(Conspiracy Nation, 07/14/05)
-- During the 1990-1991 First Gulf War, Saddam Hussein warned it would
be "the mother of all battles." Then, when "Stormin' Norman"
Schwarzkopf quickly rolled over Iraqi troops, the phrase "mother of all
battles" became a sick joke.
But in retrospect, one can see that deadly terror events in the U.S.
began subsequent to 1991.
In the Middle East, time is viewed differently than in the
West. To
Arabs, the medieval Crusades never ended. To westerners, they are
ancient history. To westerners, "mother of all battles" is perceived in
the time frame of 1990-1991 and the First Gulf War. However to Middle
Easterners it is not so strictured.
On February 26, 1993, "a large bomb planted by terrorists exploded
in the underground garage of Two World Trade Center, damaging the base
of the building (subsequently repaired), killing 6 people, and injuring
some 1,000." ("World Trade Center," Encyclopedia Britannica electronic
reference)
In Cover Up,
author Peter Lance (http://www.peterlance.com)
shows how much of what happened has been generally obscured. The 1993
WTC bomb had been built by Ramzi Yousef, nephew of Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed. Yousef had hoped the North Tower would crash like a domino
into the South Tower. But his calculations were off. It was promised
"that the next time it will be very precise and the Trade Center will
be one of our targets." (Lance, op. cit.)
But Lance and others emphasise that the WTC 93 terrorists are not
directly connected to Iraq per se.
He cites Vince Cannistraro, formerly in charge of the CIA's
Counterterrorism Center, who notes "an obsession with Iraq and trying
to link Saddam to global terrorism." (Lance, op. cit.)
Yet a "mother of all battles" (what is now called the "War On
Terror") was manifesting beginning soon after the
First Gulf War. Saddam Hussein
may have been foreseeing a virulent Islamic reaction against western
"infidels."
The FBI had used an informant, Emad Salem, to penetrate a network
run by Dr. Omar Abdel Rahman. Apparently the FBI allowed things to
proceed, hoping for a dramatic last-minute intervention just-in-time to
stop WTC 93. There are even credible allegations that the FBI
contributed to Ramzi Yousef's bomb, planning to later substitute
harmless ingredients. Emad Salem is quoted as saying, "...we was start
already building the bomb which is went off in the World Trade Center.
It was built by supervising supervision from the Bureau and the DA
[District Attorney] and we was all informed about it and we know that
the bomb start to be built. By who? By your confidential informant.
What a wonderful great case!" ("Who Bombed The World Trade
Center?" http://pdr.autono.net/WhoBombedWTC.html)
Later, on April 19, 1995, the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City was
bombed. The original indictment accused Timothy McVeigh, Terry Nichols,
and others unknown of
responsibility for the outrage. A sketch of "John Doe #2," a Middle
Eastern-looking man, was distributed. But soon, the others unknown aspect of the case
was sidelined and the focus was upon McVeigh and Nichols. In his book, Others Unknown, Stephen
Jones, McVeigh's attorney, describes how he struggled against the
federal government's attempts to conceal the whole truth about the
case.
In "Labyrinth Seen in WTC Attacks" (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Labyrinth.html)
Conspiracy Nation reported how
Chicago attorney David Schippers alleged there are as many as 5000
members of the Iraqi Republican Guard living near Oklahoma City. In
"The Secrets of Timothy McVeigh," independent investigator Sherman H.
Skolnick (http://www.skolnicksreport.com/tmsecrets.html)
had also, before Schippers, reported upon more than 4000 Iraqi military
intelligence personnel imported into the U.S. subsequent to the 1991
Persian Gulf War.
For some reason -- perhaps not to alarm the public; perhaps to hide
U.S. intelligence screw-ups -- the official versions of what happened
were exceedingly narrow.
On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 exploded off Long Island, New York.
Six days later, on July 23, 1996, J. Orlin Grabbe (http://www.orlingrabbe.com)
reportedly wrote "that Syrian-backed terrorists shot down the plane." (The 70 Greatest Conspiracies Of
All Time, by Jonathan Vankin and John Whalen) According to Peter
Lance (op. cit.), by August 22, 1996, New
York Times reporter Don Van Natta, Jr., was about to file a
story saying that "investigators have finally found scientific evidence
that an explosive device was detonated inside the passenger cabin of
Trans World Airlines Flight 800." Lance also reports that "a
confidential FBI source said that [James] Kallstrom himself was ready
to announce that the TWA 800 crash had formally become a criminal
investigation."
Yet once again, a decision was made to limit investigation.
Officially, TWA 800 was brought down by a sort of "spontaneous
combustion." Case closed.
The above details are "old news" for many. However many people who
believe themselves to be well-informed could benefit by turning off the
television and studying some or all of the sources cited above. They
might then be less-inclined to hurriedly dismiss so-called "conspiracy
theories."
A pattern of again circumscribing investigation can be discerned in
the London events of July 7, 2005. Yesterday, it was revealed that
French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy had claimed some of the London
bomb suspects had been arrested last year. A French spokesperson backed
away from the claim, stating that Sarkozy "had not been referring to
any of the four suspected bombers but to other members of a network to
which they belonged." ("Row over French bomb arrest claim," BBC News,
7/13/05) As in the Emad Salem/WTC 93 situation, it looks as if the
British had been using informants to penetrate a network. It may even
be that the four "suicide bombers" were helping British investigators!
Yet that angle of perception has been quickly brushed aside. British
officials "are adamant the men were not arrested and then released in
order to break a wider network." (BBC News, op. cit.)
It is also questioned whether the London "suicide bombers" were the cause of the July 7th events at all. Early reports persistently claimed that "timers, not suicide bombers, set off the blasts." ("Timers, not bombers, set off London blasts," Reuters, 7/8/05) The "package bombs" were "left by attackers who fled and detonated them by timers..." (Ibid.) According to U.S. authorities, "London police had recovered key parts of the timing devices" and "fragments of timing devices." (Ibid.) Suddenly, in Orwellian fashion, the story has been re-written: the "timing devices" are erased and the "suicide bombers" are penciled in. Commenting on this inconsistency, J. Orlin Grabbe yesterday pointed out, "On July 12, The Times of London revealed that the explosives used in the London Transport bombings were military-grade explosives and investigators emphasized they believed the bombers were British and worked in small cells. Furthermore, although the British police are putting out information that suicide bombers were involved in the London bombings, Vince Cannistraro, the former CIA counter-terrorism chief, told The Guardian that 'two unexploded bombs' were recovered along with 'mechnical timing devices.' It goes without saying that suicide bombers would not have been using timing devices." (http://www.orlingrabbe.com/oldpage.htm)
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