Remember 9/11 Parts 1-3

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good work. Check out the Pact at the website. We need to unite. The Pact does
this. After 4 months now, we are 744 strong. No cost, just committment to
defend yourself and those of like mind in the Pact regarding the times the
government attacks your person, family, property and guns. It is working.

Rick Stanley

From: "Hsing Lee" Remember 9/11 Parts 1-3

*** NOTE ***

Most of you have already received Parts 1 and 2 of this timeline under the title
Sympathy for the Devil. There are some minor corrections, and some
modifications to the format in Parts 1 and 2.

What's new is what appears in Part 3, running from January 2003 to quite
literally this morning of October 16, 2003. The evidence of cronyism,
overcharging, and no-bid contracts has been coming fast and furious.

Please distribute this widely, and make sure that the guy across the street who
voted Republican gets a copy, so he can understand precisely what it is he voted
for.

Peace

Remember 9/11: A Three Part Series

September 11, 2001 was a day none of us will ever forget. I woke up to an early
morning phone call. My friend was screaming for me to turn on BBC News.

The BBC Newsman asked a man dressed in a suit and tie, a man who looked and
sounded as if he had an education, if he thought the events at the WTC could be
the result of US Foreign Policy in the Middle East.

I’ll never forget what this man on the streets of New York said…

“What does flying airplanes into buildings have to do with politics?”

The public is not used to questioning its government, or questioning how a
continuous stream of oil is provided at under 30 bucks a barrel. They never
question the means through which their lifestyle is provided.

Most just don’t want to know the truth.

The truth is, war is always a last resort. It’s the reaction of people backed
into a corner, which is precisely where Western Society is today. We face the
immediate and perpetual decline in our standard of living if we don’t steal
every oil, gas, and uranium deposit on earth before 2012.

This is a simple mathematical fact. Population growth and industrial demand are
outpacing energy production growth, and have been since 1979. World Oil
production peaks in 2012, and after that, it’s a rapid slide all the way down
the bell curve.

Short of a major breakthrough in fusion, electromagnetic overunity devices,
solar panel efficiency, or hydrolysis efficiency to power fuel cells on water,
we face a never before seen energy crisis by the end of this decade, made worse
by the exponential rise in Chinese, Caspian, and Indian energy demands between
now and 2012.

The government knows this. So do the energy companies. But they’re not
interested in finding an alternate energy source, because to do so would mean
the government and its corporate sponsors in the Petroleum and Defense
industries will no longer be on the top of the heap.

And they really, really like being in charge.

So rather than spend on scientific research into fusion or free energy, we spend
nearly a trillion a year making things to kill lots and lots of colored people,
steal their land, and steal their mineral rights. In doing so, we extend the
life of the Empire by baby steps, at the cost of millions of lives and trillions
of taxpayer’s dollars.

Harry Truman used to have a sign on his desk. It said, “The Buck Stops Here”.

Let’s follow that Buck. Let’s follow the flow of history, and then follow the
money.

First, a timeline to show why the world is mad at the USA. Then a timeline to
let the reader decide what the war on terror is about… using genocide to keep
the top dogs on top, or fighting terrorists.

September 11, 1609 Henry Hudson “discovers” (i.e. STEALS) Manhattan Island.
Blankets infected with bubonic plague and smallpox are given to the natives so
the colonial armies can save bullets. In the NY area alone, more than 150,000
First Nations people are killed or left homeless in the ensuing years.

September 11, 1839 President Martin van Buren, through the US State Department,
tried to have the executive branch interfere with the judiciary, in order to
have a group of Africans, free men by American law at the time, returned to
their ‘rightful owners’, the Spanish Crown, and sent to Cuba for detention
followed by trial and execution, even though US law at the time stated clearly
that only slaves born into slavery were legally slaves in the United States.

September 11, 1917 Ferdinand Marcos Philippines Pres (1965-86) is born. His US
sponsored military dictatorship and death squads trained at Fort Benning Georgia
were responsible for the death of tens of thousands of Philippinos. Hundreds of
thousands more were tortured, mutilated, and had their homes burnt to the ground
with US State Department approval.

September 11, 1919 The US once again invades Honduras on behalf of the United
Fruit Company to put down a popular revolt against a US puppet dictatorship that
had been murdering, starving and torturing the populace at the behest of United
Fruit for decades.

September 11, 1922 The British Mandate of Palestine Begins. British guns
murdered tens of thousands of Palestinian Arabs, displacing them from their
homes and settlements that were then given to Jewish settlers. More than 1200
villages were totally destroyed by the British in collaboration with Jewish
militants. Since that time, more than three million Palestinians have been made
homeless, and more than 100,000 have been killed by British, American, and
Israeli soldiers, to make room for Jewish settlers in contravention of
international law, and in violation of no less than 30 directives of the Fourth
Geneva Convention.

September 11, 1941 Ground first broken for construction of the Pentagon, with
financial subsidy coming from many US corporations who were actively trading
with the Nazis, some of them until 1945. Among those corporations were IBM,
GE, Ford, and ITT.

But there were also many others. One of these Nazi Collaborators was Prescott
Bush, grandfather of G W Bush. Prescott used Auschwitz slave labor at his Nazi
steel manufacturing plant Consolidated Silesian Steel, of which he was managing
director.

Wall Street and the US Media were so enthralled with Hitler that Roosevelt had
to trick Americans into going to war by allowing Pearl Harbor to happen after
backing Japan into a corner with a trade embargo.

Since that time, the Pentagon has made the USA the only nation in history to use
atomic bombs against civilians, not once, but twice. They’ve murdered 3 million
in Korea, 3 million in Vietnam, 3 million in Cambodia, 1 million in Laos, more
than a million in Latin America, 2 million in Iraq (so far), and armed dictators
in the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Africa who have murdered millions
more.

September 11, 1946 US Troops land in Korea to begin the slaughter of Korean
civilians at Nogun-Ri and hundreds of other sites. In all, more than three
million Korean lose their lives, out of a combined North and South Korean
population of thirty million.

September 11, 1973 Chile's elected President Salvador Allende is deposed in a
CIA backed military coup, resulting in 3175 deaths on the first day of Augusto
Pinochet’s reign. During Pinochet’s US Backed tenure, more than 100,000 people
disappeared, and hundreds of thousands were tortured using tactics taught at
Fort Benning Georgia’s School of Americas using the now declassified CIA Kubark
Manual.

Thanks to declassified documents accessed under the Freedom Of Information Act,
we now know that Henry Kissinger in fact gave the implicit green light for many
of these atrocities.

September 11, 1990 George H W Bush makes his “Toward a New World Order” speech,
announcing the sanctions regime, which by 1998 had killed more than 1.5 million
people.

www.sweetliberty.org/issues/war/bushsr.htm

“They've already intercepted more than 700 ships to enforce the sanctions. Three
regional leaders I spoke with just yesterday told me that these sanctions are
working. Iraq is feeling the heat. We continue to hope that Iraq's leaders will
recalculate just what their aggression has cost them. They are cut off from
world trade, unable to sell their oil. And only a tiny fraction of goods gets
through.

The communique with President Gorbachev made mention of what happens when the
embargo is so effective that children of Iraq literally need milk or the sick
truly need medicine. Then, under strict international supervision that
guarantees the proper destination, then food will be permitted…”

From this speech, and from the NSA reports that followed, the intent of the
sanctions regime is clear… to punish the children and sick people in Iraq, who
are specifically named as targets by Bush and Gorbachev. This is illegal
according to the Geneva Convention, to which the USA is a chief signatory.
Thousands of children are still dying each month in Iraq, from treatable
illness, hunger and dehydration forced on them by inadequate funds from the
Oil-For-Food program.

So while Americans will never forget the events of 9/11, the same can be said
for many others, over many generations, who have experienced colonial expansion
American style.

The number of dead in Iraq since 9/11 is the equivalent of the events of
September 11 happening to the people of Iraq once a week, every week, for the
last 12 years, since George H W Bush made his New World Order speech announcing
the sanctions regime against Baghdad on September 11, 1990.

Half of the nearly two million Iraqi casualties are children under the age of
five. That’s more than 330 WTC’s full of little kids. By comparison, only six
children under the age of five died on September 11, 2001.

Now for part one of the ‘follow the money’ timeline…

1970’s - The Bush family begins a long term business relationship with the Bin
Ladin family and the Mahfouz family, which continues to this day. The Bin
Ladins and Mahfouz invest in G W Bush’s Harken Energy and Caterair, and later
the Bin Ladins invest in the Carlyle Group.

1979 – Osama Bin Laden goes to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets, with support
from Pakistan’s ISI, with the ISI’s operation being funded by the CIA.

1980’s – Bin Laden forms Makhtab Al Khidimat, precursor to Al-Qaeda.

1986-1988 – Numerous think tank reports are published calling for a larger US
presence in the Persian Gulf, in order to protect American oil and gas interests
in the Middle East, in particular the need to increase the US presence in Saudi
Arabia.

1988 – The Soviets pull out of Afghanistan, defeated by the Mujeheddin and Bin
Laden’s MAK, after more than six billion dollars is spent by the CIA.

1989 – Bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia, where the US is looking to expand its
military presence, and begins stirring up political dissent.

1989 – The Sudanese government begins dealing with Canadian, Russian and Chinese
oil and gas interests, refusing to deal with US interests. US Oil interests are
looking for pressure to be applied to Sudan by the US State Department, but no
pretext exists for US Sanctions against the Sudan.

1990 – Kuwait begins slant drilling at the Iraqi border. Saddam is tricked into
attacking Kuwait after his cousin is told by a high ranking US official that the
US ‘will not get involved’ in a Middle Eastern domestic dispute.

Summer 1990 – Doctored satellite photos are shown to King Fahd by the US State
Department. These fake photos show an Iraqi military presence near the Saudi
border where in fact there is no such Iraqi presence. The photos were proven to
be fake by Dr. Peter D. Zimmerman, who compared them with Russian satellite
images of the same locations taken during the same time period.

‘Former’ CIA/ISI asset Bin Laden goes to King Fahd and offers to bring his
Mujeheddin to Saudi Arabia to defend the Holy Land against Iraqi attack.

Fearing a coup by the politically active Bin Laden, King Fahd rejects Bin Laden’
s offer, jails him, and asks the Americans to come protect Saudi Arabia. The
bases set up by the US in Saudi Arabia in 1991 are still active today.

September 11, 1990 – GHW Bush makes his ‘Toward a New World Order’ speech.

January 16, 1991 – The US invades Iraq, along with a UN coalition.

1991 – Bin Laden somehow escapes from Saudi Prison and ends up settling in the
Sudan, where the US has been looking for a pretext for sanctions or invasion
since the 1980’s. Bin Laden sets up Al-Qaeda training camps in the Sudan.

1991- India allows privatization of energy suppliers.

1991 – Heavy US interest in the Caspian Basin basin’s oil and gas reserves
begins. Major Oil companies begin the process of negotiating exploitation
deals. US companies are also interested in Uranium mining in Somalia, but have
been unable to make headway.

1992 – G H W Bush begins planning for a ‘humanitarian operation’ in Somalia.

January 1993 – The Clinton administration goes ahead with the operation in
Somalia.

Spring 1993 – Clinton escalates the Somalia operation, in an attempt to oust the
warlords.

1993 – Enron signs a deal with India for the Enron Dhabol project, amidst a slew
of controversy. Accusations of bribery, thuggery, and all forms of corrupt
coercion are made against Enron.

According to the World Bank, the deal makes no economic sense, as there’s no
existing energy source cheap enough to power the plant in a profitable fashion.
Only with an energy source close to India, perhaps a source from the Caspian
Basin, could the project succeed, and no such pipeline is in existence. The
World Bank refuses to participate or sign off on the project. Enron goes ahead
with the project regardless of the financial realities existing at this time,
which indicate the project is a money sink.

October 1993 – After suffering casualties and horrible media coverage of
American troops being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, Clinton begins
the pullout from Somalia. No Uranium exploitation deals are signed, and to date
no uranium exploitation by US companies has taken place.

1994 – Exxon forms the Exxon Natural Gas Indonesia Corporation in 1994, under
the corrupt Suharto regime. In November, they sign a $35 billion gas
exploration deal with Indonesia, for exploration of the Natuna gas field in the
Spratly Islands.

Objections are immediately raised by China, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Singapore, and Vietnam, all of whom are equidistant from the Spratlys and lay
claim to the mineral rights.

1994 – Exxon, Chevron, BP, Unocal, Lukoil and others are signing deals and
exploring for oil and gas reserves in the Caspian basin.

1995 – A number of Caspian exploration and pipeline consortiums are formed
between Exxon, Chevron, BP, Unocal, Lukoil, Delta Oil, and other oil and gas
players.

1995 - Unocal signs a deal with Turkmenistan for gas exploitation, but has no
way to get the product to market.

1995 – Unocal begins negotiations with Uzbekistan for oil and gas rights. US
military aid to the Uzbeks begins two months after Unocal signs a deal with
Turkmenistan and began negotiations with the Uzbeks.

1995 – Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan-American employee of Unocal, begins
negotiations with the Taliban on the company’s behalf in order to secure a
pipeline deal through Afghanistan to Pakistan. On the Afghan side, Hamid
Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun, is working for Unocal as an advisor, and also wooing
the Taliban on behalf of Unocal.

www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A3401-2001Nov
22

1996 – Negotiations with the Taliban are going badly. The Taliban want a better
deal than the US conglomerates are willing to give, and they refuse to take a
pittance in tax revenues to make billions for Unocal and the Centgas consortium.

June 1996 – After the Khobar bombing in Saudi Arabia, which is blamed on
Al-Qaeda, the Clinton Administration sets up a sanctions regime against the
Sudan, where US oil companies have been stymied.

1996 – The Sudanese government offers to share information on Bin Laden’s
whereabouts and operations in the Sudan with the Clinton Administration.
Clinton refuses to accept the information from the Sudanese government, so Bin
Laden remains at large.

Summer 1996 – Former CIA/ISI asset Osama Bin Laden leaves the Sudan after
sanctions are in place, and runs to Afghanistan, where pipeline negotiations
with US companies have stalled.

1997 – The Taliban sit down to dinner with Unocal in Houston, and take a tour of
NASA’s space center while they’re at it. They’re being wooed heavily by US Oil
and Gas interests, fronted by Khalilzad and Karzai, but refuse to sign a deal
with Unocal.

www.tehelka.com/channels/currentaffairs/2001/oct/3/ca100301us1.htm

1997 - In late 1997, Unocal gives up on pipeline negotiations. Khalilzad leaves
Unocal, and joins the Rand Corporation, a Skull and Bones connected think tank
with great influence in Washington. Khalilzad does an about face and turns on
the Taliban, now claiming they’re a blight on humanity that have to be forcibly
removed from power.

1998 - February 12, John Maresca (vice chairman of Unocal) makes a speech to
congress, which has become the outline for the current war and oil and gas
pipelines…

www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.htm

“…A second option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian
Ocean.

One obvious potential route south would be across Iran. However, this option is
foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The
only other possible route option is across Afghanistan, which has its own unique
challenges.

The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades. The
territory across which the pipeline would extend is controlled by the Taliban,
an Islamic movement that is not recognized as a government by most other
nations. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of our
proposed pipeline cannot begin until a recognized government is in place that
has the confidence of governments, lenders and our company.

In spite of this, a route through Afghanistan appears to be the best option with
the fewest technical obstacles. It is the shortest route to the sea and has
relatively favorable terrain for a pipeline. The route through Afghanistan is
the one that would bring Central Asian oil closest to Asian markets and thus
would be the cheapest in terms of transporting the oil.

Unocal envisions the creation of a Central Asian Oil Pipeline Consortium. The
pipeline would become an integral part of a regional oil pipeline system that
will utilize and gather oil from existing pipeline infrastructure in
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia.

The 1,040-mile-long oil pipeline would begin near the town of Chardzhou, in
northern Turkmenistan, and extend southeasterly through Afghanistan to an export
terminal that would be constructed on the Pakistan coast on the Arabian Sea.
Only about 440 miles of the pipeline would be in Afghanistan.

This 42-inch-diameter pipeline will have a shipping capacity of one million
barrels of oil per day. Estimated cost of the project -- which is similar in
scope to the Trans Alaska Pipeline -- is about US$2.5 billion.

There is considerable international and regional political interest in this
pipeline. Asian crude oil importers, particularly from Japan, are looking to
Central Asia and the Caspian as a new strategic source of supply to satisfy
their desire for resource diversity. The pipeline benefits Central Asian
countries because it would allow them to sell their oil in expanding and highly
prospective hard currency markets. The pipeline would benefit Afghanistan, which
would receive revenues from transport tariffs, and would promote stability and
encourage trade and economic development. Although Unocal has not negotiated
with any one group, and does not favor any group, we have had contacts with and
briefings for all of them. We know that the different factions in Afghanistan
understand the importance of the pipeline project for their country, and have
expressed their support of it.

A recent study for the World Bank states that the proposed pipeline from Central
Asia across Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea would provide more
favorable netbacks to oil producers through access to higher value markets than
those currently being accessed through the traditional Baltic and Black Sea
export routes.

This is evidenced by the netback values producers will receive as determined by
the World Bank study. For West Siberian crude, the netback value will increase
by nearly $2.00 per barrel by going south to Asia. For a producer in western
Kazakhstan, the netback value will increase by more than $1 per barrel by going
south to Asia as compared to west to the Mediterranean via the Black Sea…”

The announced placement and construction of ten new military bases in and around
Afghanistan in December 2002 coincides with the planned route for the newly
announced Turkmen-Afghan-Pakistan pipeline deal, which is the route Unocal
proposed in 1998.

END PART ONE

In Part One of this series, we looked at the events on 9/11 through recent
history. We looked at the events in the 1980’s and early 1990’s during which
American corporations were having very little success making headway into Asian
and Caspian energy markets.

In Part Two, we take a look at the Project For a New American Century, and
continue our “follow the money” timeline

1997 June 3 – Members of the Project For a New American Century (PNAC) sign a
statement of principles based on Militarism, and the use of force as a primary
tool of foreign policy.

“…We seem to have forgotten the essential elements of the Reagan
Administration's success: a military that is strong and ready to meet both
present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully
promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the
United States' global responsibilities…”

“…Such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be
fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the
successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in
the next.”

They also shape Bush’s policy of pre-emption in their statement:

“…The history of the 20th century should have taught us that it is important to
shape circumstances before crises emerge, and to meet threats before they become
dire. The history of this century should have taught us to embrace the cause of
American leadership…”

From this point on, PNAC begins the process of demanding regime change in Iraq
through their publications. Signing this letter are names most of us are
familiar with. Jeb Bush. Dan Quayle. Dick Cheney. Elliot Abrams. Steven
Forbes. Donald Rumsfeld. Paul Wolfowitz. Zalmay Khalilzad (former Rand and
Unocal employee).

The language used in this statement and in PNAC’s publications signals a clear
intent to return to the days of Manifest Destiny, which is the code word used in
our history books for the American genocide one million or more Philippinos
during the Spanish American War.

It’s also of note that modern day concentration camps, where torture,
mutilation, slave labor and atrocities on a mass scale took place, were first
used by Americans in the Philippines. The overseer of these camps was William
Howard Taft, who later became President. Taft also wrote the paper Dollar
Diplomacy, in which he describes a model for US foreign policy that is eerily
similar to Bush’s policies of today.

Taft’s camps became the model for Cecil Rhodes, Stalin, and Adolph Hitler.

We should not forget that it was American eugenicists from Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory who sent a team of scientists to Germany in 1933 to teach Hitler how
to legislate and run a forced sterilization program.

Nor should we forget the degree to which American financiers collaborated with
the Nazis throughout the war.

Union Banking Corporation, of which Prescott Bush was managing director, owned
Consolidated Silesian Steel in Poland. The Bush family used slave labor from
Auschwitz to make steel for the Nazis even after America entered the war. They
made at least US$3m, which they kept. They have never apologized for their use
of Jewish slaves, nor have they offered to place the money in a victim’s
compensation fund.

In fact, in a NY Times interview on 4/14/1990 George H W Bush insisted that we
“forgive the Nazi war criminals”.

Hitler could not have invaded Poland in 1939 without the help of the Rockefeller
family’s Ethyl Corporation, and others. Similarly, Saddam Hussein could never
have invaded Kuwait in 1991 had it not been for the military aid provided by the
Reagan and Bush administrations.

Even more shameful than the original shipments of Tetra Ethyl Lead provided by
Ethyl Corp to the Nazis were the actions taken by Will Farish of Ethyl
Corporation in 1943. In 1943, Farish provided Hitler with the patent to make
his own TEL, a fuel additive for gasoline that prevents engine knock, without
which the Nazi war machine would have stopped in its tracks. These actions by
Wall Street ensured that the war would continue, and that America would make
billions in loans and arms sales.

Those profits for American companies were guaranteed after the war by the
Marshall Plan. The Bush administration has already spoken about a “Marshall
Plan” for Iraq, in which they plan to spend tens of billions rebuilding the
infrastructure that they themselves conveniently destroyed. Naturally, the
rebuilding expenses will come from Iraqi oil.

Since the US invasion of Hawaii in 1893, there has been an ongoing pattern of
military intervention to secure agricultural, mineral, or energy interests
overseas, at the expense of the American taxpayer. PNAC unashamedly continues
this tradition of War for Profit.

1998 – The Carlyle Group purchases EG&G, a support company for government
installations that has a monopoly on live HAZMAT training for Government
personnel. Carlyle also purchases Sprayway, an aerosol company, and Sprayway’s
subsidiary Claire Manufacturing, which also makes aerosols. Carlyle also
purchases Medpointe, a medical database company, and Empi, who make a new
hi-tech vaccine delivery system.

1998 – The Delta Hess Alliance is formed, as a partnership between Delta Oil of
Saudi Arabia, and Amerada Hess Corporation of the USA, for Caspian Oil and Gas
exploration. One of the Directors and shareholders in Amerada Hess is former
New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean.

www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/services/services_company/deltahess.html

Four years later in 2002, Delta Hess is a major player in the Caspian, with
interests in a number of oil and gas projects…

www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1210-04.htm

www.bakupages.com/pubs/azernews/20010523_008_EN.asp

www.usacc.org/azerbaijan/oil-offshore.htm

Delta Oil, the Saudi oil company, is partly owned by Khalid Bin Mahfouz,
business partner of the Bin Ladin family and the Bush family. Mahfouz was
involved in the BCCI banking scandal, as reported in the Kerry Commission report
on BCCI.

The lead investigator into BCCI was Robert Mueller, who steered the
investigation clear of any money laundering investigation into any of BCCI’s
clients, despite ample evidence that would have incriminated a large number of
international players, including the Bush family. Mueller was also the lead
prosecutor in the Noriega case, and fixed it so that Noriega wasn’t allowed to
mention the CIA at his trial, or show any evidence that he worked for the CIA.

Khalid Bin Mahfouz, one of Amerada Hess’ partners in Delta Hess, and thus a part
ner of Thomas Kean, is also the brother in law of Osama Bin Laden, as testified
to by James Woolsey in 1998. One of Mahfouz’s younger sisters is married to
Osama Bin Laden…

www.rense.com/general33/chair.htm

1998– Bill Clinton comes under heavy pressure to invade Afghanistan.

May 1998 – The corrupt Indonesian government of US Puppet Suharto falls. The US
no longer has the leverage needed to force the Natuna deal through.

July 1998 – The Exxon Natuna deal for Spratly gas officially goes bust,
according to the US Deparment of Energy…

www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/eastasia.html

“…In July 1998, Indonesia's government announced that it would postpone
exploration at the giant 42 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) Natuna natural gas field
operated by Exxon (Mobil holds a 26% stake as well, with Indonesia's Pertamina
holding 24%). The project's chairman, Faisal Abdou, said that "if prospects are
good in the future, maybe the Natuna project could be restarted in 2007....''

1998 – Osama Bin Laden releases his Fatwah, a declaration of war on America and
Americans.

August 1998 – After the US Embassy bombings in Africa, Clinton, under heavy
pressure to invade Afghanistan from the Rand Corporation and other Republican
think tanks, chooses not to invade. Instead, he lobs missiles at Sudan and
Afghanistan, destroying the only pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan.

The result of Clinton’s refusal to invade Afghanistan is that the Enron Dhabol
project, which would have been profitable ONLY with a natural gas pipelines from
the Caspian, is now officially a dead duck. Enron engages in massive fraud to
cover their losses, which continues until December 2001.

After Clinton’s refusal to invade Afghanistan, impeachment pressure and scandal
after scandal begin to hit Clinton harder than ever before, as the GOP and
neo-conservatives try to have him forcibly removed from office to save Enron and
the oil companies.

May 2000 – CIA begins operating in Afghanistan, according to the Washington Post
’s Bob Woodward, the man who broke Watergate…

www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A47201-2001No
v17

“In addition to its paramilitary units, the CIA's Special Activities Division
has inserted into Afghanistan specialized CIA case officers from the agency's
Near East Division who know the local languages and had previous covert
relationships with the Northern Alliance going back years.

For the last 18 months, the CIA has been working with tribes and warlords in
southern Afghanistan, and the division's units have helped create a significant
new network in the region of the Taliban's greatest strength.”

2000 – Project for a New American Century publishes a report talking about the
need to secure Caspian and Iraqi oil, and about the need for a “Pearl Harbor
type event” to sway public opinion toward an aggressive US foreign policy.
Similar policies are put forth by the Rand Corporation the Brookings
Institution, and others. PNAC

January 2001 – According to French Journalists Brisard and Dasquie in their book
“Bin Ladin: La Verite Interdite”, FBI NY Counter-Terrorism Chief John O’Neill is
ordered by the White House to back off all investigations of Al-Qaeda and the
Bin Laden family while pipeline negotiations are underway with the Taliban.

January 2001 – The Brookings Institute publishes a paper on the need for
Homeland Defense.

February 2001 – The Carlyle Group’s subsidiary EG&G sets up a Homeland Defense
page on their website (now deleted), stressing the importance of Homeland
Defense against Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism.

June 2001 – Saudi Aramco signs preliminary agreements with Royal Dutch Shell and
Exxon for gas exploration in Saudi Arabia.

July 2001 - According to Agence France Presse, the White House broke off
pipeline negotiations with the Taliban in July 2001, after negotiators from the
Bush administration told the Taliban “accept our carpet of gold, or you will
receive a carpet of bombs.”.

This statement was also made to Brisard and Dasquie by John O’Neill some time
between July and August 2001, after O’Neill was once again ordered to ‘back off’
investigations into Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.

July 2001 – Phoenix FBI agent Kevin Williams writes a memo warning of al Qaeda
operatives in flight schools seeking flight training for terrorist purposes.
The warning is ignored.

www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/05/27/inv.moussaoui.phoenixmemo.fbi/?related

July 2001 – US attorney John Ashcroft stops flying on commercial airlines. He
also pulls 200 FBI agents off counter-terrorism duty and puts them onto drug and
child pornography cases. George W Bush appoints Robert Mueller as new FBI
director.

August 2001 – Robert Mueller, cover up artist of BCCI, BNL, and Noriega
prosecution fame, becomes head of the FBI.

August 2001 – Coleen Rowley of the Minnesota FBI office, warns her superiors of
the activities of Zacarias Moussaoui, the alleged '20th hijacker', and his
possible connections to Al-Qaeda. She requests a FISA warrant for surveillance
on Moussaoui.

Before passing the report on to the FISA court, Rowley’s superior removes all
references to Al-Qaeda from the report. The warrant is refused by the FISA
court… an unprecedented event.

www.globalresearch.ca/articles/LUM205A.html

September 11, 2001 – Almost 3000 people are killed in NYC, Washington, and
Pennsylvania. John O’Neill, who quit the FBI out of frustration with the Bush
administration, dies in the WTC, where he was working as head of security.
Original files into the Enron Dhabol investigation that were at the FBI office
in the WTC are destroyed. The event is immediately called a “Pearl Harbor”,
providing the pretext for war which was called for by the Project For a New
American Century in 2000.

September 2001 – US oil and gas interests continue negotiations with the Saudis
to renew deals with Saudi Aramco. The US companies want the Saudis to give them
rights to new unexploited gas reserves, while the Saudis don’t want to put new
mineral rights on the table.

September 28, 2001 – The UN lifts sanctions against the Sudan. US companies
begin negotiations with the Sudanese government for oil and gas rights.

October 2001 – John Ashcroft uses the FISA court’s rejection of the Minnesota
warrant request as evidence that the FBI needs more power in conducting
surveillance. This is the same warrant request based on Coleen Rowley’s report
that was tampered with by her superior, who removed all references to Al-Qaeda
before giving the report to the FISA court.

September-October 2001 – A number of news sources including BBC report that
Washington had told India that US troops would be in Afghanistan, “before the
snow falls”, as early as JULY 2001, two months before the so-called ‘surprise
attack’ on 9/11.

www.rense.com/general17/spp.htm

October 2001 – The US invades Afghanistan, on schedule, “before the snow falls.”

October 2001 – Zalmay Khalilzad, former employee of Unocal, is appointed Special
Envoy to Afghanistan by George W Bush.

October 2001 – The Anthrax attacks begin. Key news people and Democrats are
sent Anthrax in the mail, which we now know was Fort Detrick/Battelle Anthrax.
EG&G, a Carlyle Group Subsidiary, has access to Battelle and Fort Detrick
Anthrax by way of their service contract with Battelle, but to date there’s been
no investigation of EG&G by Robert Mueller and the FBI.

October 2001 – Under cover of the Anthrax attacks, EG&G receives a billion
dollar Hazmat Disposal contract from the White House. Meanwhile, EG&G employees
at Area 51 are on strike, where EG&G has a security contract, among other
contracts. EG&G has enjoyed this contract since Area 51 was opened. The guards
are on strike because they hadn’t received a raise since the 1970’s.

November 2001 – Somalia is accused of having terrorist training camps connected
to Osama Bin Laden.

December 2001 – Enron officially goes broke, after bankrupting employees 401k’s
while executives cashed out for $650 million.

December 2001 – The ‘War’ in Afghanistan is ‘over’, but Bin Laden has
mysteriously disappeared. Again. Just like in ’91 after the US got their
military presencse in Saudi Arabia, and just like in ’96 after the US got their
sanctions regime against the Sudan.

December 2001 – After the first vote in Afghanistan in decades, the Afghan
warlords choose Berhanudeen Rabbani as President of Afghanistan. This choice is
vetoed by the United States, who forces the congregation to vote again. Under
duress, and with controversy over whether or not a legitimate vote actually took
place, former Unocal employee Hamid Zarzai is approved by Bush as the new Afghan
president.

Both the US Ambassador to Afghanistan and the new Afghan President are now
former Unocal employees.

October 2001 – June 2002 – The Bush administration refuses to set up a proper
investigation of 9/11. Finally, under public pressure, they agree to set up a
commission.

January 2002 – Thomas Kean, Director of Amerada Hess, buys an additional 500
shares in Amerada Hess.

http://biz.yahoo.com/t/13/611.html

January 2002 – December 2002 – Delta Hess, subsidiary of Amerada Hess and Delta
Oil, finalizes several Caspian exploration deals, primarily in Azerbaijan.

www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1210-04.htm

www.bakupages.com/pubs/azernews/20010523_008_EN.asp

www.usacc.org/azerbaijan/oil-offshore.htm

June 2002 – G W Bush refuses to sign the Homeland Security Bill. He warns that
he will veto ANY Homeland Security Bill that doesn’t include strong anti-union
legislation giving the White House the ability to fire any government employees
under Homeland Security’s jurisdiction.

July 21, 2002 – The Carlyle Group sells EG&G, where they had union problems in
2001, for a tidy profit.

www.rense.com/general27/cars.htm

August 2002 - RAND Corporation analyst Laurent Murawiec, speaks at a Defense
Policy Board meeting, a think-tank for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Murawiec calls on the Bush Administration to launch an all-out war on the House
of Saud. He calls Saudi Arabia, "the kernel of evil, the prime mover, the most
dangerous opponent" of the United States in the Middle East.

September 2002 – G W Bush publishes the new National Security Strategy for the
United States of America. He adopts the aggressive pre-emptive stance suggested
by the PNAC in 2000.

September 2002 – After 15 months of go-nowhere negotiations with Exxon and Royal
Dutch Shell, and demonization by US think tanks, US media, and the White House,
Saudi Arabia reopens bidding on the Saudi Aramco project, and begins talking to
French companies and others.

September 2002 – Tony Blair releases a “sexed-up” dossier on Iraq, which his own
intelligence people have testified was flawed, and entirely the creation of
Downing Street. Blair’s people even lifted portions of a student’s paper and
presented it as “intelligence” material. Blair’s lie, that Saddam Hussein could
deploy long range WMD within 45 minutes, has now been proven to be a complete
and total lie. This lie was presented as fact to the American public by G W
Bush, as the primary cause for war: disarming Saddam Hussein’s WMD, which Bush
promised would be found in Iraq. To date, no evidence of WMD, or even WMD
programs, has been found.

October 2002 – After a year of negotiations that have resulted in no new oil and
gas deals for US companies in the Sudan, Bush signs new legislation threatening
new sanctions against the Sudan.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2348687.stm

November 2002 – Bush signs HR 5170, the Homeland Security Bill, with the
anti-union legislation intact. The bill provides protection from lawsuits to
all insurance, pharmaceutical, defense and security contractors, while taking
away the public’s ability to sue for injury or death.

November 15, 2002 – The Bush and Blair governments begin their bombing campaign
in Iraq, to “soften up” Iraqi for invasion, months before officially invading
Iraq. Bombing continues November 18, 21, 22, 23, 28.

December 2002 – The unilateral bombing of Iraq continues December 1, 2, 4, 10,
14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 26, 29, 30, 31.

www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm

December 2002 – The White House announces 10 new bases in Afghanistan, whose
locations coincide with the route proposed by Unocal in 1998 for a gas pipeline
from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan to Pakistan.

December 2002 – Thomas Kean, Director and shareholder of Amerada Hess, and
partner with Osama Bin Laden’s brother-in-law Khalid Bin Mahfouz in the Delta
Hess Caspian oil and gas consortium, is appointed by G W Bush to head the 9/11
investigation.

Shares in Amerada Hess move from a low of $49.68 in November 2002 to $54.66 as
of December 27, 2002, after Kean’s appointment to the 9/11 investigation.

Lockheed Martin has moved from $16.63 in March 2000 to $57.70 as of Dec 27,
2002. Lynn Cheney is a Director of Lockheed Martin.

Northrop Grumman moved from $43.56 in March 2000 to $97.92 as of Dec 27, 2002.

Raytheon moved from $17.75 in March 2000 to $30.47 as of Dec 27, 2002.

Wyeth, formerly American Home Products, moved off a 52 week low of $28.25 to
$37.00 as of Dec 27, 2002, thanks to G W Bush ordering 500,000 mandatory
Smallpox vaccine inoculations and millions of doses of Smallpox vaccine, and
thanks to Bush’s Homeland Security Bill taking away the public’s right to sue
Wyeth for any injuries or deaths caused by the vaccine.

Avon, who makes specialty fuel and water bladders, tires, submarine parts, and
HAZMAT suits for both domestic and military government use (tens of thousands of
them faulty), moved from $25.38 in March of 2000 to $53.61 as of Dec 27, 2002.
Avon makes those suits you saw during Desert Storm, which the Pentagon has
ordered by the hundreds of thousands since they started gearing up for Iraq.
Yes, this is the Avon lady we’re talking about, who also happens to produce
chemicals used in US Bioweapons programs and by US Special Forces snipers.

The fatcats continue to get rich, while the Dow tumbled from 11000 to 8303 and
the NASDAQ has crashed from 5000 to 1348 as of December 2002.

December 2002 – Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan announce to the world
the finalization of a deal for oil and gas pipelines from Turkmenistan to
Afghanistan to Pakistan.

December 2002 – Coleen Rowley’s superior at the FBI, who in August 2001 tampered
with Rowley’s warrant request report by removing all references to Al-Qaeda,
receives a ‘performance bonus’ equivalent to somewhere between 20% and 35% of
her salary.

December 2002 – Osama Bin Laden is still ‘whereabouts unknown’. He remains at
large, probably to help secure more US oil interests in Africa and the Middle
East for the US, the Bin Ladin family, and the Mahfouz family.

END PART TWO

Remember 9/11 Part 3

In Part 1 of this series, we looked briefly at how American financiers of the
early 20th century armed Hitler and the Nazis. We discussed Prescott Bush’s use
of Jewish slave labor through Consolidated Silesian Steel, of which he was
managing director. The Bush family made at least US$3m from the use of this
labor, making steel for the Nazis, which was used to kill Canadian and American
soldiers. And they have never apologized for it, or returned the money as
victim’s compensation.

In Part 2 of this series, we looked at William Howard Taft and his work in the
Phillipines. We compared Manifest Destiny of the McKinley/Taft era to the
Project For a New American Century’s Compassionate Conservatism. We looked at
how American corporations armed and financed the Nazis. We talked about how
Will Farish of the Ethyl Corporation gave Hitler the patent to make his own
Tetra-Ethyl Lead in 1943, which prolonged the war for two years, and made
billions for Wall Street.

Before we begin part 3 of the timeline, I want to end this series by revisiting
W H Taft and his Dollar Diplomacy.

“…In its foreign affairs the United States should present to the world a united
front. The intellectual, financial, and industrial interests of the country and
the publicist, the wage earner, the farmer, and citizen of whatever occupation
must cooperate in a spirit of high patriotism to promote that national
solidarity which is indispensable to national efficiency and to the attainment
of national ideals…”

Note that Patriotism is in there. Not only patriotism: HIGH patriotism, with a
slew of repetition on the word National. High spirit, national efficiency, and
national ideals… is this not NATIONALISM?

Look closer. A United Front. Solidarity of intellectuals, finance, industry,
the media, wage earners, farmers, and citizens, where the State, and not the
individual, is supreme… is this not SOCIALISM?

What do you get when you put Nationalism and Socialism together?

Keep in mind, these words were written by W H Taft a full twenty years before
Hitler wrote Mein Kampf. The idea of a global economic policy based on a multi
tiered caste system or labor which makes use of a prison industry and slave
labor at the bottom tier did not originate with Hitler. The idea of a strong
nationalist mind set where patriotism is synonymous with nationalism also
originated in America, decades before Nazism was given a name.

A rose by any other name doth smell just as putrid. Call it what you want.
Manifest Destiny. National Socialism. Neo-Conservatism. Compassionate
Conservatism. Same shit, different assholes.

The reason this is important is because there are close family ties between the
Bush family and the Tafts, which continue to this day. G W Bush has made great
effort to appoint his fellow frat boys to positions of power and influence,
where they can protect him from exposure and prosecution. A Taft at the US
State Department is making no great effort on behalf of the former Burmese
slaves of the Myanmar government, who are attempting to seek restitution in
American courts for their enslavement, which they claim enriched US Oil
corporation Unocal in Myanmar.

US Attorney General John Ashcroft, who ran for governor in the 1980’s on the Jim
Crow platform that racial integration and racial desegregation was an “affront
to God” and an “outrage to human decency”, has even gone so far as to file an
amicus brief on behalf of Unocal corporation, asking the courts to dismiss the
case.

William Donaldson, a Yale alumni, is now head of the SEC. Donaldson is also a
brother to G H W Bush and G W Bush in the Yale Fraternal Order of the Skull and
Bones. Members of this fraternity include the following names: Kellogg, Brown,
Root, Ingersoll, Rand, Ames, Taft, Bush, Cheney, Harriman, Rockefeller, Stewart.

Any of those names ring a bell?

The last name, Stewart, belongs to descendants of Lyman Stewart, Christian
Fundamentalist founder and former president of Union Oil, which later became
Unocal.

Rand Corporation was the primary think tank used by Rumsfeld, Perle et al, to
make the case for war in Iraq. Rand has a vested interest in war because
Ingersoll Rand is a major US defense contractor. The Harrimans were the Bush’s
business partners in UBC and Considated Silesian Steel, where Jewish slave labor
was used to make steel for the Nazis.

Kellogg Brown and Root, via Halliburton, has been the primary beneficiary of
contracts handed out by G W Bush in Iraq. The Anthrax attacks conducted in
October 2001 were done with the Ames strain of Anthrax, to which Bush friendly
company EG&G had access.

This is not some shadow conspiracy, nor is it a secret. This is an openly
operating arms and drugs cartel which has made profit from human misery since
the Skull and Bones was founded in 1832. The Fraternity was founded with money
from the Russell Trust, established by the Russell Trading Company, whose chief
sources of revenue were opium and slavery.

Thus, it should come as no surprise that the Bush administration condones the
use of colored slaves in Myanmar. It should come as no surprise that opium
production in Afghanistan has increased by 4000% since Bush and Karzai have
taken over. Nor should it come as any surprise that the war profiteering by the
Bush family’s Skull and Bones cronies is happening so openly, and so
shamelessly… they are simply following the family values of the White Anglo
Saxon Protestant elite in the Skull and Bones to which they belong.

May 17, 2001 – Arnold Schwarzenegger meets with Enron’s Ken Lay, According to
internal Enron memos. Grag Palast and others contend the meeting was about how
to sabotage the Davis-Bustamante plan to win back the $9 billion dollars in
illegal profits earned by power moguls.

www.consumerwatchdog.org/utilities/pr/pr003735.php3#letter

www.thesandiegochannel.com/politics/2554124/detail.html

www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=286&row=0

January 2003 – US Bombs Iraq January 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 13, 17, 19, 25, 26,
31. But the US is “not at war” with Iraq.

www.ccmep.org/usbombingwatch/2003.htm

January 2003 – With support for war on Iraq waning, Bush announces that the war
will cost no more than US$60 billion, down from the original estimate of US$200
billion which they originally tried to sell to the public.

January 2003 – Tony Blair publishes a 55-page dossier entitled “Iraq’s Weapons
of Mass Destruction” which contains no proof whatsoever of weapons or weapons
programs. The only substance they were able to find was Ricin, which is used to
treat the kind of cancers found in Iraq since the American use of Depleted
Uranium in Iraq in 1991. Stories are planted in various newspapers about deadly
plots to use Ricin on Western civilian populations, in a weak attempt to
corroborate Mr. Blair’s so-called evidence.

January 22, 2002 – G W Bush, attempting to play the Nationalism card to the
fullest extent, makes a speech in front of a row of boxes stamped “MADE IN THE U
SA”. Except the boxes and products were, in fact, made in China and Taiwan.

www.rense.com/general34/behind.htm

January 28, 2003 – GW Bush in his State of the Union Address:

“Our first goal is clear: We must have an economy that grows fast enough to
employ every man and woman who seeks a job.

After recession, terrorist attacks, corporate scandals, and stock market
declines, our economy is recovering yet it is not growing fast enough, or
strongly enough. With unemployment rising, our Nation needs more small
businesses to open, more companies to invest and expand, more employers to put
up the sign that says, Help Wanted.”

Bush also makes the claim that Saddam had attempted to seek uranium from Nigeria
for purpose of creating an atomic bomb.

January 31, 2003 – After insisting Americans do more hiring to help the economy,
GW Bush’s Republican Party hires phone solicitors in New Delhi rather than hire
and pay American workers.

www.business-standard.com/archives/2003/jan/50310103.016.asp

Feburary 5, 2003 – Colin Powell goes to the UN, attempting to pass off pictures
of a dirt patch and some balloon making trucks as weapons of mass destruction.
Picasso’s Guernica is covered up for Mr. Powell’s appearance so as not to
embarrass an American fascist with remembrances of fascism.

February 2003 – The US Bombs Iraq on February 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 22,
23, 25, 26, 27, and 28.

March 2003 – The US bombs Iraq March 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14.

March 2003 – Ahmed Chalabi, a member of the deposed Iraqi elite that once worked
for European Oil Interests, along with his contingent of men are airlifted into
Iraq by the Pentagon. Chalabi, despite his criminal record, is favored by the
Pentagon as the next ruler of Iraq.

March 2, 2003 – With a UN Vote on Iraq pending, the US is caught bugging the
phones and emails of key Security Council members.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html

March 2003 – Bill Moyers of PBS’s NOW runs a story on the unconstitutional, pork
barrel-ridden Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act. Within days, Republican
congressmen demand that the GAO review funding for the Corporation of Public
Broadcasting.

March 8, 2003 – Kellogg Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton of which
Dick Cheney was CEO, receives a US$1.4 billion dollar no-bid contract for oil
field maintenance and repair, at a time when Dick Cheney has received US$368,000
in deferred salaries from Halliburton.

www.modbee.com/local/story/7589897p-8498586c.html

www.villagevoice.com/issues/0342/trilling.php

March 19, 2003 – Unable to receive international support for an illegal war and
occupation of Iraq, the US and UK act unilaterally and begin their invasion of
foreign soil for purposes of theft of Iraqi oil. ONLY the Iraqi Oil ministry
and oil fields are guarded by US troops. G W Bush promises to bring Saddam
Hussein to justice, and to dismantle Saddam’s WMD.

March 20-30, 2003 – The “made for TV” war shown on American news channels shows
images of Statues of Saddam being torn down, cheering in the streets, and
American flags being erected. The vast majority of these events were staged by
Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress, as evidenced from the same faces
turning up over and over in photos and video from the US media. Saddam Hussein
has vanished, as has the entire Iraqi army, and the creation of an image of an
“Independent” Ahmed Chalabi begins to take shape.

April 2003 – Bush friendly contractor Dyncorp receives a no-bid US$22 million
contract from the Bush administration to re-establish police, justice and prison
functions in post-conflict Iraq.

www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=415933

May 8 2003 – John Ashcroft files an Amicus Brief on behalf of Unocal
corporation, asking the court the throw out the case John Doe I, et al. v.
Unocal Corporation, et al in order to protect Unocal and the Myanmar government
from a lawsuit filed by Burmese citizens who allege they were forced into slave
labor by the Burmese military, acting on behalf of Unocal.

May 15, 2003 – So-called US Civilian (see dictionary under War Profiteer)
employees of Bush friendly Vinnell Corporation are bombed in Saudi Arabia, for
their participation in the propagation of a non-democratic monarchy. Vinnell,
once owned by the Carlyle Group, trains Saudi security personnel.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=a76GEDNOx3Bs

May 22, 2003 – G W Bush issues Executive Order 13303, making Iraqi Oil the sole
providence of US Corporations and Oil interests.

www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030522-15.html

“I hereby order:

Section 1. Unless licensed or otherwise authorized pursuant to this order, any
attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial
process is prohibited, and shall be deemed null and void, with respect to the
following:
(a) the Development Fund for Iraq, and
(b) all Iraqi petroleum and petroleum products, and interests therein, and
proceeds, obligations, or any financial instruments of any nature whatsoever
arising from or related to the sale or marketing thereof, and interests therein,
in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest, that are in
the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or
hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons.”

July 2003 – When questioned about the fact that not a single WMD has been found
in Iraq, Bush shifts focus, and insists that evidence of weapons “programs” will
be found.

July 9, 2003 – The Bush administration finally admits that Bush’s statement in
January, that Saddam was seeking Uranium from Africa, was an outright lie. BBC
reports that the Bush administration knew 10 months prior to making the claim
that the information was false, but used it anyway.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3056626.stm

July 2003 – G W Bush’s budget for 2004 cuts US$6 billion from his Campaign 2000
centerpiece education program, “Leave No Child Behind”, for the 2nd year in a
row.

August 2003 – Internet Blogger Riverbend reports that a cousin who has worked on
Iraqi bridge reconstruction projects since 1991 gave an estimate of US$300,000
to repair the New Diyala Bridge. Instead, the New Diyala Bridge contract was
given to another US firm, at an estimated cost of US$50 MILLION.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2003_08_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#10620820
1838841818

September 2003 – G W Bush announces that an additional US$87 billion is required
for Iraqi reconstruction. Except only 22% of that money is to actually be spent
on reconstruction, with the remainder going to the Pentagon and Bush friendly
companies.

www.nytimes.com/2003/09/09/politics/09COST.html?ex=1063684800&en=32a24b5ef326bde
f&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

It is also discovered that this US$87 billion underfunds the actual amount
estimated for reconstruction by US$55 billion. In otherwords, Bush is lying to
the public once again, and intends to steal far more money in the future.

www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-iraqmoney9sep09,1,4249907.story?coll
=la-home-headlines

September 3, 2003 – A so-called US Civilian (see dictionary under War Profiteer)
employee from Kellogg Brown and Root is killed in Iraq.

www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/6684511.htm

September 15, 2003 – Businessweek reports that since Cheney took office, Kellogg
Brown and Root has received no less than US$8.2 BILLION in contracts for Iraq
and Afghanistan, much of it in no-bid contracts. Businessweek also reports that
despite these contracts, KBR plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy rather than
pay what it owes to victims in its Asbestos liability lawsuit.

www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_37/b3849012.htm

October 2, 2003 – David Kay’s Interim Report on Iraqi WMD is delivered as Oral
Testimony, confirming that absolutely no evidence has been found of weapons, or
even weapons programs, in Iraq. Other than to report on possible interest or
intent, Kay’s report provides no evidence that any programs were ongoing after
1998, when Iraq claims all its WMD were destroyed.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2089471/

www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/kay.report/

October 2, 2003 – Republican Congressman Ron Paul reports that the Bush
administration plans to spend US$10 million on “Prison building consultants” and
US$400 million building two prisons in Iraq. They also plan to spend US$900
million of the reconstruction money importing petroleum products to Iraq, which
has the world’s 2nd largest reserve of petroleum products, and yet they only
plan to spend US$120 million on housing and education. The creation of a US
Prison Industrial Complex in Iraq has begun.

www.gonzalesinquirer.com/articles/2003/10/02/news/opinion/editorial04.txt

October 5, 2003 – The Pentagon awards 4 new contracts for US$290 million for
restoring the Iraqi power grid… a job which Bechtel was already supposed to have
completed.

www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/international/middleeast/05CONT.html?ex=1066389456&ei
=1&en=26bd11ca8a6a8d72

October 7, 2003 – Arnold Schwarzenegger wins the California gubernatorial
recall.

October 10, 2003 – Christian Science Monitor reports that Bechtel received a
US$680 million Iraqi rebuilding contract in a “secret bidding process”, and that
the firms involved in the bidding contributed US$2.4 million to Republican
election campaigns.

www.csmonitor.com/2003/1010/p02s01-usfp.html

October 10, 2003 – KGO Radio San Francisco reports on Arnold Schwarzenegger’s
intent to settle the lawsuits against Enron without attempting to collect the
US$9 billion that Enron and other energy companies stole from the state of
California through their energy price manipulation.

www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=286&row=0

October 13, 2003 – More than 100 companies, including ExxonMobil and Delta
Airlines, meet in London at a conference organized by the US-Iraq Business
Alliance, an entity with close ties to the Pentagon. The organization was
created in JUNE 2002, at a time when Bush claimed not to have made up his mind
on Iraq.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1062567,00.html

October 15, 2003 – Greg Thielman, former aide to Colin Powell and Mr. Powell’s
Intelligence Chief on WMD; and UN Inspector Steve Alinson, admit to CBS’ 60
Minutes II that Colin Powell lied during his speech to the UN, and that “Iraq
didn’t pose an imminent threat to anyone – not even its own neighbors.”

www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/14/60II/main577975.shtml

Thielman asserts that Powell’s claim that aluminum tubes were for uranium
enrichment were false. He claims that the assertion that Saddam had additional
scuds was also false. He claims that the trucks Powell claimed were biolabs
were in fact fire trucks. In otherwords, every single claim made by Powell at
the UN in February was a lie, according to Powell’s own Chief WMD expert.

October 16, 2003 – Washington Post reports that the Bush administration has paid
US$300 million to Kellogg Brown and Root to import 190 million gallons of
gasoline into Iraq as of Sept 18… a region of the world where gasoline can be
bought for a dime a gallon.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32446-2003Oct15.html

October 15, 2003 –Three Americans riding in a vehicle with US Consul plates are
killed in Gaza strip. Except they’re not US Diplomats or civilians, according
to Washington Post. All three worked for Dyncorp, a Bush friendly company which
is training Iraqi police for the US Occupation and providing security for former
Unocal employee Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan. Dyncorp has also been accused by
NGO’s and former Dyncorp employees of running a child sex slavery ring in
Bosnia.

“"None of the girls," continues Johnston, "were from Bosnia. They were from
Russia, Romania and other places, and they were imported in by DynCorp and the
Serbian mafia. These guys would say 'I gotta go to Serbia this weekend to pick
up three girls.' They talk about it and brag about how much they pay for them —
usually between $600 and $800. In fact, there was this one guy who had to be 60
years old who had a girl who couldn't have been 14. DynCorp leadership was 100
percent in bed with the mafia over there.”

www.insightmag.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=163052

www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32125-2003Oct15?language=printer

When one observes this timeline from an overhead perspective, it becomes obvious
that something is rotten in Denmark… US corporations and intelligence agencies
have been playing a dirty game, with co-operation at times from both the
Democratic and Republican parties.

And the so-called American “civilians” (see dictionary under war profiteers)
being killed in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Gaza are all legitimate targets of war,
as they’re parts of the control mechanism fueling monarchies in the Middle East,
and the illegal occupation of Iraq.

No Weapons of Mass Destruction, or even weapons programs, have been found in
Iraq. Bush’s promises to apprehend Bin Laden, Mullah Omar, and Saddam Hussein
have been all lip and no action. Not one of these men has been caught.

Everywhere Osama Bin Laden has gone since 1979, US corporate interests have been
served shortly thereafter. Afghanistan was denied to the Soviets, and the
Afghan Campaign was partly responsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The US has the bases it wanted in Saudi Arabia, Sudan is once again under threat
of sanctions, Afghanistan should now be renamed Pipeline-istan, and Bin Laden is
off somewhere, probably setting up a new ‘terror camp’ that will conveniently
lead to US retaliation against a country where US mineral rights are being
stymied. Naturally, US mineral rights will be gained from this ongoing war on
‘terror’, but not before Bin Laden ‘escapes’ once again, to Boogeyman from the
shadows as needed.

For someone ‘at war’ with the United States, Bin Laden’s actions have served
Oil, Gas, Energy and Defense interests, which coincide with Bin Ladin, Bush, and
Mahfouz family interests, with every move he’s made. He’s served those
interests very, very well.

And he’s still out there. To guess where he’s going to turn up next, we need
only observe which countries the US wants to exploit, but has been unable to
exploit for one reason or another. By following the loose ends from the above
timeline, we come up with…

Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, or countries surrounding the Spratly Islands.

Watch for Saudi Arabia to fall under the control of a Bin Ladin, Mahfouz,
Al-Waleed coalition after the death of King Fahd. There have been several
mysterious deaths of Saudi Princes in the last few months. More are sure to
follow.

Add Sierra Leone and the Congo to the list, because the US wants control of the
diamonds, which are crucial to satellite, space, physics, and telecommunications
industries… the tools of fourth generation warfare.

In the last several months, there have been ‘terror’ related stories implicating
Somalia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Kenya and Djibouti
in terrorism. Watch for this to continue, until a US military presence is
‘required’ in the region.

Hollywood has also been making big budget war movies about Africa: Black Hawk
Down, Tears of the Sun, and others. In the 1980’s, it was Soviets and Latin
Narco Traffickers. In the 1990’s, it was Middle Eastern Terrorists. These films
are a sure sign that the Pentagon is preparing to invade Africa, because the
people who make these films rely heavily on the Pentagon for support. The
Pentagon chooses to support the scripts that serve its purpose.

Ditto for the Spratlys. Watch for the rhetoric against Malaysia and Indonesia
to be stepped up as we approach the 2004 elections. This is necessary for the
US, because since the 1994 deal Exxon deal was signed, Indonesia has changed to
an Indonesian friendly, US unfriendly government. The US needs the Indonesian
Army back in control, and democracy out.

Also, watch for the US to do everything in its power to prevent re-unification
of the Korean peninsula. They will instigate a war before they allow North and
South Korea to re-unite, which would mean a German type re-unification, a free
market Korea with its own nuclear arsenal, and another nuclear power that may
lay claim to the Spratlys. The US will do everything it can to prevent this
re-unification until after they’ve secured oil and gas rights in the Spratly
Islands.

But we should have a little Sympathy for the Devil. He’s on his last legs, and
he knows it. No matter how much he lashes out, the oil and gas is going to
start running out in ten years. The nature of his game isn’t so puzzling, once
you understand the mentality of the Beast… all he cares about is prolonging his
own survival at the top of the food chain, at any cost.

In the name of National Security, of course.

When Adolph Hitler invaded Poland, the first thing he did was take control of
its natural resources, because he needed a resource base to fuel his war of
expansion. The next thing he did was to partner the Nazi government with IG
Farben, a German conglomerate, to create a prison industry in Poland from which
to draw cheap labor for the Nazi military industrial complex.

When one reads the papers being published by the Project For a New American
Century, it becomes clear that these people have no intention of stopping with
Iraq. They intend to divide and conquer, and reshape the entire world in their
image. Iraq is simply a resource base with which to fight a larger war. And
the creation of the prison industrial complex in Iraq, from which American
companies will profit, is already underway.

But the shelf life of the American empire will be measurable in years, not
decades or centuries. All this bluster and murder is going to result in nothing
more than a few extra years of shelf life, half a generation at best, for the
American Empire. Their time is done, and ultimately, they know this - which is
why they’ve been lashing out with such viciousness since the latter part of the
20th century. They’re simply stalling for time, and trying to avoid payback at
all costs.

This planet is going to change rapidly, as the balance of economic power tilts
toward actual balance, as opposed to Pax Americana, American Hegemony, or
whatever you want to call this Empire that denies it’s an Empire.

It was Benito Mussolini, Il Duce himself, who said that, “fascism should rightly
be called corporatism, as it’s the merger of state and corporate power”

Is that not precisely what we have today? Billions for Kenneth Lay, and nothing
for 401k’s? A White House so thoroughly merged with Wall Street that it’s
impossible to tell where the head ends and the asshole begins? An electoral
process controlled by corporate lobbyists and corporate campaign finance?

The American people have been FOCCED. The Finance, Oil, Chemical, Credit,
Energy and Defense industries on Wall Street have hijacked the electoral
process, and are turning the Republic into a fascist dictatorship.

A century of fascist oil wars is coming to an end. Things will get worse before
they get better, but they WILL get better. We just have to do everything in our
power to minimize the damage Bush and his Axis-of-Asshole pals can do over the
next ten years.

That means KEEPING THEM OUT OF POWER IN 2004. Nothing else matters at this
point. Tackling environmental, social, economic, or foreign policy issues
piecemeal is useless: in doing this we’re treating symptoms, not cutting out the
cancer.

Every citizen of this world, every political or NGO group concerned with saving
this planet, and every American of conscience should be working together to put
an end to the Bush administration, above all other concerns.

Their crimes must be exposed, they must be held accountable, and those who pull
their strings, to whit the FOCCED brigade, must never again be allowed to
dictate US Foreign policy as they’ve done since the Spanish American war.

We must put an end to fascism and militarism once and for all, by cutting it out
at its source: the Bush administration and their neo-conservative friends on
Wall Street.

To do otherwise is suicide.

JAIL TO THE THIEF!