Friday, July 22, 2005
BIRCH SOCIETY USE OF NESTA WEBSTER
BIRCH SOCIETY USE OF NESTA WEBSTER: "Morris Dees, John Nutter, or James Ridgeway that have appeared in hundreds of stories and interviews, you just about have to conclude that a full-scale smear"
BG: Hmmmm more John Nutter stuff.
BG: Hmmmm more John Nutter stuff.
Uneasy memories of hijackers in their midst
Uneasy memories of hijackers in their midst
BG: Nutter seems to be furthering the story rather than debunking it...
Uneasy memories of hijackers in their midst
Sunday, September 30, 2001
By Michael D. Sallah, Block News Alliance
They dressed in polo shirts and khakis and toted cell phones in their cars as they cruised along the palm-lined boulevards of South Florida.
An officer with the Broward County Sheriff's Office looks through the window of an apartment in Hollywood, Fla., as investigators search for clues in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Suspects in the attacks are believed to have spent time in Florida cities such as Vero Beach, Delray Beach, Hollywood, Coral Springs, and Deerfield Beach.
Moving from motel rooms to apartments to rental homes, they communicated with e-mails written in special code.
In a culturally rich region that's home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, the 14 Arabic-speaking men barely drew a second glance.
"They looked like anyone else down here. They spoke in broken English, so what? Who doesn't?" said David Niven, of Delray Beach, a professor at Florida Atlantic University. "Every nationality in the world is within a five-mile radius of my house. And if they lived next door to me, I doubt if I could even pick them out of a police lineup."
Whether by design or chance, they found the perfect place to plan the perfect mass murder, say scholars and law enforcement agents.
They worked out at local health clubs, took flight lessons and gathered in cramped motel rooms as they moved closer to the day when they would massacre more than 6,500 people on Sept. 11.
It may take years for investigators to finally piece together a portrait of the men who hijacked four jetliners, crashing two into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and a fourth in a field in Somerset County. They used so many phony names and addresses in an area stretching from Daytona Beach to Miami, it may be impossible to know all their moves.
"This is where you come to drop out," says Casey Brown, a former assistant Palm Beach County property appraiser. "If you're a criminal, it's a great place to hide."
Why the leaders of the hijackers' force chose Florida as a staging ground may never be known.
But there are plenty of reasons why the Sunshine State was suitable to their cause.
For example:
With more than 2 million people of Caribbean descent -- particularly Cubans -- the region is dominated by people of color and foreign languages. The hijackers, like people of other ethnic groups, simply blended into the tapestry.
Transience and tourism have always set South Florida apart from other U.S. regions, with people constantly moving in and out. The state's population exploded from 6.8 million in 1970 to about 15 million today.
Federal agencies in South Florida are long used to investigating terrorist suspects from Cuba and South America, but not the Middle East.
The availability of numerous flight schools, including Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach and Huffman Aviation in Venice -- where several of the suicide pilots received their flight training -- makes it ideal for people who want to learn how to fly.
Some experts point to an interesting irony in why the hijackers may have picked Florida.
While it's a state with plenty of ethnic groups -- allowing the ter-rorists to blend in -- it's also a state with a relatively small number of Arab-Americans and Muslims.
The people who may have been most suspicious of the hijackers and their plans would have been other Arabs, say experts.
"It's not hard to understand," says Dr. Walid Phares, a terrorism expert and professor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
"They would have drawn atten-tion to themselves by other Arabs. They would have been asked a lot of questions. If you're a terrorist, you want to minimize your risks."
In other words, it would have been more difficult to plan their mission in places like Toledo and Dearborn, Mich., he added, where the concentrations of people of Middle Eastern descent is greater.
From the beginning, the terror-ists seemed determined to conceal their identities and mission.
Some are believed to have used stolen IDs or aliases along a twisted and confusing trail through cities like Vero Beach, Delray Beach, Hollywood, Coral Springs and Deerfield Beach.
The city that attracted most of the suspects: Delray Beach, a quaint coastal community in Palm Beach County.
Maria Siscar-Simpson was stunned to learn that two of the suspects, Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmed Alnami, who were on the United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in rural Pennsylvania, lived below her at the Delray Racquet Club.
"They looked like kids," she told reporters. "Everyone thought they were tennis students. Honestly, they blended right in."
She and others were surprised to discover that a New York firefighter missing in the World Trade Center collapse, Lawrence Stack, owned a condo directly across the street from the suspects.
"It's balcony to balcony. It's about 300 feet from terrorists to hero," said local resident Ann Nathanson.
The hijackers' trail in Florida may have originated in May 2000.
The suspected ringleader, Mohamed Atta, arrived in July 2000 -- just days after he visited a flight school in Oklahoma, according to interviews and records. He ended up in Florida instead.
Described by people who knew him as a serious 33-year-old urban planner, he and fellow hijacker Marwan Al-Shehhi showed up at the Huffman Aviation flight school in Venice.
Atta, who was born in Egypt, wrote a check for $10,000 to begin training at the flying center.
For the next five months, the two men quietly took lessons, initially staying at the home of an instructor for $37 a night, and later renting an apartment.
The dark-haired, 5-foot-8 leader drove a red Pontiac used his cell phone frequently, and dressed in the latest fashions, recalled another student, Ali Azzan.
The two suspects' political lean-ings were obvious, said Azzan. "They liked to discuss politics, often railing about Israel," he said.
By the time America's attention was focused on Florida during the now infamous presidential recount in December, the two men had qualified to fly small, multi-engine planes.
That same month, at least 12 of the other suspected conspirators were in Florida, moving from motels to rental units to condos, records show. Some may have taken flight lessons as early as 1993 in Florida.
Between January and March of this year, Hamza Alghamdi and Mohand Alsheri -- both on the United Airlines Flight 175 that crashed into the World Trade Center -- plunked down $200 to rent a mailbox at a Delray Beach shopping center.
It was the first in a series of mail drops and bogus addresses the group used to obtain driver's licenses and reserve plane tickets.
One expert believes the terror-ists moved from place to place for obvious reasons.
"They wanted to stay ahead of anyone who may have been trailing them," says Don Pierce, a former federal task force agent in Delray Beach.
"If you just keep moving, you can stay ahead of people. These are people that are probably not going to draw a lot of attention anyway."
According to news accounts and interviews, Atta moved to at least three places in the 14 months he lived in Florida.
At times, he and others rolled out wads of cash -- $100 and $50 bills, witnesses have said. But in South Florida, that's not going to raise eyebrows, says Dr. John Nutter, a former Michigan State University researcher who advises law enforcement agencies on terrorism.
With the numbers of wealthy people who flock there, "not having any visible means of support is fairly typical," Nutter said. "They could have been wealthy heirs of oil money."
Even when Atta and other con-spirators visited the remote farming area of Belle Glade six months ago -- about 40 miles west of Palm Beach -- no one seemed to suspect anything.
Amid the cane fields and sugar refineries, Atta went to the local airport to ask about crop-duster planes.
"He wanted to know how to fly it, how to crank it, how much it would haul," recalled James Lester, 50, who services the crafts. Experts have frequently cited crop-dusters as a possible means of dispersing dangerous chemical or biological agents.
Lester said Atta, believed to have crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center, returned to the air strip as recently as August -- a month before the attacks.
By summer, the men had settled into several spots, possibly awaiting orders. But all along, they continued to try to confound anyone who may have trailed them.
"You have to put yourself into the mind of a terrorist if you really want to understand these people. They did everything -- everything -- for a reason," said Phares, the Florida Atlantic University professor who has testified before Senate subcommittees on Middle East conflicts.
"This is not an area that con-cerns itself with Middle East ter-rorism," said Phares, a native of Lebanon. "Speaking Arabic in public is not going to turn heads in Florida, but speaking in Spanish about people like Castro most cer-tainly will."
By spring of this year, a paper trail emerged: Al-Shehhi obtained his driver's license April 12, while Ziad Jarrah and Atta received theirs May 2.
A suspect who used the name Waleed Al-Shehri got his license May 4. Three more obtained licenses in July, reports show.
By summer, they joined local gyms and began visiting the Delray Beach public library.
Librarian Kathleen Hensman recognized several of their photos because they had frequented the downtown library to use the com-puters. The person she remem-bered most: Marwan Al-Shehhi, who was listed aboard United Air-lines Flight 175.
She said the pudgy, bespectacled man asked her about good restau-rants in the Delray Beach area.
"He looked me right in the eye and asked, and then everybody jumped in -- all the people at the computers," she told reporters.
"The place was bustling, and all these people started telling him about the restaurants in Delray. It makes me angry. It's so upsetting. They were here using our library as a vehicle for terrorism." FBI agents have since carted away three of the computers.
Brown, the former assistant Palm Beach County property appraiser, said he uses the computers there so often "I probably sat next to those guys and didn't even know it. Delray has people from every walk and color. They would not have turned any heads."
Atta and Al-Shehhi often went to a Denny's restaurant in Delray Beach, ordering black coffee and veggie cheese omelets, according to employees.
"They were regulars," said wait-ress Donna Cooper.
Just days before the hijackings, two of the hijackers checked into the Panther Motel in Deerfield Beach, a small city about 18 miles north of Fort Lauderdale. Co-owner Richard Surma remembers them well.
"They paid me $500 in advance," he said. His wife, Diane, said she gets chills when she recalls how Marwan Al-Shehhi stood so close to her. "He was right there talking to me in the laundry room."
Before checking out the day before the attack, the hijackers left something behind in the dumpster, said Surma: a flight tote bag stuffed with FAA flight maps, a protractor, martial arts books, an English-German dictionary and a binder filled with scrawled notes.
Between Aug. 24 and 29, the hijackers sealed their fates: At least 14 of the 19 booked reservations for the death flights.
Three provided the same Delray Beach address. Six of them gave the same Broward County cell phone number. Some paid cash, and others used credit cards, logging onto the Internet to book their tickets.
They began to leave for Washington, Boston and New York by late August and early September.
Some South Florida residents are coming to grips with the realization that they may have crossed paths with the hijackers during innocuous trips to the beach, grocery store, library or even a restaurant.
"It's shocking beyond belief that these guys were here," Niven, the Florida Atlantic professor, said. "While 8-year-old kids were doing their homework at the library, these guys were sitting next to them planning to blow up the World Trade Center."
While he and others are baffled the hijackers lived among them, Brown insists there was no way anyone could have known of the horrors they were about to carry out. Most of the immigrant groups that come to South Florida keep to themselves and speak a foreign language, he said.
The Block News Alliance consists of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade of Toledo, Ohio. Michael Sallah is The Blade's national affairs writer. The Blade's news services con-tributed to this report.
BG: Nutter seems to be furthering the story rather than debunking it...
Uneasy memories of hijackers in their midst
Sunday, September 30, 2001
By Michael D. Sallah, Block News Alliance
They dressed in polo shirts and khakis and toted cell phones in their cars as they cruised along the palm-lined boulevards of South Florida.
An officer with the Broward County Sheriff's Office looks through the window of an apartment in Hollywood, Fla., as investigators search for clues in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Suspects in the attacks are believed to have spent time in Florida cities such as Vero Beach, Delray Beach, Hollywood, Coral Springs, and Deerfield Beach.
Moving from motel rooms to apartments to rental homes, they communicated with e-mails written in special code.
In a culturally rich region that's home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, the 14 Arabic-speaking men barely drew a second glance.
"They looked like anyone else down here. They spoke in broken English, so what? Who doesn't?" said David Niven, of Delray Beach, a professor at Florida Atlantic University. "Every nationality in the world is within a five-mile radius of my house. And if they lived next door to me, I doubt if I could even pick them out of a police lineup."
Whether by design or chance, they found the perfect place to plan the perfect mass murder, say scholars and law enforcement agents.
They worked out at local health clubs, took flight lessons and gathered in cramped motel rooms as they moved closer to the day when they would massacre more than 6,500 people on Sept. 11.
It may take years for investigators to finally piece together a portrait of the men who hijacked four jetliners, crashing two into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon and a fourth in a field in Somerset County. They used so many phony names and addresses in an area stretching from Daytona Beach to Miami, it may be impossible to know all their moves.
"This is where you come to drop out," says Casey Brown, a former assistant Palm Beach County property appraiser. "If you're a criminal, it's a great place to hide."
Why the leaders of the hijackers' force chose Florida as a staging ground may never be known.
But there are plenty of reasons why the Sunshine State was suitable to their cause.
For example:
With more than 2 million people of Caribbean descent -- particularly Cubans -- the region is dominated by people of color and foreign languages. The hijackers, like people of other ethnic groups, simply blended into the tapestry.
Transience and tourism have always set South Florida apart from other U.S. regions, with people constantly moving in and out. The state's population exploded from 6.8 million in 1970 to about 15 million today.
Federal agencies in South Florida are long used to investigating terrorist suspects from Cuba and South America, but not the Middle East.
The availability of numerous flight schools, including Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach and Huffman Aviation in Venice -- where several of the suicide pilots received their flight training -- makes it ideal for people who want to learn how to fly.
Some experts point to an interesting irony in why the hijackers may have picked Florida.
While it's a state with plenty of ethnic groups -- allowing the ter-rorists to blend in -- it's also a state with a relatively small number of Arab-Americans and Muslims.
The people who may have been most suspicious of the hijackers and their plans would have been other Arabs, say experts.
"It's not hard to understand," says Dr. Walid Phares, a terrorism expert and professor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
"They would have drawn atten-tion to themselves by other Arabs. They would have been asked a lot of questions. If you're a terrorist, you want to minimize your risks."
In other words, it would have been more difficult to plan their mission in places like Toledo and Dearborn, Mich., he added, where the concentrations of people of Middle Eastern descent is greater.
From the beginning, the terror-ists seemed determined to conceal their identities and mission.
Some are believed to have used stolen IDs or aliases along a twisted and confusing trail through cities like Vero Beach, Delray Beach, Hollywood, Coral Springs and Deerfield Beach.
The city that attracted most of the suspects: Delray Beach, a quaint coastal community in Palm Beach County.
Maria Siscar-Simpson was stunned to learn that two of the suspects, Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmed Alnami, who were on the United Airlines Flight 93 that crashed in rural Pennsylvania, lived below her at the Delray Racquet Club.
"They looked like kids," she told reporters. "Everyone thought they were tennis students. Honestly, they blended right in."
She and others were surprised to discover that a New York firefighter missing in the World Trade Center collapse, Lawrence Stack, owned a condo directly across the street from the suspects.
"It's balcony to balcony. It's about 300 feet from terrorists to hero," said local resident Ann Nathanson.
The hijackers' trail in Florida may have originated in May 2000.
The suspected ringleader, Mohamed Atta, arrived in July 2000 -- just days after he visited a flight school in Oklahoma, according to interviews and records. He ended up in Florida instead.
Described by people who knew him as a serious 33-year-old urban planner, he and fellow hijacker Marwan Al-Shehhi showed up at the Huffman Aviation flight school in Venice.
Atta, who was born in Egypt, wrote a check for $10,000 to begin training at the flying center.
For the next five months, the two men quietly took lessons, initially staying at the home of an instructor for $37 a night, and later renting an apartment.
The dark-haired, 5-foot-8 leader drove a red Pontiac used his cell phone frequently, and dressed in the latest fashions, recalled another student, Ali Azzan.
The two suspects' political lean-ings were obvious, said Azzan. "They liked to discuss politics, often railing about Israel," he said.
By the time America's attention was focused on Florida during the now infamous presidential recount in December, the two men had qualified to fly small, multi-engine planes.
That same month, at least 12 of the other suspected conspirators were in Florida, moving from motels to rental units to condos, records show. Some may have taken flight lessons as early as 1993 in Florida.
Between January and March of this year, Hamza Alghamdi and Mohand Alsheri -- both on the United Airlines Flight 175 that crashed into the World Trade Center -- plunked down $200 to rent a mailbox at a Delray Beach shopping center.
It was the first in a series of mail drops and bogus addresses the group used to obtain driver's licenses and reserve plane tickets.
One expert believes the terror-ists moved from place to place for obvious reasons.
"They wanted to stay ahead of anyone who may have been trailing them," says Don Pierce, a former federal task force agent in Delray Beach.
"If you just keep moving, you can stay ahead of people. These are people that are probably not going to draw a lot of attention anyway."
According to news accounts and interviews, Atta moved to at least three places in the 14 months he lived in Florida.
At times, he and others rolled out wads of cash -- $100 and $50 bills, witnesses have said. But in South Florida, that's not going to raise eyebrows, says Dr. John Nutter, a former Michigan State University researcher who advises law enforcement agencies on terrorism.
With the numbers of wealthy people who flock there, "not having any visible means of support is fairly typical," Nutter said. "They could have been wealthy heirs of oil money."
Even when Atta and other con-spirators visited the remote farming area of Belle Glade six months ago -- about 40 miles west of Palm Beach -- no one seemed to suspect anything.
Amid the cane fields and sugar refineries, Atta went to the local airport to ask about crop-duster planes.
"He wanted to know how to fly it, how to crank it, how much it would haul," recalled James Lester, 50, who services the crafts. Experts have frequently cited crop-dusters as a possible means of dispersing dangerous chemical or biological agents.
Lester said Atta, believed to have crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the World Trade Center, returned to the air strip as recently as August -- a month before the attacks.
By summer, the men had settled into several spots, possibly awaiting orders. But all along, they continued to try to confound anyone who may have trailed them.
"You have to put yourself into the mind of a terrorist if you really want to understand these people. They did everything -- everything -- for a reason," said Phares, the Florida Atlantic University professor who has testified before Senate subcommittees on Middle East conflicts.
"This is not an area that con-cerns itself with Middle East ter-rorism," said Phares, a native of Lebanon. "Speaking Arabic in public is not going to turn heads in Florida, but speaking in Spanish about people like Castro most cer-tainly will."
By spring of this year, a paper trail emerged: Al-Shehhi obtained his driver's license April 12, while Ziad Jarrah and Atta received theirs May 2.
A suspect who used the name Waleed Al-Shehri got his license May 4. Three more obtained licenses in July, reports show.
By summer, they joined local gyms and began visiting the Delray Beach public library.
Librarian Kathleen Hensman recognized several of their photos because they had frequented the downtown library to use the com-puters. The person she remem-bered most: Marwan Al-Shehhi, who was listed aboard United Air-lines Flight 175.
She said the pudgy, bespectacled man asked her about good restau-rants in the Delray Beach area.
"He looked me right in the eye and asked, and then everybody jumped in -- all the people at the computers," she told reporters.
"The place was bustling, and all these people started telling him about the restaurants in Delray. It makes me angry. It's so upsetting. They were here using our library as a vehicle for terrorism." FBI agents have since carted away three of the computers.
Brown, the former assistant Palm Beach County property appraiser, said he uses the computers there so often "I probably sat next to those guys and didn't even know it. Delray has people from every walk and color. They would not have turned any heads."
Atta and Al-Shehhi often went to a Denny's restaurant in Delray Beach, ordering black coffee and veggie cheese omelets, according to employees.
"They were regulars," said wait-ress Donna Cooper.
Just days before the hijackings, two of the hijackers checked into the Panther Motel in Deerfield Beach, a small city about 18 miles north of Fort Lauderdale. Co-owner Richard Surma remembers them well.
"They paid me $500 in advance," he said. His wife, Diane, said she gets chills when she recalls how Marwan Al-Shehhi stood so close to her. "He was right there talking to me in the laundry room."
Before checking out the day before the attack, the hijackers left something behind in the dumpster, said Surma: a flight tote bag stuffed with FAA flight maps, a protractor, martial arts books, an English-German dictionary and a binder filled with scrawled notes.
Between Aug. 24 and 29, the hijackers sealed their fates: At least 14 of the 19 booked reservations for the death flights.
Three provided the same Delray Beach address. Six of them gave the same Broward County cell phone number. Some paid cash, and others used credit cards, logging onto the Internet to book their tickets.
They began to leave for Washington, Boston and New York by late August and early September.
Some South Florida residents are coming to grips with the realization that they may have crossed paths with the hijackers during innocuous trips to the beach, grocery store, library or even a restaurant.
"It's shocking beyond belief that these guys were here," Niven, the Florida Atlantic professor, said. "While 8-year-old kids were doing their homework at the library, these guys were sitting next to them planning to blow up the World Trade Center."
While he and others are baffled the hijackers lived among them, Brown insists there was no way anyone could have known of the horrors they were about to carry out. Most of the immigrant groups that come to South Florida keep to themselves and speak a foreign language, he said.
The Block News Alliance consists of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Blade of Toledo, Ohio. Michael Sallah is The Blade's national affairs writer. The Blade's news services con-tributed to this report.
The View From the Far Right (Secretive, paranoid, obsessed with guns and Waco, the militia movement may have 100,000 adherents)
The View From the Far Right (Secretive, paranoid, obsessed with guns and Waco, the militia movement may have 100,000 adherents)
BG: John Nutter (part of the panel for Cynthia McKenney's Congressional Mtg.) may not be helpful.... "As soon as I heard what happened [in Oklahoma City], I just had this gut reaction," said John Nutter of Michigan State University, who follows the paramilitary right. "It's straight out of the 'Turner Diaries'."
BG: John Nutter (part of the panel for Cynthia McKenney's Congressional Mtg.) may not be helpful.... "As soon as I heard what happened [in Oklahoma City], I just had this gut reaction," said John Nutter of Michigan State University, who follows the paramilitary right. "It's straight out of the 'Turner Diaries'."
What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School – or the Economics of Terrorism. Loretta Napoleoni in interview.
What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School – or the Economics of Terrorism. Loretta Napoleoni in interview.
BG: Loretta Napoleoni, speaker at today's event: Congressional Briefing for Members of Congress and their staffs. No "Let it Happen On Purpose" here. The core idea of her book was formed BEFORE 9/11.
She grew up in Italy, yet doesn't see fit to mention Gladio?! Why is this person a speaker?
BG: Loretta Napoleoni, speaker at today's event: Congressional Briefing for Members of Congress and their staffs. No "Let it Happen On Purpose" here. The core idea of her book was formed BEFORE 9/11.
She grew up in Italy, yet doesn't see fit to mention Gladio?! Why is this person a speaker?
Grijalva Background
MEChA-boy Rep. Grijalva (D-AZ) Calls Americans "Cockroaches"
BG: Oh Boy. Maybe it will be good to have the fact displayed that there is such a hot button issue as this. I can hear Lush Bimbaugh now.
BG: Oh Boy. Maybe it will be good to have the fact displayed that there is such a hot button issue as this. I can hear Lush Bimbaugh now.
Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva - Representing the People of Arizona's 7th District
Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva - Representing the People of Arizona's 7th District: "'I believe these acts of terrorism demand that the United States and the world concentrate on the real war on terrorism in our own back yards.'"
BG: Grijalva seems an unlikely cosponsor of 911 Truth
BG: Grijalva seems an unlikely cosponsor of 911 Truth
Congressional Briefing on 9/11 to Air on Web, TV and Radio For the World to Hear :: 9/11 CitizensWatch :: We are concerned citizens challenging the of
Congressional Briefing on 9/11 to Air on Web, TV and Radio For the World to Hear :: 9/11 CitizensWatch :: We are concerned citizens challenging the official story of 9/11
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
[please see earlier press releases from Rep. McKinney office posted at http://www.911citizenswatch.org]
Contact: Seema or Adrienne 202-225-1605
Congressional Briefing on 9/11 to Air on Web, TV and Radio For the World to Hear
РReps. Cynthia McKinney (GA) and Ra̼l Grijalva (AZ) to host
Title: ‘The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later - A Citizens’ Response – Did They Get It Right?’
What: Congressional Briefing for Members of Congress and their staffs to hear testimony from family members and experts appraising the 9/11 Commission Report.
Where: Room 345, Cannon House Office Building, Independence Ave & First Street SE, Washington, DC
When: July 22, 2005, from 9 am to 5 pm EST.
The following media coverage has been confirmed: --C-SPAN TV is taping the entire event for rebroadcast on Saturday, July 23rd, after 5 pm EST (station TBA); check for scheduling at www.c-span.org; click on ‘TV schedules’ in the black box.
--The INDEPENDENT RADIO NETWORK and the dcradiocoop.org are airing a webcast of the briefing during the day on their websites: dc.indymedia.org and the global indymedia.org for the world to hear. The webcast will either be live, or delayed by no more than 2 hours. Keep checking these websites for updates. They will rebroadcast it all day Saturday, starting at 9 am EST, and will make it available on demand thereafter at dc.indymedia.org.
--The PACIFICA RADIO NETWORK will redistribute the stream on their KU Satellite Right channel for their 5 stations and more than 75 affiliates to air at their discretion during the day on Friday, July 22nd, and will later provide it for them on demand on audioport.org.
--INN Report on FREE SPEECH TV (FSTV) will run two 20 minute broadcasts of the highlights of the morning session at 6:30 pm EST on Friday, July 22nd, and 1 am Saturday, July 23rd. Find FSTV affiliates via Satellite at: http://www.innworldreport.net/html/schedule.html
--In New York City the MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK (MNN) will air a rebroadcast of parts of the briefing at 7:30 am EST on Monday, July 25th.
One year after the release of the 9/11 Commission Final Report many questions about what transpired on September 11, 2001 and who should be held accountable still remain unanswered. At this briefing, family members will address questions about 9/11that remain unanswered, and the shortcomings of the 9/11 Commission. Other experts and authors will explore the omissions and errors in the Commission’s Final Report, will provide historical perspective not found in the Report and will review its recommendations and offer alternatives.
A partial list of the panelists who will speaking:
Lorie Van Auken and Mindy Kleinberg, widows of 9/11 victim, ‘Jersey Girls’ & Family Steering Committee
Robert McIlvaine, father of 9/11 victim, member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Marilyn Rosenthal, mother of 9/11 victim, professor at U. of Michigan, expert on forewarnings to 9/11
Nafeez Ahmed, author of The War on Truth, Director, Institute for Policy Research & Development
Loretta Napoleoni, economist, author of Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks
Paul Thompson, author of The Terror Timeline
Melvin Goodman, Fellow, Center for International Policy, former CIA
John Newman, Ph.D., professor University of West Virginia, former National Security Agency analyst
William Michaels, author of No Greater Threat
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
[please see earlier press releases from Rep. McKinney office posted at http://www.911citizenswatch.org]
Contact: Seema or Adrienne 202-225-1605
Congressional Briefing on 9/11 to Air on Web, TV and Radio For the World to Hear
РReps. Cynthia McKinney (GA) and Ra̼l Grijalva (AZ) to host
Title: ‘The 9/11 Commission Report One Year Later - A Citizens’ Response – Did They Get It Right?’
What: Congressional Briefing for Members of Congress and their staffs to hear testimony from family members and experts appraising the 9/11 Commission Report.
Where: Room 345, Cannon House Office Building, Independence Ave & First Street SE, Washington, DC
When: July 22, 2005, from 9 am to 5 pm EST.
The following media coverage has been confirmed: --C-SPAN TV is taping the entire event for rebroadcast on Saturday, July 23rd, after 5 pm EST (station TBA); check for scheduling at www.c-span.org; click on ‘TV schedules’ in the black box.
--The INDEPENDENT RADIO NETWORK and the dcradiocoop.org are airing a webcast of the briefing during the day on their websites: dc.indymedia.org and the global indymedia.org for the world to hear. The webcast will either be live, or delayed by no more than 2 hours. Keep checking these websites for updates. They will rebroadcast it all day Saturday, starting at 9 am EST, and will make it available on demand thereafter at dc.indymedia.org.
--The PACIFICA RADIO NETWORK will redistribute the stream on their KU Satellite Right channel for their 5 stations and more than 75 affiliates to air at their discretion during the day on Friday, July 22nd, and will later provide it for them on demand on audioport.org.
--INN Report on FREE SPEECH TV (FSTV) will run two 20 minute broadcasts of the highlights of the morning session at 6:30 pm EST on Friday, July 22nd, and 1 am Saturday, July 23rd. Find FSTV affiliates via Satellite at: http://www.innworldreport.net/html/schedule.html
--In New York City the MANHATTAN NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK (MNN) will air a rebroadcast of parts of the briefing at 7:30 am EST on Monday, July 25th.
One year after the release of the 9/11 Commission Final Report many questions about what transpired on September 11, 2001 and who should be held accountable still remain unanswered. At this briefing, family members will address questions about 9/11that remain unanswered, and the shortcomings of the 9/11 Commission. Other experts and authors will explore the omissions and errors in the Commission’s Final Report, will provide historical perspective not found in the Report and will review its recommendations and offer alternatives.
A partial list of the panelists who will speaking:
Lorie Van Auken and Mindy Kleinberg, widows of 9/11 victim, ‘Jersey Girls’ & Family Steering Committee
Robert McIlvaine, father of 9/11 victim, member of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Marilyn Rosenthal, mother of 9/11 victim, professor at U. of Michigan, expert on forewarnings to 9/11
Nafeez Ahmed, author of The War on Truth, Director, Institute for Policy Research & Development
Loretta Napoleoni, economist, author of Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks
Paul Thompson, author of The Terror Timeline
Melvin Goodman, Fellow, Center for International Policy, former CIA
John Newman, Ph.D., professor University of West Virginia, former National Security Agency analyst
William Michaels, author of No Greater Threat
The coming attacks on America
The coming attacks on America
BG: If the information on this web page is wrong, let those whose profile so far fits the circumstances stand up and expose whoever else is behind the curtain.
BG: If the information on this web page is wrong, let those whose profile so far fits the circumstances stand up and expose whoever else is behind the curtain.
WagNews: Heads-up: Ripoff Alert
WagNews: Heads-up: Ripoff Alert
Brief note. If we incorporate the work of others into our WagNews articles, we link/credit the original. Not everybody does. Some even do the reverse. Dude at nascarblue.blogspot is reprinting our articles. Wouldn't mind so much that he is ripping us -but he is dissing Nico Haupt also.
In our article 'Giuliani Linked to London Terror Drill Boss', we reported how:
"Meanwhile the competent Nico just found exactly how well connected is Mr. Power."
But in nascarblue's version of the article, he claims:
"Meanwhile I've just found out exactly how well connected is Mr. Power."
Naughty, naughty. And it doesn't end there. Even the pedophilia-stories-obsessed Jeff Wells at rigorousintuition has run a version of our 'Greenspan Fingerprint Found on London Bombs', saying that "Fintan Dunne of breakfornews.com has also picked up the story."
Not really "also," dude. More like two days earlier.
Let's be careful out there.
Brief note. If we incorporate the work of others into our WagNews articles, we link/credit the original. Not everybody does. Some even do the reverse. Dude at nascarblue.blogspot is reprinting our articles. Wouldn't mind so much that he is ripping us -but he is dissing Nico Haupt also.
In our article 'Giuliani Linked to London Terror Drill Boss', we reported how:
"Meanwhile the competent Nico just found exactly how well connected is Mr. Power."
But in nascarblue's version of the article, he claims:
"Meanwhile I've just found out exactly how well connected is Mr. Power."
Naughty, naughty. And it doesn't end there. Even the pedophilia-stories-obsessed Jeff Wells at rigorousintuition has run a version of our 'Greenspan Fingerprint Found on London Bombs', saying that "Fintan Dunne of breakfornews.com has also picked up the story."
Not really "also," dude. More like two days earlier.
Let's be careful out there.
Leno Jokes
Late Night Joke ArchivesTuesday Night July 19
Leno
Did you see Las Vegas today? It was 116 degrees in Las Vegas. It was so hot in Las Vegas today, Roy was attacked by a snow leopard.
It was so hot, Karl Rove was outing CIA agents for a Klondike Bar.
In fact, it was so hot in Washington, people were standing behind President Bush just to get the breeze from all the backpedaling.
Do you know about this Karl Rove scandal? I think Karl Rove is getting a little worried about his situation. Like today he said the biggest problem in America is prison rape.
President Bush met with the Australian Prime Minister today. He said he's liked Australia ever since he found out that's where Schwarzenegger is from.
There’s some talk about changing California’s three strikes and you’re out law. You know who really wants it changed? The Dodgers.
Hurricane Emily is hitting Mexico pretty hard. Luckily everyone down there is already up here.
Leno
Did you see Las Vegas today? It was 116 degrees in Las Vegas. It was so hot in Las Vegas today, Roy was attacked by a snow leopard.
It was so hot, Karl Rove was outing CIA agents for a Klondike Bar.
In fact, it was so hot in Washington, people were standing behind President Bush just to get the breeze from all the backpedaling.
Do you know about this Karl Rove scandal? I think Karl Rove is getting a little worried about his situation. Like today he said the biggest problem in America is prison rape.
President Bush met with the Australian Prime Minister today. He said he's liked Australia ever since he found out that's where Schwarzenegger is from.
There’s some talk about changing California’s three strikes and you’re out law. You know who really wants it changed? The Dodgers.
Hurricane Emily is hitting Mexico pretty hard. Luckily everyone down there is already up here.
Saudi Prince Bandar Resigns as Ambassador to U.S.
Saudi Prince Bandar Resigns as Ambassador to U.S.
BG: Who wants to be in DC when it's inevitable that terror will strike?
BG: Who wants to be in DC when it's inevitable that terror will strike?
Feds Encouraging Illegal Aliens to Get Mortgages
Feds Encouraging Illegal Aliens to Get Mortgages
BG: This is why I visit Newsmax... stories like this one which I think this is accurate and outrageous.
BG: This is why I visit Newsmax... stories like this one which I think this is accurate and outrageous.
Orrin Hatch Blasts Chuck Schumer's 'Dumbass Questions'
Orrin Hatch Blasts Chuck Schumer's 'Dumbass Questions'
BG: These guys don't seem to like each other much.
BG: These guys don't seem to like each other much.
Prince Bandar - Why Washington's smoothest diplomat fell from favor.
Prince Bandar - Why Washington's smoothest diplomat fell from favor.
BG: I think there's much more to this story.
BG: I think there's much more to this story.
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