Foreign News Sources (Unpatriotic?)

[Wayne Johnson]

Why would the FBI want to warn people in New York of a possible attack when
they didn't have any credible (Russian, German, French, et al) evidence?
Why, this might have caused a "panic" or something equally untidy.
Besides, if they actually "said something" and it didn't happen, they would
have lost a lot of credibility.   Furthermore, it may have just been a
practical joke or some such by some CIA trickster.

Above all we must continue the pretense that our government actually cares
about us.  I believe this completely and I also believe Oswald was a lone
assassin.

Oh dear, I hope this isn't being read by some anonymous soul in McLean, VA.
What a waste of taxpayers money.

W

-----Original Message-----
From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Jim Baldauf
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 7:08 PM
To: Connie Clark; austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Subject: Foreign News Sources (Unpatriotic?)


Connie wondered:
>Can I give my friend a better source of European
news reporting?<

Here are some worldwide sources: (hate to be thought unpatriotic!)

(There is credible information suggesting that certain segments of our
government,
of Wall Street and of the U.S. financial community did know of the pending
attack.
A former CIA chief is a director of the brokerage firm that did the "short
selling"
 that profited from the attacks. Remember that story, early on? The story
has not
been heard again because, some believe, an investigation led not to Osama
but to
the CIA?)



Germany - On September 14, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung (FAZ) reported that "U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies
received warning signals at least three months ago that Middle eastern
terrorists were planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons
to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture."

The Cayman Islands - MS-NBC reported on September 14 that a caller to a
radio talk show made several warnings of an imminent attack by Osama bin
Laden against American Airlines.

According to a report filed by the Post-Newsweek information service,
"The FAZ, quoting unnamed German Intelligence sources, said that the
Echelon spy network was being used to collect information about the
terrorist threats, and that U.K. intelligence services apparently also
had advance warning. The FAZ, one of Germany's most respected dailies,
said that even as far back as six months ago, western and near-east
press services were receiving information that such attacks were being
planned."Within the American intelligence community, the warnings were
taken seriously and surveillance intensified"

NOTE: Echelon is a highly secret technical intelligence gathering system
used to monitor worldwide communications and coordinated in the U.S. by
the National Security Agency. Participating countries, who eavesdrop on
the citizens of the other member countries -- to avoid civil
restrictions preventing governments from spying on their own citizens --
then pool and share their information. Participating countries include
the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain and Germany. The
eavesdropping covers both telephone and email communications.

According to a Feb 13, 2001 UPI story detailing Echelon's use against
bin Laden and other terrorist organizations, "The targets of Echelon
center on the penetration of the major components of most of the world's
telephone and telecommunications systems. This could cover conversations
NSA targets. Also included are all the telexes carried over the world's
telecommunications networks, along with financial dealings: money
transfers, airline destinations, stock information, data on
demonstrations or international conferences and much more."

Germany - The German news agency "online.ie" reported on September 14,
"German police have confirmed an Iranian man phoned U.S. police from his
deportation cell to warn of the planned attack on the World Trade
Center. The Lower Saxony Justice Ministry has confirmed the man warned
of impending series of terrorist attacks, but had not been believed.
Spokesman Frank Woesthoff said the man phoned America 'several times',
but refused to give further details. He said the U.S. Secret Service had
not told the ministry about the calls received from the Langehagen
prison until after the attacks. 'I cannot say anything about the man and
the ministry does not know the content of the conversations,' he added.
The Hanover daily Neue Presse reported the 29 year-old was dismissed as
mentally unstable when he gave the warning of the terrorist attack to
occur this week. The ministry would not reveal when the calls had been
made."

France - On September 13, Reuters reported, "The FBI arrested an Islamic
militant in Boston last month and received French intelligence reports
linking him to Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden but apparently did
not act on them, a French radio station said on Thursday.

"Europe 1 radio reported that U.S. police arrested a man with dual
French and Algerian nationality who had several passports, technical
information on Boeing aircraft and flight manuals."The man had been taking
flying lessons, it added.

"Asked for information by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, French
security services provided a dossier clearly identifying him as an
Islamic militant working with bin Laden."

Russia - A former CIA officer told FTW that, according to a Russian
newspaper article, Russian intelligence had notified the U.S. government
of the attacks. They even stated that they were aware that 25 pilots had
been specifically trained for the suicide missions.

Russia - On September 15, Russian president Valdimir Putin told
interviewers on MS-NBC that the Russian government had been warning the
U.S. of imminent attacks on airports and government buildings in the
strongest possible terms for weeks.

The United States - A criminal case proceeding in New York courts at the
time of the attacks contradicts the position of conservative news site
WorldNetDaily.com which has taken the position that the Clinton
Administration had provided bin Laden's terrorists with encryption
technology so advanced that the National Security Agency was unable to
penetrate bin Laden's most secure communications.

A February 13, 2001 story by UPI terrorism correspondent Richard Sale
described Echelon's effectiveness against the bin Laden organization in
an active case against him in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. That
case, wrote Sale, "is based mainly on National Security Agency
intercepts of phone calls between bin Laden and his operatives around
the world - Afghanistan to London, from Kenya to the United States."

The UPI story stated that the technology had been used since at least
1995 and Ben Venzke, director of intelligence and special projects for
iDefense, a Virginia information warfare firm, was quoted in a key
paragraph of that story.

"Since Bin Laden started to encrypt certain calls in 1995, why would
they now be part of a court record? 'Codes were broken,' US officials
said, and Venzke added that you don't use your highest levels of secure
communications all the time. It's too burdensome and it exposes it to
other types of exploitation.'"

The UPI story made it clear that much of the evidence in the case had
been obtained in Echelon intercepts subsequent to the 1998 bombings of
U.S. embassies in East Africa and were presumably still effective at the
time of the New York attacks.

The United States - Several press reports confirm the writing of veteran
journalists Alexander Cockburn and Jeff St. Clair in their Sept. 14
issue of Counterpunch. "Reports kept coming in to us of advanced
warnings that an attack of some sort was eminent [sic]. San Francisco
Mayor Willie Brown was booked to fly from the Bay area to New York City
on the morning of September 11. But Brown says that late Monday evening,
a full 8 hours prior to the attack, he received a call from a person
brown described as his airport security man telling him that he should
be extra cautious about air travel on September 11."

The Financial Markets - Cockburn and St. Clair report, "In addition to
what we have previously reported about heightened security at the World
trade center itself in the weeks leading to the attack and at the
Picatinny Arsenal in Rockaway, New Jersey, Counterpunch has also learned
that internal memo was sent around Goldman Sachs in Tokyo on September
10 advising all employees of a possible terrorist attack. It recommended
all employees to avoid any American government buildings."

Morgan Stanley, the largest tenant of the WTC complex lost none of its
3500 employees occupying some 50 floors according to The Washington
Post. Neither did Oppenheimer Funds.

FTW has also verified that at least one Goldman Sachs Vice President had
taken the day off to go surfing. This may or may not be a lucky coincidence.

>

A Word About Promis Software

In the Sept, 2000 issue of FTW (Vol III, No 7) we described recent
developments in the decades-long saga of the legendary Promis software
and this writer's interaction with members of the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police's national security section over its current use by various
intelligence agencies. Promis (Prosecutor's Management Information
System) was specifically reengineered and mated with artificial
intelligence during the 1980s for the purpose of tracking terrorists.
One of its main strengths was its ability to integrate diverse pieces of
data and predict the movement of terrorists based upon financial (e.g.
credit card transactions), entries through various border checkpoints,
car rentals and airline ticket purchases. This special software, refined
and enhanced many times since then, is capable of integrating and
coordinating precisely the kind of information described above and then
setting off warning bells. We have confirmed many times over that
Promis' unique abilities have also been specifically targeted at
financial markets to track sudden shifts in currency and stock
speculation as well as the laundering of money.

That being said, we find it extremely disturbing that the UPI and the
Swedish daily newspaper Aftonbladet both published September 14 reports
indicating that Osama Bin Laden had possibly engaged in large scale
stock speculation in the U.S. and Europe just before the attacks. Both
stories suggested that Bin Laden had bought large amounts of "shorts.'
Taking a short position means that an investor, betting that a stock's
price will go down, places a large number of shares up for sale at a
given price usually just at or below the current market price. If a
stock is in short supply, buyers will purchase the stock rapidly and the
"short seller" then has a given period of time to produce the actual
shares which he or she is not required to own at the time of the sale.

The future sale of the stock at a given price is a fixed contract that
cannot be altered. The seller pockets the money before he has to go out
and buy the shares. Therefore, if the seller agrees to sell 10,000
shares of XYZ company at $100 each and enters into a contract at that
price, and if the stock price falls to $60 the following day, he can
make a quick profit of $400,000 when he buys the stock to complete the
contract.

It is inconceivable that such movements were not detected before the WTC
attacks.

Given all of the above, which is only the beginning of what will be
revealed as time passes, only a cretin would believe that the United
States government could not and did not know that these attacks were
coming, and then chose to remain silent. Given these tiny bits of
knowledge that are now public how much more was available to the
intelligence community? How could they have apparently ignored it?

Dissenters will say, "Yes but the CIA has been hamstrung and prevented
from taking pre-emptive action by those liberal do-gooders in Congress."
Not so. A September 14 Reuters story reported accurately, "The CIA has
been authorized since 1998 to use covert means to disrupt and pre-empt
terror operations allegedly planned abroad by Saudi-born dissident Osama
bin Laden, The Washington Post reported Friday.

"The newspaper said the directive, signed by President Clinton and
reaffirmed by his successor, George W. Bush, adhered to a legal ban on
the assassination of foreign leaders but sanctioned the use of lethal
force in self-defense.

"Quoting government sources, the paper said the CIA had used such force
several times to stop armed groups before they initiated attacks."

A final question: Why, in light of all the information we now know the
government had about imminent attacks, did the Bush Administration gift
the Taliban with $43 million in May of this year? The move by the White
House, sorely criticized by columnist Robert Scheer in the May 22, 2001
Los Angeles Times, was an alleged reward by the U.S. for the Taliban's
destruction of Afghan opium crops in February. Now, the U.S. government
is rushing to mate with a Pakistani regime that sustains itself by, and
derives liquid currency from, the drug trade. The result of that is that
opium production will surely blossom again in Afghanistan - under
U.S./CIA control. The obvious suggestion here is that the U.S., directly
or indirectly, helped to fund the WTC attacks.

It took 60 years for The History Channel, this year, to disclose to us
through U.S. government documents and the statements of intelligence
personnel who participated in it, that the highest levels of both
government and finance knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl
Harbor on December 7, 1941. And they kept silent about it. Historically,
the key fact that made the attack suspicious was that all five aircraft
carriers of the Pacific Fleet were conveniently and safely out to sea
when the attacks occurred. In 2001, it appears that the aircraft
carriers of American finance enjoyed the same advantage, one that was
not afforded to those who died in New York, or even to members of the
U.S. Congress. That should tell us where the real power lies. ___



----- Original Message -----
From: Connie Clark <connie_3c@yahoo.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: "you have been heard making unpatriotic remarks"


> Whoa Jon, can't get rid of us that easy.  Jaxon is
> right, we won't split up.  You are stuck with us, like
> our errant ways, or not.  I understand you are in a
> tough spot with DL, due to your gallant interest in
> support of civil rights and free speech, etc. Wish I
> could help ease things with that nice guy.
>
> A lot of insults have been flung around, and much has
> stuck on you.  That really has to hurt especially when
> one speaks from the heart, as you often do.  We are
> all more fun to read when we are being nice (just my
> opinion. I know lots of us old degenerates love a good
> row every now and then).
>
> On to better things.  Here is a question for you.
>
> European media reports:  a friend of mine has been
> surfing the web looking at European reports on this
> war.  He has been referring often to what LeFigaro (?)
> reports, and I find them kind of goofy, but then, my
> interpretation of things are different than yours.
> Have you read that French (?) paper?  What do you
> think of it?  I know Mike E has an answer for this
> too. Can I give my friend a better source of European
> news reporting?
>
> Love ya baby,
> Connie
>
>
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