Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Terror, nukes and Sibel Edmonds

I haven't much time to write, but I must pass along a couple of possibly-related items from Gary Buell's Covert History. Kill the Messenger, a new documentary about Sibel Edmonds, will shed some light on the revelations that the Bush administration has tried to muzzle. The official site, I should warn you, is a disaster area of poor design -- Edmonds' full name does not even rate a mention until you get to the small type.

But check out this paragraph from the promotional materials:
What she discovers is mind-boggling. The targets of FBI wiretaps are not only foreign individuals supected of espionage and terrorism in the U.S. but also their accomplices, that is...top officials at the State Department and at the Pentagon. These people are clearly engaged in criminal activities such as technological espionage, nuclear black market, heroin trafficking, money laundering, corruption of high-ranking officials, particularly in the U.S. Congress.
I remind readers that Bush's ally, Pakistan, still harbors and protects not just Osama Bin Laden but A.Q. Khan, the terrorists' favorite nuke-seller. Before 9/11, R.G. Abbas, a key agent of Pakistan's ISI -- that nation's CIA, closely tied to our CIA -- told an FBI informant that "those towers are coming down," indicating the Twin Towers. The ultra-important documentary 911: Press for Truth has much more information on the connections linking Pakistan, Al Qaeda, and the American neocon/intelligence networks.

An earlier Covert History post leads us to this remarkable story from the Canada Free Press site.
Urgent news from Abu Dawood, one of the newly appointed commanders of the al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan:

Final preparations have been made for the American Hiroshima, a major attack on the U. S. Muslims living in the United States should leave the country without further warning
(Emphasis added.) Buell voices all proper suspicions of this announcement. But the journalist responsible for the data is Hamid Mir, who has some major credits on his resume.
Mir's earlier reports regarding the resurgence of the Taliban with support from Iran and Russia and an unofficial truce (reported by some Western sources) between President Pervez Musharraf and al Qaeda have been panned out by the press in recent months.
Bush, who often comes thisclose to saying more than he ought, has pretty much confessed his foreknowledge of an imminent terror attack. (Scroll down for my post on the "time is running out" speech.) Meanwhile, the Navy is readying itself for a naval blockade of Iran.

As I've said before, a nuke going off in an American city will provide plenty of excuse for re-institution of the draft as well as an attack on Iran. The result will be World War III.

I find credible the assertion that a high-level network, including officials at the State Department and the Pentagon, have known about and abetted the acquisition of nukes by terror groups.

What can Democrats do? We need some pre-emptive action -- even pre-emptive rhetoric will do. The White House already pushes the line that anyone who criticizes Bush must be a ally of terror. Here's the counter-play:

BUSH CAN'T KEEP AMERICA SAFE.

BUSH LOST THE WAR ON TERROR.

Bush has engineered open borders. The administration refuses to secure our ports. This government has coddled Pakistan and Osama Bin Laden. The Bushites have hushed whistleblowers like Sibel Edmonds instead of encouraging them to speak.

Every Dem in the country should speak to these concerns, as loudly as possible, as soon as possible -- and they should do so before the next terror strike reconsolidates neocon power.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a niggling point in such an important post, Joseph, but if:

"Abbas... told an FBI informant that "those towers are coming down..."

Then there were explosives planted in the towers. No one, especially not bin Laden, anticipated that steel girders would soften and floors would pancake.

"Coming down" means exactly that. It doesn't mean "The towers will be seriously damaged."

As for the rest of it, if things are really as bad as all this, Sibel needs to speak out in spite of gag orders, even if it means going to prison

Anonymous said...

It should not be forgotten that the Bush administration has done three things to make the possibility of a nuclear detonation in the US a reality.

They shut down the only nuclear watchdog agency in America, run by the Dept of Energy, with Bush himself saying "we just don't need them anymore". They accounted for every gram of fissable material in the US and their work was not only professional to the extreme but they were called the greatest bargain in govt for their frugal efficiency and the quality of their work.

Valerie Plame we all know was the end of a covert operation that tracked nuclear and dual-use materials globally. No conspirator could move nuclear material into the US or anywhere else without the fear of discovery as long as that operation was active. Ms. Plame's outting resulted in the entire operation being compromised and effectively shut down.

Third, the removal of the UC board of Regents as the overseers of our nuclear arsenal. Their integrity would certainly prevent any mis-handling of warheads or the loss of any assets. Bush put his cronies and co-conspirators the Carlyle Group and Bechtel in charge of the nuclear arsenal.

The result of all this is that today, if he wanted to, Dick Cheney could take several warheads out of a production facillity and deliver them to any city, any group he chooses and no one would ever know. Four years ago this would have been impossible. It required these three manuevers to make it a possibility.

One has to ask why...

Joseph Cannon said...

This blog has had the good fortune of receiving quite a few perceptive posts, but these are particularly excellent. Uni, I think you are reaching wehn it comes to the "towers" comment, but you may be right about the need to speak even at the risk of prison. On the other hand, that's easy for US to say!

Anon, you remind us of some history that should not have been forgotten. Terrific work.

gary said...

I voiced all proper suspicions? I believe the word I used was "bullshit." I hope I'm right.

Anonymous said...

Going to back Sibel Edmonds -- her charges of high level corruption in the U.S. are not new. She's been saying as much from the beginning, but is prohibited by law from discussing the matter. There is a blanket gag order in effect.

It's a very curious situation -- and one fundamentally at odds with the free society we're supposed to be.

Will she *ever* get her day in court? Seems unlike. The Justice Dept. argues that hearing airing her charges poses a threat to National Security, and judges accept it.

Beyond that, she is highly credible, and a patriot in the true sense (devotion to an ideal, not a political party). Listen to one of her interviews, and you'll see what I mean.

Anonymous said...

I was alarmed when I read on a blog I respected that a nuclear drill/exercise was to be held in mid-August where I live on Oahu, Hawaii. What is more, the general who commands the Special Operations Command here at Camp Smith was commanding a Special Ops Task Force on Mindanao in the Philippines from 2000 to 2002, during a time period when the infamous alleged CIA op/Muslim rebel provocateur Michael Meiring blew off his legs when a bomb in his hotel room prematurely detonated. For anyone unfamiliar with the Michael Meiring story, I advise you to use search engines to educate yourself and/or go to the Rigorous Intuition blog at http://rigint.blogspot.com/.

The planned nuke exercise had me concerned that it would serve as cover for a false flag attack. I contacted a number of people I knew in the local government and the press to make them aware of a possible (although perhaps remote) threat. Who knows whether any of it made a bit of difference! Perhaps I am paranoid. But I leaned toward speaking up, just in case, and at the risk of possibly looking foolish.

I recommend everyone to keep alert to any military exercises or drills scheduled in your area, and also become aware of whatever military units with names like "Special Operations" that might connive with CIA or FBI black operatives who might be in your neighborhood.

If anyone would like to join me in questioning Gen. Fridovich, the SOC commander at Camp Smith, about his past associations (and the people under him), their telephone number is (808) 477-6180 and fax is (808) 477-0001. I advise to call from a pay phone or fax from a commercial faxing service if you want your identity protected in case of retaliation.

lukery said...

joe - thnx for this - i'm running a blog about sibel's film here

you can catch the truncated version of my interview with the director of the film here

i'll be dribbling out lots more in the next little while

Anonymous said...

From the Left..From the Right and From the Center.."the truth is marching on..

http://patriotsquestion911.com/#Berg

Thanks Joseph for your forum..some of the best and brightest are piercing the veil..thanks to your intense and sincere wrangling. True wranglers has always been one of the paramount charecteristics of the American spirit.
Here is some words by our beloved heroine regarding 911..
Sibel Edmonds – Former Language Translation Specialist, FBI. Witness before the 9/11 Commission.

Letter to 9/11 Commission: "I find your report seriously flawed in its failure to address serious intelligence issues that I am aware of, which have been confirmed, and which as a witness to the commission, I made you aware of. Thus, I must assume that other serious issues that I am not aware of were in the same manner omitted from your report. These omissions cast doubt on the validity of your report and therefore on its conclusions and recommendations." http://www.commondreams.org...
Email: sedmonds@nswbc.org


another heroine speaks..
Barbara Honegger – Senior Military Affairs Journalist at the Naval Postgraduate School, the Navy’s advanced science, technology and national security affairs university (1995 - present). White House Policy Analyst and Special Assistant to the Assistant to President Ronald Reagan (1981-83).

Essay: "The US military, not al Qaeda, had the sustained access weeks before 9/11 to also plant controlled demolition charges throughout the superstructures of WTC 1 and WTC2, and in WTC7, which brought down all three buildings on 9/11. ... A US military plane, not one piloted by al Qaeda, performed the highly skilled, high−speed 270−degree dive towards the Pentagon that Air Traffic Controllers on 9/11 were sure was a military plane as they watched it on their screens. Only a military aircraft, not a civilian plane flown by al Qaeda, would have given off the "Friendly" signal needed to disable the Pentagon’s anti−aircraft missile batteries as it approached the building. Only the US military, not al Qaeda, had the ability to break all of its Standard Operating Procedures to paralyze its own emergency response system." http://blog.lege.net/...

and anorther "heroine" p;laying on the A team..
Catherine Austin Fitts – Assistant Secretary of Housing under George H.W. Bush. Former Managing Director and Member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street investment bank, Dillon, Read & Co.

Audio Interview: Regarding 9/11 "The official story could not possibly have happened. … It’s not possible. It’s not operationally feasible. … The Commission was a whitewash." (Radio KPFA 9/9/04 About 45 minutes into the file.) http://157.22.130.4/...
Essay: "The first category of people who benefited were those who are guilty and complicit in designing, implementing and financing the 9-11 operation. On such a sophisticated and successful covert operation, the people responsible would have had budgets and financing and would have organized the operation to maximize their political and financial benefits." http://globalresearch.ca/...
Signatory: Petition requesting an immediate reinvestigation of 9/11 http://www.911truth.org/article ...
Bio: http://www.solari.com/about/ca_fitts.html

Here is a male member of thje A team..

SENIOR U.S. MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE SERVICE VETERANS

William Christison – Former National Intelligence Officer and Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis. 29-year CIA veteran.

Essay: "I now think there is persuasive evidence that the events of September did not unfold as the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission would have us believe. … An airliner almost certainly did not hit The Pentagon. … The North and South Towers of the World Trade Center almost certainly did not collapse and fall to earth because hijacked aircraft hit them." http://www.dissidentvoice.org...
Article: "David Griffin believes this all was totally an inside job - I've got to say I think that it was too," said Christison. … I have since decided that....at least some elements in this US government had contributed in some way or other to causing 9/11 to happen or at least allowing it to happen. … The reason that the two towers in New York actually collapsed and fell all the way to the ground was controlled explosions rather than just being hit by two airplanes. … All of the characteristics of these demolitions show that they almost had to have been controlled explosions." http://www.prisonplanet.com/...
Email: kathy.bill@christison-santafe.com, christison@counterpunch.org

Mohamed Hassanein Heikal – Former Foreign Minister of Egypt.

Article: Regarding 9/11 "Bin Laden does not have the capabilities for an operation of this magnitude. When I hear Bush talking about al-Qaida as if it was Nazi Germany or the communist party of the Soviet Union, I laugh because I know what is there. Bin Laden has been under surveillance for years: every telephone call was monitored and al-Qaida has been penetrated by American intelligence, Pakistani intelligence, Saudi intelligence, Egyptian intelligence. They could not have kept secret an operation that required such a degree of organisation and sophistication." http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Here is a compact list and comments of some of teh heavyweights in the United States that are forming the A team..finally! From now on, the forth of July fireworks will blister the sky with incindiary rockets of "Truth" and the consequent outcome of "Justice"

http://patriotsquestion911.com/#Berg

V still stand for victory