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Petty officer held in secret for 4 months


By TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot
© August 4, 2006
Last updated: 12:56 AM

NORFOLK — A petty officer has been in the Norfolk Naval Station brig for more than four months facing espionage, desertion and other charges, but the Navy has refused to release details of the case.

The case against Fire Control Technician 3rd Class Ariel J. Weinmann is indicative of the secrecy surrounding the Navy military court here, where public affairs and trial court officials have denied access to basic information including the court docket – a listing of cases to be heard.

After months of requests, the Navy this week provided The Virginian-Pilot with Weinmann’s name, rank and the charges he faces.

In an e-mail, Theodore Brown, a spokesman for Fleet Forces Command, said, “It is sometimes a challenge to balance the desires of the media, the public’s right to know, and the rights of an individual accused of a crime.”

“In this case,” he concluded, the command “is attempting to provide as much unclassified information as is reasonable, while maintaining an appropriate concern for the privacy of the individual involved. ”

A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment Thursday.

The Navy’s position was challenged by military legal affairs experts and First Amendment advocates who say the nation’s courts, whether civilian or military, historically have been open to the press and public.

A docket listing Weinmann’s preliminary hearing, called an Article 32, was never produced. The Navy would not disclose when the hearing was held.

“That’s hogwash,” said Eugene R. Fidell, president of The National Institute of Military Justice and a Washington lawyer .

“I know of no authority to keep the proceeding closed,” he said. “I’ve never seen an Article 32 classified.”

The command’s e-mail to The Pilot this week said that Weinmann was arrested at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on March 26 after he had been listed as a deserter. Fleet Forces officials refused to release the so-called charge sheet, which would detail the accusations against the sailor.

Weinmann had been serving aboard the submarine Albuquerque until he deserted in July 2005, according to Brown. Weinmann enlisted in July 2003, he said.

The enlisted man could face a court-martial. An investigative officer who presided over the Article 32 is expected to release a report to Weinmann’s command in the coming weeks. Besides espionage and desertion, Weinmann is charged with failure to obey an order and acts prejudicial to good order and discipline, according to Brown.

Espionage is defined, in part, by the Uniform Code of Military Justice as the communication to a foreign government of any information relating to U.S. national defense. It carries a maximum punishment of death.

Military defense lawyers say secret military hearings and the refusal to release basic charge information have become more common since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Court precedents and federal laws have established the right of public access to court-martial proceedings, including Article 32 hearings, the lawyers and First Amendment advocates say.

The Army Court of Criminal Appeals said in a 1997 case involving an attempt to close a criminal proceeding, “We believe that public confidence in matters of military justice would quickly erode if courts-martial were arbitrarily closed to the public.”

The court said the public and the media have a right to attend military court proceedings, “absent extraordinary circumstances.”

The Supreme Court has ruled that the closure of a court proceeding or the sealing of any criminal case must be decided by a judge on a case-by-case basis.

Lucy Dalglish, executive director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington, said that, even in military courts, an order must be issued closing or sealing a case.

Brown acknowledged Thursday that “there is no order,” but said that the charge sheet in the Weinmann case would not be released.

Dalglish and others said protecting someone’s privacy has never been a legally acceptable reason to exclude the public from a court proceeding or to withhold the identity of someone who’s been in custody for four months.

“We don’t lock up people in this country secretly,” Dalglish said. “Personal embarrassment has never been found to be a justification for closing a proceeding.”

Other than the Weinmann case, Norfolk Naval Station has refused to provide The Pilot with copies of the military court docket since at least November. The docket lists cases heard in military court each day. In March, The Pilot filed a Freedom of Information request for the past year’s dockets but has received no written response.

Beth Baker, a spokeswoman for the Navy Mid-Atlantic Region, has said that computer problems have made it difficult for the Trial Services Office at Norfolk Naval Station to generate a docket.

In two e-mails sent to The Pilot in January and February, Baker said the dockets should be available “soon.”

“The docket for the Trial Service Office has been transferred to a new system that is not user friendly to us at all,” Baker told The Pilot in a March e-mail.

More recent requests for the docket went unanswered.

Some military courts, including Marine Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, Calif., post their court dockets on a Web site.

The National Institute of Military Justice has begun a project to collect military court dockets and post them on its own Web site. Fidell, of the institute, said law students hope to begin pos ting them by the end of the summer.

“Why this continues to be an issue in 2006 is beyond me,” Fidell said.

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    Bloglines - Check Out What the Creators Of Loose Change Really Think

    I've been watching "Mein" posts for the past few months. It's so typical that those who don't understand spew such derision.

    Mein BlogoVault
    The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~ Edmund Burke

    Check Out What the Creators Of Loose Change Really Think

    By Good Lieutenant

    Make sure there are no firearms around - these little scumsuckers will make you puke by making fun of 9-11 victims, feciciously suggesting that children who died in the attacks and their parents were "in on it," that there were no planes, that the US government used remote controlled drones and controlled explosives to bring down the WTC and to attack the Pentagon, that there was no crash in Shanksburg, etc. You know - genuine batsh*t insanity.

    Loose Change creator Dylan Avery and Co. have fashioned their own nooses, and those nooses are now tightening with the release of this five-part series on the disgraceful (and factually-challenged) film school droupouts who foisted one of the most explosive hoaxes ever seen upon the American public. No joke - these guys are tantamount to Holocaust deniers with a modem and a YouTube account (and there are a great many of them riding along with the so-called "9-11 truth" as well). Good company to travel with, no?

    Here's a sampling of the reactions to the statements of the Loose Change moron brigade .




    Fwd: 9/11 Blogger - Blogging 9/11 Related Alternative News - 16 new articles

    "9/11 Blogger - Blogging 9/11 Related Alternative News " - 16 new articles

    1. Fox News Hosts Weigh in on Latest 9/11 Poll and Kevin Barrett
    2. Alex Jones interviews Nafeez Ahmed
    3. Full 9/11 Discussion on Randi Rhodes Yesterday
    4. Rocky Mountain News Scans
    5. Black Box Data from Flight 77
    6. Email From Kyle Hence
    7. National Reading Month
    8. Action Alerts...
    9. Sept. 11 Conspiracy Book From Presbyterian Press Raises Eyebrows
    10. Eyes on the Prize
    11. Was the FBI investigation blocked?
    12. NY Post: 1 in 3 Americans...
    13. 10:00am Diane Rehm show
    14. Veterans for 911 Truth Challenge Popular Mechanics Magazine to Debate
    15. CNN: "...we may not have been told the truth..."
    16. Investigate THIS!

    Fox News Hosts Weigh in on Latest 9/11 Poll and Kevin Barrett


    First up is John Gibson, who says that the 1/3 of Americans who believe in U.S. Government involvement in 9/11 do so because 'they hate Bush'. I'm kind of surprised his 'word' isn't 'because they hate our freedoms'.




    Next up is Fox & Friends, the bastions of honest and educated reporting, having a go with Kevin Barrett.

    Thanks Frank for the heads up!

    Alex Jones interviews Nafeez Ahmed

    On July 31, 2006, Alex Jones interviewed Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed, author of The War on Freedom, Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy, and the Struggle for Iraq, The War on Truth and The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry .

    This brief interview displays the breadth of Ahmed's encyclopedic knowledge of Western Intelligence operations, and Jones sticks with him, blow-for-blow. Exposed are the machinations of UK and US intelligence, and how these agencies facilitate radicals and patsies to acheive their ends. This interview fleshes out Ahmed's statement in The Hidden History of 9-11-2001 about Al-Qaeda;

    "It has no existence as an independent concrete entity. It designates a highly developed category of Western covert operations designed to secure destabilization through the creation, multiplication, mobilization, and manipulation of disparate mujahideen groups. The evidence suggests that this was certainly the case on 9-11."

    31.3MB MP3 (Ahmed's interview begins at 56:34 and is followed by an informative interview with Dahr Jamail.)

    Full 9/11 Discussion on Randi Rhodes Yesterday

    We already posted Paul Thompson's brief interview, but here is the full 9/11 segment from the 8/2/2006 show.

    Thanks Yarrow!

    Rocky Mountain News Scans



    Thanks to Michael Wolsey for scanning these and Jon for sending them in. Click for full size, beware, the full size images for each of these are over 2MB in size.

    Black Box Data from Flight 77

    The black box data from Flight 77 has allegedly been released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request.

    To give you a taste, look here , here and here.

    The data is being analyzed right now by folks who know about this kind of stuff. Already, the folks looking at it have found slopiness in the 9/11 Commission's findings regarding Flight 77 (though not very important so far) .

    Email From Kyle Hence

    The following email from Kyle Hence includes a good list of 10 questions which we should demand answers to. [Editor: We edited the numbering to make it more readable.]

    Recent articles in corporate media examine deception and lying by the Department of Defense relative to the attacks of September 11th 2001. They shed light on an effective cover-up by the 9/11 Commission in its refusal to bring Government deception to the American people by way of their discredited 9/11 Report. Links to these articles follow as do 10 questions which these revelations and NORAD tapes beg to be asked and which must be answered . . . .

    The real and problematic confusion and fog is one which is seemingly preventing the corporate media from grappling with any of the following pressing questions which have been advanced for years by the 9/11 families, advocates and independent researchers.

    Here are Ten Questions that the corporate media have thus far refused to raise or attempt to answer in their examination of the NORAD tapes and related issues:

    (1) Who was responsible for scheduling multiple war games and terror exercises involving aircraft for Sept. 11th?

    (2) Who moved "Global Guardian" normally scheduled for October to September?

    (3) Who designed the war games to involve 'hijackings'?

    (4) Who planned and scheduled the movement of Airforce aircraft north to Canada, Alaska and Greenland?

    (5) Who planned the terror exercise at the NRO involving an evacuation in response to threat from the air?

    (6) Who was "hands-on" responsible for coordinating all the war games the morning of September 11th?

    (7) Who would have been responsible for turning off the war games to enable a timely real world response to the attacks?

    (8) How were as many as 21 false radar blips or possible targets (per Jane Garvey) inserted into FAA radar screens?

    (9) Who was responsible for the identification of ghost flight 11 which allegedly continued to fly south past Manhattan and which may have caused NORAD's Langley intercept jets to vector North toward NYC rather than D.C.?

    [NOTE: John Farmer of the 9/11 Commission said to me personally that the 9/11 Commission was never able to identify the individual for this information--to resolve this anomaly.]

    (10) Why was there no reference to the pattern of 9/11 Commission cover-up including that of Able Danger as revealed by Capt. Scott Philpott?

    =================

    The bottom line question that corporate media refuse to answer and which the 9/11 Commission ignored is who, specifically, would have been responsible for creating the circumstances that led to the confusion or fog the morning of 9/11 and who should have immediately ceased any and all war gaming activity and deceptive radar data?

    To begin to answer these questions journalists intent on getting answers to questions long asked by the families and others should visit:

    Center for Cooperative Research: Essay -- "U.S. Military Exercises up to 9/11"
    http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&before_9/11=militaryExercises

    Randi Rhodes interview with Complete 9/11 Timeline author, Paul Thompson on Air America
    http://www.911podcasts.com/files/audio/RandiRhodes_PaulThompson_NORAD_080206.mp3

    Enough with excusing those responsible by pointing to 'confusion' or 'fog'. The real and dangerous 'fog' here is that which prevents journalists from doing their jobs and asking and answering the hard questions about 9/11 including those posed above and those surrounding the growing evidence for controlled demolition of the World Trade Center towers and WTC #7. [Google Dr. Steven Jones & World Trade Center]"

    National Reading Month

    I declare August to be National Reading Month

    Wisconsin State Representative Steve Nass has called for the University of Wisconsin to fire professor Kevin Barrett for his belief that 9/11 was an inside job, but hasn't looked at any of the facts concerning 9/11 for himself.

    Texas pastor Toby Brown is attacking David Ray Griffin's newest book, "Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11", but hasn't bothered to read it.

    Okay, Listen up . . .

    I am declaring August to be "National Reading Month". Everyone who still believes the official story about 9/11 -- but hasn't looked at the evidence for themselves -- has until the end of the month to get up to speed on the subject.

    During National Reading Month, political, religious and other leaders cannot make any ill-informed, half-baked statements about 9/11 unless they include references to the facts cited by Professors Barrett and Griffin , and honestly explain what homework they still have to do and which facts they have not yet looked into.

    After September 1, 2006, any leaders defending the official story will be given a failing grade.

    Reading the cliffnotes summary will not be allowed. And "the dog ate my homework" is not an acceptable excuse.

    Class dismissed . . ."

    Action Alerts...

    Poll: Do you believe the US Government attacked itself on 9-11?
    http://www.wegoted.com/index.asp



    Another Poll: Do you think federal officials either participated in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to prevent them because the U.S. wanted to go to war in the Middle East?
    http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com


    Condi Rice on Larry King:
    http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/larry.king.live/

    Submit your comments/suggestions for tonights show here:
    http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?12


    Tarpley and Thompson on Air America Today (hopefully more information to follow)

    According to John Leonard, Paul Thompson will be on the Randi Rhodes show again today at 3 EST and Tarpley will be on Mike Malloy at 10:30 tonight.
    This is a long-awaited break for MIHOP 9/11 Truth onto major talk radio, and our first break onto Air America.
    Let's get out of the "echo chamber" and engage!

    Please continue with the Talk Radio Mobilization as we did for CSpan, and call in to talk radio shows.

    Update, here is a link to Paul Thompson on Randi Rhodes, not sure if there is another show at 3:00 or if this is the show that was mentioned above:

    http://blog.myspace.com/

    Sept. 11 Conspiracy Book From Presbyterian Press Raises Eyebrows

    http://www.beliefnet.com/story/196/story_19688_1.html

    A book published by the denominational press of the Presbyterian Church (USA) poses provocative questions about Sept. 11 and has raised the hackles of church conservatives.

    Westminster John Knox Press, a division of Presbyterian Publishing Corp., is printing 7,500 copies of "Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11," according to Davis Perkins, the corporation's president and publisher.
    It was officially released during the second week of July, Perkins said.

    The book is written by David Ray Griffin, a former professor of theology who has written two other books that posit a conspiratorial link between the U.S. government and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

    In the book Griffin argues that "the Bush administration planned the events of Sept. 11 so they could provide justification for going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq," according to an article on Christianity Today's Web site.
    ...

    Thanks to FHB.

    Eyes on the Prize

    Given the mihop versus lihop war that the new Norad revelations have stirred up, I've updated this essay.

    Was the FBI investigation blocked?

    Norway's Le Monde Diplomatique continues its 9/11 investigation in the August, 2006 issue, "Was the FBI investigation blocked?" ("Ble FBI hindret i etterforskningen?")

    ...It appears that several agents and other FBI staff believed that opportunities for good police work and investigation were lost in the months before the 11th of September. This was what lawyer David Schippers, (also known for having brought a case against President Bill Clinton before the Court of Impeachment) experienced when he was contacted by several FBI agents who claimed that they knew about dates, targets, financial transactions and names of the perpetrators involved in the impending terrorist attacks. Schippers claims that armed with this information, he tried to warn John Ashcroft six weeks in advance that a terrorist attack would be launched in lower Manhattan. But the FBI threatened to sue their agents if they revealed what they knew. In order to allow the information to be publicised before a terrorist attack took place, the agents agreed with David Schippers that he would represent them in a federal courtroom, supported by Judicial Watch, an organisation offering free legal assistance. In this way they would have the opportunity to be heard if they were called as witnesses. That the agents were in possession of the type of information Schippers claims they were was also confirmed by William Norman Grigg in The New American . He interviewed three FBI agents who claimed that the information to which Schippers had access was common knowledge to the FBI before the 11th of September – and that everyone knew that it was simultaneously being ignored in Washington ...

    Nothing new here, but it's undoubtedly brand new to a significant # of Norwegians.

    Complete text here.

    NY Post: 1 in 3 Americans...

    ONE IN 3 AMERICANS SAY U.S. AIDED 9/11

    SURVEY SHOCKER

    August 3, 2006 -- More than one-third of Americans suspect federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new poll.
    The survey also found that 16 percent of Americans speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were the real reason the massive Twin Towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.

    The national Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 adults also found that anger against the federal government is at record levels, with 54 percent saying they "personally are more angry" at the government than they used to be...

    Previously:
    US government and 9/11 Commission are covering up - 42%

    Half (49.3%) of New York City residents and 41% of New York citizens overall say that some of our leaders "knew in advance that attacks were planned on or around September 11, 2001.

    10:00am Diane Rehm show

    (show's over)

    Today on the Diane Rehm Show:
    10:00am (EST)
    NORAD tapes
    Guest host: Susan Page

    Journalist Michael Bronner discussed America's military response on the morning of September 11th based on newly released audiotapes from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Northeast headquarters.

    Guests

    Michael Bronner, journalist and author of "9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes", Vanity Fair, September 06 issue

    Colin Scoggins, military specialist, Boston Air Route Traffic Controller, FAA

    Veterans for 911 Truth Challenge Popular Mechanics Magazine to Debate

    Contact Popular Mechanics and tell them The Veterans for 9/11 Truth are looking for them.


    To: Popular Mechanics Writers of "Debunking 9/11 Myths"

    My name is Matthew Naus and I'm a Co-founder of Veterans for 911 Truth. We currently have 235 members that don't believe 9/11 conspiracy theories are a myth . If your evidence, or facts as you call them, are so solid as to call 9/11 conspiracy theories a "myth" then you should have no problem debating members of Veterans for 9/11 Truth on the events surrounding 9/11/01.

    We at Veterans for 911 Truth challenge you to a debate
    of the information put out by: The 9/11 Commission Report, The 9/11 Investigations - Staff Reports Of The 9/11 Commission - Excerpts from the House-Senate Joint Inquiry Report on 9/11 - Testimony from 14 key witnesses, including Richard Clarke, George Tenet, and Condoleezza Rice, any of your magazine articles on debunking 9/11...

    We are so sure of our research into the events surrounding 9/11 that we're challenging you to a debate without even reading your paperback book "Debunking 9/11 Myths". We want you to take us up on this challenge in a nationally televised debate. We will be anxiously waiting for you to answer "YES" if you have the guts to debate us.

    Matthew Naus
    Co-founder of: Veterans for 911 Truth
    e-mail: nausmr@yahoo.com

    CNN: "...we may not have been told the truth..."


    CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Jack Cafferty tag-teamed on the VF piece and FAA audio clips yesterdy (8/2/2006), thanks Mike for sending these in (if somebody has the Tucker Carlson bit from last night send it in.)

    Wolf Blitzer lead-in:
    http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=149

    Jack Cafferty WMV | MP4 Format:
    http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=148

    "There are indications that we may not have been told the truth about what happened on September 11th, 2001." - Jack Cafferty.

    The Limited Hangout begins. If you missed Paul Thompson on Randi Rhodes yesterday, I highly recommend giving it a listen.

    Randi Rhodes Interviews Paul Thompson - 2MB MP3

    Investigate THIS!

    Here's my reaction to Tucker Carlson's statement that perhaps a new 9/11 investigation is needed.

    The evidence is now so strong that the 9/11 Commission was a whitewash, that even imperial lapdog Tucker Carlson is saying we may need a new investigation. Sorry . . . but the time for investigation is OVER.

    Why? Because investigations are routinely undertaken by government when an administration doesn't want to DO anything. "Let's do a study" is code for "let's delay as long as possible, and hope people get distracted and forget the need to actually do something".

    "Uh, we'll get back to you after we study it for a couple more years."

    Its like studying global warming indefinitely instead of doing something like signing the Kyoto Protocol or demanding better gas mileage (if you don't agree about man-made global warming, then ignore this example. But you still know the bureaucratic dynamic I'm talking about).

    I demand action NOW, and I'm not going to get distracted as a new 9/11 "investigation" drags on for years.

    In addition to the delay and distract type of investigation, there is also a long tradition and history of whitewash cover-up investigations, like the investigation into how the Pearl Harbor attack happened, and the Warren Commission's investigation into JFK's murder.

    I refuse to play this game. I know that any new commission or panel will be made up of cover-up artists and hacks, just like the original 9/11 Commission.

    The time for investigations and studies are long past. It is time for justice NOW against all of the planners and perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks (we won't accept a couple of low-level scapegoats or sacrificial lambs) .

    I demand JUSTICE NOW. And I stand with many millions of Americans ( more than a third of the U.S. population).

    So bring all of the 9/11 perps to justice now, or you will have the opportunity to investigate what hundreds of million angry Americans do when the People's will is ignored."


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    Re: [911_truth_DFW] 11 Questions Avoided by the Media On NORAD Tapes

    Posted by: "Bill Giltner" bill.giltner@gmail.com bgiltner

    Thu Aug 3, 2006 8:29 pm (PST)

    reply to 911_truth_DFW@yahoogroups.com, cross posted to
    political-research@yahoogroups.com

    Nancy,

    It looks like you are doing a lot of good work and you are an honest
    advocate for truth about 9/11.

    I have spent several hours considering whether I should send the following
    post. By posting this, I'm throwing myself into the firing line to some
    degree and will be ridiculed for what I'm going to say. I don't intend to
    mount of strong defense of my contention, so those of you who want a debate
    will not get one from me. However, consider the following.

    Kyle Hense is a distractor. My list of alleged distractors is published
    here:

    http://911truth.wetpaint.com/page/Speculation+on+Diversionary+Agents

    The contents of the above link is there on a web page to be debated, so
    don't hestitate to have at it, wiki style.

    What's my point, what do I mean? I mean that ther are agents who inject
    themselves into the stream of communications and by their actions they
    muddly the clarity needed to create a legitimate groundswell of outrage
    throughout the American population.

    Vanity Fair Magazine has had articles that serve to distract. Also, the
    article about the 9/11 Commission and the criminal referral published in
    the Wash Po. was a distractor. Many of the agents working as distractors
    are very sophisicated.

    Let me point out just how powerful, integrated, and cunning the manipulators
    are:

    It's my contention that the Mel Gibson DUI episode was a carefullly scripted
    psyop. I think Mel was acting. (I'm not saying he's wasn't drinking. I'm
    not saying that is didn't have tequila open in his car. I am saying he
    wasn't drunk enough to be caught red handed, and to make the whole scene the
    way he did). I don't think the police had to have been "in on it" for the
    plan to work. I think Zionist forces hatched an incredible plan to
    manipulate the debate about Jews and Israel to immobilize the huge sentiment
    about the US support and handling of the current War / Crisis.

    If you think I'm crazy to speculate about such a things, I honestly ask any
    of you whether a blood alcohol content of .12 turns anyone into a lunitic
    who not only would have a great deal of unburdening to do related to Wars
    being caused by Jews, but also Gibson was alleged to have called a female
    deputy "sugar tits". The Gibson DUI incident was a script written for our
    particular time in history, and it was a fairly unchallenging role for an
    actor of Gibson's capability to have carried off.

    For those who follow Wingtv.com , I would recommend today's (8/3) audio
    commentary, as I believe Victor Thorn and Lisa Guiliani are a strong voice
    for getting at the truth about 9/11 and other aspects of the Neocon regimes
    and it's international infrastructure.

    Bill Giltner
    Austin, TX

    On 8/3/06, Nancy Cunningham <cunningb@flash.net> wrote:
    >
    > *Eleven (11) Questions Avoided by the Media in Recent Reporting of
    > Department of Defense Violations of Law*
    >
    >
    > Kyle F. Hence
    > Executive Director 9/11 CitizensWatch
    > Co-Founder UnansweredQuestions.org
    > http://www.911citizenswatch.org
    >
    > /Washington Post/
    > **9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon*
    > Allegations Brought to Inspectors General*
    >
    >
    >
    > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300_pf.html
    >
    > /Vanity Fair/
    > **9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes**
    >
    >
    > http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/060801fege01
    >
    > /The New York Times/
    > **New Tapes Disclose Confusion Within the Military on Sept. 11**
    >
    >
    > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/us/03norad.html
    >
    >
    > Recent articles in corporate media examine deception and lying by the
    > Department of Defense relative to the attacks of September 11th 2001. They
    > shed light on an effective cover-up by the 9/11 Commission in its refusal to
    > bring Government deception to the American people by way of their
    > discredited 9/11 Report. Links to these articles follow as do 11 questions
    > which these revelations and NORAD tapes beg to be asked and which must be
    > answered:
    >
    > =======================================
    >
    > The real and problematic confusion and fog is one which is seemingly
    > preventing the corporate media from grappling with any of the following
    > pressing questions which have been advanced for years by the 9/11 families,
    > advocates and independent researchers.
    >
    > Here are* Eleven Questions* that the corporate media have thus far refused
    > to raise or attempt to answer in their examination of the NORAD tapes and
    > related issues:
    >
    > 1. *Who was responsible for scheduling multiple war games and terror
    > exercises involving aircraft for Sept. 11th
    >
    > 2. Who moved "Global Guardian" normally scheduled for October to
    > September?
    >
    > 3. Who designed the war games to involve 'hijackings'?
    >
    > 4. Who planned and scheduled the movement of Air force aircraft north to
    > Canada, Alaska and Greenland?
    >
    > 5. Who planned the terror exercise at the NRO (National Reconnaissance
    > Office) involving an evacuation in response to threat from the air?
    >
    > 6. Who was "hands-on" responsible for coordinating all the war games the
    > morning of September 11th?
    >
    > 7. Who would have been responsible for turning off the war games to enable
    > a timely real world response to the attacks?
    >
    > 8. How were as many as 21 false radar blips or possible targets (per Jane
    > Garvey) inserted into FAA radar screens?
    >
    > 9. Who was responsible for the identification of ghost flight 11 which
    > allegedly continued to fly south past Manhattan and which may have caused
    > NORAD's Langley intercept jets to vector North toward NYC rather than D.C.?
    > * [NOTE: John Farmer of the 9/11 Commission said to me personally that the
    > 9/11 Commission was never able to identify the individual for this
    > information--to resolve this anomaly.]*
    >
    > 10. Why was there no reference to the pattern of 9/11 Commission cover-up
    > including that of Able Danger as revealed by Capt. Scott Philpott?
    >
    > =================
    >
    > * 11. The bottom line question that corporate media refuse to answer and
    > which the 9/11 Commission ignored is *who, specifically, would have been
    > responsible for creating the circumstances that led to the confusion or fog
    > the morning of 9/11 and who should have immediately ceased any and all war
    > gaming activity and deceptive radar data?*
    >
    > To begin to answer these questions journalists intent on getting answers
    > to questions long asked by the families and others should visit:
    >
    > *Center for Cooperative Research: Essay -- "U.S. Military Exercises up to
    > 9/11"*
    >
    > http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&before_9/11=militaryExercises
    >
    > *Randi Rhodes interview with Complete 9/11 Timeline author, Paul Thompson
    > on Air America*
    >
    > http://www.911podcasts.com/files/audio/RandiRhodes_PaulThompson_NORAD_080206.mp3
    >
    > Enough with excusing those responsible by pointing to 'confusion' or
    > 'fog'. The real and dangerous 'fog' here is that which prevents journalists
    > from doing their jobs and asking and answering the hard questions about 9/11
    > including those posed above and those surrounding the growing evidence for
    > controlled demolition of the World Trade Center towers and WTC #7. [Google
    > Dr. Steven Jones & World Trade Center]
    >
    > ********************
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >


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    Support the Resistance in Palestine:
    A Call to Action

    OnePalestine
    The events of the past few weeks have clarified the nature of the struggle in Palestine. Although "Israel" has an arsenal of military weapons unmatched by any power in the region, each new wave of aggression against the people of Palestine and Lebanon has resulted in a response of immense courage and resistance. As the military struggle expands beyond Gaza and the West Bank, the underlying reality of Israel's doomed colonial project becomes cl! ear: short of bombing the entire region into annihilation, the Zionists cannot continue to exist in a region in which Arab people aspire to self-determination on Arab land. There can be no more gray zone: the post-Oslo sham of normalization and the process of land theft through peace treaties and open or hidden alliances between "Israel", the "US", and Arab client states-all that is swiftly disappearing. It could not have come at a more critical time: a moment when "the world's only superpower" has suffered defeat at the hands of Iraq's brave guerillas; a moment when a new block of anti-imperial power is forming from Venezuela and Bolivia to the Arab world...

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    911 "Conspiracy Theorists" Vindicated: Pentagon deliberately misled Public Opinion
    Military officials made false statements to Congress and to the 911 Commission

    MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY, Global Research
    Recent revelations by members of the 911 Commission (quoted in the Washington Post, 2 August 2006) have farreaching implications. They confirm that the Pentagon was involved in criminal wrongdoing by deliberately distorting and/or withholding information concerning the September 2001 attacks: "Some staff! members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate." (WP, 2 August 2006) These revelations uphold what has been documented regarding 911 in several carefully researched studies, which the mainstream media continues to identify as "conspiracy theories"...


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    DID YOU KNOW...
    MonaBaker.com
    Did you know that non-Jewish Israelis cannot buy or lease land in Israel? Did you now that cars owned by Palestinians are colour coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews? Did you know Palestinians are not allowed to move from one city, say Gaza to Bethleham, to another without first getting a 'visa' from Israel? Did you know that Israel allots 85% of the water resources for Jews and the remaining 15% is divided among all Palestinians in the territories? For example in Hebron, 85% of t! he water is given to about 400 Jewish settlers, while 15% must be divided among Hebron's 120,000 Palestinians? Did you know that Israel routinely confiscates Palestinian bank accounts, businesses and land and refuses to pay compensation to those who suffer confiscation?...




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    Jews smart and good, Muslims dumb and evil
    Paul Richard Harris, Editor, Axis of Logic
    There is an unattributed article circulating over the Internet these days which lists Jewish and Islamic Nobel Laureates, followed by a bit of unrelated doggerel, making the obvious declaration that Jews are smart and good, Muslims are dumb and evil. By implication, the article means ALL Jews and ALL Muslims. It is racist nonsense, and it’s wrong. By doing a simple Internet search, I located at least a dozen versions of this lis! t and they all have minor differences. Most important, I could not locate any version that matches the list produced by the official website of the Nobel Foundation. Nor could I locate any source for confirming that those listed as Muslims truly are, those listed as Jewish truly are...

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    Israel’s latest invasion of Lebanon and western culpability
    Dr. Habib Siddiqui
    It should be quite obvious by now that Israel’s latest invasion of Gaza and Lebanon had very little to do with rescuing her fallen soldiers. As I write, Israel has killed some 750 unarmed Lebanese civilians - mostly women and children, destroyed mosques, bridges, roads, houses, schools, hospitals and much of the infra-structure of southern half of Lebanon. As in 1996, she has massacred scores of civilians in Qana this past weekend (Jul! y 30, 2006). Israel has bombed Red Cross center and ambulances, and a UN observation post killing 4 observers. She has displaced a million people inside the country, some of whom are forced to take shelters in even prisons. Infants have been forcibly separated from their parents, and the elderly from their care-taking children. Relief supplies are difficult to get to the internally displaced refugees. Nothing is immune from Israel’s bombing campaign...

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    this singular war...
    Zahi Webhi, Siege of Lebanon
    "I have lived through all the Israeli invasions of Lebanon. I have lived through the entire war in Lebanon. "There is no March 8, no March 14 anymore. There is only July 12. July 12 - the start of the most brutal, most devastating of the wars against Lebanon. There has not been a war that has destroyed entire neighborhoods in this fashion, entire neighborhoods while the world was silent. "The plan is to create another Iraq."...

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    Olmert proud of “Israel’s accomplishments”
    Lebanon under attack
    "Olmert confirmed Israel would carry on fighting until an international force was on the ground in south Lebanon and listed the flight of civilians from the area as among the accomplishments of the Israeli military campaign." - REUTERS Ehud Olmert says the flight of [more than 900.000] civilians from their [destroyed] villages is an "accomplishment". For zionist successor, it is understandable. Israel have been instituted in 1948 on a land th! at saw all its indigenous inhabitants forced out, with their villages destroyed. Forcing more than 900.000 innocent civilians, women, children, old people, to migrate towards outdoor camps and schools, then destroying completely the places they live in, is, in the words of the israeli prime minister, an heroic act...


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    burials, kidnappings, and refugees
    Siege of Lebanon
    There was to be another mass burial today. 90 people were to be buried in Tyre (Sour) today. The burial had to be postponed to tomorrow. hopefully.
    Why? The Israeli bombardment, the constant threat of Israeli aggression, forced the postponement of the burial. No comment.
    ---
    The Israeli army invaded Ba'albeck last night. They kidnapped 5 men. Civilians. From their homes. They kidnapped 5 men - and took them to Israel. They kidnapped 5 civilians. The same night... in Ba'albeck 7 people were killed, 6 from one family. They were hiding under a tree. "My father. My brother. My cousins." said one woman...

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    Mideast Weapons Deserve Scrutiny
    Israel’s cluster bombs and alleged phosphorus use have escaped attention

    FAIR
    ...Other reports have raised the strong possibility that cluster bombs may have been used in Gaza (Agence France Presse, 7/25/06). And some doctors and Lebanese officials believe that injuries in Lebanon indicate the use of incendiary weapons such as white phosphorus (Inter Press Service, 7/28/06; Agence France Presse, 7/30/06). White phosphorus causes severe and deep burns to the skin and can! not be extinguished with water; the New York Times once called it (3/22/95) one of "the worst chemical weapons" in existence. Israel's use of such weapons would not be without precedent; Human Rights Watch reported in 1996 (5/96) that there was "compelling" evidence that Israel used phosphorus weapons against civilians in its 1982 and 1983 attacks on Southern Lebanon. (The U.S. has admitted to using white phosphorus as a weapon in Iraq...


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    Hizbullah's attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon
    Anders Strindberg
    As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel is defending itself. The underlying problem is Arab extremism. Sadly, this is pure analytical nonsense. Hizbullah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on July 12 was a direct result of Israel's silent but unrelenting aggression against Lebanon, which in turn is part of a six-decades long Arab! -Israeli conflict. Since its withdrawal of occupation forces from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Israel has violated the United Nations-monitored "blue line" on an almost daily basis, according to UN reports. Hizbullah's military doctrine, articulated in the early 1990s, states that it will fire Katyusha rockets into Israel only in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians or Hizbullah's leadership; this indeed has been the pattern...

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    Bishop Riah on the current crisis in the Middle East - 2nd Letter of Appeal, August 1, 2006
    The Rt. Rev. Riah H. Abu El-Assal, Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem
    Dear Friends, When I wrote to you last Friday, I could not have imagined that a second Qana Massacre in a decade would be carried out by the State of Israel on Sunday when they dropped two bombs on a house, crushing at least fifty-six people, including thirty-four children and twelve women. They suffocated under dirt and debris, virtually buried alive in the m! ake-shift bomb shelter where they had had little water and food and no toilet (...) And, the offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza has been relentless. This week when Jan Egeland, the U.N.’s Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs visited Jerusalem, he focused much of his attention on "the tragedy happening in the Gaza Strip". He does not understand what benefit Israel will gain from punishing 1.4 million people by cutting them off from their sources of electricity and jobs, from running water in their houses and from fresh food (...) Killing and the destruction of the environment is not a war against nations, but it is a war against God...


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    Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 2 August 2006.
    Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.
    ...In a dispatch posted at 10am Makkah time Wednesday morning, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters ambushed a US military patrol on the main road near the az-Zuyut building in the middle of ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad. The ar-Ramadi correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported local eyewitnesses as saying that Resistance fig! hters armed with light and medium weapons and pipe rockets attacked a US patrol on ’17 Tammuz’ Street near the az-Zuyut area, completely destroying a Humvee and damaging an American Bradley armored vehicle. The attack sparked a fierce firefight and US forces rushed to encircle the area making it impossible for the correspondent to ascertain the nature and extent of casualties....

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    Two brave women speak out
    Imad Khadduri, Free Iraq
    This is a letter sent from two FOX news producers in Amman, Jordan to FOX news: Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 Dear All, We would like to announce our resignation from Fox News in Amman. Although we never actually worked for your organization, we helped for the past three years in facilitating your work in the Middle East. We base our decision on moral issues. We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from t! hat. Not only are you an instrument of the Bush White House, and Israeli propaganda, you are war mongers with no sense of decency, nor professionalism. You have crossed all borders and red lines. An Arab mother cries over the death of her child very much like an American and Israeli mother...

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    "The Ones Who Are Buried Alive Are Usually Safe From the Dogs"
    The Total Destruction of Srifa: Mangled Bodies in the Wake of Israeli Bombs and Missiles

    LARA MARLOWE
    It was an unseemly end for 80- year-old Manaheel Jabr, flung over a bloodstained walll, grey hair falling around her shrunken black face, a collapsed ceiling pinning her down at the waist. "It's the grandmother," one of the onlookers gasped when the civil defense bulldozer finally pierced a hole in the rubble of what was until two weeks ago! a three-storey house. Mrs Jabr's corpse presented a terrible dilemma to the Lebanese Red Cross yesterday. Should they cut her in two, put the pieces in a body bag and take her to the hospital morgue, or leave her behind, in the hope that more powerful equipment could lift the concrete slab from her back and would reach her before the dogs did?...


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    The pride and glory of the Israeli state.
    The Angry Arab News Service
    So I was watching a report on the pro-Bush, right-wing Lebanese station, LBC-TV. It was about the Israeli raid on Ba`albak. Basically, we learn this: an elite force of 300 Israeli soldiers were in pitch battle against 4 Hizbullah fighters FOR MORE THAN SEVEN HOURS. This reminds me of the good old days in Lebanon: when four Palestinian resistance fighters used to battle a force of 1000 Lebanese army soldiers. But the Israeli raid was a success, ! according to Israeli media. Not only did it net Hasan Dib Nasrallah, but a pregnant woman was killed on her way to the hospital for delivery. She was shot from the air by Israeli helicopters...

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