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Perhaps the most subtle, and important disinformation around the attacks
on the towers are the claims that "the Jews were all warned
to stay away from the WTC."
While it is true that Israel had foreknowledge of 9/11 (they
warned the Bush administration beforehand), and probably was involved
at some level as a subcontractor, this story has been
the single best method of discrediting 9/11 skeptics to the public, especially
in New York City, where about one third of the citizens are Jewish.
This story has been especially popular in the Arab world, as it plays
into the known duplicities of the Israeli and US governments, and helps
absolve that community of any possible psychological complicity in the
events.Worse, it has brought out a small parade of anti-semites
and neo-Nazi holocaust deniers which
serves the interests of those who want to separate the 9/11 skeptics from
the US public.
It is possible that the Israelis were pretending
to be involved via the "dancing Israelis" filming
the burning towers (who were arrested on the New Jersey side of the Hudson
after outraged bystanders noted they were taking films and acting happy
about the tragedy). Whatever the precise role that the Israeli government
played in 9/11, "dancing Israelis" story was spread widely across
the internet. Perhaps it was merely bait to ensure the anti-semites would
be seen as the main questioners of the official story of 9/11. Perhaps
Israel helped monitor the "hijackers" and / or performed other
roles.
This website has been smeared by a couple of internet personas as a Zionist
front for daring to suggest any of this. Fascist language is about psychology,
not facts. A quick look at www.oilempire.us/israel.html
will show this smear campaign is ridiculous.
http://cryptome.org/dea-il-spy.htm
Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities
February 8, 2007
Dancing Israelis story
revived by Counterpunch & Democracy Now!
Counterpunch magazine, which has been hostile to any questioning of the
9/11 official story, dedicated their entire current issue (VOL. 14, NO.
3/4) to the "Dancing Israelis" 9/11 side show.
Most 9/11 skeptics are probably very aware that several Israeli agents
were arrested in New Jersey, directly across from the WTC when 9/11 happened.
They were laughing and cheering each other about the catastrophe, and
filming the events. Nearby people were so offended by their behavior that
the police were called and the Israelis were arrested. They were deported
to Israel soon after, and there has not been much media followup to this
story.
Counterpunch editor Alexander Cockburn, the article's author (Christopher
Ketcham), and another author about this were interviewed today on Democracy
Now!
www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1610254
Thursday, February 8th, 2007
Cheering Movers and Art Student Spies: Was Israel Tracking the Hijackers
Before the 9/11 Attacks?
A new article in the newsletter Counterpunch examines unresolved questions
over whether Israeli agents were tracking the 9/11 hijackers before
September 11th. ABC’s 20/20, The Forward, and Salon.com have all
covered the story. But where’s the follow up? We speak to the
author of the article, Christopher Ketcham; Counterpunch editor Alexander
Cockburn, and Marc Perelman, the Forward reporter who did one of the
first reports on the story in 2002.
The article is interesting (it's in the print version of Counterpunch,
not on their website, apparently). However, it is not anything new to
most students of the 9/11 coverups. It does raise several questions that
remain unaswered.
Why is Counterpunch suddenly rehashing the "Israeli foreknowledge"
angle to 9/11 after they have virulently attacked any questioning of 9/11?
This is an interesting aspect of the case, but it's not the central issue
(hint: the Israelis don't run NORAD).
Counterpunch has received a lot of criticism
for their attacks on 9/11 skeptics - and for their recent focus on the
misleading "physical evidence" quagmire while ignoring the core
issues of how it was allowed to happen and the wargames and other technical
assistance to enable it.
Democracy Now! has encountered similar
criticism for their support for the official story, their false debate
between Hearst Corporation (Popular Mechanics)
and the Loose Change film (which uses
fake evidence to promote a real conclusion), and their probable reward
for the fake debate from Hearst (which is now syndicating DN's new newspaper
column).
Perhaps Counterpunch and Democracy Now! feel stung by the gatekeeper
charges, and republishing the "Dancing Israelis" story is a
step toward doing more investigation of 9/11. The article does give Counterpunch
more "street credibility" since they now have focused on 9/11
truth without any snide attacks on the questioners. The fact that the
story is largely old news makes it a safe thing to refocus on.
A reader writes to suggest a different explanation:
This will mainly ramp up the anti-semites and their legions of
websites with "told you so" and create a more difficult terrain
to separate them out from simply the real role of Israel. This essentially
gives them something real to wave at everyone to continue their charade
of relevance.
It seems likely that the "Dancing Israelis" filming 9/11 had
intended to be arrested in order to draw attention to themselves. Covert
operatives who are trying to stay covert generally do not attract the
notice of passers-by.
If Counterpunch and Democracy Now! really want to focus on credible
evidence on 9/11, they could examine the NORAD war
games and the NRO / CIA plane-into-building exercise,
among other topics. Focusing solely on Israeli foreknowledge misses the
story.
A side note: perhaps the most credible article on Israeli involvement
in 9/11 comes from Wayne Madsen - "Waking
Up From Our Global Nightmare."
| Wayne
Madsen on the Bush-bin Laden Connection |
www.waynemadsenreport.com
2004-11-01
WAKING UP FROM OUR GLOBAL NIGHTMARE
“Getting it” About the Importance of this Election
By Wayne Madsen
Last week I had the opportunity to visit the United Nations Headquarters
in New York for the first time since my parents took me there for my
12th birthday in 1966. In 1966, the UN Building was an amazing place.
Popularized in fiction by the television show “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
and the movie “North by Northwest,” the UN Building is quintessential
1950s modern architecture--its delegates’ lounge with a huge window
facing the East River more resembles the airport waiting lounges inside
the old Idlewild (now JFK Airport) or Washington National Airport terminals.
In 1966, it was amazing to see delegates from the four corners of the
world wearing various traditional clothing and engaging one another
in both jocular and serious conversations. One had the sense that the
UN was doing what the leaders of the Allies in World War II wanted it
to do--preserve the peace and prevent another war.
But something is now very wrong at the UN Building. The carpets in
the building are threadbare and stained. The drapes adorning the large
plate glass windows are faded. And just days before the U.S. presidential
election, the demeanor of the UN staff was apprehensive and jittery.
George W. Bush accomplished what so many recent dictators tried to
accomplish -- the honorable idea of a post-World War II community of
nations to create an international body to preserve the peace through
negotiation and reason was laid to waste. The UN is no longer a gleaming
glass and marble symbol of hope on the East River. Because of the rise
to power in Washington of a cabal of unilateralist right-wingers adhering
to a crypto-Nazi and fascist ideology developed by an unholy alliance
of apocalyptic Christian fundamentalists, Leo Straussian neo-conservatives,
a smattering of former Trotskyites, and Vladimir Jabotinskyite Zionists,
the UN is now a dismal and gray place where the world’s dominant
power -- the United States -- has all but ignored the international
body at the expense of international law and diplomacy.
George W. Bush’s Texas Republican Party demands in its platform
for the United States to withdraw from the UN and expel it from the
U.S. territory. This was the demand of the farthest extremes of the
right wing in the 1950s and 1960s and it just shows how far out of the
political mainstream Bush and his political cronies have gone. Texas
Republican Governor Rick Perry even refused to sign a recent pro forma
proclamation honoring the UN on its anniversary.
Walking down the corridors of eerily quiet, empty, and drab UN was
right out of a scene from the nuclear war apocalypse movie “On
the Beach.” The General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic
and Social Council rooms were completely empty -- their effectiveness
curtailed by the Bush war regime. Vital decisions affecting war and
genocidal status quo civil war stalemates are now made by a dangerous
cabal inside the White House, Pentagon, and Number 10 Downing Street.
The nightmarish image inside the UN is equally matched by the armed-to-the-teeth
storm troopers who now surround the White House, the U.S. Congress,
and the Supreme Court. The Bush regime, headed by a megalomaniac who
decides to spring his long-awaited “October Surprise” by
producing a videotape made by an old and valued Bush family Saudi business
partner just four days before the presidential election is just further
proof that Bush and his regime are traitors to the United States of
America and anathema to everything it stands for.
After three years of investigating the events of 911 on three continents,
I can now report that the Saudi led terrorist attack, supported by wealthy
members of governments and the top business communities of Saudi Arabia
and the United Arab Emirates, and which was known in advance by an off-the-shelf
Israeli intelligence operation supported by Israeli-Russian criminal
gangs who helped to further inflame passions by posing as celebrating
Arabs in and around New York City after the twin attacks on the World
Trade Center, was also known by key members of the Bush administration,
including Vice President Dick Cheney, his chief of staff Scooter Libby
(a one time lawyer shill for international crime boss Marc Rich), and
the cabal of neo-conservatives serving in the Pentagon under Donald
Rumsfeld. In fact, the leader of a group of Israeli “movers”
of Eastern European descent, who had advance knowledge of the 911 attacks
from their base of operation in Weehawken, New Jersey, was implicated
by the FBI as being in league with the Al Qaeda hijackers in an official
FBI 911 suspect list.
The pre-911 “shadowing” activities of Israeli “movers”
and “art students” in close proximity to the Arab hijackers
in Hollywood, Florida; Irving, Texas; and Jersey City, New Jersey now
appears to have been an “off-the-shelf” intelligence operation
tied closely to the activities of the Offices of Special Plans within
the Pentagon and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s office. Shortly
after the 911 attacks, former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
expressed the opinion that the attacks were good for Israel. The inseparable
ties between Cheney’s office, Netanyahu’s and Sharon’s
private intelligence operatives, Rumsfeld’s neo conservative shop
in the Pentagon, and the hijackers and their financiers are as clear
as day. Moreover, these ties are known by a number of CIA, FBI, Justice
Department, and other federal agents who have been stymied in their
attempts to bring ALL the perpetrators of 911, Arabs and Israelis alike,
to justice. In addition, it is time to bring charges against the Israeli
operatives who were based in New Jersey and who were responsible for
the anthrax mailings that contained letters that suggested Arabs were
the perpetrators. They and their liaisons at the U.S. Army Medical Research
Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland should be
the focus of a new FBI investigation unencumbered by the interference
of Attorney General John Ashcroft, an individual who was on the take
of Kansas City and St. Louis organized crime syndicates when he was
Attorney General and Governor of Missouri.
To cover their tracks, the Israelis managed, working through high
tech database, networking, and communications companies in which they
have a controlling interest, to destroy critical evidence concerning
their role in not only failing to warn the United States of what was
being planned for September 11, 2001 but in stoking the flames of anti-Arab
tensions by posing as Arabs and appearing to threaten the Holland and
Lincoln Tunnels and the George Washington and Brooklyn Bridges. Critical
police and other computerized records throughout north Jersey and Trenton
have been scrubbed by entities tied to the Israelis and possibly to
the former New Jersey Homeland Security chief Golan Cipel, an Israeli
citizen and alleged agent who is now being investigated by the FBI.
Cipel, who reportedly “honey trapped” Democratic Governor
Jim McGreevey in a series of homosexual trysts, may have used his influence
to cover up pre- and post-911 activities of the Israeli agents in New
Jersey, particularly in Jersey City, Weehawken, Union City, Edgewater,
Secaucus, Fort Lee, and at Liberty State Park.
Like Sears and Roebuck, Binney and Smith, Horn and Hardart, and Barnes
and Noble, the Bush and Bin Laden families are a long standing business
team that has been involved in various dubious joint ventures in the
Middle East and around the world since the 1950s. And contrary to Saudi
propaganda, the Bin Laden family never disinherited or otherwise excommunicated
Osama from their midst. Such an act requires an elaborate ceremony in
which the family gathers in the desert and at sunset and publicly banishes
the subject family member in the presence of an imam who documents the
ritual in the same manner as a priest documents a baptism or christening.
According to the highest levels of Israeli intelligence, such a document
does not exist because no such required ceremony ever occurred.
So the fact that Osama bin Laden is still a cherished member of the
same family that has engaged in joint business activities for two generations
with George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Marvin Bush, Neil Bush, Jeb
Bush, and Bush family consigliore James Baker and Bush’s multibillion
dollar slush fund activity, The Carlyle Group, gives his recent videotaped
commentary on the U.S. presidential election more weight. Osama Bin
Laden always comes to the rescue of George W. Bush when the chips are
down. In August 2001, Bush was sinking in the polls amid continuing
charges that his presidency was an illegal contrivance engineered by
his brother in Florida, Florida’s Secretary of State Katherine
Harris, and five partisan members of the U.S. Supreme Court. Then, like
a true and trusted business partner, Bin Laden delivered the 911 attacks
while Bush was being read book excerpts about a pet goat in a Florida
elementary school. Like two friendly business chums cracking jokes on
the golf course, Bin Laden chided Bush about the pet goat story in his
recent videotape.
Bin Laden, whose family was aided by the Bush’s during the 1970s
and 1980s in acquiring airports, aircraft, secret bank accounts, front
companies, and real estate throughout Texas for the purpose of weapons
smuggling and money laundering, came through for Bush by launching the
very kind of “Pearl Harbor-level” attack called for by Bush’s
ideological allies serving with the Israeli-Russian Mafia-funded Project
for the New American Century (PNAC). Bin Laden
financial help to Bush’s various failed oil ventures, including
Arbusto, Spectrum 7 and Harken totaled $1 million over the years. Dick
Cheney, whose wife Lynne receives Israeli-Russian Mafia funds to support
her $125,000 chair at the American Enterprise Institute, immediately
used the 911 attacks to consolidate the Bush regime’s hold on
power, generate windfall war profits for his old company Halliburton
and take the nation’s attention of the biggest corporate collapse
in the history of the United States -- the Enron implosion.
Bush’s friends and partners in the United Arab Emirates arranged
for $109,500 to be transferred to the joint Sun Trust Bank account in
Florida used by hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan al Shehhi. Florida
Governor Jeb Bush has extensive personal financial ties to Sun Trust.
The wire transfer originated in Dubai and was transferred through Citibank
in New York. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill privately complained
to the Emirates during a March 2002 visit to Dubai about the use of
Dubai by the Al Qaeda terrorists prior to and after the 911 attacks.
For example, hijacker Ziad Jarrah transited Dubai in January 2001 on
his return to Florida after spending time at Al Qaeda training camps
in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Hijackers Wail and and Waleed al Shehri,
who were brothers, arranged to use special phone cards in the United
States that could only be used to call Dubai.
O’Neill crossed swords with the Bush-Bin Laden partnership when
he renewed the aggressive approach to UAE and Saudi involvement with
terrorist money laundering begun by Clinton’s National Security
Adviser Sandy Berger. The Bush regime scrapped Berger’s policies
after it took office but O’Neill decided to take a hard line against
the Saudis and Emiratis after 911. In December 2002, O’Neill was
fired. It was not because of his skepticism over Bush’s planned
war against Iraq (we did not know about that until well after he was
sacked), but it was O’Neill’s decision to shut down the
financial activities of Al Qaeda and its allies that earned him the
wrath of the Bush-Bin Laden partnership and what led to his ultimate
firing. Obviously, his distaste for the Iraqi invasion also did not
endear O’Neill to the Israeli-Russian influenced neo-conservatives
and PNACers.
And Bush has done much for Osama. After 911, Bush sufficiently
delayed an attack on Afghanistan enabling Bin Laden and his family and
closest cohorts to evade the eventual attack. After the U.S. invaded,
it allowed Bin Laden to escape Tora Bora by using former Bin Laden-allied
local warlords to supposedly try to capture him. Bush, in essence, allowed
Bin Laden and his party to escape. After Bush geared up to
attack Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Bush publicly stated that he did
not care about Osama any longer. Until October 2004 when polls showed
Kerry surging ahead. Bingo! -- Osama cuts a videotape on his view of
the presidential election. Walter Cronkite
and I share the belief that this video was engineered by Karl Rove.
Beyond that fact, the video was yet another example of the teamwork
between the Bush and Bin Laden partners when one or the other partner
is threatened in some manner.
Immediately, PNAC adherent former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani,
who has made handsome profits in the security business as a result of
911, began making statements that Bin Laden was parroting allegations
contained in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit
911." It was that film that introduced many Americans for the
first time to the business relationship between the Bushes and Bin Ladens.
Osama's video was used by Bush's people to discredit Moore,
and thus, the John Kerry campaign.
When I arrived at the UN Building in the late afternoon of October
29, a group of staffers were having a small Halloween party but were
also transfixed on a television airing the video of Bin Laden. Eerily,
I had just left a meeting in midtown Manhattan with a colleague who
told me that Bin Laden was receiving kidney treatment in Qatar, which
hosts a major U.S. military base where Saddam Hussein was once imprisoned.
Then, bam!--Bin Laden is on TV broadcasting from what was deemed by
a number of TV technicians to be a professional studio. Then the tape
ends up in the hands of Al Jazeera, which is also based in Qatar. Walter
Cronkite smelled a Karl Rove rat with that
tape and so do I. It is a continuation of past Bush-Bin Laden teamwork
in matters of making tons of money and bringing about global mayhem
-- all for the bottom line.
In July 2001, just weeks prior to 911, the French media reported that
Osama Bin Laden was in hospital at the American Hospital in -- you guessed
it -- Dubai, where he was receiving kidney treatment. The French media
also reported that a rather dodgy local American named Larry Mitchell,
who was attached to the U.S. Consulate General and said to be the CIA
station chief, visited Bin Laden at the hospital. More evidence of the
Bush-Bin Laden team in action.
On November 2, we must put and end to the most damaging and menacing
administration in the history of our republic. The sinister Bush family
and their bastard operatives are the most dangerous collection of demagogues
and hate mongers to have achieved power since the days of Adolf Hitler
and the Nazis. It’s time for them to go. Let a Kerry administration
begin the process of indicting the Bush-Bin Laden cartel criminals for
their treacherous acts against our nation. Let there be no mercy, pardons,
or clemency for these truly evil people.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based journalist, author, and commentator.
He is the author of the forthcoming (but suppressed) book "Jaded
Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops, & Brass Plates." He served in the
National Security Agency (NSA) during the Reagan administration and
has written extensively on intelligence and national security issues.
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