Labyrinth Seen In WTC Attacks
 
(Conspiracy Nation, 10/16/01) -- David Shippers, a high-power Chicago 
attorney, is charging that portions of the U.S. government had advance 
warning that a major terrorist attack was imminent, prior to September 
11, 2001.
 
Mr. Shippers says that lower echelon FBI agents in Chicago and 
Minnesota, frustrated by the unresponsiveness of their superiors, 
contacted him and warned that there was going to be an attack on lower 
Manhattan.
 
Mr. Shippers currently represents a group of FBI agents who are 
furious that they are not allowed to speak publicly about what they 
know. He is trying to get these agents subpoenaed by the House 
Intelligence Committee, which would thereby allow them to break their 
silence. [1]
 
Also furious over top-echelon FBI secrecy are various local police 
departments. In an Associated Press story released today, it is noted 
that there are 600,000 police officers being called on to "be alert" 
yet the FBI continuously withholds specific information from local law 
enforcement. "The FBI has a culture of not sharing information with 
local law enforcement" complained a former high-level New York Police 
officer. [2]
 
Corroborating an earlier story by Chicago independent investigator 
Sherman Skolnick, attorney David Shippers further alleges that there 
are as many as 5000 members of the Iraqi Republican Guard living near 
Oklahoma City.
 
In June, 2001, Skolnick reported on "more than 4000" Iraqi military 
intelligence personnel imported into the U.S. subsequent to the 1991 
Persian Gulf War. These Iraqi soldiers, many of them officers, were 
supposedly defectors, but many of them were actually double-agents, 
writes Skolnick. [3]
 
According to Shippers, not only the Sept. 11th attacks originated with 
foreign terrorists, but also the Oklahoma City bombing(s) and the 
crash of TWA Flight 800. "Flight 800 and Oklahoma City [were] 
terrorist attacks," he stated during a recent radio interview.
 
As suggested by Shippers in his recent interview, cover-ups of the 
Oklahoma City bombing(s) and the crash of TWA Flight 800 were put in 
place to hide how badly U.S. intelligence had screwed up in protecting 
America.
 
The wider network of terror involved in the Oklahoma City bombing(s) 
and the previous 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center was originally 
outlined by Stephen Jones, attorney for Timothy McVeigh. In a lengthy 
writ of mandamus filed by Mr. Jones on behalf of his client, a complex 
labyrinth is glimpsed.
 
According to the writ of mandamus filed by Jones, Ramzi Yousef, 
convicted of a conspiracy to blow up 12 American jumbo jets in one 
day, is linked to a terrorist group in the Philippines. Yousef was 
also indicted and convicted for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
 
But the terror organization is international, according to Jones. 
Through the use of intermediaries such as the International Islamic 
Academy, Iraq hired and trained Pakistanis who may not even have known 
they were operating in Iraq's behalf, according to Jones's writ.
 
"Terrorist groups in the Philippines have been trained in Pakistan, 
and some of these same Pakistanis fought in Afghanistan," indicates 
Jones.
 
"The Philippines is also the base camp for the Abu Sayyaf Group 
[whose] funding includes support from Muslim billionaires in the 
Persian Gulf including Osama bin Laden."
 
It appears that, in one sense, bin Laden is truthful when he insists 
he had no prior knowledge of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World 
Trade Center. However bin Laden's money, of which he is the steward, 
*does* apparently bear responsibility for the recent tragedy.
 
Bin Laden, according to Jones, is a close associate of Sheikh Omar 
Abdullah Rahman, the blind Egyptian cleric.
 
Recently reissued in paperback is Jones's 1998 book, *Others Unknown*. 
The reissue reportedly contains much new information which had been 
withheld from the original publication due to attorney-client 
privilege then in effect. According to reviews of the book, the 
Oklahoma City bombing(s) *was* a conspiracy. McVeigh, according to 
Jones, did play a minor role, "but he was a foot soldier, a mule, not 
the general." [4]
 
-------<< Notes >>-------
[1] "Radio Interview of David Shippers." Alex Jones Radio Show, 
10/10/01. Transcript downloaded from Rumor Mill News web site: 
http://www.rumormillnews.com
[2] "Police On The Front Line: Stretched Thin and Rankled About Lack 
of Information From the FBI," by Robert Tanner. AP, 10/16/01.
[3] "The Secrets of Timothy McVeigh," by Sherman H. Skolnick. 
http://www.skolnicksreport.com
[4] *Others Unknown* by Stephen Jones. Information on the book 
gathered from www.amazon.com