THEY ARE LYING!!! And where the FECK is Osama???
from May 2002
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With undisguised contempt for public opinion, the White House offered a new cover story that directly contradicted the old one that the White House had maintained for eight months. The new version, however, failed to explain why Bush & Co. had concealed the August 6 briefing and other evidence of advance warnings for months on end.
The American media dutifully swallowed the new set of lies without protest. Press accounts were filled with references to the failure to “connect the dots,” as though elaborate mental gymnastics were required to see the relationship between a warning of Islamic fundamentalist activity at US pilot-training schools (from the Arizona FBI) and the arrest (by the Minneapolis FBI) of Moussaoui, an Islamic fundamentalist who paid cash to be trained to fly a Boeing 747 while he could not even pilot a small plane.
This new cover story lasted barely a week before it was exploded by Rowley’s 13-page letter to Mueller and the Senate Intelligence Committee. Among other things, Rowley revealed that the local FBI reports from Arizona and Minneapolis had ended up on the desk of the same official at FBI headquarters, David Frasca, head of the Radical Fundamentalists Unit. Even on the morning of September 11, as the Minneapolis FBI agents were watching television coverage of the suicide attacks on the Twin Towers, Frasca called Rowley to tell her not to proceed with an investigation of Moussaoui because Minneapolis might “screw up” something else going on elsewhere in the country.
Nor were these the isolated actions of a single misguided official. Rowley points out, “Despite FBI leaders’ full knowledge of all the items mentioned herein ... the SSA
, his unit chief, and other involved HQ personnel were allowed to stay in their positions and, what’s worse, occupy critical positions in the FBI’s SIOC Command Center post-September 11th. (The SSA in question actually received a promotion some months afterward!)”
Rowley’s letter confirms that there was extensive discussion within the government on the danger of hijackings by Islamic fundamentalists, although the public was not informed. Repeated efforts to investigate were being thwarted. Top-level FBI officials were protecting Moussaoui and his confederates, running interference for him when his own reckless and impulsive conduct brought him to the attention of the authorities. The question is, why?
The CIA and Islamic fundamentalism
There are two possible explanations. The first is that Moussaoui and others were being protected because they were engaged in operations that had the support of the US government—in Chechnya or other territories of the former Soviet Union, in Bosnia, or elsewhere. Moussaoui himself was active in recruiting Islamic fundamentalists to fight in Chechnya against the Russian army.
CIA Director William Casey initiated the recruitment of Islamic fundamentalists from around the world to go to Afghanistan in the 1980s to fight in the decade-long guerrilla war against the Soviet military intervention. They received training in terrorist tactics, including the planting of bombs, from US intelligence agents. This was the milieu out of which Osama bin Laden—himself a collaborator with the CIA in Afghanistan—recruited the initial forces for his Al Qaeda organization.
more...http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/sept-m29.shtml
Government wants Moussaoui to die
From correspondents in Washington
April 23, 2005
US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales today said the Government would seek the death penalty against avowed al-Qaeda member Zacarias Moussaoui, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in connection with the September 11 attacks.
"We are seeking the death penalty in this case," Mr Gonzales told a press conference held shortly after Moussaoui's appearance in a US District Court in the state of Virginia.
"The fact that Moussaoui participated in this terrorist conspiracy is no longer in doubt," the attorney-general said.
"Moussaoui and his co-conspirators were responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents on September 11."
After more than three years of legal wrangling, Moussaoui pleaded guilty to six charges of conspiracy today, four of which carry the death penalty.
While admitting his guilt, he vowed to fight against execution.
"I will not apply for death and in fact I will fight every inch against the death penalty," he said in court...
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15059788%255E1702,00.html
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