Part 1 - Rogue Bush Backers prepare Super 9/11 False Flag Terror Attacks
Rock_nj: I'm just putting this out there as food for thought. I don't endorse everything said in this essay.
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By Webster Griffin Tarpley
Toronto, May 30 – Intelligence patterns monitored over the US Memorial
Day weekend now point conclusively to an imminent new round of ABC
(atomic-bacteriological-chemical) terror attacks in the United States,
Great Britain, Canada, and possibly other nations. These attacks could
include nuclear detonations, radiological dirty bombs, poison gas and
other chemical weapons, or biological agents, to be unleashed in such
urban settings as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC,
Vancouver BC, or London.
The goal of these operations would be to
produce a worldwide shock several orders of magnitude greater than the
original 9-11, with a view to stopping the collapse of the Bush
administration, the Wall Street-centered financial structures, and the
US-UK strategic position generally. The attacks would be attributed by
US/UK intelligence to controlled patsy terrorist groups who would be
linked by the media to countries like Iran, Syria, Cuba, or North
Korea.
The organizers of the attacks would in reality be substantially
the same secret command cell in the United States which set up the 9-11
events and its associated networks, which have been able to continue in
operation because of the abject failure of all 9-11 investigations to
date to identify them....
These forces are now in a desperate flight forward to escape from their current increasingly grim position.
Their goal is now to establish a neocon fascist dictatorship in the United
States, complete with martial law, special tribunals, press and media
censorship, and the full pervasive apparatus of the modern police state.
The chatter in Washington points to state-sponsored terrorism on a
grand scale, with the desperados of the neocon faction calling the shots. The
looming event will be an "own goal" of the Am ericans.
In short, a coup d'etat is being prepared in the United States – not a
coup against the existing government, but rather for the purpose of
disciplining and dragooning the entire political process for escalated
foreign aggression, with the homeland secured by emergency rule. It
goes without saying that those associated with such a coup are felons,
war criminals, and traitors to their country.
The leading edge of the propaganda campaign designed to establish the
credibility of the coming ABC (atomic, bacteriological, chemical)
terror wave is the May 26 press conference of Attorney General Ashcroft
and FBI Director Robert Mueller to announce the coming summer "perfect
storm" of terrorism. According to advance wire service reports, "U.S.
officials have obtained new intelligence deemed highly credible
indicating al-Qaeda or other terrorists are in the United States and
preparing to launch a major attack this summer….(AP, 25 May 2004)
The following is a partial grid of evidence backing up this thesis.
This overview cannot be exhaustive, but is sufficiently comprehensive to
establish that a new pattern does indeed exist.
Official Statements
Since the beginning of April, there has been a qualitative escalation in
the urgency and vehemence of the terror demagogy of the Bush
administration. Bush and especially Cheney have made terror warning
their stock in trade since September 11, 2001, but early April 2004
stands out as a watershed, for reasons which are discussed below.
A dramatic turning point on the way to the current emergency came on
April 21, when Bush delivered two speeches which represented a palpable
escalation of the tone of his usual demagogy of terrorism and fear. In
the afternoon, he assured the Newspaper Association of America,
composed of newspaper editors, that Iran "will be dealt with" if they
pursue a nuclear development program. Bush went on to characterize the
United States as "a battlefield in the war on terror."
He was at pains to build up the stature of Al Qaeda, whose members he emphatically
characterized as "smart…tough…and sophisticated." Because the terrorist
are so formidable, Bush said that the United States "is a hard country
to defend. Our intelligence is good. It's just never perfect, is the
problem. We are disrupting some cells here in America. We're chasing
people down. But it is – we've got a big country."
Later, Bush spoke to the same themes at a closed-door gathering at the
White House. "...On Tuesday evening, Bush told Republican congressional
leaders during a meeting at the White House that it was all but
certain that terrorists would attempt a major attack on the United
States before the election, according to a congressional aide. The
leaders were struck by Bush's definitiveness and gravity, the aide
said... (Washington Post, 4/22/04)"
Vice President Cheney has been predicting imminent terrorist attacks on
the US in many of his speeches since no later than May 20, 2002. On
that Sunday, Cheney went on Fox News Sunday to announce that "In my
opinion, the prospects of a future attack against the United States are
almost certain." For Cheney, the question of a new terrorist assault on
the US is "not a matter of if, but when."
Several weeks later, an account published under the title "White House
Nightmare Scenario" in US News and World Report reflected the thinking
of top Bush officials about the relation between terrorism and the
coming US presidential elections. According to this article, 'White
House officials say they've got a "working premise" about terrorism and
the presidential election: It's going to happen. "We assume," says a
top administration official, "an attack will happen leading up to the
election." And, he added, "it will happen here." There are two
worst-case scenarios, the official says. The first posits an attack on
Washington, possibly the Capitol, which was believed to be the target
of the 9/11 jet that crashed in Pennsylvania. Theory 2: smaller but
more frequent attacks in Washington and other major cities leading up
to the election. To prepare, the administration has been holding secret
antiterrorism drills to make sure top officials know what to do. "There
was a sense," says one official involved in the drills, "of mass
confusion on 9/11. Now we have a sense of order." Unclear is the
political impact, though most Bushies think the nation would rally
around the president. "I can tell you one thing," adds the official
sternly, "we won't be like Spain," which tossed its government days
after the Madrid train bombings. (US News and World Report, 17 May
2004)
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told Fox News on Sunday,
April 19, that the government is bracing for possible terrorist attacks
before November's Presidential election. Referencing last month's
Madrid bombings, she said the opportunity for terrorists to influence
the election may "be too good to pass up for them," and that "the
terrorists might have learned, we hope, the wrong lesson from Spain."
Condoleezza Rice's remarks came in the context of a lengthy US tour by
Jose Maria Aznar, the defeated Spanish Prime Minister. Aznar was ousted
in Spain's March 13 elections, partly because 90% of Spaniards rejected
Aznar's subservience to Bush in joining the US invasion coalition in
Iraq, and partly because Spanish voters were convinced that Aznar was
lying about the March 11 terrorist attacks on commuter trains in the
Madrid region. Aznar is counted as a neocon, but his party contains the
remnants of Francisco Franco's falangist-fascist apparatus. Aznar is
associated with thesis that the March 11 terrorist attacks decided the
Spanish elections in favor of the PSOE (socialist) challenger,
Zapatero. Aznar also claims that his own defeat was a victory for
terrorism, since the newly elected Zapatero, acting in conformity with
the will of the Spanish people, withdrew the Spanish troop contingent
from Iraq as soon as he had taken office. The Spanish elections were
viewed with hysteria by Washington elites, first because of the Spanish
quitting coalition, but also because the terrorist attacks had failed
to produce the expected effects. The Washington consensus had
previously been that terrorism would infallibly stampede the voters of
any country into voting for the incumbent, but this time it was the
anti-Bush challenger who was the beneficiary. Aznar is known to have
attempted to call off the Spanish vote and to continue to ruling by
decree, but his efforts were blocked. Aznar's briefing would seem to
have included the notion that if there is going to be pre-election
terrorism, it needs to be of sufficient magnitude to provide a pretext
for calling off all scheduled elections.
On May 20, 2004 wires various wires reported that in the U.S. between
May 16/17 and 19, maneuvers have been conducted by Homeland Security
Apparatus, simulating terrorist attacks. On May 19, Yahoo reported a
statement made by Lt. Gen. (ret) Patrick Hughes, who told AP in an
interview, that while America has become better at predicting and
safeguarding itself against attacks since Sept. 11, 2001, he fears that
new terrorists "are being made every single day on the streets of the
Middle East."
Based on captured material, interviews, and other sources
of information, Hughes said he believes al Qaeda wants to strike with
something other than a conventional explosive device. It is reported
that he worries about chemical and biological attacks, including a
dirty bomb.
In mid-April, Aznar began issuing warnings of election-related
terrorism. These warning were directed most immediately to Tony Blair
and George Bush. Aznar said, "I told George Bush, and Tony Blair and
other political leaders to be extremely careful before elections ...
and to be very vigilant." But there are also major election campaigns
going on in Canada (at the federal level) and in the 25 member states
of the European Union for the European Parliament. (Once Noticias,
Once-TV, 4/19/04. Mexico)
During his visit to California, Aznar referred more than once about a
terrorist attack taking place in the United States in June, 2004, which
would lead to a Federal Emergency Management Agency takeover of the
U.S. (International Herald Tribune, May 15, 16, 17, Los Angeles Times,
May 15)
They will do everything possible to make the U.S.
fail." He furthermore said in Los Angeles that he thought that the
government of Zapatero sent an "inappropriate message to the terrorists
by withdrawing the troops." Aznar on Tuesday had a 40-minute meeting
with President Bush in the White House. Present at the meeting were:
Vice President Dick Cheney; Condi Rice; Colin Powell; and White House
Chief of Staff Andrew Card. The White House press spokesman identified
the meeting as "private" -- "a meeting with a good friend of the
President."
An important sidelight on these statements by Aznar is the revelation
that the group accused of carrying out the Madrid bombings was
thoroughly penetrated by the Spanish police, who had at least
informants within that group, according to El Mundo of May 6, 2004. El
Mundo reported that among the people arrested for the Madrid bombing,
were two police informants.
This paper published an exclusive report given by Rafa Zhueri, who was among those arrested after the March 11 terror bombings. Zhueri revealed that he worked for years as police informant for a part of the Spanish Civil Guard (UCO Undidad Central
Operativa). The article is headlined "I informed the Civil Guard that
an Asturian offered me dynamite."
The Kean-Hamilton Commission of 9-11 has not produced any serious
insights into those events, but it has served as a propaganda soapbox
for figures such as the former Navy Secretary and establishment
operative John Lehman. In the recent New York sessions of the
commission, Lehman stressed repeatedly that the overwhelming consensus
among US officials is that new terror attacks are coming soon This
view was shared by former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
The former leader of the US Central Command, Gen. Tommy Franks, told
the magazine Cigar Afficionado earlier this year that he considered it
possible that the US would be under emergency rule in the coming months.
(Photo: FEMA CIO Barry West)
Exercises and Incidents
On May 11-12, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ran a
large-scale exercise involving more than 2,500 federal employees, to
determine how the federal government could continue operating in the
face of a massive terrorist attack or other catastrophe. The government
employees went to more than 100 secret sites, as part of a training
exercise to prepare them to operate under catastrophic conditions. The
exercise, called "Forward Challenge '04," was in preparation for over a
year, according to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, who spoke to
reporters from an undisclosed location. (Washington Post, May 14)
There is also an unprecedented pattern of local and regional
preparations for emergency rule and continuity of government
operations. For example, Florida television station Wftv.com reports
May 19th under the title "Massive Mock Terror Drill Will Span Three
Local Counties", that Daytona International Speedway (Florida) will be
the second stage of a three-part mock terror drill across Central
Florida. This is to be "one of the largest and longest mock terror
drills ever conducted in Central Florida since 9/11." The wire says
that "dozens of emergency agencies will take part from all across
Central Florida, with more than 1000 responders and actors who will
play victims of a simulated attack." The newswire nynewsdayd.com, under
the title "City stages mock explosion in subway to test emergency
protocols", was reporting May 16th that Lower Manhattan was swamped
with 1,000 police, firefighters, and land emergency personnel
responding to a simulated bombing involving scores of casualties.
"The terror response drill, part of a joint city-federal plan to beef up
response efforts, it is reported, came just two days before the 9/11
commission was scheduled to be in New York to grill local officials
about Gotham's emergency preparedness...." The drill "was the first
large scale test of a new protocol aimed at clarifying the roles of
firefighters and cops at disaster scenes." Yahoo furthermore reports on
May 17th that in Idaho one of the largest disaster drills was staged
over three days in southwest Idaho, conducted by the department of
Homeland Security. The State of Georgia declared "state of emergency",
because of a summit of the group of eight industrialized nations, which
begins June 8.
There is also an intensive pattern of incidents pointing in the
direction of a terrorist attack on rail systems, on the Madrid model.
This pattern includes suspicious activity in the Northeast rail
corridor between Washington and Boston. A Philadelphia television
station reported the discovery of a wireless transmitter carefully
hidden in the gravel along the SEPTA (Southeast Pennsylvania Transit
Authority) rail tracks in Philadelphia. An infrared sensor, painted
black and buried in the trackside ballast, was found along the SEPTA
tracks, which could be used as a triggering device. It sends a signal
when something crosses its infrared beam. (WPVI News, Philadelphia, May
20)
On May 1, New York City police found five empty suitcases at Penn
Station, New York FBI headquarters, and other sensitive points.
According to The New York Post, the police feared that these empty
suitcases represented "a test by terrorist bent on a Madrid-type
attack" on commuter trains. (New York Post, May 2, 2004)
There is also an uptick in the detected activities of foreign
intelligence services, such as the Mossad, on US territory. According
to a Florida newspaper, for the second time in two weeks Israelis in a
moving van were detained near a U.S. nuclear facility, this time at the
Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base near St. Marys, GA., near Sea Island,
host of the G-8 Summit next month." (Jacksonville Times-Union, 21 May
2004)
On May 6, British Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that the new head
of the British intelligence service MI-6 will be John Scarlett. The
choice immediately caused protests from British political opposition
leaders. Scarlett was the author and stubborn defender of the
now-totally-discredited and artificially sexed-up "Iraqi WMD" report
issued by the Blair government in support of the US-UK war drive. Dr.
David Kelley lost his life in the scandal that developed around the
manipulations in this report, but the role of the government was
whitewashed in the inquiry conducted by Lord Hutton of the Law Lords.
This appointment means that MI-6 will lack the leadership of a
competent and independent professional who might act to prevent the
coming terrorism, and will instead be under the domination of a
political hack of dubious judgment and loyalty. (Wire services, May 6)
In addition, the US government appears top have imposed an embargo on
the sharing of critical anti-terror intelligence with European
authorities. Whatever the intent, the net effect of this blackout is to
screen certain activities in the US from scrutiny by the allies. In an
article published May 6 the German economic paper Handelsblatt reported
in reference to a similar article which appeared in the Wall Street
Journal, that Spanish investigators, like many of their colleagues in
Europe, are find it very difficult to obtain information from US
circles which are engaged in the fight against terrorism.
Mentioned is the case of Spanish Judge Balthazar Garzon who reportedly was unable to
proceed with certain investigations on Al Qaeda after Sept 11th, like
the case of Al Qaeda member Ramzi Binalshibh, who is imprisoned in an
unknown location. The problem is compounded by the fact that the
anti-terrorism fight in the US is being conducted by non-public
military courts and military intelligence, neither of which, as the
article claims, is sharing testimony and evidence with their European
colleagues for further use. (Handelsblatt, May 6; Yahoo wires, May 7)
Propaganda Buildup
Lurid accounts of coming ABC terrorist attacks are proliferating in the
US media. Whatever, the subjective intentions or motivations of the
authors, these accounts objectively serve as propaganda preparation for
terror attacks, specifically by introducing to the US ;public the alien
notions of emergency rules, martial law, and the state of siege, all of
which are favorite themes of neocon writers going back to the Nazi Carl
Schmitt.
A particularly fulsome example is the article by Michael Ignatieff
which appeared on May 2, 2004 New York Times Magazine. Here are some
excerpts:
Consider the consequences of a second major attack on the mainland
United States -- the detonation of a radiological or dirty bomb,
perhaps, or a low-yield nuclear device or a chemical strike in a
subway. Any of these events could cause death, devastation and panic on
a scale that would make 9/11 seem like a pale prelude. After such an
attack, a pall of mourning, melancholy, anger and fear would hang over
our public life for a generation.
An attack of this sort is already in the realm of possibility. The
recipes for making ultimate weapons are on the Internet, and the
materiel required is available for the right price. Democracies live by
free markets, but a free market in everything -- enriched uranium,
ricin, anthrax -- will mean the death of democracy. Armageddon is being
privatized, and unless we shut down these markets, doomsday will be for
sale. Sept. 11, for all its horror, was a conventional attack. We have
the best of reasons to fear the fire next time.
A democracy can allow its leaders one fatal mistake -- and that's what
9/11 looks like to many observers -- but Americans will not forgive a
second one. A succession of large-scale attacks would pull at the
already-fragile tissue of trust that binds us to our leadership and
destroy the trust we have in one another. Once the zones of devastation
were cordoned off and the bodies buried, we might find ourselves, in
short order, living in a national-security state on continuous alert,
with sealed borders, constant identity checks and permanent detention
camps for dissidents and aliens.
Our constitutional rights might disappear from our courts, while torture might reappear in our interrogation cells. The worst of it is that government would not have
to impose tyranny on a cowed populace. We would demand it for our own
protection. And if the institutions of our democracy were unable to
protect us from our enemies, we might go even further, taking the law
into our own hands. We have a history of lynching in this country, and
by the time fear and paranoia settled deep in our bones, we might
repeat the worst episodes from our past, killing our former neighbors,
our onetime friends. (emphasis added)
The coming of martial law to the US in the wake of a new large-scale
terror attack was also the theme of Ted Koppel's Nightline broadcast of
April 7, 2004. Here Koppel was joined by former terror czar Richard
Clarke and the Reagan White House chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein.
The broadcast was titled "The Armageddon Plan", and featured questions
of continuity in government (COG) after an attack that had decimated
the US Congress.
Koppel asked Duberstein: "Aren't we left for at least the foreseeable
future with some sort of martial law anyway?"
Duberstein replied: "You have to suspend rights."
Koppel elaborated: "And during that period, then, and given the sense
of panic that is inevitable under circumstances like this, the executive
branch of government takes on extraordinary power doesn't it?"
Clarke chimed in: "I think in any war where Washington were destroyed,
inevitably, there would be a period of, for lack of a better term,
something like martial law." Also taking part in this broadcast was
James Mann of the Brookings Institution, author of the new book Rise of
the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet, published this year by
Viking. This work contains an extensive discussion of COG operations,
which also figure in John Dean's new boom comparing the Bush
administration to the Nixon regime. (Nightline, April 7, 2004)
The Washington Post used the release of the latest set of Nixon
administration tapes to issue what can only be interpreted as a signal
piece, indicating to the witting that the operation is indeed on. This
piece bore the headline" Haig Said Nixon Joked of Nuking Hill." The
content involves a telephone conversation between Nixon's then Chief of
Staff, Gen. Alexander Haig, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, in
March 1974 – a few months before Nixon was forced out of office. "I was
told to get the football," reports Haig to Kissinger, a reference to
the codes used by the president to order nuclear attacks. In response
to a question from Kissinger, Haig specifies that the request is for
"His nuclear black bag. He is going to drop it on the Hill." The
context is Nixon's growing fear of his own looming impeachment. The
message is that a nuclear bomb will detonate on the US Congress.
Canadian newspapers, by contrast, used an all-purpose AP wire story
with very different emphasis. The Montreal Gazette headline, for example,
stressed another incident in which Nixon was too drunk to talk to UK
Prime Minister Ted Heath. Here the headline was "Mr. Nixon can't come
to the phone – he's sozzled." This version contained no mention of
nuking the Congress. The Toronto Star version of the AP wire had a
headline about Nixon being drunk, and relegated the question of nuking
the US Congress to the last paragraphs.
The White House now possesses its own "Continuity of Government"
Commission, a kind of Committee of Public Safety which appears to be
developing plans for the imposition of authoritarian rule. This is a
board made up of Establishment worthies, starting with former
presidents Carter and Ford, and including such figures as Newt
Gingrich, Lloyd Cutler, Alan Simpson, Kenneth Duberstein, Jamie
Gorelick (also of the Kean-Hamilton Commission), Tom Foley, Leon
Panetta, and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. This is a bi-partisan body that
would seem to be engaged in forming a consensus in the oligarchical
elite circles in favor of the need for police state measures to
preserve the system.
The following are some of the main danger points that emerge from
recent press accounts. It must however be stressed that large-scale attacks
could of course occur anywhere and anytime.
Memorial Day weekend – opening of US World War II Memorial in
Washington DC
June 8: Group of 8 summit in Sea Island, Georgia
NATO summit in Turkey
Olympics in Athens
July: Democratic National Convention in Boston
August-September: Republican National Convention in New York City |
