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*9/11 SYNTHETIC TERRORISM MADE IN USA*

9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA - 2nd Edition Updates, Jan. 2006

"LIHOP and MIHOP" Analyses of 9/11 <#PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION>
THE FIFTEEN DRILLS OF 9/11 <#THE FIFTEEN DRILLS OF 9/11>
ABLE DANGER: 2.5 TERABYTES OF TREASON <#ABLE DANGER: 2.5 TERABYTES OF
TREASON>

SAS CAR BOMBERS IN BASRA <#SAS CAR BOMBERS IN BASRA>
Appendix: <#Appendix:>

The London Explosions, The Rogue Network, Bush, and Iran <#The London
Explosions, The Rogue Network, Bush, and Iran>
The Phony War on Terror: Time to Quarantine the Real Aggressors <#The
Phony War on Terror: Time to Quarantine the Real Aggressors>
(The actual book also includes new illustrations and an expanded index. )

_* PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION*_

"Why the thermonuclear mushroom cloud on the cover?" That question has
come from a number of readers of this book, who probably expected to
find the more usual photographs of the World Trade Center tragedy, or
the explosions at the Pentagon which are seen on the covers of other
9/11 books. The mushroom cloud is there to signal that this book is
concerned not only with what did happen on 9/11, but with also with
larger tragedies which came close to happening, but which ultimately did
not occur. Among these was the threat of thermonuclear escalation among
the great powers. Important material which has come to light during
2005, after the first edition of this book was published, provides
decisive support for this avenue of inquiry, and to this new material we
will turn presently.

But first, a note on methodology. This book argues the rogue network
MIHOP ("made it happen on purpose") position. That is to say, it
represents the analytical point of view which sees the events of
September 11, 2001 as a deliberate provocation manufactured by an outlaw
network of high officials infesting the military and security apparatus
of the United States and Great Britain, a network ultimately dominated
by Wall Street and City of London financiers. It is our contention that
any other approach not only misrepresents what actually happened in the
terror attacks, but also must tend to leave the public naive and
helpless when it comes to identifying the present and future threat of
state-sponsored, false flag synthetic terrorism, and therefore
preventing repeat performances of 9/11, including on a far larger scale.

What are the alternatives to MIHOP? There is of course the official
version as codified in the Kean-Hamilton commission report of July 2004,
notoriously a tissue of lies. A demagogic variation on this is the
"official version and it serves you right" or "blowback" position, which
accepts all the crucial elements of the official version -- Bin Laden,
Atta and the rest of the 19 hijackers, al Qaeda, the US intelligence
failure, and so forth. But here the official version is endorsed with
its moral signs inverted: the catastrophe of 9/11 is seen as just
retribution by the victims of imperialism for the chronic crimes of the
system. This is the thesis which, in understated form, underlies the
approach of Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal, as the first edition made
clear. "Blowback" is dear to the hearts of a whole series of left
gatekeepers, to the extent that they are willing to say anything at all
about 9/11. This view has been embraced in the most grotesque form by
the veteran agent provocateur Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado.

Churchill learned demolitions during his career in the Long Range
Reconnaissance Patrols in Vietnam, and upon his return from the war
became associated with the terrorist Weatherman faction, the group of
police agents who systematically destroyed Students for a Democratic
Society, the largest leftist membership organization in the US in the
twentieth century. "Churchill briefly taught the Weathermen and
Weatherwomen how to make bombs and how to fire weapons," we read in the
Denver Post of January 18, 1987 (
http://www.khow.com/img/churchill-scan.html ) Some of these Weathermen
perished when they blew up a townhouse in Manhattan; they had not been
well taught.

During the first few months of 2005, the Fox News O 'Reilly Factor
attempted to promote Churchill to the status of chief spokesman for the
9/11 truth movement by paying obsessive attention to his demagogic
claims that the office workers who perished on 9/11 were war criminals
in the service of imperialism. With this, the 9/1l truth movement was
demonized in the eyes of millions. More important for our purposes here,
Churchill also ranted that anyone who rejected the attribution of the
crimes of 9/11 to Atta, Bin Laden, and al Qaeda was a racist who was
really arguing that Arabs were genetically inferior and thus incapable
of carrying out this complex and spectacular attack. Churchill is thus
the leading contender for the Arlen Spector Award for the most
imaginative defense of the official version so far recorded. Academics,
in particular, seemed unable to see him for what he was. His posturing,
which was given lavish attention by the corporate media, did more than
anything else to discredit and disorient the 9/11 truth movement,
precisely at a time when an advertising campaign by the political
philanthropist Jimmy Walter was actually beginning to educate the public
about how it had been hoodwinked.

Other commentators tentatively accept the 9/11 commission report, but
hasten to add that they have unanswered questions. "Official version
with unanswered questions" is the most nondescript of views, and it has
not stood the test of time. Unanswered questions were a mark of courage
in October 2001, and were still a healthy symptom in 2002. By 2004 this
position had been rendered obsolete and untenable by the progress of
research, and by 2005 it had come to embody a basic refusal to
understand, whether out of fear or prejudice. But the "unanswered
questions" gambit remained popular, perhaps because it was quite
compatible with the continued receipt of foundation funding. On Judgment
Day, when Gabriel blows his horn and the dead rise from their
sepulchers, this contingent will still be parading their unanswered
questions as an alibi for their political impotence and paralysis.

"Let it happen on purpose" (LIHOP) is a better analysis, although
ultimately an inadequate one. LIHOP assumes that Bin Laden, al Qaeda,
Atta, and company actually have at least a semi-independent existence
and possess the will and the physical- technical capability to strike
the United States in the ways seen on 9/11. But LIHOP also posits that
the al Qaeda attack could not have been successful without the active
cooperation of elements of the Pentagon and Bush administration who
deliberately sabotaged US air defenses so as to allow the suicide pilots
to reach their targets at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The LIHOP
view of things has been vociferously and voluminously defended by Mike
Ruppert, whose book features the constant refrain borrowed from Delmart
"Mike" Vreeland, "Let one happen. Stop the rest!" Nafeez Ahmed's first
book also verged on LIHOP.

LIHOP is increasingly at war with masses of evidence. A more outre
version of LIHOP admits that Atta and his cohorts were working for the
CIA, but only as gun-runners and drug- runners, not terrorists. At a
certain point, this view alleges, the drug- runners decided to revolt
against their arrogant CIA masters by blowing up the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon! But even this recondite scheme cannot address the
absence of air defense for one hour and forty-five minutes, nor the
controlled demolition which overtook the two trade towers.

In 2002 and 2003, LIHOP represented progress beyond the unanswered
questions way station. But here too, as more new material has come to
light, LIHOP has also become untenable, as I will try to show below. A
Zogby poll commissioned by Jimmy Walter in August 2004 showed that
almost 50%% of New Yorkers believed that US officials knew in advance
that 9/11 was going to happen -- a reasonable approximation of LIHOP.
The statement by MI-5 whistleblower David Shayler to a London gathering
in early June 2005 -- "I was LIHOP; I am MIHOP," -- is therefore
coherent with the increasingly successful quest for truth. Today the
LIHOP position is increasingly unstable. Some devotees of LIHOP have a
curious habit of reverting to a very tepid unanswered questions posture
as soon as a microphone or television camera approaches.

David Ray Griffin's New Pearl Harbor exemplified what might be called
Bush-Cheney MIHOP, although this must be qualified by Griffin's repeated
caveat that he was not advancing an overall explanation for what
happened on 9/11. The emphasis on Bush-Cheney as the possible
masterminds of 9/11 is problematic, since the rogue network has
demonstrably been around since the blowing up of the USS Maine more than
a century ago -- long before Bush and Cheney. In addition, we must ask
if serious plotters would ever dream of assigning an important role to a
moron, or to a man who has had multiple heart attacks, who has had a
pacemaker installed and who is living on borrowed time. These objections
apply to all allegations that assign Cheney an absolutely central role,
including those of Mike Ruppert. The invisible government, in fact, will
not necessarily be defeated if its puppets of the moment -- Bush,
Cheney, and company -- are ousted. Griffin then turned to a detailed
refutation of the Kean- Hamilton report, a task that could easily have
been left to the unanswered questions people or even relegated as
fiction to literary critics, as Griffin himself has suggested. We are
left with Griffin's basically agnostic view, which means that we are
effectively disarmed in the face of new threats of state-sponsored
terrorism as they continued to emerge, especially during the second half
of 2005.

Differences among these categories are worth stressing, even though they
may be blurred. For example, a successful terrorist provocation
generally has a LIHOP function built into it, since it typically is the
job of the moles in the FBI and Justice Department to make sure that
normal law enforcement does not interfere with the patsies and throw
them into jail, thus stripping the operation of its indispensable
scapegoats. But this is only one part of the terror deployment, and the
presence of trained professionals who actually produce the results
observed, which the patsies could never produce, suffices to validate a
MIHOP analysis for the entire operation.

Some other commentators have, either consciously or unconsciously,
advanced an outlook which might be called Mossad MIHOP. As I show in
this book, it is a well-established fact that the Mossad meticulously
observed every phase of the preparation and execution of 9/11. The
Mossad is also known to be a very nefarious organization. But what is
missing is convincing proof of a direct operative role for the Mossad in
9/11. So far not even limited subcontracting of specific 9/11 tasks by
CIA to Mossad, a standard practice, has been established. Mossad MIHOP
would appear to appeal to a chauvinistic mentality which implicitly
believes that Americans would never do such a thing to their fellow
Americans, so a foreign group, the Mossad, has to be blamed. This is
dangerous nonsense, and those who profess it need to be reminded of the
Operation Northwoods documents, which contemplate precisely the sort of
killing of Americans by Americans they think is impossible. As far as I
know, MI-6 MIHOP, another possible variant, has not been argued; here
the evidence is greater, but still not enough. Therefore, my second
edition still asserts on the cover that the 9/11 terror was: "Made In USA."

_* THE FIFTEEN DRILLS OF 9/11*_

Ruppert's Crossing the Rubicon is aware of five exercises related to
9/11 -- Vigilant Warrior, Vigilant Guardian, Northern Vigilance, Tripod
II, and the National Reconnaissance Office drill. The first printing of
my book discusses these, plus Northern Guardian, Amalgam Virgo, and a
local DC-area drill, for a total of eight. As of this writing, it has
been established that there were as many as 15 drills either ongoing on
9/11 or directly related to the events of that day. This figure may be
slightly higher or lower according to the counting criteria used.

_*911 WAR GAMES AND TERROR DRILLS*_

Amalgam Virgo Air defense against rogue state/terror cruise missiles,
hijackings
Vigilant Guardian Air defense against hijacking
Northern Guardian Air defense
Vigilant Warrior NORAD exercise
Northern Vigilance NORAD deploys fighters to Alaska, northern Canada
Amalgam Warrior Large live-fly air defense and air intercept, tracking
surveillance
Global Guardian Nuclear warfighting, "Armageddon"
Crown Vigilance Air combat command exercise
Apollo Guardian Large scale live-fly air defense and air intercept,
tracking surveillance
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Crashing planes into buildings
AWACS AWACS over Florida, Washington DC
Fort Meyer, Virginia Firemen (Pentagon), "aircraft crash refresher
course" for firefighters
TRIPOD II, Manhattan Response to biochemical attack
Timely Alert II Emergency response to bomb attack

Ruppert focuses exclusively on the drills which crippled air defense,
the ones we may call LIHOP drills. It is of course vital to know about
these war games which moved fighter planes to northern Canada and
Alaska, which introduced fake radar blips on the screens of military
personnel, and which deployed civilian and military aircraft in the
guise of hijacked airliners. This was one way the vaunted US air defense
in the northeast corridor was paralyzed for about one hour and
forty-five minutes. But even this argument has limits. Loyal military
officers would have positioned their interceptor assets in the skies
over Washington DC to prevent their recurrent nightmare, the
decapitation of the national command authority by a lightning stroke.
The fact that this was not done for so many minutes is irrefutable
evidence that the commanders were not loyal. It does no good to argue
that red-blooded US fighter pilots would never have obeyed a stand-down
order when this is manifestly exactly what they did, for the critical
hour and three quarters.

But there are additional 9/11 maneuvers which claim our attention. These
are the MIHOP drills, which provided cover and operational capabilities
for terror operations run through the official bureaucracy. The most
obvious is the exercise that morning at the headquarters of the National
Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Virginia involving the simulation of
an airliner crashing into the NRO's headquarters tower. It involved, in
other words, a plane crashing into a building. Given all we have learned
about the intimate relationship between military drills and terrorist
acts, it is clear that there is a strong prima facie case here that the
NRO drill in question was in fact a control center or vehicle for
crashing aircraft or other flying objects into the towers of the World
Trade Center. This is no weird happenstance, but a crucial window on the
entire operation.

Then there is the case of Amalgam Virgo, which did come up during the
9/11 commission hearings. Thanks to cooperativeresearch.org, we know
that Amalgam Virgo 01 was run on June 1-2, 2001. It was "a multi-agency
planning exercise sponsored by NORAD involving the hypothetical scenario
of a cruise missile being launched by "a rogue [government] or somebody"
from a barge off the East Coast. Bin Laden is pictured on the cover of
the proposal for the exercise. [American Forces Press Service, 6/4/02]
The exercise takes place at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida. [Global
Security, 4/14/02]" Although the barge could have been located somewhere
else, this looks very much like what happened at the Pentagon, since it
is clear that no commercial airliner ever hit that building on 9/11. The
2002 edition of this exercise was set to include "two simultaneous
commercial aircraft hijackings," with FBI agents impersonating the
hijackers -- another component which may have occurred in the real world
on 9/1l.

These are leading examples of what may be termed MIHOP drills, since
they point towards the basic fact that the 9/11 terror operations were
not just facilitated or allowed, but manufactured and produced, by
activities taking place inside the US military- security bureaucracy,
under the cover of theoretically legal and sanctioned drills.

As I showed in the original edition, the open secret about drills is
that they often hide the real thing, as illustrated by the examples of
Hilex 75 (a cover for possible nuclear confrontation with the Warsaw
Pact) and Nine Lives 81 (a cover for the Hinckley hit on President
Reagan). Another excellent example is Able Archer 83, a US nuclear
weapons exercise which looked so realistic that Soviet leaders became
concerned that it was a cover for a real sneak attack on their country
with nuclear missiles. They put their own Strategic Rocket Troops and
related units on highest alert, and the world found itself on the brink
of an all-out nuclear exchange. (See William M. Arkin, Code Names
(Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2005, p. 245, and Benjamin B. Fischer, A
Cold War Conundrum, History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence,
Central Intelligence Agency, 1997, online at
http://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/coldwar/source.htm ).

/The principle directly at stake here is that state terrorists wishing
to conduct an illegal terror operation often find it highly advantageous
to conduit or bootleg that illegal operation through the government
military/security bureaucracy with the help of an exercise or drill that
closely resembles or mimics the illegal operation./ Once the entire
apparatus is set up, it is only necessary to make apparently small
changes to have the exercise go live, and turn into a real hecatomb. If
there is a gas dispersion drill announced in Manhattan, as there was in
August 2005, it is merely necessary to replace the inert gas with a
highly toxic one to go from drill to mass slaughter./ A drill simulating
a terror attack provides the greatest possible camouflage of the
criminal intent of the perpetrators and allows the terror attack to
occur through minor departures from the scenario script./ All these
drills try to be as realistic as possible. But the greatest realism is
an actual terror attack. The fact that attempts at disruption,
infiltration, harassment, and sabotage may be built in simply increases
the opportunities available to the plotters, as do the varying levels of
awareness of the participants, only a very few of whom need to know that
a real terror attack is intended, or what the fate of certain patsies
might be. /To prevent new terror attacks from providing the pretexts for
new wars, it is imperative that this mechanism be understood, but it
cannot be understood in the unanswered questions, LIHOP, and agnostic
frames of reference. That is why the apparent moderation of these
theoretical points of view is so crippling and so dangerous./

Thanks to Arkin and cooperativeresearch.org, there is another 9/11 drill
which can be given the special mention it deserves. My book more than
any other stresses the thermonuclear war potentials unleashed on 9/11,
and this emphasis is fully vindicated by this additional drill. In
effect, the mushroom cloud on the cover was there for excellent reasons.
/The heart of the matter is Global Guardian, a nuclear war fighting or
Armageddon exercise staged by STRATCOM on 9/11 from Offutt Air Force
Base, where Brent Scowcroft and Warren Buffett were converging in what
might have been the nucleus of a Committee of Public Safety set to
govern in case Bush had to be ousted/. Global Guardian involved
land-based missiles, nuclear submarines, and B-52 and B-l bombers loaded
with live H-bombs at bases like Offutt (Nebraska), Barksdale
(Louisiana), Minot (North Dakota) and /Whiteman/ (Missouri). The first
two became destinations for Bush that day. The
Doomsday-Night-Watch-Looking Glass flying command posts were mobilized.
Another crucial aspect is pointed out by cooperativeresearch.com:

A 1998 Defense Department newsletter reported that for several years
Stratcom had been incorporating a computer network attack (CNA) into
Global Guardian. The attack involved Stratcom /"red team"/ members and
other organizations acting as enemy agents, and included attempts to
penetrate the Command using the Internet and a "bad" insider who had
access to a key command and control system. The attackers "war dialed"
the phones to tie them up and sent faxes to numerous fax machines
throughout the Command. They also claimed they were able to shut down
Stratcom's systems. Reportedly, Stratcom planned to increase the level
of computer network attack in future Global Guardian exercises.
(IAnewsletter, 6/98]

Here is a portal through which the rogue network could have launched
nuclear missiles without the help of Bush, as I argued in the original
edition. The targets for such missiles could have been Arab or Islamic
capitals, if Bush had refused to initiate the war of civilizations in
conventional form by attacking Afghanistan. The target could also have
been China, or Russia. We must never lose sight of the Bush-Putin
telephone call on 9/11, which was the central diplomatic and strategic
event of the day even though most 9/11 books do not even mention it. /In
that telephone call, Bush in effect delivered an ultimatum that the
United States was determined to seize Afghanistan (where the Soviets had
staged an invasion and a long war in response to a grab for power by
Brzezinski in 1979), plus bases in former Soviet central Asia./ What if
Putin' s response to Bush's ultimatum had been a more traditional
defense of Mother Russia, coupled with a threat to incinerate New York
if Bush dared to do any such thing? The rogue network had obviously
thought of that eventuality in advance, and had evidently provided a
back door through which they could direct a confrontation.

_* ABLE DANGER: 2.5 TERABYTES OF TREASON*_

Another important MIHOP issue emerges from these drills. Able Warrior,
according to Arkin's listing, would seem to represent the big Special
Forces (SOCOM) "anti-terror" defensive drill of each fiscal year.
Keeping in mind the military bureaucracy's predilection for naming
drills in binary pairs, we might speculate as to the meaning of a drill
or activity known as Able Danger. The name would suggest that this might
be the simulated attacker paired with the defensive Able Warrior. /In
other words, Able Danger might represent the case officers and terrorist
controllers for a group of government-run terrorists (double agents,
plus dupes, fanatics, and criminal energy types) used to play the roles
of terrorists in the various anti-terror drills. Does the reader smell a
fault?/



/ Polyester, written, directed and produced by John Waters, starring
Divine /

Such suspicions materialized in August 2005 when Congressman Curt Weldon
of Pennsylvania began holding press conferences about Able Danger, which
turned out to be a co-production of the Special Forces command with the
Defense Intelligence Agency. Weldon's main interest was in the report
from a certain Col. Schaffer and a certain Navy Captain Philpott that
Able Danger had been well aware of the presence of Mohamed Atta in the
United States during the early months of 2000, long before the
Kean-Hamilton commission said he had arrived. The Able Danger officers
produced detailed accounts of how they told the 9/11 commission
investigators all about this, only to see their testimony completely
ignored. In a grotesque comedy of errors, Kean, Hamilton and their hack
apparatus clumsily denied these allegations, then retracted the denial,
then denied them again. The role of Philip Zelikow, the executive
director of the 9/11 commission staff, was especially slimy, which
should have come as no surprise to readers of this book. /The first
by-product of Congressman Weldon's maverick performance was thus to
provide an absolutely water-tight case study in how, when dealing with
highly material information, the 9/11 commission had suppressed
evidence, obstructed justice, and deliberately and systematically lied.
/What else could one expect from Zelikow, the unfortunate Miss Rice's
partner in a book venture?

But that was just the beginning. Weldon admitted that, in addition to
observing and combating the supposed terrorists, one task of Able Danger
had been to "manipulate" them. With this one word, the door was wide
open to deploying terrorist counter- gangs and pseudo-gangs on the full
Frank Kitson model for real live terror operations. /Able Danger were
indeed the terrorist controllers and case officers for Atta and the
rest/./ This case was made harder to prove when Able Danger successfully
destroyed its own database and records, to the tune of an estimated 2.5
terabytes of material -- according to some experts, the approximate
equivalent of one quarter of all the books and other records stored in
the Library of Congress. /Suddenly, all the reports of Atta and the
others living on military bases, studying on military bases, and so
forth began to fit into place.

/During 2005, the hollow demagogy and hypocrisy of the phony US-UK war
on terror emerged for all to see. Elias Achmadov, a Chechen butcher and
terrorist, was living in Washington DC, not only openly, but enjoying a
generous stipend from the US State Department, complete with an office,
a secretary, a travel budget, and a public relations budget courtesy of
the American taxpayer. The State Department pays terrorists -- there was
no longer any doubt, after Achmadov got his picture on the cover of the
Washington Post weekly magazine./ Then there was Luis Posada Carriles, a
long-serving retainer of the Bush family, most recently attached to Jeb
Bush's Florida gun-running and drug-running apparatus. Posada had blown
up a Cuban airliner, killing upwards of 75 people. Posada was living
openly in the US for several months despite being a very illegal alien
when the international heat from Cuba, Venezuela, and other states made
this CIA terror asset too compromising to be allowed to roam free. He
was accordingly detained, but not extradited to those who wanted to put
him on trial.

_* SAS CAR BOMBERS IN BASRA*_

Even more dramatic were the terrorist counter-gang operations of the US
and UK military in Iraq. In September 2005 two soldiers of the British
Special Air Services (SAS) were arrested for sniping at civilians in
Basra. These two, who were members of a super-elite unit called Special
Reconnaissance Regiment, were driving around in a car bomb which they
doubtless intended to set off near a Shiite school, hospital, or mosque.
At this time, the US-UK terrorist countergang leader had declared war
against all Shiites -- a stance so outrageous for a supposed Iraqi
fighter that it drew a reproof from MI-6's Zawahiri. When the Iraqi
police arrested this pair, the British sent a column of tanks to break
down the jail and extract them, lest they tell all./ These two killer
provocateurs were living proof that the US-UK occupation of Iraq was
using terrorist countergangs and agents provocateurs in a bid to isolate
and demonize the national resistance/. These techniques had been refined
by UK Colonel Frank Kitson in Kenya during the early 1950s Mau Mau era,
and coifed in Kitson's book on low intensity warfare. It was Kitson who
had coined the immensely useful term countergang (or pseudogang). /If
you want to discredit a clandestine organization, then set up your own
false-flag group under the same name, and have them commit unspeakable
atrocities in the name of the target group./ If the SAS-SRR car bomb had
claimed its toll of Shiites, the usual Limbaugh-O'Reilly-Hannity-Savage
chorus of fascist parrots would have been on the air the next day
denouncing the Sunnis as a criminal race. /We may assume that a large
part of the beheadings and other spectacular atrocities coming out of
Iraq were in fact perpetrated by US-UK-Mossad, acting through these
obvious countergangs./

As I argued in the first edition of this book, there was acute danger of
large-scale state-sponsored terrorist provocation, followed by a wider
war in the Middle East or elsewhere during the months before the
November 2004 US elections. The general outlines of this analysis were
confirmed in a conversation with the author in the shadow of the
Washington monument on September 25, 2005: Wayne Madsen reported that he
had detected signs of intensive preparations in numerous US commands
during that time frame, including especially on aircraft carriers.

May-July 2005 began a similar time of heightened risk of US aggression.
In late July, an article by former CIA agent Philip Giraldi in The
American Conservative signaled that the Cheney faction had ordered the
Pentagon to prepare for the atomic bombing of Iran in the wake of a new
9/11 terror attack. It was clear that the Cheneyacs would not wait for a
new 9/11 to happen, but would have it delivered on special order. In
response to this, a group of activists around the websites team8plus.org
and tota1411.info, with help from my weekly broadcasts, began to look
forward in time to identify terror drills and war games which might lend
themselves to use as war provocations.

This was an effort to put the MIHOP lessons learned from the study of
9/11 into action to shut down the terrorist controllers. The cover for
the Kennedy assassination was Operation Mongoose. The hit on Reagan in
1981 had been conduited through Nine Lives, a presidential succession
exercise. We have seen the drills on 9/11. The London July 7, 2005 bombs
(see www.waronfreedom.org/777.htm <http://www.waronfreedom.org/777.htm>
) were set up under Atlantic Blue, Topoff III, and Triple Play, plus
help from Visor Consultants. What would be the drill that would serve as
the vehicle for Cheney's desired war provocation?

Activists soon discovered Sudden Response 05, based on a 10-kiloton
nuclear explosion in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. The
websites mentioned raised such a hue and cry about this drill, forcing
an article in the main local newspaper trying to calm worried people
down. The exposure worked well enough to cause the drill to be shut down
before its completion. This was followed by a terror drill involving
explosions in San Francisco Bay; a strange blast in the financial
district at the end of this drill sent a woman to the hospital in
critical condition. Then came Granite Shadow/Power Geyser in Washington
DC, with weapons of mass destruction and overtones of a military coup.
All of these exercises were made more sinister by the shift of the
official US strategic nuclear posture from deterrence and retaliation to
global strike, meaning nuclear sneak attack, under CONPLAN 8022-22.

/The last months of 2005 were therefore a dangerous time. By some
calculations, this period was marked by the greatest density of war game
and terror drill activity since 9/11 itself. The vaguely reassuring
Global Guardian was replaced by the much more aggressive and threatening
Global Storm, presumably as a result of the shift to the global strike
posture. Global Storm embraces worldwide nuclear war using all arms.
Occurring simultaneously with this were Positive Response 06 (the drills
go by fiscal years, and the US fiscal year begins on October 1), a Joint
Chiefs of Staff interoperability exercise. These were paired with Global
Lightning, Vigilant Shield, and Busy Night Seminars -- a code name for
nuclear warfare. Scenarios at work here included a radiological dirty
bomb detonated in Mobile Bay, Alabama, by a country or terror network
designated as Purple, but identified with the DPRK (North Korea). North
Korea was supposed to launch long-range missiles at the US, with
subsequent retaliation. The Pentagon's primitive missile defense system
was supposed to come into play. At the same time, other drills saw the
US intervening massively in Ukraine, eliciting a Russian defensive
response, thus precipitating all-out nuclear war./

Small wonder therefore that Russian President Putin had issued a blunt
warning of his own on August 17, 2005, admonishing Bush:

"I think that lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear arms is a
dangerous trend, because somebody may feel tempted to use nuclear
weapons ... If that happens, the next step can be taken -- more powerful
nuclear arms can be used, which may lead to a nuclear conflict. This
extremely dangerous trend is in the back of the mind of some politicians
and military officials."

Persons of good will needed to scan the websites of the Pentagon,
Homeland Security, the CIA, NATO, the British Defense Ministry, and
similar organizations to identify drills and exercises that were likely
to go live. These drills and war games needed to be denounced, exposed,
and shut down. Activists of all types, from the anti-war to the
neighborhood level, needed to join the growing movement to prevent the
outrageous and illegal abuse of drills and exercises for purposes of
terrorism, among other things by contributing to the drill monitoring
set up by the Independent International Commission on 9/11 at web sites
like team8plus.org.. This kind of aggressive and pre-emptive vigilance
represents MIHOP in action. The purpose of such preemptive exposure and
denunciation is not to gather kudos for how smart we are, but rather to
identify, shut down, and dismantle the rogue network's illegal terror
operations.

It was clearly essential that measures be taken to keep the fingers of
Bush, Cheney, and the increasingly desperate neocon fascist madmen away
from the nuclear button. During Watergate, when Nixon had called his
infamous 1973 worldwide nuclear alert as a result of the October 1973
Middle East war, British Prime Minister Ted Heath had seen the entire
stunt as a manufactured diversion from Nixon's Watergate troubles at
home. As the Bush administration disintegrates, it is clear that
conditions today are similar. On October 28, 2005, when special counsel
Fitzgerald presented his indictment of the neocon fanatic Irv Lewis
Libby, Bush simultaneously made a raving speech branding Iran and Syria
as outlaw states with whom his patience was exhausted. Many cable
networks showed Fitzgerald and Bush, along with Cheney, as parts of the
same split screen. There it was: wag the dog, in real time. Kissinger
and Haig, sociopaths though they were, had taken measures to supervise
Nixon's access to the football, the briefcase containing the nuclear
launch codes. In the last weeks of Watergate, Defense Secretary
Schlesinger had issued a standing order to combat commanders telling
them to ignore any and all orders by Nixon to launch attacks unless and
until they were confirmed by himself or by Kissinger. In today's White
House, there are no figures to look to who might impose similar
restraint: quite the contrary. /Faced with looming indictments of many
of their clique, the neocons tended towards a mood of Gotterdammerung
and apocalypse. The neocons would doubtless prefer a new world war to
life behind bars; like the SS in Berlin during the last days, they would
think nothing of letting the river water into the subway tunnels where
their insufficiently martial fellow citizens were hiding./

The impeachment of Bush and of many others could hardly wait until 2007.

Gunpowder Day, November 5, 2005

_* Appendix:*_

_* The London Explosions, The Rogue Network, Bush, and Iran*_

By Webster G. Tarpley

Originally published in Global Outlook magazine.

Washington DC, July 11 -- Last week's London explosions carry the
characteristic features of a state-sponsored, false flag, synthetic
terror provocation by networks within the British intelligence services
MI-5, MI-6, the Home Office, and the Metropolitan Police Special Branch
who are favorable to a wider Anglo-American aggressive war in the Middle
East, featuring especially an early pre-emptive attack on Iran, with a
separate option on North Korea also included. With the London attacks,
the Anglo-American invisible government adds another horrendous crime to
its own dossier. But this time, their operations appear imperfect,
especially in regard to the lack (so far) of a credible patsy group
which, by virtue of its ethnicity, could direct popular anger against
one of the invisible government's targets. So far, the entire
attribution of the London crimes depends on what amounts to an anonymous
posting in an obscure, hitherto unknown, secular Arabic-language
chatroom in the state of Maryland, USA. But, based on this wretched
shred of pseudo-evidence, British Prime Minister Tony Blair -- who has
surely heard of a group called the Irish Republican Army, which bombed
London for more than a decade -- has not hesitated to ascribe the
murders to "Islam," and seems to be flirting with total martial law
under the Civil Contingencies Act. We are reminded once again of how he
earned his nickname of Tony Blair.

SCOTLAND YARD KNEW IN ADVANCE

That the British Government knew in advance that blasts would occur is
not open to rational doubt. Within hours of the explosions, Israeli Army
Radio was reporting that "Scotland Yard [London police headquarters] had
intelligence warnings of the attacks a short time before they occurred."
/This report, repeated by IsraelNN.com, added that "the Israeli Embassy
in London was notified in advance, resulting in Foreign Minister
Binyamin Netanyahu remaining in his hotel room rather than make his way
to the hotel adjacent to the site of the first explosion, a Liverpool
Street train station, where he was to address an economic summit."/ This
report is attributed to "unconfirmed reliable sources." At around the
same time, the Associated Press issued a wire asserting that "British
police told the Israeli Embassy in London minutes before Thursday's
explosions that they had received warnings of possible terror attacks in
the city," according to "a senior Israeli official." This wire specifies
that "just before the blasts, Scotland Yard called the security officer
at the Israeli Embassy to say that they had received warnings of
possible attacks "

According to eyewitness reports from London, BBC claimed between 8:45
and some minutes after 10 AM that the incidents in the Underground were
the result of an electrical power surge, or alternatively of a
collision. /Foreign bigwigs, presumably not just Netanyahu, were warned,
while London working people continued to stream into the subway/. These
reports have been denied, repudiated, sanitized, and expunged from news
media websites by the modern Orwellian Thought Police, but they have
been archived by analysts who learned on 9/11 and other occasions that
key evidence in state-sponsored terror crimes tends to filter out during
the first minutes and hours, during the critical interval when the
controlled media are assimilating the cover story peddled by complicit
moles within the ministries. These reports are not at all damaging to
Israel, but are devastating for British domestic security organs. An
alternative version peddled by Stratfor.com, namely that the Israelis
warned Scotland Yard, is most probably spurious but still leaves the
British authorities on the hook. /Which Scotland Yard official made the
calls? Identify that official, and you have bagged a real live rogue
network mole./

Another more general element of foreknowledge can be seen in the fact
reported by Isikoff and Hosenball of Newsweek that, since about November
2004, the US FBI, but not other US agencies, has been refusing to use
the London Underground.

Operations like these are generally conduited through the government
bureaucracies under the cover of a drill or exercise which closely
resembles the terror operation itself. So it was with Amalgam Virgo and
the multiple exercises held on 9/11, as I show in my 9/11 Synthetic
Terror: Made in USA (Joshua Tree CA: Progressive Press, 2005). So it was
with the Hinckley attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan, when a
presidential succession exercise was scheduled for the next day, as I
showed in my George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992; reprint by
Progressive Press, 2004). An uncannily similar maneuver allows the
necessary work to be done on official computers and on company time,
while warding off the inquisitive glances and questions of curious
co-workers at adjoining computer consoles.

THE COVER STORY TERROR DRILL

Such a parallel drill was not lacking in the London case. /On the
evening of July 7, BBC Five, a news and sports radio program, carried an
interview with a certain former Scotland Yard official named Peter Power
who related that his firm, Visor Consulting, had been doing an
anti-terror-bombing drill in precisely the Underground stations and at
the precise times when the real explosions went off. Peter Power and
Visor had been subcontractors for the drill; Power declined to name the
prime contractors. Small wonder that Blair, in his first official
report to the Commons on July 11, went out of his way to rule out
a board of inquiry to probe these tragic events.

Tony Blair may be eyeing the advantages of emergency rule for a
discredited lame duck like himself, but the British people may have a
different view. The alternative is clear: on the one hand is the
American response after 9/11, marked by submissive and credulous
gullibility in regard to the fantastic official story of what had
happened. On the other hand is the militant and intelligent Spanish
response after March 11, 2004, marked by powerful mass mobilization and
righteous anger against politicians who sought to manipulate the people
and sell a distorted account of events. Which way will the British
people go? Straws in the wind suggest that the British response may be
closer to the Spanish, although it may develop more slowly because of
the lack of mass organization and related factors. If this is the case,
Tony Blair, Jack Straw, and the rest of the malodorous "New Labor"
crypto-Thatcherites will be out the window.

My thesis is that the London explosions represent a form of
communication on the part of the transatlantic Anglo-American financier
faction with Bush, Blair, and the heads of state and government
assembled at Gleneagles, Scotland for the G-8 meeting on the day of the
blast. The London deaths were designed to deliver an ultimatum in favor
of early war with Iran. Here a word of clarification may be necessary.
The demonization of Bush by his many enemies, while understandable,
risks blurring the basic realities of power in the US and UK. Since the
Bay of Pigs and the Kennedy assassination (to go back no further than
that), we have been aware of a secret team. During the Iran-contra era,
the same phenomenon was referred to as an invisible, secret or parallel
government. This is still the matrix of most large-scale terrorism. The
question arises for some: do Bush and Cheney tell the invisible
government what to do, or does the invisible government treat the
visible office holders as puppets and expendable assets? To ask the
question is to answer it: Bush, Cheney & Co. are the expendable puppets.
The explanation of terror is not Bush "makes it happen on purpose," or
"MIHOP ," as some seem to argue, but rather invisible government MIHOP,
an altogether more dire proposition.

/How then does the invisible faction communicate with the public
mouthpieces? Given the violence of the power relations involved, we can
be sure that it is not a matter of sending out engraved invitations
announcing that the honor of Bush's presence is requested at the
launching of an attack on Iran./ Rather, the invisible and violent rogue
network communicates with Bush, Blair, and others by means coherent with
their aggressive nature -- as they did on 9/11. Bush, of course, is a
weak and passive tenant of the White House whose instinct is to do
virtually nothing beyond the day-to-day routine.

We therefore need to note that the London blasts come after two months
of vigorous and impatient prodding of Bush by the invisible government.
On May 11, a small plane almost reached the White House before it was
turned away, while the Congress, the Supreme Court, and the White House
(but not the Pentagon, the Treasury, etc.) were evacuated amid scenes of
panic. The White House went to red alert, but Bush was not informed
until it was all over, and was riding his bicycle in the woods near
Greenbelt, Maryland. Flares were dropped over the Brookland district and
Takoma Park, MD. The resemblance of all this to a classic coup scenario
was evident. On May 18, a live hand grenade, which turned out to be a
dud, landed near Bush as he spoke at a rally in Tbilisi, Georgia.

On June 29, the approach of another small plane led to an evacuation of
the Congress and the Capitol, again with scenes of panic. On the
afternoon of July 2, no fewer than three small planes came close to
Bush's Camp David retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland; this
story was suspiciously relegated to the local news page of the
Washington Post. The details of these incidents are of little interest;
what counts is the objective reality of a pattern. These incidents also
provide background for Bush's unbalanced behavior on July 5 at
Gleneagles, when he crashed into a policeman while riding on his
bicycle. Then came the London blasts on July 7.

What is it that the invisible government wants Bush and Blair to do?
Scott Ritter announced last January that Bush had issued an order to
prepare an attack on Iran for the month of June. According to a
well-informed retired CIA analyst I spoke with on July 3, this order
actually told US commanders to be ready to attack Iran by the end of
June. This project of war with Iran is coherent with most of what we
know about the intentions of the US-UK rogue faction, and thus provides
the immediate background for the London explosions. The Bush
administration and the Blair cabinet have failed to deliver decisive
military action, and the invisible government is exceedingly impatient.

One way to increase the pressure on Iran would be to implicate a group
of Iranian fanatic patsies in the London bombings. This would not be
difficult; in fact, as I show in 9/11 Synthetic Terror, the British
capital, referred to during the 1990s as Londonistan, is home to the
largest concentration of Arab and Islamic patsy groups in the entire
world, in such infamous locations as Finsbury mosque and Brixton mosque;
these groups are known to have enjoyed de facto recruiting privileges in
Her Majesty's Prisons. But perhaps an Iranian patsy group would be too
obvious at this time. More likely may be the sinking of a US warship in
the Gulf by a third country, duly attributed to Iran.

In a recent speech, Dr. Ephraim Asculai of Tel Aviv University made two
main points: first, that there is no military solution to the Iranian
nuclear issue, and second, that there is no such thing as a point of no
return in nuclear weapons development. Dr. Asculai showed that South
Africa, Sweden, and other nations had turned away from deploying A-
bombs well after having acquired the ability to produce them. Dr.
Asculai is evidently arguing against widespread tendencies in the
US-UK-Israeli strategic community who are whipping up hysteria around
the notion that Iran is now indeed approaching exactly such a point of
no return.

For her part, Miss Rice of the State Department has now declared that it
will no longer be sufficient for Iran to turn away from nuclear weapons
production; the entire Iranian program for nuclear energy production
will also have to be dismantled, in her view. Such maximalism makes a
negotiated solution impossible as long as the current Washington group
holds power.

SCO: US GET OUT OF CENTRAL ASIA

The US, UK and Israel have been on the brink of war with Iran for at
least a year, and the rogue network is generally aware that time is not
on its side. There is also an important new development which threatens
the ability of the Anglo-Americans to wage war. On July 5, the summit of
the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which brings together
China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Krygyzia, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan plus new
members India, Pakistan, and Iran, issued a call for the United States
to vacate the bases seized in the autumn of 2001 under the cover of the
9/11 emergency and the looming invasion of Afghanistan. The parties to
this call represent about half of the world's population. This demand
was immediately rejected by the State Department, but veteran Russian
Eurasian expert Yevgeny Primakov crowed that for the first time a
formula had been agreed to by which the US would be ejected from this
region. The US presence goes back to the Bush-Putin emergency hotwire
talks of September 11, 2001, when Putin, seeing that the madmen had
seized control in Washington, dropped Russian objections to a US
intrusion into the former Soviet republics of central Asia. The US-UK
can attack Iran from Iraq in the west, from Afghanistan in the east, and
from Qatar in the south, but without the Uzbek and Kyrgyz bases, the
Anglo-American ability to attack from the north as well will be severely
limited.

The SCO states are also concerned about US-backed "designer color
revolutions" on the recent Georgian (rose) and Ukrainian (orange)
models, traditionally known as CIA "people power" revolutions, being
used to destabilize their governments. To make matters worse for
Washington and London, Kazakhstan is a few months away from opening an
oil pipeline to China, which will diminish the US-UK ability to use
their Gulf presence to blackmail Beijing. Washington and London are also
dismayed by the pro-Iranian overtures in various fields being made by
their Shiite puppets in Baghdad.

And what of the report in the Washington Post of July 11, which claims
that US and UK planners are now contemplating a sharp reduction in the
US forces in Iraq? The most plausible explanation is that this is pure
disinformation, similar to news blips issued by both Hitler and Stalin
in May and June of 1941. It should also be noted that the British plan
explicitly provides for most of the forces now at Basra to go to
Afghanistan, where they would be positioned for operations against Iran,
or into central Asia.

Generally, the invisible government appears dismayed by its loss of
momentum and the constant erosion of the political position of its
asset, Bush. 110,000 US factory workers lost their jobs in June, the
worst total in a year and a half: autos and textiles are collapsing. The
housing bubble may also be nearing its end, with the bankruptcy of
Fannie Mae on the near-term agenda. World derivatives have officially
reached $300 trillion, with JP Morgan Chase holding the largest single
portfolio. /The one virtuoso performance of July 7 was that of the
Federal Reserve, Bank of England, and European Central Bank, which
flooded equity and capital markets with liquidity through such vehicles
as the Plunge Protection Team (PPT), turning a big Wall Street loss into
a small gain./

During the recent Reopen 9/11 tour of eight European cities, Jimmy
Walter repeatedly forecast that the general predicament of the Bush
regime and the US financier faction would lead to another large-scale
terror attack before the end of 2005; this has now occurred, and there
is no end in sight. The tide of US public opinion has now definitively
turned against the Iraq war and to some degree against Bush, as all
major polls demonstrate. Notable is the 42%% affirmative response to the
Zogby International question as to whether, if it could be proved that
Bush lied to launch the Iraq war, he should be impeached. Larry Franklin
of the Wolfowitz-Feith neocon apparatus has been indicted for divulging
US secrets, and the American-Israeli Public Affairs Council has been
raided twice; further indictments are expected. Karl Rove has now been
revealed as the source of the Valerie Plame leak, making Rove and
perhaps other White House officials fair game for federal indictment.
The Niger yellowcake forgeries and the Chalabi state secrets cases are
still pending -- to say nothing of two stolen elections and the 9/11
Septembergate itself. All these factors incline the rogue network to
seek an improvement in their situation through a flight forward to a
wider war in Iran. Those who stand to lose most by such an Iranian
adventure must now mobilize to make Mr. Bush's second term as eventful
as Nixon's second term turned out to be in 1974.

_*Interview Transcripts*_

Excerpts from transcripts of interviews with Peter Power, ex-Scotland
Yard, who now heads private security firm Visor Consultants, which was
running terror bombing drills in the London Underground on 7/7 ,
followed by an interview with John Loftus.

BBC Radio 5, July 7th, 2005
Power: At half past nine this morning we were actually running an
exercise for a company of over a thousand people in London based on
simultaneous bombs going off precisely at the railway stations where it
happened this morning, so I still have the hairs on the back of my neck
standing up right now.

Host: To get this quite straight, you were running an exercise to see
how you would cope with this and it happened while you were running the
exercise?

Power: Precisely, and it was about half past nine this morning, we
planned this for a company and for obvious reasons I don't want to
reveal their name but they're listening and they'll know it. And we had
a room full of crisis managers for the first time they'd met and so
within five minutes we made a pretty rapid decision that this is the
real one and so we went through the correct drills of activating crisis
management procedures to jump from slow time to quick time thinking and
so on.
ITV News, London, July 7th

/POWER: Today we were running an exercise for a company -- bear in mind
now that I'm in the private sector -- and we sat everybody down in the
city -- 1000 people involved in the whole organization -- with the
crisis team. And the most peculiar thing was, it was we based on a
scenario of simultaneous attacks on a underground and mainline station.
So we had to suddenly switch an exercise from fictional to real./

INTERVIEWER: Just to get this right, you were actually working today on
an exercise that envisioned virtually this scenario?

POWER: Almost precisely. I was up to 2 o'clock this morning, because
it's our job, my own company. Visor Consultants, we specialize in
helping people to get their crisis management response, how you jump
from slow time thinking to quick time doing. And we chose a scenario
with their assistance, which is based on a terrorist attack because
they're very close to a property occupied by Jewish businessmen there in
the city, and there are more American banks in this city than there are
in the whole of New York -- a logical thing to do.

_*"He Was Working for British Intelligence"*_

Fox News Dayside with Linda Vester, July 29, 2005:

MIKE JERRICK [FOX NEWS]: John Loftus is a terrorism expert and a former
prosecutor for the Justice Department. John, good to see you again. So
real quickly here, have you heard anything about this Osman Hussain who
was just picked up in Rome? You know that name at all?

JOHN LOFTUS: Yeah, all these guys should be going back to an
organization called Al-Muhajiroun, which means The Emigrants. It was the
recruiting arm of Al-Qaeda in London; they specialized in recruiting
kids whose families had emigrated to Britain but who had British
passports. And they would use them for terrorist work.

JERRICK: So a couple of them now have Somali connections?

LOFTUS: Yeah, it was not unusual. Somalia, Eritrea, the first group of
course were primarily Pakistani. But what they had in common was they
were all emigrant groups in Britain, recruited by this Al-Muhajiroun
group. They were headed by the, Captain Hook, the imam in London the
Finsbury Mosque, without the arm. He was the head of that organization.
Now his assistant was a guy named Aswat, Haroon Rashid Aswat.

JERRICK: Aswat, who they picked up.

LOFTUS: Right, Aswat is believed to be the mastermind of all the
bombings in London.

JERRICK: On 7/7 and 7/21, this is the guy we think.

LOFTUS: /This is the guy, and what's really embarrassing is that the
entire British police are out chasing him, and one wing of the British
government, MI6 or the British Secret Service, has been hiding him. /And
this has been a real source of contention between the CIA, the Justice
Department, and Britain.

JERRICK: Hold on, John. MI6 has been hiding him. Are you saying that he
has been working for them?

LOFTUS: Oh I'm not saying it. This is what the Muslim sheik said in an
interview in a British newspaper back in 2001.

JERRICK: So he's a double agent, or was?

LOFTUS: He's a double agent.

JERRICK: So he's working for the Brits to try to give them information
about Al-Qaeda, but in reality he's still an Al-Qaeda operative.

LOFTUS: Yeah. The CIA and the Israelis all accused MI6 of letting all
these terrorists live in London not because they're getting Al-Qaeda
information, but for appeasement. It was one of those you leave us
alone, we leave you alone kind of things.

JERRICK: Well we left him alone too long then.

LOFTUS: Absolutely. Now we knew about this guy Aswat. Back in 1999 he
came to America. The Justice Department wanted to indict him in Seattle
because him and his buddy were trying to set up a terrorist training
school in Oregon.

JERRICK: So they indicted his buddy, right? But why didn't they indict him?

LOFTUS: /Well it comes out, we've just learned that the headquarters of
the US Justice Department ordered the Seattle prosecutors not to touch
Aswat./

JERRICK: Hello? Now hold on, why?

LOFTUS: And that's -- /Well, apparently Aswat was working for British
intelligence./ Now Aswat's boss, the one-armed Captain Hook, he gets
indicted two years later. So the guy above him and below him get
indicted, but not Aswat. Now there's a split of opinion within US
intelligence. Some people say that the British intelligence fibbed to
us. They told us that Aswat was dead, and that's why the New York group
dropped the case. That's not what most of the Justice Department thinks.
They think that it was just again covering up for this very publicly
affiliated guy with Al-Muhajiroun. He was a British intelligence plant.
So all of a sudden he disappears. He's in South Africa. We think he's
dead; we don't know he's down there. Last month the South African Secret
Service come across the guy. He's alive.

JERRICK: Yeah, now the CIA says, oh he's alive. Our CIA says OK let's
arrest him. But the Brits say no again?

LOTFUS: The Brits say no. Now at this point, two weeks ago, the Brits
know that the CIA wants to get a hold of Haroon. So what happens? He
takes off again, goes right to London. He isn't arrested when he lands,
he isn't arrested when he leaves.

JERRICK: Even though he's on a watch list.

LOFTUS: He's on the watch list. The only reason he could get away with
that was if he was working for British intelligence. He was a wanted man.

JERRICK: And then takes off the day before the bombings, I understand it --

LOFTUS: Yeah, And goes to Pakistan.

JERRICK: And Pakistan, they jail him.

LOFTUS: The Pakistanis arrest him. They jail him. He's released within
24 hours. Back to Southern Africa, goes to Zimbabwe and is arrested in
Zambia. Now the US --

JERRICK: Trying to get across the --

LOFTUS: -- we're trying to get our hands on this guy.

JERRICK: John, hang around. I have so many questions now. [break]

LOFTUS: The US was used by Al-Muhajiroun for training of people to send
to Kosovo. What ties all these cells together was, back in the late
1990s, the leaders all worked for British intelligence in Kosovo.
Believe it or not, British intelligence actually hired some Al-Qaeda
guys to help defend the Muslim rights in Albania and in Kosovo. That's
when Al-Muhajiroun got started.

IJAZ: Which is by the way why we know so much about them right now.

LOFTUS: Yes, I'm afraid so. The CIA was funding the operation to defend
the Muslims, British intelligence was doing the hiring and recruiting.
Now we have a lot of detail on this because Captain Hook, the head of
Al-Muhajiroun, his sidekick was Bakri Mohammed, another cleric. And back
on October 16, 2001, he gave a detailed interview with al-Sharq
al-Aswat, an Arabic newspaper in London, describing the relationship
between British intelligence and the operations in Kosovo and Al-
Muhajiroun. So that's how we get all these guys connected. It started in
Kosovo, Haroon was 31 years old, he came on about 1995.

JERRICK: OK. Here's another question for you.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Hello, John. With the quid-pro-quo relationship that
London obviously had with these terrorists early on, what changed that
caused them to all of a sudden get away from the you leave us alone,
we'll leave you alone situation?

LOFTUS: The Israelis say that the truce went on for years. Guys from
Al-Muhajiroun for example would bring suicide bombers to Israel to blow
up Mike's Place. There was a definite link there. And yet the trainer,
Sadiki Al Kahn, was able to go back to Britain and not be touched.

_* The Phony War on Terror: Time to Quarantine the Real Aggressors*_

Speech to the Axis of Peace Conference or Axe de la Paix, held in
Brussels, Belgium, November 17th and 18th, 2005. The conference gathered
political and intellectual personalities from more than thirty nations,
who are committed against the logic of war, with a view to establishing
a permanent structure that will make the voice of peace be heard.

Text of speech to the conference by Webster G. Tarpley:

400 years ago this month, the English King James' first minister Robert
Cecil unveiled his masterpiece, the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the king
and the parliament. The event was blamed on Guy Fawkes and other
plotters, who were tortured and executed. The Catholics, the Pope, the
Jesuits and the Spanish were blamed, setting up centuries of conflict
and imperial expansion. But the plot was a synthetic provocation staged
by Cecil. Terrorism was a birth pang of the Anglo-American financier
faction, and terrorism accompanies that faction in its moribund senility
today.

According to today's neocon Bush regime in Washington, the central event
of world history is the attacks of September 11, 2001. The neocons
demand that world affairs be organized around what they call the war on
terrorism, supposedly waged by the United States, Great Britain, and the
other English-speaking powers against the dark powers of radical Islam.
This phony war on terrorism comes complete with preventive nuclear sneak
attacks on any country the Bush regime chooses. These can be
supplemented by conventional aggression, and by the so-called color
revolutions, the new name for the traditional CIA "people power" coups.

The main premise of the war on terror is the myth of September 11 --
3,000 people allegedly killed by a group of 19 hijackers including
Mohammed Atta, all members of al Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden operating
from a cave in Afghanistan with a laptop computer, etc. My main point
today is that this premise is a big lie, as I argue in my book, 9/11
Synthetic Terror: Made in USA (Joshua Tree CA: Progressive Press, 2005).
The 9/11 events were a deliberate provocation carried out from within
the US military, security, and intelligence apparatus by a deeply
entrenched faction variously called the invisible government, the secret
government, the parallel government, the rogue network, the secret team.
This faction cuts across the CIA, the Pentagon, the NSA, the FBI, the
Treasury, the Federal Reserve, and other key parts of government. It is
a faction which has been operating for more than a century. It meshes
with the British MI-6 and Defence Ministry .

9/11 was a successful coup d'etat designed to shift the Bush White House
into the War of Civilizations <911.clashcivilizationshuntington.htm>
mode described by Samuel Huntington. The Arab and Islamic worlds were
the first targets, to be followed by China, and also Russia, as per the
Wolfowitz doctrine. /9/11 thus joins the tradition of self-inflicted or
imaginary attacks going back to the explosion of the USS Maine in Havana
harbor in 1898, which launched the Spanish-American War, and with it US
Imperialism/. The secret goverment tried to stage a fascist march on
Washington against President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and tried to
assassinate him. They have brought us the Bay of Pigs, the Kennedy
assassination, the fake Gulf of Tonkin incident (partly admitted in
recent weeks by the NSA), the Vietnam War, the attempted assassination
of Reagan, the gun-running and drug-running of the Iran-Contra affair,
the bombing of Serbia, the sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk, and,
their crowning achievement, 9/11, followed by the invasions of
Afghanistan and Iraq. US presidents are generally puppets of this rogue
network, which responds to the needs of Wall Street and the City of London.

It was the rogue network which sent Bush an ultimatum on 9/11 with the
words: "Angel is next." <911.vignettecitylostchildrenangel.htm> The
meaning was: launch the war on civilizations, or be liquidated. Bush
speedily complied, turning the US government over to the rogue network.

During 1991, reports surfaced of a joint project of the CIA and the
Mossad in central America which included large-scale smuggling of
illegal drugs from Colombia through Panama to the United States. This
was code-named "Operation Watchtower." According to an affidavit signed
by the late Colonel Edward P. Cutolo, a US Army Special Forces Commander
who was in charge of operations in Colombia subsumed under this project,
"the purpose of Operation Watch Tower was to establish a series of three
electronic beacon towers beginning outside of Bogota, Colombia and
running northeast to the border of Panama. Once the Watch Tower teams
were in place, the beacon was activated to emit a signal that aircraft
could fix on and fly undetected from Bogota to Panama, then land at
Albrook Air Station." [fn 30] According to Cutolo, the flights were
often met at Albrook Air Station by Noriega, other PDF officers, CIA
agents, and an Israeli national believed to be David Kimche of the
Mossad. Another Israeli involved in the flights was Mossad agent Michael
Harari, who maintained a close relation to Noriega until the time of the
US invasion of December 20, 1989. According to Cutolo's affidavit, "I
was told from Pentagon contacts, off the record, that CIA Director
Stansfield Turner and former CIA Director George Bush are among the VIPs
that shield Harari from public scrutiny." According to Cutolo, "the
cargo flown from Colombia to Panama was cocaine," which ultimately ended
up in the United States. The profits were allegedly laundered through a
series of banks, including banks in Panama. According to published
reports, Cutolo and a long list of other US military personnel who knew
about Operation Watchtower died under suspicious circumstances during
the 1980's, one of them after having vainly attempted to interest the
CBS News "60 Minutes " staff in this matter. Mike Harari of the Mossad
is reportedly a prime suspect in the death of one of these US officers,
Army Col. James Rowe, who was killed in the Philippines on April 21,
1989. / "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography"
, by Webster Griffin Tarpley

/But the whole truth is much uglier. We have documented in detail how
the Iran-contra drug-running and gun-running operations run out of
Bush's own office played their role in increasing the heroin, crack,
cocaine, and marijuana brought into this country. We have reviewed
Bush's relations with his close supporters in the Wall Street LBO gang,
much of whose liquidity is derived from narcotics payments which the
banking system is eager to recycle and launder. We recall Bush's 1990
meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad, who is personally one of the
most prolific drug pushers on the planet, and whom Bush embraced as an
ally during the Gulf crisis. / / /"George Bush: The Unauthorized
Biography" , by Webster Griffin Tarpley

/Tommy Teagle, an ex-convict interviewed by Burdick, said he feared that
George Bush would have him killed because information in his possession
would implicate Jeb Bush in cocaine smuggling. Teagle's story was that
Aronow and Jeb Bush had been partners in cocaine trafficking and were
$2.5 million in debt to their Columbian suppliers. Dr. Robert Magoon, a
friend of Aronow, is quoted in the same location as having heard a
similar report. But Teagle rapidly changed his story. [fn 3] Ultimately,
an imprisoned convict was indicted for the murder of Aronow. /"George
Bush: The Unauthorized Biography" , by Webster
Griffin Tarpley

/ Precisely, how did [George Bush] wile away those humid nights on the
Gulf Coast? According to the intrepid Larry Flynt, he spent part of his
time impregnating his girlfriend and, like a true southern gentleman,
then escorting her to an abortion clinic. Checkbook birth control, the
tried and true method of the ruling classes. A year later, according to
Bush biographer J.H. Hatfield, George W. got popped in Texas on cocaine
possession charges. The old man intervened once again; George diverted
for six months of community service at Project PULL in a black area of
Houston and the incident was scrubbed from the police blotter and court
records. Today, Bush denies all knowledge of those squalid
indiscretions. Just two more lost weekends in George's blurry book of
days. / "High Plains Grifter -- The Life and Crimes of George W. Bush,"
by Jeffrey St. Clair

*

/November 1, 1984: Felix Rodriguez's partner, Gerard Latchinian,
was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Latchinian
was then tried and convicted of smuggling $10.3 million in cocaine
into the United States. The dope was to finance the murder and
overthrow of the President of Honduras, Roberto Suazo Cordova.
Latchinian was sentenced to a 30-year prison term. /

*

/On Nov. 10, 1983, a year before the arrest, Felix Rodriguez had
filed the annual registration with Florida's secretary of state on
behalf of Latchinian's and Rodriguez's joint enterprise, "Giro
Aviation Corp.'' [fn18]/

*

/December 21, 1984: Felix Rodriguez met in the office of the Vice
President with Bush adviser Donald Gregg. Immediately after this
meeting, Rodriguez met with Oliver North, supposedly for the first
time in his life. But Bush's adviser strenuously denied to
investigators that he "introduced" his CIA employee to North. [fn19]/

*

/January 18, 1985 (Friday): Felix Rodriguez met with Ramon Milian
Rodriguez (not known to be a relative of Felix), accountant and
money launderer, who had moved $1.5 billion for the Medellin
cocaine cartel. Milian testified before a Senate investigation of
the Contras' drug-smuggling, that more than a year earlier he had
granted Felix's request and given $10 million from the cocaine
cartel to Felix for the Contras. /

*

/Milian Rodriguez was interviewed in his prison cell in Butner,
North Carolina, by investigative journalist Martha Honey. He said
Felix Rodriguez had offered that "in exchange for money for the
Contra cause he would use his influence in high places to get the
[Cocaine] cartel U.S. `good will' ... Frankly, one of the selling
points was that he could talk directly to Bush. The issue of good
will wasn't something that was going to go through 27 bureaucratic
hands. It was something that was directly between him and Bush."
Ramon Milian Rodriguez was a Republican contributor, who had
partied by invitation at the 1981 Reagan-Bush inauguration
ceremonies. He had been arrested aboard a Panama-bound private jet
by federal agents in May 1983, while carrying over $5 million in
cash. According to Felix Rodriguez, Milian was seeking a way out
of the narcotics charges when he met with Felix on January 18,
1985. This meeting remained secret until two years later, when
Felix Rodriguez had become notorious in the Iran-Contra scandal.
The Miami Herald broke the story on June 30, 1987. Felix Rodriguez
at first denied ever meeting with Ramon Milian Rodriguez. But then
a new story was worked out with various agencies. Felix
"remembered" the Jan. 18, 1985 meeting, claimed he had "said
nothing'' during it, and "remembered'' that he had filed documents
with the FBI and CIA telling them about the meeting just
afterwards. [fn20]/

*

/January 22, 1985 (Tuesday): George Bush met with Felix Rodriguez
in the Executive Office Building. The agenda may have included the
results of the meeting five days before with Medellin cocaine
cartel representative Milian Rodriguez. / "George Bush: The
Unauthorized Biography" , by Webster
Griffin Tarpley

/Tolliver says that another of the flights he performed for Rodriguez
carried cocaine on the return trip to the U.S.A. He made a series of
arms deliveries from Miami into the air base at Agucate, Honduras. He
was paid in cash by Rodriguez and his old Miami CIA colleague, Rafael
"Chi Chi" Quintero. In another circuit of flights, Tolliver and his crew
flew between Miami and El Salvador's Ilopango air base. Tolliver said
that Rodriguez and Quintero "instructed me where to go and who to see."
While making these flights, he "could go by any route available without
any interference from any agency. We didn't need a stamp of approval
from Customs or anybody ... " [fn57] With reference to the covert arms
shipments out of Miami, George Bush's son Jeb said: "Sure, there's a
pretty good chance that arms were shipped, but does that break any law?
I'm not sure it's illegal. The Neutrality Act is a completely untested
notion, established in the 1800s." [fn58] / "George Bush: The
Unauthorized Biography" , by Webster Griffin Tarpley

/Base: freebase cocaine. / Cocaine -- Drug Slang Dictionary
<http://www.american-buddha.com/batmanbeginsbasedrugslang.htm>, by
parentingteens.about.com

/While Dekkers insisted the terrorist pilots had only the most fleeting
of associations with his flight school, and hotly denied being anything
other than a victimized businessman, questions remained. There were over
200 flight schools, just in Florida alone. Yet somehow the hijackers
leaned towards one or the other of the two schools in Venice. The twin
Venice flight schools were the terrorist's American beachhead. Rudi
Dekkers' Huffman Aviation was the terrorist's Omaha Beach. What had made
these two schools so popular with the terrorist cadre? No one asked. The
only investigation being conducted pointed a finger directly at an
obscure outfit most had never even heard of called Al Qaeda, The Base.
/ "Welcome to Terrorland -- Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-Up in
Florida," <911.welcometoterrorlandhopsicker.htm> by Daniel Hopsicker

/Huffman was the only full-service fixed base operator, or FBO, at the
Venice airport. An FBO sells gas, provides mechanical services and
otherwise caters to private aviation, and is usually a center of
activity at the airport. In other words, something of a CIVIC resource.
"When Wally found Rudi Dekkers, Dekkers had already been thrown out of
Naples as a con artist," said Naples aviation observer Rob Tillman.
"Plus he had tax problems. He didn't pay tax on shit. And this is the
guy to whom Wally sold Florida Air." "Who approved Dekkers buying the
FBO in Venice?" asked an irate aviation insider at the Venice Airport.
"He'd been thrown out of Naples ... how come they let him buy the
'diamond' of Venice?" "The only fixed based operator at the Venice
Municipal Airport was I think at that time three months behind in his
rent and had gotten a demand letter being threatened with eviction." /
"Welcome to Terrorland -- Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-Up in Florida,"
<911.welcometoterrorlandhopsicker.htm> by Daniel Hopsicker

/Here is history reduced to a fairy tale, with the cocaine-abusing,
alcoholic, mentally-impaired Bush as the hero of the good, and the rich,
misfit, raving ideologue Bin Laden as the champion of evil. How can
hundreds of millions of people believe in such a product? / "9/11
Synthetic Terrorism Made in USA," <911.syntheticterrormadeusa.htm> by
Webster Griffin Tarpley

/The FBI and the 9/11 commission have uniformly alleged that the leader
of the mythic 19 hijackers who commandeered the aircraft was Mohammed
Atta, a well-to-do Egyptian who they say was a very intolerant,
puritanical, and doctrinaire Moslem. Reality looks much different, and
rules out any notion that Atta could have accepted the mission of a
suicide pilot because of profound religious convictions. He was in fact
not a practicing Moslem, but rather a devotee of alcohol, cocaine, call
girls, and pork chops. These biographical details are vital because they
demolish any notion of Atta as a fanatic kamikaze. He was a sybaritic
playboy or worse, addicted to the pleasures of the flesh, and no ascetic
to immolate himself for a cause of faith. He emerges rather as a much
more complicated figure, surely a sociopath, and in all probability a
patsy who was being told one thing by his patrons and controllers while
he was steered to act in ways which set him up in the role he played,
and in all probability for liquidation. /"9/11 Synthetic Terrorism Made
in USA," <911.syntheticterrormadeusa.htm> by Webster Griffin Tarpley:

/Mohamed Atta was protected from official scrutiny as part of an
officially-protected cocaine and heroin trafficking network with ties to
top political figures, including Republican officials Jeb Bush and
Katherine Harris, and it was this factand not the terrible lapses of
weak on terror Clinton Administration officials cited by Republican
Congressman Curt Weldonwhich shielded him from being apprehended before
the 9.11 attack. / "Able Danger Intel Exposed 'Protected' Heroin
Trafficking," <911.abledangerintelexposedprotectedheroin.htm> by Daniel
Hopsicker:

/- Well, what is it today? More spelunking?
- No. Today it's BASE-jumping.
- BASE-jumping. That like parachuting?
- Kind of. Do you have any lightweight fabrics?
- You know, I think I have just the thing. Can be tailored to fit any
structure based on a rigid skeleton.
- Too expensive for the Army?
- I don't think they tried to market it to the billionaire, spelunking,
BASE-jumping crowd./
"Batman Begins," directed by Christopher Nolan

In the terminology of intelligence work, Bin Laden, Atta, and the rest
are patsies. They are double agents, fanatics, dupes, agents
provocateurs. /They operate under the umbrella of al Qaeda, a group
which can only be described as the Arab Legion of CIA and MI-6, a
classic counter-gang or pseudo-gang against Arab nationalism/. Their
ethnic and religious background allows the Arab and Islamic world to be
blamed for terrorist acts. They receive support from the CIA, as
typified by Bin Laden's famous kidney dialysis. These figures have
criminal intent, but what they do not have is the physical and technical
ability to produce the effects observed -- just as Lee Harvey Oswald, no
matter how evil he was, could not have fired the requisite number of
shots at President Kennedy in Dallas.

The terrorist controllers and case officers for Atta and the others were
evidently Able Danger, a joint project of the Defense Intelligence
Agency and the Special Forces Command. Since Able Danger came to light,
we have learned that Able Danger destroyed 2.5 terabytes of its own
records, equal to about a quarter of the Library of Congress, the
largest library in the world. /Rumsfeld has forbidden Able Danger
officers to testify to Congress. /

The patsies could operate freely and openly, without being arrested,
because of the network of moles inside the US government. These moles
are loyal to the invisible government, not to the constitution and the
laws. They make sure the patsies are available to be scapegoated, and
they destroy the evidence and organize the cover-up after the fact. The
moles are responsible for paralyzing US air defenses for one hour and
forty-five minutes on 9/11, in comparison with average intercept times
of 15-20 minutes at most both before and after. No outside force could
have obtained this result.

*/The trained professionals, the technocrats of death, are the third
group/*. They do possess the physical-technical ability to crash planes
and other flying objects into buildings, and to destroy the World Trade
Center with controlled demolition. Some of these professionals operate
from inside government bureaucracies, and others from private offices.
They seek anonymity, not publicity.

Recent progress in 9/11 research has focused on the role of war games,
military exercises, and terror drills in hiding and facilitating the
terror actions of 9/11. So far we know of 14 separate exercises on or
related to 9/11. Some were used to suppress air defenses by moving
fighter planes to northern Canada and Alaska, far from the 9/11 targets.
Others paralyzed air defense by inserting false radar blips onto the
radar screens of defense personnel, and with commercial and military
aircraft which reported themselves as hijacked.

But there is another dimension. A drill staged at the National
Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Virginia that morning was based on
the idea of flying commercial airlines into office buildings. */There is
every reason to believe that the kamikaze aircraft were controlled from
here, the US spy satellite headquarters/*. Amalgam Virgo, another drill
associated with 9/11, involved firing a cruise missile against a land
target from a rogue freighter in the Gulf of Mexico. This likely
prepared what was done to the Pentagon, since it is clear that no
commercial airliner ever hit that building.

Most ominous of all was Global Guardian, a 9/11 drill simulating all-out
thermonuclear war with bombers, missiles, and submarines. This drill
included an attempt at outside penetration of the nuclear command
structure by a "bad" outsider with access to a key command and control
system. Here was the secret portal through which the rogue network was
ready to launch nuclear war on 9/11. On 9/11, Bush called Putin with an
ultimatum: the US would seize Afghanistan, plus bases in ex-Soviet
central Asia. If Putin had rejected this, the US rogue network had the
capability to set off World War III by ordering nuclear escalation.

When state terrorists attack, they often do it under the cover of an
announced, seemingly legal drill that closely resembles or mimics the
terror operation. This helps camouflage the criminal intent of the coup
plotters inside their own bureaucracy. The drill is just a drill, until
it goes live. During the Cold War, Hilex 75 and Able Archer 83 were
drills that could have led to real confrontation and war.

When President Reagan was shot in 1981, a presidential succession
exercise (Nine Lives) was scheduled for the next day, as a cover for
operations. The London July 7 bombings of this year were prepared by
exercises named Atlantic Blue by the UK, Topoff III by the US, and
Triple Play by Canada, which simulated an attack on the London
Underground while an international conference was going on in the UK. On
July 7 itself, Peter Power's Visor Associates were simulating explosions
in the same stations at the same times that bombs exploded, as BBC 5
reported.

Last summer, Cheney instructed the Pentagon to prepare the atomic
bombing of Iran, to be carried out in the wake of a new, larger-scale
9/11. It is clear this was to be state sponsored, false flag synthetic
terrorism, designed to give a pretext for the attack.

In the US and other NATO states, a citizens' watch for these dangerous
rogue drills has been established to meet the threat. In August, Sudden
Response 05 was to simulate a 10-kiloton nuclear explosion in
Charleston, South Carolina. A mobilization of concerned citizens
protested this drill and, we believe, shut it down. Then came a gas
dispersion drill in New York City, and Granite Shadow / Power Geyser,
involving weapons of mass destruction in Washington DC. These drills
were denounced and protested.

Right now, in the month of November, we are in the midst of the densest
concentration of drills since 9/11 itself. First there is Vigilant
Shield, a radiological dirty bomb going off in the port of Mobile,
Alabama. This is to be answered by Global Lightning, an exchange of
nuclear missiles between the US and North Korea, with US ABM missile
defense engaged. Simultaneously there is Positive Response and Global
Storm, the new name for Global Guardian under the regime of first-strike
preventive nuclear attack. These involve a confrontation with Russia
over the Ukraine.. Any of these drills could be used as a cover to
launch real nuclear provocations and nuclear attacks. War planning
against Venezuela continues. Worldwide vigilance is needed to prevent
the worst.

The Bush regime is now in crisis because of the lost war in Iraq, the
criminally negligent response to hurricane Katrina,
and the highest gasoline prices in history.
Libby has been indicted, and Rove, Feith, Wolfowitz and Ledeen may
follow. As in the movie Wag the Dog, Bush or the neocons are tempted to
start a war to escape this crisis. During Watergate, when Nixon declared
a nuclear red alert in October 1973, British Prime Minister Edward Heath
saw blatant political motives. Whenever Nixon asked for the football,
the briefcase containing the secret nuclear launch codes, White House
officials Kissinger and Haig watched him closely to keep his finger off
the nuclear button. In the summer of 1974, Defense Secretary Schlesinger
told US commanders to disregard orders for any military attack coming
from Nixon unless they had been confirmed by Schlesinger or Kissinger.
Today the situation is similar, and the Democratic Party and the NATO
states must demand that the unstable Bush and the desperate neocons be
placed under special surveillance during their ouster to prevent new
adventures of incalculable dimensions.

But as long as Bush can keep his base of 30-35%% of the U.S. population,
he can wage war in Iraq indefinitely, and possibly widen that war to
Syria and Iran. Bush's hold on his base is due largely to the power of
the 9/11 myth over certain parts of the American people. Whenever Bush
is held accountable for anything, his response is to cite 9/11. His
arguments for the war in Iraq are not based on Iraq, but rather on 9/11.
There is only one way to erode Bush's hard core base, and that is by
attacking the 9/11 myth. Destroy the 9/11 myth, and the September
criminals may be called to account. Destroy the 9/11 myth, and Bush will
be neutralized. Peace-loving governments and institutions around the
world must address this task, with a campaign of denunciation, exposure,
and political education on the truth about 9/11 and the nature of
terrorism. One vehicle for this would be an Independent International
Truth Commission on 9/11, modeled on the Russell-Sartre Tribunal for
Vietnam. The convocation of such a truth commission for 9/11 is more
urgent than ever, and should be top priority for anti-war forces well
before the Congressional elections a year from now.

On October 5, 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt called in Chicago for a
quarantine of the fascist dictators, for the isolation and boycott of
aggressors. Since then the wheels of history have turned, and it is now
the Bush-neocon regime in Washington which must be quarantined by the
forces of civilized humanity .There can be no military or security
cooperation with the neocons. Free trade pacts with the neocons are
suicidal. Bush officials are guilty of international conspiracy to wage
aggressive war, a capital crime under the Nuremberg precedents. When the
US population is turning against Bush, it is tragic to see Europe and
Japan continuing to support him on so many issues. It is time for the
world to quarantine the aggressor. In so doing, it will have the support
of the American people.