From: Hawkspirit Date: Tue May 14, 2002 9:36pm Subject: Cellular Phone Security Cracked New Digital Cellular Phone Security Cracked! No privacy on new systems either. Was NSA to blame? See NSA's Response Telecommunications Industry Association algorithm for digital telephones fails under simple cryptanalysis MINNEAPOLIS, MN. AND BERKELEY, CA., March 20, 1997 - Counterpane Systems and UC Berkeley jointly announced today that researchers have discovered a flaw in the privacy protection used in today's most advanced digital cellular phones. This discovery points to serious problems in the chosed-door process used to develop these privacy measuers. This announcement is a setback to the US cellular telephone industry, said Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Systems, a Minneapolis, MN consulting firm specializing in cryptography. The attack can be carried out in a few minutes on a conventional personal computer. Schneier and John Kelsey of Counterpane Systems, along with graduate student David Wagner of the University of California at Berkeley, plan to publish their analysis in a paper entitled "Cryptanalysis of the Cellular Message Encryption Algorithm (CMEA)." Legislators are scheduled to hold hearings today on Rep. Goodlatte's "SAFE" (Security And Freedom Through Encryption) bill, HR695. The problem affects numbers dialed on the key pad of a cellular handset, including any telephone, PIN, or credit cards numbers dialed. The system was supposed to protect the privacy of those dialed digits, but the encryption is weak enough that those digits are accessible to eavesdroppers with a digital scanner. The cryptographers blame the closed-door design process and excessive pressure from U.S. military interests for problems with the privacy standard. The cellular industry attempted to balance national security with consumer privacy concerns. In an attempt to eliminate recurring security problems, the cellular standards arm of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) privately designed this new framework for protecting cellular phones. The system uses encryption to prevent fraud, scramble voice communications, and protect users' privacy. These new protections are being deployed in today's digital cell phones, including CDMA, NAMPS, and TDMA. Not a new problem As early as 1992, others - including noted security expert Whitfield Diffie - pointed out fatal flaws in the new standard's voice privacy feature. The two flaws provide a crucial lesson for policy makers and consumers, the researchers said. These weaknesses are symptomatic of broad underlying problems in the design process, according to Wagner. Many have criticized the National Security Agency (the U.S. military intelligence agency in charge of electronically monitoring foreign powers) for insinuating itself into the design process, pressuring designers to cripple the security of the cellular encryption technique and hamstringing emerging cellular security technology. "The result is weaker protection for everybody," Kelsey said. "This is another illustration of how U.S. government efforts to control cryptography threaten the security and privacy of Americans," said David Banisar, attorney for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C. This is not the first report of security flaws in cellular telephony. Today, most cellular phone calls can be intercepted by anyone in the area listening to a scanner, as House Speaker Newt Gingrich learned this past January when someone with a scanner recorded one of his cellular calls. According to FCC estimates, the cellular telephony industry lost more that $400 million to fraud and security problems last year. CMEA Technology CMEA is a symmetric cipher, like the Digital Encryption Standard (DES). It uses a 64-bit key, but weaknesses in the algorithm reduce the key to an effective length of 24 or 32 bits, significantly shorter than even the weak keys the U.S. government allows for export. Greg Rose, program chair of the 1996 USENIX Security Symposium, put the results in context: "This break does not weaken the digital cellular fraud protections. And it's still true that digital cellular systems are much harder to casually eavesdrop on than analog phones. But it's clear from this break that a determined criminal with technical resources can intercept these systems." Counterpane Systems is a Minneapolis, MN-based consulting firm specializing in cryptography and computer security. Bruce Schneier is president of Counterpane and author of three books on cryptography and security. David Wagner is a founding member of the ISAAC computer security research group at UC Berkeley. In the Fall of 1995, the ISAAC group made headlines by revealing a major flaw in Netscape's web browser. The authors also hasten to thank Greg Rose for his advice. CONTACTS: Bruce SchneierRobert Sanders, PR Counterpane SystemsUniversity of California. Berkeley 612 823-1098 (voice)510-643-6998 (voice) 612 823-1590 (fax)510-643-7461 (fax) schneier@c... (email)rls@p... (email) David WagnerLori Sinton University of California, BerkeleyJump Start Communications 510-643-9435 (voice)415-938-2234 (voice) 510-642-5775 (fax)415-938-2237 (fax) daw@c... (email)lsinton@a... (email) More information is on my website: http://www.counterpane.com/ NSA's Response from Dorothy Denning NSA has released the following statement with regards to the news today about the cryptographers who found the flaw in the digital cellular code. "NSA had no role in the design or selection of the encryption algorithm chosen by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). NSA also had no role in the design or manufacture of the telephones themselves. As we understand the researchers' claim, it appears that the algorithm selected and the way it was implemented in the system has led to the stated flaws. NSA provided the TIA with technical advice on the exportability of these devices under U.S. export regulations and processes." Return to top 5374 From: Steve Uhrig Date: Wed May 15, 2002 1:28pm Subject: TV spot tomorrow on telephone theft of service Hi all, Tomorrow evening, Thursday May16th, at 11PM on Baltimore TV channel 11 (WBAL) there will be a taped segment airing where presumably a maintenance man accessed dozens of residential telephone lines in an apartment complex in Owings Mills, and ran up thousands of dollars in calls to 900 number psychic hotlines. The calls were charged to the various residents. I demonstrated, live for tape, how this was done. Nothing more than a penknife and a telephone needed. Interesting segment on security, or lack of, in telephone service at apartments. Anyone in the Baltimore coverage area is invited to watch it. Shouldn't be more than 3 minutes or so. Unfortunately I will be out of town and my house is too far from Baltimore to get their TV, so I won't even see it. Steve ******************************************************************* Steve Uhrig, SWS Security, Maryland (USA) Mfrs of electronic surveillance equip mailto:Steve@s... website http://www.swssec.com tel +1+410-879-4035, fax +1+410-836-1190 "In God we trust, all others we monitor" ******************************************************************* 5375 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Wed May 15, 2002 8:45pm Subject: Court deadline in 'spying' case http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1989000/1989027.stm Wednesday, 15 May, 2002, 12:29 GMT 13:29 UK Court deadline in 'spying' case BAe Systems is a leading defence equipment maker Prosecutors have been given until July to build their case against a man accused of offering top secret documents to the Russians. Ian Parr, from Rochford, Essex, is alleged to have offered documents to a man claiming to be from the Russian Embassy. The offences are said to have happened while Mr Parr was working for BAe Systems and Avionics based in Basildon, Essex. Mr Parr, who faces nine charges under the Official Secrets Act and one theft charge, was not at the Old Bailey hearing on Wednesday which was adjourned until July. 'Useful to enemy' The former soldier is accused of nine charges of obtaining information "prejudicial to the safety or interests of the state" between 1 January and 23 March of this year. Mr Parr, 45, is also accused of stealing a CD-Rom containing sensitive data relating to the Hostile Artillery Locator (Halo) project. The data could be "useful to an enemy contrary to Section 1 of the Official Secrets Act". The prosecution was given until 12 July to serve papers on the defence at Wednesday's hearing. Mr Parr, a father-of-two and former test co-ordinator for BAe, was arrested on 22 March in a joint operation involving police and the security services. The charges Mr Parr faces carry a maximum of 14 years in prison. BAe Systems and Avionics employs 1,300 people and is one of the UK's leading suppliers of civil and military electronic systems. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Bug Sweep, Spy Hunting, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. Atkinson Ph: (978) 381-9111 Granite Island GroupFax: 127 Eastern Avenue #291http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008mailto:jmatk@tscm.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...three shall be the number to count, and the number to be counted shall be three.....four shall thou not count......five is right out". - M. Python -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5376 From: Paolo Sfriso Date: Wed May 15, 2002 2:47am Subject: GSM Interception Dear Colleagues. Following is an interesting link on GSM interception: http://www.dia.unisa.it/ads.dir/corso-security/www/CORSO-9900/a5/Netsec/netsec.html Kind Regards. Paul Sfriso Director GRUPPO S.I.T. Security, Investigations & Technology Quarto d'Altino, Venice ITALY phone +39 0422 828517 fax +39 0422 823224 24hr GSM cellphone +39 335 5257308 www.grupposit.com paulsfriso@t... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 5377 From: HAMZA MUTLU ÞAHÝN Date: Wed May 15, 2002 3:00am Subject: lens dedection I would be very glad if anybody inform me about lens dedection theory & producst. with my best wishes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com 5378 From: Fernando Martins Date: Wed May 15, 2002 10:52am Subject: RE: Cell Phone Remote Update hi2all > -----Original Message----- > From: Hawkspirit [mailto:hawkspirit@e...] > Sent: quarta-feira, 15 de Maio de 2002 2:14 > To: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [TSCM-L] Cell Phone Remote Update > > > > One aspect of the deal with Ericsson and Red Hat will be > development of > software that allows gadgets to be updated by the company that sells > them--a big change from the PC practice of making people > responsible for > downloading and installing patches. Please ... Ask to linux users how many of them want that update without their explicit action ... For better success I advice Ericssion to make a partnership with Microsoft ... > believes it's "extremely likely" that such servers will run > Red Hat's Linux. Also it's "extremely likely" that other unsolucited things will happend ... FM 5379 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Wed May 15, 2002 8:46pm Subject: Court told spy apologetic after passing on document http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2002/05/15/FFXEVZ977UC.html Court told spy apologetic after passing on document CANBERRA, May 15 AAP|Published: Wednesday May 15, 6:35 PM A spy who gave a woman top-secret Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) documents broke down as he made his admission to a security chief, a court was told today. The former DIO employee, Simon Lappas, aged 27, also became depressed, smoked more and felt stupid for what he had done, one of his ex-colleagues said. Lappas first made the admission over lunch with his colleague in a crowded Defence Department cafeteria on a Friday afternoon in July 2000, the court was told. He confided about his troubled relationship with his fiancee before revealing he had done the wrong thing. "He said he'd given some information out," the former colleague told the ACT Supreme Court. Neither his name, nor the name of the security chief, can be released because they worked for the spy agency. "He said he gave some classified information out to a woman he'd recently met," the colleague said. "He said he'd given her a couple of reports." Lappas then emailed the security chief that afternoon and requested a meeting but the two did not end up finding each other. Lappas later phoned the officer at home on the Sunday to arrange to meet him to make a full admission that night. When the pair met at their workplace, Lappas broke down after saying he had troubles with his fiancee, the officer said. "He said: `I've taken three documents out - two of them are very sensitive'," the officer said. Lappas's colleague said Lappas apologised to various people in the office, including his bosses. The colleague said he then drove Lappas home to help him explain the situation to his father. He also said he noticed Lappas then starting smoking more, was always tired, more depressed, had a low self-esteem and felt stupid for what he had done. When asked if Lappas was embarrassed, the officer told the court: "I don't know about embarrassed, more sorry for what he had done". The trial, before Justice Malcolm Gray, is continuing. While Lappas admitted to passing on the photocopied documents to a woman, he pleaded not (not) guilty to supplying top-secret information to a foreign power with intent to prejudice the safety or defence of Australia. By Linda McSweeny -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Bug Sweep, Spy Hunting, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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The short version of the story is that I was able to trace the 'artits' (like, who they are, where they live, who are their friends, where they use to drink coffee after dinner, ...), and then, since I'm not a law agent nor a hero, I asked for help to some local and international entities (the right/obvious ones, and some others). I only had 2 replies, and both from the other side of the ocean. Both (kindly) said: "that is a local police problem, sorry but we can't help" (or something like that). At the time I had the feeling that nobody did care about it ... Or could not tell me so (wich I understand). The only measures I could adivice was, along with "please don't go for anything stupid", "after your dog, your hammer is your best friend ... Please change cell and cell provider, and just destroy the old phone(s)" Some mails ago, somebody warned about the risks regarding phone calls with eastern european accent ... Yeah, tell me about it ... FM > -----Original Message----- > From: Hawkspirit [mailto:hawkspirit@e...] > Sent: quarta-feira, 15 de Maio de 2002 2:33 > To: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [TSCM-L] Cell Phone Flaw > > > Cell phone flaw opens security hole > > By Sara Robinson > Interactive Week > September 18, 2000 4:01 AM PT > Your cell phone may be multilingual -- and that could be > detrimental to > your privacy. Computer security researchers said a design flaw in the > protocol used in global system for mobile communication cell > phones could > allow eavesdropping. The trick: Just make the cell phone think it's > somewhere else. > Only 6.5 million people in North America use global system for mobile > communications cell phones -- through providers such as Pacific Bell > Wireless and VoiceStream Wireless -- but worldwide, it's the > most widely > used standard, accounting for 65 percent of the total > wireless digital > market. GSM phones are increasingly popular in the United > States because > they allow roaming in Asia and Europe upon insertion of the > appropriate > smart card. > > Since Western Europe can't export encryption products to > certain countries, > such as targets of United Nations sanctions, the default > version of the GSM > protocol does not use encryption. This in itself isn't necessarily a > problem, said David Wagner, a professor of computer science at the > University of California-Berkeley, but GSM also does not > authenticate its > base stations, the hardware that communicates with the > handsets -- and that > is potentially troublesome. > Experts said it is possible to build a phony base station > that jams the > signal from the real base station and forces the cell phone > to connect to > it. The base station then tells the cell phone, in essence, > "You're in > Iraq, don't use encryption," and the call proceeds > unprotected with the > false base station relaying information between the real base > station and > the handset. > A handful of researchers have been aware of the loophole for > several years > now, but it's been "a well-kept secret," Wagner said. > Security experts call this a "man-in-the-middle" attack > because the phony > base station sits between the handset and the real base station, > intercepting their communications, but neither the real base > station nor > the handset knows it's there. > "We know about it as a technical issue, but we haven't seen it > demonstrated," said James Moran, fraud and security director > at the GSM > Association. He added that building an interception device > would require > considerable technical skill. Moran said the next GSM standard would > address the problem. > Other cell phone standards probably don't authenticate base stations > either, Wagner said, perhaps because their designers were > more concerned > with preventing handset cloning, which allows someone to bill > his or her > calls to someone else's number. But the phony-base-station trick is a > particular problem for GSM because different strengths of > encryption are > used in different places. > "Whenever you have to support both weak and strong > cryptography, one very > real risk is that you end up with 'least common denominator' > security," > Wagner said. > Cracking different pieces of the cryptography that protects > GSM cell phones > from eavesdropping has long been a favorite pastime for > computer security > researchers. Just last December, two Israeli researchers > announced that > they had found a fast method of cracking the A5/1 algorithm, > the strong > encryption used to protect GSM phone calls in Europe and the > United States. > But the phony-base-station strategy obviates the need for any > encryption > busting. > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > ---------------------~--> Tied to your PC? Cut Loose and Stay > connected with Yahoo! 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Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > 5381 From: Marcel Date: Wed May 15, 2002 9:24pm Subject: Bush Was Warned of Hijacking Plot Bush Was Warned of Hijacking Plot Wed May 15, 9:41 PM ET By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) - In the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush (news - web sites) was told by U.S. intelligence that Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s terrorist network might hijack American airplanes, prompting the administration to issue a private warning to federal agencies, the White House acknowledged Wednesday night. But officials said the president and U.S. intelligence did not know that suicide hijackers were plotting to use planes as missiles, as they did against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web sites). "There has been long-standing speculation, shared with the president, about the potential of hijackings in the traditional sense," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer (news - web sites) said. "We had general threats involving Osama bin Laden around the world and including in the United States." He said the administration, acting on the information received last summer, notified the "appropriate agencies" that hijackings "in the traditional sense" were possible. The warning was never made public, he said. The development, first reported by CBS News, comes as congressional investigators intensify their study of whether the government failed to adequately respond to warnings of a suicide hijackings before Sept. 11. It is the first direct link between Bush and intelligence gathered before Sept. 11 about the attacks. Fleischer would not discuss when or how the information was given to Bush, but a senior administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the president was made aware of the potential for hijackings of U.S. planes during one or more routine intelligence briefings last summer. The CIA (news - web sites) would not confirm what it told Bush, but the agency said the issue of bin Laden's attempting an airline hijacking was among a number of terrorist methods raised to U.S. government officials at the time. But there was no information that suggested hijackers would crash planes into American landmarks and there was no mention of a date, a CIA official said. The information was based on intelligence obtained by the U.S. government, the official said, without specifying. "I will tell you there was, of course, a general awareness of Osama bin Laden and threats around the world, including the United States; and if you recall, last summer we publicly alerted and gave a warning about potential threats on the Arabian peninsula," Fleischer said. But he said Bush had never been told about the potential for suicide hijackers steering the planes toward U.S targets. Still, acting on the information the government did have, the administration "notified the appropriate agencies. I think that's one of the reasons that we saw the people who committed the 9-11 attacks used box cutters and plastic knives to get around America's system of protecting against hijackers," he said. Fleischer said he did not know what agencies were notified or what they were told. The Associated Press reported earlier this month that FBI (news - web sites) headquarters did not act on a memo last July from its Arizona office warning there were a large number of Arabs seeking pilot, security and airport operations training at at least one U.S. flight school and which urged a check of all flight schools to identify more possible Middle Eastern students. A section of that classified memo also makes a passing reference to Osama bin Laden, speculating that al-Qaida and other such groups could organize such flight training, officials said. The officials said, however, that the memo offered no evidence bin Laden was behind the students that raised the concern. Sen. Bob Graham (news, bio, voting record), D-Fla., the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman, said through a spokesman Wednesday that the revelations in the memos marked an important discovery in Congress' investigation into why the FBI, CIA and other U.S. agencies failed to learn of and prevent the Sept. 11 plot. "It represents a failure to connect the dots," said Graham spokesman Paul Anderson. "This was dismissed rather lightly at FBI headquarters." The FBI also has faced tough questioning about whether it failed to act aggressively enough after arresting Zacarias Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Moroccan descent, in August after he raised concerns by seeking flight training at a Minnesota flight school. Moussaoui has emerged as the lone defendant charged in the aftermath of the attacks, which killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. He is charged with conspiring with bin Laden and the 19 suicide hijackers to attack Americans. FBI Director Robert Mueller repeatedly has said he wished the FBI had acted more aggressively in addressing the Arizona and Minnesota leads but said nothing the FBI possessed before Sept. 11 pointed to the multiple-airliner hijacking plot. -- "NEXTEL1 IT'S NOT JUST NEXTEL" Subscribe to Nextel1: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/NEXTEL1 "NEXTEL2 FOR iDEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS" Subscribe to Nextel2: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/NEXTEL2 "WIRELESS FORUM HOMELAND SECURITY GROUP" The Complete Resource for Wireless Homeland Security. Subscribe to WFHSG: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/WFHSG 5382 From: Marcel Date: Wed May 15, 2002 9:24pm Subject: ooks like the GA Gov & other owe Rep.Mckinney an apology. Looks like the GA Gov & other owe Rep.Mckinney an apology. Mckinney said weeks ago that Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks. ================================================================ Some of McKinney's opinions are so far out there that even fellow Democrats scratch their heads and wonder how to work with her. McKinney's most recent claim ­ that Bush administration officials may have ignored warnings of the Sept. 11 attacks and that their political allies have profited from the war on terrorism ­ drew rebukes in Washington but tapped into a surprising undercurrent in her home district. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020511/ap_on_go_co/mckinney_country_2 -- "NEXTEL1 IT'S NOT JUST NEXTEL" Subscribe to Nextel1: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/NEXTEL1 "NEXTEL2 FOR iDEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS" Subscribe to Nextel2: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/NEXTEL2 "WIRELESS FORUM HOMELAND SECURITY GROUP" The Complete Resource for Wireless Homeland Security. Subscribe to WFHSG: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/WFHSG [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 5383 From: Aimee Farr Date: Wed May 15, 2002 11:00pm Subject: Skeleton effect ("they knew about it" phenomena) THE SKELETON EFFECT (as in closets, rattling or walking) Every surprise attack produces indicators seen in hindsight. In the context of people's evoked sets post event, stale information will be seen to have greater relevance than it might otherwise warrant. And, it's always the "troops" that see the indicators, and they get lost in bureaucratic channels. Happens every time. Whatever the gravity of the perceived mistake, the "skeleton effect" will accentuate it. I don't know that 9-11 was a "fundamental" surprise. (That would be like Spain attacking Finland tomorrow.) Of relevance to government and private clients? I would think so. Anything that resembles a "snapshot" has the attributes of iconicity ("it is") and indexicality ("it was"). ~Aimee 5384 From: Hawkspirit Date: Thu May 16, 2002 0:13am Subject: Cell Phone Crypto Penetrated Cell Phone Crypto Penetrated by Declan McCullagh 10:55 a.m. Dec. 6, 1999 PST Israeli researchers have discovered design flaws that allow the descrambling of supposedly private conversations carried by hundreds of millions of wireless phones. Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir describe in a paper to be published this week how a PC with 128 MB RAM and large hard drives can penetrate the security of a phone call or data transmission in less than one second. The flawed algorithm appears in digital GSM phones made by companies such as Motorola, Ericsson, and Siemens, and used by well over 100 million customers in Europe and the United States. Recent estimates say there are over 230 million users worldwide who account for 65 percent of the digital wireless market. Although the paper describes how the GSM scrambling algorithm can be deciphered if a call is intercepted, plucking a transmission from the air is not yet practical for individuals to do. James Moran, the fraud and security director of the GSM Association in Dublin, says that "nowhere in the world has it been demonstrated --an ability to intercept a call on the GSM network. That's a fact.... To our knowledge there's no hardware capable of intercepting." The GSM Association, an industry group, Date: Thu May 16, 2002 0:32am Subject: Cell-Phone Security Cell-Phone Security Far From Airtight by Annaliza Savage 9:59am 13.Apr.98.PDT A group of California-based computer experts claims to have compromised the cryptographic security behind the world's most popular digital cell-phone system, making it possible to clone any phone using the GSM standard. The Smartcard Developer Association says it cracked the algorithm used as the basis for the The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) -- a digital cellular phone system that is used in about 80 million cell phones, primarily in Europe and Asia. Many US networks are starting to implement GSM standards, too, and this attack was launched against a card issued by Pacific Bell. If the group's claims are true, it could lead to a recall or reissue of the smart cards used in GSM-based phones. "GSM is likely to face fraud problems of the same magnitude as analog systems have had," said Marc Briceno, a member of the SDA who said that analog systems have lost billions of dollars because of cellular phone cloning. GSM-based cell phones work with a small card containing an electronic chip called a Subscriber Identity Module card. The SIM card inserts into the back of the cellular phone and contains information that is used to identify subscribers and their account information to the GSM network. The SIM card must be inserted into a GSM Mobile handset to obtain access to the network, and one of the primary benefits of the technology is that cell phones have access to GSM networks worldwide. However, to clone a SIM card, a would-be cracker would have to have physical possession of one. Unlike the cloning used in analog systems, the crack does not yet include being able to listen in on peoples phone calls or obtain a SIM ID via the airwaves, although the SDA has stated that an "over-the-air attack should not be ruled out." The SIM uses encryption to keep the identity of the phone secret, and the encryption algorithm used on most of the GSM network is called COMP128. The SDA was able to obtain the secret ciphers used by the GSM network. After verifying authenticity, the group turned them over to UC Berkeley researchers David Wagner and Ian Goldberg, who were able to crack the COMP128 algorithm within a day. In 1995, Wagner and Goldberg succeeded in another high-profile hack when they compromised the crypto code used in Netscape's Navigator browser, which was supposed to secure credit-card transactions. "Within hours they discovered a fatal flaw," said Briceno. "The attack that we have done is based on sending a large number of challenges to the authorization module in the phone. The key can be deduced and recovered in about 10 hours." A group of hackers gathered with security and crypto experts Friday evening at a San Francisco hacker club called New Hack City, for a demonstration of the hack, but it never came off. Eric Hughes, a member of the SDA and founder of the Cypherpunks cryptography group, discussed the technical aspects of the hack, but had to give up the planned demonstration after threats of legal action from Pac Bell and other telephone company executives. It is illegal in the United States to possess cellular phone cloning equipment, although legitimate businesses are exempted. The telephone companies dispute SDA's claims to legitimacy. Wagner blames the ease of the crack on the secrecy with which the ciphers were kept. "There is no way that we would have been able to break the cryptography so quickly if the design had been subjected to public scrutiny," said Wagner. The GSM standard was developed and designed by the European Telecommunications Standard Institute, an organization that has about 500 members from 33 countries, representing administrations, network operators, manufacturers, service providers, and users. "There's going to be an orgy of finger pointing," said Hughes, referring to all the engineers and other people associated with the design of the GSM network. The SDA say that they were able to crack the GSM network algorithm due to weak encryption in the original design. When the system was being designed, several European government agencies were successful in their demands to weaken encryption standards for government surveillance purposes. The SDA also claimed that the GSM security cipher that keeps eavesdroppers from listening to a conversation called A5 was also made deliberately weaker. The A5 cipher uses a 64-bit key, but only 54 of the bits are actually in use -- 10 of the bits have been replaced with zeroes. The SDA's Briceno blames government interference. "The only party who has an interest in weakening voice privacy is the National Security Agency," he said. The SDA said that a proper demo will be taking place soon from somewhere outside the United States. The group has also released the source code for COMP128 and A5 for further testing. 5386 From: Steve McAlexander Date: Thu May 16, 2002 0:25am Subject: FW: http://www.paknews.com/headingNews.php?id=1106&date1=2002-05-06 Anyone see this or miss this? _____ Top News Main News News Flash Home News City News Business Sports News Articles Editorials Letters Authors My PNSSupport PNS Matrimonial Ranks PakWood Urdu NewsWeb Radio Message Board Internet Services FRONT PAGE Support PakNews Register/ MY PNS Referendum 2002 Islam FAQ Daniel Pearl Basant Festival Slogan Pakistan Musharraf in USA Urdu Service Web Radio Entertainment Internet Services Message Board Matrimonial Rank Ur Site Syndicate News Ticker PNS Mobile Newsletters Archives Payment Advertise Donate History Columnists Contact us Feedback News Alert Event Calendar May 2002 < May > SMTWTFS 1234 567891011 121314151617 18 19202122232425 262728293031 < May > _____ _____ Community Alert About Us Picture Archives Exclusive Books Pakistan Kashmir Calendar Classified e-Cards Free E-Mail FAQ Featured Links Heritage Tours & Travel Subscribe Top News Main News News Flash Kashmir News Business Sports Articles Letters India War Threat Afghanistan Global News Review _____ PakWood Current Affairs PNS In-depth PNS Studios Pakistan on Video Song of the Week PNS Wire _____ Most Discussed Most Emailed Most Printed Most Visited Register .pk Domain Featured Vendors Currency Exchange Awards Weather Deals Lower Graphics E-MAIL: Subscription Services Subscribe to PNS News Letter. Enter your address: DISCUSSION: Message board Chat Feedback PNS Bazar PNS Bazar (c) Copyright & Legal Info Site Designed and Maintained by PakCyber.Com Operation Snipe aimed at to rescue 76 US hostages Updated on 2002-05-06 11:05:12 Send this Article to your friend Printer-Friendly Version!!! Post your Comments Most Popular ISLAMABAD, May 06 (PNS): Local News wire service "Online" claims that more than 2000 British-led Special Commando forces, joined by the US and Canadian troops, under "Operation Snipe" are gearing up efforts to launch a major attack to rescue around 76 soldiers who were arrested by the Taliban and Al Qaida forces during the battle in the snow covered Arma Peaks of Paktia Province in March this year. Both Diplomatic and Afghan sources have said, "the majority of the soldiers are of American nationality but there are some Canadian troops also". US believe that the Taliban forces are keeping them in hide in the south eastern part of Afghanistan. Earlier reports had suggested that 18 allied soldiers were taken hostage by the Taliban forces during severest clashes which took place during March at Shah-e-Kot in Gardez where the fighting came to an end only when 400 US-led Allied troops had to withdraw in order to provide safe passage to the Al Qaida and Taliban forces to ensure the safety of US soldiers arrested by the opposition forces. Afghan sources said that the US led forces had agreed to withdraw yielding to the three conditions forwarded by the Taliban forces. One that the all US-led forces will withdraw with no aerial attacks to ensure safe passage to all Taliban forces and that all more than 350 Taliban and pro-Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamu Bay in Cuba will be set free. While United States did not act on releasing the Afghan and non-Afghans alleged to have links with Al Qaida, it did provide a safe passage. So far the fate of the 76 US soldiers is not known despite all efforts to trace them through satellite, diplomatic sources added. These sources said during the Operation Snipe each and every area in the tribal belt will be combed where aerial military strike could not be ruled out. But Pakistan has ruled this out in categorical terms. Foreign Office Spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan said "no question" of military air strikes in the tribal areas. "Neither US has asked nor we have given any such permission, it is out of question," he said while talking PNS. President General Pervez Musharraf Saturday ruled out any possibility of Al Qaida regrouping in Pakistan believing that alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was still in Afghanistan but might be dead already. The Pakistani and WE forces have charged the political situation in the tribal areas particularly in North Waziristan on religious institutions in pursuit of Taliban and Al Qaida members. Though United States has admitted very less casualties during her seven-month war against terrorism since October 7, 2001 but it is estimated that it has suffered around 400 casualties in Afghanistan and many dead bodies of the soldiers are lying on the US combat ships in the Arabian Sea. Afghan sources maintained that on October 20, 2001 during a night commando operation in Kandahar, US had suffered more than 90 casualties. Later, Al Qaida and Taliban have caused more than 50 casualties at Tahktapul, which lies between Kandahar and Spin Boldak. In March this year, during bloodiest battle at Shahi-e-Kot of Paktia Province, the Taliban forces claimed to have destroyed 13 military helicopters and killed 180 US soldiers. End. 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Operation Snipe aimed at to rescue 76 US hostages Maybe this coincides with the camp x-ray hotel upgrades in accomodations? http://www.paknews.com/PrintPage.php?id=1106&date1=2002-05-06&news2=head ingNews ISLAMABAD, May 06 (PNS): Local News wire service "Online" claims that more than 2000 British-led Special Commando forces, joined by the US and Canadian troops, under "Operation Snipe" are gearing up efforts to launch a major attack to rescue around 76 soldiers who were arrested by the Taliban and Al Qaida forces during the battle in the snow covered Arma Peaks of Paktia Province in March this year. Both Diplomatic and Afghan sources have said, "the majority of the soldiers are of American nationality but there are some Canadian troops also". US believe that the Taliban forces are keeping them in hide in the south eastern part of Afghanistan. Earlier reports had suggested that 18 allied soldiers were taken hostage by the Taliban forces during severest clashes which took place during March at Shah-e-Kot in Gardez where the fighting came to an end only when 400 US-led Allied troops had to withdraw in order to provide safe passage to the Al Qaida and Taliban forces to ensure the safety of US soldiers arrested by the opposition forces. Afghan sources said that the US led forces had agreed to withdraw yielding to the three conditions forwarded by the Taliban forces. One that the all US-led forces will withdraw with no aerial attacks to ensure safe passage to all Taliban forces and that all more than 350 Taliban and pro-Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamu Bay in Cuba will be set free. While United States did not act on releasing the Afghan and non-Afghans alleged to have links with Al Qaida, it did provide a safe passage. So far the fate of the 76 US soldiers is not known despite all efforts to trace them through satellite, diplomatic sources added. These sources said during the Operation Snipe each and every area in the tribal belt will be combed where aerial military strike could not be ruled out. But Pakistan has ruled this out in categorical terms. Foreign Office Spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan said "no question" of military air strikes in the tribal areas. "Neither US has asked nor we have given any such permission, it is out of question," he said while talking PNS. President General Pervez Musharraf Saturday ruled out any possibility of Al Qaida regrouping in Pakistan believing that alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was still in Afghanistan but might be dead already. The Pakistani and WE forces have charged the political situation in the tribal areas particularly in North Waziristan on religious institutions in pursuit of Taliban and Al Qaida members. Though United States has admitted very less casualties during her seven-month war against terrorism since October 7, 2001 but it is estimated that it has suffered around 400 casualties in Afghanistan and many dead bodies of the soldiers are lying on the US combat ships in the Arabian Sea. Afghan sources maintained that on October 20, 2001 during a night commando operation in Kandahar, US had suffered more than 90 casualties. Later, Al Qaida and Taliban have caused more than 50 casualties at Tahktapul, which lies between Kandahar and Spin Boldak. In March this year, during bloodiest battle at Shahi-e-Kot of Paktia Province, the Taliban forces claimed to have destroyed 13 military helicopters and killed 180 US soldiers. End. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 5388 From: Paolo Sfriso Date: Thu May 16, 2002 1:57am Subject: Thermal Imaging and TSCM Dear Colleagues. Has anybody had experience with the "Hughes Probeye" for TSCM Thermal Imaging applications ? In your opinion is this piece of equipment suitable for TSCM Thermal Imaging ? Any further comments on this TSCM technique and suitable instrumentation would be greatly appreciated. Kind Regards. Paul Sfriso Director GRUPPO S.I.T. Security, Investigations & Technology Quarto d'Altino, Venice ITALY phone +39 0422 828517 fax +39 0422 823224 24hr GSM cellphone +39 335 5257308 www.grupposit.com paulsfriso@t... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 5389 From: George Shaw Date: Thu May 16, 2002 3:30am Subject: RE: Cell Phone Crypto Penetrated """James Moran, the fraud and security director of the GSM Association in Dublin, says that "nowhere in the world has it been demonstrated --an ability to intercept a call on the GSM network. That's a fact.... To our knowledge there's no hardware capable of intercepting.""" Not true there is hardware available to do this, its costly but exists. The reason they make this statement is to cover the holes in the system and protect share prices. -----Original Message----- From: Hawkspirit [mailto:hawkspirit@e...] Sent: 16 May 2002 06:13 To: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com Subject: [TSCM-L] Cell Phone Crypto Penetrated Cell Phone Crypto Penetrated by Declan McCullagh 10:55 a.m. Dec. 6, 1999 PST Israeli researchers have discovered design flaws that allow the descrambling of supposedly private conversations carried by hundreds of millions of wireless phones. Alex Biryukov and Adi Shamir describe in a paper to be published this week how a PC with 128 MB RAM and large hard drives can penetrate the security of a phone call or data transmission in less than one second. The flawed algorithm appears in digital GSM phones made by companies such as Motorola, Ericsson, and Siemens, and used by well over 100 million customers in Europe and the United States. Recent estimates say there are over 230 million users worldwide who account for 65 percent of the digital wireless market. >>>>>>>>>>CUT>>>>>>>>>>>>> 5390 From: Hawkspirit Date: Thu May 16, 2002 7:41am Subject: Internet Surveillance Patent Watch: AT&T is listening by Eric Schneider Who's listening to your internet phone call? AT&T Corp. has received a patent for the monitoring and surveillance of internet telephone voice calls. The patent was one of 56 issued to New York City area inventors and organizations this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. 6,389,474 Method and apparatus for accessing a shared channel in a wireless network using a time slot allocation technique based on detecting the usage of the channel during a Assignee: AT&T Corp.|AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. (New York|Redmond, NY |WA) Issue Date: 05/14/2002 Filing Date: 09/04/1998 Class: 709/232 Legal: Kenyon & Kenyon Abstract: A method and an apparatus provide for controlled access to a shared communication medium. Time slots on a forward channel include information regarding status useful for remote units to determine whether a reverse channel is available for seizure. Additionally, information along the forward channel provides guidance to the remote units to control attempts to seize the reverse channel. In one embodiment a remote unit divides a data package into a plurality of portions and attempts to seize the reverse channel using a single portion of the data package which corresponds to one time slot on the reverse channel. It then waits until it receives notification along the forward channel that the first data portion was successfully received before it attempts to send any of the remainder of its data in consecutive time slots on the reverse channel. 5391 From: Matthew Paulsen Date: Thu May 16, 2002 1:41pm Subject: a PDX wifi project For those that are interested. http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/FrontPage http://maps.personaltelco.net/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 5392 From: Fernando Martins Date: Thu May 16, 2002 0:16pm Subject: RE: Internet Surveillance > Who's listening to your internet phone call? Let me see ... the british, the americans, the canadians, the russians, the arabs, the israelits, the brazilians, the spanish, my wife ... Ops, no, not those ones :> FM 5393 From: Bergstrom, Dennis Date: Fri May 17, 2002 4:13am Subject: Intro and question about "Electronic harassment" Hi everybody, My name is Dennis Bergstrom and I live in Stockholm, Sweden. I work as an IT Security Consultant (doing pen-testing of systems, security audits, forensics etc.) and frankly I am not really sure how I ended up on this mailinglist concerning survellance. But I am not complaining, on the contrary, reading the posts have been quite interesting for me. It is not entirely within my own area of specialisation though , but maybe I can contribute to this list if and when surveillance of computersystems questions comes up. That's the intro. Now my question... This may sound stupid to you guys (since my area of knowledge is elsewhere - as stated above! - the question may be basic to you) but I would like to know if someone could explain the phrase "electronic harassment"? Best Regards, Dennis Bergstrom That guy in Sweden. This message contains information that may be privileged or confidential and is the property of the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group. It is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy, disseminate, distribute, or use this message or any part thereof. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete all copies of this message. 5394 From: alcook309 Date: Fri May 17, 2002 5:49am Subject: Optical and Opto-Electronic Camera Detection After searching fruitfully for information, I have drawn a blank. The information in question is about two devices that can apparantly detect any cameras (from pinhole to standard photographic) or optics (Binos, scopes etc), whether passive or active, thermal or just lens based, up to 300 mtrs away. These are the Myth-300 and Mirage-1200. I have seome tech sheets that give nothing away. Does anyone have information on whether these are genuine surveillance devices that actually work? Or just flights of fancy that remove several hundreds (or thousands) of Dollars from your pocket? Whilst not detecting a thing. I have no manufacturer details yet, just the model names. Appreciate the help. Alan Cook. 5395 From: Aimee Farr Date: Fri May 17, 2002 10:42am Subject: Washington Post: FUROR ALERT http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30219-2002May16.html?referer= email Bush Aides Seek To Contain Furor Sept. 11 Not Envisioned, Rice Says But Rice said Bush was not told, and U.S. intelligence analysts never envisioned, that terrorists would use jetliners in the type of suicide attacks carried out in New York and Washington on Sept. 11. Rice and other administration officials said that the threat was not specific enough to warrant a public warning, but that the Federal Aviation Administration urged the airlines to be cautious. Shelby called the Phoenix memo "an explosive document" that, when combined with information from the Moussaoui case, amounts to a "botched opportunity" to stop terrorism. "The FBI didn't serve the country well," said Shelby. "They were either asleep or inept." ----- The wording over strategic warnings is probably the most common complaint. I believe this was more of a transmittal of passive information in a briefing to the President (few conclusions, few orders). Technical surprise: the possibility was known, but the way in which it was used and the impact came as a surprise. (Sound familiar?) ....SUUUUURPISE! 1. Not consistent with expectations and assumptions 2. failure of advance warning 3. failure to take countermeasures MORALS? o A tactical indicator is more important than a strategic assumption. The tendency is for analysts/decision-makers to ignore/distort tactical indicators when they conflict with strategic assumptions (preconceptions). o A threat perception of a possible technical surprise is not "speculation" in the usual sense. (Technical people are prone to over-focus on technical surprise speculation.) o In a general warning, people will interpret familiar in terms of most-probable occurrences, which are also usually the least stressful. o The inconvenience factor is a sizable barrier for decision-makers. o Incremental analysis can hurt you, because you become acclimated to the picture too early, and are unable to see the importance of significant developments and indicators. o The biases impacting the prediction of low-probability/high-impact events is affected by the availability/imaginability bias. If it's easy to imagine, we over-rate the possibility. If it's hard to imagine (no recall of precursors, no imagination sensitivity) we tend to under-rate it. o See generally: Pearl Harbor, BARBAROSSA, Chinese intervention in Korean War, Chinese attack on Indian in 1962, Arab attack on Israel 1973....and for some of you -- your business. ---- Our past experiences with surprise attacks carrying HEAVY military indicators -- not encouraging. Due to the nature of terrorists, it's actually encouraging that we picked up any at all. I know it is hard to see this in light of events, the current focus on the mishandling of information, and the state of intelligence. Our causal biases force people to look for "THE REASON" and "THE PATTERN." They work heavily in the favor of people attacking the President, a decision-maker for which there is the highest signal competition. Our orientation is 10X more front-loaded than it was before, and the CYA-fed ambiguity is more conducive to surprise. We're probably experiencing a post-surprise information crash and we can't get out of it. I wish D.C. decision-makers would do something so as to save lives. I just had to rant....you were close, and "surprises" are topical. ~Aimee 5396 From: Aimee Farr Date: Fri May 17, 2002 0:19pm Subject: RE: Washington Post: FUROR ALERT Whew....blowback offlist. I support learning from any errors, but with a future-focus. And, "never trust a man that doesn't bet on his own horses." I'm watching the breaks let off in gridlock. Historically, it's a bad time-window. > o A threat perception of a possible technical surprise is not > "speculation" > in the usual sense. (Technical people are prone to over-focus on technical > surprise speculation.) Addendum: Identify the observables and indicators that go with that. Otherwise, it might not be actionable. It's surprising, but the mistakes here are comical. If that process isn't institutionalized, I wouldn't bet on the results, even if the possibility is brought to the attention of.... everybody. A strong "watcher mentality," begets cry-wolf alert strategies. Speaking of, 9-11 played like a story, offering a sequence of observables, attached to a deep lure. I accept random effects, but view sequences as suspect. ~Aimee 5397 From: Charles P Date: Fri May 17, 2002 10:32am Subject: Re: Optical and Opto-Electronic Camera Detection There is a device that can do what you are describing. Although I'm not sure of the 300 meter claim, it does a good job of pinpointing cctv camera lens locations. see: http://store.yahoo.com/shop-seatech/spyfinder.html List member Gordon Mitchell has one, I'm sure he'll be happy to offer a technical explanation of how it operates. When trying out his unit, we could detect optics at about 60 feet in a well lit room. Perhaps it could go longer in a dark area, but 300 meters seems a bit much. Charles Charles Patterson charles@t... Global Communications Tarrytown, NY www.telephonesecurity.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "alcook309" To: Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:49 AM Subject: [TSCM-L] Optical and Opto-Electronic Camera Detection > After searching fruitfully for information, I have drawn a blank. The > information in question is about two devices that can apparantly > detect any cameras (from pinhole to standard photographic) or optics > (Binos, scopes etc), whether passive or active, thermal or just lens > based, up to 300 mtrs away. > > These are the Myth-300 and Mirage-1200. > I have seome tech sheets that give nothing away. > Does anyone have information on whether these are genuine > surveillance devices that actually work? > Or just flights of fancy that remove several hundreds (or thousands) > of Dollars from your pocket? Whilst not detecting a thing. > > I have no manufacturer details yet, just the model names. > > Appreciate the help. > > Alan Cook. > > > > > ======================================================== > TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List > "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" > > To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: > http://www.yahoogroups.com/community/TSCM-L > > It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. > It is by the juice of Star Bucks that thoughts acquire speed, > the hands acquire shaking, the shaking is a warning. > It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. > =================================================== TSKS > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > 5398 From: Date: Fri May 17, 2002 7:29am Subject: RE: Washington Post: FUROR ALERT In a message dated 5/17/2002 9:20:29 AM Pacific Daylight Time, aimee.farr@p... writes: > > I wish D.C. decision-makers would do something so as to save lives. > One problem I see the President had was the fact that a "threat" was forthcoming. That's pretty vague, and we are a HUGE country with open boarders, and free people walking around. I liken his dilemna to our possiblity of an astroid hitting earth. It's due to happen soon, but our world is sphere, with 360 degrees by 360 degrees for something to hit us. Where do you look? How far out do you look?? We have close calls a few times every decade because space is so expansive. The FBI SHOULD have been more aware. The INS SHOULD have been more keen to the people entering the country. But, what can be done without depriving the innocent and free citizens unfettered access within our own boarders. This question will remain for some time. > I just had to rant....you were close, and "surprises" are topical. > I couldn't agree more. Have a good weekend! Robert Pickett Pickett Investigative Agency 503-589-0268 or 866-589-4 A PI (4274) Fax: (561) 431-2621 Member: The PI Group, NCMEC Poster Partner http://www.pickettinvestigativeagency.com We accept PayPal! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 5399 From: Hawkspirit Date: Fri May 17, 2002 3:05pm Subject: Sweep Needed Is there a sweeper out there that can sweep a meeting room in Oslo, Norway on or just before Tuesday, May 21, that would be this upcoming week. Roger Tolces Electronic Security, Los Angeles 5400 From: Steve McAlexander Date: Fri May 17, 2002 4:18pm Subject: Oddities of 9/11 Little-known facts of the world's best-known event Petition Petition to the Senate to Investigate Oddities Involving 9/11 Terrorist Attacks We, the undersigned, do hereby petition the Senate of the United States of America to thoroughly investigate the events surrounding the acts of terrorism that transpired in the United States on September 11, 2001 12,079 Total Signatures! (May 16) Advance Warnings of Attack Bush Administration Explanations for Pre-9-11 Warnings Fail the Smell Test Never in the history of scandals involving the United States government has an attempt to conceal criminal conduct by an administration been more transparently dishonest or more easily exposed. On May 15 White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer -- while making the startling admission that President Bush received CIA and FBI intelligence briefings in August indicating Osama bin Laden might be planning hijackings -- told major news sources including CBS News, “All appropriate action was taken based on the threat information we had,” Fleischer said. “The president did not -- not -- receive information about the use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers.” Every major position taken by an administration in full retreat and on the defensive can be easily deconstructed and shown to be false. For more than seven months FTW has been documenting specific warnings received by the U.S. government from both foreign intelligence services and, in one case, from Russian President Vladimir Putin, indicating commercial airliners were going to be used by terrorists to attack -- among other things -- the World Trade Center in the week of Sept. 9. In order for Fleischer’s statement to be credible he would have to assert then that George W. Bush either ignored or was not informed of a direct warning from a head of state and also from the German intelligence service, the BND. Bush Was Warned of Hijacking Plot In the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, President [sic] Bush was told by U.S. intelligence that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack American airplanes, prompting the administration to issue a private warning to federal agencies, the White House acknowledged Wednesday night. But officials said the president and his advisers had no way of knowing that suicide hijackers would use the planes as missiles, as they did against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the absence of the legitimate president, nothing much was done about it... CIA admits foreknowledge of 9/11 On April 11, 2002, CIA Deputy Director James Pavitt delivered an address to the Duke University Law School Conference. This speech was covered by AgenceFrance-Presse (AFP) on Sunday April 28, 10:59 AM in an article titled "Top CIA official warns next terror attack unavoidable." The CIA has released the transcript of Pavitt's speech, which is posted at the CIA web site. In this speech, Pavitt states clearly that the CIA had foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks. Mysterious Premonitions and Enigmatic Early Signs A calendar which was printed in Egypt for the month of September shows a crashing passenger plane with Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop. The calendar was printed in May, a full three months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America, and has caused an uproar in the Dutch town of Almere, Netherlands. "I am supported by Allah, to die for Allah" is quoted on the September calendar ... Less than an hour before the WTC attacks Donald Rumsfeld told a congressional delegation that a "shocking" event would occur soon. FBI agent warned last July that Middle Easterners training at U.S. flight schools Two months before the suicide hijackings, an FBI agent in Arizona alerted Washington headquarters that several Middle Easterners were training at a U.S. aviation school and recommended contacting other schools nationwide where Arabs might be studying. The FBI's concerns about the U.S. flight schools is the latest revelation about information, much of it sketchy, that the government possessed before Sept. 11 concerning the possibility of terrorism in the skies. AP reported last month that Filipino authorities alerted the FBI as early as 1995 that several Middle Eastern pilots were training at American flight schools and at least one had proposed hijacking a commercial jet and crashing it into federal buildings. A month after the 2001 memo from Arizona to FBI headquarters, FBI agents in Minnesota arrested a French citizen of Moroccan descent, Zacarias Moussaoui, after a flight school instructor became suspicious of his desire to learn to fly a commercial jet. WSWS Series: Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack? Part 1: Warnings in advance Certainly the least likely and least credible explanation of that day’s events is that the vast US national security apparatus was entirely unaware of the activities of the hijackers until the airliners slammed into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Part 2: Watching the hijackers What has emerged over the past four months, however, is a much different picture of the events of September 11 and the relation of the US military-intelligence complex to them. Not only were there frequent advance warnings, derived both from foreign intelligence services and US investigations into previous terrorist attacks but the US government was itself in possession of considerable information from contemporaneous electronic and physical surveillance of Osama bin Laden and his associates in the Al Qaeda organization. Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), quoting unnamed German intelligence sources, said that the Echelon spy network was being used to collect information about the terrorist threats, and that U.K. intelligence services apparently also had advance warning. The FAZ, one of Germany's most respected dailies, said that even as far back as six months ago western and near-east press services were receiving information that such attacks were being planned. A White Knight Talking Backwards On August 11 or 12 of 2001, after trying to verbally alert his Canadian jailers to the coming World Trade Center attacks, he ["Mike" Vreeland, an American citizen claiming to be a U.S. Naval Lieutenant assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)] wrote down key information and sealed it in an envelope which he then had placed in jailers' custody. This event is not disputed by Canadian authorities. The letter specifically listed a number of targets including The Sears Towers, The World Trade Center, The White House, The Pentagon, The World Bank, The Canadian parliament building in Ottawa and the Royal Bank in Toronto. A chilling sentence follows the list of targets, "Let one happen. Stop the rest!!!" Anthrax Oddities Government By Anthrax A chronology of events suggests that the motivation was to boost passage of controversial legislation in Congress last October, called the USA Patriot Act. A number of unlikely “coincidences” associated with the anthrax attacks makes it hard to believe that they were random. Anthrax attack bug "identical" to army strain The DNA sequence of the anthrax sent through the US mail in 2001 has been revealed and confirms suspicions that the bacteria originally came from a US military laboratory. The data released uses codenames for the reference strains against which the attack strain was compared. But New Scientist can reveal that the two reference strains that appear identical to the attack strain most likely originated at the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick (USAMRIID), Maryland. Patricia Doyle Update - Battelle, Alibek And Anthrax The anthrax letters were intended to bring attention to the need for bioterrorism preparedness, and more funding for bioterrorism projects, vaccines, as well as research. Furthermore, the letters were intended to prepare a public to be sufficiently scared and ready to accept public health laws that would virtually subvert the US Constitution. The anthrax letters were also used to open the purse strings of Congress. Of course, ulterior motives were to aid financially distressed bio/pharmaceutical companies who had taken some hard hits as tech stocks plummited. ... A few weeks after I did the Feb. 26th Rense Show and was in the process of continuing my investigations, making FOIA requests, problems began. My computer was hit with an extremely sophisticated computer virus. I had 4 experts working on the computer and after 4 weeks they finally had to give up and I lost virtually all of my research and documentation. Needles to say this was very upsetting. I had a plethora of very expensive antivirus software protection, but, the boot virus was unable to be overcome. One of the techs told me that the virus was an unidentified virus and he had never seen it before. He also said that it appeared to be one that the Government might have used. We could not even figure out how the computer became infected. Years of my life's work is all gone. This was extremely disheartening, yet, was not the only event to take place. The Enemy Within? The FBI's anthrax investigation turns on itself. This lack of full disclosure may not just be a matter of stonewalling, one former FBI investigator suggested. Rather, FBI investigators may not have the top level security clearances that would allow CIA or Pentagon officials to disclose all they know. The result is an almost comical impasse of mutual distrust and bureaucratic red tape. If the FBI can't investigate the U.S. bio-defense establishment, who can? Why Was Cipro Administered in White House on Sept 11? The first terrorist anthrax case, in Florida, was revealed early October. Why was the specific antibiotic for it administered on Sept 11 to Cheney's staff? Anthrax and the Agency -- Thinking the Unthinkable Now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially put the anthrax investigation on a back burner, it is time for Americans to think the unthinkable: that the FBI has never been keen to identify the perpetrator because that perpetrator may, in fact, be the U.S. Government itself. Evidence is mounting that the source of the anthrax was a top secret U.S. Army laboratory in Maryland and that the perpetrators involve high-level officials in the U.S. military and intelligence infrastructure. No Suspects, Few Clues But what they do have is a fear that the person responsible could be one of the very government scientists they have relied on for help, and a concern that the U.S. military is not telling them everything about secret anthrax research programs. Holes in the Official Explanation Why? - An Extraordinary Series Of 911 Questions Wherdy Go? I remember my father’s words: “Can’t tell if you’re being fooled? You are.” Bush Flubs it Again -- Details and Confirmation of Prior Knowledge If we say the CIA was the terrorist who committed the WTC disaster ­ very likely ­ then it is also very likely that the CIA would want Bush to have the 'guilty knowledge' of seeing the first tower hit... via a private TV link prepared by the CIA... Here is the confirmation that President George Bush watched the first plane hit the WTC when no television cameras were trained on the buildings since nothing had happened yet. This is the second time he has stated this clearly and publicly. Footprints in the dust: signs of connections between CIA and WTC attack Anyway, it is beginning to look like events around September 11 may well offer this generation of Americans a repeat performance [of the official explanation of the Kennedy assassination]. Recent discoveries concerning those events bring that same sure but murky sense of the CIA's presence leading up to the attack. Perhaps another operation gone very sour. INTERVIEW WITH Andreas Von Buelow IN GERMAN DAILY, TAGESSPIEGEL Jan. 13 If this Atta was the decisive man in the operation, it's really strange that he took such a risk of taking a plane that would reach Boston such a short time before the connecting flight. Had his flight been a few minutes late, he would not have been in the plane that was hijacked. Why should a sophisticated terrorist do this? ... like assailants who, in their preparations, leave tracks behind them like a herd of stampeding elephants? They made payments with credit cards with their own names; they reported to their flight instructors with their own names. They left behind rented cars with flight manuals in Arabic for jumbo jets. They took with them, on their suicide trip, wills and farewell letters, which fall into the hands of the FBI, because they were stored in the wrong place and wrongly addressed. Clues were left behind like in a child's game of hide-and-seek, which were to be followed! Bush Claims He Saw The First Plane Hit Near the bottom of this official transcript, Bush lies that he saw the first plane on live TV -- or is it a lie? There was no live video coverage of the World Trade Towers at the time the first plane hit because there was no reason for it. Video of the first impact supposedly taken by a bystander did not surface and become available for broadcast until long AFTER the second impact. The only way for Bush to have been telling the truth that he watched the first impact on TV is if he had a closed circuit feed, which of course proves foreknowledge. One more point to keep in mind. After being told that America was under attack by his Chief of Staff, Bush continued to read to the schoolchildren for almost another half hour, a strange reaction indeed for the President of a nation supposedly under attack by a supposedly unknown enemy. Mysterious "Escapes" from the US after 9/11 Phantom Flight From Florida The federal government says the flight never took place. In the end, the son of a Saudi Arabian prince who is the nation's defense minister and the son of a Saudi army commander made it to Kentucky for a waiting 747 and a trip to their homeland. The hastily arranged flight out of Raytheon Airport Services, a private hangar on the outskirts of Tampa International Airport, was anything but ordinary. It lifted off the tarmac at a time when every private plane in the nation was grounded due to safety concerns after the Sept. 11 attacks. Bin Laden Family Escapes US after 9/11 with FBI "Approval" Around two dozen other American-based members of the bin Laden family, most of them here to study in colleges and prep schools, were said to be in the United States at the time of the attacks. The New York Times reported that they were quickly called together by officials from the Saudi Embassy, which feared that they might become the victims of American reprisals. With approval from the F.B.I., according to a Saudi official, the bin Ladens flew by private jet from Los Angeles to Orlando, then on to Washington, and finally to Boston. Once the F.A.A. permitted overseas flights, the jet flew to Europe. United States officials apparently needed little persuasion from the Saudi Ambassador in Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, that the extended bin Laden family included no material witnesses. Bin Laden's relatives made a first-class escape It's like finding out that Lyndon Johnson's daddy and Ho Chi Minh's papa used to go fishing together in the Gulf of Tonkin... The timeline Overview: 9 Unpopular Ideas On 9/11 "Here are nine for the moment relatively unpopular but nevertheless compelling ideas to consider about the attack. Americans who tend to believe in any or all them are in the minority right now. Perhaps they won't be in the near future." Oh Lucy!You Gotta Lotta 'Splainin' To Do A Timeline Surrounding September 11th - If CIA and The Government Weren't Involved In The September 11 Attacks What Were They Doing? Boom, Bust and Echo: A Dark Theory Behind Black Tuesday From the moment it happened we began hearing the name Osama bin Laden and there is an enormous body of evidence building already that Osama bin Laden is not and was not capable of pulling this off by himself. Period. Historically, it is extremely well documented that Osama bin Laden is and was a creation of the Central Intelligence Agency 9-11 Insider Trading Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly into the CIA's Highest Ranks CIA Executive Director "Buzzy" Krongard Managed Firm That Handled "Put" Options On UAL Suspicious trading points to advance knowledge by big investors of 9/11 attacks In the two weeks preceding the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, there was a sudden and unaccountable rush of speculative trades on the US stock and bond markets that indicate some wealthy and well-connected investors had advance knowledge of the impending catastrophe The Planes Da Planes!, Da Planes! - National Security and Interception Procedures From the FAA's website Mother of All Lies About 9/11 This is a story about a little white lie that bred dozens of other little white lies, then hundreds of bigger white lies and so on, to the point where the first little white lie must be credited as the “Mother of All Lies” about events on 11 September 2001. For this was the little white lie that first activated the American psyche, generated mass loathing, and enabled media manipulation of the global population. Without this little white lie there would have been no Arab Hijackers, no Osama Bin Laden directing operations from afar, and no “War on Terror” in Afghanistan and occupied Palestine. Though at the time the little white lie was flagged with a powerful political name, there was and remains no evidence to support the connection. Guilty For 9-11: Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers Introduction and Part 1 On 11 September there were two entire squadrons of combat-ready fighter jets at Andrews Air Force Base, 10 miles from Washington. Their job was to protect the skies over Washington D.C. They failed to do their job. Despite over one hour's advance warning of a terrorist attack in progress, not a single Andrews fighter tried to protect the city. Update to Part 1 The Andrews Air Force Base Website went down after 9-11 and now is back online. Web pages have been removed that made it clear that Andrews had combat-ready fighter jets. This contradicts official claims... Part 2: Mr. Cheney's Cover Story During a Meet The Press interview Dick Cheney created the impression that the military would have needed presidential authorization to scramble fighter jets to intercept American Airlines Flight 77 before it hit the Pentagon Then based on this false foundation, ... Part 3: Bush in the Open Normal air safety and air defense measures were not employed on September 11th... that this stand-down of the air protection systems could not have occurred absent the involvement of top officials -- George Walker Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard B. Myers. Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security -- a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel. Scrambled Messages a Sept. 15 Boston Globe story, which stated: "[T]he command did not immediately scramble any fighters even though it was alerted to a hijacking 10 minutes before the first planeslammed into the first World Trade Center tower... The spokesman said the fighters remained on the ground until after the Pentagon was hit..." U.S. inaction was all the more astonishing because the same story had Snyder admitting that "fighters routinely intercept aircraft." How Did United Flight 93 Crash? "If you were here to see it, you'd have no doubt," Decker said. "It was a jet plane, and it had to be flying real close when that 757 went down. If I was the FBI, I'd find out who was driving that plane." Late Thursday afternoon, federal agents who spoke to reporters at the crash site said "there was no evidence as of yet" that a second plane was nearby when Flight 93 plunged into a strip mine. Operation 911: NO SUICIDE PILOTS There were no "suicide" pilots on those September 11 jets. The jets were controlled by advanced robotics and remote-control technology, not hijackers. Fantastic? Before I explain, read about the history-making robot/remote-controlled jet plane. The Towers World Trade Center Demolition There were always problems with the "Arab hijackers" theory, but since only those ready to die for their cause would deliberately kill themselves by flying planes into the Twin Towers there seemed no alternative. New evidence, however, has emerged, and it now seems that it was entirely an inside job, with no Arabs directly involved (except those who happened to be innocent passengers on the doomed planes). Hard to believe, perhaps (especially because of the constant repetition in the mainstream media, in the weeks following the event, of the term "suicide attack"). Shocking, yes. But if one looks at the evidence, and thinks about it, this is what emerges...New evidence suggests that in fact only one of these Boeings crashed ­ the one that crashed in Pennsylvania. Wag The WTC The contractor whose people were the first on the WTC collapse scene --to cart away the rubble that remains-- is the same contractor who demolished and hauled away the shell of the bombed Oklahoma City Murrah building. The name of the contractor is Controlled Demolition! Their WTC cleanup contract is worth over $7 Billion. Are you getting the picture? NYC Firefighter Says Bombs Went Off in the WTC We were the first ones in the second tower after the plane struck. I was taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We think there was bombs set in the building. I had just asked another firefighter to stay with me, which was a good thing because we were trapped inside the elevator and he had the tools to get out. An argument for explosive demolition at the South Tower Early reports were that the hot fire was responsible for the collapse, but other observers pointed out that no kerosene fire can burn hot enough to melt steel. In point of fact, most of the fuel in the jets was contained in their wing tanks. The thin aluminum of the tanks was pierced or stripped as the airplanes penetrated the walls of the towers, and the result was the huge fireball which was seen on national TV, where most of this fuel was burned. A hot, vigorous fire would have blown out many windows in the building and would have burned a red or white color. This was not what happened. The fire in the World Trade Center was an ordinary smoldering office fire. But let's suppose that the fire was hot enough to melt steel. What would have happened in that case? Before it breaks, hot steel begins to bend. This redistributes the forces in the structure and puts elastic stress on those parts that are still cool. The process is asymmetric, so that the structure should visibly bend before breaking. Muslims Suspend Laws of Physics! I tried to believe. I watched those quarter mile high buildings fall through their jaw-dropping catastrophes over and over again. I listened to the announcer and the experts explain what had happened. And I worked at my pitiful lack of faith, pounding my skull with the remote control and staring at the flickering images on the TV screen In Curious Battle: An Expert Recants on Why WTC Collapsed on September 14th an interview with Van Romero, the director of research at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Van Romero studied the videos of the WTC collapse and concluded that the towers were most likely destroyed by carefully placed demolition charges... We posted the 'Journal' story with a link to its Web address. But if you go to that address now, you will find something has been added. The 'Journal' has placed a rebuttal above the original story. Unless you read almost the entire rebuttal, you won't see the original story. The most striking thing about the rebuttal article is not that Romero changed his analysis. Indeed, Van Romero is barely quoted. Rather, the 'Journal' speaks for him. What we found most striking is the obviously partisan way the article is written, the intensity of the retraction and the atmosphere of panic. One gets the impression that somebody came down very hard on this scientist and perhaps on the 'Journal' as well. The Pentagon Analysis of the Attack of the Pentagon The first and most important task after arriving at the scene of a crime would be to examine the plane wreckage and determine the point of impact, the trajectory, angle and speed of the aircraft at the point of impact. There is only one problem. There is no trace of recognizable wreckage from a Boeing 757! There is no fuselage, no tail section, there are no wheels, engines, wings, luggage or passenger seats, nor are there any bodies to be found. This leads us to our first and foremost question, if a Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon as was reported by the media and government officials, where did it go? What evidence is there to support the theory of an airliner careening into the building? Independent Flight 77 - Pentagon Event Investigation It has occurred to me that my theory has taken a turn toward the 'extreme.' This was not intentional. I merely started out to debunk the French site, a seemingly simple task with the data available. I rejected most of the 'radical' theories out-right, but research has compelled me to look at some very disturbing circumstantial evidence. I still hold a more pro-American viewpoint and at the same time realize the extreme nature of the situation I propose requires the most extreme of measures to be taken only in an emergency as grave as war. This is war-time thinking. This is only a theory The Pentagon Crash Pictures It is my guess that the intended target was the fuel tanks for the helicopter pad, but that the jet was fractionally off course. Another theory is going around that the new Naval Intelligence section was the target. It all depends on the level of planning and the cynicism of those that planned it. Without a full investigation, we will never know. Un Boeing 757 s'est-il vraiment écrasé sur le Pentagone le 11 septembre 2001? French site with different photos with many 1st hand accounts in English w/links to original sources. Signs of a Cover-up at the Pentagon Yet what can be said of the plane crash at the Pentagon – we heard about it soon enough, but very few images were forthcoming on the day, and the bulk of what we saw afterwards were still photos of the collapsed portion of the pentagon and a few pictures of fire-fighters attempting to extinguish the blaze. No sign of any video recordings, very few witness reports and definitely nothing to show us the event as it happened. Criminal Negligence or Treason If it was difficult to believe that the third plane was not spotted, then it is a good deal harder to believe that it was spotted and tracked for over half an hour and yet nothing was done because officials "didn't know what to do." Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, said that the Pentagon had been tracking the fourth plane and could have shot it down if necessary. If they "could have shot" down the fourth plane, why did they not shoot down the third? Once they knew these were suicide hijackings - and surely they knew that by around 9:00 am - why would they wait? War with Afghanistan Planned Before 9-11 US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11 Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during the summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, made in July, that “if the military action went ahead, it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.” US 'planned attack on Taliban' A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban even before last week's attacks. Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. BBC Radio Report Why Washington Wants Afghanistan It has also served to obscure a most important question: does Washington have a hidden agenda here, a strategy other than hurling bombs? If so, what is it, and what does it mean for the world? The History US pulls the plug on Muslim websites Reported Monday September 10, 2001 -- Five hundred websites - many of them with an Arab or Muslim connection - crashed last Wednesday when an anti-terrorism taskforce raided InfoCom Corporation in Texas. The 80-strong taskforce that descended upon the IT company included FBI agents, Secret Service agents, Diplomatic Security agents, tax inspectors, immigration officials, customs officials, department of commerce officials and computer experts. Enron Pipedreams Buried in Afghanistan But if the White House, Enron, and Dabhol timelines are combined, curious details appear. On November 6, 2001, a top official in the Bush Administration tells India that a payoff to Enron had risen "to the highest levels of the United States government." Five days earlier, Bush had signed Executive Order 13233, which limits public access to papers of all presidents since 1980--including George W. Bush. Giuliani Invokes Hitler-Rockefeller-Bush Conspiracy to Explain 9/11 Hitler, Saddam and bin Laden have much in common besides being mass murderers. All worked for, were financed by and were armed at the direction of America's top corporate interests, most conspicuously among them corporations and individuals associated with the Rockefeller and Bush families and with the men who created CIA policy. WSWS Series: Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack? Part 3:The United States and Mideast terrorism There are two assumptions here: first, that US agents could not penetrate the terrorist circles; and second, that American agents would have intervened to stop an attack had they learned of it in advance. Both these assumptions are questionable. Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner? Online Journal's Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18. An Overview of The War on Terrorism As questions remain over the attacks of September 11, so too must questions be asked about the vested interests behind the US-led push for a war on terrorism. US State Department Sponsors Training of Would-Be Terrorists According to a reliable source, one of the Iranians involved in the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, took training courses at the Redstone Arsenal's school of explosives. He enrolled in this course under the guise of a Pakistani military officer with Pakistani uniform and credentials. This is important to note because Al Martin Raw has previously reported that many hostile nations have a visible presence at the US Redstone Arsenal. Evidently "terrorists," as well as regular armed forces and intelligence officers, are also being "trained" at the Redstone Arsenal. Laura Flanders: 'Bush Sr., Cheney have big stakes in Saudi status quo' "If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he'd turn off the tap," Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance Company, a consulting firm in Washington, told Banerjee. "He said at one point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel - about six times what it sells for now." And Saudi Arabia, the Times reminds us, is Osama bin Laden's Enemy No. 1: "Mr. bin Laden has long made clear that his ultimate goal, more than wreaking havoc in the West, is toppling the Saud family. And Saudi Arabia would be a crucial target for anyone seeking to cut deeply into the world oil flow." The FBI Agent Alleges FBI Ignored Hamas Activities, Sues An FBI agent in Chicago has accused his superiors of ignoring the pre-Sept. 11 criminal activities of alleged U.S. associates of the Islamic Resistance Movement, the terrorist organization also known as Hamas. The agent also alleged that the bureau steered agents away from filing criminal cases that he believes could have disrupted Hamas's operations in this country. Agent Robert G. Wright Jr. made the accusations last fall in a complaint filed with the Justice Department's inspector general -- an internal watchdog -- and the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility, the internal affairs unit that investigates the conduct of agents, said sources familiar with the matter. On Thursday, Wright, a 12-year FBI veteran, filed a lawsuit against the bureau in U.S. District Court in Washington. He accused the FBI of violating his First Amendment rights byprohibiting him from making his complaints public. He also has written a 500-page manuscript he wants to publish as a book titled "Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission." FBI Director Comments on the Hijackers' Sophistication in Covering Trail "The hijackers also left no paper trail. In our investigation, we have not uncovered a single piece of paper - either here in the U.S. or in the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and elsewhere - that mentioned any aspect of the September 11th plot. The hijackers had no computers, no laptops, no storage media of any kind. They used hundreds of different pay phones and cell phones, often with prepaid calling cards that are extremely difficult to trace. And they made sure that all the money sent to them to fund their attacks was wired in small amounts to avoid detection." Scandal Inside the FBI: Did G-Men Miss the Boat on 9/11? [Newsmax, the source of this item, and Judicial Watch are right wing organizations.] Prior to putting off the news conference, Judicial Watch said that "based on the evidence, the FBI Special Agent believes that if certain investigations had been allowed to run their course, Osama bin Laden’s network might have been prevented from committing the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 innocents.” Mysterious Hole in FBI Investigation of the Terror Pilots Long after the FBI’s official chronology asserts that Atta’s Hamburg cadre had left Venice, their initial port of entry into American pilot training, the core of the terrorist group was still moving in and out of town, asserts "Mohamed Atta ∓ the Venice Flying Circus," a new documentary investigating the Florida flight schools training terrorist pilots. An eight-minute segment is airing this week at www.theconspiracychannel.com. Though it was said to be the most massive investigation in FBI history, it is a scene the FBI doesn’t even know occurred. Even though the restaurant is located barely a block from the terrorists rented home, agents never bothered to question anyone there. Opposition to Investigation and Manufactured Evidence 9/11 Widow Looks for Answers in Court Nearly eight months to the day after the attacks of September 11th, few details have emerged about how hijackers were able to overtake the four aircraft they crashed that day. A Derry, New Hampshire widow is trying to use the courts to get answers, but she is finding her search frustrated by a series of stumbling blocks. ... From the audio: "for some reason we're being blocked". United's lawyers have asked the judge that even the requests for evidence be kept secret! "They're scared of something, let's have the truth." ... Also see NH widow of 9-11 victim sues United over crash Inquiry of Intelligence Failures Hits Obstacles Lawmakers leading the investigation of intelligence agencies' failures surrounding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are increasingly concerned that tactics by the CIA and the Justice Department are actively impeding their efforts, congressional sources said Friday. Members of the Senate and House intelligence committees are so frustrated with the tactics, sources said, that they intend to complain directly to CIA Director George J. Tenet and Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft. Head of Congressional Probe Into Sept. 11 Quits The head of a joint congressional investigation into why U.S. intelligence agencies failed to detect the plot that led to the Sept. 11 attacks on America has resigned. Britt Snider, a retired CIA inspector general, was hired in February to conduct the review for the Senate and House intelligence committees. Some members of the panels had objected to his selection, saying Snider was too closely tied to the spy agency and CIA Director George Tenet to conduct an impartial review. Mohamed Atta's E-Mail List Mohamed Atta sent polemical emails, including one containing a gruesome photo of a dead Palestinian child, to a regular email list of some 40 individuals, all of whom became the focus of intense scrutiny from the FBI after the list’s existence became known last September, the MadCow Morning News has learned. Alarmingly, the email addresses of several of the names on Atta’s ‘terrorist e-list’ appear to have been, or still are, employees of US defense contractors. What Muslim would write: 'The time of fun and waste is gone'? Fearful, chilling, grotesque - but also very, very odd. If the handwritten, five-page document which the FBI says it found in the baggage of Mohamed Atta, the suicide bomber from Egypt, is genuine, then the men who murdered more than 7,000 innocent people believed in a very exclusive version of Islam - or were surprisingly unfamiliar with their religion. Uncle Sam's lucky finds Of course you could interpret these discoveries differently. You could detect in them the clear hand of American propaganda. This isn't, of course, to claim a dirty tricks department somewhere in the heart of Washington. That would have you immediately accused of peddling conspiracy theories, though I'm coming to think that conspiracy theories have had a bad press. What are they, after all, but "joined-up government" by another name? Flight School Owner Changes Story Again While the media spotlight was on the mis-cues at the perennially "troubled" INS, the real news this week was that Rudi Dekkers was telling reporters a significantly different version of his relationship with terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta than he gave in the wake of the September 11 disaster. Several key details in Dekker's public account of Mohamed Atta's stay in this country changed, even as, claiming to feel "vindicated," Dekkers tried to use the INS snafu to his public relations advantage. What no one has noted till now is that this is the third mutually-contradictory account Dekkers has given so far on the simple question of how much the two paid for their flight lessons. WTC Probe Ills Bared About 80% of the structural steel from the World Trade Center was scrapped without being examined by even one fire expert, mostly because investigators did not have the authority to preserve the wreckage as evidence, the experts said. "The lack of significant amounts of steel for examination will make it difficult, if not impossible, to make a definitive statement as to the specific cause and chronology of the collapse," Good Morning America interviews Julie Sirrs, former DIA analyst All I know is what people at DIA told me that the State Department also had a large role in wanting very harsh measures to be taken against me to get me kicked out of DIA, basically. And that, to this day, I'm honestly not sure exactly why other than regional sensitivities, particularly with Pakistan, as we saw even pre--after September 11th, not wanting us to be involved there. The truth is out there ... right? "The right wing benefited so much from September 11 that, if I were still a conspiratorialist, I would believe they'd done it." -- Norman Mailer [To anyone who makes a blanket dismissal of "conspiracy theories" -- remind them that the official Bush party line is itself a massive conspiracy theory: a worldwide network of religious fanatics, led and trained by a billionaire's son who lives in caves, protected by a feudal government in one of the most backwards places on earth, funded to the tens of millions of dollars by a worldwide network of crime and covert transactions, leading to suicide hijackings and bombings.] WSWS Series: Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack? Part4: The refusal to investigate More than four months after the largest single act of mass murder ever to take place on US soil, there have been no congressional hearings, no investigating commission has been announced, and calls for such a panel have been largely ignored. Even internal FBI investigations have been shelved. This inaction is extraordinary and has no legitimate political explanation. It stinks of political cover-up. The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to investigate man charged in September 11 attacks The case of Zacarias Moussaoui raises many questions about the conduct of the FBI and other US intelligence agencies in the period leading up the September11. It is the clearest example of the almost inexplicable refusal on the part of these agencies to take any action that could have prevented the bloodiest terrorist attack in American history. "Has Someone Been Sitting On The FBI?" Osama went to Afghanistan not as some lone fanatic, but rather as the representative of Saudi royalty, because his billionaire family is part of the ruling class of Saudi Arabia. US agents told: Back off bin Ladens US special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president [sic], although that has all changed since September 11, it was reported today. And the BBC2's Newsnight program also said the younger George Bush made his first million 20 years ago with an oil company partly funded by the chief US representative of Salem bin Laden, Osama's brother, who took over as head of the family after his father Mohammed's death in a plane crash in 1968. The So-Called Evidence Is a Farce Goff cites two premises that should not, that must not, be accepted at this hour without more convincing proof: "One, there is the premise that what this de facto administration is doing now is a 'response' to September 11th. Two, there is the premise that this attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was done by people based in Afghanistan. In my opinion, neither of these is sound." Seven of the WTC Hijackers found alive! Some of the men the FBI claims hijacked planes on Sept. 11 and crashed them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon, and Stony Creek Township, Pennsylvania are still alive. No they weren't pulled from the rubble, they were never on the planes. The Strange Death ofJohn O'Neill, The Counter-Terrorist http://www.rememberjohn.com/ Had he survived, the events since then would have unfolded quite differently...and a President would be embroiled in a scandal like the country has never seen! John O'Neill was an F.B.I. agent with an obsession: the growing threat of Al Qaeda. The legend of John P. O'Neill, who lost his life at the World Trade Center on September 11th, begins with a story by Richard A. Clarke, the national coordinator for counter-terrorism in the White House from the first Bush Administration until last year. On a Sunday morning in February, 1995, Clarke went to his office to review intelligence cables that had come in over the weekend. One of the cables reported that Ramzi Yousef, the suspected mastermind behind the first World Trade Center bombing, two years earlier, had been spotted in Pakistan. Clarke immediately called the F.B.I. A man whose voice was unfamiliar to him answered the phone. "O'Neill," he growled. "Who are you?" Clarke said. "I'm John O'Neill," the man replied. "Who the hell are you?" O'Neill had just been appointed chief of the F.B.I.'s counter-terrorism section, in Washington. Foreign Media Can Ask the Questions the US Media Can't VisionTV Insight Mediafile with Barrie Zwicker: "The Great Deception" Transcript: Part 1 (Broadcast Date: Mon Jan 21) In the almost two hours of the total drama not a single U.S. Air Force interceptor turns a wheel until it’s too late. Why? Was it total incompetence on the part of aircrews trained and equipped to scramble in minutes? Transcript: Part 2 (Broadcast Date: Mon Jan 28) The day the chartered Learjet carrying golfer Payne Stewart crashes, killing all on board, the air traffic controller calls in the military. It’s standard procedure, followed routinely, to call in the Air Force when radio contact with a commercial passenger jet is lost, or the plane departs from its flight path, or anything along those lines occurs. 9:54 – 16 minutes later -- the F-16 reaches the Learjet at 46,000 feet and conducts a visual inspection. Total elapsed time: 21 minutes. Transcript: Part 3 (Broadcast Date: Mon Feb 4) bin Laden is merely a piece in a chess game. The stakes of the game are the last of the world’s oil reserves and “ the Bush administration’s(consolidation of power) to pursue a drastic unlimited militarization of foreign policy on a massive and unprecedented scale required by long-standing elite planning, while crushing domestic dissent and criminalizing legitimate protest.” Transcript: Part 4 (Broadcast Date: Mon Feb 11) The psychological trick at the heart of September 11th, by the way, is that people confuse their compassion for the victims with their certainty about who the perpetrators are. The public was presented with instant perpetrators. The trick will most likely continue working for all future planned invasions – looks as if Iraq is next – so long as the public remains blindfolded by the media. Transcript: Part 5 (Broadcast Date: Mon Feb 18) Wait a minute! The president tells us he saw the incredible image of the first plane going in. [which video wasn't found and broadcast until much later] He went ahead with an easily-cancelable appointment. Why? He tells us he knew his country was under attack, yet he continued to listen to a student talk about her pet goat, and such, for another 25 minutes. Why? Transcript: Part 6 (Broadcast Date: Mon Feb 25) The less people ask themselves questions about deceit the more it clears the way for organizations such as the CIA to continue to receive seemingly unending billions of dollars. Taxpayer money used to train terrorists, as the CIA acknowledges it has. To destabilize governments, as former CIA agent John Stockwell writes in his book In Search of Enemies. And to inject toxic grey, white and black disinformation into the world’s information systems, as William Blum spells out in Killing Hope. All with barely a whisper of dissent. General 9-11 Sites and Articles The Case For Bush Administration Advance Knowledge Of 9/11 Attacks A dispassionate examination of existing reliable, open-source evidence on advance warnings of the Sept. 11 attacks provides strong and sustainable grounds to conclude the Bush Administration was in possession of sufficient advance intelligence to have prevented the attacks, had it wished to do so. With a known intelligence budget of approximately $30 billion, it must be assumed there are classified files that only add to the weight of the available data presented here. Online Journal™ Part 1 of a four-part series -- September 11: The circumstantial case It is precisely for reasons of patriotism that these avenues need to be pursued. If they are true, they represent a clear and present danger to the United States from within our borders and from the very people we entrust to protect us. A failure to listen to facts and conclusions that are unpleasant or disturbing will not help us, rather it will only play into the hands of those who want to make us less free. Facts for 911-Beginners At least 100 Webpages are working 24/7 on collecting details, which can prove that there have been at least 10, 15 early warnings about an attack on America, which was ignored by CIA and Pentagon. It's also obvious, that prior knowledge was ignored to get an official reason to start a war against the Taliban and "war against terrorism". Therefore since January 2002 a petition is collecting signatures to start a public investigation to investigate the 911-oddities. This petition is already known at the US Congress who decided to start a investigation with the help of a former CIA inspector. But this hasn't been made public enough yet and it will probably not be a public one. Momentum growing for inquiry into "oddities" of September 11 In January 2000, Bob Gipson of El Dorado County, California, wrote his congressman expressing his fear that the U.S. government would orchestrate a terrorist attack on "certain" U.S. cities and blame the attacks on "Islamic terrorists." Gipson told Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Ca) he thought the "operation" would be a platform for declaring martial law in the U.S. When the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks occurred on September 11, 2001, Gipson had a sickening feeling this was the event he feared. ... A congressional investigation cannot come soon enough for Bob Gipson. Now, he has renewed dread that his government is planning another attack on U.S. citizens, this time leaving Saddam Hussein's fingerprints as a pretext to garner public support to attack Iraqi citizens. “It was a pretty cheap price to pay for unifying the country” Anyone wondering how American military and intelligence officers could have looked the other way in the months leading up to the massacre of some 3,200 people in three states can ponder the words of Lt. Commander Joseph J. Rochefort. Referring to the deaths of more than 3,000 American military personnel whom he helped betray one sunny Sunday morning after using code-broken communications intercepts to track Japanese carriers to the island of Oahu, Rochefort remarked to a naval historian: “It was a pretty cheap price to pay for unifying the country.” Back to Index Revised: 16 May 2002 http://falloutshelternews.com Copyright © 2002 by Fallout Shelter News All rights reserved 5401 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Fri May 17, 2002 3:57pm Subject: Re: Sweep Needed I can cover it on Tuesday. Airline fare looks like about $6,200 USD, $2,600 for equipment shipping, $1,800 for per diem (four days), $3,500 for travel time, and $20,000 for the actual sweep (not to exceed 2 days of sweep time). Plus a detailed written report sent to the client once I return the to US ($3,000). Total due would be $37,100 USD, payable in advance (preferably by wire). I will be bringing only a limited amount of equipment (about 800 pounds in six transit cases), and as such would have to handle it as a lower threat sweep. I will need the client to have the security detail meet me at the cargo facility at the airport with a low profile panel truck or cube van so we can get the equipment from my freight container/pallet thorough customs, and then to the initial staging area at the hotel. -jma At 1:05 PM -0700 5/17/02, Hawkspirit wrote: >Is there a sweeper out there that can sweep a meeting room in Oslo, Norway >on or just before Tuesday, May 21, that would be this upcoming week. > >Roger Tolces >Electronic Security, Los Angeles -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Bug Sweep, Spy Hunting, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. Atkinson Ph: (978) 381-9111 Granite Island GroupFax: 127 Eastern Avenue #291http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008mailto:jmatk@tscm.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...three shall be the number to count, and the number to be counted shall be three.....four shall thou not count......five is right out". - M. Python -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5402 From: James M. Atkinson Date: Fri May 17, 2002 5:27pm Subject: Re: Oddities of 9/11 Little-known facts of the world's best-known event No offense, but please try to keep postings relevant to TSCM. -jma At 4:18 PM -0500 5/17/02, Steve McAlexander wrote: >Petition >Petition to the Senate to Investigate Oddities Involving 9/11 Terrorist >Attacks >We, the undersigned, do hereby petition the Senate of the United States >of America to thoroughly investigate the events surrounding the acts of >terrorism that transpired in the United States on September 11, 2001 >12,079 Total Signatures! (May 16) > > > > >Advance Warnings of Attack >Bush Administration Explanations for Pre-9-11 Warnings Fail the Smell >Test >Never in the history of scandals involving the United States government >has an attempt to conceal criminal conduct by an administration been >more transparently dishonest or more easily exposed. On May 15 White >House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer -- while making the startling >admission that President Bush received CIA and FBI intelligence >briefings in August indicating Osama bin Laden might be planning >hijackings -- told major news sources including CBS News, “All >appropriate action was taken based on the threat information we had,” >Fleischer said. “The president did not -- not -- receive information >about the use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers.” Every major >position taken by an administration in full retreat and on the defensive >can be easily deconstructed and shown to be false. For more than seven >months FTW has been documenting specific warnings received by the U.S. >government from both foreign intelligence services and, in one case, >from Russian President Vladimir Putin, indicating commercial airliners >were going to be used by terrorists to attack -- among other things -- >the World Trade Center in the week of Sept. 9. In order for Fleischer’s >statement to be credible he would have to assert then that George W. >Bush either ignored or was not informed of a direct warning from a head >of state and also from the German intelligence service, the BND. > >Bush Was Warned of Hijacking Plot >In the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, President [sic] Bush was told >by U.S. intelligence that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might >hijack American airplanes, prompting the administration to issue a >private warning to federal agencies, the White House acknowledged >Wednesday night. But officials said the president and his advisers had >no way of knowing that suicide hijackers would use the planes as >missiles, as they did against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. >In the absence of the legitimate president, nothing much was done about >it... > >CIA admits foreknowledge of 9/11 >On April 11, 2002, CIA Deputy Director James Pavitt delivered an address >to the Duke University Law School Conference. This speech was covered by >AgenceFrance-Presse (AFP) on Sunday April 28, 10:59 AM in an article >titled "Top CIA official warns next terror attack unavoidable." The CIA >has released the transcript of Pavitt's speech, which is posted at the >CIA web site. In this speech, Pavitt states clearly that the CIA had >foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks. > >Mysterious Premonitions and Enigmatic Early Signs > A calendar which was printed in Egypt for the month of September shows >a crashing passenger plane with Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty as >a backdrop. The calendar was printed in May, a full three months >before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on America, and has caused an >uproar in the Dutch town of Almere, Netherlands. "I am supported by >Allah, to die for Allah" is quoted on the September calendar >... Less than an hour before the WTC attacks Donald Rumsfeld told a >congressional delegation that a "shocking" event would occur soon. > >FBI agent warned last July that Middle Easterners training at U.S. >flight schools >Two months before the suicide hijackings, an FBI agent in Arizona >alerted Washington headquarters that several Middle Easterners were >training at a U.S. aviation school and recommended contacting other >schools nationwide where Arabs might be studying. The FBI's concerns >about the U.S. flight schools is the latest revelation about >information, much of it sketchy, that the government possessed before >Sept. 11 concerning the possibility of terrorism in the skies. AP >reported last month that Filipino authorities alerted the FBI as early >as 1995 that several Middle Eastern pilots were training at American >flight schools and at least one had proposed hijacking a commercial jet >and crashing it into federal buildings. A month after the 2001 memo >from Arizona to FBI headquarters, FBI agents in Minnesota arrested a >French citizen of Moroccan descent, Zacarias Moussaoui, after a flight >school instructor became suspicious of his desire to learn to fly a >commercial jet. > >WSWS Series: Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack? >Part 1: Warnings in advance Certainly the least likely and least >credible explanation of that day’s events is that the vast US national >security apparatus was entirely unaware of the activities of the >hijackers until the airliners slammed into the World Trade Center and >Pentagon. Part 2: Watching the hijackers What has emerged over the past >four months, however, is a much different picture of the events of >September 11 and the relation of the US military-intelligence complex to >them. Not only were there frequent advance warnings, derived both from >foreign intelligence services and US investigations into previous >terrorist attacks but the US government was itself in possession of >considerable information from contemporaneous electronic and physical >surveillance of Osama bin Laden and his associates in the Al Qaeda >organization. > >Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks > Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), quoting unnamed >German intelligence sources, said that the Echelon spy network was being >used to collect information about the terrorist threats, and that U.K. >intelligence services apparently also had advance warning. The FAZ, one >of Germany's most respected dailies, said that even as far back as six >months ago western and near-east press services were receiving >information that such attacks were being planned. > >A White Knight Talking Backwards >On August 11 or 12 of 2001, after trying to verbally alert his Canadian >jailers to the coming World Trade Center attacks, he ["Mike" Vreeland, >an American citizen claiming to be a U.S. Naval Lieutenant assigned to >the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)] wrote down key information and >sealed it in an envelope which he then had placed in jailers' custody. >This event is not disputed by Canadian authorities. The letter >specifically listed a number of targets including The Sears Towers, The >World Trade Center, The White House, The Pentagon, The World Bank, The >Canadian parliament building in Ottawa and the Royal Bank in Toronto. A >chilling sentence follows the list of targets, "Let one happen. Stop the >rest!!!" > > > >Anthrax Oddities >Government By Anthrax > A chronology of events suggests that the motivation was to boost >passage of controversial legislation in Congress last October, called >the USA Patriot Act. A number of unlikely “coincidences” associated with >the anthrax attacks makes it hard to believe that they were random. > >Anthrax attack bug "identical" to army strain > The DNA sequence of the anthrax sent through the US mail in 2001 has >been revealed and confirms suspicions that the bacteria originally came >from a US military laboratory. The data released uses codenames for the >reference strains against which the attack strain was compared. But New >Scientist can reveal that the two reference strains that appear >identical to the attack strain most likely originated at the US Army >Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick >(USAMRIID), Maryland. > >Patricia Doyle Update - Battelle, Alibek And Anthrax >The anthrax letters were intended to bring attention to the need for >bioterrorism preparedness, and more funding for bioterrorism projects, >vaccines, as well as research. Furthermore, the letters were intended to >prepare a public to be sufficiently scared and ready to accept public >health laws that would virtually subvert the US Constitution. The >anthrax letters were also used to open the purse strings of Congress. Of >course, ulterior motives were to aid financially distressed >bio/pharmaceutical companies who had taken some hard hits as tech stocks >plummited. ... A few weeks after I did the Feb. 26th Rense Show and was >in the process of continuing my investigations, making FOIA requests, >problems began. My computer was hit with an extremely sophisticated >computer virus. I had 4 experts working on the computer and after 4 >weeks they finally had to give up and I lost virtually all of my >research and documentation. Needles to say this was very upsetting. I >had a plethora of very expensive antivirus software protection, but, the >boot virus was unable to be overcome. One of the techs told me that the >virus was an unidentified virus and he had never seen it before. He also >said that it appeared to be one that the Government might have used. We >could not even figure out how the computer became infected. Years of my >life's work is all gone. This was extremely disheartening, yet, was not >the only event to take place. > >The Enemy Within? The FBI's anthrax investigation turns on itself. >This lack of full disclosure may not just be a matter of stonewalling, >one former FBI investigator suggested. Rather, FBI investigators may not >have the top level security clearances that would allow CIA or Pentagon >officials to disclose all they know. The result is an almost comical >impasse of mutual distrust and bureaucratic red tape. If the FBI can't >investigate the U.S. bio-defense establishment, who can? > >Why Was Cipro Administered in White House on Sept 11? >The first terrorist anthrax case, in Florida, was revealed early >October. Why was the specific antibiotic for it administered on Sept 11 >to Cheney's staff? > >Anthrax and the Agency -- Thinking the Unthinkable >Now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially put >the anthrax investigation on a back burner, it is time for Americans to >think the unthinkable: that the FBI has never been keen to identify the >perpetrator because that perpetrator may, in fact, be the U.S. >Government itself. Evidence is mounting that the source of the anthrax >was a top secret U.S. Army laboratory in Maryland and that the >perpetrators involve high-level officials in the U.S. military and >intelligence infrastructure. >No Suspects, Few Clues > But what they do have is a fear that the person responsible could be >one of the very government scientists they have relied on for help, and >a concern that the U.S. military is not telling them everything about >secret anthrax research programs. > > > > > >Holes in the Official Explanation >Why? - An Extraordinary Series Of 911 Questions > >Wherdy Go? >I remember my father’s words: “Can’t tell if you’re being fooled? You >are.” >Bush Flubs it Again -- Details and Confirmation of Prior Knowledge >If we say the CIA was the terrorist who committed the WTC disaster ­ >very likely ­ then it is also very likely that the CIA would want Bush >to have the 'guilty knowledge' of seeing the first tower hit... via a >private TV link prepared by the CIA... Here is the confirmation that >President George Bush watched the first plane hit the WTC when no >television cameras were trained on the buildings since nothing had >happened yet. This is the second time he has stated this clearly and >publicly. > >Footprints in the dust: signs of connections between CIA and WTC attack >Anyway, it is beginning to look like events around September 11 may well >offer this generation of Americans a repeat performance [of the official >explanation of the Kennedy assassination]. Recent discoveries concerning >those events bring that same sure but murky sense of the CIA's presence >leading up to the attack. Perhaps another operation gone very sour. > >INTERVIEW WITH Andreas Von Buelow IN GERMAN DAILY, TAGESSPIEGEL Jan. 13 >If this Atta was the decisive man in the operation, it's really strange >that he took such a risk of taking a plane that would reach Boston such >a short time before the connecting flight. Had his flight been a few >minutes late, he would not have been in the plane that was hijacked. Why >should a sophisticated terrorist do this? ... like assailants who, in >their preparations, leave tracks behind them like a herd of stampeding >elephants? They made payments with credit cards with their own names; >they reported to their flight instructors with their own names. They >left behind rented cars with flight manuals in Arabic for jumbo jets. >They took with them, on their suicide trip, wills and farewell letters, >which fall into the hands of the FBI, because they were stored in the >wrong place and wrongly addressed. Clues were left behind like in a >child's game of hide-and-seek, which were to be followed! > >Bush Claims He Saw The First Plane Hit >Near the bottom of this official transcript, Bush lies that he saw the >first plane on live TV -- or is it a lie? There was no live video >coverage of the World Trade Towers at the time the first plane hit >because there was no reason for it. Video of the first impact supposedly >taken by a bystander did not surface and become available for broadcast >until long AFTER the second impact. The only way for Bush to have been >telling the truth that he watched the first impact on TV is if he had a >closed circuit feed, which of course proves foreknowledge. One more >point to keep in mind. After being told that America was under attack by >his Chief of Staff, Bush continued to read to the schoolchildren for >almost another half hour, a strange reaction indeed for the President of >a nation supposedly under attack by a supposedly unknown enemy. > > > > > >Mysterious "Escapes" from the US after 9/11 >Phantom Flight From Florida >The federal government says the flight never took place. In the end, the >son of a Saudi Arabian prince who is the nation's defense minister and >the son of a Saudi army commander made it to Kentucky for a waiting 747 >and a trip to their homeland. The hastily arranged flight out of >Raytheon Airport Services, a private hangar on the outskirts of Tampa >International Airport, was anything but ordinary. It lifted off the >tarmac at a time when every private plane in the nation was grounded due >to safety concerns after the Sept. 11 attacks. >Bin Laden Family Escapes US after 9/11 with FBI "Approval" >Around two dozen other American-based members of the bin Laden family, >most of them here to study in colleges and prep schools, were said to be >in the United States at the time of the attacks. The New York Times >reported that they were quickly called together by officials from the >Saudi Embassy, which feared that they might become the victims of >American reprisals. With approval from the F.B.I., according to a Saudi >official, the bin Ladens flew by private jet from Los Angeles to >Orlando, then on to Washington, and finally to Boston. Once the F.A.A. >permitted overseas flights, the jet flew to Europe. United States >officials apparently needed little persuasion from the Saudi Ambassador >in Washington, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, that the extended bin Laden >family included no material witnesses. > >Bin Laden's relatives made a first-class escape >It's like finding out that Lyndon Johnson's daddy and Ho Chi Minh's papa >used to go fishing together in the Gulf of Tonkin... > > > >The timeline >Overview: 9 Unpopular Ideas On 9/11 >"Here are nine for the moment relatively unpopular but nevertheless >compelling ideas to consider about the attack. Americans who tend to >believe in any or all them are in the minority right now. Perhaps they >won't be in the near future." >Oh Lucy!You Gotta Lotta 'Splainin' To Do >A Timeline Surrounding September 11th - If CIA and The Government >Weren't Involved In The September 11 Attacks What Were They Doing? > >Boom, Bust and Echo: A Dark Theory Behind Black Tuesday > >From the moment it happened we began hearing the name Osama bin Laden >and there is an enormous body of evidence building already that Osama >bin Laden is not and was not capable of pulling this off by himself. >Period. Historically, it is extremely well documented that Osama bin >Laden is and was a creation of the Central Intelligence Agency > > > > > >9-11 Insider Trading >Suppressed Details of Criminal Insider Trading Lead Directly into the >CIA's Highest Ranks >CIA Executive Director "Buzzy" Krongard Managed Firm That Handled "Put" >Options On UAL >Suspicious trading points to advance knowledge by big investors of 9/11 >attacks >In the two weeks preceding the September 11 terror attacks on New York >and Washington, there was a sudden and unaccountable rush of speculative >trades on the US stock and bond markets that indicate some wealthy and >well-connected investors had advance knowledge of the impending >catastrophe > > > > > >The Planes >Da Planes!, Da Planes! - National Security and Interception Procedures >>From the FAA's website > >Mother of All Lies About 9/11 > >This is a story about a little white lie that bred dozens of other >little white lies, then hundreds of bigger white lies and so on, to the >point where the first little white lie must be credited as the “Mother >of All Lies” about events on 11 September 2001. For this was the little >white lie that first activated the American psyche, generated mass >loathing, and enabled media manipulation of the global population. >Without this little white lie there would have been no Arab Hijackers, >no Osama Bin Laden directing operations from afar, and no “War on >Terror” in Afghanistan and occupied Palestine. Though at the time the >little white lie was flagged with a powerful political name, there was >and remains no evidence to support the connection. >Guilty For 9-11: Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers > >Introduction and Part 1 On 11 September there were two entire squadrons >of combat-ready fighter jets at Andrews Air Force Base, 10 miles from >Washington. Their job was to protect the skies over Washington D.C. They >failed to do their job. Despite over one hour's advance warning of a >terrorist attack in progress, not a single Andrews fighter tried to >protect the city. Update to Part 1 The Andrews Air Force Base Website >went down after 9-11 and now is back online. Web pages have been removed >that made it clear that Andrews had combat-ready fighter jets. This >contradicts official claims... Part 2: Mr. Cheney's Cover Story During a >Meet The Press interview Dick Cheney created the impression that the >military would have needed presidential authorization to scramble >fighter jets to intercept American Airlines Flight 77 before it hit the >Pentagon Then based on this false foundation, ... Part 3: Bush in the >Open Normal air safety and air defense measures were not employed on >September 11th... that this stand-down of the air protection systems >could not have occurred absent the involvement of top officials -- >George Walker Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard B. Myers. > >Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel >For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came >late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport >security -- a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist >attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their >air travel. > >Scrambled Messages >a Sept. 15 Boston Globe story, which stated: "[T]he command did not >immediately scramble any fighters even though it was alerted to a >hijacking 10 minutes before the first planeslammed into the first World >Trade Center tower... The spokesman said the fighters remained on the >ground until after the Pentagon was hit..." U.S. inaction was all the >more astonishing because the same story had Snyder admitting that >"fighters routinely intercept aircraft." > >How Did United Flight 93 Crash? >"If you were here to see it, you'd have no doubt," Decker said. "It was >a jet plane, and it had to be flying real close when that 757 went down. >If I was the FBI, I'd find out who was driving that plane." Late >Thursday afternoon, federal agents who spoke to reporters at the crash >site said "there was no evidence as of yet" that a second plane was >nearby when Flight 93 plunged into a strip mine. > >Operation 911: NO SUICIDE PILOTS >There were no "suicide" pilots on those September 11 jets. The jets were >controlled by advanced robotics and remote-control technology, not >hijackers. Fantastic? Before I explain, read about the history-making >robot/remote-controlled jet plane. > > > > > >The Towers >World Trade Center Demolition >There were always problems with the "Arab hijackers" theory, but since >only those ready to die for their cause would deliberately kill >themselves by flying planes into the Twin Towers there seemed no >alternative. New evidence, however, has emerged, and it now seems that >it was entirely an inside job, with no Arabs directly involved (except >those who happened to be innocent passengers on the doomed planes). Hard >to believe, perhaps (especially because of the constant repetition in >the mainstream media, in the weeks following the event, of the term >"suicide attack"). Shocking, yes. But if one looks at the evidence, and >thinks about it, this is what emerges...New evidence suggests that in >fact only one of these Boeings crashed ­ the one that crashed in >Pennsylvania. > >Wag The WTC >The contractor whose people were the first on the WTC collapse scene >--to cart away the rubble that remains-- is the same contractor who >demolished and hauled away the shell of the bombed Oklahoma City Murrah >building. The name of the contractor is Controlled Demolition! Their WTC >cleanup contract is worth over $7 Billion. Are you getting the picture? > >NYC Firefighter Says Bombs Went Off in the WTC >We were the first ones in the second tower after the plane struck. I was >taking firefighters up in the elevator to the 24th floor to get in >position to evacuate workers. On the last trip up a bomb went off. We >think there was bombs set in the building. I had just asked another >firefighter to stay with me, which was a good thing because we were >trapped inside the elevator and he had the tools to get out. > > >An argument for explosive demolition at the South Tower >Early reports were that the hot fire was responsible for the collapse, >but other observers pointed out that no kerosene fire can burn hot >enough to melt steel. In point of fact, most of the fuel in the jets was >contained in their wing tanks. The thin aluminum of the tanks was >pierced or stripped as the airplanes penetrated the walls of the towers, >and the result was the huge fireball which was seen on national TV, >where most of this fuel was burned. A hot, vigorous fire would have >blown out many windows in the building and would have burned a red or >white color. This was not what happened. The fire in the World Trade >Center was an ordinary smoldering office fire. But let's suppose that >the fire was hot enough to melt steel. What would have happened in that >case? Before it breaks, hot steel begins to bend. This redistributes the >forces in the structure and puts elastic stress on those parts that are >still cool. The process is asymmetric, so that the structure should >visibly bend before breaking. > >Muslims Suspend Laws of Physics! >I tried to believe. I watched those quarter mile high buildings fall >through their jaw-dropping catastrophes over and over again. I listened >to the announcer and the experts explain what had happened. And I worked >at my pitiful lack of faith, pounding my skull with the remote control >and staring at the flickering images on the TV screen >In Curious Battle: An Expert Recants on Why WTC Collapsed >on September 14th an interview with Van Romero, the director of research >at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Van Romero >studied the videos of the WTC collapse and concluded that the towers >were most likely destroyed by carefully placed demolition charges... We >posted the 'Journal' story with a link to its Web address. But if you go >to that address now, you will find something has been added. The >'Journal' has placed a rebuttal above the original story. Unless you >read almost the entire rebuttal, you won't see the original story. The >most striking thing about the rebuttal article is not that Romero >changed his analysis. Indeed, Van Romero is barely quoted. Rather, the >'Journal' speaks for him. What we found most striking is the obviously >partisan way the article is written, the intensity of the retraction and >the atmosphere of panic. One gets the impression that somebody came down >very hard on this scientist and perhaps on the 'Journal' as well. > > > >The Pentagon >Analysis of the Attack of the Pentagon >The first and most important task after arriving at the scene of a crime >would be to examine the plane wreckage and determine the point of >impact, the trajectory, angle and speed of the aircraft at the point of >impact. There is only one problem. There is no trace of recognizable >wreckage from a Boeing 757! There is no fuselage, no tail section, there >are no wheels, engines, wings, luggage or passenger seats, nor are there >any bodies to be found. This leads us to our first and foremost >question, if a Boeing 757 crashed into the Pentagon as was reported by >the media and government officials, where did it go? What evidence is >there to support the theory of an airliner careening into the building? > >Independent Flight 77 - Pentagon Event Investigation >It has occurred to me that my theory has taken a turn toward the >'extreme.' This was not intentional. I merely started out to debunk the >French site, a seemingly simple task with the data available. I rejected >most of the 'radical' theories out-right, but research has compelled me >to look at some very disturbing circumstantial evidence. I still hold a >more pro-American viewpoint and at the same time realize the extreme >nature of the situation I propose requires the most extreme of measures >to be taken only in an emergency as grave as war. This is war-time >thinking. This is only a theory > >The Pentagon Crash Pictures >It is my guess that the intended target was the fuel tanks for the >helicopter pad, but that the jet was fractionally off course. Another >theory is going around that the new Naval Intelligence section was the >target. It all depends on the level of planning and the cynicism of >those that planned it. Without a full investigation, we will never know. > >Un Boeing 757 s'est-il vraiment écrasé sur le Pentagone le 11 septembre >2001? >French site with different photos with many 1st hand accounts in English >w/links to original sources. > >Signs of a Cover-up at the Pentagon >Yet what can be said of the plane crash at the Pentagon – we heard about >it soon enough, but very few images were forthcoming on the day, and the >bulk of what we saw afterwards were still photos of the collapsed >portion of the pentagon and a few pictures of fire-fighters attempting >to extinguish the blaze. No sign of any video recordings, very few >witness reports and definitely nothing to show us the event as it >happened. > >Criminal Negligence or Treason >If it was difficult to believe that the third plane was not spotted, >then it is a good deal harder to believe that it was spotted and tracked >for over half an hour and yet nothing was done because officials "didn't >know what to do." Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, said >that the Pentagon had been tracking the fourth plane and could have shot >it down if necessary. If they "could have shot" down the fourth plane, >why did they not shoot down the third? Once they knew these were suicide >hijackings - and surely they knew that by around 9:00 am - why would >they wait? > > > > War with Afghanistan Planned Before 9-11 >US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11 >Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have >revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during the >summer of 2001. These reports include the prediction, made in July, that >“if the military action went ahead, it would take place before the snows >started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.” > >US 'planned attack on Taliban' >A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning >military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban even before last >week's attacks. Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was >told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action >against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. > >BBC Radio Report > >Why Washington Wants Afghanistan >It has also served to obscure a most important question: does Washington >have a hidden agenda here, a strategy other than hurling bombs? If so, >what is it, and what does it mean for the world? > > > > > >The History >US pulls the plug on Muslim websites >Reported Monday September 10, 2001 -- Five hundred websites - many of >them with an Arab or Muslim connection - crashed last Wednesday when an >anti-terrorism taskforce raided InfoCom Corporation in Texas. The >80-strong taskforce that descended upon the IT company included FBI >agents, Secret Service agents, Diplomatic Security agents, tax >inspectors, immigration officials, customs officials, department of >commerce officials and computer experts. > >Enron Pipedreams Buried in Afghanistan >But if the White House, Enron, and Dabhol timelines are combined, >curious details appear. On November 6, 2001, a top official in the Bush >Administration tells India that a payoff to Enron had risen "to the >highest levels of the United States government." Five days earlier, Bush >had signed Executive Order 13233, which limits public access to papers >of all presidents since 1980--including George W. Bush. >Giuliani Invokes Hitler-Rockefeller-Bush Conspiracy to Explain 9/11 >Hitler, Saddam and bin Laden have much in common besides being mass >murderers. All worked for, were financed by and were armed at the >direction of America's top corporate interests, most conspicuously among >them corporations and individuals associated with the Rockefeller and >Bush families and with the men who created CIA policy. > >WSWS Series: Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack? >Part 3:The United States and Mideast terrorism There are two assumptions >here: first, that US agents could not penetrate the terrorist circles; >and second, that American agents would have intervened to stop an attack >had they learned of it in advance. Both these assumptions are >questionable. > >Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business >partner? > Online Journal's Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific >events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising >the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal >prior to his tragic death on July 18. > >An Overview of The War on Terrorism >As questions remain over the attacks of September 11, so too must >questions be asked about the vested interests behind the US-led push for >a war on terrorism. > >US State Department Sponsors Training of Would-Be Terrorists >According to a reliable source, one of the Iranians involved in the >bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, took training courses at >the Redstone Arsenal's school of explosives. He enrolled in this course >under the guise of a Pakistani military officer with Pakistani uniform >and credentials. This is important to note because Al Martin Raw has >previously reported that many hostile nations have a visible presence at >the US Redstone Arsenal. Evidently "terrorists," as well as regular >armed forces and intelligence officers, are also being "trained" at the >Redstone Arsenal. > >Laura Flanders: 'Bush Sr., Cheney have big stakes in Saudi status quo' >"If bin Laden takes over and becomes king of Saudi Arabia, he'd turn off >the tap," Roger Diwan, a managing director of the Petroleum Finance >Company, a consulting firm in Washington, told Banerjee. "He said at one >point that he wants oil to be $144 a barrel - about six times what it >sells for now." And Saudi Arabia, the Times reminds us, is Osama bin >Laden's Enemy No. 1: "Mr. bin Laden has long made clear that his >ultimate goal, more than wreaking havoc in the West, is toppling the >Saud family. And Saudi Arabia would be a crucial target for anyone >seeking to cut deeply into the world oil flow." > > > > > >The FBI >Agent Alleges FBI Ignored Hamas Activities, Sues > An FBI agent in Chicago has accused his superiors of ignoring the >pre-Sept. 11 criminal activities of alleged U.S. associates of the >Islamic Resistance Movement, the terrorist organization also known as >Hamas. The agent also alleged that the bureau steered agents away from >filing criminal cases that he believes could have disrupted Hamas's >operations in this country. Agent Robert G. Wright Jr. made the >accusations last fall in a complaint filed with the Justice Department's >inspector general -- an internal watchdog -- and the FBI's Office of >Professional Responsibility, the internal affairs unit that investigates >the conduct of agents, said sources familiar with the matter. On >Thursday, Wright, a 12-year FBI veteran, filed a lawsuit against the >bureau in U.S. District Court in Washington. He accused the FBI of >violating his First Amendment rights byprohibiting him from making his >complaints public. He also has written a 500-page manuscript he wants to >publish as a book titled "Fatal Betrayals of the Intelligence Mission." > >FBI Director Comments on the Hijackers' Sophistication in Covering Trail >"The hijackers also left no paper trail. In our investigation, we have >not uncovered a single piece of paper - either here in the U.S. or in >the treasure trove of information that has turned up in Afghanistan and >elsewhere - that mentioned any aspect of the September 11th plot. The >hijackers had no computers, no laptops, no storage media of any kind. >They used hundreds of different pay phones and cell phones, often with >prepaid calling cards that are extremely difficult to trace. And they >made sure that all the money sent to them to fund their attacks was >wired in small amounts to avoid detection." > >Scandal Inside the FBI: Did G-Men Miss the Boat on 9/11? >[Newsmax, the source of this item, and Judicial Watch are right wing >organizations.] Prior to putting off the news conference, Judicial Watch >said that "based on the evidence, the FBI Special Agent believes that if >certain investigations had been allowed to run their course, Osama bin >Laden’s network might have been prevented from committing the September >11, 2001 terrorist attacks which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 >innocents.” > >Mysterious Hole in FBI Investigation of the Terror Pilots >Long after the FBI’s official chronology asserts that Atta’s Hamburg >cadre had left Venice, their initial port of entry into American pilot >training, the core of the terrorist group was still moving in and out of >town, asserts "Mohamed Atta ∓ the Venice Flying Circus," a new >documentary investigating the Florida flight schools training terrorist >pilots. An eight-minute segment is airing this week at >www.theconspiracychannel.com. Though it was said to be the most massive >investigation in FBI history, it is a scene the FBI doesn’t even know >occurred. Even though the restaurant is located barely a block from the >terrorists rented home, agents never bothered to question anyone there. > > > > >Opposition to Investigation and Manufactured Evidence >9/11 Widow Looks for Answers in Court > Nearly eight months to the day after the attacks of September 11th, few >details have emerged about how hijackers were able to overtake the four >aircraft they crashed that day. A Derry, New Hampshire widow is trying >to use the courts to get answers, but she is finding her search >frustrated by a series of stumbling blocks. ... From the audio: "for >some reason we're being blocked". United's lawyers have asked the judge >that even the requests for evidence be kept secret! "They're scared of >something, let's have the truth." ... Also see NH widow of 9-11 victim >sues United over crash > >Inquiry of Intelligence Failures Hits Obstacles >Lawmakers leading the investigation of intelligence agencies' failures >surrounding the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are increasingly concerned >that tactics by the CIA and the Justice Department are actively impeding >their efforts, congressional sources said Friday. Members of the Senate >and House intelligence committees are so frustrated with the tactics, >sources said, that they intend to complain directly to CIA Director >George J. Tenet and Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft. > >Head of Congressional Probe Into Sept. 11 Quits >The head of a joint congressional investigation into why U.S. >intelligence agencies failed to detect the plot that led to the Sept. 11 >attacks on America has resigned. Britt Snider, a retired CIA inspector >general, was hired in February to conduct the review for the Senate and >House intelligence committees. Some members of the panels had objected >to his selection, saying Snider was too closely tied to the spy agency >and CIA Director George Tenet to conduct an impartial review. > >Mohamed Atta's E-Mail List > Mohamed Atta sent polemical emails, including one containing a >gruesome photo of a dead Palestinian child, to a regular email list of >some 40 individuals, all of whom became the focus of intense scrutiny >from the FBI after the list’s existence became known last September, >the MadCow Morning News has learned. Alarmingly, the email addresses >of several of the names on Atta’s ‘terrorist e-list’ appear to have >been, or still are, employees of US defense contractors. > >What Muslim would write: 'The time of fun and waste is gone'? >Fearful, chilling, grotesque - but also very, very odd. If the >handwritten, five-page document which the FBI says it found in the >baggage of Mohamed Atta, the suicide bomber from Egypt, is genuine, then >the men who murdered more than 7,000 innocent people believed in a very >exclusive version of Islam - or were surprisingly unfamiliar with their >religion. >Uncle Sam's lucky finds >Of course you could interpret these discoveries differently. You could >detect in them the clear hand of American propaganda. This isn't, of >course, to claim a dirty tricks department somewhere in the heart of >Washington. That would have you immediately accused of peddling >conspiracy theories, though I'm coming to think that conspiracy theories >have had a bad press. What are they, after all, but "joined-up >government" by another name? > >Flight School Owner Changes Story Again >While the media spotlight was on the mis-cues at the perennially >"troubled" INS, the real news this week was that Rudi Dekkers was >telling reporters a significantly different version of his relationship >with terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta than he gave in the wake of the >September 11 disaster. Several key details in Dekker's public account of >Mohamed Atta's stay in this country changed, even as, claiming to feel >"vindicated," Dekkers tried to use the INS snafu to his public relations >advantage. What no one has noted till now is that this is the third >mutually-contradictory account Dekkers has given so far on the simple >question of how much the two paid for their flight lessons. > >WTC Probe Ills Bared >About 80% of the structural steel from the World Trade Center was >scrapped without being examined by even one fire expert, mostly because >investigators did not have the authority to preserve the wreckage as >evidence, the experts said. "The lack of significant amounts of steel >for examination will make it difficult, if not impossible, to make a >definitive statement as to the specific cause and chronology of the >collapse," > >Good Morning America interviews Julie Sirrs, former DIA analyst >All I know is what people at DIA told me that the State Department also >had a large role in wanting very harsh measures to be taken against me >to get me kicked out of DIA, basically. And that, to this day, I'm >honestly not sure exactly why other than regional sensitivities, >particularly with Pakistan, as we saw even pre--after September 11th, >not wanting us to be involved there. > >The truth is out there ... right? >"The right wing benefited so much from September 11 that, if I were >still a conspiratorialist, I would believe they'd done it." -- Norman >Mailer > >[To anyone who makes a blanket dismissal of "conspiracy theories" -- >remind them that the official Bush party line is itself a massive >conspiracy theory: a worldwide network of religious fanatics, led and >trained by a billionaire's son who lives in caves, protected by a feudal >government in one of the most backwards places on earth, funded to the >tens of millions of dollars by a worldwide network of crime and covert >transactions, leading to suicide hijackings and bombings.] > >WSWS Series: Was the US government alerted to September 11 attack? >Part4: The refusal to investigate More than four months after the >largest single act of mass murder ever to take place on US soil, there >have been no congressional hearings, no investigating commission has >been announced, and calls for such a panel have been largely ignored. >Even internal FBI investigations have been shelved. This inaction is >extraordinary and has no legitimate political explanation. It stinks of >political cover-up. > >The strange case of Zacarias Moussaoui: FBI refused to investigate man >charged in September 11 attacks >The case of Zacarias Moussaoui raises many questions about the conduct >of the FBI and other US intelligence agencies in the period leading up >the September11. It is the clearest example of the almost inexplicable >refusal on the part of these agencies to take any action that could have >prevented the bloodiest terrorist attack in American history. > >"Has Someone Been Sitting On The FBI?" >Osama went to Afghanistan not as some lone fanatic, but rather as the >representative of Saudi royalty, because his billionaire family is part >of the ruling class of Saudi Arabia. > >US agents told: Back off bin Ladens >US special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the >Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president [sic], although >that has all changed since September 11, it was reported today. And the >BBC2's Newsnight program also said the younger George Bush made his >first million 20 years ago with an oil company partly funded by the >chief US representative of Salem bin Laden, Osama's brother, who took >over as head of the family after his father Mohammed's death in a plane >crash in 1968. > >The So-Called Evidence Is a Farce >Goff cites two premises that should not, that must not, be accepted at >this hour without more convincing proof: "One, there is the premise that >what this de facto administration is doing now is a 'response' to >September 11th. Two, there is the premise that this attack on the World >Trade Center and the Pentagon was done by people based in Afghanistan. >In my opinion, neither of these is sound." > >Seven of the WTC Hijackers found alive! >Some of the men the FBI claims hijacked planes on Sept. 11 and crashed >them into the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon, and Stony >Creek Township, Pennsylvania are still alive. No they weren't pulled >from the rubble, they were never on the planes. > > > > >The Strange Death ofJohn O'Neill, The Counter-Terrorist >http://www.rememberjohn.com/ >Had he survived, the events since then would have unfolded quite >differently...and a President would be embroiled in a scandal like the >country has never seen! > >John O'Neill was an F.B.I. agent with an obsession: the growing threat >of Al Qaeda. >The legend of John P. O'Neill, who lost his life at the World Trade >Center on September 11th, begins with a story by Richard A. Clarke, the >national coordinator for counter-terrorism in the White House from the >first Bush Administration until last year. On a Sunday morning in >February, 1995, Clarke went to his office to review intelligence cables >that had come in over the weekend. One of the cables reported that Ramzi >Yousef, the suspected mastermind behind the first World Trade Center >bombing, two years earlier, had been spotted in Pakistan. Clarke >immediately called the F.B.I. A man whose voice was unfamiliar to him >answered the phone. "O'Neill," he growled. "Who are you?" Clarke said. >"I'm John O'Neill," the man replied. "Who the hell are you?" O'Neill had >just been appointed chief of the F.B.I.'s counter-terrorism section, in >Washington. > > > > > >Foreign Media Can Ask the Questions the US Media Can't >VisionTV Insight Mediafile with Barrie Zwicker: "The Great Deception" >Transcript: Part 1 (Broadcast Date: Mon Jan 21) In the almost two hours >of the total drama not a single U.S. Air Force interceptor turns a wheel >until it’s too late. Why? Was it total incompetence on the part of >aircrews trained and equipped to scramble in minutes? Transcript: Part 2 >(Broadcast Date: Mon Jan 28) The day the chartered Learjet carrying >golfer Payne Stewart crashes, killing all on board, the air traffic >controller calls in the military. It’s standard procedure, followed >routinely, to call in the Air Force when radio contact with a commercial >passenger jet is lost, or the plane departs from its flight path, or >anything along those lines occurs. 9:54 – 16 minutes later -- the F-16 >reaches the Learjet at 46,000 feet and conducts a visual inspection. >Total elapsed time: 21 minutes. > >Transcript: Part 3 (Broadcast Date: Mon Feb 4) bin Laden is merely a >piece in a chess game. The stakes of the game are the last of the >world’s oil reserves and “ the Bush administration’s(consolidation of >power) to pursue a drastic unlimited militarization of foreign policy on >a massive and unprecedented scale required by long-standing elite >planning, while crushing domestic dissent and criminalizing legitimate >protest.” Transcript: Part 4 (Broadcast Date: Mon Feb 11) The >psychological trick at the heart of September 11th, by the way, is that >people confuse their compassion for the victims with their certainty >about who the perpetrators are. The public was presented with instant >perpetrators. The trick will most likely continue working for all future >planned invasions – looks as if Iraq is next – so long as the public >remains blindfolded by the media. > >Transcript: Part 5 (Broadcast Date: Mon Feb 18) Wait a minute! The >president tells us he saw the incredible image of the first plane going >in. [which video wasn't found and broadcast until much later] He went >ahead with an easily-cancelable appointment. Why? He tells us he knew >his country was under attack, yet he continued to listen to a student >talk about her pet goat, and such, for another 25 minutes. Why? >Transcript: Part 6 (Broadcast Date: Mon Feb 25) The less people ask >themselves questions about deceit the more it clears the way for >organizations such as the CIA to continue to receive seemingly unending >billions of dollars. Taxpayer money used to train terrorists, as the CIA >acknowledges it has. To destabilize governments, as former CIA agent >John Stockwell writes in his book In Search of Enemies. And to inject >toxic grey, white and black disinformation into the world’s information >systems, as William Blum spells out in Killing Hope. All with barely a >whisper of dissent. > > > >General 9-11 Sites and Articles >The Case For Bush Administration Advance Knowledge Of 9/11 Attacks >A dispassionate examination of existing reliable, open-source evidence >on advance warnings of the Sept. 11 attacks provides strong and >sustainable grounds to conclude the Bush Administration was in >possession of sufficient advance intelligence to have prevented the >attacks, had it wished to do so. With a known intelligence budget of >approximately $30 billion, it must be assumed there are classified files >that only add to the weight of the available data presented here. > >Online Journal™ Part 1 of a four-part series -- September 11: The >circumstantial case >It is precisely for reasons of patriotism that these avenues need to be >pursued. If they are true, they represent a clear and present danger to >the United States from within our borders and from the very people we >entrust to protect us. A failure to listen to facts and conclusions that >are unpleasant or disturbing will not help us, rather it will only play >into the hands of those who want to make us less free. > >Facts for 911-Beginners >At least 100 Webpages are working 24/7 on collecting details, which can >prove that there have been at least 10, 15 early warnings about an >attack on America, which was ignored by CIA and Pentagon. It's also >obvious, that prior knowledge was ignored to get an official reason to >start a war against the Taliban and "war against terrorism". Therefore >since January 2002 a petition is collecting signatures to start a public >investigation to investigate the 911-oddities. This petition is already >known at the US Congress who decided to start a investigation with the >help of a former CIA inspector. But this hasn't been made public enough >yet and it will probably not be a public one. > >Momentum growing for inquiry into "oddities" of September 11 >In January 2000, Bob Gipson of El Dorado County, California, wrote his >congressman expressing his fear that the U.S. government would >orchestrate a terrorist attack on "certain" U.S. cities and blame the >attacks on "Islamic terrorists." Gipson told Rep. John T. Doolittle >(R-Ca) he thought the "operation" would be a platform for declaring >martial law in the U.S. When the World Trade Center and Pentagon >attacks occurred on September 11, 2001, Gipson had a sickening feeling >this was the event he feared. ... A congressional investigation cannot >come soon enough for Bob Gipson. Now, he has renewed dread that his >government is planning another attack on U.S. citizens, this time >leaving Saddam Hussein's fingerprints as a pretext to garner public >support to attack Iraqi citizens. > >“It was a pretty cheap price to pay for unifying the country” >Anyone wondering how American military and intelligence officers could >have looked the other way in the months leading up to the massacre of >some 3,200 people in three states can ponder the words of Lt. Commander >Joseph J. Rochefort. Referring to the deaths of more than 3,000 American >military personnel whom he helped betray one sunny Sunday morning after >using code-broken communications intercepts to track Japanese carriers >to the island of Oahu, Rochefort remarked to a naval historian: “It was >a pretty cheap price to pay for unifying the country.” > > > >Back to Index >Revised: 16 May 2002 > > > >http://falloutshelternews.com Copyright © 2002 by Fallout Shelter News >All rights reserved -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Bug Sweep, Spy Hunting, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James M. 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