Reply #9: An anniversary of another sort

[illiteratepresident]

It was on September 11, 1973 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3646660.stm that the elected leader of Chile, Salvador Allende, was killed in a military coup. Political killings, torture and disappearings ensued as Allende worked to put down public dissent.

That good Republican foreign policy was kicking well then: Newly declassified documents show our then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger all but blessing the killing and torure practices of this regime:
"IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE, YOU SHOULD DO THEM QUICKLY" http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB133 /
Of course the problem was that darned Terrorism thingy...maybe the killing and torture was all justified...that's the way we think now. 3 years later. It's wrong thinking.

'TERRORISM' is the best catch all word invented in the last hundred years, especially if you are selling arms or running dope on the side..."Our main problem in Argentina is terrorism. It is the first priority of the current government that took office on March 24. There are two aspects to the solution. The first is to ensure the internal security of the country; the second is to solve the most urgent economic problems over the coming 6 to 12 months. Argentina needs United States understanding and support…." At a time when the international community, the U.S. media, universities, and scientific institutions, the U.S. Congress, and even the U.S. Embassy in Argentina were clamoring about the indiscriminate human rights violations against scientists, labor leaders, students, and politicians by the Argentine military, Secretary Kissinger told Guzzetti: "We are aware you are in a difficult period. It is a curious time, when political, criminal, and terrorist activities tend to merge without any clear separation. We understand you must establish authority."

Prescient.

As you may recall, that scion of moral turpitude was of course GW's first pic for the chair of the 9/11 commission (after finally relenting to allow its creation at all.). Second stringer and retired New Jersey Governor Tom Kean instead filled the slot when it became clear his consultancy was more important to Kissinger than covering his buddy GW's ass.. On this anniversary, let's not fail to take a look at Mr. Kean for just a moment:

Fortune Magazine reports ... that both Kean and Bush share an unusually well-placed business partner: one Khalid bin Mahfouz -- perhaps better known as "Osama bin Laden's bagman" or even "Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law."
Kean, like so many worthies, followed the revolving door out of public service into lucrative sweetheart deals and well-wadded sinecures on corporate boards. One of these, of course, is an oil company--pretty much a requirement for White House work these days. (Or as the sign says on the Oval Office door: "If your rigs ain't rockin', don't come a-knockin'!") Kean is a director of Amerada Hess, an oil giant married up to Saudi Arabia's Delta Oil in a venture to pump black gold in Azerbaijan. (The partnership is incorporated in a secretive offshore "tax haven," natch. You can't expect a worthy like Kean to pay taxes like some grubby wage slave.)
One of Delta's biggest backers is the aforesaid Mahfouz, a Saudi wheeler-dealer who has bankrolled some of most dubious players on the world scene: Abu Nidal, Manuel Noreiga, Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush. Mahfouz was also a front for the bin Laden family, funneling their vast wealth through American cut-outs in a bid to gain power and influence in the United States.
One of those cut-outs was Mahfouz factotum James Bath http://www.michaelmoore.com/_media/images/documents/sal ... a partner in George W.'s early oil venture, Arbusto http://stewwebb.com/Money%20Laundering%20BCCI%20A%20Mys ... . Bath has admitted serving as a pass-through for secret Saudi money. Years later, when Bush's maladroit business skills were about to sink another of his companies, Harken Energy, the firm was saved by a $25 million investment from a Swiss bank--a subsidiary of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BBCI), partly owned by the beneficent Mahfouz.
What was BCCI? Only "one of the largest criminal enterprises in history," according to the U.S. Senate. What did BCCI do? "It engaged in pandemic bribery of officials in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas," says journalist Christopher Bryon, who first exposed the operation. "It laundered money on a global scale, intimidated witnesses and law officers, engaged in extortion and blackmail. It supplied the financing for illegal arms trafficking and global terrorism. It financed and facilitated income tax evasion, smuggling and prostitution." http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd01312003.html
Boston Herald , December 10, 2001
Two billionaire Saudi families scrutinized by authorities for possible financial ties to Osama bin Laden's terrorist network continue to engage in major oil deals with leading U.S. corporations.
The bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi clans, who control three private Saudi Arabian oil companies, are partners with U. S. firms in a series of ambitious oil development and pipeline projects in central and south Asia, records show.
Working through their companies - Delta Oil, Nimir Petroleum and Corral Petroleum - the Saudi families have formed international consortiums with U. S. oil giants Texaco, Unocal, Amerada Hess and Frontera Resources.
These business relationships persist despite evidence that members of the two Saudi families - headed by patriarchs Khalid bin Mahfouz and Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi - have had ties to Islamic charities and companies linked financially to bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization. So far, bin Mahfouz and Al-Amoudi, who have denied any involvement with bin Laden, have been left untouched by the U. S. Treasury Department, which has frozen the assets of 150 individuals, companies and charities suspected of financing terrorism.
According to a May 1999 report by the U. S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia, Delta Oil was created by 50 prominent Saudi investors in the early 1990s. <snip> Meanwhile, information continues to circulate in intelligence circles in the United States and Europe suggesting wealthy Saudi businessmen have provided financial support to bin Laden.
Much of it revolves around a 1999 audit conducted by the Saudi government that reportedly discovered that the bin Mahfouz family's National Commercial Bank had transferred at least $ 3 million to charitable organizations believed to be fronts for bin Laden's terror network.
http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q4c.html

But that audit supposedly never happenned and the story was supposedly a lie, quickly retracted two years earlier in 1999 (censorship and Saudi protection at work): http://www.usatoday.com/news/2004-04-12-correction_x.ht ... The claim was that the discredited Christian Kookoo reporter http://mccarthy.vg/articles/04/03/21/1752236.shtml wrote this story, ergo it is false. Yet there it is again two years later in the Boston Paper. Why? Because these guys know something about middle east banking, having covered local Seantor John Kerry's lengthy & successful attempt to bring down the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International. This is a bank whose subsidary loaned money to George W. Bush for one of his early oil failures. A bank his brother Jeb, then the Florida Secretary of State and of course son of the Vice President, went to openings for in Florida and again in Atlanta, lending Bush prestige to the new institutions. Abank found to be involved in money laundering, drug trafficking and terror funding. An institution that enjoyed the commerical affections of the aforementioned guilding moral light of Republican foreign policy, one Henry Kissinger. http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/20kiss.ht ...

The whole BCCI thing is fascinating, especially since catching them is one of John Kerry's signature achievements and an early strike at the heart of Islamic terror.
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/06200 ...
The BCCI Affair A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci /
United States Senate bySenator John Kerry and Senator Hank Brown December 1992 102d Congress 2d Session Senate Print 102-140
or check out a more polemical reference I particularly enjoyed for weaving in the Facts about Bush family ties to this most-crooked-of-all crooked bank: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0409.sir ... .
Anwayz....Back to the commission...

Here's a letter from fired FBI translator and whistlebower and 9/11 commission witness Sibel Edmonds http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Sibel_Edmo ... to the chairman: You are now asking us to pledge our support for this report, its recommendations, and implementation of these recommendations, with our trust and backing, our tax money, our security, and our lives. Unfortunately, I find your report seriously flawed in its failure to address serious intelligence issues that I am aware of, which have been confirmed, and which as a witness to the commission, I made you aware of. Thus, I must assume that other serious issues that I am not aware of were in the same manner omitted from your report. These omissions cast doubt on the validity of your report and therefore on its conclusions and recommendations. Considering what is at stake, our national security, we are entitled to demand answers to unanswered questions, and to ask for clarification of issues that were ignored and/or omitted from the report. I, Sibel Edmonds, a concerned American Citizen, a former FBI translator, a whistleblower, a witness for a United States Congressional investigation, a witness and a plaintiff for the Department of Justice Inspector General investigation, and a witness for your own 9/11 Commission investigation, request your answers to, and your public acknowledgement of, the following questions and issues: http://www.911truth.org/readingroom/whole_document.php ?...

Here is the background on this mostly unknown but critical witness http://www.thememoryhole.org/spy/edmonds.htm, so much so in fact that the government has retroactively classified letters from Senators who are asking the commission to further investigate Ms. Edmonds' claims http://www.thememoryhole.org/spy/edmonds_letters.htm .

This astonishing story AGAIN has to do with protecting the Arab OILigarchy http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=gra ... (and their traitor friends http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&q=sib ... in the intel comunity) also. I found this purely speculative piece interesting in light of the hard cold facts linked above http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/073104Mejia/073 ... and this story I then recalled from a New York Times article http://foi.missouri.edu/terrorintelligence/ciagiven.htm ... .

Some other Bush adminsitration officials are in on the venture that should've disqualified Kean: Former Bush Secretary of the Treasury Nicholas Brady and a former Bush assistant, Edith E. Holiday, are both on the board of directors of Amerada Hess , an American petroleum firm currently teaming up with several powerful Saudi families to develop oil fields in Azerbaijan.
"Another company that has done business with wealthy Saudis is international energy firm Frontera Resources Corp. based in Houston. Until recently, Frontera was a 30 percent investor in a $900 million project to develop oilfields in Azerbajian. Also investing in the project were Azerbaijan's state-run oil company and Delta-Hess, a joint-venture created by the Saudis' Delta Oil** and Amerada Hess.

Besides the hue and cry over Tom Kean's business dealings, 9/11 victims' family members http://www.911independentcommission.org / made quite a stink http://foi.missouri.edu/terrorintelligence/gpscall.html about the selection of Commission Director Phil Zelikow. No one in the mainstream press seemed to care much though. Much as their questions about why the Bin Ladens got to fly around while the rest of the country was grounded http://web.archive.org/web/20011108145853/http:/www.tam ... have also gone unanswered http://www.wanttoknow.info/010930nytimes .
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Now of course this just a cascade of coincidences, I know.

Could be nothing at all after all.

Except these coincidences lead to a certain day, a certain set of events three years ago today when the laws of physics were suspended http://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/analysis/compare/fires .... and the first and only steel framed buildings ever to collapse from fire went down. But the illegal destruction of the scene of the fire precludes explaining this unprecedented situation. Look what the firemen had to say on the matter as the site was being cleaned up: http://fe.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Sect ...
Planes apparently don't make special fires, at least not the one that flew into the Empire State Building http://www.evesmag.com/empirestatecrash.htm .

Senator Dayton's remarks on NORAD at http://911sb.org/911.wmv - innocent mistakes, just another coincidence of unbelievable negligence happening for the first and only time on this one particular morning?

Happy Anniversary - it's the third birthday of the most coincidence-riddled day in history.

In related news...

Molding public opinion here are this week's disappearing news stories. They wouldn't want ya to get the wrong idea about the Israelis, the other half of the religous wars our friendly leaders have been creating for us...

Everyone knows we funded Bin Laden & the mujahadeen. Everyone does.
http://www.fas.org/irp/news/1994/afghan_war_vetrans.htm ...

But almost no one knows Israel grew & popularized Hamas, finding the secular PLO in need of replacement, either as a partner or an enemy. I think it was to make it a religious war. That's my take only though. Still, the FACT IS that Israel directly funded Hamas. There seems to be a database error on the host, but here is the Google cache of the UPI story: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:UisiAM8xJTkJ:www.upi ...
This disappearing UPI page ~could be getting censored since the AIPAC pentagon spy scandal is going on now http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=aipac+spy&bt ... . It would not be the only instance of censorship I have recently come across. Here is a story that did not last two weeks on the Houston Chronicle's website because it made the Israelis look like the NAZIS they are: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:VCgMPCjfx5wJ:www.chr ...
We never listen to voices of reason...it's not as profitable as running drugs http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/nsaebb2.h ... and fomenting wars.
Ike had no trouble believing in the conspiratorial threats http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/news/20010430 / of the military industrial complex, taking the occasion of his last speech in 1961 to warn us about it. http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/%7Ehst306/documents/indu ...
The Best Defense is No Offense http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-306.html