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To: goldsnow who wrote (12493)	3/11/2002 12:38:00 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 23908

Don't throw the baby out with the bath water, Gold.... eirna.com Excerpt: In a Sept. 13 interview given to the semi-official Russian news service Strana.ru Yevgeny Kozhokin, Director of the government-linked Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS) warned of a cover-up: "Whether this crime will be cleared up completely, is a complicated question. It is possible that the world will never know some things. For one simple reason: It is possible that besides the people who directly carried out the attack, a whole series of other persons, connected with the attacks - people, participating in the preparation of the operation - may be killed ... by those, who have an interest in making sure that the identities of the people who indirectly ordered the attack, will never become known.... If it turns out that the attack was prepared by some domestic sect or terrorist group ... like for example the '100% American' Timothy McVeigh, who blew up the Federal Building in Oklohoma in 1995 - then we have second complex of problems connected with the internal politics of the USA...." Kozhokin said. On Sept. 14 an interview was given to strana.ru by Andrei Kosyakov, formerly Assistant to the Chairman of the subcommittee of the Supreme Soviet of Russia (1991-93) in charge of monitoring the activity of the intelligence services, refuting the simplistic "Arab terrorist" story as a deliberate diversion. First, he pointed to the implications of the large number of highly-professional operatives that must have been involved, and the elaborate, long-term preparation needed. On the other hand, "all (direct) participants in the operation were prepared for martyrdom, and such people are not easy to find.... Not a single secret service [of a state] would accept such casualities. They train their members in a different way...." Next, Kosyakov emphasized as a crucial anomaly, that although a number of passengers had reported on the hijacking over cell phones, including a professional journalist, "none of the passengers described what the terrorists looked like, their accents, pronunciation; nothing caused the callers to want to characterize them.... The conclusion suggests itself, that the appearance of the hijackers in no way distinguished them from all the other passengers.... This supports the supposition, that hijackers looked European in outward appearance." There is also another strange fact, Kosyakov said. While the operation was carried out with extreme sophistication, "a big lead" was intentionally left behind: "a rented automobile was found, left at the airport of the hijacked airplane, filled with the Koran, flying manuals in the Arabic language. But look: Not a single organization has taken responsibility for the crimes. That means, the terrorists want to conceal their identity. So, given such professionalism, given such extreme care, how could such an error be permitted? This hardly fits with the minute detail of the planning of the action. All this points to the conclusion, that the criminals wanted to leave a false trail. The secret services are paying no attention to ordinary Americans or Europeans, and instead are looking for Arabs...." [...]