OK CITY BOMB: still an inside black op being covered up to the sound of silence

Lawyer outlines a broader conspiracy in search for FBI documents on Oklahoma City bombing





The Salt Lake Tribune | April 17, 2007
Pamela Manson

A Utah attorney alleges informants gathering information on Timothy McVeigh or his associates warned the FBI about the plot to bomb the Oklahoma City federal building but the agency took no action to stop the 1995 attack.

Jesse Trentadue also says there were others involved in carrying out the bombing besides McVeigh and Terry Nichols, despite investigators' conclusion that they were the only ones responsible for the crime.

The allegations are made in a brief filed Monday in a lawsuit by Trentadue, who believes his brother s death in a federal prison was
linked to the bombing. The suit, which seeks documents from the FBI under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), alleges that
authorities mistook Kenneth Trentadue for a bombing conspirator and guards killed him in an interrogation that got out of hand.






Trentadue noted in his brief that on Thursday, it will be 12 years since 168 people died in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in downtown Oklahoma City.

"It will also soon be twelve years since the murder of Kenneth Michael

Trentadue, and three years since Plaintiff started out to
obtain proof that his brother . . . became the 169th victim of the Bombing when he was tortured to obtain information he did not have
and eventually was strangled with a pair of plastic handcuffs," the lawyer wrote.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah, which represents the FBI, received a copy of the brief late Monday afternoon and was still reviewing it.

The FBI could not be reached for immediate comment. However,agency officials previously have denied any advance notice of the
plot or mishandling of the investigation into the bombing. They also adamantly deny any wrongdoing in Kenneth Trentadue's death, which was ruled a suicide after several investigations.

In the brief, Trentadue contends he has documented that at least seven informants were involved with McVeigh and his associates. The informants were allegedly participating in sting operations targeting a white-supremacist compound in Oklahoma and a gang suspected of
robbing banks to fund attacks on government buildings. McVeigh, who was executed in 2001, had links to both, Trentadue says.

He alleges that the sting involving the white-supremacist compound a Christian Identity settlement in Adair County, Okla., called Elohim City was a joint operation by the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization based in Alabama. He claims there is evidence that the SPLC, which heard about the impending attack from the informants, warned the FBI.

SPLC director Mark Potok could not be reached Monday, but previously has said his group never had an informant or anyone else at the compound and did not know about the plot.

Trentadue has asked U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball in Salt Lake
City to allow him to conduct depositions of two men who likely know about the sting operations. They are Nichols, who is serving a life sentence for his part in the attack, and federal death row inmate David Paul Hammer, who was housed on the same prison tier as McVeigh for almost two years.

Hammer spent much of that time "listening to McVeigh describe the
bombing in minute detail, including the identities of others involved," according to the brief.

Trentadue claims the depositions will prove that the FBI has failed to turn over all relevant documents.

Lawyers for the FBI say the agency has made appropriate searches for documents requested by Trentadue. They also say judges in FOIA
cases do not have the authority to order depositions.

Kenneth Trentadue, who had served time for bank robbery, was arrested near San Diego in June 1995, two months after the bombing. He later was sent to the transfer center in Oklahoma City for an alleged parole violation.

On Aug. 21, 1995, guards found Trentadue's blood-soaked body in his cell hanging from a noose made of torn bedsheets. Prison officials say the 44-year-old inmate committed suicide. However, the inmate's family insists that Trentadue was mistaken for John Doe No. 2, a suspect sought in connection with the bombing who turned out to be bank robber Richard Lee Guthrie.

Jesse Trentadue claims his brother resembled Guthrie. Both men were about the same height and build, he says, and both had a tattoo of a dragon on the left arm. In addition, Kenneth Trentadue drove a Chevy pickup truck, the same kind of vehicle John Doe No. 2 was reported to be driving.

Guthrie was eventually captured and struck a plea deal in 1996 on bank robbery charges. A few months later, he was found hanged in his
cell in Kentucky in what was ruled a suicide.

In Monday's filing, Trentadue includes a 2004 affidavit by former Cincinnati police Officer Matthew James Moning, who investigated
suspected members of the Midwest Bank Robbery Gang from August 1993 to June 1994. Moning claims he was told by a Secret Service agent
that Guthrie killed himself after being told "that he was going to be executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing case."

Moning writes in the affidavit that he believes a third member of the gang, Shawn Kenny, and his wife, Tabitha Kenny, were government informants being paid "by the F.B.I. and Secret Service for God knows what.' "

Other exhibits attached to Trentadue's motion include:
A declaration dated April 9, 2007, by Peter Kevin Langan, who was convicted along with Guthrie and other members of the Midwest
Bank Robbery Gang.

Langan, currently an inmate in a federal prison in Illinois, claims he was coerced in 1993 into being an informant for the Secret
Service. He claims that Guthrie told him that cohort Kevin McCarthy was John Doe No. 2 and then said, "Your young Mr. Wizard [Kevin
McCarthy] took out the Murrah Building."

McCarthy served five years in federal prison and was released on probation, according to law enforcement officials. His whereabouts are unknown.

A 2004 letter from Nichols to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft offering to give information about other participants in the bombing.
Nichols, who is housed in a federal penitentiary in Colorado, alleged that two witnesses at his state and federal murder trials lied with the knowledge of prosecutors. He said one witness, Arkansas gun dealer Roger Moore, obtained explosives for McVeigh.

In an affidavit submitted in February as part of Trentadue's lawsuit, Nichols said Ashcroft never responded to this 2004 letter
offering to identity all parties who had a role in the bombing.
Drawings by Nichols showing three versions of the bomb that blew up the Murrah Building.

One is the configuration that McVeigh allegedly described to the wife of Army friend Michael Fortier of Kingman, Ariz. Lori Fortier
said McVeigh illustrated the V-shaped bomb at her home by using soup cans to represent barrels containing fertilizer.

Another drawing is the configuration of the bomb that Nichols says he constructed with McVeigh the day before the attack, which also was barrels in the shape of a V, with bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer soaked in fuel oil at the point.

The third is a J-shaped pattern that McVeigh described in American Terrorist, an authorized book chronicling his life and the attack. In his February affidavit, Nichols said the book version was bigger than the one he built with McVeigh on April 18, 1995, and "displayed a level of expertise and sophistication which neither McVeigh nor I had
in building a bomb."

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TOMMY THE BUG'S COMMENT:

On OK CITY...uh....Sioux Falls PD and SD DCI and SF FBI all had "prior knowledge" about the electronic detenators seen by electronic engineer ALLAN DOERING of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

I gave the info to SFPD. They did not take me up on the polygraph exam?

Doering saw the schematic.

Doering told me on tape the request for bid offer came from a rock quarry.

McVeigh and Nichols broke into a rock quarry before 4/19/95.

The paymaster was TRINITY OIL.

TRINITY OIL was incorporated by a lawyer named RICHARD BEN VENISTE, a former D.C. fed prosecutor who worked on the silent coup d'etat known as Watergate.

On the board of Trinity Oil is.........OLLIE (CMAG, coke dealer) NORTH and GENERAL SECORD.

A big hole for FBI lying scum was..."how did McVeigh and Nichols get the money" for the operation. Came from Trinity Oil.

McVeigh had a fake South Dakota drivers license in his possession when arrested on 4/19/95?



Go here to "conspiracy cafe" (home) to see my favorite discussion forum with a link on OK CITY as FALSE FLAG TERRORISM. My posts are under "tommythebug" at this site.

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More good news for parents: Cheaper and more deadlier Heroin

From Tracy Sabo
CNN


DALLAS, Texas (CNN) -- A cheap, highly addictive drug known as "cheese heroin" has killed 21 teenagers in the Dallas area over the past two years, and authorities say they are hoping they can stop the fad before it spreads across the nation.

"Cheese heroin" is a blend of so-called black tar Mexican heroin and crushed over-the-counter medications that contain the antihistamine diphenhydramine, found in products such as Tylenol PM, police say. The sedative effects of the heroin and the nighttime sleep aids make for a deadly brew.

"A double whammy -- you're getting two downers at once," says Dallas police detective Monty Moncibais. "If you take the body and you start slowing everything down, everything inside your body, eventually you're going to slow down the heart until it stops and, when it stops, you're dead." (Audio slide show: A father describes his teen son's death)

Steve Robertson, a special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration in Washington, says authorities are closely monitoring the use of "cheese" in Dallas.

Trying to keep the drug from spreading to other cities, the DEA is working with Dallas officials to raise public awareness about the problem. Authorities also are trying to identify the traffickers, Robertson says.

"We are concerned about any drug trend that is new because we want to stop it," he says.

Why should a parent outside Dallas care about what's happening there?

Robertson says it's simple: The ease of communication via the Internet and cell phones allows a drug trend to spread rapidly across the country.

"A parent in New York should be very concerned about a drug trend in Dallas, a drug trend in Kansas City, a drug trend anywhere throughout the United States," he says.

Middle schoolers acknowledge 'cheese'
"Cheese" is not only dangerous. It's cheap. About $2 for a single hit and as little as $10 per gram. The drug can be snorted with a straw or through a ballpoint pen, authorities say. It causes drowsiness and lethargy, as well as euphoria, excessive thirst and disorientation. That is, if the user survives. (Interactive: What is "cheese"? )

Authorities aren't exactly sure how the drug got its name "cheese." It's most likely because the ground-up, tan substance looks like Parmesan cheese. The other theory is it's shorthand for the Spanish word "chiva," which is street slang for heroin.

By using the name "cheese," drug dealers are marketing the low-grade heroin to a younger crowd -- many of them middle schoolers -- unaware of its potential dangers, authorities say.

"These are street dealers, dope dealers," Moncibais recently warned students at Sam Tasby Middle School. "They give you a lethal dose. What do they care?"

Moncibais then asked how many students knew a "cheese" user. Just about everyone in the auditorium raised a hand. At one point, when he mentioned that the United States has the highest rate of drug users in the world, the middle schoolers cheered. (Watch middle schoolers raise hands, admit they know drug users )

"You know, I know being No. 1 is important, but being the No. 1 dopeheads in the world, I don't know whether [that] bears applause," Moncibais shot back.

Authorities say the number of arrests involving possession of "cheese" in the Dallas area this school year was 146, up from about 90 the year before. School is out for the summer, and authorities fear that the students, with more time on their hands, could turn to the drug.

'Cheese' as common a problem as pot
School officials and police have been holding assemblies, professional lectures, PTA meetings and classroom discussions to get the word out about the drug. A public service announcement made by Dallas students is airing on local TV, and a hotline number has been created for those seeking assistance.

Drug treatment centers in Dallas say teen "cheese" addicts are now as common as those seeking help for a marijuana addiction. "It is the first drug to have even come close in my experience here," says Michelle Hemm, director of Phoenix House in Dallas.

From September 2005 to September 2006, Phoenix House received 69 "cheese" referral calls from parents. Hemm says that in the last eight months alone, that number has nearly doubled to 136. The message from the parents is always, "My kid is using 'cheese,' " she says.

Phoenix House refers them to detoxification units first, but Hemm says at least 62 teens have received additional treatment at her facility since last September.

Fernando Cortez Sr. knows all too well how devastating cheese heroin can be. A reformed drug user who has spent time in prison, Cortez had spoken to his children about the pitfalls of drug use. He thought his 15-year-old son was on the right track.

But on March 31, his boy, Fernando "Nando" Cortez Jr., was found dead after using cheese heroin.

"I should have had a better talk with him," he says. "All it takes is once. You get high once and you die, and that's what happened to my son."

He knows it's too late for his son. Now, he is using his son's story to help others.

"All I can do is try to help people now. Help the kids, help the parents."

Honey Bees keep dying? End Times?

Suddenly, the bees are simply vanishing

Scientists are at a loss to pinpoint the cause. The die-off in 35 states has crippled beekeepers and threatened many crops.


By Jia-Rui Chong and Thomas H. Maugh II, Times Staff Writers
June 10, 2007





The dead bees under Dennis vanEngelsdorp's microscope were like none he had ever seen.

He had expected to see mites or amoebas, perennial pests of bees. Instead, he found internal organs swollen with debris and strangely blackened. The bees' intestinal tracts were scarred, and their rectums were abnormally full of what appeared to be partly digested pollen. Dark marks on the sting glands were telltale signs of infection.

"The more you looked, the more you found," said VanEngelsdorp, the acting apiarist for the state of Pennsylvania. "Each thing was a surprise."

VanEngelsdorp's examination of the bees in November was one of the first scientific glimpses of a mysterious honeybee die-off that has launched an intense search for a cure.

The puzzling phenomenon, known as Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, has been reported in 35 states, five Canadian provinces and several European countries. The die-off has cost U.S. beekeepers about $150 million in losses and an uncertain amount for farmers scrambling to find bees to pollinate their crops.

Scientists have scoured the country, finding eerily abandoned hives in which the bees seem to have simply left their honey and broods of baby bees.

"We've never experienced bees going off and leaving brood behind," said Pennsylvania-based beekeeper Dave Hackenberg. "It was like a mother going off and leaving her kids."

Researchers have picked through the abandoned hives, dissected thousands of bees, and tested for viruses, bacteria, pesticides and mites.

So far, they are stumped.

According to the Apiary Inspectors of America, 24% of 384 beekeeping operations across the country lost more than 50% of their colonies from September to March. Some have lost 90%.

"I'm worried about the bees," said Dan Boyer, 52, owner of Ridgetop Orchards in Fishertown, Pa., which grows apples. "The more I learn about it, the more I think it is a national tragedy."

At Boyer's orchard, 400 acres of apple trees — McIntosh, Honey Crisp, Red Delicious and 11 other varieties — have just begun to bud white flowers.

Boyer's trees need to be pollinated. Incompletely pollinated blooms would still grow apples, he said, but the fruit would be small and misshapen, suitable only for low-profit juice.

This year, he will pay dearly for the precious bees — $13,000 for 200 hives, the same price that 300 hives cost him last year.

The scene is being repeated throughout the country, where honeybees, scientifically known as Apis mellifera, are required to pollinate a third of the nation's food crops, including almonds, cherries, blueberries, pears, strawberries and pumpkins.

Vanishing colonies

One of the earliest alarms was sounded by Hackenberg, who used to keep about 3,000 hives in dandelion-covered fields near the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.

In November, Hackenberg, 58, was at his winter base in Florida. He peeked in on a group of 400 beehives he had driven down from his home in West Milton, Pa., a month before. He went from empty box to empty box. Only about 40 had bees in them.

"It was just the most phenomenal thing I thought I'd ever seen," he said.

The next morning, Hackenberg called Jerry Hayes, the chief of apiary inspection at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and president of the Apiary Inspectors of America.

Court goes to bat on War Commissions Act (the worst piece of legislation in the history of this republic).

US can't hold civilians indefinitely

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:01:25


Bush cannot order the indefinite military detention of a Qatari man accused of being an al-Qaeda agent, a US appeals court has ruled.

Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, the only person being held on US soil as an "enemy combatant", was seized three months after the 9/11 terror attacks.

He has been held without charge in a navy prison for almost four years.

The ruling is seen as a setback for the Bush administration over its policies on the detention of so-called terror suspects.

Marri, who entered the US legally on September 10, 2001 to study at a US university, was arrested in December that year following investigations into the 9/11 attacks.

A civilian court in Illinois charged him with offenses including credit card fraud and lying to FBI agents.

While the criminal proceedings were progressing, he was transferred on the orders of the president to the military authorities, who have held him in South Carolina since 2003.

However, the appeals court in Virginia ruled on Monday that Marri has habeus corpus rights, entitling him to challenge his detention in court, and has ordered his release from military custody.

"To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the president calls them 'enemy combatants', would have disastrous consequences for the constitution, and the country," the court opinion said.

The judges stated Marri could face civilian criminal charges or be deported but the government cannot subject him to indefinite military detention.

The government had urged the court to reject Marri's case on the grounds that the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which strips detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of their habeus corpus rights, applied also to him.

Under that law, detainees must be judged by a military tribunal before they can challenge their detention in a civil court.

It is not yet clear whether the appeals court's decision will have implications for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

It comes a week after military judges threw out charges against two of those detained there because military authorities had failed to designate the men as "unlawful" enemy combatants.

GOP neocon trash "pump and dump" american economy: Hang on doomsayers, it's real, it's queer, and it ain't going away.

It’s Official: The Crash of the U.S. Economy has begun
by Richard C. Cook

Global Research, June 14, 2007






It’s official. Mark your calendars. The crash of the U.S. economy has begun. It was announced the morning of Wednesday, June 13, 2007, by economic writers Steven Pearlstein and Robert Samuelson in the pages of the Washington Post, one of the foremost house organs of the U.S. monetary elite.

Pearlstein’s column was titled, “The Takeover Boom, About to Go Bust” and concerned the extraordinary amount of debt vs. operating profits of companies currently subject to leveraged buyouts.

In language remarkably alarmist for the usually ultra-bland pages of the Post, Pearlstein wrote, “It is impossible to predict when the magic moment will be reached and everyone finally realizes that the prices being paid for these companies, and the debt taken on to support the acquisitions, are unsustainable. When that happens, it won't be pretty. Across the board, stock prices and company valuations will fall. Banks will announce painful write-offs, some hedge funds will close their doors, and private-equity funds will report disappointing returns. Some companies will be forced into bankruptcy or restructuring.”

Further, “Falling stock prices will cause companies to reduce their hiring and capital spending while governments will be forced to raise taxes or reduce services, as revenue from capital gains taxes declines. And the combination of reduced wealth and higher interest rates will finally cause consumers to pull back on their debt-financed consumption. It happened after the junk-bond and savings-and-loan collapses of the late 1980s. It happened after the tech and telecom bust of the late '90s. And it will happen this time.”

Samuelson’s column, “The End of Cheap Credit,” left the door slightly ajar in case the collapse is not quite so severe. He wrote of rising interest rates, “As the price of money increases, borrowing and the economy might weaken. The deep slump in housing could worsen. We could also discover that the long period of cheap credit has left a nasty residue.”

Other writers with less prestigious platforms than the Post have been talking about an approaching financial bust for a couple of years. Among them has been economist Michael Hudson, author of an article on the housing bubble titled, “The New Road to Serfdom” in the May 2006 issue of Harper’s. Hudson has been speaking in interviews of a “break in the chain” of debt payments leading to a “long, slow economic crash,” with “asset deflation,” “mass defaults on mortgages,” and a “huge asset grab” by the rich who are able to protect their cash through money laundering and hedging with foreign currency bonds.

Among those poised to profit from the crash is the Carlyle Group, the equity fund that includes the Bush family and other high-profile investors with insider government connections. A January 2007 memorandum to company managers from founding partner William E. Conway, Jr., recently appeared which stated that, when the current “liquidity environment”—i.e., cheap credit—ends, “the buying opportunity will be a once in a lifetime chance.”

The fact that the crash is now being announced by the Post shows that it is a done deal. The Bilderbergers, or whomever it is that the Post reports to, have decided. It lets everyone know loud and clear that it’s time to batten down the hatches, run for cover, lay in two years of canned food, shield your assets, whatever.

Those left holding the bag will be the ordinary people whose assets are loaded with debt, such as tens of millions of mortgagees, millions of young people with student loans that can never be written off due to the “reformed” 2005 bankruptcy law, or vast numbers of workers with 401(k)s or other pension plans that are locked into the stock market.

In other words, it sounds eerily like 2000-2002 except maybe on a much larger scale. Then it was “only” the tenth worse bear market in history, but over a trillion dollars in wealth simply vanished. What makes today’s instance seem particularly unfair is that the preceding recovery that is now ending—the “jobless” one—was so anemic.

Neither Perlstein nor Samuelson gets to the bottom of the crisis, though they, like Conway of the Carlyle Group, point to the end of cheap credit. But interest rates are set by people who run central banks and financial institutions. They may be influenced by “the market,” but the market is controlled by people with money who want to maximize their profits.

Key to what is going on is that the Federal Reserve is refusing to follow the pattern set during the long reign of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan in responding to shaky economic trends with lengthy infusions of credit as he did during the dot.com bubble of the 1990s and the housing bubble of 2001-2005.

This time around, Greenspan’s successor, Ben Bernanke, is sitting tight. With the economy teetering on the brink, the Fed is allowing rates to remain steady. The Fed claims their policy is due to the danger of rising “core inflation.” But this cannot be true. The biggest consumer item, houses and real estate, is tanking. Officially, unemployment is low, but mainly due to low-paying service jobs. Commodities have edged up, including food and gasoline, but that’s no reason to allow the entire national economy to be submerged.

So what is really happening? Actually, it’s simple. The difference today is that China and other large investors from abroad, including Middle Eastern oil magnates, are telling the U.S. that if interest rates come down, thereby devaluing their already-sliding dollar portfolios further, they will no longer support with their investments the bloated U.S. trade and fiscal deficits.

Of course we got ourselves into this quandary by shipping our manufacturing to China and other cheap-labor markets over the last generation. “Dollar hegemony” is backfiring. In fact China is using its American dollars to replace the International Monetary Fund as a lender to developing nations in Africa and elsewhere. As an additional insult, China now may be dictating a new generation of economic decline for the American people who are forced to buy their products at Wal-Mart by maxing out what is left of our available credit card debt.

About a year ago, a former Reagan Treasury official, now a well-known cable TV commentator, said that China had become “America’s bank” and commented approvingly that “it’s cheaper to print money than make cars anymore.” Ha ha.

It is truly staggering that none of the “mainstream” political candidates from either party has attacked this subject on the campaign trail. All are heavily funded by the financier elite who will profit no matter how bad the U.S. economy suffers. Every candidate except Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich treats the Federal Reserve like the fifth graven image on Mount Rushmore. And even the so-called progressives are silent. The weekend before the Perlstein/ Samuelson articles came out, there was a huge progressive conference in Washington, D.C., called “Taming the Corporate Giant.” Not a single session was devoted to financial issues.


What is likely to happen? I’d suggest four possible scenarios:

Acceptance by the U.S. population of diminished prosperity and a declining role in the world. Grin and bear it. Live with your parents into your 40s instead of your 30s. Work two or three part-time jobs on the side, if you can find them. Die young if you lose your health care. Declare bankruptcy if you can, or just walk away from your debts until they bring back debtor’s prison like they’ve done in Dubai. Meanwhile, China buys more and more U.S. properties, homes, and businesses, as economists close to the Federal Reserve have suggested. If you’re an enterprising illegal immigrant, have fun continuing to jack up the underground economy, avoid business licenses and taxes, and rent out group houses to your friends.
Times of economic crisis produce international tension and politicians tend to go to war rather than face the economic music. The classic example is the worldwide depression of the 1930s leading to World War II. Conditions in the coming years could be as bad as they were then. We could have a really big war if the U.S. decides once and for all to haul off and let China, or whomever, have it in the chops. If they don’t want our dollars or our debt any more, how about a few nukes?
Maybe we’ll finally have a revolution either from the right or the center involving martial law, suspension of the Bill of Rights, etc., combined with some kind of military or forced-labor dictatorship. We’re halfway there anyway. Forget about a revolution from the left. They wouldn’t want to make anyone mad at them for being too radical.
Could there ever be a real try at reform, maybe even an attempt just to get back to the New Deal? Since the causes of the crisis are monetary, so would be the solutions. The first step would be for the Federal Reserve System to be abolished as a bank of issue and a transformation of the nation’s credit system into a genuine public utility by the federal government. This way we could rebuild our manufacturing and public infrastructure and develop an income assurance policy that would benefit everyone.
The latter is the only sensible solution. There are monetary reformers who know how to do it if anyone gave them half a chance.

Richard C. Cook is the author of “Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age.” A retired federal analyst, his career included work with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, and NASA, followed by twenty-one years with the U.S. Treasury Department. He is now a Washington, D.C.-based writer and consultant. His book “We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform,” will be published later this year. His website is at www.richardccook.com.


Richard C. Cook is a frequent contributor to Global Research. Global Research Articles by Richard C. Cook

Privacy rights of email cache?

Landmark Ruling Gives Email Same Constitutional Protections as Phone Calls




San Francisco - The government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers, according to a landmark ruling Monday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in their stored email as they do in their telephone calls -- the first circuit court ever to make that finding.

Over the last 20 years, the government has routinely used the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA) to secretly obtain stored email from email service providers without a warrant. But today's ruling -- closely following the reasoning in an amicus brief filed the by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties groups -- found that the SCA violates the Fourth Amendment.

"Email users expect that their Hotmail and Gmail inboxes are just as private as their postal mail and their telephone calls," said EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston. "The government tried to get around this common-sense conclusion, but the Constitution applies online as well as offline, as the court correctly found. That means that the government can't secretly seize your emails without a warrant."

Warshak v. United States was brought in the Southern District of Ohio federal court by Steven Warshak to stop the government's repeated secret searches and seizures of his stored email using the SCA. The district court ruled that the government cannot use the SCA to obtain stored email without a warrant or prior notice to the email account holder, but the government appealed that ruling to the 6th Circuit. EFF served as an amicus in the case, joined by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Democracy & Technology. Law professors Susan Freiwald and Patricia Bellia also submitted an amicus brief, and the case was successfully argued at the 6th Circuit by Warshak's counsel Martin Weinberg.

For the full ruling in Warshak v. United States:
http://eff.org/legal/cases/warshak_v_usa/6th_circuit_decision_upholding_injunction.pdf

For EFF's resources on the case, including its amicus brief:
http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/warshak_v_usa

Contacts:

Kevin Bankston
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
bankston@eff.org

FBI's complicity in Obstruction of Justice: The OBL charter flight

FBI knowingly allowed Osama to charter plane after 9/11

Submitted by Canada IFP on Wed, 2007-06-20 18:35.Americas | United States | News



FBI were aware that Osama bin Laden may have chartered one of the flights that took members of the bin Laden family out of the United States immediate after the 9/11 attacks, yet allowed the planes to depart, new Agency documents reveal.

The formerly confidential documents obtained by Judicial Watch through Freedom of Information Act and ongoing litigation states:

ON 9/19/01, A 727 PLANE LEFT LAX, RYAN FLT #441 TO ORLANDO, FL W/ETA (estimated time of arrival) OF 4-5PM. THE PLANE WAS CHARTERED EITHER BY THE SAUDI ARABIAN ROYAL FAMILY OR OSAMA BIN LADEN…THE LA FBI SEARCHED THE PLANE [REDACTED] LUGGAGE, OF WHICH NOTHING UNUSUAL WAS FOUND.

Traffic control reports show that the plane was allowed to depart the United States after making four stops to pick up passengers, ultimately landing in Paris where all passengers disembarked on 9/20/01, according to the document.

FBI’s most recent document production includes details of the six flights between 9/14 and 9/24 that evacuated Saudi royals and bin Laden family members.

The documents also contain brief interview summaries and occasional notes from intelligence analysts concerning the cursory screening performed prior to the departures.

FBI did not consider a single Saudi national nor any of the bin Laden family members as possessing any information of investigative value.

According to Judicial Watch the documents contain numerous errors and inconsistencies which call to question the thoroughness of the FBI’s investigation of the Saudi flights.

For example, on one document, the FBI claims to have interviewed 20 of 23 passengers on the Ryan International Airlines flight (commonly referred to as the “Bin Laden Family Flight”). On another document, the FBI claims to have interviewed 15 of 22 passengers on the same flight.

“Eight days after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, Osama bin Laden possibly charters a flight to whisk his family out of the country, and it’s not worth more than a luggage search and a few brief interviews?” asked Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Clearly these documents prove the FBI conducted a slapdash investigation of these Saudi flights. We’ll never know how many investigative leads were lost due to the FBI’s lack of diligence.”

U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Roberts ordered the FBI to resubmit “proper disclosures” to the Court and Judicial Watch, having previously criticized the adequacy of redaction descriptions, the validity of exemption claims, and other errors in the FBI’s disclosures. Incredibly, the FBI had previously redacted Osama bin Laden’s name from the records in order “to protect privacy interests.”

Mt. Shasta...Lassen Volcanic National Park....Northern California.

Outside Mt. Shasta in Northern California near the Klamath Valley and Oregon.

1) Drove north from a small little used and unknown National Park called LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK north of Yosemite and the congestion. This is a fairly loveable park...far removed from Yosemite and the overuse of The Sierras. This park is somewhat undeveloped and seems to combine the best of the Sierras with a little bit of Yellowstone's bubling geothermal activity. This park does NOT HAVE A VISITOR CENTER? Hmmm....that means...this park is underutilized and therefore, the best place to visit.

2) Lassen has one main road up to a glacier with great roadside views of high mountain lakes that must be hiked to. If you want to get away from the traffic and hostility of Yosemite...go here and stay. Lots of great camping in the National Forest outside of WEED, CA, and MT SHASTA, CA....with streams and peace of mind.

3) This area has some of the best trout fishing in California in the Sacremento and McLoud Rivers. You can easily travel south about two hours to access the most beautiful lake in North America--Lake Tahoe...and explore the real wilderness all around you. Is there a better way to live?...or escape a DOD COINTELPRO NEUTRALIZATION that uses Directed Energy WEapons, slander, simple assault, malicious prosecution, malicious involuntary mental health commitments, and pin hole spy cameras in your home?

Lots of surveillance and more moron snitchs wearing wires. It never ends...and it always pisses me off to no end. I cannot stand these faggot punk snitch idiots the DoD/NSA/FBI continually dredges up? I'll never forget the obvious surveillance in the middle of Lake Mead's wilderness, when out of the blue, "moron faggots" show up to push my buttons while a surveillance RV takes pictures from two miles away. I'm gonna have to get a Motion for Injunctive Relief in front of a fed judge so I can get the GPS tracking device out of my vehicle.

4) Getting out of Sioux Falls, SD, away from the most corrupt, idiotic, unconstitutional police mafia crime family (SF FBI, SD US ATTY, SD AG, SD DCI, SFPD, MCSAO, MCSD).....has never been a mistake, in my mind. Sioux Falls, SD, has got to be....the dumbest fascistic punk cop town in the history of police corruption.


5) Consider the following hidden scandals that remain covered up:

----RICO Felony payoffs to SFPD from pimps and bookies;

----Conspiracy to Deprive Civil Liberties under Color of Authority when Hope Matchan and SFPD colluded with their predatory pimp pal to deliver two teenage girls to the Rushmore Hotel to have sex with wanted criminal Charles Smith;

----SFPD vidiotaping the sex abuse of two teenage girls delivered to a predatory pimp in the Charles Smith frameup;

----Obstruction of Justice when my six SD State Bar Ethics complaints were roundfiled by the SD State Bar Secretary Thomas C. Barnett, Jr...and presiding SD Sup. Ct. Justice Dave "Janklow dick sucker" Gilbertson (aka "GilbertFaggot");

----Total silence from four SD Sup. Ct. justices when "GILBERTFAGGOT" DID NOT LET THE FULL COURT MEET EN BANC TO CONSIDER MY APPEAL OF BARNETT'S OBSTRUCTION OF FOUR COMPLAINTS?!

----OBSTRUCTION of SD US Atty Michelle Tapken's fed grand jury investigation into my complaints and the Daschle campaign memo mentioning the CALEA wiretapping of Senator Tom Daschle's November 2004 campaign by Senator THUNE, NSA 902nd Counterintel group, and local gumshoe slimeball, Marc Tobius;

----Harassment of Daschle's ex chief of staff, RICH GORDON...who was later murdered by NSA/DOD contractors who fried Rich with a directed energy weapon...later used on Rich's brother DR. MARK GORDON?;

----FBI harassment of an innocent medical doctor named DR. MARK GORDON BY SF FBI, SD US ATTY JAMES MCMAHON, SD AG, AND THE SD BD OF MED AND OSTEOPATHIC EXAMINERS;

----Conspiracies to disseminate illegally obtained info from the NSA TSG by SFPD, SF FBI, SD US ATTY, SD AG, SD DCI, and McSAO;

----Criminal immunity granted to NSA TSG and SF FBI for numerous felonies mentioned in my 47 page US DOJ OIG complaint which was also....OBSTRUCTED BY FED, STATE, AND LOCAL PUNK CLOWNS PRETENDING TO BE PROSECUTORS;

----And....the theft of 2.3 million dollars by Mayor DAVE MUNSON and the SD police mafia crime family who all laundered the cash and cut it up;

----Warrantless chipping of THOMAS S. BEAN while he slept in his own home, after contacting Senator Charles Grassley resulting in the NSA TSG scandal;

----etc, etc, etc, etc.



6) Nobody sits higher on the totem poll of gutless punk police state torts more than a shameless cowardly punk named DAVID NELSON, THE MINNEHAHA COUNTY STATES ATTORNEY ( a lying punk who grandstands all day like a superstar Narcissist who also knows alot about RICO felony crimes committed by SD's vaunted fed, state, and local punk, pig cops).


7) It will be fun watching SD ATTY GENERAL LARRY LONG promote his congressional carreer with Dick Cheney's RICO fraud money (Iraqi Coalition Authority's lost 6.8 Billion dollars...HUD fraud money...S&L fraud money...Drug money...etc). Most people don't know about the deal "Long cut with Cheney" to stop SD US Atty MICHELLE TAPKEN'S FEDERAL GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION into the Daschle wiretapping by Tobius and Thune and the NSA 902nd Counterintelligence Unit. Long as SD AG threatened Tapken by going after her son in the Dan Nelson Automotive smoke screen. Tapken...stopped her investigation based on Long's threat to criminally investigate Tapken's son.

8) Most people don't know how "LONG and SF FBI stopped and obstructed SD Highway Patrol Captain JEFF TALBOT'S MURDER INVESTIGATION OF DEFENBAUGH and KABIESEMAN". Most don't know why Talbot resigned in disgust.

The DNC has shown no interest....and Schumer had this all with Gonzalez under oath...and,...the punk kike bastard Schumer did nothing with this info and did not go for Gonzo's throat? Schumer also had Minnesota US Attorney THOMAS HEFFLEFINGER'S INFO about how he was obstructed by Gonzo to prevent an investigation into the attempted murder of a coerced, cooperating Minneopolis FBI witness named DR. MARK GORDON (who was monitored by NSA mercenaries with a pin hole spy camera in his home...during the course of the DOD's use of a Directed Energy WEapon used in a conspiracy to murder Dr. Gordon just like the NSA/DOD/FBI Div 5 did to RICH GORDON who died of a brain tumor caused by microwave radiation).



9) I also got fried in my own home...while a NSA TSG dork named ROBERT DALE LILLY monitored my home with a pin hole spy camera that was used to feed illegally obtained info to SFPD who conducted a warrantless search of my home...based on Lilly's call to 911 when Lilly claimed "I was disturbing his peace" while Lilly lived seven floors beneath me at my apartment complex?

No charges from Dave Nelson?

No charges from Larry Long?

No charges from Marty Jackley?

Nothing.

Total silence on outrageous crimes.



10) Welcome to stupidland...where...police state actors can literally murder and tamper with congressional witnesses...while SD law enforcement counts there payoff money from predatory pimps and mafia connected bookies.

11) The payoffs to SFPD pays for the Police Auxiliary Building site where free beer, drinks and T-bone steaks feed our little punk flag sucking punk cops....where Gene Lodermeier's wife's body is encased in the concrete foundation after an amorious SFPD detective murdered Mrs. Lodermeirer. Gene later got framed by States Attorney JAMES IOSTY AND HIS PUNK PALS INCLUDING JUDGE R.D. HURD, and bottom feeding hack No Defense counsel, John Schlemgin (who later plea bargained a guy into the fed pen for saying "...burning bush...).

The Democratic bought off whore betrayal of the truth: Sibel Edmonds' chagrin with congressional swine

The Silence of Henry Waxman


By Mike Mejia



And so it was, that in November, 2006, the American people cried for change and reform, an end to the quagmire in Iraq, as well as to the open and crass corruption of Dennis Hastert, Tom Delay and their fellow Congressional Republicans. The Democrats were swept into power on a wave of disgust at the decadence and decay that had enveloped D.C., taking back both Houses of Congress in one fell swoop. A revolution, it seemed, had begun. The good guys were in charge now.



Thus, one could not blame prominent FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, who served as a Turkish language specialist from 2001-2002, for feeling a surge of optimism after the Democratic sweep. After all, it was the Bush Administration and Republicans in Congress who had done everything in their power to suppress her case, which revealed high-level U.S. Neoconservatives acting as Turkish spies (amongst other illegal activities.) And it was the Democrats that assured Ms. Edmonds behind the scenes from 2002 to 2005 that once they took over, she would have the full, open hearings she had been pushing for. Furthermore, the buzz on the Democratic blogs was that, since Henry Waxman was going to be in charge of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, all the buried scandals of the Bush years would now finally be uncovered. Surely Ms. Edmonds had reasons to feel the tide was turning.



Alas: The bad news is that the sweeping changes the people voted for last November have been severely watered down. The war in Iraq wages on, and Waxman is confining his 'oversight' to very safe scandals that reflect badly only on Republicans. He appears unwilling to take on messy scandals like the Edmonds case, which reflects well on neither Party. Edmonds and a coalition of civil liberties and good government groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), presented Waxman with a petition containing over 15,000 signatures in March asking Waxman to hold hearings. But Waxman has to date refused to give any response.



Henry Waxman knows very well who Sibel Edmonds is; he can't plead ignorance. He has heard her testimony behind closed doors and has worked with her and her organization, the National Security Whistleblower's Coalition, in drafting whistleblower legislation. But despite the shock and outrage that Waxman apparently expressed when he heard the full classified version of Edmonds' allegations, his answer to the former translator and her grassroots supporters has been silence. Absolute silence.



For the record, the whistleblower's sources in Congress told her Waxman was initially disposed to hold hearings on the Edmonds case, but they were not going to be hearings that dug into the heart of the matter. They would not have exposed the darker machinations of the Turkish and Israeli lobbies, nor exposed an underground network of arms and drugs dealers with its tentacles reaching into U.S. agencies. Indeed, such hearings probably would not have allowed the words "Turkey" or "Israel" to be mentioned at all, much less named some of the U.S officials allegedly involved in passing classified information to these foreign powers. The hearings Waxman had planned, according to the grapevine, would have been the type of hearings to put even the most ardent Constitutional legal scholar to sleep for the night: they would have been sham discussions on the more arcane details of the 'state secrets privilege', with testimony limited to boring Bush hacks like FBI Director Robert Mueller.



Edmonds, a very strong-willed individual with a low tolerance for weak-kneed politicos, sent a clear message through her own channels: ‘no hearings’ were better than trumped up ones. Ms. Edmonds was not willing to let Waxman or any other politician grab the limelight and become "hero of the blogs for a day" unless they were really prepared to go to bat on this issue and defy John Ashcroft’s illegal retroactive classification. In the face of her principled stand, Waxman appears to have caved to the will of corrupt interests. His choice is logical from a political perspective, especially considering the Turkish lobby has now hired former Democratic House Minority leader Richard Gephardt. Waxman won't investigate these allegations because his current colleagues in the House and ex-colleagues like Dick Gephardt and Stephen Solarz do not want him to. He has everything to lose, and nothing to gain, from a political perspective: by digging up this can of worms, he risks exposing that corruption and bad foreign policy is not limited to the Bush Administration.



Should the grassroots be surprised that Waxman made a choice to snub Edmonds, the ACLU and CREW? Sure, Edmonds was declared 'credible' by conservative Senator Charles Grassley, and was largely backed up in her core allegations by the Department of Justice's own Inspector General Report. And, yes, Edmonds’ translations of Turkish counterintelligence wiretaps do not look good for hated conservatives like Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and Dennis Hastert. But these same wiretaps also do not look great for at least one Clinton appointee, former Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman, or for at least two as of yet unnamed Democrats in Congress. Nor would they look good for the Turkish Lobby, the Israeli Lobby or defense contractors like Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, the beneficiaries of apparent corruption run out of the American Turkish Council. In Washington D.C., the only scandal that gets exposed is the scandal that implicates the other party and stays away from hurting vested groups that fund both Democrats and Republicans alike.



As former DEA agent and radio host Michael Levine noted in a recent interview with Australian Luke Ryland, a blogger who has written the most extensive investigative reports on the Edmonds case, the U.S. Congress has rarely tackled thorny issues like this Turkish corruption case. Not only do the Democrats have no backbone, but many of their own are bought off by the same special interest groups as the GOP, especially in the areas that touch on the military industrial complex and foreign policy. Most of the progressive community have not yet caught on to this harsh reality, and instead is focused on the 2008 elections. More sound advice would be to forget about 2008 and start holding the Democratic Party to its campaign promises. Otherwise, the illegal Bush wars will grind on and the corruption will continue unabated- albeit the Democrats will be getting a greater share of the lobbyist largesse.





Mike Mejia is a freelance writer with a degree in International Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he specialized in International Trade and Arms Proliferation. He can be contacted at lenlarga@yahoo.com.

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Comment from Thomas S. Bean (somewhere in Northern California away from the miserable FBI Division 5 "Mind Control" and DOD Directed Energy Weapon attacks on a U.S. citizen who was targeted for "giving criminal info" to Sioux Falls PD that identified the FBI and US Intel Community's "front groups" that did the OK CITY BOMB using electronic detenators manufactured at an electronic assembly plant in Canistota, SD:

----a bigger scandal brews when the Democrats refuse to investigate the CALEA computerized wiretap records that show cause that the "US Intel Community" did the surveillance as part of the conspiracies to murder Wellstone, Carnahan, Christina Moore, JFK Jr., Rich Gordon, Mark Defenbaugh, John Kabieseman, ....and the attempted murders of an FBI witness named DR. MARK GORDON and THOMAS S. BEAN.

----A BIGGER SCANDAL IS THE DNC'S REFUSAL TO INVESTIGATE THE NSA TERRORIST SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM as a political secret police that fed illegally obtained info to FBI, and state and local law enforcement in Sioux Falls, SD, and Austin, TX...as part of a conspiracy to violate Title 18 USC sections 241, 242, 1512, 1513, 373, and other high crimes and misdemeanors.

----A BIGGER SCANDAL IS WAXMAN'S FAILURE TO GET ANY MEDIA ATTENTION TO HIS SUBPOENAS OF FORMER GOP MONTANA GOVERNOR MARC RACICOT'S overt acts as part of conspiracies to violate the federal criminal prohibition on drug trafficking and money laundering into GOP campaigns (pursuant to the far ranging drug distribution conspiracy carried out by former Miami FBI special agent TERRY NELSON'S BIG SKY CALI COCAINE DRUG PIPELINE IN MONTANA as memorialied in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest warrant for Terry Nelson...sealed in Regina Saskatchawan Provincial Court....attested to by Blaine County Sherriff Pete Paulsen)....

----A BIGGER SCANDAL IS FBI DIRECTOR ROBERT SWAN MUELLER'S CONTINUAL OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE during the course of Sioux Falls FBI special agent STEVEN PLUTA'S conspiracy to TAMPER WITH A SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE WITNESS NAMED THOMAS S. BEAN who contacted Senator Charles Grassley with a ten page memo three weeks before the NSA TSG was outed in the New York Times based on Grassley's inquiries to Bob Mueller who flipped on the NSA to save the FBI's shattered credibility (see, 47 page US DOJ OIG Complaint submitted under penalty of prosecution by THOMAS S. BEAN).


WELCOME TO STUPIDLAND...home of the corrupt FBI drug dealers and unindicted RICO felony coconspirators.

ATTA'S BUSINESS FRONTS: Used car salesman launder terror money?

Mohamed Atta, Florida Entrepreneur:
Terrorist Ringleader was President of Orlando Firm


WORLD EXCLUSIVE


June 12 2007

by Daniel Hopsicker





Government records in Florida reveal that Mohamed Atta was the President of a company in Orlando with a business partner whose web of dummy shell companies appear characteristic of the type used in terrorist financing and illicit money laundering, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.

One day after the 9/11 Commission Report says the terrorist ringleader finished making withdrawals in Virginia Beach, VA. totaling $18,000 from a SunTrust Bank account, on April 5th, 2001 Hassan Erroudani, an Orlando man with close ties to the Moroccan Embassy in Washington D.C., filed incorporation papers with the state of Florida listing the President of KARAM LLC as “Mohamed Atta.”

The document lists an address for "President" Atta in Marseilles, France, which can be traced to a graphic design firm there. (Once again, Amanda Keller's testimony is vindicated. Atta told her he was French.)


Died and went to IHOP


Incorporation documents give the names of the KARAM LLC's officers as Hassan Erroudani, Mohamed Atta, and Jamal Erroudani.

Karam LLC was delisted in 2002 by the state of Florida for failing to file an annual report.

When the firm filed for reinstatement on January 13, 2003, it once again listed “Mohamed Atta” as a corporate officer.

But Atta had now been demoted to Company Secretary.

And his address has changed as well. Not to Paradise, or Virgin City, but Orlando, a long way from heaven, according to those who've been there.

Atta's current address, if Florida Division of Corporate Records can be believed, is 4124 West Colonial Dr, Orlando, FL., the location of an International House of Pancakes.


Orlando, Land of Mystery & Magic

Hassan Erroudani has close ties with the Moroccan Embassy in Washington D.C. He is also the President of the Moroccan-American Chamber of Commerce.

Moreover Florida records show Erroudani is also business partners, in a company called JMH INVESTMENT GROUP, with Mohammed Ariad, the economic counselor of the Moroccan Embassy in Washington D.C.

Atta was, of course, in Orlando on numerous occasions. For example, his car, a red 1989 Pontiac Grand Prix two-door coupe, was said to have been seen last in downtown Orlando.

Still, the idea that the “Mohamed Atta” who flew Flight 11 into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 had been listed as a corporate officer in a Florida company, without it having become public knowledge by now, seemed a tad unlikely, perhaps even a little far-fetched.

At least, it did, until after we spoke with KARAM LLC principal and founder Hassan Erroudani, who we reached by phone at his Orlando home.


Turkish baths, cigarettes...heroin?

We hadn't counted on either Erroudani’s flat refusal to answer any questions about the “Mohamed Atta” listed as an officer in his company, or his tone of evident hostility.

Trust us... We had been nothing if not polite, even to the point of suggesting a reason for why the whole thing might be just a big misunderstanding...

“Was it perhaps just a case of two different men with similar names?” we asked helpfully.

Ennoudani’s forceful response: “I don’t have anything to say about that.”

And then he hung up.

Why would someone do that... unless they possess what is commonly known as guilty knowledge? His behavior seemed both inexplicable and suspicious.


Red flags & a Turkish Naval Attaché


Among the red flags denoting Hassan Erroudani's various enterprises which we never got the opportunity to question him about:

He ran a wire transfer service called Rapid Cash from out of his home. (Atta and Marwan made frequent use of wire services to get money.)


He owned a company, Seawest Car Import/Export, which appears to be in the business of exporting luxury vehicles to the Middle East.


One of the corporate officer in Seawest, until recently, was one “Murat Oner.”

Lt Cdr Murat Oner is the Turkish Embassy's Naval Attaché in Washington.

(Recall whistleblower Sibel Edmonds long and courageous struggle to tell America what she knows about, among other things, Turkish influence in the international drug trade.)

Other companies possibly related to the KARAM LLC scheme include KARAM MOTORS, another company which ships cars to Lebanon. Florida records show it was incorporated the same day that KARAM LLC filed for reinstatement, January 13, 2003.
Another Orlando company, Karam Moving and Storage, gave as its address a private home located two blocks south of the Orlando Executive Airport… the same airport where terror flight school owner Wally Hilliard’s Lear jet was confiscated with 43 lbs. of heroin onboard six months earlier.


Terrorists & used car salesman
What was going on in Central Florida that made Erroudani so reluctant to talk?

U.S. federal agencies recently announced new anti-money laundering strategies designed to begin to combat bulk cash smuggling and trade-based money laundering.

According to a May 3 2007 article in the Boston Globe, as traditional bank transfer avenues are shut down cash is increasingly being converted to goods, like cars, before being moved across borders and sold in seemingly legitimate transactions.

Moreover, terrorists appear to have an affinity for posing as used car salesmen. Among the many little-known facts about Mohamed Atta is that, in addition to being a draftsman, Mohamed Atta sold used cars while in Hamburg.

More recently, one of the alleged terrorists involved in the thwarted Kennedy Airport Terror Plot was a used car salesman...

The convicted al-Qaeda chief in Spain, Imad Yarkas, sentenced to 27 years in prison for conspiracy to commit murder and for heading a terrorist organization, was a used car salesman...

The man accused in the Bali bombing of detonating bombs that killed nearly 200 people on that resort island was a used car dealer...


Cash for cars. Come on down

The 15 British marines and sailors seized by an Iranian naval patrol off the coast of Iraq recently had just boarded a vessel suspected of smuggling cars.

“Almost every time there is a Muslim plot to blow up and kill US and or British targets there is a Muslim car dealer involved in financing the project,” fumed Sarasota PI Bill Warner, an export in terrorist financing.

Warner is credited with revealing Islamist groups with ties to Al Qaeda operating networks used to export stolen luxury cars from a base in Tampa, FL, just miles from the headquarters of the US Central Command, the group tasked with eradicating the Islamist terrorist threat in the Middle East.

“Muslim used car scams are an updated version of the Hawala money transfer,” states Warner.

“The cars are the cash now. Vehicles sent to the Middle East from the US are funding terrorism. And a few have even been used as car bombs in Iraq.”


Another friendly Arab Ally

Even before the latest revelations, connections between the 9/11 hijackers and the Moroccan Embassy had been exposed.

Mohamed Atta phoned the Moroccan Embassy in DC on January 2, 2001—for reasons unknown, speaking to persons unknown—a fact buried in the notes of the 9/11 Commission’s report.

And Atta bodyguard Marwan Al Shehhi, pilot of the second plane to hit the Twin Towers, had flown to Casablanca, Morocco and back, also for reasons unknown, and visiting person unknown, in early January of 2001.

Despite having overstayed his previous visa, he was able to reenter the US through Orlando without trouble.

To this date, no explanation for why Atta called the Moroccan Embassy or why Marwan Al-Shehhi went to Morocco have been offered.


Military attaché, anyone?

A MadCowMorningNews exclusive reported that a 26-year old Moroccan man, whose name was on the FBI’s terrorist watch list, had been a business partner in a Florida firm with the Chief Military Attaché for the Moroccan Embassy in Washington, DC.

For our pains, we were contacted by a lawyer in Washington D.C. representing Col. Arara, who threatened us--without bothering to make any representation as to what about out story might have been in error--with yet another lawsuit.

We didn't think anything was. We still don't.

Florida records show that on June 30, 2000, Colonel Ahmed Arara, the Military Attaché of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco, incorporated Titim Holdings, Inc., with terror suspect Mohammed Arara.

“Titim,” a verb in Gaelic, means “to fall down.”

The Moroccan military attaché and his two Arab companions had launched “Falling Down Inc.”


What "Falling Down" Looks Like

Atta was at the Orlando International Airport in early August of 2001, officials revealed last year, awaiting the arrival of Mohammad al-Kahtani, who had been chosen by Osama bin Laden to replace Zacharias Moussaoui as the 20th hijacker.

Kahtani was denied entry into the United States by a Customs Official. It is the only instance we are aware of where an American official took action may have saved lives on 9/11.

(Asked why he'd denied the Saudi entrance into the U.S., the Customs officer told the 9/11 Commission, “The guy gave me the creeps.”)

Of course, Mohamed Atta may even have had relatives living in Central Florida. Majed Atta ran the Rainbow Grocery in a suburb near Orlando called Winter Garden, until he and his family packed their belongings into a U-Haul and abruptly left in August 2001...just one week after telling his landlady that he planned to buy the home from her while opening a new grocery store in Orlando.


Welcome to TerrorLand, Take 17
Also in Winter Garden was Khalil bin Laden, a brother of Saudi-born terrorist Osama bin Laden, who lived on a 20-acre ranch in Winter Garden behind an 8-foot high concrete wall and electronic gate. Khalil was one of several bin Laden family members allowed to leave the United States on chartered flights to Saudi Arabia several days after the 9/11 attack.

“There is evidence of deep links in Central Florida of people with documented ties to the terrorist hijackers, Osama bin Laden, and the al-Qaeda terrorist network,” the Orlando Sentinel reported on September 23, 2001.

There was an ominous new theme in paradise: Long known for vacations, beaches, sunshine and fun, Central Florida’s Tomorrowland and Adventureland gave way to the new game in town.

Welcome to TerrorLand.

Take your shoes off and get comfortable. It looks like we'll be here awhile.