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To: goldsnow who wrote (10744)	1/8/2002 3:58:34 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Too many evidences/clues pertaining to 911 are still classified.... For obvious reasons, US authorities don't want to expose the FSB/Mossad/French connection as the mastermind of the most outrageous attack on the US since Pearl Harbor. They just feel too comfortable with the Bin Laden spiel. Anyway, the Achilles' heel of the official bin-laden conspiracy is the assassination of Massoud by Russian Spetznatz (spelling?) two days before 911 or --if we take into account the time zones between Afghanistan and the US-- only hours before 911. Massoud got killed Sept 9, however, the news of his assassination reached the US Sept 9 in the afternoon and it startled the nineteen 911-terrorists into hastening the planning of their simultaneous attacks on the following day, Sept 10th. Here's the latest on Massoud: EU Passports: An Easy-to-Steal Tool for Terrorists Thomas Fuller International Herald Tribune Tuesday, January 8, 2002 BRUSSELS When two Tunisian men blew themselves up last September in front of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Northern Alliance leader in Afghanistan who later died of his wounds, it set off alarm bells around Europe. Found in the rubble of the explosion were genuine Belgian and French passports, at least two of which had been stolen from Belgian consulates in Europe. The incident highlighted what the police have known for years: Passports and identity cards issued by European Union governments have become the world's most popular travel documents to forge, counterfeit or steal. The Massoud killing and subsequent investigations after the attacks of Sept. 11 also revealed the more worrying fact that fake passports have become important tools for terrorist networks that often operate thousands of kilometers from European borders. Among suspected terrorists who are known to have traveled with fake European travel documents are Djamel Beghal, an Algerian arrested in Dubai in July who offered the police a detailed picture of plans to bomb U.S. targets in Europe, and the so-called millennium bomber, Ahmed Ressam, who was arrested at the U.S.-Canadian border in December 1999 with explosives and other bomb-making material in his rental car. Both were found to have carried fake French passports at different times during their activities. "Since 1993 and 1994 we've been overwhelmed with falsified passports," said Willie Bruggeman, deputy director of Europol, the nascent European police office, which on Jan. 1 created a division devoted solely to stolen travel documents. In Belgium, where the problem has been perhaps most acute, the police say that on average about 6,000 fake Belgian travel documents are seized every year. It is impossible to know exactly how many phony European documents are circulating throughout the world, but the police in Belgium cite one ominous indicator. They have compiled a list of 2 million blank travel documents that were stolen in recent years and thus could potentially pass for the real thing once names are filled in. The documents were stolen from many countries, said Alain Boucar, the head of the fake documents division of the Belgian National Police, but the "vast majority" of them are European. Fake European passports became particularly desirable in the early 1990s when the EU dismantled most of its internal borders. For a few thousand dollars, phony travel documents offered foreigners access to a huge swath of Western Europe in which to live and work. [snip] iht.com Now, the truth about these so-called "stolen Belgian passports" is that it's common practice among intelligence outfits to help each other by supplying one another with cover IDs. Hence it's likely that, at the request of the French, Belgian intelligence graciously gave a few "stolen passports" to the two Moroccan stooges. Of course, Massoud didn't expect to get stabbed in the back by his brand new European buddies whom he met just five months before....