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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 01:55 PM
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German Cancels 9/11 Hearing Appearance
The German prosecutor who headed the investigation into the Hamburg al-Qaida cell has cancelled his appearance before the 9/11 commission.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4207799,00.html
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 02:23 PM
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1. I wonder - might someone have asked him to cancel?
His testimony could have been an embarrassment to the Justice Department. Remember, he lost a case against a supposed Hamburg ally of Atta because Ashcroft barred testimony from Ramzi Binalshibh and other al Qaeda figures in US custody on account of "national security."

Why is it in the greater interest of American "national security" that al Qaeda leaders be barred from giving sworn testimony, than it is to win convictions against alledged terrorists, including those supposedly involved in 9/11?

Reasonable question, no?
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 07:06 PM
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2. I am sure he was asked not to attend
AssCrack doesn't want the truth to get out.

Wasn't Germany one of the countries that gave the US pre 911 warnings we were about to be attacked
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 08:06 PM
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3. German American group sponsored Atta
...move to Hamburg. Don't won't to get into that. Also don't want to get into mullah who brought Hamburg cell together. He walked.
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 09:02 PM
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4. "Put options" rumored to be through Deutsche Bank --
Whattup?
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 09:07 PM
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5. CIA Accused Of Bank Heist



The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) are accused by International Currency Review, the London-based journal, of mounting a joint ultra-secret operation to electronically remove an estimated $10 billion out of the Iraqi Central Bank hours before the start of Persian Gulf War II. The whereabouts of the money is not known.

“We believe it is in a secret CIA fund which will be used to mount further special services operations, such as tracking down Saddam Hussein,” said the Review’s publisher, Christopher Story.

Story is a former financial advisor to Lady Thatcher when she was Britain’s prime minister. In the past 10 years, he has testified before several congressional committees dealing with financial scandals.

DIA coordinates all intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is headquartered in the Pentagon.

The report is titled “The Great Robbery of the Central Bank of Iraq.” It has been sent to finance ministers of leading nations, the World Bank, the Bank of England and heads of all other major banks.

The report is bound to cause huge embarrassment to President Bush after he signed an executive order on March 23, ordering a worldwide hunt for the hidden assets of Saddam Hussein and his family.

The Review claims that using skilled hackers recruited by the DIA and key Iraqi bank officials who had been bribed to provide secret access codes to the Central Bank’s accounts for Saddam Hussein and his family, the money was transferred out of the bank in a high-tech operation.

According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), the investigative agency of Congress, Saddam was estimated to have accumulated “$6.6 billion between 1997 and 2000 from illegal oil smuggling and from illicit deals connected with the United Nations oil for food program.”

But a substantial portion of that money may have been lifted by the secret CIA/DIA operation.

The operation, claims the Review, was masterminded by the CIA/DIA out of a military facility, Redstone Arsenal, in Alabama. It is the base for U.S. Special Ser vices.

“The money was laundered through a number of CIA controlled accounts, including some held in the Discount Bank of Israel, Credit Suisse in Switzerland and the Dresdner Bank in Germany,” said Story.

He confirmed that Germany’s secret service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is checking with the major German banks on electronic transfers, which could match the $10 billion.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/Bank_Heist.html

International Currency Review

Now where have I heard that name before

Business links- involving "the mobilization of trillions of dollars" - by President Bush's father and his brother Neil, were under investigation by America's top spy catcher, Paul Redmond, when he resigned.

A well-placed Washington intelligence source said that Redmond quit after a White House meeting with Vice President Cheney and Attorney General John Ashcroft.

They are known as "The Enforcers" - ensuring there is no taint on the reputation of the increasingly embattled President with the failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

In a document obtained by the respected London-based International Currency Review, it was claimed that after a year long investigation, it had uncovered evidence "of the mobilization of trillions of dollars in 1989-91". The document names a number of banks it alleges were "supervised by the Bush Sr. White House" in the alleged transactions.

"What will cause astonishment is the provence of some of these compromising documents........ We checked these possibilities repeatedly with experts and also consulted banking sources to see whether these documents could possibility be fraudulent. The outcome of these investigations was unequivocally that the documents is genuine.".....Story claimed that the documents were leaked by the Iraqis to "discredit President Bush Sr." as Saddam began to realize that George bush was preparing for war against Iraq.

American Freedom News
Gordon Thomas


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maryallen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-04 10:09 PM
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6. Wonder if the Promis software ...
Played any part in this? Wasn't it the object of Danny Casalaro's (sp.?) -- the reporter who was "suicided" in the 80's -- investigation?

Purportedly, Promis was capable of looking into bank accounts without being detected ... or something along those lines.
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