NOW LET'S CHANGE THE WORLD
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I would like each one of you to go to the web sites for every major
news organization in the U.S. and around the world. I would like for
you to make postings there stating that it is NOT true that the Bush
Administration has no knowledge that hijacked aircraft would be used
as suicide attack planes. Make your points both in messages to their
editors but also on public posting boards. We can turn this tide
right now!
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Mike Ruppert
Now let's change the world!
Fri May 17 2002
From The Wilderness Subscribers
Urgent Breaking News!
Dear Subscribers:
Today will be remembered as one of the biggest news days in U.S.
history. With its partial admission of foreknowledge of the attacks
of September 11th, the Bush Administration has hung itself. FTW has a
new story about these recent developments now on the web site at
http://www.copvcia.com.
As the story starts to break around the world I would like to ask
every FTW subscriber who wants to see this break fully and not be
swept away to do us all a favor. I would like each one of you to go
to the web sites for every major news organization in the U.S. and
around the world. I would like for you to make postings there stating
that it is NOT true that the Bush Administration has no knowledge
that hijacked aircraft would be used as suicide attack planes.
Make your points both in messages to their editors but also on public
posting boards. We can turn this tide right now!
The proof is in our newest story at:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/051602_liewontstand.html.
Then also post on every forum for these sites the links to two other
FTW stories which give the lie to the administration's stated
position. They are our Briefing Paper on Bush Administration
Foreknowledge and our Oh Lucy! Timeline.
They are located at:
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/042202_bushknows.html,
and at
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_11_02_lucy.html.
Keep throwing this information at them until one of them starts
asking the right questions.
NOTE: We've received complaints that FTW has not been sending out
subscriber bulletins. The fact is that after the recent hackings and
with the changeover to a new and highly sophisticated web hosting
service, we have not been able to do so. The process involved the
reworking of an entire data bases with almost 3,000 names and
addresses. We just completed the work today.
Just in time!
Now let's change the world!
Mike Ruppert
http://www.copvcia.com
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http://www.guerrillanews.com/intelligence/doc430.html
Guerrilla of the Week
Editor's Pick, May 20, 2002
And so the dam broke. The reversal of fortune was swift and
surprisingly vicious, even the Murdoch-owned New York Post's headline
blared: "Bush Knew." The seemingly untouchable Patriot President was
up against the wall.
Was the Administration covering up pre-knowledge of 9-11 threats that
could have averted the attacks? Or even something much darker? Once
again, the country was asking what a Republican president knew and
when he knew it.
To recap the week's tumultuous chain of events:
The mainstream media firestorm began with a CBS News story about an
August 6, 2001 CIA briefing. Requested by the President himself, the
briefing reportedly raised the possibility of Al Qaeda terrorists
hijacking planes and using them as weapons.
Bush & Co. respond the threats weren't specific.
Then, in a follow-up to a 60 Minutes report Sunday night, further
information about the case of the so-called 20th hijacker Zacarias
Moussaoui emerged. Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent
who wanted to learn how to fly, but not land, a 747, was arrested in
August on a tip from a Minnesota flight school. It's learned that the
FBI's Minneapolis office was refused permission to search Moussaoui's
laptop computer for clues. In a handwritten note, a Minneapolis-based
agent wrote that Moussaoui was the "type of person that could fly
something into the World Trade Center."
Then the so-called Phoenix memo leaked, a July 2001 FBI report that
warns bin Laden operatives might be taking fight training in the U.S.
so that they could launch terrorist attacks on American targets.
Bush & Co. keep to their line that the threats weren't specific.
On Friday, it was reported that as far back as 1999 a National
Intelligence Council report warned that terrorists might be planning
to crash a plane into a government building. The report noted Ramzi
Yousef, an Al Qaeda operative first arrested in the Philippines in
1995 and later convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing had
talked specifically of a suicide jetliner mission:
"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could
crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex)
into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence
Agency, or the White House."
Still, the Administration's line held: the threats weren't specific.
The week ended with the Democrats calling for a wide investigation,
Bush's credibility slipping in the polls, and a conveniently timed
warning from the embattled Administration. A new attack, Cheney
intoned ominously on the Sunday talk shows, is almost "certain."
It was helluva a week. But for those of you who have been following
the work of Michael Ruppert, this week's Guerrilla of the Week, here,
and on his own site, From the Wilderness, much of what went down was
neither new or surprising. As Ruppert, and others, have reported
there is ample evidence that Bush and Co. are covering up either a
massive failure to lead and protect the American public, or something
much more sinister.
On Saturday night, Ruppert was set to be interviewed on the Fox News
Channel by Geraldo Rivera, only to have the appearance cancelled at
the last minute. His replacement, an ex-CIA man.
The following is Ruppert's latest dispatch:
The Lie Won't Stand
by Michael Ruppert
Bush Administration Explanations for Pre-9-11 Warnings
Fail the Smell Test
Warnings Received From Heads of State, Allied Intelligence
Services Specifically Warned of Suicide Attacks by Hijackers
Insider Trading Also Clearly Warned of Attacks
Never in the history of scandals involving the United States
government has an attempt to conceal criminal conduct by an
administration been more transparently dishonest or more easily
exposed. On May 15 White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer -- while
making the startling admission that President Bush received CIA and
FBI intelligence briefings in August indicating Osama bin Laden might
be planning hijackings -- told major news sources including CBS
News, "All appropriate action was taken based on the threat
information we had," Fleischer said. "The president did not -- not --
receive information about the use of airplanes as missiles by suicide
bombers."
In other statements Fleischer told the press, "The president was also
provided information about bin Laden wanting to engage in hijacking
in the traditional pre-9-11 sense, not for the use of suicide
bombing, not for the use of an airplane as a missile." According to a
May 16 story by the New York Times, "Mr. Fleischer said the
information given to the president in Texas [last August], had
prompted the administration to put law enforcement agencies on alert."
Every major position taken by an administration in full retreat and
on the defensive can be easily deconstructed and shown to be false.
For more than seven months FTW has been documenting specific warnings
received by the U.S. government from both foreign intelligence
services and, in one case, from Russian President Vladimir Putin,
indicating commercial airliners were going to be used by terrorists
to attack -- among other things -- the World Trade Center in the week
of Sept. 9. In order for Fleischer's statement to be credible he
would have to assert then that George W. Bush either ignored or was
not informed of a direct warning from a head of state and also from
the German intelligence service, the BND.
As reported in the German daily Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung (FAZ)
on Sept. 14, the BND warned both the CIA and Israel in June that
Middle Eastern terrorists were "planning to hijack commercial
aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American
and Israeli culture." The story specifically referred to an
electronic eavesdropping system known as Echelon, wherein a number of
countries tap cell phone and electronic communications in partner
countries and then pool the information. The BND warnings were also
passed to the United Kingdom.
No known denial by the BND of the accuracy of this story exists, and
the FAZ report indicates the information was received directly from
BND sources.
According to a Sept. 14 report in the Internet newswire online.ie,
German police, monitoring the phone calls of a jailed Iranian man,
learned the man was telephoning U.S. intelligence agencies last
summer to warn of an imminent attack on the World Trade Center in the
week of Sept. 9. German officials confirmed the calls to the U.S.
government for the story but refused to discuss additional details.
According to a story in Izvestia on Sept. 12, Russian intelligence
warned the U.S. last summer that as many as 25 suicide pilots were
training for suicide missions involving the crashing of airliners
into important targets.
In an MSNBC interview on Sept. 15, Russian President Putin stated he
had ordered Russian intelligence to warn the U.S. government "in the
strongest possible terms" of imminent assaults on airports and
government buildings before the attacks on Sept. 11. No credible
information has emerged from any source indicating that Putin omitted
the above information when issuing the warning.
Many other direct warnings were received by the U.S. government and
have been documented in FTW's 9-11 timeline located here.
These stories give the immediate lie to Fleischer's statements that
Bush had no inkling of airliners being used as weapons.
But there is more.
In 1996 -- as reported by the German paper Die Welt on Dec. 6, and by
Agence France Presse on Dec. 7 -- Western intelligence services,
including the CIA, learned after arrests in the Philippines that Al
Qaeda operatives had planned to crash commercial airliners into the
Twin Towers. Details of the plan, as reported by a number of American
press outlets, were found on a computer seized during the arrests.
The plan was called "Operation Bojinka." Details of the plot were
disclosed publicly in 1997 in the New York trial of Ramsi Youssef for
his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
FBI MEMOS TRIGGER WHITE HOUSE BACKSTEPPING
In "traditional" hijackings the hijackers have no need or desire to
learn how to fly.
As reported by The New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post (among
others) the events leading to Fleischer's statements were the recent
disclosure of FBI memoranda originated by field agents in Arizona and
Minnesota that warned of a possible hijack attempt by bin Laden's
followers. In both cases the suspects were taking flight lessons.
According to Newsweek and The New York Times, FBI agents in Phoenix
submitted a classified memorandum in July naming Osama bin Laden and
tracking the activities of possible Middle Eastern terrorist suspects
who had enrolled in local flight schools. The memo, according to the
Times, stated bin Laden's followers "could use the schools to train
for terror operations." The information in the Phoenix memo was not
shared with FBI field agents in Minnesota who had uncovered other
startling evidence.
Just days before the attacks in early-September, FBI agents in
Minnesota wrote notes that subsequently became included in an
internal FBI document warning that accused terrorist Zacarias
Moussaoui "might be planning on flying something into the World Trade
Center." A story from the May 20 issue of Newsweek by Michael Isikoff
described how a local flight instructor had reported Moussaoui
had "showed a suspicious interest in learning how to steer [and not
land] large airliners…The [FBI] agents were `in a frenzy, absolutely
convinced he was planning to so something with a plane.'"
A multitude of sources have reported the FBI agents requested a
warrant to search Moussaoui's personal computer but were denied by
Attorney General John Ashcroft's Justice Department. After the 9-11
attacks the computer was seized and found to contain information
directly related to the World Trade Center attacks.
This apparent lack of support from within the administration is
consistent with reports released last fall by the BBC's Gregg Palast
showing that in January 2001 the Bush Administration had issued
direct orders to the FBI to curtail investigations of two of Osama
bin Laden's relatives, Omar and Abdullah bin Laden. The two bin
Ladens had been connected to possible terrorist activities and were
living in Falls Church, Va., near CIA headquarters.
APPROPRIATE WARNINGS?
Fleischer's statement that adequate warnings had been given to
appropriate federal agencies falls flat on its face. Two of the
most "appropriate" agencies would have been the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) and the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard.
As documented by researchers like Jared Israel at www.tenc.net it has
been standard FAA procedure for more than 25 years to scramble U.S.
fighters to intercept -- not shoot down -- any errant or non-
responsive aircraft under FAA control. This protocol is even more
stringent in the case of a hijacking. Yet, Vice President Dick Cheney
and others have stated publicly there were no fighters available in
some cases, and there was no heightened state of alert on Sept. 11.
For 50 minutes on 9-11, in direct contravention of established
policy, no fighters were scrambled to intercept two outstanding
hijacked airliners even though it was known attacks were in progress.
Given the above information, it would have been an obvious move to
have placed fighter aircraft on a heightened state of alert in this
time period. This unresponsiveness stands in contrast to the fact
that, in October 1999 at a time when there was no heightened alert,
the ill-fated Lear Jet occupied by golfer Payne Stewart had an F-16
fighter and an A-10 attack aircraft flying beside it within minutes
of losing radio contact and veering off course.
INSIDER TRADING
FTW has spent months on this important story that proves
foreknowledge of the attacks by people who also profited from them.
This was a glaring warning signal, since such trades ran the risk of
being detected by intelligence agencies that routinely monitor all
market activity in real time.
The insider trading involves the placement of large numbers of "put"
options on stocks of companies directly affected by the Sept. 11
attacks. They include United Air Lines, American Air Lines, Morgan
Stanley, Merrill Lynch, AXA Reinsurance, Munich Reinsurance and Swiss
Reinsurance. Put options are a leveraged bet that a stock's price
will fall dramatically.
As CBS news noted on Sept. 26, the peak of trading activity occurred
just before the attacks. There was a jump in United Air Lines put
options 90 times (not 90 percent) above normal between Sept. 6 and
Sept.10, and 285 times higher than average on Sept. 6. Numbers for
other affected stocks were equally alarming. It is uncontested that
only United and American stocks had this level of put buying before
the attacks. No other airlines were affected.
A May 13 story by the Washington Times' Insight Magazine attempted to
explain the insider trading by stating higher numbers of put options
had been placed on United and American stocks earlier in 2001. By
relying only on the numbers of put options, Insight asserted that
there was nothing unusual about the pre-9-11 trades.
However, FTW has contacted several experienced traders and reviewed
existing documentation from financial experts, which indicate the
alarm for insider trading is to look for any "imbalance" between the
level of put options (a bet that a stock's price will fall) and the
level of call options (a bet that a stock's price will rise). It is a
significant imbalance in puts vs. calls that indicates criminal
insider trading. The Insight piece did not address this point.
Several traders have stated that in a fairly flat market with high
trading volumes, it has been a routine procedure for experienced
traders to place roughly equal numbers of puts and calls on various
stocks in order to generate a paper cash flow. They were quick to
point out that by September, the market had gone into sharp decline
and trading volumes were way down. Thus, lower numbers of put options
did not mean that everything was normal. They stressed it was the
imbalance in put-to-call ratios that signaled the insider trading.
[Ed. Note: FTW has undertaken a more detailed investigation of this
trading activity and hopes to have a more comprehensive report within
4-6 weeks].
Part of the problem in Insight's research stems from the fact that
since Sept. 11, there has been no transparency from either the
government or the financial sector on how the trades worked or how
the markets tracked them. Secrecy is everywhere. Telephone calls have
not been returned, and the government refuses to divulge any
information about probes it admits are still ongoing. But simplistic
dismissals from sources quoted in the Insight story contradict not
only other evidence, but statements made by financial experts and
major news sources just after the attacks.
"This could very well be insider trading at the worst, most horrific,
most evil use you've ever seen in your entire life…This would be one
of the most extraordinary coincidences in the history of mankind if
it was a coincidence," said Dylan Ratigan of Bloomberg Business News,
interviewed Sept. 20 on Good Morning Texas.
"'I saw put-call numbers higher than I've ever seen in 10 years of
following the markets, particularly the options markets,' said John
Kinnucan, principal of Broadband Research, as quoted in the San
Francisco Chronicle," reported the Montreal Gazette on Sept. 19.
To quote 60 Minutes from Sept. 19, "Sources tell CBS News that the
afternoon before the attack, alarm bells were sounding over unusual
trading in the U.S. stock options market."
Assertions that the reported number of puts involved were not
abnormal also failed to analyze highly intricate shell games that
involve the movement of put options to markets outside the U.S. or
hidden in what traders refer to as "net positions." Serious financial
experts have indicated the profits from insider trading could have
been in the billions. Andreas von Bulow, a former member of the
German parliament responsible for oversight of Germany's intelligence
services, estimated the worldwide amount at $15 billion, according to
Tagesspiegel on Jan. 13. Other experts have estimated the amount at
$12 billion. CBS News gave a conservative estimate of $100 million.
A hasty conclusion reached by many is the insider trades were placed
by bin Laden and his associates. Such a notion is flatly contradicted
by the now absolute certainty that such insider trades would have --
and apparently did -- set off alarm bells. It makes little sense to
argue bin Laden et al would have risked compromising at the last
minute an operation planned in total secrecy for at least four years.
Also lacking credibility is the argument that many of the trades were
what some brokers described as inconsequential amounts valued at $1
million or $2 million. This does not address the possibility that
U.S. intelligence officials decided in a few cases to make a quick
profit from attacks they knew were going to succeed. As distasteful
as it may seem, this explanation is far more credible than an
assumption that bin Laden made the trades himself and risked the
exposure of what the world has been led to believe was his
life's "masterpiece."
For more information on 9-11 insider trading please visit
www.copvcia.com.
The explanations offered by the Bush Administration over the last 48
hours will not withstand even the slightest scrutiny if a major press
organization asks any question about the warnings received from
credible foreign government sources and heads of state. Other
questions must inevitably follow that will implode an oil
dictatorship whose sins and crimes are exposed and just waiting for
someone to pick them up and run with them.
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