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[Expanded and Revised July 11, 2002 - Evidence of Bush
Administration Foreknowledge and complicity is now overwhelming. 13
New Items (noted in RED) Since Our Last Revision!]
61. Sept. 29, 2001 - The San Francisco Chronicle reports that $2.5million in put options on American and United airlines are unclaimed.This is likely the result of the suspension in trading on the New YorkStock Exchange after the attacks, which gave the Securities andExchange Commission time to be waiting when the owners showed upto redeem their put options.
62. Oct. 10, 2001 - The Pakistani newspaper The Frontier Post reportsthat U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain has paid a call on thePakistani oil minister. A previously abandoned Unocal gas pipelineproject from Turkmenistan, across Afghanistan, to Pakistan is nowback on the table "in view of recent geopolitical developments."
63. Oct. 11, 2001 - The Ashcroft Justice Department takes over allterrorist prosecutions from the U.S. Attorneys office in New York, whichhas had a highly successful track record in prosecuting terrorist casesconnected to Osama bin Laden. [Source: The New York Times, Oct.11, 2001]
64. mid-October 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average, afterhaving suffered a precipitous drop has recovered most of its pre-attacklosses. Although still weak and vulnerable to negative earnings reports,a crash has been averted by a massive infusion of governmentspending on defense programs, subsidies for "affected" industries andplanned tax cuts for corporations.
65. Nov. 21, 2001 - The British paper The Independent runs a storyheadlined, "Opium Farmers Rejoice at the Defeat of the Taliban." Thestory reports that massive opium planting is underway all over thecountry.
66. Nov. 25, 2001 - The Observer runs a story headlined "VictoriousWarlords Set To Open the Opium Floodgates." It states that farmersare being encouraged by warlords allied with the victorious Americansare "being encouraged to plant as much opium as possible."
67. Dec. 4, 2001 - Convicted drug lord and opium kingpin Ayub Afridi isrecruited by the U.S. government to help establish control inAfghanistan by unifying various Pashtun warlords. The former opiumsmuggler who was one of the CIA's leading assets in the war againstthe Russians is released from prison in order to do this. [Source: TheAsia Times Online, Dec. 4, 2001]
68. Dec. 25, 2001 - Newly appointed Afghani Prime Minister HamidKarzai is revealed as being a former paid consultant for Unocal.[Source: Le Monde]
69. Jan. 3, 2002 - President Bush appoints Zalmy Khalilzad as aspecial envoy to Afghanistan. Khalilzad, a former employee of Unocal,also wrote op-eds in the Washington Post in 1997 supporting theTaliban regime. [Source: Pravda, Jan. 9, 2002]
70. Jan. 4, 2002 - Florida drug trafficking explodes after 9-11. In asurge of trafficking reminiscent of the 1980s the diversion of resourcesaway from drug enforcement has opened the floodgates for a newsurge of cocaine and heroin from South America. [The ChristianScience Monitor, Jan. 4, 2002]
71. Jan. 10, 2002 - In a call from a speaker phone in open court,attorneys for Mike Vreeland call the Pentagon's switchboard operator,who confirms that Vreeland is indeed a naval lieutenant on active duty.She provides an office number and a direct dial phone extension to hisoffice in the Pentagon. [Source: Attorney Rocco Galati; TorontoSuperior Court records]
72. Jan. 10, 2002 - Attorney General John Ashcroft recuses himselffrom the Enron investigation because Enron had been a majorcampaign donor in his 2000 Senate race. He fails to recuse himselffrom involvement in two sitting federal grand juries investigatingbribery and corruption charges against ExxonMobil and BP Amoco,which have massive oil interests in Central Asia. Both were majorAshcroft donors in 2000. [Source: CNN, Jan. 10, 2002; FTW, "TheElephant in the Living Room, Part I," April 4, 2002,http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/032602_elephant.html]
73. Jan. 23, 2002 - Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl iskidnapped in Pakistan. Pearl is reported dead on Feb. 21. Leadsuspect Ahmad Umar Sheik, former colleague of Gen. Ahmad, isarrested on Feb. 12 and named as the lead suspect in the kidnappingand murder. Legal sources close to the Pakistani government tell FTWthat Pearl was investigating the ISI. [Source: CNN.com]
74. Feb. 9, 2002 - Pakistani leader Gen. Musharraf and Afghan leaderHamid Karzai announce their agreement to "cooperate in all spheres ofactivity," including the proposed Central Asian pipeline. Pakistan willgive $10 million to Afghanistan to help pay Afghan governmentworkers. [Source: The Irish Times, Feb. 9, 2002]
75. Feb. 18, 2002 - The Financial Times reports that the estimatedopium harvest in Afghanistan in the late-spring 2002 will reach a worldrecord 4,500 metric tons.
76. mid-April, 2002 - World Bank chief James Wolfensohn, at theopening of the World Bank's offices in Kabul, states he has held talksabout financing the Trans-Afghanistan gas pipeline. He confirms $100million in new grants for the interim Afghani government. Wolfensohnalso states that a number of companies have already expressedinterest in the project. [Source: Alexander's Gas and oil Connections,citing an Agence France-Presse story]
77. May 13, 2002 - The BBC reports that Afghanistan is about to closea deal for construction of the $2 billion gas pipeline to run fromTurkmenistan to Pakistan and India. The story states, "work on theproject will start after an agreement is expected to be struck" at asummit scheduled for the end of the month. Unocal will build thepipeline. [Source: BBC, May 13, 2002]
78. May, 2002 - A number of sources report progress on both oil andgas pipelines. Regional sources state that Unocal will re-emerge as apipeline contender after withdrawing from the CentGas pipeline projectin 1998. Unocal denies plans to revive the gas pipeline but curiouslyneglects to mention whether or not it has any interest in the oil pipeline,which local sources say is moving ahead. [Source: The Dawn Group ofNewspapers, May 7, May 17, May 22, 2002]
79. May 30, 2002 - Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai,Turkmenistan's President Niyazov, and Pakistani President Musharrafmeet in Islamabad to sign a memorandum of understanding on thetrans-Afghanistan gas pipeline project. The three leaders will meet formore talks on the project in October. The Turkmen-Afghan-Pakistanigas pipeline accord has been published and can be viewed at thefollowing website: http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts22622.htm.[Source: NewsBase, June 5, 2002]
80. May 16, 2002 != White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer statesunequivocally that while President Bush had been warned of possiblehijackings, "The president did not -- not -- receive information about theuse of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers." [Source: CBS News,May 15, 2002]
81. May 19, 2002 - Former FBI Agent Tyrone Powers, now a professorat Anne Arundel Community College states on radio station KISS 98.7that he has credible evidence suggesting that the Bush Administrationdid in fact allow the Sept. 11 attacks to further a hidden agenda.[Source: http://www.indymedia.org - May 20, 2002]
82. May 31, 2002 - FBI Agent Robert Wright delivers a tearful pressconference at the National Press Club describing his lawsuit againstthe FBI for deliberately curtailing investigations that might haveprevented the 9-11 attacks. He uses words like "prevented," "thwarted,""obstructed," "threatened," "intimidated," and "retaliation" to describethe actions of his superiors in blocking his attempts to shut off moneyflows to Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. These are not words ofnegligence. They are words describing deliberate and maliciousactions. [Source: C-SPAN website]
83. June 4, 2002 - Air Force Lt. Col. Steve Butler, who had calledPresident Bush a joke and accused him of allowing the Sept. 11attacks to happen, is suspended from his post at the DefenseLanguage School in Monterey, Calif. and could face a court martial.[Source: Associated Press, June 4, 2002]
84. June 17, 2002 - Reuters reports that Butler's case has beenresolved without the necessity of a court martial. (I guess so. There'senough material here to prove him right. -- MCR) [Reuters, June 17,2002]
85. July 2, 2002 - Motions from Zacarias Moussaoui are unsealed infederal court, indicating that Moussaoui wants to testify before both agrand jury and Congress about the Sept. 11 attacks. Moussaoui claimsto have information showing that the U.S. government wanted theattacks to happen. [Source: The Washington Post, July 3, 2002]
86. July 3, 2002 - The first-ever shipment of Russian oil, 200,000metric tons, arrives in Houston. [Source: The Moscow Times, July 6,2002].
87. July 6, 2002 - Afghan Vice President Hajji Abdul Qadir isassassinated by Afghan warlords. The New York Times reports thatQadir may have been assassinated by opium warlords upset by Qadir'sefforts to reduce the rampant opium farming and processing that hastaken place since the U.S. occupation. Qadir had been overseeing aWestern-backed eradication program, according to the Times.However, the opium warlords of the region are same ones sponsored,protected, and in some cases released from prison by the CIA and whohave been protected by President Bush's special envoy, ZalmayKhalilzad. It is reported that the raw opium is being refined near U.S.bases at Kandahar. [Sources: The New York Times, July 8, 2002; FarEastern Economic Review, April 18, 2002]
Now, let's go back to the Oct. 31 story by Le Figaro -- the one that hasOsama bin Laden meeting with a CIA officer in Dubai in July 2001.
The story says that, "Throughout his stay in the hospital, Osama BinLaden received visits from many family members [There goes thestory that he's a black sheep! --MCR] and Saudi Arabian Emiratepersonalities of status. During this time the local representative of theCIA was seen by many people taking the elevator and going to binLaden's room.
"Several days later the CIA officer bragged to his friends about havingvisited the Saudi millionaire. From authoritative sources, this CIA agentvisited CIA headquarters on July 15, the day after bin Laden'sdeparture for Quetta.
"According to various Arab diplomatic sources and French intelligenceitself, precise information was communicated to the CIA concerningterrorist attacks aimed at American interests in the world, including itsown territory.
"Extremely bothered, they [American intelligence officers in a meetingwith French intelligence officers] requested from their French peersexact details about the Algerian activists [connected to bin Ladenthrough Dubai banking institutions], without explaining the exact natureof their inquiry. When asked the question, ëWhat do you fear in thecoming days?' the Americans responded with incomprehensiblesilence.
"On further investigation, the FBI discovered certain plans that hadbeen put together between the CIA and its ëIslamic friends' over theyears. The meeting in Dubai is, so it would seem, consistent with 'acertain American policy.'"
Even though Le Figaro reported that it had confirmed with hospital staffthat bin Laden had been there as reported, stories printed on Nov. 1contained quotes from hospital staff that these reports were untrue. OnNov. 1, as reported by the Ananova press agency, the CIA flatly deniedthat any meeting between any CIA personnel and Osama bin Laden atany time.
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