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HIS OWN WORST ENEMY:
World Backlash Builds
Against Bush
Part 1 of a two-part series
HIS OWN WORST ENEMY:
By William Thomas
Blood In The Water
For every precipitous action there is an equal,
opposing reaction. Whether Taliban fanatics blowing up the
world’s oldest Buddhas and executing women for the “crime” of
being feminine - or a quick-draw Texan ripping up his country’s
Constitution and threatening to blast everything in sight
- the Koran and the Bible sternly warn, “You will reap whatever
whirlwind you sew.” These are laws of physics and karma.
There are no exceptions.
Just five months after a series of rapid-fire
horrors traveled at the speed of televised light to stun
the entire planet, the most popular presidents in American
history has managed to turn international solidarity over
Sept. 11 into global condemnation of policies that went virtually
unchallenged during his father’s slaughter of hundreds of
thousands of families in the Persian Gulf.
Like father, like son. With G. W. Bush, there
are no subtleties of state craft. Suddenly this shoot-first,
think-later president is in everyone’s face.
But Bush’s bellicose contention that countries
who do not sign off on his agenda and accusations “are with
the terrorists” – and liable to be carpet-bombed by B-52s – is
not playing well in places like Pyongyang, Paris, Moscow
and Berlin. A global backlash is building against the bullying
bluster of a president increasingly seen as leader of the
world’s most dangerous rogue nation.
The days of Ronald Reagan’s joking reference
to launching an atomic attack on an “evil empire – and getting
away with it – appear to be over. In the wake of another
president’s targeting three more “evil” nations, global leaders
and a computer-connected citizenry are standing to denounce
what they are calling a reckless warmonger.
Sprung like a trap
from implausibly coordinated events that provided perfect pretext
for foreign invasion and score-settling, a well-oiled
administration’s swiftly gathered momentum toward militarism
and martial law many considered unstoppable is faltering in
the face of widespread condemnation.
As a major hitter on the world stage, this Bush-leaguer
is proving a poor pretender. En route to being safely sequestered
in his dad’s presidential library, a former Texas governor’s
private correspondence with Enron Corp was picked off by
a Freedom of Information request and published widely. One
letter from the former oil giant’s CEO asks Gov. Bush to
persuade the President of Uzbekistan to sign off on a $2
billion venture “to develop Uzbekistan’s natural gas and
transport it to markets in Europe and Kazakhstan and Turkey.” As
Ken Lay reminded G. W., “This project can bring significant
economic opportunities to Texas.”
It can also bring a whole passel of trouble.
There is blood in the water, and for once it does not belong
to the innocent. Enron is not the only wound afflicting the
Bush administration. As the world media circles like sharks
sensing struggle, the sound of floundering grows around a
president plunged over his head by IOU’s to his corporate
cronies, and an unraveling cover-up of the biggest betrayal
of the American people since his father okayed the sale of
chemical and biological weapons to Saddam Hussein.
Even more worrying for those who facilitated
and profited from the Sept.11 attacks, the mainstream media
is beginning to question the official version of the events
surrounding this new millennium’s Pearl Harbor.
This analogy is
more apt than most Hollywood-indoctrinated filmgoers suspect.
Anyone wondering how American military and intelligence officers
could have looked the other way in the months leading up to
the massacre of some 3,200 people in three states can ponder
the words of Lt. Cmdr. Joseph J. Rochefort. Referring to the
deaths of more than 3,000 American military personnel whom
he helped betray one sunny Sunday morning after using code-broken
communications intercepts to track Japanese carriers to the
island of Oahu, Rochefort remarked to a naval historian: “It
was a pretty cheap price to pay for unifying the country.” [Robert
Stinnett, Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl
Harbor]
The “conspiracy theories” condemned by George
Bush are coming from mainstream media reporting. A sampling
of world press exclusives:
SUPER SICK “SUPER-TERRORIST”
An ailing bit-player named Osama bin Laden was
most likely relegated to terrorism’s back bench before the
takedown of Twin Towers built by eugenicists David and Nelson
Rockefeller. The French and Arab press have long reported
on bin Laden’s bouts with renal failure. [“Bin Laden Seriously
Ill, Orders House Call” World Tribune Feb. 7, 2000]
With his life depending on constant use of a
dialysis machine, living in cave is ludicrous. Egyptian journalist
Essam Deraz says this less-than-Super Terrorist suffers so
severely from low blood pressure, he has to lie down for
hours at a time. The London-based Al Hayat daily newspaper
quotes sources suggesting that his illness had “led to a
cessation of activities by bin Laden.”
Chief terror lieutenant Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri
have taken over al Qaeda. Speaking of al Zawahiri, The Guardian
recently reported that in view of bin Laden’s debilitating
illness, “Even to say he is bin Laden’s right-hand man may
understate his importance. Some analysts believe that in
his current role in Afghanistan, al Zawahiri has taken over
control of much of bin Laden’s terrorist finances, operations,
plans, and resources.” [Executive Intelligence Review www.larouchpub.com]
US INVASION PLANS PUBLISHED
IN JUNE, 2001
In late June 2001,
the US and Russia reached a decision to invade Afghanistan.
[“US ‘Planned Attack on the Taleban’” BBC Sept. 18, 2001]
India and Iran publicly announced that they
would “facilitate” the coming US-Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
[www.indiareacts.com/Story33.htm]
The following month,
during a UN-sponsored Afghan-networking session in Berlin,
former Pakistan Foreign Secretary Niaz Naik was told by senior
American officials that military action would commence in Afghanistan
before the snows began in mid-Oct. The choice Washington offered
its Taliban allies was stark. As former French spook Jean-Charles
Brisard recalled, “At one moment during the negotiations, the
US representatives told the Taliban, ‘either you accept our
offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of
bombs’.”
Two months before
the events of Sept. 11 provided a pretext for seizing access
to the world’s last major oil, natural gas and heroin supplies,
Naik learned that Washington would launch its operation from
bases in Tajikistan, where American advisers were already in
place. At least 17,000 Red Army troops were placed on standby
in Uzbekistan. [Bin Laden, The Forbidden Truth by Jean-Charles
Brisard and Guillaume Dasquie; “US troops training in the ‘stans’” The
Guardian Sept. 26, 2001]
American officials
told Naik that the plan was to kill or capture Osama bin Laden
and Taliban leader Mullah Omar, and install a transitional
government. Vowing not to take “yes” for an answer, Washington
said it would not drop its invasion plan, even if bin Laden
were to be surrendered immediately by the Taliban. [“US and
U.K. vowed to take joint military action” The Financial
Times Sept. 21 2001; “Threat of US strikes passed to
Taliban weeks before US attack” The Guardian Sept. 22, 2001]
WASHINGTON REFUSES HAND-OVER
OF OSAMA BIN LADEN
“Was the war necessary?” asked the Toronto Star. “The
Taliban’s unprecedented offer to extradite bin Laden to a
third country, well before the Sept. 11 attacks, was reported
by The Times of London” in February, 2001. The official reason
for US reluctance was that it wasn’t sure a case against
him could stand up in court.
As early as March
1996, the government of Sudan offered to extradite bin Laden
to the United States. US officials turned down the offer, preferring
perhaps said the ‘Post, to use him “as a combatant in an underground
war.” In other words, as a US government agent. [“Sudan offered
to turn over Osama bin Laden” Washington Post Oct.
3, 2001]
“THE GREAT GAME” - HIGH STAKES
IN CENTRAL ASIA
As former U.N. weapons
inspector Richard Butler told CNN’s viewers, French insiders
are charging that the present administration, “just shortly
after assuming office slowed down FBI investigations of al
Qaeda and terrorism in Afghanistan in order to do a deal with
the Taliban on oil - an oil pipeline across Afghanistan.” Butler
added, “Now, if there is to be a pipeline through Afghanistan,
obviating the need to deal with Russia, it would also cost
less than half of what a pipeline through Russia would cost.
So financially and politically, there’s a big prize to be had.
A pipeline through Afghanistan down to the Pakistan coast would
bring out that Central Asian oil easier and more cheaply.” [CNN
Reports Jan. 8, 2002 07:34 ET]
As former German intelligence overseer Andreas von Buelow told the
daily newspaper Tagesspiegal, the events of Sept. 11 “fit perfectly in
the concept of the armaments industry, the intelligence agencies, the
whole military-industrial-academic complex. This is in fact conspicuous.
The huge raw materials reserves of the former Soviet Union are now at
their disposal, also the pipeline routes and [heroin routes].” [German
daily Tagesspiegel Jan. 13, 2002]
BIN LADEN SAVED BY AMERICAN
SURGEON, MET WITH CIA - JULY, 2001
On or about July
4, 2001 Osama bin Laden was flown by a private Saudi jet to
the American Hospital in Abu Dubai. According to Le Figaro,
during his stay, “the local representative of the CIA was seen
by many people taking the elevator and going to bin Laden’ room.” Various
Arab diplomats and French intelligence sources said that “precise
information was communicated to the CIA concerning terrorist
attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including
its own territory.” [“Bin Laden Met With CIA In July In Overseas
American Hospital” Agence France Presse Oct. 21, 2001]
After receiving
10 days of life-saving treatment for renal failure from an
American surgeon specialist, America’s “Most Wanted” man with
a $5 million bounty on his head left an American hospital unmolested.
[“Bin Laden underwent treatment in July at Dubai American Hospital” Washington
Times Oct. 31, 2001]
BUSH LEARNED OF WTC BEFORE
LEAVING FOR FLORIDA CLASSROOM
It turns out that
President Bush knew of the World Trade Center air strike before
departing for the Booker School on that fateful morning. As
the president was leaving his hotel suite, ABC reporter John
Cochran saw Bush’s adviser whisper something in his ear. Cochran
asked the President, “Do you know what’s going on in New York?” As
Cochran reported on-air, “He said he did, and he said he will
have something about it later.” [ABC News Special Report Sept.
11, 2001]
The head of a country under violent attack then
proceeded to an unnecessary appointment that could have exposed
him to the next stage of a terrorist assault. “When we walked
into the classroom,” Bush later explained to a young boy
at a public forum, “I had seen this plane fly into the first
building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought
it was pilot error and I was amazed that anybody could make
such a terrible mistake. And something was wrong with the
plane, or - anyway, I’m sitting there, listening to the briefing,
and Andy Card came and said, ‘America is under attack’…Anyway,
it was an interesting day.” [White House Press Release Jan.
5, 2002]
Where was President briefed? What was a television
doing on in a grade school classroom during a presidential
visit? How could George Bush possibly have watched the first
plane hit the WTC when that footage was not broadcast until
after the second Trade Tower collapsed?
The
press declined to ask these and other obvious questions for
nearly four months. Then, during the first of a five
part TV series probing 9.11, “Insight” media analyst
Barrie Zwicker pointed to the president’s odd behavior: “He
continues to listen to a student talk about her pet goat. Why?
It’s another 25 minutes until he makes a statement, even as
flight 77 is making a bee-line for Washington, DC…Why?” [Vision
TV Jan. 21, 2002]
“Who was watching
the skies,” the Miami Herald wanted to know. “Forty-five minutes.
That’s how long American Airlines Flight 77 meandered through
the air headed for the White House, its flight plan abandoned,
its radar beacon silent…Even with the transponder silent, the
plane should have been visible on radar, both to controllers
who handle cross-continent air traffic and to a Federal Aviation
Administration command center outside of Washington, according
to air traffic controllers.” [“Who watched as flight plan was
aborted?” Miami Herald Sept. 14, 2001]
On Sept. 11th, the Andrews Air Force Base website
boasted of two combat-ready squadrons of jet interceptors
protecting the US capital. Located just 12 miles from the
White House, two armed fighters sat “cocked and locked” on
round-the-clock “ready alert”.
Tight FAA-USAF coordination routinely scrambles
these fighters whenever an aircraft strays from its assigned
flight path, But on Sept. 11 they weren’t launched until
a Boeing 757 was diving on the Pentagon. On Sept. 12th, all
mention of F-16 and F-18 fighters was removed from the Andrews
AFB website. Overnight, the base became home only to “a transport
squadron”.
“Whatever the explanation
for the huge failure,” Zwicker continued, “there have been
no reports, to my knowledge, of reprimands. This further weakens
the ‘Incompetence Theory.’ Incompetence usually earns reprimands.
This causes me to ask – and other media need to ask – if there
were ‘stand down’ orders?” [Vision TV Jan,. 28,
2001]
The navy and army
commanders betrayed by their superiors at Pearl Harbor were
court-martialed. On Oct. 1, 2001, while the toxic ruins of
the WTC still smoldered, Gen. Richard B. Myers, commander of
the east coast’s air defenses during 9-11, was promoted
to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (William Thomas,
All Fall Down]
SHOOTDOWN OVER PENNSLYVANIA
The FAA reported that all four indestructible
titanium Cockpit Voice Recorders from the doomed flights
were destroyed in explosions that left alleged terrorist
ringleader Atta’s paper passport unscathed. But at least
one CVR survived intact. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request
by Accuracy in Media for a transcript of the recorded cockpit
conversations of the hijacked Boeing 757 that crashed in
Pennsylvania on Sept. 11 was refused by the FBI because “it
could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement
proceedings.”
“What enforcement proceedings?” AIM wants to
know. “If the passengers succeeded in getting into the cockpit,
there should be evidence of the struggle on the CVR. If that
is what happened, why doesn’t the FBI release the transcript
that would prove it?” AIM adds, “When American Flight 587
crashed in New York shortly after takeoff, the government
released detailed information from the CVR within 36 hours.”
Locally televised
interviews with eyewitnesses, and the Philadelphia Daily News reported
people in the area seeing the plane shot down by a pursuing
F-16 flying under “weapons free” orders issued by the president.
Ignoring the tricky question of how a plane allegedly flown
straight into the ground by mutinying passengers came apart
in mid-air. the FBI claimed that major debris - including a
half-ton section of one of the plane’s wing-mounted engines
- were “blown by the wind” nearly eight miles from the main
crash site. [“Shoot-Down Order Issued On Morning Of Chaos” USA
Today Sept. 17, 2001; “Shoot down over Pennsylvania” New
York Times Sept. 15, 2001; Philadelphia Daily News Nov.
15]
Taking dead AIM,
the media watchdog suggested that Flight 93 “may have been
hit by a heat-seeking missile from an F-16.” [“What Are They
Hiding About Flight 93?” Accuracy in Media Dec. 28, 2001]
INTELLIGENCE EXPERTS DISPUTE
OFFICIAL STORY
A German intelligence
expert was one of the first officials to take issue with Washington’s
version of 9.11. Andreas von Buelow served for 25 years on
a parliamentary commission overseeing all three branches of
German intelligence. His book, In the Name of the State details
the criminal activities of secret services, including the CIA.
Von Buelow observed: “The planning of the attacks
was technically and organizationally a master achievement.
To hijack four huge airplanes within a few minutes and within
one hour, to drive them into their targets, with complicated
flight maneuvers! This is unthinkable, without years-long
support from secret apparatuses of the state and industry.
in the analysis of political processes..
“I wonder why many questions are not asked,” von
Buelow mused. “For 60 decisive minutes, the military and
intelligence agencies let the fighter planes stay on the
ground; 48 hours later, however, the FBI presented a list
of suicide attackers. Within 10 days, it emerged that seven
of them were still alive.”
Another problem
with the official story was that Atta nearly missed the flight
he allegedly hijacked when his shuttle was delayed. “If this
Atta was the decisive man in the operation, it’s really strange
that he took such a risk of taking a plane that would reach
Boston such a short time before the connecting flight,” says
von Buelow. “Had his flight been a few minutes late, he would
not have been in the plane that was hijacked. Why should a
sophisticated terrorist do this?” [Tagesspiegel Jan.
13, 2002]
Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul,
architect of the Afghan holy war that created the Taliban,
agrees. “I can’t believe that it’s just those 19 people and
they all got killed and that’s that. There must be a very elaborate
command-and-communications system, a logistics system, people
who provided the safe haven as well as the training. And it
is simply not possible that someone got six months training
flying the aircraft. You can fly a jumbo jet like that. It’s
all bunkum. There had to be somebody manipulating the air traffic
control, somebody who switched off the warning system for the
Pentagon. Someone who asked the Air Force not to scramble for
24 minutes those people are still inside America.” [“The Pashtun
Code” by Isabel Hilton The New Yorker Dec. 3, 2001]
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
A New Yorker correspondent interviewed more
than a hundred “living martyrs” looking for “the shortest
path to heaven”. “All were deeply religious,” reporter Hassan
wrote. Daily prayers, abstinence and the bolstering presence
of a personal minder leave no time, inclination or permission
for partying. But the FBI reports that these un-Islamic suicide
bombers of Sept. 11 got drunk in bars, frequented strip joints,
used credit cards in their own names - and did everything
they could to attract attention to themselves. They also
flunked out of every flight school they entered. [William
Thomas, All Fall Down]
EARLY WARNINGS
The “surprise” attacks
of Sept.11 came as no surprise to intelligence agencies, the
World Trade Center’s biggest tenants, and even Bronx high school
students. In June 2001, German intelligence warned the CIA
that Middle Eastern terrorists were “planning to hijack commercial
aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American
and Israeli culture.” [Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Sept.
14, 2001]
On Aug. 18, a CIA
cable flagged “IMMEDIATE Urgency” warned the White House that “two
Bin Laden related individuals” had entered the US and that
two other suspected terrorists should be barred from entering.
[“CIA notified White House in early Aug. of an impending terrorist
attack” Los Angeles Times Oct. 18, 2001]
Also in Aug., President
Valdimir Putin ordered Russian intelligence to warn Washington “in
the strongest possible terms” of imminent attacks on airports
and government buildings. The warnings continued “for weeks”.
Russian intelligence informed the White House that 25 pilots
had been specifically trained for suicide missions. Boxcutters
subsequently found on two diverted airliners forced to land
in Canada, raises the estimated number of hijackers to 25 and
attack aircraft to six. [“Russia warns US of imminent attacks
on airports and government buildings. Interview with President
Putin MS-NBC Sept. 15, 2001]
On Aug. 28, the
FAA sent a warning to airlines and airports that passengers
with links to terror networks intended to fly on US airlines.
[Cambio Magazinen (Mexico); Reuters Aug. 28, 2001]
The week before
Sept. 11, a Pakistani student at Brooklyn’s New Utrecht High
School pointed at the Twin Towers during a heated political
argument and declared, “Look at those two buildings. They won’t
be here next week.” Several days before the attack, a Jersey
City student of Middle Eastern origins also warned classmates
not to travel into lower Manhattan on the morning of Sept.
11. Many members of a Bronx mosque were also warned to stay
out of lower Manhattan on Sept. 11. [“Some Got Warning: Don’t
Go Downtown on Sept. 11” New York Daily News Oct. 12,
2001]
US corporations had already been tipped by a
State Department warning issued worldwide. A copy of State’s
Sept. 7 memo received by former Secretary of State George
Schultz at his San Francisco office warned that Americans “may
be the target of a terrorist threat [from] extremist groups
with links to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda organization”. [All
Fall Down]
This timely bulletin
also reached airports, where at least one prestigious passenger
was warned. When San Francisco’s mayor called on Sept.10 to
check the status of a flight he was planning to take into New
York the following day, a return call from a person Willie
Brown described as an “airport security man”, told him to be “extra
cautious about air travel” on Sept. 11. [San Francisco
Chronicle Sept. 14, 2001]
Just as in Oklahoma City, the FBI offices on
the 22nd floor of the WTC were also deserted when they were
destroyed by evidence-destroying explosions – before the
building came down.
FEMA URBAN RESCUERS DEPLOY
IN NYC – SEPT. 10, 2001
On Sept. 11, Federal Emergency Management Agency
official Tom Kennedy told Dan Rather on-air that an elite
FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team arrived in NYC the night
before the “surprise” attacks. “We’re currently one of the
first teams that was deployed to support the City of New
York in this disaster. We arrived on late Monday night and
went right into action on Tuesday morning.”
A flustered FEMA rep later told WorldNetDaily
that “In the heat of the moment”, Kennedy had misspoken.
Two FEMA teams, he corrected, were sent into Ground Zero
the next day. It’s unlikely a paramilitary team leader would
mistake a mission start two days before. If the “fast-reaction” teams
actually arrived 24 later, sending them in Wednesday morning
to the scene of one of the biggest disasters in US history
would have been almost useless. And there is no way Kennedy
could have claimed they were the “first team” deployed. The
FEMA manual, “Emergency Response To Terrorism” features the
World Trade Center on its cover?
A TRAGEDY’S STRANGE GOOD
FORTUNE
In the weeks leading up to Sept.11, the Bush
ship of state was listing heavily. World leaders were bashing
Bush’s for reneging on Kyoto’s carbon cutbacks. At home,
his Big Oil cabinet faced certain congressional defeat over
their bid to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Intended as $300 billion dollar “fix” for corporations addicted
to weapons contracts, Bush’s treaty-busting “Missile Defense
Shield” also faced a congressional thumbs down. Plus the
economy was a major minus. During the previous three weeks,
the Dow had dropped a dizzying 900 points, taking $1 trillion
into the digital void.
By late Oct., the really excellent news for
President Bush was that he remained President Bush. Completed
in late Aug., a $2 million media scrutiny of 170,000 uncounted
Florida votes was about to be announced by the Wall Street
Journal, Washington Post, New York Times and CNN. According
the London Telegraph, the results spelled “bye-bye Bush”.
A New York Times journalist involved in the recount project
revealed that the Gore victory margin was big enough to create “major
trouble for the Bush presidency if this ever gets out.”
Steven Goldstein,
speaking for the owners of The Wall Street Journal, told reporters
that the recount results would be kept from the public. “Our
belief is that the priorities of the country have changed,
and our priorities have changed,” Goldstein said. [“Media suppress
the news that Bush lost election to Gore” The Telegraph Oct.
22, 2001]
MISADVENTURES IN VIRTUAL
REALITY: THE BIN LADEN VIDEO
A confessional videotape reportedly recovered
from a hastily vacated al Qaeda villa in Jalalabad shows
a fuzzy figure resembling Osama bin Laden explaining that
he never expected the Trade Towers would fall down after
being hit by two martyr-planes.
The audio quality
of “bin Laden’s” voice was so poor, translators could not be
certain whether they were hearing “we did” or “they did” – a
crucial distinction in establishing culpability. [“The Bin
Laden Tape” Vancouver Sun Dec. 14, 2001; “Bin Laden Translation
Omitted Sections” ABC NEWS Dec. 21 2001]
“I
believe the evidence against him is not solid. I think the
video they produced is doctored,” said bin Laden’s mother,
Alia Ghanem. “The voice is unclear and uneven. There are too
many gaps and the statements are very unlike him.” [“Mom
says it’s not bin Laden” London Daily News Dec. 22, 2001]
Describing the tape as “fabricated,” Islamic
affairs specialist Hani al Sibaei observed that it “boggled
the mind” that an organization like Al Qaeda would create
such a simple-minded video and it behind in a private home.
[“Hani al Sibaei says not bin Laden” Al Jazeera Satellite
News]
“It’s a real scandal,” laughed
another analyst at the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic
Studies in Cairo over the jape. When a visitor from Saudi Arabia
arrives, his voice is clear and there are frequent close-ups.
But Bin Laden’s voice is always muffled and the camera never
zooms in on him.” [“Bin Laden videotape was result of
a sting” The Observer Dec. 16, 2001; “The Camera That
Couldn’t Shoot Straight - Osama Gump?” www.counterpunch]
end part 1 of 2 part series
--A veteran investigative journalist with 32
years experience reporting “under-reported” events, William
Thomas is the author of Bringing The War Home, Chemtrails
Confirmed and All Fall Down: The Politics of Terror and Mass
Persuasion.
www.lifeboatnew.com willthomas@telus.net
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