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Webster Tarpley Strongly Endorses Impeachment NOW, to Stop the Next False Flag Attack

Webster Tarpley Strongly Endorses Impeachment NOW, to Stop the Next False Flag Attack

US SITUATION TRAGIC

These points bring into sharp relief the dire predicament of our tragically drifting country in the summer of 2007, a summer which Cheney?s backers and controllers are determined to transform into the Summer of Fear. Skeptics may object that they have heard all this before ? in the spring and the autumn of 2004, in the late summer of 2005, and in March-April of 2007 ? and that so far the general war with Iran had not occurred.

This is true, but it is no argument against the urgency of the warnings that the present writer and others have issued from time to time over the last three years. It only shows that the world has been lurching and careening along the edge of a much wider war in the Middle East since about May of 2004 at the latest.

For much of this time we have lived in the shadow of the Cheney doctrine, which calls for a nuclear attack on Iran in the wake of a new super 9/11 terrorist provocation (coming from the bowels of the US intelligence community) ? as revealed by Philip Giraldi in The American Conservative in August of 2005. Each time some combination of internal US institutional resistance and inertia, objections by NATO allies, and foreign threats or pressure have somehow avoid the worst.

So far we have muddled through. But Cheney?s backers and controllers ? the ones designated as the Cheneyacs in this analysis ? have unfailingly pulled themselves together after each rebuff, and have marshaled their forces for a new drive over the brink of the abyss.

As long as Bush and Cheney are in power, as long as the 9/11 rogue networks in the US intelligence community continue their work unpurged and undisturbed, we will face one war emergency after another, until the likely moment when humanity?s luck runs out.

Under any political system committed to its own survival, each of the Cheneyac war drives over the past three years should have lead to the impeachment, removal from office, and indictment of the dour and snarling old reprobate himself, and a general mop-up of his followers.

It is the fact that the corrupt and cowardly parliamentary cretins of the Democratic Party have failed to impeach and oust Bush-Cheney over the last six months since they took power which represents the most immediate cause of the fix we are now in.

Congressman Kucinich has introduced the needed articles against Cheney, but the Pelosi-Reid opportunists have been hostile to this needed measure. It is time for honest activists to join with the Philadelphia Platform to get on with the business at hand before martial law is imposed by these neocon fascist madmen, since by then it may be too late.
 
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nato's secret armies: acclaimed book's rundown, 2 sources

nato's secret armies: acclaimed book's rundown, 2 sources

NATO?s secret armies linked to terrorism?
by Daniele Ganser

At a time when experts are debating whether NATO is suited to deal with the global ?war on terror?, new research suggests that the alliance?s own secret history has links to terrorism.
ISN Editor?s Note:

This report written by Daniele Ganser is based on excerpts from his newly released book, ?NATO?s Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe?, released this week by Frank Cass in London.

The book describes NATO?s clandestine operations during the Cold War. The research was prompted by a story that made world headlines in 1990 but quickly disappeared, ensuring that even today, NATO?s secret armies remain just that - secret.

Until now, a full investigation of NATO?s secret armies had not been carried out - a task that Ganser has taken on single-handedly and quite successfully.


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In Italy, on 3 August 1990, then-prime minister Giulio Andreotti confirmed the existence of a secret army code-named ?Gladio? - the Latin word for ?sword? - within the state. His testimony before the Senate subcommittee investigating terrorism in Italy sent shockwaves through the Italian parliament and the public, as speculation arose that the secret army had possibly manipulated Italian politics through acts of terrorism.

Andreotti revealed that the secret Gladio army had been hidden within the Defense Ministry as a subsection of the military secret service, SISMI. General Vito Miceli, a former director of the Italian military secret service, could hardly believe that Andreotti had lifted the secret, and protested:

"I have gone to prison because I did not want to reveal the existence of this super secret organization. And now Andreotti comes along and tells it to parliament!" According to a document compiled by the Italian military secret service in 1959, the secret armies had a two-fold strategic purpose: firstly, to operate as a so-called ?stay-behind? group in the case of a Soviet invasion and to carry out a guerrilla war in occupied territories; secondly, to carry out domestic operations in case of ?emergency situations?.

The military secret services? perceptions of what constituted an ?emergency? was well defined in Cold War Italy and focused on the increasing strength of the Italian Communist and the Socialist parties, both of which were tasked with weakening NATO ?from within?. Felice Casson, an Italian judge who during his investigations into right-wing terrorism had first discovered the secret Gladio army and had forced Andreotti to take a stand, found that the secret army had linked up with right-wing terrorists in order to confront ?emergency situations?. The terrorists, supplied by the secret army, carried out bomb attacks in public places, blamed them on the Italian left, and were thereafter protected from prosecution by the military secret service. "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game,? right-wing terrorist Vincezo Vinciguerra explained the so-called ?strategy of tension? to Casson.

?The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened."

No comment from NATO or the CIA

How strongly NATO and US intelligence backed and supported the use of terror in Italy in order to discredit the political left during the Cold War remains subject of ongoing research. General Gerardo Serravalle, who had commanded the Italian Gladio secret army from 1971 to 1974, confirmed that the secret army ?could pass from a defensive, post-invasion logic, to one of attack, of civil war?.

The Italian Senate chose to be more explicit and concluded in its investigation in 2000: "Those massacres, those bombs, those military actions had been organized or promoted or supported by men inside Italian state institutions and, as has been discovered more recently, by men linked to the structures of United States intelligence." Ever since the discovery of the secret NATO armies in 1990, research into stay-behind armies has progressed only very slowly, due to very limited access to primary documents and the refusal of both NATO and the CIA to comment. On 5 November 1990, a NATO spokesman told an inquisitive press: "NATO has never contemplated guerrilla war or clandestine operations?.

The next day, NATO officials admitted that the previous day?s denial had been false, adding that the alliance would not comment on matters of military secrecy. On 7 November, NATO?s highest military official in Europe, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) US General John Galvin, together with NATO?s highest civilian official, Secretary-General Manfred W?rner, briefed NATO ambassadors behind closed doors. "Since this is a secret organization, I wouldn't expect too many questions to be answered,? reasoned a senior NATO diplomat, who wished to remain unnamed. ?If there were any links to terrorist organizations, that sort of information would be buried very deep indeed.? Former CIA director William Colby confirmed in his memoirs that setting up the secret armies in Western Europe had been ?a major program? for the CIA. The project started after World War II in total secrecy, and access to information was limited ?to the smallest possible coterie of the most reliable people, in Washington, in NATO? and in the countries concerned. Yet when in Italy in 1990 former CIA director Admiral Stansfield Turner was questioned on television on Gladio, he strictly refused to answer any questions on the sensitive issue, and as the interviewer insisted with respect for the terror victims, Stansfield angrily ripped off his microphone and shouted: "I said, no questions about Gladio!", whereafter the interview was over.

Protest from the EU

If there had been a Soviet invasion, the secret anti-communist soldiers would have operated behind enemy lines, strengthening and setting up local resistance movements in enemy-held territory, evacuating shot down pilots, and sabotaging the supply lines and production centers of occupation forces. Upon discovery of the secret armies, the European Parliament responded with harsh criticism, suspecting it to have been involved in manipulation and terror operations. ?This Europe will have no future,? Italian representative Falqui opened the debate, ?if it is not founded on truth, on the full transparency of its institutions in regard to the dark plots against democracy that have turned upside down the history, even in recent times, of many European states.?

Falqui insisted that ?there will be no future, ladies and gentlemen, if we do not remove the idea of having lived in a kind of double state - one open and democratic, the other clandestine and reactionary. That is why we want to know what and how many "Gladio" networks there have been in recent years in the Member States of the European Community." The majority of EU parliamentarians followed Falqui, and in a special resolution on 22 November 1990 made it clear that the EU ?protests vigorously at the assumption by certain US military personnel at SHAPE and in NATO of the right to encourage the establishment in Europe of a clandestine intelligence and operation network?, calling for a ?a full investigation into the nature, structure, aims, and all other aspects of these clandestine organizations or any splinter groups, their use for illegal interference in the internal political affairs of the countries concerned, and the problem of terrorism in Europe?.

Secret armies across Western Europe

Only the parliaments in Italy, Switzerland, and Belgium had formed a special commission to investigate the national secret army, and after months or even years of research, presented a public report. Building on this data and secondary sources from numerous European countries, ?NATO?s Secret Armies? confirms for the first time that the secret networks spread across Western Europe, with great details on networks in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Luxemburg, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Greece, and Turkey, as well as the strategic planning of Britain and the US.

The stay-behind armies were coordinated on an international level by the so-called Allied Clandestine Committee (ACC) and the Clandestine Planning Committee (CPC), linked to NATO?s Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). And they used cover names such as ?Absalon? in Denmark, ?P26? in Switzerland, ?ROC? in Norway or ?SDRA8? in Belgium. Interestingly, large differences existed from country to country. In some nations the secret armies became a source of terror, while in others they remained a prudent precaution.

In Turkey, the ?Counter-Guerrilla? was involved in domestic terror and torture operations against the Kurds, while in Greece, the ?LOK? took part in the 1967 military coup d??tat to prevent a Socialist government. In Spain, the secret army was used to prop up the fascist dictatorship of Franco, and in Germany, right-wing terrorists used the explosives of the secret army in the 1980 terror attack in Munich. In other countries, including Denmark, Norway, and Luxemburg, the secret soldiers prepared for the eventual occupation of their home country and never engaged in domestic terror or manipulation. In the context of the ongoing so-called war on terror, the Gladio data promotes the sobering insight that governments in the West have sacrificed the life of innocent citizens and covered up acts of terrorism in order to manipulate the population.

Allegations that NATO, the Pentagon, MI6, the CIA, and European intelligence services were linked to terror, coups d??tat, and torture in Europe are obviously of an extremely sensitive nature, and future research is needed in the field. In the absence of an official investigation by NATO or the EU, ongoing international research into terrorism is about to tackle this difficult task, the first step of which I hope to have promisingly taken with ?NATO?s Secret Armies?.


Dr Daniele Ganser is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at the ETH in Zurich. For more information on the topic, compare the research of the Center of Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich.





NATO'S SECRET ARMIES: COLD WAR PARAMILITARIES AND TURKEY'S SECURITY STATE


Over the past few years, more and more researchers have delved into the mysterious events that shaped the world during the Cold War era and which have resulted in the most important global political developments. This is the case with Daniele Ganser, who in NATO?S Secret Armies vigorously lays out the evidence relating to NATO?s secret operations, through the establishment of paramilitary forces within its member states.

The book's structure is such that its 18 chapters cover each country, from Great Britain and the United States to Norway, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Luxembourg, Denmark, Greece, Turkey, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Belgium and Holland. Essentially, the book retells the recurring story of how clandestine military groups, often comprised of right-wing belligerents, including former Nazis and other Fascists, were recruited to form a line of defense in case of Soviet attack, while also to keep potential subversives and Communist sympathizers under the thumb of the NATO security apparatus.

Perhaps the most interesting focus of NATO?S Secret Armies for our readers is how it unveils hidden dimensions of modern Turkey?s history, issues that still haunt the country and have shaped its collective political identity.

Before discussing the Turkish contribution to NATO's 'secret armies,' the Grey Wolves, one has to first devote some attention to the creator of the organization, Arpaslan Turkes. A colonel who played a decisive role in promoting the Contra-guerilla forces in Turkey, Turkes came into contact with the CIA back in the early 1950's. The main objective of their cooperation was to manage the creation of a paramilitary force that would operate inside Turkey in case of a Soviet attack.

This force would be equipped with the necessary arms and capabilities to initiate a full-scale guerilla war against the Soviet army, if necessary.
The original plan as devised by NATO and the USA promoted the use of special forces, which would become expert in guerilla techniques. Similar ?black armies? were also witnessed in Italy?s Gladio affair, and in Greece. Those forces gained tremendous unofficial power and were constantly operated as a state within a state in relation to numerous criminal activities such as provocation and terrorism.

In Turkey, the first secret army was called Seferberlik Taktik Kurulu (STK). Its headquarters was situated in the same building where the American military mission to Ankara resided. It is interesting to note that NATO'S Secret Armies is very thorough in its reference of sources, names and locations, leaving no room for any accusations that there is any case of fabrication or misplacement of events. A rough summary of those recounted follows.

In 1959 an agreement between the CIA and the Turkish government placed the Turkish contra-guerrillas as the forefront against internal enemies of the Turkish state. These mostly included members of the political left. However, the original remit of the special team was soon forgotten, and personal ambitions, leading to meddling within the political system; soon appeared. In 1960 a coup d'etat by 38 officers including Turkes resulted in the imprisonment of the then-Prime Minister Menderes, and subsequently his condemnation to death, along with other leading political figures.

The Menderes government was considered very liberal at that time and the Turkish secret army, fearful of losing its newly established power, abruptly challenged and defeated the existing political order. In 1965, Turkes established the party of nationalist action, Millietsi Hareket Partisi, which operated as a quasi-fascistic party. It was armed with a paramilitary force called the Grey Wolves (Bozkurt). When he died in 1997, Turkes was remembered tearfully by the former Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, whose vast and ill-begotten wealth ironically has its basis in the social and political upheaval he caused.

The ranks of the contra-guerrillas would soon be swelled by the more hot-blooded representatives of the Grey Wolves, as a civil component in the then-fully military secret army. Their role included domestic counterintelligence and support in case of provocative actions within Turkey. In parallel, other factors of the Turkish state such as the intelligence service (MIT) cooperated closely with the contra-guerrillas, so closely that in fact there was often little to distinguish between their respective operations.

In NATO'S Secret Armies, Ganser moreover reveals the deep connections between the political violence that swept Turkey in the 1970?s and the provocative role of the contra-guerrillas in this unrest. It is assumed that around 5,000 murders were committed by this infamous secret organization, including the 1st of May massacre in Istanbul in 1977, when 38 people were killed in the center of the city by unknown snipers. The author also reveals the inability of the Turkish political class to deal with the issue because of extreme military pressure and the chronic inability of the government and the members of Parliament to exercise control over the state security structure.

In 1980, the time of yet another Turkish coup d'etat, there were around 200,000 members of the Grey Wolves in Turkey, as well as 1,000,000 sympathizers, all playing a pivotal role in establishing military rule in the country. Even though a lot of military leaders were skeptical of their relations with international terrorism, it was too late for an effective action to take place. That period also coincided with the beginning of the Kurdish PKK guerilla war in 1984, a conflict which ironically gave plentiful of opportunities for the paramilitary force never having been required for its original, anti-Soviet purposes to excel on its natural turf.

At the same time, this conflict also presented the opportunity for the expansion of heroin smuggling, an age-old practice in the tri-national borders between Turkey, Iraq and Iran. This to some extent complicated relations between Turkey and the West, since the bulk of the narcotics were exported into Europe via numerous channels, all more or less controlled by the Turkish secret services.

That said, it is worthwhile to mention the complexity of the contra-guerrillas' activity within the international criminal network that in essence was connected with international terrorism. A network of gigantic proportions was created based around contra-guerrilla activities, which resulted in a plethora of criminal activities around the world.

The 1990s, and the crumbling of the Soviet bloc, meant a sort of apocalypse for NATO's secret armies. European paramilitary forces quickly disbanded along with the Soviet threat.

In Turkey, however, as Ganser explains, this was not the case. It would take the infamous 'Sousourlouk' incident for Turkey to reveal the widespread network that encompassed organized crime, terrorists and the paramilitary force that had outlived its ostensible purpose. Nevertheless, the hypothesis that the contra-guerrillas' simply continued to operate under new branding is plausible.

On the whole, NATO'S Secret Armies can be considered a milestone in the history of 'black operations' in post-war Europe, and especially in light of its focus on Turkey. The wealth of resources and references that are annotated in the pages of this engaging book will persuade even the most critical of researchers to spend substantial time in retrieving these little-known facts and figures that have shaped vital parts of our modern history.

Most importantly, in the big picture, is that NATO'S Secret Armies reveals a world where ideology and national interest are used in order to cover up something much more important in our civilized society ? profit, whether legal or illegal.
 
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the al-qaeda bogeyman

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There Are No Moslem
Terrorist Organizations
In Indonesia
From David Leibovitz
Sydney, Australia
10-13-5


Today is Yom Kipur, the holiest day of the year in our Jewish calendar. It is also the saddest day in Australian history. Last night, the biggest fraud in the history of Australia was disclosed to the Australian people on TV.

The Former President of Indonesia (who is widely known in Indonesia as the only honest Indonesian politician there) directly stated IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS that the Indonesian police and/or military have perpetrated the infamous Bali bombing in which over 200 people were killed...about half of them Australians.

To remind you, this is the blind former President who is honest and religious and beyond the possibility of being corrupted. His attitude was similar to Israel's former Prime Minister Lady Golda Meir, something like: "terrorism shmerorism, there is no such thing as 'Moslem terrorism.'"

In an one hour documentary/research/investigative program on SBS-TV Date-Line program last night; all the fabricated cover-up story about 'terrorist Moslem Organizations' in Indonesia fell apart.

THEY DO NOT EXIST! They were all created by Indonesian Military Intelligence!

We Australians know our Indonesian neighbors very well, they are a very gentle nation under strict military Nazi-like repression, and informed Australians never believed the official cover-up story about 'Moslem terrorists organizations' in Indonesia (Please see the excellent research done by the late Australian journalist/researcher Joe Vialls. Joe was the ONLY Australian journalist who dared then to write the truth).

The program last night established beyond any doubt the followings:

A. The former Indonesian President is the most honest personality in Indonesian politics, and has no reason to lie.

B. The Indonesian public are scared for their lives and are very afraid to speak up. Watching the response of the poor Indonesian citizens last night, reminded me as a Jew the terrible times we Jews had in Nazi Germany.

C. All Indonesian researchers and journalist agree last night, that 'Moslems terrorists' DO NOT EXIST, they were all created by Indonesian Military Intelligence.

D. The Indonesian Generals are corrupt, they boasted on TV that they got 50 million dollars from the Americans, in order to 'fight terrorism'. In reality, they created 'terrorism' and pocketed the money.

E. ALL 'coordinated bombings' in Indonesia against Moslems, Christians and tourists are done by the Indonesian military. It was stated flatly that NO terrorist organization could have possibly created such 'coordinated bombings'.

F. The former Indonesian president repeated, WORD FOR WORD, the allegations by the late Australian journalist Joe Vialls, and many other Indonesian. He said that the first small Bali bomb was planted by Ambrosi (who got the death penalty). BUT! - the former president insisted - (as Vialls insisted), that the second big coordinated, blast which destroyed Bali business center and Bali,s economy, was done by the Indonesian Police or military. Over 200 tourists and locals lost their lives in this blast!

G. Indonesian Generals lied on TV.

H. Indonesian generals has been extremely successful in fooling western governments, creating 'terrorism' and pocketing the money.

I. The Indonesian former president was very sad, his facial expressions were of total helplessness, he indicated that there is no hope to end corruption in Indonesia.

This is UNQUESTIONABLY the saddest day in the history of Australians:

OUR American controlled 'media' have been bombarding us daily with endless fabricated 'Moslem terrorists' stories daily for about two years now.

OUR 'media' is encouraging us to spy on each other and to 'report suspicious terrorist activity'.

OUR 'media' keep reminding us that our government spent thirty million dollars to manufacture and post to us, magnetic stickers to be hanging on every Australian home refrigerator, warning us to report 'Moslem terrorism activity' with telephone number attached.

OUR 'media,'keep regurgitating 'CIA reports' about illusionary 'Moslem terrorists' planning to attack Australia.

OUR 'media'' is posting TV-commercials almost every hour encouraging us to 'look under every bed' in order to find 'Moslem terrorists'.

OUR 'media' is advertising toll free telephone number on TV almost every hour to 'encourage' us to 'report terrorism'.

OUR 'media' is creating an anti-Moslem paranoia.

OUR 'media' is indirectly siwing fear against Moslems.

OUR 'media's' behavior is a little short of a Hate Crime against Moslem brothers.

OUR 'media' never mentions that our Jewish/Christian families are falling apart.

While Moslem families are almost always religious with high moral values.

OUR 'media' never mentioned the good character of the Moslem the people and the Moslem religion, mostly praying 5 times a day, while we Jews and Christians practically never visit Synagogues and churches.

OUR Australian 'media' is mentioning daily, names of fabricated 'terrorists' and 'terrorist organizations', without ANY real evidence. NOT ONLY THAT! new institutions are been created almost daily to report to the 'media' about 'terrorism'.

NOW WE KNOW it is all mostly fabricated, they are all stampeding to the news rooms to release their latest disinformation, to deflect the Australian public from knowing the truth.

OUR 'news media' daily, repeatedly, endlessly is 'interviewing' armchair 'experts' who always give us the latest story they get from the US. All of a sudden almost every Australian University has a 'terrorism expert'.

OUR 'media' always refused (or is not allowed to interview) the only journalist in the history of Australia who already proved himself (on most occasions) to be the ONLY terrorism expert in Australia. Joe Vialls. FULL STOP!

OUR 'media' never reported where the one billion dollars 'tsunami aid' we gave Indonesia has gone?

OUR 'media' is not allowed to EVER mention what already most informed Australians know, THAT 911 WAS AN 'INSIDE JOB'.

OUR 'media' assured us before we joined Bush/Blair Iraq massacre that: THERE ARE NO MOSLEMS TERRORISTS IN AUSTRALIA, and therefore we should not worry about any adverse effects sending our Australian military forces to join the occupation forces in Iraq. Now, we hear daily 'reports' that Moslems 'may be' infiltrating every section of Australian society. WHAT A BACK-FLIP by our Australian 'media' in less than two years.

Now, after all this spectacular Australian 'media' anti-Moslem hate campaign, ALL THE AMERICAN'S TERRORISM, HOUSE OF CARDS OF FABRICATED DISINFORMATION IS NOW FALLING APART!

Last night's program highlighted that important HONEST PATRIOTIC element in Australian journalism STILL EXIST. While ALL the American press continue to maintain the 911 cover-up (as if the internet do not exist), here in Australia we still have a VERY small group of honest Australian journalists who dare to bring the truth to the Australian people, and who are not corrupted by American pressure and money!

We Australians are have been aware for years about the massive corruption in Indonesia. As a matter of fact, when we gave Indonesia one billion dollars 'tsunami aid', IT WAS THE INDONESIAN PUBLIC who raised eyebrows asking us HOW COULD WE POSSIBLY GIVE MONEY TO SUCH CORRUPT REGIME?

We Australians, never believed before that the Americans would be successful in corrupting a the world's largest Moslem country, to create 'Moslem terrorists organizations', to act against the Moslem world, in total contradiction to their own religion, to bomb their own cities, to massacre their own citizens, to destroy their own economy! Well, money can talk.

We are urging all our American brothers to watch/listen to last night SBS-TV program. It would be the 'EUREKA MOMENT' of your lives. For the first time it would open the eyes of those of you who still believe that 'Bin-Laden' is behind 911.

FOR THE FIRST TIME, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO CONNECT THE DOTS,.

Australians now know the truth.

NEVER AGAIN will we be fooled...
 
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absolute proof gov. lied--altho sheep will say its not evidence

absolute proof gov. lied--altho sheep will say its not evidence

open your eyes to the truth, why do all you bush lickers refuse to see the truth when it smacks you in the face?

New Evidence The Official
911 Story Is A Fraud
David Ray Griffin
10-12-7

Early in 2007, Interlink Books published my Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory. The stimulus for my writing this book was the appearance in August 2006- just before the fifth anniversary of 9/11-of four publications intended to bolster the official account by debunking the alternative view, according to which 9/11 was an inside job. The most explicit and well-known of these publications was a book by Popular Mechanics entitled Debunking 9/11 Myths.

My book's introduction and conclusion dealt with the irresponsible way the press, including the left-leaning press, has dealt with this issue. One of their failings, I showed, was simply to accept the official reports -especially The 9/11 Commission Report and the report on the World Trade Center put out by the National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST) - as neutral, scientific reports. They thereby ignored the fact that the 9/11 Commission was run by Philip Zelikow, who was virtually a member of the US. Bush administration, and that NIST is an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce and hence of the Bush administration (which has distorted science for political purposes to an unprecedented extent).

The book's four chapters then demonstrated that none of the documents of August 2006 actually served to debunk the claims of the 9/11 truth movement. The first two chapters dealt with two documents- including a new book by Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, the co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission - that tried, by creating a completely new story, to debunk the claim that the U.S. military's failure to intercept four hijacked airliners could have occurred only if there had been a stand-down order. I argued that this new story was too inherently implausible, as well as too contradictory of previous statements by the military, to be worthy of belief.

The third chapter dealt with NIST's reports on the Twin Towers, showing that they are political, not scientific, documents, because they ignore all evidence not consistent with NIST's theory, such as testimony showing that massive explosions had occurred and that steel had melted- even though the fires could not have gotten even close to the temperature needed to melt steel (which means that there had to have been another source of energy).

The fourth and longest chapter dealt with the Popular Mechanics book, which discusses all the issues (the failures to intercept, the WTC, the Pentagon, and United 93). My critique showed this book to be filled with distortions and outright lies. Although the Popular Mechanics book has been used as the basis for two TV specials intended to bolster the official story- one on the BBC and one on the History Channel in the USA (which is partially owned by the Hearst Corporation, which puts out Popular Mechanics) - the fact that the public is increasingly seeing through this book's deceptions is shown by recent reviews on Amazon.com.

My book, although it has yet to be reviewed by a single mainstream publication in the United States, has been supported by well-respected political commentators from the left and the right. Howard Zinn wrote: "Considering how the 9-ll tragedy has been used by the Bush administration to propel us into immoral wars again and again, I believe that David Ray Griffin's provocative questions about 9-ll deserve to be investigated and addressed." Paul Craig Roberts, who was the assistant secretary of the US Treasury during the Reagan administration, wrote: "Professor Griffin is the nemesis of the 9/11 cover-up. This new book destroys the credibility of the NIST and Popular Mechanics reports and annihilates his critics."

My book was even endorsed by a former senior official of the CIA, Bill Christison, who had for the first five years after 9/11, he admitted, studiously avoided looking at the evidence that it might have been an inside job. He called my book "a superb compendium of the strong body of evidence showing the official US government story of what happened on September 11, 2001 to be almost certainly a monstrous series of lies."

Book reviewers in mainstream publications were evidently not moved even by Publishers Weekly. Although it had dismissed my first two books about 9/11 as "ridiculous" and "pure speculation," it said of Debunking 9/11 Debunking: "All but the most dogmatic readers will find Griffin's evidence - from the inconsistencies between NORAD tapes and the 9/11 Commission Report to rigorous exploration into the physics of the collapse* detailed and deeply unnerving."

Another source widely used to determine whether a book is worthy of review is Choice, put out by the American Library Association. It has recently spoken, saying: "Griffin exhibits exceptional skill in detailed scholarly analysis.

He concludes with a call to the reader, and all of us, to bring these issues into full public discussion and to expose the truth about 9/11, whatever it may be. Indeed, such 'truth' has certainly not yet been revealed due to extensive gaps and contradictions in official theories that he documents in detail." Whether this endorsement will lead to any reviews remains to be seen.

In any case, I was motivated to put out the Revised and Updated Edition primarily because of new information about the alleged phone calls from passengers on the flights to relatives, through which reports of hijackers on the airplanes reached the public.

In the first edition, I presented extensive evidence that reported cell phone calls from the airliners, including the approximately 10 reported cell phone calls from United 93 (which crashed in Pennsylvania), could not have occurred, because the cell phone technology at the time did not allow calls to be made from airliners flying at a high altitude (Flight 93 was at 34,300 to 40,700 feet when the calls were reportedly made).

I argued not that the relatives of the passengers had lied about receiving the calls but that they had been duped- by means of voice morphing, which is now perfected to the point that, advertisers brag, you can fool your spouse. Even after my book appeared, Popular Mechanics continued to claim, on the basis of very weak evidence, that high-altitude cell phone calls were indeed possible (see the History Channel special, "9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction").

However, as I reported in the Revised and Updated Edition of my book, the FBI had in 2006 presented, as evidence in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui (sometimes called "the 20th hijacker"), a report on phone calls from the four airliners. According to this report, there were only two cell phone calls from United 93, and they were made at 9:58, shortly before the plane crashed, when it was down to 5,000 feet. When the FBI had to present evidence in a court of law, therefore, it would not claim that any high-altitude cell phone calls had occurred.

(These two low-altitude calls from Flight 93 were, according to the FBI report, the only two cell phone calls made from all four flights).

The most well known of the reported cell phone calls from Flight 93 were four calls that Deena Burnett reported receiving from her husband, Tom Burnett.

She knew that he had used his cell phone, she reported on several TV shows and later in her book, because she saw his Caller ID number. However, as I reported, there are now devices, such as "FoneFaker," that will produce the person's Caller ID as well as his or her voice. Deena Burnett and the others, I believe, were not lying; they were duped.

The most famous of the reported calls from the flights supposedly came from Barbara Olson, the well-known commentator on CNN who was married to Ted Olson, who was then the US solicitor general. Olson reported that his wife had called him twice from American Airlines Flight 77, stating that hijackers with knives and boxcutters had taken over the plane. Besides providing evidence of hijackers, this call also provided the only evidence that Flight 77 was still aloft (it had disappeared from radar and there had been reports of an airliner crash nearby).

Although Olson went back and forth on the question of whether his wife had used a cell phone or an onboard phone, he finally settled on the latter.

In the first edition, I challenged this claim on the basis of evidence from American Airlines that their Boeing 757 (which is what Flight 77 was) had no onboard phones. After publishing the book, however, I became worried, because of some new evidence, that that statement from American Airlines, made in 2004, had referred only to their 757s at that time - that their 757s in 2001 may well have had onboard phones. So I published a retraction, saying that the claim was uncertain.

That retraction, however, evoked new evidence, including a statement made by American Airlines in 2006 that their 757s in 2001 had had no onboard phones, so that anyone calling out from Flight 77 had needed to use a cell phone. Barbara Olson, therefore, could not have used a passenger-seat phone. That left open, of course, the possibility that Ted Olson was correct when he said that his wife had used her cell phone.

However, the evidence from the Moussaoui trial ruled out this possibility. In its report on AA 77, it listed one attempted call from Barbara Olson, which was "unconnected" and hence lasted "0 seconds."

This was an astounding discovery. The FBI is part of the Department of Justice. And yet it had undercut the testimony of the DOJ's former solicitor general, saying in effect that the two calls that he reported had never happened. The implication is that unless Ted Olson had, like Deena Burnett, been duped, he had lied. Although this should have produced front-page headlines, it has thus far not been reported by any mainstream publication.

The Revised and Updated Edition of "Debunking 9/11 Debunking" provides the documentation for these reports from American Airlines and the FBI, which pretty thoroughly undermine the idea that any of the reported calls were genuine: If the cell phone calls were faked, why should we believe that the reported calls from onboard phones were genuine?

This new edition also contains more quotations from former military officers calling the official conspiracy theory impossible.

It also contains a report on Rudy Giuliani's problematic response to a group of activists who asked him, with camera running, how he knew that the Twin Towers were going to collapse. (He had told Peter Jennings on ABC News on 9/11 itself that he had been warned.) Given the fact that he Giuliani is currently the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, evidence that he had inside information on the collapse of the towers- an event for which there was no historical precedent-should certainly be investigated.

This new edition has garnered some further endorsements. I was especially pleased to get one from former CIA case officer Robert Baer (the author of See No Evil, which inspired the movie Syriana), because he had written a critical review of my first book, The New Pearl Harbor. Having more recently, like Bill Christison, become convinced that 9/11 was an inside job, he wrote: "Until we get a complete, honest, transparent investigation *not one based on 'confession' extracted by torture - we will never know what happened on 9/11. David Griffin will never let this go until we get the truth."

Also, hoping that my new book would be found even more convincing than my earlier ones, I was very pleased to see that John Whitbeck, an international law specialist, had written: "After reading David Ray Griffin's previous books on the subject, I was over 90% convinced that 9/11 was an inside job. Now, after reading Debunking 9/11 Debunking, I am, I regret to say, 100% convinced."

The implications of this conclusion are, of course, enormous. But will you see the evidence for this conclusion discussed in the mainstream press? Don't hold your breath.
 
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WHY IS THE 911 "FRINGE" MOVEMENT SO MAINSTREAM?

By: Devvy
October 25, 2007


?It just didn't make any sense to me... When one starts using his own mind, and not what one was told, there is very little to believe in the official story.? September 5, 2007 - U.S. Navy ?Top Gun? pilot, Commander Ralph Kolstad

On October 19, 2007, some individuals in the audience of a taping of the Bill Maher show disrupted the airing; Maher joined security in removing these folks from the building. I know little about Maher and have never subscribed to any of the so-called premium channels like HBO on moral grounds. The individuals removed wanted Maher and his guests to talk about 911. The aftermath was a fresh barrage of verbal missiles aimed at anyone with questions about 911. Useful idiot, John Gibson, of the FAUX (FOX) Network, refers to people with reasonable questions about 911 as "ragtag conspiratorialists."

Bill O'Reilly and his stable of regular commentators always refer to those seeking the truth about 911 as conspiracy wackos; the "fringe element" that no one takes seriously. He is particularly nasty and often hysterical in his tirades. They all pull out Rosie O'Donnell as the poster child to bolster their rants. Following along with the rest of these mindless robots comes Glen Beck. Uh, who? Beck does a show on CNN's News Network. I'm not sure who would waste their time watching him after having scanned his show a couple of times for a total of five minutes, but apparently he has some sort of audience or he'd be off the air. Beck is a documented 911 truth basher. His latest statement on his web site reads: "Bill Maher's nasty spat with some 9/11 conspiracy nut jobs was a nuisance on live TV, but are these conspiracy theorists a menace to society? You bet they are."

Beck also has a poll up on his site with the question: "Conspiracy Craziness: Anyone who believes our government could have successfully planned 9/11 is not only giving them too much credit, but they're also insane. Do you agree or disagree?" Oops, Mr. Glen. The results as I work this column: I agree: 2,279. I disagree: 7,045. It would appear Beck's own audience doesn't even agree with him. Wait, it gets better. On his show October 22, 2007, he said:

"Anybody who thinks that 9/11 was carried out by the government isn't a truther. They're idiots....These truthers are exactly the kind of people who want to rock this nation's foundation, tear us apart and plant the seeds of dissatisfaction in all of us....Oh, no, don't get me wrong, I think they do believe it, which is why I believe these guys are dangerous. I believe these guys are anarchists that are looking to tear us apart. I mean, this is -- this is the kind of group that a Timothy McVeigh would come from."

According to all these high paid "experts" on "mainstream" and cable network television, anyone who has reasonable questions about what really happened on 911 is not only outside the "mainstream" of society, but would have been an advocate of Timothy McVeigh. Here's just a few of these "fringe" wackos so maligned by the aforementioned:

Bob McIlvaine, father of Robert McIlvaine, Assistant Vice President, Merrill Lynch, WTC North Tower, 106th floor. Interview by Evan Solomon, CBC News 8/30/06: Bob McIlvaine: "I believe 100% that the U.S. orchestrated 9/11 with the help of other agencies around the world. But my blame goes to the United States because it happened in the U.S. There's people within the U.S. that knew it happened, that planned this to happen."

Bill Doyle ? father of Joseph Doyle, Cantor Fitzgerald, WTC North Tower. Article 8/6/05: "I honestly don't believe the government story. During another interview, Doyle said: The 9/11 Commission is probably the worst representation of the 9/11 Families or for that matter all the American public because it's a sham. It really is.... We had tons of different questions that we asked them to ask. They wouldn't do it. And the continuing cover-up is just beyond belief... There's just such a continuing coverup. And why don't we just let the information about 9/11 be known? And then maybe this conspiracy type of thing would go away, but it's never going to go away or I don't think it can go away because they were complicit..."

Michelle Little, sister of Firefighter David M. Weiss, FDNY, Rescue Company 1, Midtown Manhattan, lost his life trying to rescue others from the World Trade Center the day of the attacks. Press Conference, National Press Club 9/12/06: "I am here today to call for the facts of September 11, 2001 to be released to the American public. ... The time is now to call upon all the Americans to lobby local media to cover this story and to pressure members of Congress to support legislation by reopening this investigation. We must hold those involved accountable for this atrocious tragedy. My brother, David, and ten brothers from his unit were murdered on 9/11. For them and for all of our mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunts and uncles that died that day, it is imperative for their lives to know the truth."

Lt. Col. Shelton F. Lankford, U.S. Marine Corps. Retired U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot with over 300 combat missions flown. 20-year Marine Corps career. "This isn't about party, it isn't about Bush Bashing. It's about our country, our constitution, and our future. ... Your countrymen have been murdered and the more you delve into it the more it looks as though they were murdered by our government, who used it as an excuse to murder other people thousands of miles away. If you ridicule others who have sincere doubts and who know factual information that directly contradicts the official report and who want explanations from those who hold the keys to our government, and have motive, means, and opportunity to pull off a 9/11, but you are too lazy or fearful to check into the facts yourself, what does that make you?"

Barry Zelman, brother of Kenneth Zelman, Oracle Corp., on assignment at Marsh & McLennan, WTC North Tower, 99th floor. Speech given at The Citizens' Commission on 9-11, 9/9/04: "I just embrace people that understand that four airplanes an hour and half between the first impact and the second impact with zero military response in the United States. It didn't happen that way. It couldn't have happened that way. You're talking about the most intelligent agencies that we have on the face of the earth. State of the art agencies ... And there was zero military response? ...It's very transparent that our own president did not want to investigate this tragedy. And I'm standing before you today for one reason. The only thing that I can give my brother is the truth. That's it."

Donna Marsh O'Connor, mother of Vanessa Lang Langer, Regus Business Center, WTC South Tower. Press Conference, National Press Club 9/12/06: "This government has made me a victim of conspiracy theories because they haven't answered fully, or allowed anyone to ask the true questions of September 11th. And that's what I'm asking from you [members of the media] today; for exposure. We are not crazy. We have questions. We demand answers ...We're asking for a new investigation into the events of September 11th and this time a truly bipartisan, global--with families invested from the beginning, middle and though out the end."

Those Americans are just a tiny number of not only family members, but fire fighters, first responders, professionals such as engineers, pilots, former military, aviation experts and demolitions experts from every walk of life, every race, religions and different political parties. Are they all part of a fringe element out of their minds by asking questions? How about seven veteran CIA personnel who call the official version of 911 a joke, monstrous lies and a cover up? You can read the statements of 190 Americans who ARE mainstream folks and this includes the spontaneous statements of fire fighters who heard bombs go off in the underground (basement) of the World Trade Towers by clicking here.

Are we to believe that thousands of Americans who have read the 911 (Omission) Commission Report and family members who have been intimately involved in the farce called an "official investigation" are all Bush haters? That they are all nuts, wackos, the "fringe of society" and advocates of Timothy McVeigh? According to Dan Abrams, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes, Glen Beck, John Gibson and others, they are. Without a doubt a whole cottage industry has blossomed over 911 and a great deal of it is simply trash, misleading, disinformation and some of it sickening, i.e., on Flight 93: "Find da plane, da plane!" like it's some sort of game. How insulting to the loved ones who lost someone on Flight 93.

As someone who has spent a substantial amount of time, including a cross country trip to Pennsylvania to look into Flight 93, it's been difficult to separate credible research from those profiting from 911. On my web site is an index of all my 911 columns; see link section below. I have never stated that Bush knew in advance or planned 911. However, I do believe that Dick Cheney and Rudy Julie Annie must be hauled in front of a real grand jury. If you read, Crossing the Rubicon, by Mike Ruppert, you will understand why I take this position. You don't have to agree with Ruppert's assessment on peak oil because there are strong advocates for both sides of that argument and so much conflicting information and statistics. But, his research about that day, backed up by footnotes for his sources - especially the military exercises - is critically important.

A new slide show is now available for viewing for free on the Internet. As you'll see on slide one, Richard Gage leads the way. Gage is a member of the American Institute of Architects. There are 318 slides in this presentation. This slide presentation is endorsed by dozens of others in his profession (list on slides 3 & 4) demanding a real investigation. Are they ALL Bush haters? The fringe element of society? This slide show contains a few film clips from what I believe is far and away the best presentation on the twin towers and aspects of what really happened that day: 911 Mysteries Demolitions. You can watch the parts here and I strongly recommend every American with a computer take the time to watch this unbiased presentation. I know time is an issue for everyone, but the weekend is coming. Please book mark this column and take the time to watch 911 Mysteries Demolitions and Richard Gage's 9/11: Re-examining the 3 WTC High-rise Building "Collapses" slide show. http://www.ae911truth.net/ppt/index.php


Besides the family members, do people really think individuals like Gage have nothing better to do with their time than put together a professional slide show on a complicated issue like this? Because they're all Bush haters? Because they have no life and "need" to believe some conspiracy theory? Let YOUR eyes be the judge of what is real and what is a lie. Every piece of draconian legislation nullifying the Bill of Rights and the unconstitutional invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are a result of 911. Thousands of these family members and professionals have signed petitions for a real, unbiased investigation. Despite the old smear tactics from the "mainstream" media anchors mentioned above, millions of Americans do not believe the fairy tale told by the U.S. government and its minions who work for paychecks instead of the truth.

High paid mouthpieces like Bill O'Reilly continue to chant that to question 911 is hurtful to the families and that family members who lost loved ones that day are insulted by anyone asking reasonable questions. I will leave you with these words from two people Glen Beck considers a menace to society:

Rosemary Cain, mother of Firefighter George C. Cain, Ladder Company 7, Manhattan, FDNY. "It is our right to know, as the families of those who paid the highest price. We demand to stop the lies so they can rest in peace. The truth must be known. They did not die in vain!"

Daniel Wallace (1984 - 2007), son of Lt. Robert Wallace, Engine 205, Ladder 118, FDNY. Speech 12/3/06: "Ever since that day, I believed the official story for all about 2 minutes. I always had my questions. My family had their questions. The government sent us the 9/11 Commission or I should say omissions, really. They sent us that. I read the whole thing. As I'm reading the whole thing; it was just incredible; the lies in this book... It hurt me to read this book....



"The truth: to actually be out there knowing that I'm fighting for something that's right and something that's American. That's the American way. ... My father was a true patriot and I will follow in his footsteps. I'm gonna try so hard. I'm gonna try to the death of me to get him justice. Not only him, but the three thousand others that died, too. ... My father was a patriot. I'm a patriot and everybody in this room that believes in truth and wants to find justice is a patriot. Because this is America. It is of the people; for the people; and by the people. And that's the America I know and that's the America that I'm gonna defend, no matter what."
 
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Chertoff's Cousin Penned Popular Mechanics 9/11 Hit Piece

Chistopher Bollyn for American Free Press | March 7 2005

Dictators like Saddam Hussein have always used nepotism to protect their secrets and maintain control. Like a dictatorship, the inner cabal that directs the actions of the Bush administration uses the same tactics to confuse the public and conceal the truth of 9/11.

Dictators have always employed nepotism, the placing of family members in key positions, for one simple reason: only loyal family members can be trusted with the secrets that keep them in power. For this reason the shameless nepotism of the Bush administration should alarm Americans because it indicates that a dictatorship is encroaching upon the United States.

The Defense Department defines nepotism as the situation when relatives are in the same chain-of-command.

An egregious example of dictatorial-style nepotism occurred when George W. Bush won the White House ? twice ? thanks to the key "swing state" of Florida, where the presidential candidate's younger brother is governor. In 2000 and 2004, against all odds, Florida swung decisively, the Bush way.

With high federal offices being given to the wives, sons and daughters of senior members of the Bush administration, the Hearst Corporation executives that publish Popular Mechanics magazine probably didn't worry about the ethical considerations of hiring a cousin of Michael Chertoff, a former Assistant Attorney General and the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as senior researcher.

But the March 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics (PM) plumbs new depths of nepotism and Hearst-style "yellow journalism" with its cover story about 9/11. PM's senior researcher, 25-year-old Benjamin Chertoff, authored a propagandistic cover story entitled "Debunking 9/11 Lies" which seeks to discredit all independent 9/11 research that challenges the official version of events.

"Conspiracy theories can't stand up to the hard facts," the cover reads. "After an in-depth investigation, PM answers with the truth," it says. But the article fails to provide evidence to support its claims and doesn't answer the key question: What caused the collapses of the twin towers and the 47-story World Trade Center 7?

The Chertoff article goes on to confront the "poisonous claims" of 16 "myths" spun by "extremist" 9/11 researchers like myself with "irrefutable facts," mostly provided by individuals in the employ of the U.S. government.

But who is Benjamin Chertoff, the "senior researcher" at Popular Mechanics who is behind the article? American Free Press has learned that he is none other than a cousin of Michael Chertoff, the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

This means that Hearst paid Benjamin Chertoff to write an article supporting the seriously flawed explanation that is based on a practically non-existent investigation of the terror event that directly led to the creation of the massive national security department his "cousin" now heads. This is exactly the kind of "journalism" one would expect to find in a dictatorship like that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

Because the manager of public relations for Popular Mechanics didn't respond to repeated calls from American Free Press, I called Benjamin Chertoff, the magazine's "senior researcher," directly.

Chertoff said he was the "senior researcher" of the piece. When asked if he was related to Michael Chertoff, he said, "I don't know." Clearly uncomfortable about discussing the matter further, he told me that all questions about the article should be put to the publicist ? the one who never answers the phone.

Benjamin's mother in Pelham, New York, however, was more willing to talk. Asked if Benjamin was related to the new Secretary of Homeland Security, Judy said, "Yes, of course, he is a cousin."

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2005/070305chertoffscousin.htm

Wikipedia deliberately covers up the relation between the Chertoffs.

Benjamin Chertoff

(...)

Disputed family background

Supporters of the conspiracy theories have claimed that 9/11: Debunking The Myths is "a propaganda piece" written by "a senior government official's cousin" because Chertoff bears the same last name as Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. However, Chertoff has repeatedly denied this claim, most notably in the September 11, 2006 issue of U.S. News & World Report, stating "no one in my family has ever met anyone related to Michael Chertoff".[7] In an audio interview, he noted that any possible relationship would likely only be found back in "19th century Belarus."[8]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Chertoff
 
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thatsa great story, i listened to it on an archive not long ago, how the mom said he was related then pops rolls in and makes her hang up phone etc ... pretty basic coverup there ....:shrug:
 
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ralph speaks the truth

love ralph to death... he is protege of betrand russell .... listen to how the gov/pentagion has stolen 7.6 trillion dollars in last decade

go to this site

http://takingaimradio.com/shows/audio.html

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040414 Ralph Schoenman: The 9/11 Commission Coverup: Selling the Police State
 
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gov. murdering soldiers then and now with radiation

like anyone in a DC suit cares ...


NOW ....

The name ?depleted uranium? is misleading since the uranium is not all that depleted. ?Depleted? uranium is the leftovers of the uranium enrichment process. Uranium is enriched by separating the U-235 from the uranium ore mined from the earth, this is done using a number of costly and complicated procedures, but is not as effective as we would like.

In nature, the U-235 isotope constitutes roughly seven tenths of one percent (0.7%) of all the uranium in the Earth and the most effective enrichment processes leave approximately two tenths of a percent (0.2%) of U-235 in the ?depleted? uranium. To quote Dr. Doug Rokke, ?there ain?t nothin? depleted about it!? For the record Dr. Rokke is an officer in the U.S military and has been charged (was first directed in 1990) with the task of cleaning up the environmental mess that DU left from Gulf War I.

Dr. Rokke will be spoken of in more depth later in this article.To begin how it affects humans lets go through the firing of one shell of depleted uranium. Loaded into a tank?s main turret, it is approximately ten pounds of uranium, with small amounts of other radioactive by-products (including Neptunium, Plutonium, and Thorium), when fired it begins to burn within the first three feet after leaving the gun barrel. This burning produces a uranium oxide, a very poisonous to many and mildly radioactive to all, gas.

As the shell hits its target anywhere from ten to forty percent of the uranium shell is lost as ?splash back? from the impact, the remainder of the weapon bores through the target, and explodes, killing anyone and everything inside. This, in addition to creating huge amounts of uranium oxide, contaminates the target with radioactive material.

Now, DU munitions do an awesome job destroying things, unfortunately this includes innocent by-standards. The impact of the DU weapon creates particles of radioactive materials ranging in size from a fist, to a tenth of a micron. The latter of which cannot be stopped by even the best gas masks, thus making any attempt to shield oneself obsolete. But the military still tells its soldiers that our equipment can protect them. Not only that, but these tiny dust particles also have a tendency to hang in the air until disturbed.

This means it does not just float down to the ground, like the government and military insist it does, but will hang in the air for period of hours, days, even years. The DU in the area of Iraq and Kuwait and Afghanistan has cause many terrible effects, some of which have been captured by anti-nuclear activist and photographer, Takashi Morizumi, and put on display on his website [Web site is no longer available] and are touring universities throughout the U.S. His website is in Japanese, but the photos transcend language (i.e., not for the weak of heart).

Enough about the historical and objective information, time for the more disturbing issues. First, the governmental lies. Since Gulf War II started, people have been speaking out against the use of DU munitions, and the military has continually lied, saying that there is no evidence to suggest that DU munitions are harmful.

Nevertheless, at the same time, Dr. Rokke and a number of other civilian and military scientists are under a direct order from 1990 to clean up the harmful effects left from the first Gulf War and to design procedures to reduce the risk of using these weapons. Contradiction number 1. The government is essentially covering its own ass. If they ever rescind the direct order to clean everything up, they would have hell to pay, because they would have to admit to the effects of DU. Which not only make them look very stupid, but make the government pay the hospital bills for over a quarter of a million soldiers (U.S citizens mind you) who have had complications ranging from induced asthma to various cancers. Secondly, to help the countless Iraqi soldiers and civilians who have suffered severe effects from DU.

Moreover, perhaps worst of all would have to face at least four broken Geneva Convention rules of warfare, thus making some of my favorite politicians (and I mean this very sincerely) war criminals. But enough about the liars at the top, what is the real problem is the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers that are already and/or will be further effected, because some of these high-ranking military officials are being ignorant. The author is especially passionate about this, being he has a number of friends in the military, and a brother headed in that direction in under a year.

Finally the grand daddy of them all, the Los Alamos Memorandum, never heard of it? Not a surprise, it was an order from top military brass stating, in short, that while research continues on the effects of DU it will stay in operational use until a better weapon is found, and that those involved are not allowed to release the findings that would show DU?s danger.

The government told its own people to lie to not only the media (which would not have been that bad) but also to the troops fighting and then dying for reasons unknown to them. In addition to this, to test the effects of DU, all military doctors were ordered to leave DU shrapnel in the bodies of any soldier hit with it. Miraculously enough, a majority of these soldiers developed cancers right in the vicinity of the ?depleted? uranium.

To conclude, yes, I am a war hawk, yes, I hate Saddam, hell, I even think we should attack North Korea, but I am not about to stand for the military killing our own troops because they?re too damn stupid to invent a new armor piercing round. Or too damned ignorant to think no one would put two and two together and understand the hazards of DU. Military cover-ups are always hard to fight, but our best bet is the old-fashioned write your senators campaign, I know I will be and I urge all of the SanjHB readership to do the same, lets save some American lives, the environment, and hopefully our friends and brothers.
 
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This is the frightening story of the damage that has already been done to our own people--to children even more than to adults--by the unlocking of the power of the atom. It investigates the testing of our nuclear weapons, the sloppy practices within the nuclear industry, and the problems with our atomic power plants. It is also about the future damage to be expected from mutation in our genes from radiation.

More than three and a half decades have now passed since the first atomic test at Alamogordo, New Mexico--July 16, 1945--and the subsequent detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since then our own military has exploded more than 700 nuclear bombs on our own continental soil and in the Pacific. Many of the health effects are just now being felt.

It seems no accident that we are currently suffering from a national cancer epidemic, in which one of every five Americans dies of that dread disease. It would be plausible and prudent to assume that the radioactive fallout we've introduced into the global atmosphere, literally tens of tons of debris from bomb tests alone, is a significant factor in addition to industrial pollution and cigarette smoking. As early as the 1950s the American Linus Pauling and the Russian Andrei Sakharov--both Nobel prize winners--warned that literally millions of people would die worldwide because of these bomb tests.

There have been American "guinea pigs" who have amply confirmed these predictions. As this book documents for the first time, shortly after the blasts at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, American soldiers were sent in to help clean up the rubble. They were not warned that there was a danger in drinking the contaminated water and breathing the radioactive dust. Many of these men felt the lethal effects of the bombs' radiation almost immediately. Despite glib assurances from our government, they have suffered an extraordinary rate of rare cancers that could only have been caused by that radiation.

Similar tragedies have struck American soldiers present at scores of bomb tests that followed. From 1945 through the early 1960s, some 300,000 men and women in U.S. uniform were exposed to radiation from atmospheric, underwater, and underground bomb tests. The military wanted to know how armies would react to atomic weaponry in war and they used American soldiers to find out. Though the Pentagon has insisted all along that there was little or no danger from these tests, the authors here present irrefutable evidence, which has only gradually come to light, that many of our GIs have suffered and died from leukemia, cancer, chronic respiratory distress, progressive muscular weakness, and mental disturbance. Most tragically of all, some of their children have been born with physical and mental handicaps.

Yet in spite of overwhelming evidence, the Veterans Administration has adamantly refused to admit there is any proof that these illnesses are service-related, the vets and their widows and children have been consistently denied compensation. Of course, no individual case of leukemia or cancer or birth defect carries a label saying exactly what caused it. But the statistics, gathered by the veterans themselves, show that the tests were responsible.

With shocking callousness, our government has even refused to divulge the list of those hundreds of thousands who were deliberately exposed, a list that would greatly aid in the early detection of further cancers and save hundreds of lives.

Civilians unfortunate enough to live downwind from the tests, in towns like St. George, Utah, and Fredonia, Arizona, have also suffered disease and death. They were assured by the Atomic Energy Commission that the radiation would not harm them. But in ensuing years they have been afflicted with an outbreak of cancers and leukemia that could only have come from the test fallout. Yet, like the veterans, they have met a stone wall of governmental denial.

Frightening stories are also coming to light among people and animals living near nuclear weapons facilities, mining and waste storage sites, uranium processing plants, and nuclear power reactors. Farmers in central Pennsylvania, for example, began to observe abnormalities in their animals when Three Mile Island Unit One opened in 1974. They reported much worse problems in the wake of the accident at Unit Two in 1979. Many animals became infertile. Others developed bizarre behavior. Young were born with marked deformities. These farmers had seen such abnormalities only rarely in the past. Now they were occurring repeatedly and on many farms. But government investigators turned in reports that baldly denied a majority of the abnormalities, which had already been witnessed by neutral observers. In fact, the investigators never even visited some of the farms they reported on. They blamed what few disturbances they admitted to finding on mismanagement and ignorance on the part of the farmers.

Farmers living near the Rocky Flats plutonium factory in Colorado, near the West Valley atomic fuel reprocessing center in upstate New York, near a uranium mining waste pile in Colorado, and near four separate reactor sites--including Three Mile Island--have complained of similar defects and illnesses among their animals. They have documented the same kind of problems that first appeared back in the 1950s in sheep caught downwind from nuclear test blasts.

Parallel evidence is now in hand, from private citizens and independent researchers, that the rates of infant mortality and cancer and leukemia have risen among humans living near nuclear reactors. The government response has again been a condescending and blanket denial.

The government's own record of health studies has been stained with serious scandal and obvious cover-up. In the 1960s, the Atomic Energy Commission engaged a topflight expert named Thomas Mancuso to look into the health of workers at nuclear facilities such as the Hanford weapons plant in Washington state. But when he discovered, after more than a decade of research, that there was an elevated cancer rate at Hanford, the government fired him and tried to confiscate his data. Other top scientists, including Drs. John Gofman, Alice Stewart, Karl Z. Morgan, Rosalie Bertell, and Irwin Bross, have been censored, harassed, fired, or deprived of their grants for standing by their studies, which showed that humans and animals were being harmed.

Our government set up a massive study of the Japanese victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But the data was kept secret, and it was later used in a way that brought charges of manipulation and deliberate suppression of the dangers of radiation. Now, nearly four decades later, it has become clear that radiation released was ten times more dangerous than anyone believed possible, not just to those killed at the time, but to the "survivors" as well.

There are great potential perils in the nuclear power industry that our government and the utilities consistently minimize. The most dramatic is the danger of a meltdown, which could kill many thousands of people immediately, and even more from the aftereffects. The accident at Three Mile Island revealed that the government and utilities are not in full control of this technology. They didn't know for several days what had gone wrong or what to do about it. There had been carelessness in maintenance. There were not adequate plans for meeting such a disaster. Part of the equipment was basically defective in design. The responses of government and the utility at the time, and later, to charges that radiation had already harmed infants and animals, showed again that their predominant impulse was to reassure the public that nothing serious was wrong and that there was no real danger--even when there was no technical or moral basis for such statements.

There are also problems related to the low-level radiation that leaks from all these reactors. Killing Our Own documents two cases--Three Mile Island and Arkansas Nuclear One--where strong evidence has been collected indicating an increased infant mortality rate from these emissions. Some scientists have charged that infant mortality rates have risen around other reactors as well. Yet neither the government nor the industry has ever conducted a definitive nationwide survey of cancer and infant mortality rates near atomic reactors, though one would be easy enough to perform.

Danger also arises from the production of nuclear fuel and its transport, and the transport and permanent storage of nuclear wastes, the latter being a problem for which even the government admits it has no solution. As this book documents, health problems have already arisen from even the short-term storage of these deadly radioactive poisons. Yet government and industry leaders continue to try to reassure us.

All of this has long since convinced me that we cannot trust these people and, more important still, that nuclear power is too dangerous to have around. But it is clear that our government is so deeply committed to nuclear weapons and nuclear power that it will ignore damning evidence, deny the truth, mislead our people, jeopardize health and even life itself, and try to blacken the reputation of scientists who disagree with its policies.

Atomic testing in the atmosphere was ended by the test ban of 1963. However, the testing has continued underground, on the assumption that radiation can be confined. The current administration has called for even more tests. But many of these explosions have vented dangerous amounts of radiation. The infamous Baneberry test in Nevada leaked thousands of times more radiation than the accident at Three Mile Island.

Is this dangerous testing really necessary?

A couple of years ago, Norris Bradbury, a former director of the Los Alamos Laboratory, where the first atom bomb was designed, and Hans Bethe, a recipient of the Nobel prize for his accomplishment in nuclear physics, wrote a petition (endorsed by the Federation of American Scientists) to President Carter asking to end the testing. They pointed out that the mechanical reliability of our nuclear weaponry had been proved "almost exclusively by nonnuclear testing"; it has been "rare to the point of nonexistence" for a nuclear test to be required to resolve any problem in our nuclear weapons arsenal. So why go on?

I earnestly believe that as soon as there is a definite suspicion of harm from any source as malignant as radiation, it is time to make every effort to eliminate it. I feel particularly strongly about radiation because children are much more vulnerable than adults--not only in regard to the likelihood of developing leukemia and cancer, but also of being born with physical or mental defects. And once mutations have been produced in genes, they will be passed down forever.

What right do we have to threaten with deformity or death those who are too young to protest or those still unborn? What right do we as adult citizens have to allow our government to take this power for evil into its hands?

Such harm would be bad enough if there were no alternatives. But I believe that the perilous and senseless accumulation of nuclear weapons and their dispersal to more and more nations could be ended if our citizens would demand that our government stop stalling and get on with the negotiation of a true disarmament with the Soviet Union. The damage being done by the mere building of these bombs at places like Rocky Flats would then also be eliminated.

We could solve the problem of our energy needs without the multiple risks of nuclear power if our government would provide leadership for energy conservation and the development of nonpolluting, renewable sources such as the sun, the wind, the tides, the burning of wood.

Only you, as aroused citizens, can stop the terrifying plague of nuclear power and nuclear weapons. But first you should read the estimates of past and future damage assembled here, in order to make up your mind independently. Then, if you are convinced, you will be well-motivated to exert your full influence.
 
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Tuesday, November 12, 2002

Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium


In 1999, a United Nations subcommission considered DU hazardous enough to call for an initiative banning its use worldwide. The initiative has remained in committee, blocked primarily by the United States, according to Karen Parker, a lawyer with the International Educational Development/Humanitarian Law Project, which has consultative status at the United Nations.

Parker, who first raised the DU issue in the United Nations in 1996, contends that DU "violates the existing law and customs of war."

She said there are four rules derived from all of humanitarian law regarding weapons:


Weapons may only be used in the legal field of battle, defined as legal military targets of the enemy in war. Weapons may not have an adverse effect off the legal field of battle.


Weapons can only be used for the duration of an armed conflict. A weapon that is used or continues to act after the war is over violates this criterion.


Weapons may not be unduly inhumane.


Weapons may not have an unduly negative effect on the natural environment.

"Depleted uranium fails all four of these rules," Parker said last week.

On Oct. 17, 2001, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., introduced a bill calling for "the suspension of the use, sale, development, production, testing, and export of depleted uranium munitions pending the outcome of certain studies of the health effects of such munitions. . . ."

More than a year later, the bill -- co-sponsored by Reps. Anibal Acevedo-Vila, Puerto Rico; Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.; Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio; Barbara Lee, D-Ca.; and Jim McDermott, D-Wash. -- remains in committee awaiting comment from the Defense Department.
 
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Dr. Doug Rokke

Dr. Doug Rokke

THE ACTIVIST

Dr. Doug Rokke was an Army health physicist assigned in 1991 to the command staff of the 12th Preventive Medicine Command and 3rd U.S. Army Medical Command headquarters. Rokke was recalled to active duty 20 years after serving in Vietnam, from his research job with the University of Illinois Physics Department, and sent to the Gulf to take charge of the DU cleanup operation.

Today, in poor health, he has become an outspoken opponent of the use of DU munitions.

"DU is the stuff of nightmares," said Rokke, who said he has reactive airway disease, neurological damage, cataracts and kidney problems, and receives a 40 percent disability payment from the government. He blames his health problems on exposure to DU.

Rokke and his primary team of about 100 performed their cleanup task without any specialized training or protective gear. Today, Rokke said, at least 30 members of the team are dead, and most of the others -- including Rokke -- have serious health problems.

Rokke said: "Verified adverse health effects from personal experience, physicians and from personal reports from individuals with known DU exposures include reactive airway disease, neurological abnormalities, kidney stones and chronic kidney pain, rashes, vision degradation and night vision losses, lymphoma, various forms of skin and organ cancer, neuropsychological disorders, uranium in semen, sexual dysfunction and birth defects in offspring.

"This whole thing is a crime against God and humanity."

Speaking from his home in Rantoul, Ill., where he works as a substitute high school science teacher, Rokke said, "When we went to the Gulf, we were all really healthy, and we got trashed."

Rokke, an Army Reserve major who describes himself as "a patriot to the right of Rush Limbaugh," said hearing the latest Pentagon statements on DU is especially frustrating now that another war against Iraq appears likely.

"Since 1991, numerous U.S. Department of Defense reports have said that the consequences of DU were unknown," Rokke said. "That is a lie. We warned them in 1991 after the Gulf War, but because of liability issues, they continue to ignore the problem." Rokke worked until 1996 for the military, developing DU training and management procedures. The procedures were ignored, he said.

"Their arrogance is beyond comprehension," he said. "We have spread radioactive waste all over the place and refused medical treatment to people . . . it's all arrogance.

"DU is a snapshot of technology gone crazy."

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