PART 2: PRESERVATION OF TYRANNY - PROTECTING THE TERRORISTS
By Paul Joseph Watson
"Behold our secret. Remember that the end justifies the means."
Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati.
When one considers the voluminous evidence derived from official sources,
domestic and foreign mainstream media, and alternative media, the only logical
conclusion is that elements within the US Government had specific foreknowledge
of the events of September 11th and allowed the attacks to take place when
preventative measures could and should have been taken to prevent them. There
are many fingers pointing in different directions as to responsibility and
culpability. I claim not to be able to pinpoint precisely which party, if
singular, is to blame. Furthermore, I think that to attempt to identify an
individual faction (such as al-Qaeda) is limited and naive. However, I can
state with absolute certainty that the consensus viewpoint concerning the
attack on America is not merely incorrect, but a damning betrayal towards the
thousands people killed and their mourning relatives.
What is also patently clear is that a New World Order has been fuelled and
accelerated by September 11th. The societal de-evolution is achieving what the
terrorists were supposed to have failed to accomplish, namely throwing the
United States of America into an abyss of tyranny and despotism. Every measure
and approach that would feed the demonic soul of a totalitarian control-freak
such as Hitler or Stalin has been veiled by a facade of preventing further
terrorism and accepted by an alarmed and paranoid population. Despite this,
such fear is not unjustified. Another attack is coming, unless we circumvent
the controlled media and inform the public of the gargantuan inconsistencies
concerning September 11th. This is the second in a series of reports in which I
intend to fulfil that exact brief.
This instalment mainly concerns events prior to September 11th and not the
actual day itself. A full synopsis of the events of that day will be detailed
in a subsequent part of this series.
September 14th, just three days after the attack on America, FBI director
Robert S. Mueller stated, "perhaps one could have averted this."(1) This was in
response to reports confirming that several of the suicide hijackers had
received flight training within the United States. For the moment we will set
aside the shocking revelation that seven of the named nineteen suicide
hijackers are still alive(2), this evidence will appear in a later part of this
report. For the sake of clarity, at this point we will work from the notion
that the FBI's nineteen named hijackers are actually the ones who carried out
the September 11 atrocities (albeit operating under slightly changed birth
dates and/or names with regard to the discrepancies between military training
records and the official FBI list). As you will see, the consensus line can be
attacked from numerous different angles.
The Pensacola Naval Air Station is recognized as the premier naval
installation in the Department of the Navy. The Complex in Escambia and Santa
Rosa counties employs more than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel.
It is also where as many as four of the FBI's nineteen suspected suicide
hijackers participated in the facility's flight training program for foreign
military trainees in the 1990's.(3) Three of these individuals listed their
addresses on drivers licenses and car registrations as the Naval Air Station in
Pensacola, Fla. according to a high-ranking U.S. Navy source.(4) Namely Saeed
Alghamdi and Ahmad Alnami, who allegedly were two of the four men that hijacked
United Airlines Flight 93 and subsequently crashed in Stony Creek Township,
Pennsylvania, and Ahmed Alghamdi*, alleged co-hijacker of United Airlines
Flight 75, which hit the south tower of the World Trade Center. Military
records also confirm that the three used their address as 10 Radford Boulevard,
a base roadway on which residences for foreign military flight trainees are
located. The Florida link is clear. The FBI lists no less than eleven of the
hijackers as having lived or living in Florida, including six in the Delray
Beach area alone.(5) It is also interesting to note that several of the
hijackers, including the lead hijacker Mohamed Atta, lived in Hollywood, hardly
a puritanical hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. With regard to the three
Pensacola students, it is confirmed that their training was financed by Saudi
Arabia, birthplace of the majority of the nineteen hijackers and a supposed
ally of the United States. Days after Newsweek published this story, Florida
Democratic Senator Bill Nelson angrily faxed a message to Attorney General John
Ashcroft, demanding to know if it was correct. The response was a deafening
silence. A spokesman for Senator Nelson subsequently stated, "In the wake of
those reports we asked about the Pensacola Naval Air Station but we never got a
definitive answer from the Justice Department. So we asked the FBI for an
answer ‘if and when’ they could provide us one. Their response to date has been
that they are trying to sort through something complicated and difficult."(6)
This was over five months ago as of February 2002. The Pensacola-terrorist link
has been buried. The story broke in a few mainstream publications in mid-
September but has since vanished. Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Bob Graham also requested information on the Pensacola tie-in. We must assume
that he was also stonewalled or otherwise told to keep the information
confidential, due to the fact that, once again, this story has not since
appeared in the mainstream media.
Common sense suggests that to prevent future acts of suicide hijacking, one
needs to go to the source of their training and shut it down. At the very
least, stern questions need to be asked concerning why three or more of the
alleged September 11 perpetrators were trained at one of the USA's foremost
Naval complexes, and why this shocking notion received scant media attention
and was subsequently subject to a complete press blackout. Then again, the end
justifies the means.
* The Pensacola News Journal report (2) states that Ahmed Alghamdi used the 10
Radford Blvd. address on his drivers license which was issued in 1998. However,
CNN reports (link) that he "Lost his driver's license in 1995 for failing to
pay a traffic fine." This is another example of conflicting circumstances in
relation to the alleged hijackers.
Endnotes
(1) 'FBI Knew Terrorists Were Using Flight Schools' - Steve Fainaru and James
V. Grimaldi - Washington Post - Sunday, September 23, 2001; Page A24
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac3/ContentServer?
pagename=article&articleid=A10840-
2001Sep22&node=nation/specials/attacked/archive or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/fbi_knew_terrorists_using_flight_schools.h
tml (backup)
(2) Seven of the WTC Hijackers found alive! -
http://www.mujahideen.fsnet.co.uk/wtc/wtc-hijackers.htm or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/seven_of_the_wtc_hijackers_found_alive.htm
l (backup) (this is an independent report but identifies mainstream sources)
(3) 'Pensacola NAS link faces more scrutiny' - Larry Wheeler - Pensacola News
Journal - Published Monday September 17th, 2001
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/091701/Local/ST001.shtml or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/pensacola_nas_link_scrutiny.html (backup)
(4) 'Alleged Hijackers May Have Trained at U.S. Bases' - George Wehrfritz,
Catharine Skipp and John Barry - Newsweek
http://www.msnbc.com/news/629529.asp?cp1=1 or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/alleged_hijackers_may_trained_us_bases.htm
l (backup)
(5) US Department of Justice FBI press release - September 27, 2001
http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/092701hjpic.htm or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/fbi_press_release_hijackers.html (backup)
(6) 'Did Terrorist Pilots Train at U.S. Military Schools?' - Daniel Hopsicker -
Mad Cow Morning News (please understand that despite the name of this outlet,
it is by no means a spoof news service, the invetigative journalist, Daniel
Hopsicker, is the author of 'Barry & 'the boys: The CIA, the Mob and America's
Secret History'
http://www.madcowprod.com/index5.html or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/did_terrorist_pilots_train_at_us_military_
schools.html (backup)
(7) 'Bush took FBI agents off Laden family trail' - Rashmee Z. Ahmed - The
Times of India - Wednesday November 7th, 2001
http://www.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1030259305 or
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/bush_took_fbi_off_laden_trail.html (backup)
(8) 'FBI claims Bin Laden inquiry was frustrated' - Greg Palast and David
Pallister - London Guardian - Wednesday November 7, 2001
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4293682,00.html or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/fbi_claims_bin_laden_inquiry_was_frustrate
d.html (backup)
(9) 'Has someone been sitting on the FBI?' - Greg Palast - BBC Newsnight -
Tuesday November 6th, 2001
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_1645000/1645527.stm or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/newsnight_greg_palast_report.html (backup)
* You can view the Real Player broadcast of this at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/attack22.ram
(10) 'ACTIVE FBI SPECIAL AGENT FILES COMPLAINT CONCERNING OBSTRUCTED FBI ANTI-
TERRORIST INVESTIGATIONS' - Judicial Watch - November 14th, 2001
http://www.judicialwatch.org/1075.shtml or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/fbi_could_have_stopped_bin_laden_years_ago
.html (backup)
*For more confirmation on this story
'Bush thwarted FBI probe against bin Ladens' - AFP/Hindustan Times - November
7th, 2001
http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/bush_twarted.htm
'US agents told to back off bin Ladens' - Ananova - 7th November 2001
http://infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/ananova_CIA_backoff.htm
(11) 'Resentful west spurned Sudan's key terror files' - David Rose - London
Observer - Sunday September 30, 2001
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0%2C6903%2C560624%2C00.html or
http://www.rense.com/general14/terr.htm (backup)
(12) 'Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize' - Mansoor Ijaz - L.A.
Times - December 5th, 2001
http://www.infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/Clinton_let_bin_laden.htm
(13) ''In '96, Sudan Offered to Arrest bin Laden' - Barton Gellman -
International Herald Tribune - Thursday October 4th, 2001
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/sudan_offered_to_arrest_bin_laden.html
(14) CIA World Factbook - Sudan
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/su.html
*For more confirmation on this issue
'Thanks, But No Thanks: How the U.S. Missed a Chance to Get Bin Laden' -
Jennifer Gould - The Village Voice - October 31st, 2001
http://villagevoice.com/issues/0144/gould.php
(15) 'Access Denied' - Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman - Newsweek - October
1st, 2001
http://www.msnbc.com/news/636610.asp?cp1=1 or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/access_denied.html (backup)
(16) 'The '20th hijacker' had been a suspect for years - but he was ignored by
intelligence agencies' - Ian Burrell, Andrew Gumbel and Kim Sengupta - London
Independent - 11 December, 2001
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=109458 or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/the_20th_hijacker_had_been_a_suspect_for_y
ears.html (backup)
(17) 'Flight School Warned F.B.I. of Suspicions' - Philip Shenon - New York
Times - December 22nd, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/22/national/22PILO.html or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/flight_school_warned_fbi_of_suspicions.htm
l (backup)
(18) 'FAA security took no action against Moussaoui' - Greg Gordon -
Minneapolis Star Tribune - January 13, 2002
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/1028069.html or
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/faa_took_no_action_against_moussaoui.html
(backup)
(19) 'Moussaoui Probe Pushed U.S. Limits' - Dan Eggen - Washington Post -
January 31st, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?
pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64701-2002Jan30¬Found=true or
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/moussaoui_probe_pushed_us_limits.html (backup)
(20) 'FBI imposes new restrictions on crop-dusters' - CNN - September 23rd, 2001
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/23/inv.crop.dusters/
(21) 'Terror suspect family 'baffled' - BBC - 27th January 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1785000/1785237.stm
(22) The Disappeared - Since 911, Up To 2000 Are Jailed With No Rights - Andrew
Gumbel - London Independent - 27th February, 2002
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?
dir=70&story=139913&host=3&printable=1 or
http://www.rense.com/general20/disappeared.htm (backup)
(23) 'The Getaway' - Seymour Hersh - New Yorker Magazine - Issue of 2002-01-28
http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?020128fa_FACT or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/the_getaway.html (backup)
(24) 'The Airlift of Evil' - Michael Moran - MSNBC - November 29th, 2001
http://www.msnbc.com/news/664935.asp?0si=-Prior%20knowledge or
http://www.geocities.com/anitaalittle/the_airlift_of_evil.html
*For more confirmation on this story see 'US 'let Taleban men escape' - James
Bone - London Times - 21st January,2002
http://infowars.com/saved%20pages/Prior_Knowledge/airlifts.htm
'US helped Taliban to safety, magazine claims' - Oliver Burkeman - London
Guardian - January 21st, 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,636763,00.html
Now the next issue is complex but can be rolled into one nutshell. President
George W. Bush threatened FBI agents with arrest if they didn't cease
investigation of al-Qaeda two months prior to September 11. This was partly due
to indirectly protecting a strategic interest in Saudi Arabian oil reserves(7),
but serves to highlight the existence of an even darker agenda. This caveat
also overlaps into information regarding business links between Bush and bin
Laden, of which a subsequent report will be devoted to.
A secret FBI document, 199I WF213589, released from the Washington Field
Office, is believed to have been leaked by disgruntled FBI agents. It details
how the FBI were ordered to discontinue investigation into members of the bin
Laden family and WAMY (World Association of Muslim Youth) even though both
networks had direct links to terrorism. Just weeks after the September 11
attacks, Pakistan and India expelled WAMY operatives, with India stating that
the Saudi-based WAMY was funding the militant Students Islamic Movement of
India, which has provided support to Pakistani-backed terrorists linked to
bombings in Kashmir. The Philippines military has also accused WAMY of funding
Muslim insurgency. It also emerged in a January 2002 BBC Newsnight feature that
WAMY spoke glowingly of bin Laden in their own educational pamphlets and
advocated his ideals. When confronted with this documentation, a WAMY
representative became noticeably apprehensive and provided a poor defence of
his organisations links with terrorist cells such as al-Qaeda. This was after
Nouredine Miladi, the head of WAMY's London office protested his organisation's
innocence by stating, "we seek social change through education and
cooperation."(8) It appears as if that education was fundamentalist in nature
and the only cooperation was between WAMY and known terror outfits. Abdullah
bin Laden and Omar bin Laden had helped run WAMY's operation right up to 2000
and beyond, Abdullah was the US director. They lived together in Falls Church,
just outside Washington, conveniently close to WAMY's basement offices. So why
were the FBI, according to a high placed member of a US intelligence agency,
told to "back off" investigating these groups?(9) This dictate was activated as
far back as 1996 and only intensified after the election of George W. Bush.
Lawyer Michael Wildes offered FBI agents 14,000 documents relating to Saudi-
backed terrorism after he represented one of the Khobar Towers bombers. The
agents told Wildes they were not permitted to read the documents and blankly
refused to obtain information that could have provided groundbreaking
revelations concerning the international terrorist underground scene, including
al-Qaeda. One such agent apparently grew indignant at this travesty and has
since filed a judicial complaint with the Justice Department's Office of
Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility. The agent is
represented by former Clinton impeachment lawyer David Schippers and Judicial
Watch, who state "Based on the evidence, the FBI Special Agent believes that if
certain investigations had been allowed to run their courses, Osama bin Laden’s
network might have been prevented from committing the September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks which resulted in the deaths of nearly 5,000 innocents."(10)
Lawyer Michael Wildes states "They're (the FBI) cut off at the hip sometimes by
supervisors or given shots that are being called from Washington at the highest
levels...You see a difference between the rank-and-file counter-intelligence
agents, who are regarded by some as the motor pool of the FBI, who drive
following diplomats, and the people who are getting the shots called at the
highest level of our government, who have a different agenda - it's
unconscionable."
A different agenda indeed. An agenda that can only ever benefit from heinous
acts of terrorism against its supposed 'own people.'
In addition, the former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia, Michael Springman, was consistently ordered by high level State
Department officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants.
These 'unqualified applicants' were terrorists operating on behalf of Osama bin
Laden.(9) Despite bitter complaints to the General Accounting Office, the
Inspector General's office and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, in the same
vein as Sen. Bob Graham, he was stonewalled. Once again, protecting the
terrorists and giving them authentication to carry out their evil intentions.
These inexcusable courses of policy unfortunately only represent one grain of
salt amongst a handful. September 11 has been put in perspective as being
historically more significant than Hiroshima and such events do not take place
as a result of accident or bumbling incompetence. They are engineered by forces
very different to those that people who cannot see further than their CNN
believe, to modify a Disraeli quotation. The end justifies the means.
The F.B.I. were ordered to "back off" investigation of members of the bin Laden
family and WAMY who they were linked with. WAMY was known to be funding
terrorist cells as far back as the early 1990's. This policy was enforced even
more strictly after current President George W. Bush took office.
In the last instalment of this report we highlighted the fact that the
Clinton administration provided the terrorist supporting nation of Syria with
spread-spectrum radios, fibre optics and highly advanced computer networks that
are invulnerable to wiretap. Syria in turn passed this technology on to
numerous terrorist cells around the world... including al-Qaeda. However, this
was by no means the only way in which this administration proliferated the
exploits of international terrorism.
Clinton security chiefs repeatedly rejected vital intelligence that would
have resulted in stifling numerous worldwide terror cells, primarily Osama bin
Laden and al-Qaeda. The government of Sudan offered to both arrest bin Laden or
at least closely monitor his activities within the country, and turn over
files, some an inch and a half thick, a vast database on bin Laden and more
than 200 leading members of his al-Qaeda network. They included photographs,
and information on their families, backgrounds and contacts. Most were 'Afghan
Arabs', Saudis, Yemenis and Egyptians who had fought with bin Laden against the
Soviets in Afghanistan. These resources would have entailed that "we probably
would have never seen a September 11."(11) Clinton's Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright responded to the offer by giving the order for US missiles
to blast the al-Shifa medicine factory, which supplied 60 per cent of Sudan's
medicines, and had contracts to make vaccines with the UN.
In the spring of 1996, Sudan, using a back channel direct from its president
to the CIA, offered to arrest bin Laden and place him in custody in Saudi
Arabia. The initial meeting took place at a hotel in Arlington, Virginia, on
March 3 of that year. One of the officials who oversaw this and subsequent
engagements was Mansoor Ijaz, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and
chairman of a New York-based investment company. He states, "From 1996 to 1998,
I opened unofficial channels between Sudan and the Clinton administration. I
met with officials in both countries, including Clinton, U.S. National Security
Advisor Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger and Sudan's president and intelligence chief.
President Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who wanted terrorism sanctions against
Sudan lifted, offered the arrest and extradition of Bin Laden and detailed
intelligence data about the global networks constructed by Egypt's Islamic
Jihad, Iran's Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas. Among those in the networks
were the two hijackers who piloted commercial airliners into the World Trade
Center. The silence of the Clinton administration in responding to these offers
was deafening."(12) Bin Laden's proposed extradition to Saudi Arabia wasn't met
with enthusiasm by the Saudi Fahd Monarchy. Geopolitical hesitation meant that
the White House did not press the Saudi's on this issue at all. This meant
that, following intense pressure from Saudi Arabia and the US, Sudan agreed to
expel bin Laden and up to 300 of his associates. They were now free to leave
for Afghanistan, providing total anonymity and escaping the sophisticated
tracking methods that the Sudanese were capable of and had offered. Subsequent
analysis by US intelligence confirms bin Laden had full access to his Sudanese
assets from his new position in Afghanistan(13), directly contradicting a
previously held White House assumption that it was valuable in itself to force
bin Laden out of Sudan, supposedly tearing him away from his extensive network
of business, investments and training camps. This thinking was proven woefully
inaccurate. Sudanese intelligence believed this to be a great mistake.
On the surface, it would seem bitterness and paranoia towards Sudan was
responsible for the outright refusal to take up their numerous offers. The US
proclaimed the country as being a 'terrorist state,' and the subsequent Bush
administration has made noises about making Sudan one of the next targets in
their crusade. This, despite the fact that in May 2001, a joint CIA/FBI
investigative team concluded that Africa's largest country is in no way a
sponsor of international terrorism.(11) Sudan has its own internal problems.
Over the past two decades, a civil war pitting black Christians and animists in
the south against the Arab-Muslims of the north has cost at least 1.5 million
lives in war and famine-related deaths, as well as the displacement of millions
of others.(14)
The Sudan-Clinton fiasco puts a haunting perspective behind September 11th.
According to one senior CIA source "This represents the worst single
intelligence failure in this whole terrible business. It is the key to the
whole thing right now. It is reasonable to say that had we had this data we may
have had a better chance of preventing the attacks."(11) For those who seek to
establish a New World Order out of chaos, such 'failures' of intelligence are
extremely useful. The end justifies the means.
The Clinton administration flatly refused voluminous reams of intelligence
concerning Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. They also rejected Sudanese President
Umar al-Bashir's offer to arrest bin Laden and US Tomahawk cruise missiles
subsequently bombed the Al Shifa pharmaceuticals factory in Khartoum in August
1998.
“The question being asked here is if they put two and two together, they
could have gotten a lot more information about the guy - if not stopped the
hijacking.”(15) An individual at a flight school makes it clear that he is only
interested in flying a large passenger jet over New York City air space at
cruising altitude, and not taking off or landing. French intelligence
repeatedly warns that this individual is a member of al-Qaeda. This alone, you
would suspect, would mandate a cursory search of the individual's computer hard
drive. Not according to the Justice Department. The case of Zacarias Moussaoui
highlights another disturbing example of how key intelligence that would have
prevented September 11th was purposefully withheld from well-intentioned FBI
agents.
It is now clear that Moussaoui was supposed to have been the fifth hijacker
on board flight 93 that crashed in southwest Pennsylvania. He was absent from
that role due to being placed in detention on minor immigration charges on
August 17th, 2001, and cheered from his Sherburne County jail cell as the
attack unfolded on that fateful day.
Moussaoui, a 33-year-old French national, lived in London for 9 years, a
follower of radical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada, before receiving $15,000 in bank
transfers from known associates of the September 11 suicide hijackers.(16) He
then set off for the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagen, just outside
Minneapolis. Once there, Moussaoui only sought training in making turns - not
take-offs and landings - and specifically asked about flying over New York air
space. Moussaoui made it clear that he was there to learn how to pilot a 747-
400, despite the fact that he had only been trained on a single-engine Cessna,
and was relatively incompetent as a student. His instructor, a former military
pilot, urgently briefed Minnesota Congressman James L. Oberstar and other
officials concerning his suspicions, and directly warned the FBI "Do you
realize that a 747 loaded with fuel can be used as a bomb?"(17) - the FBI
officials in turn promptly warned the Federal Aviation Administration, who took
no action and saw no reason to check scores of other flight schools where
Middle Eastern men were seeking flight training.(18) Local FBI agents were not
so incompetent. They seized Moussaoui's computer in mid-August. As Moussaoui,
now under arrest and scrutiny, told FBI and INS agents that he "always wanted
to fly a big plane,"(19) Minnesota FBI officials begged the Justice Department
in Washington for approval to open up the hard
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