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The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11 |
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Lobster: The Journal of Parapolitics
Peter Dale Scott
October 29, 2005 |
The prime geostrategic goal of the drug traffic in Afghanistan is precisely to prevent peace and security from happening. It is true that the international illicit drug industry, like the international oil industry, is polymorphous and flexible, relying on diversified sources and markets for its products in order to maintain its global dominance. But for the global drug traffic to prosper, there must always be key growing areas where there is ongoing violence, and state order does not prevail.
However, in speaking above of America's stated national interest, I do not assume that a U.S. government will always represent that national interest. |
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9/11 in Historical Perspective: Flawed Assumptions |
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Rep. McKinney 9/11 Congressional Briefing
Peter Dale Scott
August 18, 2005 |
The truth is that for at least two decades the United States has engaged in energetic covert programs to secure U.S. control over the Persian Gulf, and also to open up Central Asia for development by U.S. oil companies. Americans were eager to gain access to the petroleum reserves of the Caspian Basin, which at that time were still estimated to be ìthe largest known reserves of unexploited fuel in the planet.î |
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Suspects and Plots, the link to Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden |
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Rep. McKinney 9/11 Congressional Briefing
Nafeez Ahmed
August 18, 2005 |
>Worse still, many of these hijackers, while in the United States
somehow managed to obtain high-level security clearance to train at several US military installations. They had simultaneous connections with the US military while they were connected to Al QaedaÖ and I will
leave it at that. |
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Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00 |
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New York Times
Douglas Jehl
August 9, 2005 |
Washington - More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small,
highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three
other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in
the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a
Republican member of Congress. |
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9/11 Group Says White House Has Not Provided Files |
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New York Times
Philip Shenon
August 7, 2005 |
Washington - The White House has failed to turn over any of the information
requested by the 10 members of the disbanded Sept. 11 commission in their renewed,
unofficial investigation into whether the government is doing enough to prevent
terrorist attacks on American soil, commission members said. |
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Did DoD lawyers blow the chance to nab Atta? |
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Government Security News
Jacob Goodwin
August 1, 2005 |
"We were directed to take those 3M yellow stickers and place them over the faces of Atta and the other terrorists and pretend they didnÌt exist."
In September 2000, one year before the Al Qaeda attacks of 9/11, a U.S. Army military intelligence program, known as ÏAble Danger,Ó identified a terrorist cell based in Brooklyn, NY, one of whose members was 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta, and recommended to their military superiors that the FBI be called in to Ïtake out that cell,Ó according to Rep. Curt Weldon, a longtime Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who is currently vice chairman of both the House Homeland Security and House Armed Services Committees. |
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Timeline: Al Qaeda Messages Since Sept. 11, 2001 |
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Reuters (on NY Times)
Reuters
October 29, 2004 |
Oct. 30, 2004 - Days before the U.S. presidential election, bin Laden in a video broadcast on Al Jazeera television tells Americans President George W. Bush has deceived them and the United States could face more strikes like Sept. 11.
May 6, 2004 - Islamist Web site posts recording purportedly from bin Laden calling for jihad, or holy war, against the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq and anyone who cooperates with it. |
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Al-Qaida Tried to Pentrate FBI's Translation Service |
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BreakForNews.com
Fintan Dunne
June 18, 2004 |
A transcript of the 9/11 Commission hearing on June 16, 2004 reveals that the FBI's intelligence translation service was a target for penetration by a senior Al-Qaida operative. |
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White House: Iraq-Qaeda Ties Exist |
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CBSnews.com
David Paul Kuhn
June 16, 2004 |
The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Wednesday there is "no credible link" between Iraq and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, just days after Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertion that Saddam Hussein had "long established" ties with al Qaeda. |
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Before 9/11, One Warning Went Unheard |
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LA Times
Richard C. Paddock
June 7, 2004 |
PERTH, Australia € When Jack Roche telephoned Australia's intelligence agency in July 2000, he offered a tantalizing story: He had been to Afghanistan and ate lunch with Osama bin Laden. He had received training in explosives and plotted with Al Qaeda leaders to carry out a bombing in Australia. |
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