Transition Zone
12/10/2010 6:22:00 PM
Most of that is all scary stuff.
On Nov 20, 7:57 am, * US * wrote:
>
> Look at all the odd coincidences, and the bushkultie can't deal with any of them:
>
> "That intelligence agencies, politicians and terrorists have conducted criminal business
> together is well established, but BCCI and Iran/Contra were a long time ago, so there’s no
> need to rehash all that.
>
> That Jonathan Bush’s Riggs Bank has been found guilty of laundering terrorist funds and
> fined a record setting $25 million is embarrassing, surely, but to draw sinister
> conclusions is foolish.
>
> That Marvin Bush sat on the board of the Kuwaiti-owned company which provided electronic
> security to the World Trade Centre, Dulles Airport and United Airlines means nothing.
>
> That George Bush found success as a businessman only after the investment of Osama’s
> brother Salem and Osama’s brother-in-law and al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mahfouz is just
> a one-in-a-million fluke.
>
> That Osama bin Laden is known to have been an asset of US foreign policy in no way implies
> he still is. That al Qaeda was active in Kosovo on the same side as NATO merely
> demonstrates that nothing is black and white.
>
> The claims of Michael Springman, State Department veteran of the Jeddah visa bureau, that
> the CIA ran the office and issued visas to al Qaeda members to receive training in the
> United States, are merely sour grapes because he was fired for making such wild
> accusations.
>
> That so many in the Bush White House had expressed the need for a "new Pearl Harbor"
> before their militarist ambitions could be fulfilled means nothing more than being in the
> right place at the right time.
>
> That in May of 2001, Dick Cheney took upon himself the job of co-ordinating a response to
> domestic terror attacks even as he was crafting the administration’s energy policy,
> circumventing the established infrastructure and ignoring the recommendations of the
> Hart-Rudman report, merely shows the VP to be a “can do” sort of guy.
>
> That the standing order for shooting down hijacked aircraft was altered on June 1, 2001,
> taking discretion away from field commanders and placing it solely in the hands of the
> Secretary of Defense, is simply poor planning and unfortunate timing. Fortunately the
> error has been corrected, since the order was reversed shortly after 9/11.
>
> That Dave Frasca of the FBI’s Radical Fundamentalist Unit received a promotion after
> quashing multiple, urgent requests for investigations into al Qaeda assets training at
> flight schools in the summer of 2001 does appear odd, but I’m sure there must have been a
> good reason for it.
>
> That over the summer of 2001 Washington received many urgent, senior-level warnings from
> foreign intelligence agencies of impending terror attacks using hijacked aircraft and did
> nothing, demonstrates the pressing need for a new Intelligence Czar.
>
> That former lead counsel for the House David Schippers says he’d taken to John Ashcroft’s
> office specific warnings he’d learned from FBI agents in New York of an impending attack –
> even naming the proposed dates, names of the hijackers and the targets – and that the
> investigations had been stymied and the agents threatened, proves nothing but David
> Schipper’s need for attention.
>
> That George Bush had plans to invade Afghanistan on his desk before 9/11 demonstrates only
> the value of being prepared.
>
> The suggestion that securing a pipeline across Afghanistan figured into the White House’s
> calculations is as ludicrous as the assertion that oil played a part in determining war in
> Iraq.
>
> That Afghanistan is once again the world’s principal heroin producer is an unfortunate
> reality, but to claim the CIA is still actively involved in the narcotics trade is to
> presume bad faith on the part of the agency.
>
> Mahmood Ahmed, chief of Pakistan’s ISI, must not have authorized an al Qaeda payment of
> $100,000 to Mohammed Atta days before the attacks, and was not meeting with senior
> Washington officials over the week of 9/11, because I didn’t read anything about it in the
> official report.
>
> George HW Bush and Dick Cheney spent the evening of September 10 in the Oval Office, it’s
> true, but they were just old colleagues catching up.
>
> That FEMA arrived in New York on Sept 10 to prepare for a scheduled biowarfare drill is a
> lucky twist of fate.
>
> Newsweek’s report that senior Pentagon officials cancelled flights on Sept 10 for the
> following day on account of security concerns is only newsworthy because of what happened
> the following morning.
>
> That Mohamed Atta attended the International Officer's School at Maxwell Air Force Base,
> that Abdulaziz Alomari attended Brooks Air Force Base Aerospace Medical School, that Saeed
> Alghamdi attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey merely shows it’s a small
> world, after all.
>
> That Mohammed Atta dressed like a Mafioso, had a stripper girlfriend, smuggled drugs, was
> already a licensed pilot when he entered the US, enjoyed pork chops, drank to excess and
> did cocaine, was closer to Europeans than Arabs in Florida, and included the names of
> defence contractors on his email list, proves how dangerous the radical fundamentalist
> Muslim can be.
>
> That 43 lbs of heroin was found on board the Lear Jet owned by Wally Hilliard, the owner
> of Atta’s flight school, just three weeks after Atta enrolled – the biggest seizure ever
> in Central Florida – was just one of those things.
>
> That Hilliard’s plane had made 30-round trips to Venezuela with the same passengers who
> always paid cash, that the plane had been supplied by a pair of drug smugglers who had
> also outfitted CIA drug runner Barry Seal, and that 9/11 commissioner Richard ben-Veniste
> had been Seal’s attorney before Seal’s murder, shows nothing but the lengths to which
> conspiracists will go to draw sinister conclusions.
>
> Reports of insider trading on 9/11 are false, because the SEC investigated and found only
> respectable investors who will remain nameless involved, and no terrorists, so any
> profit-taking was merely coincidental.
>
> That Hani Hanjour, the pilot of Flight 77, was so incompetent he could not fly a Cessna in
> August, but in September managed to fly a 767 at excessive speed into a spiraling,
> 270-degree descent and a level impact of the first floor of the Pentagon, on the only side
> that was virtually empty and had been hardened to withstand a terrorist attack, merely
> demonstrates that people can do almost anything once they set their minds to it.
>
> That Mohammed Atta left a uniform, a will, his driver's license and a video "how to fly
> planes" in his rental car at the airport means he had other things on his mind.
>
> The very mention of Israelis with links to military-intelligence having been arrested on
> Sept 11 videotaping and celebrating the attacks, and of a warning of impending attacks
> delivered to the Israeli company Odigo two hours before the first plane hit, is the vilest
> kind of anti-Semitism and should not be dignified with a response. That the stories were
> also reported in the Israeli media is a sad display of self-hatred among certain elements
> of the Jewish Left.
>
> That multiple military wargames and simulations were underway the morning of 9/11 – one
> simulating the crash of a plane into a building; another, a life-fly simulation of
> multiple hijackings – and took many interceptors away from the eastern seaboard and
> confused field commanders as to which was a real hijacked aircraft and which was a hoax,
> was a tragic coincidence, but no less a coincidence.
>
> That the National Military Command Center ops director asked a newly-qualified substitute
> to stand his watch at 8:30 am on Sept. 11 is nothing more than bad timing.
>
> That the black boxes were either never found or were unrecoverable was a first for these
> particular boxes, but there's a first time for everything.
>
> That a recording made Sept 11 of air traffic controllers’ detailing the events of the day,
> was destroyed by an FAA official who crushed it in his hand, cut the tape into little
> pieces and dropped them in different trash cans around the building, is just one of those
> things.
>
> That the FBI knew precisely which Florida flight schools to descend upon hours after the
> attacks should make every American safer to know their federal agents are on the ball.
>
> Le Figaro’s report in October 2001, known to have originated with French intelligence,
> that two CIA agents met Osama bin Laden in a Dubai hospital in July 2001, proves again the
> perfidy of the French.
>
> That the tape in which bin Laden claims responsibility for the attacks was released by the
> State Department after having been found providentially by US forces in Afghanistan, and
> depicts a fattened Osama with a broader face and a flatter nose, proves Osama masterminded
> 9/11.
>
> That the anthrax was mailed to perceived liberal media and the Democratic leadership
> demonstrates only the perversity of the terrorist psyche.