Reply #6: What makes me go "hmmm" about 911

[JohnyCanuck]

Back in 1980 when Italians opened their newspapers to hear about a terrorist bomb blowing up the train station in Bologna Italy killing 85 people, I am sure they all were dutifully outraged at the callousness and murderous savagery of the bloodthirsty terrorists responsible for this act of mass murder.

Too bad it takes 20 years for it to come out that this terrorist attack, in addition to others taking place in Europe in that time frame, were part of the NATO/CIA/MI6 formulated Operation Gladio designed to use terror attacks against civilian targets for propaganda purposes and to cause the civilian victims to turn to the state for greater "protection."

You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."

This was the essence of Operation Gladio, a decades-long covert campaign of terrorism and deceit directed by the intelligence services of the West -- against their own populations. Hundreds of innocent people were killed or maimed in terrorist attacks -- on train stations, supermarkets, cafes and offices -- which were then blamed on "leftist subversives" or other political opponents. The purpose, as stated above in sworn testimony by Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra, was to demonize designated enemies and frighten the public into supporting ever-increasing powers for government leaders -- and their elitist cronies.

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Among the "smoking guns" unearthed by Ganser is a Pentagon document, Field Manual FM 30-31B, which details the methodology for launching terrorist attacks in nations that "do not react with sufficient effectiveness" against "communist subversion." Ironically, the manual states that the most dangerous moment comes when leftist groups "renounce the use of force" and embrace the democratic process. It is then that "U.S. army intelligence must have the means of launching special operations which will convince Host Country Governments and public opinion of the reality of the insurgent danger." Naturally, these peace-throttling "special operations must remain strictly secret," the document warns.

Indeed, it would not do for the families of the 85 people ripped apart by the Aug. 2, 1980 bombing of the Bologna train station to know that their loved ones had been murdered by "men inside Italian state institutions and ... men linked to the structures of United States intelligence," as the Italian Senate concluded after its investigation in 2000.

Sword Play: Attacking Civilians to Justify "Greater Security"

As for 9/11 itself, here are just a few of the anomalies surrounding 9/11 that were not properly addressed by the Kean Commission's report:

1) There was the massive insider trading in the airline stocks affected by the hijackings which we were told would be rigorously followed up as undoubtedly it would lead back to the hijackers. The investigation went nowhere and was quietly dropped with little or no attention paid by the media.

Buzzy Krongard managed firm that handled put options on UAL

2) There were multiple war games and hijacking exercises which drew fighter aircraft away from the North East air corridors and caused confusion and delay in responding appropriately to the first reports of hijackings.

The War Games of September 11th

Dr. Robert Bowman former head of Star Wars for the DOD and a retired fighter pilot and Lt. Col in the USAF (Viet Nam era) has come forward to state publicly that the 9/11 operation looks like an inside job, especially the initial delay in fighter response to the hijackings. Bowman is calling for a new investigation since the Kean Commission was obviously such a coverup as to what really occurred that day. Speech by Bowman posted at youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG64t73Yo94


3) Sibel Edmonds the fired FBI whistleblower (still under an official gag order) who started work with the FBI shortly after 9/11 testified under oath before the Kean Commission about breaches of security and procedure she personally observed within the translation department which were preventing or blocking ongoing investigations into the 9/11 terror attacks from proceeding.

The following is an extract from Ms. Edmond's open letter to the Kean Commission asking why they had not followed up or addressed her concerns (paragraphing is my own for ease in reading. Original was all one paragraph before the SNIP and all one paragraph after the SNIP):

After the terrorist attacks of September 11 we, the translators at the FBI’s largest and most important translation unit, were told to slow down, even stop, translation of critical information related to terrorist activities so that the FBI could present the United States Congress with a record of ‘extensive backlog of untranslated documents’, and justify its request for budget and staff increases.

While FBI agents from various field offices were desperately seeking leads and suspects, and completely depending on FBI HQ and its language units to provide them with needed translated information, hundreds of translators were being told by their administrative supervisors not to translate and to let the work pile up (please refer to the CBS-60 Minutes transcript dated October 2002, and provided to your investigators in January-February 2004). This issue has been confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee (Please refer to Senator Grassley and Senator Leahy’s letters during the summer of 2002, provided to your investigators in January - February 2004).

This confirmed report has been reported to be substantiated by the Department of Justice Inspector General Report (Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: SibelEdmonds and FBI Translation, provided to you prior to the completion of your report). I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue and the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this. (Please refer to tape-recorded 3.5 hours testimony by Sibel Edmonds, provided to your investigators on February 11, 2004).

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Only one month after the catastrophic events of September 11; while many agents were working around the clock to obtain leads and information, and to investigate those responsible for the attacks, those with possible connections to the attack, and those who might be planning possible future attacks; the bureaucratic administrators in the FBI’s largest and most important translation unit were covering up their past failures, blocking important leads and information, and jeopardizing on going terrorist investigations. The supervisor involved in this incident, Mike Feghali, was in charge of certain important Middle Eastern languages within the FBI Washington Field Office, and had a record of previous misconducts.

After this supervisor’s several severe misconducts were reported to the FBI’s higher- level management, after his conducts were reported to the Inspector General’s Office, to the United States Congress, and to the 9/11 Commission, he was promoted to include the FBI’s Arabic language unit under his supervision. Today this supervisor, Mike Feghali, remains in the FBI Washington Field Office and is in charge of a language unit receiving those chitchats that our color-coded threat system is based upon. Yet your report contains zero information regarding these systemic problems that led us to our failure in preventing the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In your report, there are no references to individuals responsible for hindering past and current investigations, or those who are willing to compromise our security and our lives for their career advancement and security.

This issue, as with others, is systemic and departmental. Why does your report choose to exclude this information and these serious issues despite all the evidence and briefings you received? Why does your report adamantly refrain from Sibel Edmonds assigning any accountability to any individuals responsible for our past and current failures? How can budget increases address and resolve these intentional acts committed by self- serving career civil servants? How can the addition of a new bureaucratic layer, “Intelligence Czar”, in its cocoon removed from the action lines, address and resolve this problem.

Complete letter posted on Edmond's web site www.justacitizen.org at:
Edmond's letter to Kean Commission (pdf format)