con·spir·a·cy 1)An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. 2) A group of conspirators. 3) Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal
purpose through illegal action. dictionary.com |
When I wrote these things -
[these instructions to the embassies to frame Arabs for Israeli terrorist attacks in Egypt]
- I still didn't know how
crushing is the evidence that was
refuting our official version.
The huge amounts of arms and explosives, the tactics of the attack, the blocking and mining of the roads ... the precise coordination of the attack. Who would be foolish enough to believe that such a complicated operation could "develop" from a casual and sudden attack on an Israeli army unit
by an Egyptian unit?
- Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel 1954 & 1955. |
Pre~diction |
Bin Laden Comes Home To Roost
His CIA ties are only the beginning of a woeful story
Newsweek (MSNBC) 1998
Ashcroft Flying High
"the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term."
CBS, July 26, 2001
Newspaper: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks - WP, Newsbytes, September 13, 2001
San Francisco Gate Chronicle - Suspicious Profits Sit Uncollected
Airline investors seem to be lying low:
Pt 1 - September 19, 2001
Pt 2 - September 21, 2001
Pt 3 - September 22, 2001
Pt 4 - September 29, 2001
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.
San Francisco Gate Chronicle, September 12, 2001
NY Times ADMITS Scrubbing 9-09 Warning
Democrats.Com, 21 February, 2002
Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack
Washington Post, September 27, 2001
Officials at instant-messaging firm Odigo confirmed today that two employees received text messages warning of an attack on the World Trade Center two hours before terrorists crashed planes into the New York landmarks. |
Official Response |
BILL NELSON: Perhaps we want to do this in our session, in executive session. But my question is an obvious one for not only this committee, but for the executive branch and the military establishment.
If we knew that there was a general threat on terrorist activity, which we did, and we suddenly have two trade towers in New York being obviously hit by terrorist activity, of commercial airliners taken off course from Boston to Los Angeles, then what
happened to the response of the defense establishment once we saw the diversion of the aircraft headed west from Dulles turning around 180 degrees and, likewise, in the aircraft taking off from Newark and, in flight, turning 180 degrees?
That's the question. I leave it to you as to how you would like to answer it. But we would like an answer.
General Myers Confirmation Hearing, September 13, 2001
The Answer:
At 9:25, [Jane] Garvey, in an historic and admirable step, and almost certainly after getting an okay from the White House, initiated a national ground stop, which forbids takeoffs and requires planes in the air to get
down as soon as reasonable. The order, which has never been implemented since flying was invented in 1903, applied to virtually every single kind of machine that can takeoff - civilian, military, or law enforcement.
The Herndon command center coordinated the phone call to all major FAA sites, the airline reps in the room contacted all airlines, and so-called NOTAMS —notices to airmen — were also sent out.
The FAA had stopped the world.
...at 10.31, the FAA allowed all military and law enforcement flights to resume. (and some flights that the FAA can't reveal that were already airborne).
Time, September 14, 2001 |
By Way of Deception |
The Miracle of Atta's Passport - Uncle Sam's Lucky Finds
The Guardian, March 19, 2002
The Mysterious Death Of An Enron Executive
CBS, April 10, 2002
Flaming Death No Accident, FBI says
Gasoline found on clothes of license examiner [linked to investigation of suspects]
GoMemphis, February 14, 2001
Car Bomb Disinformation Was From A High-Ranking Official
CBS News Anchor, Dan Rather, October 2001
"I first saw it on TV, and I thought - There's one terrible Pilot!" (1)
G.W. Bush, December 4, 2001 (Whitehouse)
"I first saw it on TV, and I thought - There's one terrible Pilot!" (2)
G.W. Bush, January 5, 2001, (Whitehouse) |
Easy for a Dictator |
You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. (Laughter.) Little did I realize
we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.)"
G.W. Bush, 2/27/02 -- Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
"You know, I remember campaigning in Chicago and somebody said, would you ever spend a deficit? And I said, only if we're at war or we had a recession or there was a national emergency. Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.)"
G.W. Bush, 3/1/02 -- The Marriott Hotel, Des Moines, Iowa
By the time ®(TM)ark's second version of GWBush.com was published, with much more content, the Bush campaign had complained to the Federal Elections Commission. These attacks resulted in a major international news story, which was then
magnified by Bush's televised response to a reporter's question about the site: "There ought to be limits to freedom," --Bush said--a gaffe that has yet to disappear from public memory. rtmark
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Flight 93 |
Crowley also said there was a C-130 military cargo aircraft about 17 miles away flying at 24,000 feet when Flight 93 crashed. The military plane had no weapons on board. Crowley said he did not know where it was coming from or going, but said its crew reported
seeing smoke or dust near the crash site. Post Gazette
Cockpit Tape Offers Few Answers but Points to Heroic Efforts
New York Times, March 22, 2002 |
At The Pentagon |
Hotel employees sat watching the film in shock and horror several times before the FBI confiscated the video as part of its investigation. It may be the only available video of the attack. The Pentagon has told broadcast news reporters that its security cameras did
not capture the crash.
Gertzfile, September 21, 2001
Velasquez says the gas station's security cameras are close enough to the Pentagon to have recorded the moment of impact. "I've never seen what the pictures looked like," he said. "The FBI was here within minutes and took the film."
National Geographic, December 11, 2001
CNN's Jamie MacIntyre: "witnesses told me the day this happened that the plane -American Airlines Flight 77 - came in extremely low, but I'm not sure I realized how low it was until I saw these sequence of pictures that CNN obtained from....a.....that were taken
by a Pentagon security camera."
CNN, report and "video", March, 2002
The second plane looked similar to a C- 130 transport plane, [Keith Wheelhouse] said. He believes it flew directly above the American Airlines jet, as if to prevent
two planes from appearing on radar - while at the same time - guiding the jet toward the Pentagon.
Daily Press, September 14, 2001
Kelly Knowles, a First Colonial High School alumnus who now lives in an apartment a few miles from the Pentagon, said some sort of plane followed the doomed American Airlines jet toward the Pentagon, then veered away after the explosion.
At the same time, [Keith Wheelhouse] and his sister, Pam Young, who lives in Surry, were preparing to leave a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, which is less than a mile from the Pentagon, when they watched the jet approach and slam into the Pentagon. Both of them, as well
as at least one other person at the funeral, insist that there was another plane flying near the hijacked jet.
Daily Press, September 15, 2001
Then the plane -- it looked like a C-130 cargo plane -- started turning away from the Pentagon, it did a complete turnaround. - New York Lawyer
Off to the west, Sucherman saw another plane climb steeply and make a sharp turn. "I thought, 'Is this thing coming around to make a second attack? If there is another explosion, we're toast.'" - eWeek
As we watched the black plume gather strength, less than a minute after the explosion, we saw an odd sight that no one else has yet commented on. Directly in back of the plume, which would place it almost due west from our office, a four-engine propeller plane, which Ray
later said resembled a C-130, started a steep decent towards the Pentagon. - Cloth Monkey
Within moments there was a very loud bang, which seemed to come from the direction of Henderson Hall. At least, all the heads turned towards Henderson. It is possible that this was a secondary explosion from the Pentagon or possibly an F-16 going supersonic.[...] The only
large fixed wing aircraft to appear was a gray C-130, which appeared to be a Navy electronic warfare aircraft, he seemed to survey the area and depart in on a westerly heading. - Our Net
Family
[Keith Wheelhouse] and at least two other witnesses to the Pentagon attack were troubled that Pentagon spokesmen had until now said they were unaware of a C-130 being in the area at the time. In the days immediately following the Sept. 11 hijackings, the
Pentagon had no knowledge of the C-130's encounter, because........all reports were classified by the Air National Guard. [!]
Daily Press, October 17, 2001
said Milburn. "It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh, then there was fire and smoke, then I heard a second explosion." WashingtonPost
WASHINGTON, D.C. The airliner crashed between two and three hundred feet from my office in the Pentagon, just around a corner from where I work. I'm the deputy General Counsel, Washington Headquarters Services, Office of the Secretary of Defense. A slightly different calibration
and I have no doubt I wouldn't be sending this to you. My colleagues felt the impact, which reminded them of an earthquake. People shouted in the corridor outside that a bomb had gone off upstairs on the main concourse in the building. No alarms sounded. I walked to my office, shut down my computer, and
headed out. Even before stepping outside I could smell the cordite. Then I knew explosives had been set off somewhere. McSweeney's
A personnel attorney at the Pentagon, Goldsmith was riding a shuttle bus to work on Tuesday, Sept. 11, when she learned of the attack on the World Trade Center. [...] "We saw a huge black cloud of smoke," she said, saying it smelled like cordite
or gun smoke. Jewish Bulletin News
Witnesses told CNN that a helicopter circled the Pentagon and disappeared on the other side of the building shortly before the explosion and fireball. - copy
of CNN report @ Lake Today
PLANT (LIVE): Well, and speaking to people here at the Pentagon, as they're being evacuated from the building. I'm told by several people that there was, in fact, an explosion. I was told by one witness, an Air Force enlisted - senior enlisted man, that he was outside when
it occurred. He said that he saw a helicopter circle the building. He said it appeared to be a U.S. military helicopter, and that it disappeared behind the building where the helicopter landing zone is - excuse me - and he then saw fireball go into the sky.[...]It's a very tense
situation obviously, but initial reports from witnesses indicate that there was in fact a helicopter circling the building, contrary to what the AP reported, according to the witnessess I've spoken to anyway, and that this helicopter disappeared behind the building,
and that there was then an explosion. That's about all I have from here. - September 11 Live CNN Transcript, Europe
New radar evidence obtained by CBS News strongly suggests that the hijacked jetliner which crashed into the Pentagon hit its intended target. [...] At the White House Friday, spokesman Ari Fleischer saw it a different way. "That is not the radar data that we have seen," Fleischer
said, adding, "The plane was headed toward the White House." - CBS
QUESTION: Ari, can you tell us more about this other radar track that you were mentioning this morning, that gave clearer evidence that American flight 77 was headed for the White House initially?
MR. FLEISCHER: The Secret Service is going to handle all the inquiries concerning any tracks involving the White House and the security of the White House, and they'll give you a full explanation. In fact, I think they may already have, in the case of CBS. - Patriot
Resources
"The fire and smoke from the downed passenger aircraft billows from the Pentagon courtyard. Defense Protective Services Police seal the crash sight. Army medics, nurses and doctors scramble to organize aid. An Arlington Fire Department chief dispatches his equipment
to the affected areas." Pentagon MASCAL Exercise, November 03, 2000 |
Joy & Mockery |
QUESTION: In Israel, the newspaper, Haaretz, reports that every political party in the Knesset denounced the manifestations of Palestinian joy following last week's terror attacks on the United States, except the Israel-Arab parties, who also refused
to sign the Knesset's letter of sympathy to the American people. And my question, surely after last night's unforgettable and specific, very specific Presidential address, the White House is not going to evade comment on these Israeli-Arabs, are you Ari?
MR. FLEISCHER: I took that question when you asked me a question two days ago about anyone around the world, including the Palestinians, who would rejoice at the loss of American life. And I said at the time, that the United States condemns it. - Patriot
Resources
Five Men Detained As Suspected Conspirators
Eight hours after terrorists struck Manhattan's tallest skyscrapers, police in Bergen County detained five men who they said were found carrying maps linking them to the blasts. The five men, who were in a van stopped on Route 3 in East Rutherford around 4:30 p.m., were being questioned by police but
had not been charged with any crime late Tuesday.
However, sources close to the investigation said they found other evidence linking the men to the bombing plot. "There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted," the source said. "It looked like they're hooked in with this. It
looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park."
Sources also said that bomb-sniffing dogs reacted as if they had detected explosives. The FBI seized the van for further testing, authorities said.
Bergen Record, September 12, 2001 (copy)
5 Israelis detained for `puzzling behavior' after WTC tragedy
Five Israelis who had worked for a moving company based in New Jersey are being held in U.S. prisons for what the Federal Bureau of Investigation has described as "puzzling behavior" following the terror attack on the World Trade Center in New York last Tuesday.[...] They are said to
have had been caught videotaping the disaster and shouting in what was interpreted as cries of joy and mockery. - Ha'Aretz, September 17, 2001
The White Van
Said one of the men, denying that they were laughing or happy on the morning of Sept. 11, "The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event." - ABC
June 21, 2002
Spies, or students?
Were the Israelis just trying to sell their paintings, or agents in a massive espionage ring? - Ha'Aretz, May 14, 2002
Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities
Drug Enforcement Administration Office of Security, June, 2001
In January, 2001, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Office of Security Programs (IS), began to receive reports of Israeli art students attempting to penetrate several DEA Field Offices in the continental United States. Additionally, there have been reports of Israeli art students visiting the
homes of numerous DEA employees. These incidents have occurred since at least the beginning of 2000, and have continued to the present. - DEA
Aborted Mission
"It is not unlikely for Mossad to recruit 11 Afghans in Iran and grant them Israeli citizenship to penetrate a network such as Bin Laden's. They would begin by infiltrating them into an Islamic radical group in an unlikely place like Bangladesh," said intelligence analyst Ashok Debbarma.
The pressure exerted on India by Israel for the release of the men, and the hurry with which they were flown back suggested an aborted operation. - The Week, January, 2002
Spy Rumors Fly on Gusts of Truth
Americans Probing Reports of Israeli Espionage
Despite angry denials by Israel and its American supporters, reports that Israel was conducting spying activities in the United States may have a grain of truth, the Forward has learned.[...]
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HOT POTATOES
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According to one former high-ranking American intelligence official, who asked not to be named, the FBI came to the conclusion at the end of its investigation that the five Israelis arrested in New Jersey last September (Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari and Yaron Shmuel)
were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front.[...]
In addition to their strange behavior and their Middle Eastern looks, the suspicions were compounded when a box cutter and $4,000 in cash were found in the van. Moreover, one man carried two passports and another had fresh pictures of the men standing with the
smoldering wreckage of the World Trade Center in the background.[...]
On December 7, a New Jersey judge ruled that the state could seize the goods remaining inside the warehouse. The state also has a lawsuit pending against Urban Moving Systems and its owner, Dominik Otto Suter, an Israeli citizen. The FBI questioned Mr. Suter once. However, he left the country afterward and went back to Israel before further questioning. Mr. Suter declined through his lawyer to be interviewed for this article.[...] Charlene Eban, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Washington, and Don Nelson, a Justice Department spokesman, said they had no knowledge of an Israeli spying operation.
"If we found evidence of unauthorized intelligence operations, that would be classified material," added Jim Margolin, a spokesman for the FBI in New York. - Forward,
February, 2002
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Anthrax |
Arab scientists recount hostility and harassment at military anthrax lab
Assaad...was working on the Saturday before Easter 1991 when he discovered an eight-page poem in his mailbox. The poem, which became a court exhibit, has 235 lines, many of them lewd, mocking Assaad. The poem also refers to another creation of the scientists who wrote it a rubber camel outfitted
with sexually explicit appendages. The poem reads: "In (Assaad's) honor we created this beast; it represents life lower than yeast." The camel, it notes, each week will be given "to who did the least."
The poem also doubles as an ode to each of the participants who adorned the camel, who number at least six and referred to themselves as "the camel club." Two Dr. Philip Zack and Dr. Marian Rippy voluntarily left Fort Detrick soon after Assaad
brought the poem to the attention of supervisors.-
SeattleTimes, December 19, 2001
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Richard Perle - Lesson of the Anthrax
(PBS - inc audio) |
Anthrax Missing From Army Lab, Dr Philip Zack - Fort Detrick Suspect - CTNow, January 20, 2002
Fort Detrick's Anthrax Mystery: Who tried to frame Dr. Ayaad Assaad? - Salon, January 26, 2001
Anthrax Cover Up - Dr. Philip Zack & The Camel Club - antiwar.com, February 02, 2001
FBI still has little insight into last fall's lethal anthrax attacks - NewhouseNewsService, March 17, 2002
Riddle Of The Spores - Guardian, May 21, 2002
The Anthrax Man, Dr Stephen Hatfill - FD Suspect - Eat The State, July 03, 2002
Case of the Missing Anthrax - NYT, July 19, 2002
The Patriot Act - Government By Anthrax - Richard Ochs
The Anthrax Letters - scanned copies - whatreallyhappened.com
Feds Sued Over Anthrax Documents - WorldNetDaily, June 07, 2002
Legal group wonders why White House took Cipro before attacks - Judicial Watch, June 07, 2002 |
McKinney & the May Bombshells |
"All of us have voices in our heads, whispering insanities. Rep. Cynthia McKinney's problem is that she lets hers speak."
Chris Suellentrop, Slate, Friday, April 19, 2002
Rep. Cynthia McKinney's call for an investigation into whether the Bush administration had advance notice of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and failed to act because of economic interests has triggered a national avalanche of scorn.[...]
"We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on Sept. 11," she was quoted as saying. "What did this administration know and when did it know it, about the events of Sept. 11?" She also said "people close to this administration
are poised to make huge profits off America's new war."[...]
In the radio interview, McKinney cited the Carlyle Group, an investment firm that contains many who are close to the Bush administration, including former president George Bush. She quoted a Los Angeles Times report that on a single day in 2001, the Carlyle Group had earned $237
million selling shares in United Defense Industries.
McKinney argued that "if the American people deserve answers about what went wrong with Enron and why [and we do], then we deserve to know what went wrong on Sept. 11 and why. . . . Why then does the administration remain steadfast in its opposition
to an investigation to the biggest terrorism attack upon our nation?"
Aren't those good questions?
Chicago Tribune, April 22, 2002
(registration required)
Could It Have Been Stopped? -CBS, May 08, 2002
Agent: Moussaoui 'could fly ... into the WTC' -CNN, May 14, 2002
Senator: U.S. didn't connect 'dots' before 9/11 -CNN, May 15, 2002
Bush Was Told of Hijacking Dangers - Washington Post, May 16, 2002
What They Knew Before Sept. 11 - CBS, May 16, 2002
Democrats Say Bush Must Give Full Disclosure - NewYorkTimes, May 16, 2002
Prior hints of September 11-type attack - CNN, May 17, 2002
F.B.I. Knew for Years About Terror Pilot Training - NewYorkTimes, May 17, 2002
Bush knew of terrorist plot to hijack US planes - The Guardian, May 18, 2002
Bush is still running from 9/11 - Salon, May 18, 2002
Poll: Americans Want Probe Into Intelligence Failings - Newsweek(MSNBC), May 18, 2002
Cheney Rejects Broader Access to Terror Brief - NewYorkTimes, May 19, 2002
Unheeded Warnings - Newsweek(MSNBC), May 20, 2002
Five Questions Bush Must Answer - Business Week, May 20, 2002
Ashcroft drawn into row over September 11 -Guardian, May 21, 2002
Bush told in August of specific threat to US - Independent (UK) May 21, 2002
When W. Came In, Our Luck Ran Out - Newsday, May 21, 2002
WhiteHouse Admidts Latest Terror Warnings Deceptive - Globe&Mail,
May 21, 2002
Coleen Rowley's Bombshell Memo -Time, May 21, 2002
There's a lot Cheney feels we don't need to know - PostGazette, May 22, 2002
Agent Rowley: FBI Rewrote Moussaoui Request - AP, May 24, 2001
President's Stance on 9/11 Inquiry Bucks Tradition - NYT, May 25, 2002
Moussaoui Memo Says FBI Stalled Probe After Attacks - LA Times, May 27, 2002
Ex-Agent Had Key Data - Stock scam charges have eerie link - Newsday, May 29, 2002
Heads-Up To Ashcroft Proves Threat Was Known Before 9/11- SFGate Chronicle, June 03, 2002
Sept. 11 Attack Quotes - Statements then and now - NYT/AP, June 08, 2002
What Did The Press Know, and When Did They Know It? BartCop |
USAma |
United States special agents were told to back off the bin Laden family and the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has all changed since September 11, a BBC television program has claimed. copy
of SMH version of BBC report
Greg Palast report -BBC video (real audio)
Bin Laden Family Evacuated
(CBS) Two dozen members of Osama bin Laden's family were urgently evacuated from the United States in the first days following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, according to the Saudi ambassador to Washington CBS,
Sept. 30, 2001
"...although the administration has denied supporting the Taliban, it is clear that they discouraged all of the anti-Taliban supporters from supporting the efforts in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban. Even so much as when the Taliban was ripe for being defeated on the
ground in Afghanistan, Bill Richardson and Rick Inderfurth, high-ranking members of this administration, personally visited the region in order to discourage the Taliban's opposition from attacking the Taliban when they were vulnerable, and then
going to neighboring countries to cut off any type of military assistance to the [opponents of the] Taliban. This, at a time when Pakistan was heavily resupplying and rearming the Taliban.
What did this lead to? It led to the defeat of all of the Taliban's major enemies except for one, Commander Massoud, in the north, and left the Taliban the supreme power in Afghanistan.
So what we hear today about terrorism and crocodile tears from this administration, let us remember this administration is responsible for the Taliban. This administration has acted in a way that has kept the Taliban in power."
Rep. Rohrabacher, House Hearing on Terrorism in South Asia, July 12, 2000
From U.S., the ABC's of Jihad
In the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.
Washington Post, March 23, 2002 |
Gasbekistan |
"Kenny Boy" Lay to Governor G.W. Bush, April 03, 1997
"You will be meeting with Ambassador Sadyq Safaev, Uzbekistans Ambassador to the United States on April 8th....I know you and Ambassador Safaev will have a productive meeting which will result in a friendship between Texas and Uzbekistan" fax: TheSmokingGun
Document Archives
1998-1999 Regional Pipeline Plans
U.S Department Of Energy
Exxon Unleashed
How the world's most powerful corporation plans to dominate the new age of oil exploration
Exxon...has gas fields in Turkmenistan from which it hopes to service booming gas consumption in eastern China. Pipelines must be built, and underground oceans of the stuff converted into liquid natural gas (LNG) for transport by ship. BusinessWeek,
April 9, 2001
Today's Silk Road Might Carry Black Gold
"Whoever can shape the way that pipeline map looks will shape the future of a huge part of the world," said S. Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia- Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University.
New York Times, March 17, 2002
The Lust For Blood And Oil
Foreign Correspondent.Com March 8, 2002
Netanyahu says Iraq-Israel oil line not pipe-dream.
LONDON, June 20 (Reuters) – Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expects an oil pipeline from Iraq to Israel to be reopened in the near future after being closed when Israel became a state in 1948. – “It won’t be long when you see Iraqi oil flowing
to Haifa”, the port city in Northern Israel, Netanyahu told a group of British investors, declining to give a timetable. Reuters |
Reality Check |
Reality Check: A New American Century
...the Project for a New American Century...founding members include[] Vice-President Dick Cheney; Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Paul Wolfowitz of the Defence Department; Richard Perle, head of the defence advisory board;
Louis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff; John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control; and Elliot Cohen of the defence policy board.
Much of what these men wanted is coming true: They urged that the U.S. abandon the anti-ballistic missile treaty. It has. They wanted establishment of more permanent U.S. military bases abroad. That is happening in the Philippines and in Georgia, and will likely happen
in Iraq. They urged regime change as a goal of foreign wars, and not just in Iraq. They wanted the U.S. as a global "constabulary" – their word – unburdened by the United Nations or world opinion, preventing any challenge to U.S. dominance.
But, they wrote a year before Sept. 11, such aspirations are unlikely to be realized without "a catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor."
CBC News Online, March 17, 2003
Attacks Held to Be a Conspiracy
LA Times, September 11, 2001
"Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th"
G.W. Bush, November 10, 2001
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