With weeks of the bombing, he'd sent copies of his engineering analysis, complete with color photos, to every member of Congress and over 1,000 media outlets. He received a handful of form letters for his trouble. So what really happened? So what really happened in Oklahoma City? General Partin is the first to admit he doesn't know, but he does know munitions and their effect on structures. And he knows, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that the McVeigh truck bomb could not have been the sole source of the damage done to the Murrah Building and its occupants. He also knows that someone doesn't want the story told. Partin's informed analysis would have been very easy to prove or debunk. All that would have been needed was a few hundred dollars worth of chemical and microscopic analysis. Had the damaged columns been destroyed the way Partin - and many others - say they must have been, the residue of the explosive used would have infused the rubble. Also, the damaged column's cement would have been reduced to dust in a characteristic way, unmistakable under a microscopic analysis. But, for reasons as yet unexplained, such basic forensics was not thought necessary by the FBI investigators. Partin sent letters to dozens of elected officials imploring them to block the demolition of the building until these tests were done. His pleas fell on deaf ears. In spite of the fact the building's architect said it was still structurally sound, the Murrah Building was razed - and the rubble was buried in a locked and guarded landfill. All in the interest of promoting "closure" and "healing" no doubt. The real tragedy of Oklahoma The final sick punch line of this episode was delivered a few days ago. The US government reports that the investigation and prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombing case cost - are you ready for this? - $98 million. The defense was permitted to bill an additional $15 million for their "exhaustive" investigation and trial work. Nice work if you can get it. The horror of the bombing of the Murrah Building pales in comparison with the dumbing - and numbing - down of the US news media. Problems and crimes are solved when the facts are aired, not spun into oblivion. Common sense, not government assurances, should dictate the direction of a reporter's work. That the US news media has marginalized Benton Partin and many others who've produced valid evidence that contradicts the FBI's press releases on the Oklahoma City bombing must rank as one of the most disgraceful lapses in the recent history of American reporting. Note: General Partin has also offered lucid, pertinent analysis of the evidence in the TWA Flight 800 case. The media and federal law enforcement have shown similar disinterest in that analysis as well. Ken McCarthy is the sponsor of the George Seldes Internet Archive. A early pioneer of the use of the Internet for commercial purposes, he's spent recent years sponsoring several in-depth case studies on the accuracy of the press in their reporting of widely covered events. Ken was originally commissioned to write this article by a "progressive" west coast online publication. The publication not only didn't run the piece, but also stiffed him on his fee and research expenses. Instead it relied entirely on reports generated by a "journalist" whose main claim to fame was having been the AP Bureau Chief in Memphis the day Martin Luther King was assassinated. (Among other things, this AP "reporter" never bothered to interview the associates who were with King the moment he was shot and instead relayed FBI and Memphis police reports uncritically to the nation.) Name of publisher and all correspondence related to this available upon request. ken at brasscheck.com For more information on how major news outlets "spontaneously and independently" coordinate their stories, ignoring incontrovertible physical evidence and rejecting qualified individuals who bring it forward see the writings of Richard E. Sprague, another computer expert forced to take up the slack left by the corrupt and inept US news industry. Copyright, Ken McCarthy, 1998 Produced by: Brass Check -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Oct 19 01:55:29 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:55:29 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] (no subject) Message-ID: Growing Body Count Of OKC Bombing Witnesses Who Knew Too Much From Discovery Channel Online www.discovery.com 7-24-98 Hot on the heels of the latest information about the apparent treachery of the FBI, in regard to the TWA-800 SHOOTDOWN (and coverup), comes allegations of murders of several Oklahoma City Bombing survivors, particularly emergency workers present shortly after the blast. Who would want to murder those emergency workers (including policemen)? If those emergency workers had become aware of information that the bombing was engineered by FBI, BATF and DEA agents, well, then the question sort of answers itself. How does this relate to the 100+ BLAST SHELTERS that FEMA has been building all over the United States? If the information described in the article below is in fact accurate, the implications go FAR BEYOND some "building demolition" and a few witness murders. The entire situation might have been engineered to misdirect public attention toward large reductions of freedoms and constitutional rights. It would help prepare people for a more dictatorial government, that needs to violate rights "for the common good". Who would ultimately be in control of this government is itself an interesting topic. Clearly, any of the OKC bombing emergency workers who believe they have something to say, had better do so soon, to a wide audience, while they still can. Unresolved Death In Oklahoma By Michael A. O'Camb For Immediate Distribution 7-24-98 In the first minutes and hours following the blasts that devastated the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, the morning of April 19, 1995, a number of selfless individuals risked life and limb to rescue many of the victims. Among them were Oklahoma City police officers, Terrance Yeakey, Gordon Martin and Ken Griffin, a number of Oklahoma City firefighters, Dr. H. Don Chumley, G.S.A. employee Mike Loudenslager and others. In the aftermath of the "bombing" the name Mike Loudenslager holds particular significance in the hearts of many families in and around Oklahoma City. And this is so, because of the forewarning he gave to a number of those who had children in the Murrah Building's day-care center. In the weeks preceding the bombing, G.S.A. employee, Michael Loudenslager, 48, became increasingly aware that large amounts of ordnance and explosives were in the building and strongly urged (along with the operator of the day-care center) a number of parents to take their children out of the Murrah Building. This situation arose after other employees became concerned with an increased amount of ordnance (missiles) being brought into the building by the B.A.T.F. and D.E.A. As a result of this concern, a grievance was filed with G.S.A. by the building's security director. The result was, the man who had complained lost his job there. Then, after the operator of the day-care center (the security director's wife) notified the fire marshals after some remodeling had been done (as her license required her to do), the fire marshals were denied access to do their inspection by federal agents and told to leave! And the day-care operator lost her contract. As a result of this (fearing the worst with all the talk around town of a possible bombing), Mike Loudenslager and the day-care center operator then told many of the parents to get their children out. And, because of their warnings, far fewer children were in the day-care center on that horrible Wednesday morning than there otherwise would have been. A number of families, in and around Oklahoma City, have these two people to thank for their children's lives today. Shortly after the bombing, Michael Loudenslager was actively helping in the rescue and recovery effort. A large number of those at the bomb-site either saw or talked with him. During the course of the early rescue efforts, however, Mike Loudenslager was seen and heard in a very "heated" confrontation with someone (there). Much of his anger stemmed from the fact he felt the B.A.T.F. was in large part responsible not only for the bombing, but for the death and inury to those inside, including all the children. To the absolute astonishment of a large number of police officers and rescue workers, it was later reported that G.S.A. employee Mike Loudenslager's body had been found inside the Murrah Building the following Sunday, still at his desk, a victim of the 9:02 A.M. bombing! This, mind you, after he'd already been seen alive and well by numerous rescue workers at the bomb-site AFTER the bombing! He is also officially listed as one of the 168 bombing fatalities. The question now becomes: Was he murdered and placed at his desk by federal agents? Or was he just simply murdered by them and SAID to have been found at his desk? Access to the inside of the building, from shortly after the bombing onward was extremely limited to nearly all but federal employees by the F.B.I. His death is UNQUESTIONABLY the most important sidelight of the Oklahoma City bombing. Mike Loudenslager's murder, most assuredly was one of the major factors leading to the demise of both Dr. H. Don Chumley and later Terry Yeakey! For whatever reason, the Oklahoma City Police Dept. has always down-played Officer Terry Yeakey's presence at the Murrah Building the morning of April 19, 1995, even though a large number of Oklahoma City police officers, firefighters, emergency personnel and survivors KNOW he played a much larger role in the early rescue-effort than he's given credit for. In an effort to cover up Mike Loudenslager's murder and to intimidate others who were there early-on that morning, someone has taken out a number of internal witnesses. Dr. Don Chumley AND Terry Yeakey, both, besides being at the Murrah Building that morning, shared one other commonality. Each at the time of his "death" was attempting to deliver EVIDENCE concerning the fact Mike Loudenslager was alive and well AFTER the bombing, and also to get certain other facts out about the "bombing" as well. In Terry Yeakey's case he thought he was delivering evidence and information to a multi-county task force who would help get the truth out. That's how he was set-up. In Dr. Chumley's case, he was killed, some months earlier, when his personal jet aircraft "crashed" while attempting to do the same thing. Were the deaths of Jack Colvert, Jackie Majors and Buddy Youngblood also directly related to the cover-up of Mike Loudenslager's murder? Each of them had been at the Murrah Building that morning and each had also seen Mike Loudenslager ALIVE and well after the bombing. Others who were there that morning have also felt threatened. Officer Gordon Martin, for one, feels at least two attempts on his life have been made. Other police officers and emergency services personnel fear for their personal safety as well. And while all this goes on, the moguls of the major-media remain silent! The so-called "fourth pillar of democracy" - the press - once again falls flat on its face, foresaking its sacred duty to REPORT THE NEWS. Remember, Hell is just as hot for those who go there for sins of OMISSION as those who go for sins of COMMISSION!. Another interesting case of "suicide" in Oklahoma, since the bombing, is that of Kenneth Trentadue, who as the result of violating conditions of his parole in California, was re-incarcerated and sent to a federal (transfer) facility in Oklahoma. Mr. Trentadue, the brother of a prominent Salt Lake City, Utah attorney, supposedly committed suicide by hanging himself. But in actuality managed to commit a "suicide" very similar to TerryYeakey's (minus the gunshot-wound-to-the-head). Only Kenneth Trentadue's was committed with knotted or "braided" bedsheet, barely long enough to fit around his neck in a "suicide-proof" prison cell. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE later reported the trustees who cleaned Mr. Trentadue's cell after his "suicide" found copious amounts of blood inside. This included bloody fingerprints up a wall, to within a few inches of a "panic button" on or near the ceiling. This certainly is not consistent with hanging. When his family was contacted by prison officials and informed of his "suicide", they were asked if they wanted his remains cremated. They indicated they did not, and after a very difficult time and much red-tape, the body was finally shipped back to them. Being very skeptical as to a suicide, family members removed the mortuary make-up and were shocked to find part of his skull crushed, his knuckles damaged, bruises, puncture-and-slash-wounds over a good portion of his body (including the soles of his feet) and his throat slashed. Boot heel marks were apparent around the right eye and on his chest. All evidence points to the fact Kenneth Trentadue was subdued after a fight - brutally beaten, tortured and murdered! (Update: THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, Sat. July 11, 1998 - states M.E. says Trentadue death "suicide"!). This case is "supposedly" being looked into by U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch. Former 7-term U.S. Rep. George Hansen of Idaho and his organization, The United States Citizens Human Rights Commission, IS, however, actively pursuing it. Former Rep. Hansen was himself unjustly convicted and imprisoned and spent a number of years literally as a political prisoner in the federal penal system until his case was finally decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Many Americans who are familiar with the Trentadue case see a chilling similarity between Officer Terry Yeakey's "suicide" and Kenneth Trentadue's. Especially when each occurred in such close proximity to the other, in and around El Reno and Oklahoma City, AFTER the bombing. Like Terry Yeakey, Kenneth Trentadue, (although smaller) was also a powerfully-built man. He lifted weights regularly, had a 19-inch neck and was a street-fighter with street savvy. In short, he knew how to take care of himself. Many now wonder if Kenneth Trentadue might have had information regarding the Oklahoma City bombing, or its aftermath, that certain agents wanted him taken-out for. And many also wonder why a man re-incarcerated for violating his parole would REQUEST solitary confinement. What was Kenneth Trentadue afraid of? Could the murder of Murrah Building G.S.A. employee Michael Loudenslager and the subsequent cover-up be the reason for (many of) the unresolved deaths in Oklahoma since the bombing? A growing number of Americans certainly think so. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Oct 19 01:10:19 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:10:19 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] (no subject) Message-ID: TRAIL OF TERROR OKC Bombing John Doe Seen in Newkirk, OK with Nichols and Ryder Truck -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dallas Morning News ^ | April 19, 2002 | Patrick B. Briley Copyright 2002 by Patrick B. Briley At about 4 pm on April 18, 1995 one day before the OKC bombing, a Ryder truck stopped for gas at the E-Z Mart in far north central Oklahoma at a small town named Newkirk. A light blue 1970's Chevy pickup truck stopped at the same time with the Ryder truck at the EZ Mart in Newkirk. According to witnesses the light blue pickup truck was driven by Terry Nichols and had a passenger with dark curly hair who was wearing a baseball cap, mirror glasses and was dressed in black. The pickup truck passenger had dark olive skin and appeared to look possibly Middle Eastern or Mexican. He also had a stern gaze and a large chest. The Ryder truck reportedly had an overhang and one occupant, a driver who had short, light hair, a large nose and eyes and a mouth that were small in proportion to his face. An employee at the EZ Mart said that Nichols came into the store and bought eight burritos but no chips or drinks. Nichols reportedly gave some of the food to the driver in the Ryder truck who appeared to have a disagreement with Nichols about something when Nichols handed him the food. The driver of the Ryder truck and the passenger in Nichols' pickup truck never got out according to the EZ Mart employee. The EZ Mart employee was interviewed by OKC TV station, KWTV, Channel 9 and their reporter Gann Mathews in mid May 1995. The witness also gave an interview to the Arkansas City Traveler newspaper which came out in a May 1, 1995 article entitled "Bombing Suspects Spotted in Newkirk". Unfortunately, the newspaper reporter Jeff Guy got some of the significant facts (as to who was in which trucks) confused in the article. The EZ Mart employee was considered to be very reliable as she was married to a police officer and was also very observant with details. The Dallas Morning News had a lengthy article published in May 1995 which showed a map of the route taken by McVeigh and other John Does from near Junction City Kansas, and south through Arkansas City, Kansas into Oklahoma and passing directly through Newkirk, Oklahoma en route to OKC. A 32 year veteran of the OKC police department told me in May 1995 that up to five men associated with the OKC bombing had passed through Newkirk with a Ryder truck. Two other witnesses who taught school at Newkirk came to the EZ Mart around 4 pm on April 18, 1995 and saw a Ryder truck parked there. One of the witnesses said that to buy a coke the witness was standing in line with three men waiting to pay for their snacks. This witness said that two of these men come out of the EZ Mart and that one of them passed snacks to the driver of the Ryder truck. This witness said that the man buying snacks and giving it to the Ryder truck driver was about 5 feet seven, unshaven, and MAY (not certain) have been Terry Nichols. One of the teacher witnesses also said that the man buying snacks got into an old pickup truck All the witnesses said they were interviewed by the FBI and some said they were also interviewed by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) at the same time they were interviewed by the FBI. The BATF came to the EZ Mart about a week after the bombing canvassing the area and learned of witnesses who had seen the Ryder truck, Nichols and a John Doe. The BATF interviewed the EZ Mart employee and had the EZ Mart thoroughly dusted for fingerprints even though many customers had since been in the EZ Mart. It is not known whose fingerprints (Nichols?) the BATF found at the EZ Mart. Bombing victim survivors presumably still not only would like to find out about the identities of fingerprints at the EZ Mart, but like to learn the identities of the fingerprints taken from where another John Doe (not John Doe #2) stayed in room 25 of the Dreamland motel in Kansas with McVeigh. A sketch of the John Doe in the Dreamland was made by FBI sketch artist Jean Boylan with witness Jeff Davis and resembles an FBI informant working at Elohim City, Peter Ward. Do FBI or BATF files show the fingerprints taken from the EZ Mart and the Dreamland and the identities of the fingerprints and was this information later destroyed or withheld from the courts and the public? About two weeks after the bombing the FBI interviewed the same EZ Mart employee witness for about fifteen minutes. The witness strongly identified an FBI supplied frontal view sketch of a John Doe #2 wearing a baseball hat. The witness also gave the FBI a description of the driver of the Ryder truck and told the FBI that even though he resembled McVeigh the witness could not be sure if it was McVeigh. The witness also told the FBI and BATF that they were certain that Nichols was not only at the EZ Mart driving a blue Chevy pickup when the Ryder truck on April 18, 1995, but also had been there with the same pickup at about seven a.m. on the Saturday before the OKC bombing. Nichols presence with the Ryder truck and John Doe at the EZ Mart on April 18, 1995 suggests an even stronger role for his involvement in helping do the OKC bombing than heretofore commonly known. And John Doe#2's participation is obvious by these accounts. McVeigh, the FBI and prosecutors have kept saying for years that there were no John Does who helped McVeigh even though the FBI had positive confirmation of the John Doe# 2 by the witness at the EZ Mart. The witness was never called by the prosecution or defense at the trials. The witness was also not called by the OK County Grand Jury investigating the OKC bombing. Furthermore, during the trials the prosecution never called witnesses who had seen McVeigh with any John Does anywhere even though the FBI testified at a preliminary hearing on April 27, 1995 of over ten witness sightings of McVeigh with John Does including in OKC at the time of the bombing. The curly hair and olive skin of the John Doe seen riding in Nichols pickup truck is consistent with the description of the John Doe reported by witnesses in OKC and later identified as the Iraqi suspect, Al Hussain Hussaini. Hussaini had reportedly been seen fleeing the area of the Murrah Building and with McVeigh at several locations prior to the bombing in OKC. There is suspicion that the FBI and OSBI and BATF either did not do adequate interview reports of the sightings of Nichols and the John Doe by the EZ Mart witnesses or that the FBI withheld the reports from the defense and the court trials or had the reports destroyed too early (as recently verified by the DOJ inspector General Glenn Fine two weeks ago in his report to the Senate Judiciary Committee). One important detail revealed by the EZ Mart employee witness is that the Ryder truck had an overhang. The Ryder truck allegedly driven by McVeigh on April 19, 1995 and carrying a bomb was shown across the Regency Towers apartments (a block to the northwest of the Murrah Building) in a video at the trial but it did not have an overhang. The EZ Mart witness also noted this difference in what they had seen at the EZ Mart and what was shown at trial. Danny Wilkerson ran a snack shop in the Regency Towers apartments. Wilkerson told me that McVeigh parked a Ryder truck with an overhang in front of his snack shop at 8:35 a.m. April 19, 1995. Inside the Ryder truck, Wilkerson said he saw a John Doe. McVeigh came in and bought pop and talked to Wilkerson. Wilkerson says that by about 8:45 he noticed that McVeigh had driven around the block and parked the Ryder truck across the street in a direction headed toward the Murrah building and in the location shown by video at the trial. Wilkerson also said he saw McVeigh get out of the truck (after he parked it across the street) and look east up the street in the direction of the Murrah building Wilkerson says several FBI agents including Ricky Raines tried for months to get him to change his description of the Ryder truck as having an overhang. Wilkerson said he believed Raines even tried to trick him to change his story by showing him a fake or an incomplete Ryder truck brochure having no pictures of Ryder trucks with overhangs. Wilkerson says he had seen Ryder trucks with overhangs many times before since they were used by people to move into the Regency Towers apartments. He even asked McVeigh if he was moving in because he says he saw the overhang on the truck. The yellow pages in the OKC phone book from 1994-1995 clearly show that Ryder rented a truck with an overhang just as Wilkerson and the EZ Mart employee witness have stated they saw. So we have both Wilkerson and the employee at the EZ Mart insisting that the Ryder truck they saw had an overhang while the Ryder truck the FBI says was used to blow up the Murrah building and shown in videos at trial did not have an overhang. If the witnesses are correct then these possibilities remain to account for the evidence: Either the FBI is wrong about the truck that blew up in front of the Murrah building and altered the trial video, or a second Ryder truck was used in the bombing exercise. If a second Ryder truck was used with an overhang, perhaps it was used to transport bomb making materials to Oklahoma for future assembly inside of the larger, Ryder truck (it had a side door) the FBI says blew up. If this were the case then McVeigh would have had to switch trucks after he left the snack shop and drove around the block and parked a Ryder truck across the street. Wilkerson was not called during the trials and his testimony to the FBI about the Ryder truck overhang and McVeigh having a John Doe in the Ryder truck was never disclosed in the trials. It is suspected that the FBI once again (as in the case with the EZ Mart employee witness) either did not do interview reports or withheld them or had them destroyed. What is obvious from these accounts is that the DOJ and FBI are still withholding from the courts, Congress and the public evidence of John Does involved in the OKC bombing. McVeigh and Nichols who did not act alone as the FBI and DOJ still try to claim. Evidence of Nichols greater involvement may have also been withheld from the trials to preclude the jury and public from learning of the John Doe(s) that were with Nichols ( and perhaps McVeigh) at the EZ Mart on April 18, 1995. There is growing concern that the John Does involved in the OKC bombing can bomb again and/or that they come from radical domestic groups who could help Middle Eastern terrorists in the US attack innocent civilians in the future. Copyright 2002 by Patrick B. Briley -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Thu Oct 21 19:27:09 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:27:09 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] ] Donna Hughes testimony hurts children Message-ID: > > http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=McKelvey+V15+I11 > > > > Of Human Bondage > A coalition against human trafficking worked well until a prostitution > litmus test was imposed. > By Tara McKelvey > Issue Date: 11.01.04 > > > > On August 6, Christina Arnold found herself in Svay Pak, Cambodia, an > area full of wooden shacks, bars, and brothels 11 kilometers from the > capital city of Phnom Penh. Arnold, the 29-year-old director of Project > Hope International, a nonprofit organization committed to assisting > survivors of human trafficking, had traveled there to visit with social > workers, health-care workers, and others who help prostitutes. Its > exhausting and grim work; many of the prostitutes are children (as young > as 6) servicing Western tourists who hang out at the Home Away from Home > caf and prowl the area for small-small, as the young girls are known. > > For years, the health-care educators and social workers had worked closely > with the children, who are living by hook or by crook, doing tricks, says > Arnold. They tried to teach the girls how to care for themselves. They > would tell the children, You will get out of this. Theres a way out, says > Arnold. In the meantime, heres how to use a condom. > > But that was before University of Rhode Island professor Donna Hughes > started accusing nongovernmental organizations of teaching children how to > be prostitutes. On April 3, 2003, she testified before the Senate Foreign > Relations Committee, saying, It is unacceptable to provide medical > services and condoms to enslaved people and ignore the slavery. > > Her words had a chilling affect on health-care workers in Svay Pak. We > were standing on a muddy street, talking to a woman who works for one of > these organizations, says Arnold. We asked, So youre not able to deal with > children? No, not at all, she said. Unless we want to get shut down. She > looked very upset, and she was holding her face in her hands. The children > there are very confused. NGO workers told us pedophiles now know they can > go and have unprotected sex with children because the health-education > programs have stopped. Arnold paused, then added, And when children come > to the NGO workers and ask for help, they are being turned away. > > The woman Arnold spoke with has already lost some funding, and her > situation could become even more precarious. Three days before Arnold > spoke with her, the U.S. Agency for International Developments Office of > Acquisition and Assistance issued new guidelines, which took effect > immediately, for international organizations that receive federal funds to > fight the trade in human trafficking, a problem that has exploded in the > last 10 years. The organizations are not allowed to promote, support, or > advocate for the legalization or practice of prostitution. > > On its face, this proposition does not sound as if it should be > controversial. But the regulatory change has sparked an intense debate > within the coalition of groups -- left, right, and nonpartisan -- that has > been working together since 1998 to fight human trafficking. Some, like > Arnold, believe the change prevents groups from doing any outreach at all > that will help girls trapped in prostitution. Others see the change as a > sop to the religious right, which has taken an undoubtedly sincere > interest in the problems of trafficking and slavery, but which, to > critics, is creating a rift in a coalition that was working smoothly by > imposing its value system in a manner thats alienating groups that used to > get along -- and that isnt necessarily helping the women its designed to > help. > > How you feel about prostitution, say program officers, field workers, and > human-rights advocates, has become a litmus test for the Bush > administration. If you dont have the right views, youre not going to get > any money. Or, as one person who works for an NGO describes the new > policy, in a phrase that might have a familiar ring to students of the > administrations anti-terrorism rhetoric, Youre either with us or youre > against us. > > * * * > > Sitting in a corner office at 18th and G streets in Washington, D.C., John > R. Miller, 66, a dapper man in a crisp suit and navy suspenders who is > director of the U.S. State Departments Office to Monitor and Combat > Trafficking in Persons, waves his hand in the air and swoops in so close > when he talks that you can feel his breath on your skin. His office is > large and comfortable, filled with chairs upholstered in royal blue, an > American flag, and a framed red-and-white Solidarnosc poster given to him > by a Polish friend. > > There are plenty of Americans who still say, Slavery? Didnt that end with > the American Civil War? says Miller, a former Republican representative > from Washington state, explaining how he has worked hard to raise > awareness of human trafficking since he joined the State Department in > December 2002. > > As he talks, he picks up a glossy edition of the Trafficking in Persons > Report, issued on June 14, and flips through the pages. As the report > explains, 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children -- roughly half > under the age of 18, according to estimates -- are trafficked each year > across national borders. Theyre forced to work for little or no pay in > places like Indias brick kilns, Colombias army barracks, and Cambodias > bordellos. > > The problem of human trafficking has existed since, well, forever. But it > ballooned in the 1990s after the crumbling of the Soviet Union. At the > time, borders became more porous in central Europe, and the trade in > humans boomed. These days, human trafficking follows roughly the same > routes as weapons and narcotics. > > Left unchecked, human trafficking will become the most lucrative of the > three criminal industries within 10 years, Deputy Secretary of State > Richard Armitage said at a trafficking conference in February 2003. > Profits flow to the people who smuggle women across borders and to those > who press them into servitude. It can be more lucrative than narcotics: If > youre a dealer, you can only sell a bag of cocaine once; if youre a pimp, > you can peddle your wares over and over again. > > The annual State Department report, which first appeared after the passage > of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, evaluates how > effectively 140 different countries are fighting trafficking, prosecuting > criminals, and supporting programs that protect victims. Cuba and North > Korea are in Tier 3, which means the United States may withhold > nonhumanitarian assistance until they get their acts together. (The United > States is not ranked in this report.) > > Besides publishing an expanded edition of the report, Miller has overseen > an increase in the percentage of faith-based organizations that receive > funding (from 7 percent in 2002, according to Caroline Tetschner, a State > Department spokeswoman, to 22 percent in 2003); made sure funding is > denied to international organizations that do not follow strict guidelines > in opposing prostitution; and encouraged changes in the Uniform Code of > Military Justice, which will soon forbid military personnel from > patronizing prostitutes. > > Overall, the Bush administration has devoted more than $295 million in > anti-trafficking program assistance in more than 120 countries, according > to the State Department. More than 2,800 people around the world have been > convicted of trafficking-related crimes in the past three years, and 24 > countries have enacted new anti-trafficking legislation. One of George W. > Bushs favorite U.S. programs is the International Justice Mission (IJM), > which is run by Gary Haugen, 41, author of Good News About Injustice, and > Sharon Cohn, 34, the organizations vice president of interventions, who > has overseen brothel raids in Cambodia. > > * * * > > Its impressive stuff. But human-rights activists, program officers, and > health-care educators who work to help trafficking victims describe a dark > side to the abolitionist movement. The movements most prominent figures > include right-wing policy-makers, a Jewish moral entrepreneur, and > evangelical leaders, whom critics call overzealous and moralistic. > Together, the abolitionists have formed a potent political force (Its the > most powerful coalition for human rights in America today -- perhaps in > the world -- all under the radar screen of the press, says one of its > adherents) known for steamrolling opponents and stifling dissenting > voices. Some say theyre even snuffing out organizations that dont adhere > to a party line regarding prostitution. > > Organizations are denied funds if they refuse to sign a loyalty oath, as > one senior officer with an NGO describes a new clause on federal-aid > contracts that require grant recipients to say they oppose prostitution. > > In addition, Bushs most celebrated programs, including the IJM, are > scorned by anti-trafficking activists in places where they operate. A > brothel raid led by the IJM last May in Thailand resulted in the freeing > of 29 women. But the women were arrested, and to some, it didnt feel much > like freedom. The women became very annoyed when told they had been > rescued, say the authors of a Shan Womens Action Network report. They > said, How can you say this is a rescue when we were arrested? > > And though the particular fates of these 29 women are unclear, experts say > its often the case that when prostitutes -- many of whom come from the > notorious Shan State in Burma (now officially called Myanmar), where > systematic rape and human-rights abuses are common -- are freed from Thai > brothels, they end up in a worse situation. Legally, these women cannot > claim refugee status in Thailand. After rescue, their situation will be > made known to Burmese authorities, local village officials and family > members, according to the report. Under these circumstances, a safe and > beneficial return home is impossible. > > For Cohn, the important thing is freeing women and children from bondage. > She speaks convincingly about the horrors of being serially raped, > especially if youre a 6-year-old child. And shes proud of the fact that, > so far in 2004, the IJM has saved 152 victims of child sexual exploitation > and trafficking. IJM officers try to follow up with the women and children > theyve saved and make sure theyre OK, she says. > > Regarding the Thailand episode, Cohn says: Its probably safe to say we > have a different perspective of the raid. Seven underage girls were > rescued. If theres even one girl, shed still have the right not to be > raped day and night. > > Miller has run into opposition not just from the usual suspects among > on-the-ground advocates from NGOs. People within the State, Justice, and > other departments have become incensed. Recently, Miller has expanded his > reach to the Department of Defense, which will change its military code so > soldiers can be court-martialed for visiting a prostitute. > > And there have been minor diplomatic dustups. The Trafficking in Persons > Report contained a case study of a 15-year-old Thai girl taken to Tokyo > and raped in a karaoke bar. The report concealed the girls real name and > called her Sirikit. As it turns out, Sirikit is the name of a venerated > Thai queen, and it wasnt pleasant when news of this goof reached the Thai > press. Oh, my gosh, it was terrible, says Miller, nearly climbing out of > his chair. Its embarrassing. We had to send them an apology. > > On a more serious level, people whove met Miller and worked with his staff > say hes created an atmosphere of fear and intimidation. Some people have > suffered recriminations, been blacklisted, or lost their funds. Yet > according to several sources, none of whom was at all willing to speak on > the record, Miller isnt even the kingpin. > > * * * > > The muscle guy in the abolitionist movement is Michael Horowitz, 66. A > Jewish kid from the Bronx who went to City College and then to Yale Law > School, Horowitz served as general counsel for the Office of Management > and Budget under Ronald Reagan, and is now a senior fellow at the Hudson > Institute in Washington. Referred to by author Allen Hertzke as a moral > entrepreneur in Hertzkes newly published book, Freeing Gods Children, > Horowitz is the one, activists and program officers say, who calls the > shots. > > The other leading figures are Charles Colson, a former Nixon counsel and > an influential evangelical leader; Donna Hughes, the University of Rhode > Island professor whose congressional testimony helped lay the groundwork > for the August 2004 change in federal contracts and who writes articles on > the subject for the National Review; Laura Lederer, a former > anti-pornography crusader; and Lisa Thompson, a trafficking specialist > with the Salvation Army. Horowitz is the Charlie to their Angels, says an > administration official. > > Last year, Horowitz, Colson, and others decided to oust Millers > predecessor, Nancy Ely-Raphael. She was an apparatchik, says Horowitz. She > was just a nice Ferragamo-wearing lady, counters a former Republican > staffer on the Hill. > > Regardless of Ely-Raphaels taste in shoes, Horowitz, Colson, and other > evangelical leaders told the White House to dump her. They wanted to > install Miller -- even though Karl Rove didnt like him, according to a > private e-mail footnoted in the Hertzke book. Rove objected to Miller > because hed supported John McCain in 2000. > > In a show of strength, Horowitz and Colson prevailed over Rove, who > allowed them to anoint Miller as director of what would soon become the > abolitionist outpost in the State Department. These days, Miller is in > close contact with speechwriter Michael Gerson and others in the White > House. Theyve told me how concerned he [Bush] is about this issue, and > they call me up a lot, says Miller. > > And, apparently, they take notes. In Bushs September 23, 2003, speech at > the United Nations, says Miller, he spent 20 percent of his speech on > trafficking. Bush talked about trafficking on the campaign trail on July > 16 in Tampa, Florida, and again at the UN on September 21. Bushs focus on > trafficking is a victory for Horowitz and evangelical leaders in their > efforts to influence U.S. foreign policy. > > Its the second act in what is a seven- or eight-act play, says Horowitz. > > The dramatic arc of the play, at least according to Horowitz, includes the > International Religious Freedom Act of 1998; the Sudan Peace Act of 2002; > the North Korea Human Rights Act of 2004, which has been passed by > Congress; and an upcoming bill that will alter foreign policy so its main > objective will be the collapse of dictatorship through peaceful means and > the promotion of democracy, he explains. > > In terms of scope, financial resources, and the presidents attention, > though, the anti-trafficking initiative may be the abolitionists crowning > achievement. The campaign took off in January 1998, when Horowitz began to > forge bonds with evangelical leaders like Colson and feminists such as > Gloria Steinem and Jessica Neuwirth of Equality Now. They all worked > together on a global campaign to fight trafficking and, along with it, > prostitution. > > The abolitionists truly believe all prostitution is trafficking, and if a > woman says she did enter it voluntarily, shes mistaken. Its the conflating > of trafficking and prostitution, says Martina Vandenberg, an attorney with > the Washington law firm Jenner & Block and a former Human Rights Watch > researcher. > > Many people -- not only evangelicals and Equality Now feminists -- think > prostitution should be eradicated. Selling your body is a lousy job. And > no amount of ergonomic mattresses and minimum-wage standards, as Horowitz > says, are going to make it better. For them, AIDS is an occupational > hazard. Eighty percent suffer violence-related injuries, according to a > 2002 study cited in Violence Against Women. And in a recent mortality > study of 1,600 women in the United States, published in the American > Journal of Epidemiology, murder accounts for 50 percent of prostitute > deaths. > > Partly because of the efforts of the abolitionists, the Trafficking > Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003 stipulates that > international organizations receiving funds cannot support prostitution in > any way. Its a refined version of the previous bill. The new one includes > specific language about prostitution and federal funds. As with most > bureaucratic moves, though, the changes took awhile to kick in. This past > summer, the official requirements of the act -- and the realities of what > the Bush administration is trying to achieve -- started to appear in > contracts required for international organizations that receive federal > funds. > > Even NGO officials who stop short of complaining about a loyalty oath > argue that the act hinders their ability to do their work. Right now, the > administration policy is to require foreign organizations to have an > explicit policy opposing prostitution, says Cara Thanassi, senior > legislative adviser of CARE USA. Were concerned it limits our ability to > carry out HIV/AIDS and other programs with prostitutes. > > Some groups have lost funding. We fell victim to it, says Layli > Miller-Muro, executive director of the Tahirih Justice Center, a > Virginia-based organization that, among other activities, provides legal > services to trafficking victims. We were denied a grant to help women in > India on that basis. They told us that flat out. I happen to be a > religious person. I hold moral views. But its not relevant to helping > victims. The policy against prostitution is a distraction. > > * * * > > The Bush administration has done some good work, raising awareness of the > issue and passing new laws, including one -- the PROTECT Act -- that > allows U.S. law-enforcement officers to prosecute Americans whove traveled > abroad to sexually abuse children. Newly funded programs like the IJM > have, literally, saved women and children from hell. But emphasizing > victim rescues -- and vilifying those who try to work with prostitutes -- > have unintended consequences. Some of the liberated women have suffered in > the aftermath. And many anti-trafficking leaders have been shunned because > theyve refused to sign a contract that supports the Bush administrations > position. > > We would like to discourage the U.S. government from using its foreign > policy to undermine and curtail freedom of expression, says LaShawn > Jefferson, an executive director at Human Rights Watch. This is being used > as a tool of silencing people. > > > Copyright 2004 by The American Prospect, Inc. Preferred Citation: Tara > McKelvey, "Of Human Bondage", The American Prospect, Gods Plan?, November > 2004 This article may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for > compensation of any kind without prior written permission from the author. > Direct questions about permissions to permissions at prospect.org. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Thu Oct 21 19:31:49 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:31:49 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: [Corrected] Act Now: Colin Powell Heading to China Message-ID: Colin Powell: Tell China to Free Tibet Students for a Free Tibet Colin Powell: Tell China to Free Tibet Please disregard our earlier email, and take action now by sending the letter below. There was a problem with the email address for Colin Powell that has now been fixed - we're very sorry for the inconvenience! We have just learned that U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, is about to leave on a trip to Asia, including China. It is very important that Powell bring up the issue of Tibet with the Chinese leadership. Please read the "What's at Stake" message and then send your letter to Colin Powell today. It's easy! Just fill in your name and contact information, and a message will be sent in your name. Thank you for your support of Tibet. It makes a big difference. Send a letter to the following decision maker(s): Secretary of State Colin Powell Below is the sample letter: Subject: Don't forget about Tibet Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here], When you meet with Chinese leaders on Monday, please do not forget to speak with them about Tibet. Just as dialogue is necessary to resolve the issue of Taiwan, substantive and unconditional dialogue between China and representatives of the Dalai Lama must occur in order to resolve the Tibetan situation. As long as China occupies Tibet, the Chinese government will continue its policies of repression of the Tibetan people. As you know, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, a highly respected Tibetan lama, was framed and sentenced to death by the Chinese authorities in 2002. The two year reprieve on his death sentence expires between December 2004 and January 2005, after which time he could be executed. His case is unjust and must be raised at the highest levels of the Chinese government, but it is also just one case among many. The Chinese government has shown no willingness to improve the situation in Tibet, and the Tibetan people continue to suffer immensely under Chinese rule. Please, Secretary of State Powell, speak to the Chinese leadership about Tibet and urge them to release Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and all Tibetan political prisoners, and to enter into immediate and unconditional negotiations with the representatives of the Dalai Lama to end China's occupation of Tibet. Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter. I wish you the best on your trip to Asia. Sincerely, Take Action! Instructions: Click here to take action on this issue or choose the "Reply to Sender" option on your email program. Tell-A-Friend: Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this. Tell-a-Friend! What's At Stake: United States Secretary of State Colin Powell is packing his bags to go to China, where he will meet with Chinese leaders on Monday, probably including President Hu Jintao. Among other things, they will discuss the situation in Taiwan, and Powell is expected to encourage the Chinese leadership to engage in dialogue with Taiwanese president Chen. 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One example were the legal threats delivered last week to the German publisher of "Welcome to Terrorland" over the revelation that some of Mohamed Atta's closest associates while in Florida were not Arabs or even Muslims but German nationals, several of whom attended meetings with the terrorist ringleader during which the hijacking conspiracy appears to have been discussed. Despite their best efforts, however, new details continue to emerge about the man authorities called "the terrorist ringleader." "Ten More Top Ten Things You Never Knew About Mohamed Atta." Read the whole story at The MadCowMorningNews www.madcowprod.com "When Matt & Katie aren't enough" This email sent by MadCow Morning News To be excluded from future mailings click here to unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Thu Oct 21 19:40:00 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:40:00 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: Campaign literature mistakenly sent home with third graders Message-ID: Here is a Drudge site news item from Montana -- where a school "apologized" for the "mistake" in sending home flyers with the children, advocating electing Democratic candidates. The material was "meant for teachers" and "shouldn't have been sent home with students." (It certainly doesn't make me feel any better that this was intended for teachers. It's apparently necessary to keep God out of our schools, but slanted politics is OK. Somehow we have our values eschewed. cr) How about the media there questioning why the school had all those flyers meant for teachers -- no separation of politics and education needed if it involves the candidates the unions favor?? How much subtle influencing of students goes on at that school -- beyond the mistake that sent political material home with the 3rd graders? How much in other schools across the country -- even in places where it is supposedly concerned just with educating students about the political process, using today's candidates and today's issues as a sounding board to influence thinking? Joan http://www.ktvq.com/global/story.asp?s=2432330&ClientType=Printable Campaign literature mistakenly sent home with third graders Presidential debate number three is in the books, and most polls show the race a dead heat. Thursday, the Missoula School District studied how documents promoting the democratic ticket ended up going home to parents of third-graders at Hawthorne Elementary. School officials are already apologizing for what they call an honest mistake. Hawthorne Principal Steve McHugh: "It's a whoops, it's a mistake. We're sorry -- Missoula, we're sorry." This was not meant for parent's eyes. But, pro-Democrat literature accidentally went home with third-grade students from Hawthorne Elementary. McHugh: "It was definitely a mistake. Certainly we're sorry that it happened, we're certainly not trying as a school district or Hawthorne school to tell people who to vote for." The paperwork is from the Missoula Unified Political Action Committee for Education. It supports state and national democratic candidates for office. Officials say the information was intended for teachers, not students. McHugh: "It is very clear to people in the district that work for the district that you are not to do anything that will try to persuade anybody when you're working for the school district during the day." It's a simple error that shows how careful educators have to be to keep political views out of school discussion. Both parents and school officials say they understand why this happened, and believe there was no intentional wrongdoing. 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If you want on-off this elist: info at rightsaction.org === "THE WARLORDS OF AMERICA", by John Pilger May last, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution which, in effect, authorised a "pre-emptive" attack on Iran. The vote was 376-3. Undeterred by the accelerating disaster in Iraq, Republicans and Democrats, wrote one commentator, "once again joined hands to assert the responsibilities of American power." The joining of hands across America's illusory political divide has a long history. The Native Americans were slaughtered, the Philippines laid to waste and Cuba and much of Latin America brought to heel with "bi-partisan" backing. Wading through the blood, a new breed of popular historian, the journalist in the pay of rich newspaper owners, spun the heroic myths of a supersect called Americanism, which advertising and public relations in the 20th century formalised as an ideology, embracing both conservatism and liberalism. In the modern era, most of America's wars have been launched by liberal Democratic presidents - Harry Truman in Korea, John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson in Vietnam, Jimmy Carter in Afghanistan. The fictitious "missile gap" was invented by Kennedy's liberal New Frontiersmen as a rationale for keeping the cold war going. In 1964, a Democrat-dominated Congress gave President Johnson authority to attack Vietnam, a defenceless peasant nation offering no threat to the United States. Like the non-existent WMDs in Iraq, the justification was a non-existent "incident" in which, it was said, two North Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked an American warship. More than three million deaths and the ruin of a once bountiful land followed. During the past 60 years, only once has Congress voted to limit the president's "right" to terrorise other countries. This aberration, the Clark Amendment 1975, a product of the great anti-Vietnam war movement, was repealed in 1985 by Ronald Reagan. During Reagan's assaults on Central America in the 1980s, liberal voices such as Tom Wicker of the New York Times, doyen of the "doves," seriously debated whether or not tiny, impoverished Nicaragua was a threat to the United States. These days, terrorism having replaced the red menace, another fake debate is under way. This is lesser evilism. Although few liberal-minded voters seem to have illusions about John Kerry, their need to get rid of the "rogue" Bush administration is all-consuming. Representing them in Britain, the Guardian says that the coming presidential election is "exceptional." "Mr Kerry's flaws and limitations are evident," says the paper, "but they are put in the shade by the neo-conservative agenda and catastrophic war-making of Mr Bush. This is an election in which almost the whole world will breathe a sigh of relief if the incumbent is defeated." The whole world may well breathe a sigh of relief: the Bush regime is both dangerous and universally loathed; but that is not the point. We have debated lesser evilism so often on both sides of the Atlantic that it is surely time to stop gesturing at the obvious and to examine critically a system that produces the Bushes and their democratic shadows. For those of us who marvel at our luck in reaching mature years without having been blown to bits by the warlords of Americanism, Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal, and for the millions all over the world who now reject the American contagion in political life, the true issue is clear. It is the continuation of a project that began more than 500 years ago. The privileges of "discovery and conquest" granted to Christopher Columbus in 1492, in a world the pope considered "his property to be disposed according to his will," have been replaced by another piracy transformed into the divine will of Americanism and sustained by technological progress, notably that of the media. "The threat to independence in the late 20th century from the new electronics," wrote Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism, "could be greater than was colonialism itself. We are beginning to learn that de-colonisation was not the termination of imperial relationships but merely the extending of a geopolitical web which has been spinning since the Renaissance. The new media have the power to penetrate more deeply into a 'receiving' culture than any previous manifestation of western technology." Every modern president has been, in large part, a media creation. Thus, the murderous Reagan is sanctified still; Rupert Murdoch's Fox Channel and the post-Hutton BBC have differed only in their forms of adulation. And Bill Clinton is regarded nostalgically by liberals as flawed but enlightened; yet Clinton's presidential years were far more violent than Bush's and his goals were the same: "the integration of countries into the global free-market community," the terms of which, noted the New York Times, "require the United States to be involved in the plumbing and wiring of nations' internal affairs more deeply than ever before." The Pentagon's "full-spectrum dominance" was not the product of the "neo-cons" but of the liberal Clinton, who approved what was then the greatest war expenditure in history. According to the Guardian, Clinton's heir, John Kerry, sends us "energising progressive calls." It is time to stop this nonsense. Supremacy is the essence of Americanism; only the veil changes or slips. In 1976, the Democrat Jimmy Carter announced "a foreign policy that respects human rights." In secret, he backed Indonesia's genocide in East Timor and established the mujahedin in Afghanistan as a terrorist organisation designed to overthrow the Soviet Union, and from which came the Taliban and al-Qaeda. It was the liberal Carter, not Reagan, who laid the ground for George W Bush. In the past year, I have interviewed Carter's principal foreign policy overlords "Zbigniew Brzezinski, his national security adviser, and James Schlesinger, his defence secretary. No blueprint for the new imperialism is more respected than Brzezinski's. Invested with biblical authority by the Bush gang, his 1997 book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geo-strategic Imperatives describes American priorities as the economic subjugation of the Soviet Union and the control of central Asia and the Middle East. His analysis says that "local wars" are merely the beginning of a final conflict leading inexorably to world domination by the US. "To put it in a terminology that harkens back to a more brutal age of ancient empires," he writes, "the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together." It may have been easy once to dismiss this as a message from the lunar right. But Brzezinski is mainstream. His devoted students include Madeleine Albright, who, as secretary of state under Clinton, described the death of half a million infants in Iraq during the US-led embargo as "a price worth paying," and John Negroponte, the mastermind of American terror in central America under Reagan who is currently "ambassador" in Baghdad. James Rubin, who was Albright's enthusiastic apologist at the State Department, is being considered as John Kerry's national security adviser. He is also a Zionist; Israel's role as a terror state is beyond discussion. Cast an eye over the rest of the world. As Iraq has crowded the front pages, American moves into Africa have attracted little attention. Here, the Clinton and Bush policies are seamless. In the 1990s, Clinton's African Growth and Opportunity Act launched a new scramble for Africa. Humanitarian bombers wonder why Bush and Blair have not attacked Sudan and "liberated" Darfur, or intervened in Zimbabwe or the Congo. The answer is that they have no interest in human distress and human rights, and are busy securing the same riches that led to the European scramble in the late 19th century by the traditional means of coercion and bribery, known as multilateralism. The Congo and Zambia possess 50 per cent of world cobalt reserves; 98 per cent of the world's chrome reserves are in Zimbabwe and South Africa. More importantly, there is oil and natural gas in Africa from Nigeria to Angola, and in Higleig, south-west Sudan. Under Clinton, the African Crisis Response Initiative (Acri) was set up in secret. This has allowed the US to establish "military assistance programmes" in Senegal, Uganda, Malawi, Ghana, Benin, Algeria, Niger, Mali and Chad. Acri is run by Colonel Nestor Pino-Marina, a Cuban exile who took part in the 1961 Bay of Pigs landing and went on to be a special forces officer in Vietnam and Laos, and who, under Reagan, helped lead the Contra invasion of Nicaragua. The pedigrees never change. None of this is discussed in a presidential campaign in which John Kerry strains to out-Bush Bush. The multi-lateralism or "muscular internationalism" that Kerry offers in contrast to Bush's uni-lateralism is seen as hopeful by the terminally naive; in truth, it beckons even greater dangers. Having given the American elite its greatest disaster since Vietnam, writes the historian Gabriel Kolko, Bush "is much more likely to continue the destruction of the alliance system that is so crucial to American power. One does not have to believe the worse the better, but we have to consider candidly the foreign policy consequences of a renewal of Bush's mandate . . . As dangerous as it is, Bush's re-election may be a lesser evil." With Nato back in train under President Kerry, and the French and Germans compliant, American ambitions will proceed without the Napoleonic hindrances of the Bush gang. Little of this appears even in the American papers worth reading. The Washington Post's hand-wringing apology to its readers on 14 August for not "pay[ing] enough attention to voices raising questions about the war [against Iraq]" has not interrupted its silence on the danger that the American state presents to the world. Bush's rating has risen in the polls to more than 50 per cent, a level at this stage in the campaign at which no incumbent has ever lost. The virtues of his "plain speaking," which the entire media machine promoted four years ago "Fox and the Washington Post alike" are again credited. As in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks, Americans are denied a modicum of understanding of what Norman Mailer has called "a pre-fascist climate." The fears of the rest of us are of no consequence. The professional liberals on both sides of the Atlantic have played a major part in this. The campaign against Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is indicative. The film is not radical and makes no outlandish claims; what it does is push past those guarding the boundaries of "respectable" dissent. That is why the public applauds it. It breaks the collusive codes of journalism, which it shames. It allows people to begin to deconstruct the nightly propaganda that passes for news: in which "a sovereign Iraqi government pursues democracy" and those fighting in Najaf and Fallujah and Basra are always "militants" and "insurgents" or members of a "private army," never nationalists defending their homeland and whose resistance has probably forestalled attacks on Iran, Syria or North Korea. The real debate is neither Bush nor Kerry, but the system they exemplify; it is the decline of true democracy and the rise of the American "national security state" in Britain and other countries claiming to be democracies, in which people are sent to prison and the key thrown away and whose leaders commit capital crimes in faraway places, unhindered, and then, like the ruthless Blair, invite the thug they install to address the Labour Party conference. The real debate is the subjugation of national economies to a system which divides humanity as never before and sustains the deaths, every day, of 24,000 hungry people. The real debate is the subversion of political language and of debate itself and perhaps, in the end, our self-respect. [August 21, 2004, John Pilger was born and educated in Sydney, Australia. He has been a war correspondent, filmmaker and playwright. Based in London, he has written from many countries and has twice won British journalism's highest award, that of "Journalist of the Year," for his work in Vietnam and Cambodia. This article was first published in the New Statesman. (c) John Pilger 2004] === -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Thu Oct 21 18:58:38 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:58:38 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] ] BLR Library Book List. Message-ID: Greetings All Tamara suggested I post the Bayou La Rose Library, Book List because she felt it maybe useful to someone. I had already posted the Bayou La Rose Library, Video list. The list of books in the Bayou La Rose Library was put together by a woman who after hearing that I was going to donate the library, thought it would be good to have a list of the books. Tamara had told me about her long range ideas of an educational center and I decided to support that by donating the library to it. I hope everyone who can. will support the educational center when it gets going. The library has a lot of books but it does not have stuff on every struggle around. Though I view all struggles as important, I just have found that I can only focus on a few. The volunteer worker who is making lists for the library is now working on the next section which is Pamphlets and Information Packets. After that will be a list of CDs and Tapes, then a publication list and last a list of all material of the different projects that have come out of this office, things like Bayou La Rose, Survival Network, Working People's Library, Peltier Support and other projects This is not meant as a reading list because much of the stuff is out of print or are reference books. But if things go as planned all this stuff will be able to be used at a northwest education center. I really like the fact that part of Tamara's influence is the Highlander Center because that has been a great place that has included people of all races and has been open to a lot of poor people over the years. Arthur J. Miller. Bayou La Rose Library Books ANARCHISM MICHAEL BAKUNIN The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Edited by G.P. Maximoff God And The State: The Basic Bakunin, Writings 1869-1971: Bakunin and Nechaev: Paul Avrich Michael Bakunin: Roots of Apocalypse: Arthur P. Mendel Bakunin and the Italians: T.R. Ravindranathan Bakunin On Anarchy: Edited by Sam Dolgoff ALEXANDER BERKMAN What Is Anarchism? What Is Communist Anarchism? The Russian Tragedy: Prison Memoirs Od An Anarchist: Life Of An Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader: EMMA GOLDMAN Red Emma Speaks; Selected Writings & Speeches: Living My Life: Volumes One and Two: Anarchism and Other Essays: Anarchy! Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth: PETER KROPOTKIN Memoirs Of A Revolutionist: Mutual Aid: Act For Yourselves; Arthicles from Freedom 1886-1907: Selected Writings on Anarchism and Revolution: The Great French Revoution: Words Of A Rebel: Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets: Russian Literature: Fields, Factories And Workshops: Ethics: The Conquest Of Bread MALATESTA Malatesta: Life and Ideas: Edited by Vernon Richards FRA CONTADINI: A Dialogue On Anarchy: The Anarchist Revolution: Polemicals Articles, 1924-1931 PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON General Idea Of The Revolution In The Nineteenth Century: What Is Property? Selected Writings: Proudhon's Solution of the Social Problem: Edited by Henry Cohen RUDOLF ROCKER Anarcho-Syndicalism: Nationalism And Culture: ANARCHIST WRITINGS Freedom, Equality & Solidarity: Writings & Speeches, 1978-1937. Lucy Parsons The Ego & His Own: Max Stirner Journey Through Utopia: Marie Louise Berneri Neither East Nor West: Selected Writings 1939-1948: Marie Louise Berneri Patterns Of Anarchy: Collection of Anarchist Writings: Edited by Leonard I. Krimerman The Anarchists: Edited by Irving L. Horowitz Social Anarchism: Giovanni Baldelli Anarchism Is Not Enough: Laura Riding Free Pages and Hard Times: Anarchist Musings: Manuel Gonzalez Prada A Reader of Australian Anarchism: Edited by Bob James The End Of Anarchism? Luigi Galleani Anarchist Essays: Charlotte Wilson Anarchism And The Black Revolution: Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin How We Shall Bring About The Revolution: Emile Pataud and Emile Pouget The Struggle To Be Human: Crime, Criminology and Anarchism: L. Tifft and D. Sullivan The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays: Nestor Makhno To Die On Your Feet: Life, Times and Writings:of Praxedis C. Guerrero: Anarchism: Edited by J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman Anarchism: Paul Eltzbacher Anarchism And Socialism: George Plechanoff No Gods, No Masters: Anthology of Anarchism; Volumes One and Two: Edited by Daniel Guerin Anarchism: Daniel Guerin The Philosophy Of Anarchism: Herbert Read Poetry and Anarchism: Herbert Read Contemporary Anarchism: Edited by Terry M. Perlin Children In Society: A Libertarian Critique: Stephen Cullen Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader: Edited by Dark Star Class War: A Decade Of Disorder: Edited by Ian Bone, Alan Pullen & Tim Scargill Unfinished Business: The Politics of Class War The Enemy Is Middle Class: Andy & Mark Anderson Why Work?: Arguments for a Leisure Society: Various Authors Society Against The State: Pierre Clastres Man! Anarchist Anthology: Edited by Marcus Graham Anarchism: Arguments For and Against: Albert Meltzer Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: William Godwin The Black Boc Papers: Edited by David and X Reinventing Anarchy: Edited by Howard J. Ehrlich, Carol Ehrlich, David De Leon, and Glenda Morris The Scarlet Q: Anarchy, Religion, and the Cult of Science: Michael Ziesing The State: Franz Oppenheimer Post Scarcity Anarchism: Murry Bookchin In Defense of Anarchism: Robert Paul Wolff Housing: An Anarchist Approach: Colin Ward Anarchy And The End Of History: Edited by Mike Gunderloy & Michael Ziesing Anarchism & Environmental Survival: Graham Purchase Voltairine de Cleyre Reader: Max Stirner's Egoiam: John P. Clark Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative: Daniel and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit Anarchy Or Chaos: George Woodcock The Temporary Autonomous Zone: Hakim Bey Immediatism: Essays: Hakim Bey The Root Is Man: Dwight MacDonald Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for beginners Mankind Is One: Selected Articles from the Anarchist Weekly Freedom, 1951, Vol. One: Against His-story, Against Leviathan!; Fredy Perlman On Anarchy and Schizoanalysis: Rolando Perez The Dean and the Anarchist: James A. Preu Anarchy, State, and Utopia: Robert Nozick The Anarchist Papers: Edited by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos The Self-Mediating Society: Wade Rawlux Elements Of Refusal: John Zerzan Strip The Experts: Brian Martin ANARCHISM, AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES The East End Years: Fermin Rocker I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels: Albert Meltzer Louise Michel: Edith Thomas Memoirs Of Louise Michel: Marie Louise Berneri: A Tribute: Geography Of Freedom: The Odyssey Of Elisee Reclus: Marie Fleming Autobiography of Osugi Sakae: The Christie File: Stuart Christie Beware! Anarchist! Autobiography of Augustin Souchy: The Valpreda Papers: Prison Diaries of Pietro Valpreda: All The Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca: Dorothy Gallagher Anarchism & Violence: Severino Di Giovanni In Argentina 1923-1931: Osvaldo Bayer An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre: Paul Avrich Bread Upon The Waters: Rose Pesotta The Gentle General: Rose Pesotta, Anarchist and Labor Organizer: Elaine Leeder Anarchist Portraits: Paul Avrich Come Dungeons Dark: Life And Times of Guy Aldred, Glasgow Anarchist: John Taylor Caldwell Anarchism in France: The Case of Octave Mirbeau: Reg Carr ANARCHISM: HISTORY Poland: 1970 - 71 Capitalism and Class Struggle: Informations Correspondance Ouvrieres Poll Tax Rebellion: Danny Burns The Cuban Revolution: A Critical Perspective: Sam Dolgoff Cuban Anarchism: The History of a Movement: Frank Fernandez African Anarchism: History Of A Movement: Sam Mbah and I.E. Igariwey Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution: Arif Dirlik Anarchist Voices: Oral History of Anarchism in America: Edited by Paul Avrich Facing The Enemy: History of Anarchist Organization From Proudhon to May 1968: Alexandre Skirda Anarchism In Germany: Andrew R. Carlson Anarchist Thought in India: Adi H. Doctor Freedom Fighters: Anarchists in Portugal's History: Joao Freire Anarchism Today: David E. Apter and James Joll Anarchism: Old and New: Gerald Runkle A Short History Of Anarchism: Max Nettlau Anarchism: George Woodcock The Bonnot Gang: Richard Parry Men Against The State: James J. Martin Accidental Death Of An Anarchist: Dario Fo The Judge and the Historian: Events surrounding the Death of Giuseppe Pinelli: Carlo Ginzburg Anarchism and State Violence in Sydney and Melbourne, 1886-1896: Bob James Prolegomena: Return of Repression in History: Hobohemia: Emma Goldman, Lucy Parsons, Ben Reitman & other Agitators & Outsiders in 1920s/30s Chicago: Frank O. Beck ANARCHISM, HAYMARKET Toys of Desperation, A Haymarket Mural in Verse: Harold A. Zlotnik Cold Chicago: A Haymarket Fable: Warren Leming Haymarket: A Novel: Martin Duberman The Haymarket Tragedy: Paul Avrich The Bomb: A Novel: Frank Harris Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis: and Other Writings on the Haymarket: Albert R. Parsons The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America: (The other sides account of the Haymarket): Geo. N. McLean Anarchy and Anarchist: The Chicago Haymark Conspiracy (write by a cop): Michael J. Schaack Trial Of The Chicago Anarchists: Dyer D. Lum Haymarket Scrapbook: Edited by Dave Roediger and Franklin Rosemont Beyond The Martyrs: Chicago's Anarchist, 1870-1900: Bruce C. Nelson ANARCHISM, MEXICO Anarchism And The Mexican Revolution: The Political Trials of Ricardo Flores Magon in the U.S.; Colin M. MacLachlan. Mexican Anarchism After The Revolution: Donald C. Hodges Land & Liberty: Anarchist Influences in the Mexican Revolution: Ricardo Flores Magon Anarchism & The Mexican Working Class, 1860-1931 ANARCHISM, RUSSIA History Of The Makhnovist Movement, 1918-1921: Peter Arshinov The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921: Voline The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution: Edited by Paul Avrich The Gullotine At Work: Vol. 1: The Leninist Counter-Revolution: Gregory Petrovich Maximoff The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control: Maurice Brinton ANARCHISM, SACCO & VANZETTI Sacco & Vanzetti: Edited by John Davis Sacco and Vanzetti: Paul Avrich The Legacy of Sacco & Vanzetti: Louis Joughin and Edmind M. Morgan Ben Shahn And The Passion Of Sacco and Vanzetti: Tragedy In Dedham: Story of Sacco and Vanzetti: Francis Russell ANARCHISM, SPAIN The CNT in the Spanish Revolution: Vol. 1: Jose Peirats Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution: Jose Peirats The Friends of Durruti Group: 1937-1939: Agustin Guillamon Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women: Martha A. Ackelsberg We, The Anarchists! A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI),1927-1937: Stuart Christie Red Years, Black Year: Political History of Spanish Anarchism, 1911-1937: Robert W. Kern The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War: Volumes One and Two: Robert Alexander The Anarchists of Casas Viejas: Jerome R. Mintz Anarchists Of Andalusia, 1868-1903: Temma Kaplan Sabate: Guerrilla Extraordinary: Antonio Tellez Anarchist Organisation: The Historu of the F.A.I.: Juan Gomez Casas The May Days: Barcelona 1937: Augustin Souchy, Jose Peirats, Burnett Bolloten and Emma Goldman. The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936: Murray Bookchin To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936: Murray Bookchin. Lessons Of The Spanish Revolution: Vernon Richards Estampas de La Revolucion Espanola 19 Julio de 1936: Artwork published during the Spanish Revolution by the CNT-FIA The Spanish Revolution: CNT-FAI, 1936 (includes a CD): The Ex After The Revolution: Economic Reconstruction in Spain Today (1937): D.A. de Santillan Spain: Social Revolution - Counter Revolution: Selections from the Anarchist Fortnightly Spain & The World: Franco's Prisoner: Miguel Garcia Durruti: The People Armed: Abel Paz The Spanish Civil War: Abel Paz The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-management in the Spanish Revoution, 1936-1939: Edited by Sam Dolgoff ANARCHISM, ART Wildcat ABC Of Bosses: Donald Rooum Wildcat Anarchist Comics: Donald Rooum Wildcat Strikes Again: Donald Rooum Wildcat; Health Service: Donald Rooum Film and The Anarchist Imagination: Richard Porton Anarchy: Graphic Guide: Clifford Harper The Art of Anarchy: Flavio Gostantini The March to Death: Anarchist Anti-war Cartoons First Published in 1943. Drawings by John Olday. ANARCHISM, NOVELS The Watch: Dennis Danvers Haymarket: A Novel: Martin Duberman The Dispossessed: Ursula K. Le Guin The Strait: Fredy Perlman A.D.: Saab Lofton The Anarchist: Daniel A. Coleman Rebels: Marie Ganz The Free: M. Gilliland A Girl Among The Anarchists: Isabel Meredith Anarchist Farm: Jane Doe _______________________________________________________________________ GENERAL HISTORY Encyclopedia Of The American Left: Editors; Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, Dan Georgakas The World Of The Past: Vol. 1 & 2: Editor; Jacquetta Hawkes The Historians' History Of The United States: Vol. 1 & 2: Edited by Andrew S. Berky, James P. Shenton The Outline Of History: H.G. Wells A People's History of the United States: Howard Zinn Historians At Work, Vols 1-4:: Editied by Peter Gay & Victor G. Wexler An Encyclopedia of World History: Illustrared Library of the World: American Heritage Allas of U.S. History: Concise Dictionary of American History: The Lawless Decade: From the Armistuce to the New Deal: Paul Sann Orgasms Of History: 3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection: Yves Fremian Micropedia World History The Practical Encyclopedia The Columbia History Of The World: Revolution: 500 Years of Struggle and Change: Lots of art work and photos. Mark Almond America In Crisis: Photos of the 60s: Mitchel Levitas The World Atlas Of Revolutions: Andrew Wheatcroft The History News Revolution: History Of The Three Internationals: W. Z. Foster May Day: A Short History: Philip S. Foner Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots and Revolutionaries 1776-1971; Adam Zamoyski Unruly Women of Paris: Images of the Commune: Gay L. Gullickson Ancient Society: Lewis Henry Morgan (SLP) GENERAL NORTHWEST HISTORY Peoples Of Washington: Edited by Sid White and S.E. Solberg Skid Road: Seattle: Her First 125 Year: Murray Morgan Hard Traveling: Portrait of Work Life in the Northwest: Many old Photos. Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes Radical Heritage: Social Movement in the Northwest 1885-1917: Carlos A. Schwantes Utopias On Puget Sound, 1885-1915: Charles Pierce Le Warne On Freedom's Frontier: ACLU in Washington State: Douglas Honig and Laura Brenner >From Romance To Riot: A Seattle Memoir: Cal McCune NON-VIOLENCE A Manual For Direct Action: Strategy and Tactics for Civil Rights and All Other Nonviolent Protest Movements: Martin Oppenheimer, George Lakey Blockade: Guide to Nonviolent Intervention: Richard K. Taylor War Tax Resistance: War Resisters League My Eyes Have Seen: Non-Violent activists. Words and Photos by Bob Fitch The Power Of The People: Active Nonviolence in the U.S.; A History with many Photos. Edited by Robert Cooney and Helen Michalowski The Continental Walk For Disarmament and Social Justice: Mostlt Photos. Edited by Viclie Leonard and Tom MacLean SPAIN (NON-ANARCHIST The Spanish Labyrinth: Gerald Brenan Trapped In Spain: Carlota O'Neill The Forgotten Men: Account of Courage and Tenacity During the Franco Years: Jesus Torbado and Manuel Leguineche The Guernica Generation: Basque Refugee Children of the Spanish Civil War: Dorothy Legarreta The Spanish Cockpit: Eye-Witness Account of the Spanish Civil War: Franz Borkenau Blood of Spain: Oral History of the Spanish Civil War: Ronald Fraser SPAIN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES They Shall Not Pass: Autobiography of La Pasionaria: Dolores Ibarruri >From a Spanish Prison: Eva Forest Homage To The Spanish Exiles: Voices from the Spainish Civil War: Edited by Nancy MacDonald ANTI-GLOBALIZATION Counter Productive: (with CD) Quebec City Convergence Surroundin the Summit of the Americas: Edited: Luca Palladino, David Widgington The Battle of Seattle: An Anthology. Voices From The WTO: anthology Of Writings Global Issues: 95/96 Annual Edition The Global Factory: AFSC The New State Of The World Atlas: Michael Kidron and Ronald Segal Resist! Stories from the Quebec City FTAA Protests: Edited by a collective Trilateralism: Edited by Holly Sklar On Fire: Battle of Genoa: We Are Everywhere: Rise of the Global Anticapitalism: STRUGGLES (MISCELLANEOUS) Peasant Uprisings: Roland Mousnier Poor People's Movements: Frances Fox Piven, Richard A. Cloward The Progressive Movement 1900-1915: Edited: Richard Hofstadter The Sixties Papers: Edited by Judith Clavir Albert and Stewart Edward Albert Home To War: History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement" Gerald Nicosia Up Against The Ivy Wall: Columbia up-rasing in 1968: Jerry L. Avorn The Movement:and the Sixties: Terry H. Anderson Untouchable! Voices of the Dalit Liberation Movement (India): Edited by Barbara R. Joshi 1968: Marching In The Streets: Tario Ali and Susan Watkins Red Flag, Black Flag: French Revolution 1968: Patric Seale & Maureen McConville Meltdown: Three Mile Island: Wilborn Hampton The Palestinians: Lots of Photos. Jonathan Dimbleby The Irish Civil War: Mostly Photos. Time Pat Coogan and George Morrison This Mighty Dream: Social Protest Movements in the U.S.: Many Photos. Madeleine Adamson and Seth Borgos Generations Of Resistance: East Timor: Photos by Steve Cox The People's Land: Reader on Land Reform in the U.S.: Edited by Peter Barnes for the National Coalition for Land Reform Living With The Land: Edited by Christine Meyer and Faith Moosang Radical Agriculture: Edited by Richard Merrill American Women's History: An A To Z of People, Organizations, Issues and Events: Doris Weatherford Children Of The Dragon: Story of the Tiananmen Square: Many Photos Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement: David L. Chappell Power and Popular Protest: Latin American Social Movements: Edited by Susan Eckstein When Women Rebel: Rise of Popular Feminism in Peru: Carol Andreas Donde Enmudecen Las Conciencias: Crepusculo y Aurora en Guatemala: Carlos Guzmn Bockler Legacy To Liberation: Revolutionary Asian Pacific America: Edited by Fred Ho 2/15 The Day the World said No to War: Edited by Barbara Sauermann Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement: Anti-Racist Action Chicago Agony At Easter: The 1916 Irish Uprising: Thomas M. Coffey The Palestine Liberation Organization: Its Institutional Infrastructure (1983) Cheryl Rubenberg THE FBI AND POLITICAL REPRESSION Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI: The Covert War Against the Central America Movement. Ross Gelbspam Racial Matters: The FBI'S Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972: Kenneth O 'Reilly War At Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists and What We Can Do About It: Brian Glick FBI Secrets: An Agents Expose: M. Wesley Swearingen The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the U.S.: Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall Agents of Repression: Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall The Iron Fist and The Velvet Glove: Analysis of the U.S.Police: Institute For The Study of Labor and Economic Crisis Malcolm X: The FBI File: Clayborne Carson Unamerican Activities: A number of articles on repression of the Underground Press Dangerous Dossiers: Secret War Against America's Authors; Herbert Mitgang ECONOMICS Take The Rich Off Welfare: Mark Zepezauer, Arthur Naiman The New Field Guide To The U.S. Economy: Nancy Folbre Sharing The Pie: Citizen's Guide to Wealth and Power in America: Steve Brouwer The War On The Poor: A Defense Manual: Center for Popular Economics ORGANIZING MANUALS The Organizer's Manual: The O.M. Collective Rules For Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals: Saul D. Alinsky A Troublemaker's Handbook: Dan La Botz Future500: Youth Organizing: Talking Union: A Guide for Working Women; Edited by Joyce Maupin War Resisters League Organizing Manual No Mandate For War: A Pledge Of Resistance Handbook Instead Of Prisons: A Handbook For Prison Abolitionists: IWW Oranizing Manual Manual of Corporate Investigation: Manual for Investigating People Enough is Enough: How to Organize A Successful Campaign For Change: Diane MacEachern Direct Action Manual: Nonviolent direct action. RUSSIA (NON-ANARCHIST) Putsch: Three Days That Collapsed The Empire, The Diary >From The Other Shore and The Russian People and Socialism: Alexander Herzen Poletarian Peasants: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest: Robert Edelman RUSSIA (NON-ANARCHIST) AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES The Story of Tatiana: (Tatiania Leontiev): Jacques Baynac My Life As A Rebel: Angelica Balabanoff The Autobiography of Maxim Gorky MEXICO (NON-ANARCHIST) Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings from Marcos Mexican Workers and the State: From the Porfiriato to NAFTA: Norman Caulfield The Skeleton At The Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico: Many Photos. Elizabeth Carmichael and Chloe Sayer First World, Ha Ha Ha: The Zapatista Challenge: Edited by Elaine Katzenberger MEXICO (NON-ANARCHIST): AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES The Rebal: Leonor Villegas de Magnon Zapata and the Mexican Revolution: John Womack, Jr. Viva Posada! Editied by Carlos Cortez RACISM Race Traitor: Edited; Noel Ignatiev, John Garvey Blood In The Face: Rise of a New White Racist Culture: James Ridgeway GYPSIES Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey: Isabel Fonseca Goddamn Gypsy: Autobiographical novel. Ronald Lee A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia: David M. Crowe ENVIRONMENT In The Rainforest: Catherine Caufield Timber War; Judi Bari Toxics Watch 1995: INFORM Almanac Of The Environment: Valerie Harms The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rainforest: Robert Glenn Ketchum Brother Wolf: A Forgotten Promise: Jim Brandenburg Our Synthetic Environment: Murray Bookchin The Rainforests: Photos Toxic Struggles: Environmental Justice: Edited by Richard Hofrichter The Cancer Syndrome: Ralph W. Moss Whose Common Future? Reclaiming the Commons: The Ecologist Close To Home: Women led Environmental Struggles Worldwide: Edited by Vandana Shiva Warriors of the Rainbow: The Greenpeace Movement: Robert Hunter IWW The IWW: Its First Seventy Years, 1905-1975: Fred W. Thompson and Patrick Murfin Rebel Voices: An IWW Anthology (both editions): Edited by Joyce L Kornbluh The Soul Of The Wobbies: The IWW, Religion, and American Culture in the Progressive Era, 1905-1917: Donald E. Winters, Jr Joe Hill; The IWW & The Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture: Franklin Rosemont The Wobblies: The story of the IWW and Syndicalism in the U.S. Both editions. Patrick Renshaw. The Industrial Workers of the World, 1905-1917 (History Of The Labor Movement, Vol. 4): Philip S. Foner In The Floating Army: F.C. Mils on Itinerant Life in California, 1914: Gregory R. Woirol Urban Workers and Labor Unions in Chile 1902-1927: Good amount of IWW stuff. Peter DeShazo. At The Point Of Production: Edited by Joseph R. Conlin Where The Fraser River Flows: IWW In British Columbia: Mark Leier Mexican Workers And The State: From the Porfiriato to NAFTA:(some good info on IWW in Mexico): Norman Caulfield Harvest Wobblies 1905-1930: Greg Hall The Centralia Tragedy of 1919: Tom Copeland Labor Struggles in the Deep South & Other Writings: Covington Hall Red November. Black November: Culture and Community in the IWW: Salvatore Salerno Wildmen, Wobblies & Whistle Punks: Stewart Holbrook American Syndicalism, The IWW: John Gramham Brooks Outlawing Dissent: Criminal Syndicalism, Anarchism and Sabotage in the West: Amy Levinson and Jess Grant Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism and Socialism: John Spargo Juice Is Stranger Than Friction: Selected Writings: T-Bone Slim Direct Action and Sabotage: Three IWW Pamphlets from the 1910s: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C. Smith. Solidarity Forever: Oral History of the IWW; Edited by Stewart Bird, Dan Geogakas and Deborah Shaffer The Wobblies At War: History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia: Frank Cain Sydney's Burning: IWW in Australia. Ian Turner Nothing In Common: An Oral History of IWW Strikes 1971-1992: Edited by John Silvano The IWW and The Paterson Silk Strike of 1913: Anne Huber Tripp Revolutionary Industrial Unionism: IWW In Australia: Verity Burgmann Upon The Backs Of Labor: Unruly Working Class Essays: Arthur J. Miller Centralia Dead March: Thomas Churchill The Living Spirit Of The Wobblies: Len De Caux Bread and Roses Too: Studies of the Wobblies: Joseph Robert Conlin The Founding Convention of the IWW. Wobbly War: The Centralia Story: John McClelland. Jr. The Great Bisbee IWW Deportation Of July 12, 1917: IWW Organizing Manual IWW RELATED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES: IWW RELATED Working The Waterfront: The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman: Gilbert Mers Queen Silver: The Godless Girl: Wendy McElroy Wobbly: Ralph Chaplin Joe Hill: Wallace Stegner Joe Hill: Gibbs M. Smith Frank Litte: Mike Byrnes and Lee Rickey Autobiography Of Boxcar Bertha The Rebel Girl: My First Life, 1906-1926: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood: Roughneck: Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood: Peter Carlson Yardbird Blues: Twenty Years of a Wobbly in the Maritime Industry: Arthur J. Miller Fellow Worker: The Life of Fred Thompson Memoirs of A Wobbly: Henry E. McGuckin All The Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca: Dorothy Gallagher Soapbox Artist annd Poet: Carlos Cortez Koyokuikatl IWW FICTION The Rambling Kid: Charles Ashleigh Down At The Low Drive Caf?: Arthur J. Miller Break Their Haughty Power: Eugene Nelson The Intruders: Elgar Houghton IWW POETS Dreams & Dynamite: Covington Hall Crystal-Gazing, The Amber Fluid and other Wobbly Poems: Carlos Cortez Where Are The Voices? & Other Wobbly Poems: Carlos Cortez SYNDICALISM Syndicalism In France: Louis Levine Syndicalism: Tom Brown British Syndicalism 1900-1914: Bob Holton Syndicalism: W. Z. Foster LABOR AND CLASS Death on the Job: Occupational Heath and Safety Struggles in the U.S.: Daniel Berman Bitter Wages; Disease and Injury on the Job: Joseph A. Page and Mary-Win O' Brien Them And Us: Struggles of a Rank-and-File Union: James J. Matles and James Higgins Human Crisis in the Kingdom of Coal: Richard C. Smith Labor Law for the Rank-and-Filer or, Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law: Staughton Lynd Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations DOT Emergency Hazardous Material Response Guidebook: The Rights of Employees and Union Members: ACLU The Union Cook Book: UE Blue Collar: Internal Examination of the Workplace: Charles Spencer Organizing To Win: New Research on Union Strategies: Many editors Shape-Up and Hiring Hall: Comparison of New York and Seattle Waterfronts: Charles P. Larrowe Rocking The Boat: Union Women's Voices 1915-1975: Edited by Brigid O'Farrell and Joyce L. Kornbluh Calling Home: Working Class Women's Writings: Edited by Janet Zandy Women And Labor: Olive Schreiner Roughnecks; Oilpatch USA: Kit Kittle The Lexicon Of Labor: R. Emmett Murray Thinking Class: Sketches from a Cultural Worker: Joanna Kadi Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below: Staughton Lynd The Troublemaker's Handbook: Dan La Botz The Casual Laborer and Other Essays: Carleton H. Parker Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Speeches and Writings: Fear At Work: Job Blackmail, Labor and the Environment: Richard Kazis and Richard L. Grossman Sabotage in the American Workplace: Edited by Martin Sprouse Not Servants, Not Machines: Office Workers Speak Out: Jean Tepperman Oslo To Delhi: Review of the ITF FOC Campaign: Inernational Transport Workers' Federation When Workers Decide: Workplace Democracy: Edited by Len Krimerman and Frank Lindenfeld Working In Canada: (pages 139 and 140 includes Arthur). Edited by Walter Johnson. Tales of Crapitalism: Eugene Nelson LABOR HISTORY. Death of A Proud Union: The 1960 Bunker Hill Strike: Art Norlen Heritage of Conflict: Labor relations in the nonferrous metals industry up to 1930: Vernon H. Jensen Hardrock Miners: Mining Labor Movement in the American West, 1863-1893: Richard E. Lingenfelter Hard Rock Epic: Western Miners 1860-1910: Mark Wyman Colorado's War On Militant Unionism: Western Federation of Miners: George G. Suggs Big Trouble: Western Federation of Miners. J. Anthony Lukas The Rocky Mountain Revolution: Western Federation of Miners. Stewart H. Holbrook Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre: Zeese Papanikolas Legacy Of The Ludlow Massacre: Howard M. Gitelman Holding The Line: Women in the great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983: Barbara Kingsolver Copper Crucible: Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983: Jonathan D. Rosenblum Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy: Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers The Buffalo Creek Disaster: Coal Mine Disaster in 1972. Gerald M. Stern Where The Sun Never Shines: America's Bloody Coal Industry: Priscilla Long Death On The Picket Line: The Story of John McCoy: Coal Miner Gunned on Picket Line in 1990 by company gun thugs. Jerry White Independent Collier: Coal Miners as Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered: Edited by Royden Harrison Shifting Horizons: The role of Women in miners strike in England. Lynn Beaton State of Siege: Miners' Strike 1984 (England): Jim Coulter, Susan Miller and Martin Walker Pit Life in Co. Durham: Miners struggle in Durham England. David Douglass Organizing The Shipyards: Three Northest Ports, 1933-1945: David Palmer The Working Waterfront: The story of Tacoma's ships and men: Ronald Magden and A.D. Martinson History of Seattle Waterfront Workers 1884-1934: Ronald E. Magden Waterfront Workers of New Orleans 1963-1923: Eric Arnesen Harry Bridges On Trial: Estolv E. Ward The Big Strike: San Francisco General Strike of 1934: Mike Quin The Seattle General Strike (1919): Robert L. Friedheim The General Strike: England 1926: Julian Symons 1926 The General Strike (England): Edited by Jeffrey Skelley Wildcat: Study of a Spontaneous Walkout (Oscar Center mine and General Gypsum): Alvin W. Gouldner Farm Larbor Organizing: Maralyn Edid Huelga: First Hundred Days of the Delano Grape Strike. Eugene Nelson La Cause: The Califoris Grape Strike: Mostly Photos. Paul Fusco and George D. Horwitz Fruit Fields In My Blood: Okie farm workers: Toby F. Sonneman The Steel Strike of 1919: Edited by Colston E. Warne "The River Ran Red": Homestead Steel Strike 1892: Edited by David P. Demarest, Jr The Pullman Strike: Almont Lindsey The Pullman Strike: Rev. William H. Carwardine The Pullman Boycott of 1894: Edited by Colston E. Warne The Great Labor Uprising of 1877: Philip S. Foner Dream Of Dignity, Workers of Vision: History of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: Grace Palladino The Lean Years: History of the American Worker 1920-1933: Irving Bernstein The Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker 1933-1941: Irving Bernstein Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century: Howard Zinn, Dana Frank, and Robin D.C. Kelly A Tale of Three Cities: Labor organization and Protest in Paterson, Passaic, and Lawrence 1916-1921: Davis J. Goldberg Coxey's Army: Donald L.McMurry The Mooney Case: Richard H. Frost Hard-Pressed in the Heartland: P-9 strike. Peter Rachleff Land Of The Millrats: Richard M. Dorson We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909: Joan Dash The Industrial Workers 1840-1860: Norman Ware The Labor Movement in America: Richard T. Ely Workers in American History: James Oneal Labor's Untold Story: Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais The First Round: Story of the CIO Political Action Committee: Joseph Gaer Labor Batteground: The Streets of Chicago: Doug Nelson Unions and Telephones: Story of the Communications Workers of America: Jack Barbash The Kohler Strike: Sylvester Petro Kids At Work: the crusade against child labor: Russell Freedman We Are All Leaders: Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s: Edited by Staughton Lynd Workers and Dissent in the Redwood Empire: Daniel A. Cornford Bread And Roses: Americian Labor 1865-1915: Milton Meltzer The Rise & Repression of Radical Labor: Daniel R. Fusfeld Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America: Louis Adamic The Rise of Workers Moverments: Edited by Root & Branch The American Workers: U.S. Department of Labor Origins of Class Struggle in Louisiana: Roger W. Shugg Labor Revolt in Alabama: The Great Strike of 1894: Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers Working Lives: Southern Exposure History of Labor in the South: Edited by Marc S. Miller A History of the Labor Movement in California: Ira B. Cross Working People of California: Edited By Daniel Cornford The Asbestos Strike: Asbestos, Quebec 1949. Edited by Pierre Elliot Trudeau The Making Of The English Working Class: E.P. Thompson Labour in Irish History: James Connolly Urban Workers and Labor Unions in Chile 1902-1927: Peter DeShazo Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemale City 1954-1985: Deborah Levenson-Estrada Organized Labor in Latin America: Robert J. Alexander Mexican Workers and The State: From the Porfiriato to NAFTA: Norman Caulfield Men and Machines: Photo Story of West Coast Longshoring: Louis Goldblatt To Live In Dignity: Pierce County Labor, 1883-1989: Pierce County Labor Centennial Committee (Tacoma) Fire In The Hole: Story in Words and Photos of Hardrock Miners. Jerry Dolph American Labor: A Pictorial Social History: M.B. Schnapper What Have Women Done? Photo Essay on Working Women: San Francisco Women's History Group Socialist and Labor Songs of the 1930s: Elizabeth Morgan Them: Labor Cartoons: Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki Bye! American: Labor Cartoons: Gary Huck and Mike Konopacki Workers And Allies: Women in the Labor Movement, 1824-1976: Judith O' Sullivan and Rosemary Gallick Talking Union: A Guide For Working Women: Edited by Joyce Maupin The Big Sweep: Justice For Janitors Organizing Committee The Loggers: Richard L. Williams What Sid Did and Homestead: Graphic stories> Bill Yund Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites: Kirkpatrick Sale Huelga! Farm Worker Novel. David Chandler The Hazards Of Work: How To Fight Them: Patrick Kinnersly The Working Longshoreman: Tacoma Waterfront Workers. Ronald E. Magden LABOR, BLACK WORKERS Black Workers and Organized Labor: Bracey Meier Rudwick Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers. Michael K. Honey The Union League Movement in the Deep South: Michael W. Fitzgerald Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and League of Revolutionary Black Workers: Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin Keeping The Faith: A. Philip Randolph, Milton P. Webster and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925-37: William H. Harris Indignant Heart: A Bl,ack Worker's Journal: Charles Denby AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES: LABOR Harp Song For A Radical: (Eugene Victor Debs): Marguerite Young Eugene V. Debs: Bernard J. Brommel. The Bending Cross: (Debs). Ray Ginger Eugene V, Debs: Making of an American Radical: Ray Ginger Ronnie Gilbert on Mother Jones: The Autobiography of Mother Jones Mother Jones: Elliott J. Gorn Heros of Unwriten Story: The UAW, 1934-39: Henry Kraus Max The Butcher: Max Block An Old Guy Who Feels Good: Worden McDonald Labor Radical: From the Wobblies to the CIO: Len De Caux The Fight In The Fields: Cesar Chavez: Susan Ferriss and Ricardo Sandoval Bread Upon The Waters: Rose Pesotta The Gentle General: Rose Pesotta, Anarchist and Labor Organizer: Elaine Leeder The Life of Thomas Skidmore: Amos Gilbert I Spent My Life In The Mines: Story of Juan Rojas, Bolivian Tin Miner: June Nash A Miner's Life: John Brophy AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES (MISCELLANEOUS) Rimbaud: (Arthur Rimbaud): Graham Robb The Long Loneliness: Dorothy Day My Life As A Radical Lawyer: William M. Kunster Friend and Lover: The Life of Louise Bryant: Virginia Gardner Rites Of Passage: A Memoir of the Sixies in Seattle: Walt Crowley I Change Worlds: Anna Louise Strong Done & Been: Oral histories of American Hobos: Gypsy Moon Romantic Revolutionary: (John Reed): Robert A. Rosenstone Passion Of Youth: Wilhelm Reich You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train: Howard Zinn The Nightmare Of Reason: (Franz Kafka): Ernst Pawel Tom Watson Agrariann Rebel: (and racist): C.Vann Woodward Prisons & Prisoners: The Stirring testimony of a Suffragette. Constance Lytton Pages From A Worker's Life: William Z. Foster Death Of A Rebal: (Phil Ochs). Marc Eliot The Story Of My Life: Clarence Darrow Olga: Olga Benario. Fernando Morais Blake: Prophet Against Empire: (William Blake). David V. Erdman The Kid From Hoboken: Bill Bailey The Damndest Radical: Life of Ben Reitman: Roger A. Bruns A Biographical Dictionary Of The Left: Francis X. Gannon Oklahoma Odyssey: A Memoir: (info on The Worker's Alliance). Eli Jaffe Fugitive Days: Bill Ayers The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes: Andrew Revkin Abbe Pierre and the Ragpickers of Emmaus: Boris Simon Underdogs Vs. Upperdogs: Autobiography of a Nonviolent Actionist: Jim Peck Run, Run, Run: The Lives of Abbie Hoffman: Jack Hoffman and Daniel Simon The Long Haul: Myles Horton INDIGEOUS STRUGGLES Women Of The Native Struggle; Ronnie Farley Wasi'chu: The Continuing Indian Wars: Bruce Johnson and Roberto Maestas In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's war on the American Indian Movement (both editions): Peter Matthiessen Indian Country: Peter Matthiessen The Trail of Leonard Peltier: Messages From Frank's Landing: Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way: Charles Wilkinson Treaties On Trial: Northwest Indian Fishing Rights: Fay G. Cohen Uncommon Controversy: Fishing Rights of The Muckleshoot, Puyallup and Nisqually Indians: AFSC Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America: Ward Churchill The Rights of Indians and Tribes: ACLU Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: Dee Brown Termination And Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960: Donald L. Fixico Basic Call To Consciousness: Edited by Akwesasne Notes The Second Long Walk: About Big Mountain. Jerry Kammer American Indian Activism: Alcatraz To The Longest Walk: Edited by Troy Johnson, Joane Nagel, and Duane Champagne. Black Hills, White Justice: Sioux Nation Verse the U.S., 1775 To The Present: Edward Lazarus Wounded Knee II: (the other side's view). Rolland Dewing One Nation Under The Gun: Inside the Mohawk Civil War: Rick Hornung Exiled In The Land Of The Free: Many different writers The New Resource Wars: Al Gedicks The State Of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance: Edited by M. Annette Jaimes Blood Of The Land: Government and Corporate War Against the First Nations: Rex Weyler Indian Rights-Human Rights: Handbook For Indians on International Human Rights Complaint Procedures: Indian Law Resource Center Keystone To Survival: 1980 Black Hills International Survival Gathering: Ghost Dancing The Law: The Wounded Knee Trials: John William Sayer Alcatraz! Alcatraz!: Indian Occupation of 1969-1971: Adam Fortunate Eagle Handbook Of American Indian Religious Freedom: Edited by Christopher Vecsey Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny: Jean-Marie Simon Dangerous Memories: Invasion and Resistance Since 1492 Native Americans: Illustraed History The GAIA ATLAS OF First Peoples: Julian Burger INDIGENOUS, TRIBES Between Sacred Mountains: The Navajos Land Of The Quinault: Edited by Pauline K. Capoeman. The People Called Apache: Thomas E. Mails Atlas Of The North American Indian: Carl Waldman Native America: Portrait of the People: Duane Champagne Song Of The Earth Spirit: (About the Navajos) Susanne Anderson Navajo: Portrait of a Nation: Photography by Joel Grimes Tarahumara: Where Night Is The Day Of The Moon: Bernard L. Fontana with Photos by John P. Schaefer Truth Of A Hopi: Edmund Nequatewa Hotevilla: Hopis Shrine of the Covenant: Thomas E. Mails and Dan Evehema Hollering Sun: Taos Naives. INDIGENOUS WRITINGS God is Red: Vine Deloria, Jr We Talk, You Listen: Vine Deloria, Jr Behind The Trail of Broken Treaties: Vine Deloria, Jr Custer Died for Your Sins: Vine Deloria, Jr >From A Native Son: Selected Essays on Indigenism, 1985-1995: Ward Churchill Acts Of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader: On The Justice Of Roosting Chickens: Ward Churchill A Little Matter Of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present: Ward Churchill Killing The White Man's Indian: Fergus M. Bordewich Endangered People: Art Davidson Like A Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee: Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior Colonialism On Trial: Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Sovereeignty Case: Don Monet and Skanu'u View From The Shore: Indian Perspectives on the Quincentenary: Edited by Jose Barreiro Savages: Amazonian Warriors Defend Their Land: Joe Kane INDIGENOUS CULTURE Totem Poles of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Edward Malin Raven's Village: Nancy Ruddell On The Edge Of Magic: Petroglyphs and Rock Paintings: Salvatore Mancini. Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch: Edited by Aldona Jonaitis Dine Bahane: Navajo Creation Story: Paul G. Zolbrod A Whale Hunt: Two years on the Olympia Peninsula with the Makah and their Canoe: Robert Sullivan Land of the Four Directions: Indian life today. Frederick J. Pratson Spirit Mountain: Yuman Story and Song: Edited by Leanne Hinton and Lucille J. Watahomigie Visions Of The North: Native Art of the Northwest Coast: Don and Debra McQuiston Haboo: Native Stories from Puget Sound People Of The Totem: The Gift of the Sacred Pipe: Based on Blacl Elk's Accounts. Vision Quest: Men, Women, and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation: Don Doll, S.J. Indians of the Northwest: Traditions, History, Legends and Life: Book Of The Hopi: Frank Waters The Red Road: The Wallam Olum: Daughters Of The Earth: Lives and Legends Of American Indian Women: Carolyn Niethammer Mentawai Shaman: Keeper Of The Rainforest: Photos and Journals By Charles Lindsay A Time Of Gathering: Native Heritage in Washington State: Many Photos and art. Robin K. Wright A Circle Of Nations: Native Writers and Photographers: John Gattuso Pacifica: Myth, Magic and Traditional Wisdom From The South Sea Island: Nadine Amadio, Photos by John Tristram Look To The Mountain Top: Contemporary Native Authors. The Indians' Book: INDIGENOUS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala: Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance: Leonard Peltier Coming Home: The Birth of Spirit in America's Gulag: Standing Deer Wilson Lasagna: The Man Behind The Mask: Ronald Cross & Helene Sevigny The Last Warrior: Peter MacDonald Lakota Woman: Mary Crow Dog Ohitika Woman: Mary Brave Bird I Am Tecumseh! Ruben Salaz-Marquez Lame Deer: Seeker Of Visions: John Fire/Lame Deer Crow Dog: Four Generations Of Sioux Medicine Men; Leonard Crow Dog Black Elk Speaks: Fools Crow: Thomas E. Mails Autobiography of Splitting The Sky: From Attica to Gustafsen Lake The Book of Elders: Life Stories and Photos: Told to Sandy Johnson Where White Men Fear To Tread: Autobiography of Russell Means: The Compassionate Rebel: Interview INDIGENOUS FICTION The Lon Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven: Sherman Alexie Indian Killer: Sherman Alexie CHICANOS Viva La Raza: The Struggle of the Mexican-American People: Elizabeth Sutherland Martinez and Enriqueta Longeaux y Vasquez The Making of a Chicano Militant: Jose Angel Gutierrez 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures: Edited by Elizabeth Martinez Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement: F. Arturo Rosales Chicano Manifesto: Armando B. Rendon Tijerina and the Courthouse Raid: Peter Nabokov Barrios and Borderlands: Cultures of Latinos and Latinas: Denis Lynn Daly Heyck Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border Patrol: Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Enrique Chagoya and Felicia Rice. BLACK HISTORY The Middle Passage Tom Feelings The Exiles of Florida: Joshua R. Giddings In The Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s: Clayborne Carson The Black Panther Party Reconsidered: Edited by Charles E. Jones Voices Of Freedom: Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950s through the 1980s: Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer 100 years of Lynchings: Ralph Ginzburg Black Protest: 1619 to the Present: Edited by Joanne Grant The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution: C.L.R. James Harlem Glory: Claude McKay Sammy Younng, Jr: James Forman Uprising: Crips and Bloods Tell the Story of America's Youth in the Crossfire: Yusuf Jah and Sister Shah'Keyah "Let It Burn": The Philadelphia Tragedy (MOVE): Michael Boyette and Randi Boyette Malcolm X: The FBI File: Clayborne Carson Racial Matters: The FBI'S Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972: Kenneth O 'Reilly A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt: Tom Wicker Lynch Street: The May 1970 Slayings at Jackson State College: Tim Spofford Panther: A Pictorial History of the Black Panthers and the Movie: Mario Van Peebles, Ula Y. Taylor and J. Tarika Lewis Life Every Voice and Sing: James Weldon Johnson. Illustrations by Elizabeth Catlett Harlem On My Mind, 1900-1968: Edited by Allon Schoener Everybody Says Freedom: A History of the Civil Rights Movement in Songs and Pictures: Pete Seeger & Rob Reiser He Had A Dream: Photos of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement: Flip Schulke Million Man March: Mostly Photos. Michael H. Cottman The Movement: Civil Rights Photos. Lorraine Hansberry Sing For Freedom: Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs: Edited by Guy and Candie Carawan A Separate Cimema: 50 Years of Black Cast Posters: John Kisch and Edward Mapp Freedom: Photographic History of the African American Struggle: Huge Book. >From Race Riot To Sit-in: 1919 and the 1960s: Arthur I. Waskow BLACK WRITERS The Wretched Of The Earth: Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks: Experiences of a Black Man in a White World: Frantz Fanon Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur: Edited by Jim Flecher, Tanaquil Jones and Sylvere Lotringer In Defense Of Mumia: Edited by S.E. Anderson and Tony Medina Black Power: Stokely Carmichael All Power To The People: Nuh Washington Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George L. Jackson Blood In My Eye: George L. Jackson To Die For The People: Selected Writings and Speeches: Huey P. Newton War Against The Panthers: A Study of Repression in America: Huey P. Newton The Black Panthers Speak: Edited by Philip S. Foner Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience: Mumia Abu-Jamal Live From Death Row: Mumia Abu-Jamal Black Power: Richard Wright On A Mission: Selected Poems and a History of The Last Poets: Abiodun Oyewole and Umar Bin Hassan A Hubert Harrison Reader: Blacklash: Anthology: Edited by Steward H. Benedict Soul On Ice: Eldridge Cleaver Writings: W.E.B. Du Bois The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel: David Bradley The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka Reader: Schooling The Generation in the Politics of Prison: Edited by Chinosole Lonely Crusade: Novel. Chester Himes Lessons From The Damned: Class Struggle in the Black Community: By The Damned High Tide of Black Resistance and other Political Writings: James Forman BLACK AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND BIOGRAPHIES Huey Newton and the Black Panther Party: Michael Newton Revolutionary Suicide: Huey P. Newton Seize The Time: Story of the Black Panther Part and Huey P. Newton: Bobby Seale A Taste Of Power: A Black Woman's Story: Elaine Brown This Side Of Glory: Autobiography Of David Hilliard and the Black Panther Party Monster: Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member: Sanyika Shakur Black Power, White Blood: The Life and Times of Johnny Spain: Lori Andrews Assata: An Autobiography: Assata Shakur The Making of Black Revolutionaries: James Forman Die Nigger Die! H. Rap Brown Angela Davis; An Autobiography The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave: Esteban Montejo A Time of Terror: A Survivor's Story:(lynching in 1930): James Cameron The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson: The Life and Philosophy of Malcolm X: Sande Smith Wounds Of Passion: A Writing Life: Bell Hooks PHILOSOPHY One Dimensional Man: Herbert Marcuse Eros And Civilization: Herbert Marcuse Reason and Revolution: Herbert Marcuse Critique of Judgement: Kant Quotations From Chairman Mao The Portable Nietzsche: Edited by Walter Kaufmann Leviathan: Thomas Hobbs Pedagogy Of The Oppressed: Paulo Freire In The Shadow of Hegel: Arkady Plotnitsky Selected Writings: Remy de Gourmont Black Ship To Hell: Brigid Brophy Reflections On and by Marshall McLuhan: Edited by Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart Society Of The Spectacle: Guy Debord The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution: Christopher Hill The Rebel: Albert Camus History and Utopia: E.M. Cioran Reflections On Violence: Gorges Sorel Resistance, Rebellion And Death: Albert Camus The Myth of Sisyphus: Albert Camus Selected Writings of Jean Genet The Revolution of Everyday Life: Raoul Vaneigem The Prosperous Few And The Restless Many: Noam Chomsky MARX AND ENGELS The Peasant War In Germany: Friedrich Engels Revolution in Spain: Marx and Engels Anti-Duhring: Engels The Civil Wa in the United States: Marx and Engels Theories of Surplus Value: Marx The Communist Manifesto: Marx and Engels Capital: Marx CULTURE Blues Keeping The Faith: Keith Shadwick The Jazz People of New Orleans: Lee Friedlander Running On Rims: Appalachian Profiles: Jock Lauterer Les Cadiens d'Asteur: Today's Cajuns: Philip Gould The Blues: A Book of Postcards: Stephen C. LaVere The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism: Richard J. Powell Songs Of Work and Protest: Edith Fowke and Joe Glazer Hootenanny: Songbook of Radical Camp Fire Songs The Cajuns: From Acadia to Louisiana: William Faulkner Rushton FICTION; RUSSIAN Collected Works: Vol. 2 and 3: Anton Chekhov Sketches From A Hunter's Album: Ivan Turgenev The Essential Turgenev Fathers And Sons: Ivan Turgenev Vigin Soil: Ivan Turgenev On The Eve: Ivan Turgenev Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol: Decadence: Maxim Gorky Mother: The Great Revolutionary Novel: Maxim Gorky A Prisoner Of Trotsky's: Andrew Kalpaschnikoff The House Of The Dead; Fyodor Dostoyevsky Letters From The Underworld: Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Brothers Karamazov 2: Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Possessed: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Career Of A Nihilist: Sergius Stepniak Russian Short Stories: Resurrection: Leo Tolstoy The Zhurbins: Vsevolod Kochetov FICTION, MISCELLANEOUS Adventures of a Young Man: John Dos Passos The Fountain At The Center Of The Earth: Robert Newman Cloudsplitter: Russell Banks One Day Of Life: Banned in El Salvador. Manlio Argueta L'Assommoir: Emile Zola Germinal: Emile Zola The Travelling Men: Eric Lane We Should Have Killed The King: J. G. Eccarius Tortilla Flat: John Steinbeck In Dubious Battle: John Steinbeck In The Heart Of The Valley of Love: Cynthia Kadohata Leap Year: Steve Erickson Burmese Days: George Orwell Brave New World: Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited: Aldous Huxley Island: Aldous Huxley Ape And Essence: Aldous Huxley The Monkey Wrench Gang: Edward Abbey Hayduke Lives! Edward Abbey The Fool's Progress: Edward Abbey Black Sun: Edward Abbey The Turquoise Dragon: David Rains Wallace The Dark Ship: Richard O. Boyer Parable Of The Sower: Octavia E. Butler The Edge Of The Storm: Agustin Yanez We: Eugene Zamiatin The Valley of the Moon: Jack London The Iron Heel: Jack London The Science Fiction Stories of Jack London Jack London/American Rebel: Collection of social writings Out of This Furnace: Novel of Immigrant Labor: Thomas Bell The Complete Stories and Parables: Franz Kafka The Trial: Franz Kafka The Castle: Franz Kafla The Metamorphosis and other Stories: Franz Kafka The Last Man: Mary Shelley The Mary Shelly Reader Frankenstein: Mary Shelley A Kamikaze In Her Eyes: Peter Plate The Confession Of Jack Straw: Simone Zelitch The Works Of Victor Hugo: Big Wheels Rolled In Texas: Walter and Elizabeth Rogers It Can't Happen Here: Sinclair Lewis Bloody Williamson: Paul M. Angle Les Guerilleres: Monique Wittig Disillusion: Story of the Labor Struggle in the Western Wood-Working Mills: Ben H. Cochrane and William Dean Coldiron Three Novels; The Soft Machine, Nova Express, The Wild Boys: William S. Burroughs Scrodinger's Cat Trilogy: Robert Anton Wilson The Illuminatus!: Robert Anton Wilson Masks Of The Illuminati: Robert Anton Wilson The Earth Will Shake: Robert Anton Wilson The Golden Book of Springfield: William Furry The Flivver King: Story of Ford-America: Upton Sinclair King Coal: Upton Sinclair Oil! Upton Sinclair The Millennium: Upton Sinclair The Jungle: Upton Sinclair The Cry For Justice: Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest: Edited by Upton Sinclair The Fall and Exile and the Kingdom: Albert Camus The People From Heaven: John Sanford Our Promised Land: Richard L. Neuberger Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead: Eric Bogosian Oil Notes: Rick Bass Sailor Song: Ken Kesey Naming the New World: Calvin Baker The Stonemason: Cormac McCarthy Alas, Babylon: Pat Frank Dream World: Kent Winslow Gathering Storm: Myra Page The Land Of Plenty: Robert Cantwell To The Bright And Shining Sun: James Lee Burke Facing Death; A Tale of the Coal Mines: G.A.Henty The Sharks: Jens Bjorneboe Strike! Mary Heaton Vorse The Stranger: Albert Camus The Plague: Albert Camus Tramps, Workmates and Revolutionaries: Working Class Stories of the 1920s: Edited by H. Gustav Klaus The Unclassed: George Gissing Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre: Erskine Caldwell Union Dues:. John Sayles The Terrible Twos: Ishmael Reed The Terrible Threes: Ishmarl Reed Seven Red Sundays: Ramon J. Sender Calf's Head & Union Tale: Labor Yards at Work and Play: Archie Green Metropolis: Thea Von Harbou Unconditional Freedom: William J. Murray The Conquerors: Andre Malraux Maya: D.N. Stuefloten Radical Utopias: Three Novels; Walk To The End Of The World: Suzy McKee Charnas. The Female Man: Joanna Russ. Triton: Samuel R. Delany Sir Boss: Ralph Bushnell Potts The Lathe of Heaven, The Dispossessed, & The Wind's Twelve Quarters: Ursula K. Le Cuin Looking Ahead: The Vision of Science Fiction Edited by Dick Allen and Lori Allen B. TRAVEN The Rebellion Of The Hanged; The Carreta: Macario: The Death Ship: The Cotton-Pickers: March To The Monteria: The White Rose: The Night Visitor and other Stories: General From The Jungle: Government; The Bridge In The Jungle To The Honorable Miss S.and Other Stories: Trozas: Assemblyline: The Man Who Was B. Traven: Will Wyatt THEATRE The Life Of The Theatre: Julian Beck The Diaries of Judith Malina 1947-1957 The Living Theatre: Art, Exile, and Outrage: John Tytell Selected Writings: Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs: Stephen Barber The Theatre and its Double: Antonin Artaud Antonin Astaud Anthology The Dramatic Concepts of Antonin Artaud: Eric Sellin Theatre Of The Oppressed: Augusto Boal The Theatre of Revolt: Modern drama from Ibsen to Genet: Robert Brustein The Radical Theatre Notebook: Arthur Sainer Theatre Trip: Michael Smith Theatre In Revolution: Russian Avant-Garde Stage Design, 1913-1935: Nancy Van Norman Baer PLAYS Jungle Of Cities and Other Plays: Bertolt Brecht Saint Joan Of The Stockyards: Bertolt Brecht Mother Couage and Her Children: Bertolt Brecht Galileo: Bertolt Brecht Baal, A Man's A Man, & The Elephant Calf: Bertolt Brecht Caligula and 3 Other Plays: Albert Camus Cold Chicago: A Haymarket Fable: Warren Leming Chehov Plays Ghosts and Other Plays: Ibsen Warrior For Gringostroika: Guillermo Gomez-Pena ART Flood! A Novel in Pictures: Eric Drooker The System Workers! Etchings by Hank Virgona Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America: Lucy R. Lippard J. G. Posada prints Goya: Painter of Terrible Splender: Jennine Baticle Committed To Print: Social and Political Thems in Recent Printed Art. The Graphic Work: M.C.Escher Modern Metropolis: Edited by Leslie Nolan Too Much Pressure: Catoond by Brick Maus: Art Spiegelman The Art Work of Rupert Garcia Art Of The South African Townships: Gavin Younge Art As Activist: Revolutionary Posters From Central and Eastern Europe The Art of Miles Davis Shouts From The Wall: Posters and photos from the Spanish Civil War: Cary Nelson The Power Of Feminist Art: Edited by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros: Lots of murals in it. Desmond Rochfort Art For The Masses (1911-1917): Artwork from Masses Magazine. Rebecca Zurier El Espiritu Latin Americano: Arte y Artistas en Los Estados Unidos, 1920-1970: Street Posters & Ballads: Eric Drooker War In The Neighbor: A Graphic Novel: Seth Tobocman You Don't Have To Fuck People Over: A Graphic Novel: Seth Tobocman Crosscurrents Of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers: Diego Rivera, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Matta, and Wifredo Lam: La Belle Captive: A Graphic Novel: Alain Robbe-Grillet and Rene Magritte The Idea and Story Without Words: Two Novels told in Woodcuts: Frans Masereel The Sun: A Novel in 53 Woddcuts: Frans Masereel Chicano Art: Resistance And Affirmation: Edited By Richard Griswold Del Castillo, Teresa McKenna and Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano BEAT Jack Kerouac Angelheaded Hipster;. Steve Turner The Dharma Bums: Jack Kerouac On The Road: Jack Kerouac The Beat Book: Poems and fiction from the Beat Generation. Edited by Anne Waldman MISCELLANEOUS Juntas United! World wide Juntas. Peter Chippindale and Ed Harriman The Conspiracy: John Hersey September Commando: Gestures of Futility and Frustration: John Yates Reality is what you can get away with: Robert Anton Wilson For Press Freedom: Reporters Without Borders: Willy Ronis Better Dead Than Red! Red-baiting. Michael Barson Breaking Hard Ground: Minnesota Farm Advocates: Dianna Hunter The Ultimate Sin: Animal testing Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: The Hunger Project Revolution: Faces Of Change: Edited by John Miller and Aaron Kenedi Resist Not Evil: Clarense S. Darrow Inside The Monster: Writings on the U.S. and American Imperialism: Jose Marti Notebooks 1942 - 1951: Albert Camus The History of Surrealism: Maurice Nadeau The Stupidest Things Ever Said By Politicians: Ross And Kathryn Petras Echoes Of Revolt: Articles and art from Masses Magazine Settlers: Mythology Of The White Proletariat: J. Sakai The Situationist City: Simon Sadler Where Feasts Come Rarely: A Viet Nam Photos Abum. Kerry Heubeck Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966: Edited by Barney Rosset Utopia: Utopian Writers, Painter, Poets and Architects: Ian Tod and Michael Wheeler Not For Rent: Conversations with Creative Activists in the U.K.: Stacy Wakefield and Crrrt Guide To Political Videos: Number 1 & 2 Eugene V. Debs Speaks The Collected Works of John Reed Prisoners At The Bar: Accounts of a number of important trials. Francis X.. Busch Mau Mau: Robert B. Edgerton Supership: Super Tankers. Noel Mostert The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime: Joel Dyer Salt Of The Earth: The Story of a Film: Herbert Biberman The Bitter Cry of the Children: John Spargo Putting Power In its Place: Create Community Control! Judith Plant and Christopher Plant Democracy In Small Groups: John Gastil Talkin' Socialism: Role of the Press in U.S. Radicalism, 1890-1912: Elliott Shore Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: James Agee and Walker Evans Debs and the Poets: Edited by Ruth Le Prade The Social Writings of Jack London American Trials: Edited by Edward W. Knappman Political Trials: Edited by Theodore L. Becker Let Justice Be Done: Crime and Politics in Early San Francisco: Kevin J. Mullen: Political Prisoners in America: Charles Goodell White Heat: People and Technology: Carroll Pursell Comrade And Lover: Rosa Luxemburg's Letters to Leo Jociches: Letters Of Insurgents: Sophia Machala and Varastan Vachek Mass Murderers In White Coats: Psychiatric Genocide in Nazi Germany and the U.S.: Lenny Lapon The Limits Of The City: Murray Bookchin Oil Booms: Social Change In Five Texas Towns: Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien Year 501: The Conquest Continues: Noam Chomsky Gray Air: Poems From Prison 1983-1999: Christopher Presfield Prison Literature in America: Edited By H. Bruce Franklin Brook Farm: Lindsay Swift Human Rights: A Directory of Resources: Edited; Thomas P. Fenton & Mary J. Heffron -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Thu Oct 21 19:21:00 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:21:00 -0700 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Skull vs. Bones -- two pampered children of wealth Message-ID: Below is an excellent article by Jeffrey St. Clair, co-editor of the online journal, Counterpunch, on the farcical nature of this year's presidential election. Two pampered children of wealth Skull vs. Bones October 22, 2004 | Pages 6 and 7 THE MAN who occupies the White House next January will be among the richest 1 percent of Americans, the pampered child of a wealthy family. He'll have lifelong connections to the political and corporate world. He'll be a graduate of exclusive Yale University, and proud member of the even more exclusive Skull and Bones, a bizarre secret society at Yale. Though he talks about bipartisanship, he's a veteran fixture of a two-party system that upholds the political status quo. We don't know whether George W. Bush or John Kerry will win on November 2--or if, for that matter, the election will be too close to call again and won't be decided until weeks later. But we know all this about the next occupant of the White House because these things are true of both Bush and Kerry. JEFFREY ST. CLAIR is coeditor with Alexander Cockburn of the muckraking newsletter CounterPunch, and the author of numerous books, including the essay collection Dime's Worth of Difference with Cockburn, and Been Brown So Long It Looks Like Green to Me. His recent articles for the CounterPunch Web site have revealed the sordid history of both major candidates. Here, St. Clair talks to Socialist Worker's ELIZABETH SCHULTE about the election between Skull and Bones. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - THE MEDIA is always saying that the source of George Bush's popularity is that he's the kind of guy that people want to hang out with--that he's "just a regular guy." Is that true? BUSH ISN'T a "regular guy." Come on, he's from one of the ruling elite families in the country. His mother's family goes back to President Franklin Pierce--one of the most despicable presidents, a racist who wanted to see a coup d'etat against Abraham Lincoln. On the other side, you've got his father--a former president, head of the CIA, a United Nations (UN) ambassador--and his grandfather, a former senator, a Wall Street lawyer-banker who was trading with Nazis. The Yale connection isn't just the grandfather and father. If you read Kitty Kelley's book, they go back to 1843. When they talk about old money, this is old money. Bush was the ne'er-do-well son, even more than Neil. Here's a kid who was blowing up frogs with firecrackers. They stick him in Andover, the prep school that his father was a star at--and George hangs a Confederate flag in his bedroom and engages in the illicit trade of alcohol and fake IDs. Justin Frank's book Bush on the Couch is very instructive. Frank shrinks him, literally as well as figuratively. He focuses on the relationship with Barbara Bush, who is this horrid Gorgon-like creature. When you hear stories about how she brought up her children--heavy into corporal punishment, verbal abuse and neglect. So it's not surprising that he turns to sadistic activities. Later, when he becomes head of his fraternity at Yale, the Dekes, he invents the new hazing ritual, which is branding the initiates on the tailbone. They heat up a wire clothes hanger until it's red hot, and they brand them. Abu Ghraib springs right out of the Bush imagination. It's no stretch. In the first debate, the question turns to his daughters, and he said that he wished that he could keep them on a leash. Maybe the instructions weren't coming from Rumsfeld. So maybe they were George's e-mails right to Lynndie England--get the leash out, start branding people. He's an elite, but he's kind of the black prince--the demented sadistic king. His business career is a failure, from beginning to end, and he's always been bailed out because of his father's political and financial connections. He wrecks his businesses, but makes out with millions of dollars. It's one thing to be unstable and be working class or middle class--then you're eventually going to have to pay the consequences. Bush has always been an exception, and with the American aristocracy, that's the way it is. Whether it's his National Guard tenure or any other thing, he's always been an exception. He's always had this force field around him that protects him from all the damage that he does. WHAT ABOUT the Bush family's oil connections? BUSH'S FATHER wanted to make his millions in the oil industry and never really did, except by bankrupting companies. Texas' heyday had sort of passed by the time the Bushes really got into it, but it's what he needed to do, because they weren't going to be conservative Nixon Republicans and get elected in Connecticut. So they took the Nixon Southern strategy to heart literally, and relocated to Texas and cast their lot with the oil industry. They've got deep connections, but the multinational oil companies are where the real connections are--not the Texas oil patch, even though that's the persona that Bush likes to put on. Their connections are with Exxon, Chevron--multinational companies who needed the political protection that George Bush Sr. provided them at the CIA, the UN, as vice president and president. George Jr. rode in the slipstream of that. He enjoyed all the perks, financial and political. It was an oil industry executive, for example, who pulled the strings that enabled him to get into the Texas Air National Guard. It was oil money that was behind the bailout of Harken, Spectrum drilling and every one of his other failed ventures. IN THE town hall presidential debate, Bush said that he was what you'd call "a good steward of the land." What did you make of that? THIS WAS one of those moments where you thought it was a gotcha moment for Kerry. Here it was--Bush had stepped right on the landmine. On no issue is the Bush administration more vulnerable--at least ideologically--than the environment. There's been a kind of refreshing honesty about their approach--which is that we're going to wreck it as fast as we can. Up until this moment, they had been fairly straightforward about the fact that they despised the environment. Here was the great opening for Kerry, where he could finally prove that there was a dime's worth of difference--that they didn't need to do any rhetorical contortions. What did he talk about? He talked about welfare reform, a balanced budget, cops on the streets. He couldn't go in for the kill. Bush has been repudiated by his own EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] director, who he had to fire. The ombudsman at the EPA and the director of air quality at the EPA have all resigned in protest. There's been a war on whistleblowers in the Department of Agriculture, which controls the forest service, the meat inspection regime. Across the board, it's a bloody record. It's stunning to me that Kerry couldn't bring himself to really take advantage of that. IN YOUR recent book, you explain that John Kerry has oil connections of his own. POLITICS IN this country is so shrink-wrapped. So on oil, there is one issue that everyone agrees they're going to fight on, and it's ANWR [the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]. Environmentalists don't want to drill in ANWR, and the Republican do. This has been playing out since 1982. Every year, they have a fake fight, because the oil companies really don't want to get into ANWR all that much. The environmentalists don't really push that hard for getting it turned into wilderness, because they all benefit from this. The environmentalists and the Democrats can raise a heck of a lot of money from liberals by saying that the Republicans want to drill in ANWR. The oil industry loves the fact that the environmentalists are totally obsessed with ANWR--and they can drill everywhere else, with very little opposition. That's exactly what happened during Bill Clinton's time. After he sealed the nomination, Kerry himself had this famous meeting with James Hoffa of the Teamsters. They emerge from this meeting, and Hoffa recounts for the press that Kerry has said that he's not going to open ANWR to drilling, but he's going to drill everywhere else like nowhere before. A couple months later, Kerry speaks before the American Gas Association and reiterated that. He wants to place more emphasis on natural gas than the Bush administration and the oil guys. He pledges more dependence on domestic sources--that's drilling along the Rocky Mountain front, that's coal bed methane production in Montana and Wyoming. That's new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore in Alaska...offshore of ANWR. Kerry's also into "clean coal" technology. What does that mean? The "clean coal" is the coal that they're getting out through mountaintop removal in West Virginia. It's destroying the state. They're decapitating mountains, burying rivers all through West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. That's Kerry's energy plan. KERRY CAN'T give a speech without talking about his distinguished war in Vietnam. How "distinguished" is that record? KERRY IS a war criminal. It's clear in his diaries and letters, and it's clear in his biography, written by Douglas Brinkley. He volunteered for the Swift Boat assignment. It was a dangerous assignment--Swift Boats had a 60 percent casualty rate. You were going to end up seeing action. That's what Kerry wanted. He had fetishized John F. Kennedy--he wanted his PT 109 experience because it would boost his political resume. Not like Al Gore. Gore understood that he had to go to Vietnam, but he didn't want to go kill people. So he went as an "army journalist," sat around Kamran Bay, smoked dope and played basketball. That was Al's tour of duty in Vietnam. Kerry could have done the same thing. There's no way that the admirals of the Navy wanted to have this scion of the rich and the son of a top diplomat blown away in the Mekong Delta. But he demanded it. So what were the Swift Boats doing in Vietnam? Most of the time, they were ferrying up Phoenix program assassins. The Phoenix program was the CIA's assassination and kidnapping program that ended up killing at least 40,000 South Vietnamese. Every day, Kerry would get in his Swift Boat, and he would ferry these CIA agents. Sometimes, they had Nung tribesmen with them who were paid by the kill. In each of those incidents where he won his medals, the evidence is clear that war crimes were committed. There's one particularly gruesome one where the CIA agent and the Nung tribesman go into a village where they think there were Vietcong. But the only people left in the village were women and old men. They grab an old man, and they force him to lead the way down this trail as a "human landmine detector." They go to another village where they think he can identify Vietcong. They get to the other village, and no one is there. So instead of taking this guy back, they slit his throat, gut him, pull out his intestines and attach a note to the body, saying, "This is what's going to happen to you." There were 24 kills attributed to Kerry. How many of those were Vietcong is unclear, but it's unlikely that very many of them were. They were in a free-fire zone--they could shoot with impunity anyone they wanted. When they weren't doing the Phoenix operation, they were supposed to be searching sampans--these little fishing boats that the Vietnamese used--for weapons and uniforms coming down from North Vietnam. In the four months that he was there--out there almost every day harassing fishermen--they never found one item of contraband. Not a gun, uniforms, nothing. So 24 kills, and no contraband. In one incident, they went up in one of these little canals, and they began opening fire on a village. They killed an old man walking his water buffalo back to the village. Then there's the Silver Star incident. They were seeing fire from a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG), and Kerry immediately turns the Swift Boat, attacks the position and rams the boat up onto the bank, with its machine guns blazing. Supposedly, this Vietcong youth rises up out of a foxhole and points an RPG at the Swift Boat--at which point, he's shot by the Swift Boat's 50-caliber machine gun, which is capable of knocking down trees. According to Kerry's version of events, after being shot, the guy gets up and runs off down the trail, carrying his RPG--at which point Kerry jumps up and chases him. According to the machine-gunners' version of events, Kerry shoots the guy, blows his legs off, and the guy is bleeding to death in his foxhole. Kerry jumps out of the boat with his M16 and shoots the guy in the head. That version makes much more sense in a lot of ways. That's a clear war crime--it's a coup de gras. And instead of it being a war crime, it turns into a Silver Star, which Kerry writes himself up for. He's serving in one of the most noxious, illegitimate operations in an illegitimate war. His actions there are daily war crimes, and he uses it. Here is where I think the Swift Boat veterans have a point--his purpose was to get his kills, his medals and get out. And that's what he did. Does he redeem himself by becoming a leader of the antiwar movement? Only to a certain point. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) had their Winter Soldier hearings in Michigan. It was where the vets were going to confess to their own war crimes, and the war crimes they had witnessed. They're very dramatic--much more moving than Kerry's performance before the Senate. One after another, they did--except for John Kerry, who refused to admit that he committed war crimes, knowing it would tarnish his image as a politician. Then he is invited alone to address the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Sen. William Fulbright. Alone--usually you have five or six people giving their testimonies. Why? Because he had become a media-created celebrity, and he was a liberal who was tied in--he'd known the Kennedy family since his youth. So he was tied into the liberal establishment. Another factor was that he attempted to suppress criticism of the Democrats by his own colleagues in the VVAW. There was huge demonstration the week of his testimony, and a co-director had gone to speak at a Common Cause rally and criticized the Democratic leadership of the House and Senate for signing on to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution--and, in particular, went after Sen. Fulbright. Kerry publicly denounced him for doing so. After he had his moment in the spotlight, Kerry turned around, denounced the entire VVAW for becoming too radical--for straying into other social and economic issues, such as the civil rights movement and economic justice movement. Basically, he took off his army jacket, cut his hair, put on a "JFK" monogrammed Oxford shirt and tie, and went to run for Congress. So his record in Vietnam is one of atrocities, and his record as an antiwar activist is one of moderation. THE ESCALATING disaster in Iraq is clear for the world to see, and everyone knows that the Bush administration lied to go to war on Iraq. So why is the presidential race between Bush and Kerry so close? WHAT ARE the differences between the two? All signs are that maybe the Bush administration is ready to pull out. I mean, Donald Rumsfeld was quoted last week saying that he thought that they could start pulling troops out by January. And Kerry is saying that we're in there for four years, that we're going to win this, that we're willing to flatten Falluja. This is sort of typical of him. He's going to manage this war more competently. How's he going to do it? Well, we need 40,000 more troops. Where's he going to get them? I have no idea. They're going to take the Iraqi police recruits. They can't train them in Iraq, they know that, so what is their plan? They're going to take them and train them in Jordan? In the Philippines? California? Are they going to take them to the School of Americas and train them? There's no difference between the two of them on Iraq. Here he is a veteran--which Kerry promotes ceaselessly--and he can't even speak to the anguish of these poor guys in the National Guard and Army reserves who are suffering under stop-loss orders. Thirty- and 40-year-olds who are being sent over to Iraq as cannon fodder. He has nothing to say to them. What do we hear again and again--I'm going to go out and kill the terrorists. Kill, kill, kill. Kerry's upping the ante. If you're against empire, what do you expect out of this election? You have Bush, who is undermining the empire daily from within, destroying the international alliances that have served as a kind of force field protecting the American empire. The U.S. can no longer stand behind its proxy warriors. It's had to operate unilaterally under Bush. I think that we are beginning to see the true face of American imperialism with much more clarity. And we're beginning to see not only the fracturing of alliances that helped propel the American imperial ambition, we're beginning to see new alliances form in order to retard it. I don't know that Kerry is this confident, but let's take him at his word. His goal is to rebuild these alliances and essentially secure the footing of the American imperial project. As leftists, you've got to be opposed to that fundamentally. NO MATTER how far to the right Kerry has run, much of the left has fallen in line behind him because they say that anybody is better than Bush. What has been the impact of this? IT'S A kind of political suicide. What kind of political strategy is it not to demand anything of your candidate when they need your help to get elected? Do you think they're going to listen to you after they're elected? The time to demand commitments from them is when they need your help to get elected, and they gave that up from the very beginning. Kerry started out as a DLC [Democratic Leadership Council] Democrat, and now he's just been allowed to go as far to the right as he wants. They talk about the November 3 coalition. We'll all come together, and we'll fight Kerry--we'll once again begin fighting the war. It's not that simple. Social movements take years to build up, and there was a lot of momentum a year and a half ago, with the antiwar movement, the economic justice movement, the environmental movement. The momentum these had a year and a half ago has been deflated by the Anybody but Bush virus. The war is going worse now than it has ever gone. More Iraqis and American troops are dying every day now than they did at the beginning of the war, and the antiwar movement is nowhere to be seen. It's despicable, it's amoral, and it's stupid. And you cannot rebuild it magically on November 3. It's a delusion -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: