Showing posts with label ksm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ksm. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

May Day #Mayday! "Sunlight Glistens Off Soaring New Towers"

Twilight Language: Sunlight Glistens Off Soaring New Towers...*
May Day #Mayday! 'Sunlight Glistens Off Soaring New Towers'
#NineEleven: #WorldTradeCenter tower surpasses #EmpireState*
Occupy Beltane*
Occupy Beltane: Anarchists Plot To Bomb Cuyahoga Bridge *
Occupy Beltane: Where's Obama?*
May Day demonstrations disrupt downtown Portland, Seattle*
May Day 2012 in Oregon (Photo Essay)*
William Ayers in Portland addresses 'Days of Rage' and years of reflection*
Academia Becomes Occupied With Occupy Movement*
Creating Innovators: Why America's Education System Is Obsolete*
Video: Were the #SanFrancisco #Vandals Paid Provocateurs?*
Video: Obama Info Czar Cass Sunstein Confronted on Cognitive Infiltration of Conspiracy Groups*
5 arrested for allegedly trying to blow up Ohio bridge*
Neocon Think Tank Cites Cleveland Bust to Push Police State Surveillance*
New York subway bomb plot man found guilty after terrorism trial*
While In Afghanistan Obama Quietly Signed An Important Foreign Policy Deal*
White House moves to align US, foreign regulations*
Is Pentagon Missile Defense Plan Just a $124 Billion Fantasy?*
Military to show Guantanamo proceedings at 4 US bases*
9/11 Mastermind Says He Wants to Die; Gitmo Trial May Be His Chance*
Pentagon admits it has no photo evidence of Bin Laden's death*
President Obama, Warrior in Chief*
In death, bin Laden still drives US foreign policy*
Video: No-Fly Zone To Be Enforced By Shoot-To-Kill Order During NATO Summit (Chicago)*
Video: Preparation and plans to evacuate Chicago*
Looks like Bilderberg 2012 in US Chantilly Va. 31May-01Jun*
Video: Bilderberg 2012 Location Confirmed - Jim Tucker Reports*
UK military prepare for '9/11-type attack'*
Video: London being militarized with SAM missiles*
U.S. Appeals Court Clears Torture Memo Author*
Video: Coronor Michael Cormier’s Death Fuels Andrew Breitbart 'Conspiracy Theories'*
Waitress says Secret Service partied in Salt Lake City, too*
Fearful China dissident wants to leave country: reports*
Map shows US bases encircle Iran*
New US Stealth Fighters Now at Iran’s Back Door*
IDF Conducts ‘Lebanon Attack’ Drill*
Israel Approves Call Up of 22 Additional Battalions to Secure Egypt, Syria Borders*
U.S. Export to Mexico: Murder Weapons*
Video: Obama's bloodiest scandal and its shameless cover-up*

Thursday, November 18, 2010

11/18 newspurge: you should know that i'm aware

9/11 updates:
ksm may not get a trial at all:
alleged 9/11 plotter may simply be left to military custody*

ksm may not get a trial at all: alleged 9/11 plotter may simply be left to military custodyevidence for 'informed trading' on 9/11*
audio: ed asner talks 9/11 w/ adam carolla*
video: geraldo & success of 'building what?'*

drugwar:
video: arizona 15th state to approve medical marijuana*
nz protesters bomb police station with cart full of burning cannabis*

geopolitiks:
'building a north american community':
US super spy center uncovered in mexico
*

US super spy center uncovered in mexicon korean to attack g20 with bio-terror balloons!*
germany mobilizes forces to respond to 'terrorism'*
after fbi visit, aipac staffer called israeli embassy*
thelogicofmyth.com's plan of action on lisbon treaty*

holy hexes:
catholic bishops: more exorcists needed!*
catholic clergy confer on exorcism rite*
obama signs executive order clarifying church-state relationship*
hr6216: adl's "don't criticize israel bill"*

media/memes:
neuromarketing: ads that whisper to the brain*
bristol palin psyop: man shoots tv over bristol palin dance*
audio: hollywood & mkultra with esoteric kitten*
arizona sheriff arpaio forms armed 'immigration posse' with hollywood actors*
'call of duty: black ops' shows good guys using torture*
defense contractor makes 'iron man' suit*
forbidden apple: itunes finally selling beatles music*
meet george soros: unfortunately, glenn beck is right*
rockefeller would like to take fox, msnbc off air*
death threats phoned to casting directors*
another hollywood death: ronni chasen*
'invaders' creator talks of murdered sister*
theory emerges about hollywood publicist's murder*
video: slaying of publicist baffles police, hollywood*

murder/mayhem:
ohio police find bodies of trio stuffed in hollowed out tree*
jury in chandra levy murder trial resume deliberations*
3 arrested over indonesian ringtone mayhem*

obamessiah updates:
olbermann urges obama to rule like a dictator*
olbermann urges obama to rule like a dictatorpodesta: obama can use 'armed forces' to push progressive agenda*
hispanic lawmakers seek dream act vote for amnesty*
rangel found guilty of ethics violations*
obama hasn't granted a single pardon, nearing modern record*

warwhores:
'you call me evil, but unfortunately for you i'm a necessary evil':
'merchant of death' viktor bout extradited to US*
obama envoy secretly promised to keep troops in iraq after 2011, iraqi intel official says*
council on foreign relations confirms US longer stay in afghanistan*
US to leave afghanistan in 2011 2014 never*
US supreme court keeps military gay ban in place - for now*
the pentagon would take $100b hit*
last surviving US/uk wwi vets: a pacifist & an activist*
animal shelter kills war hero dog*
missing military jet 'believed to be crashed,' pentagon says*
prince william surprises troops in afghanistan*
prince william's fiancee has famous relatives*
how prince william & kate middleton are related thanks to tudor tyrant*

wv worry:
sarah palin polling well in west virginia*
jennifer garner naming six 'save the children' sites in wv*
video: drugs in southern west virginia*

Thursday, March 04, 2010

new world next week - mar4

9/11 trials, americanada & the death of printaganda

new world next week - mar4Corbett Report & Media Monarchy are proud to present the latest episode of the New World Next Week - the weekly video series that uncovers the subtext & gives you the context on some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week's episode further explores the tortured patsies of 9/11 & their coming show trials + the deepening integration of the US/Canada militaries & some great news on the death of printaganda.
Story#1: Pentagon Drops Military Charges Against 9/11 Plotters
The Real Reason Only 5 Detainees Coming to NYC?
Flashback: Newly Released DOJ Memos Support Account of Torture of KSM's Children using Insects

Story#2: US & Canada to Extend Security Measures Past Olympics
The War on Terrorism & the Countdown to the 2010 Olympics
Flashback: US/Canada Border Security & Military Integration

Story#3: Internet Overtakes Print in US News Consumption
Pew Research: Understanding the Participatory News Consumer
Flashback: Anarchy, a Threat on the Electronic Frontier?
As mentioned at the end of this episode, Media Monarchy & Corbett Report are now accepting $10 donations for the new DVD from Divergent Films & PeaceRevolution.org: '20/20 Hindsight: Censorship on the Frontline'. Your donation gets you this new whistleblower documentary with numerous extras + you'll help support the alternative media that brings you news the corporate-controlled media won't touch. And as always, you'll stay up-to-date if you subscribe to the feeds from Corbett Report here & Media Monarchy here. Thank You.

previous episode: nwnw - feb25

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

pentagon drops military charges against 9/11 plotters

pentagon drops military charges against 9/11 plottersfrom mcclatchy: The Pentagon on Friday [feb26] officially dropped military charges against the accused mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks & 4 other alleged conspirators, a development that likely foreshadows their transfer to NYC to face charges in a civilian federal court.

The Pentagon said the dismissal of the charges "without prejudice" against alleged plot leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the others, Walid Bin Attash, Ramzi Bin al Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, was a procedural step to clear the way for their civilian trials.

There was no word on when indictments would be issued in New York against the men or when they would be transferred from Guantanamo to the United States.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Nov. 13 that the five men would be tried in federal court for the 9/11 attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. Criticism quickly followed by Republicans and others who said trying the men inside the United States would create security risks and allow the defendants legal protections that they shouldn't have.


flashback: real reason only 5 detainees are coming to ny?

Sunday, January 31, 2010

US drops plan for 9/11 trials in nyc

US drops plan for 9/11 trials in nycfrom nytimes: The Obama administration on Friday gave up on its plan to try the Sept. 11 plotters in Lower Manhattan, bowing to almost unanimous pressure from New York officials and business leaders to move the terrorism trial elsewhere.

“I think I can acknowledge the obvious,” an administration official said. “We’re considering other options.”

The reversal on whether to try the alleged 9/11 terrorists blocks from the former World Trade Center site seemed to come suddenly this week, after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg abandoned his strong support for the plan and said the cost and disruption would be too great.

But behind the brave face that many New Yorkers had put on for weeks, resistance had been gathering steam.

After a dinner in New York on Dec. 14, Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, pulled aside David Axelrod, President Obama’s closest adviser, to convey an urgent plea: move the 9/11 trial out of Manhattan.

More recently, in a series of presentations to business leaders, local elected officials and community representatives of Chinatown, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly laid out his plan for securing the trial: blanketing a swath of Lower Manhattan with police checkpoints, vehicle searches, rooftop snipers and canine patrols.

“They were not received well,” said one city official.



republicans unite to halt trials of alleged 9/11 plotters
from afp: US lawmakers Tuesday unveiled plans to block public funding for US-based trials involving Guantanamo detainees who are accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks. Republican lawmakers Frank Wolf and Lindsey Graham joined forces to introduce legislation which "would explicitly block this dangerous and wasteful trial from any domestic civilian court," Wolf said. They also won support from Democrats Jim Webb and Blanche Lincoln, as well as independent senator Joe Lieberman. If approved, the legislation would stop the Justice Department from using public funds to try the alleged mastermind of the 2001 attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and his four co-accused, in domestic US courts.

dc air natl guard on 9/11 & the many deaths of osama:
updates to the complete 9/11 timeline

from history commons: After a hiatus of a couple of weeks, dozens of new entries have been published in the 9/11 Timeline over the last few days. The largest chunk of them covers events at the DC Air National Guard, based at Andrews Air Force Base, on the day of the attacks. Initially, officers assumed that the first crash into the WTC was an accident. However, after the second crash, Andrews learned the Secret Service wanted fighters launched. Although the Secret Service then said it didn’t on the phone, pilots started overwriting recent exercise data on their flight disks... There are also several new entries about Osama bin Laden, for whom al-Qaeda offered to arrange a TV interview in October 2001. After the interview had been done, western intelligence naturally managed to come into possession of it before it was broadcast by Al Jazeera. We also have some more about bin Laden’s health. He died of lung problems in December 2001, was buried in an earthquake in 2005, and expired in Iran in 2006, all of which makes his near-death condition in 2007 remarkable.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

9/11 updates: terror trials, truth & consequences

the real reason only 5 detainees are coming to new york?
the real reason only 5 detainees are coming to new york?from history commons: US Attorney General Eric Holder recently announced that five detainees would be moved from Guantanamo Bay to New York, where they would stand trial for carrying out the 9/11 attacks. However, five other detainees will continue to be tried before military commissions, which have lower standards of evidence. The five detainees coming to New York have previously indicated they intend to plead guilty, although the five to be tried before military commissions have not.

The New York five are:Khalid Sheikh Mohammed;Ramzi bin al-Shibh; Ali Abdul Aziz Ali; Mustafa al-Hawsawi; and Khallad bin Attash. They indicated their intention to plead guilty at a hearing in Gunatanamo on 8 December 2008.

According to this McClatchy article, the five Holder says will be tried before military commissions are: Ibrahim al Qosi, who is trying to have incriminating statements he says were made under torture/coercion suppressed and wants to go home to Sudan; Omar Khadr, who is fighting the charges against him. His lawyers claim most of the evidence against him is based on statements he made under coercion; Ahmed al Darbi, who says he was tortured into confessing; Noor Uthman Mohammed, who denied many of the charges against him; and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who says he’s innocent and was also tortured into confessing.

As I pointed out earlier today, there is a lot of evidence against al-Nashiri. However, based on what I know of the Khadr case, he would stand a very good chance of acquittal, unless the bar was lowered from beyond reasonable doubt to “I guess he might have done it.” The other three to be tried before military commissions I don’t know much about.

Is it just a coincidence that the five detainees who have indicated they intend to plead guilty are going to New York, but the ones that are fighting the charges are getting military commissions?


related updates:
what happens if a 9/11 terrorist defendant is found not guilty?*
mukasey: 'very high' risk of attack over nyc 9/11 trial*
don’t execute khalid sheik mohammed*
nytimes book review: 'the ground truth'*
video: rethinking 9/11 -
why truth & reconciliation are better strategies than war
*

9/11 monuments to the 'scene of the crime'*
obama says ksm will be convicted & executed*
cia paid millions of dollars to isi since 9/11*
kean opposes ny 9/11 trial*
video: obama 'crossed the line' by predicting ksm death sentence*

11/20 update: 'heads i win, tails you lose':
holder says 9/11 accused to remain in prison even if acquitted*

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

9/11 updates: bin laden, bunker, cross, parliment & pandora's box

bin laden videotape not new, monitoring site says
bin laden videotape not new, monitoring site saysfrom reuters: A videotape of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden released on Friday is the Pashto-language version of a tape released several months ago, said IntelCenter, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring firm. The tape, titled "To Our People in Pakistan," was broadly released in Arabic and Urdu on July 12, IntelCenter said. Excerpts had been aired by the Al Jazeera television network on June 3, it added. Earlier on Friday, IntelCenter had said al-Qaeda's as-Sahab Media had released a new video from bin Laden.

9/11's delayed legacy: cancer for many rescue workers

plans for security bunker at world trade center site still lacking
plans for security bunker at world trade center site still lackingfrom nydailynews: Eight years after terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, the Port Authority still hasn't figured out where to put its crucial security bunker, the Daily News has learned. Plans for a central command post to monitor security at Ground Zero are far from complete: The agency has no final design, no set budget, no opening date and no location, officials confirm. Known as the SWOCC, the Site-Wide Operations Coordination Center was supposed to safeguard the public against terror threats and provide day-to-day management for the nation's No.1 terrorist target.

video: wtc cross finder calls for 9/11 truth
from 9/11 blogger: WeAreChange.org spoke to 1st Responder Frank Silecchia who discovered the famous steel cross recovered from Ground Zero. He supports 9/11 truth.


swedish member of parliament:
leading politicians support 9/11 truth movement

swedish member of parliament: leading politicians support 9/11 truth movementfrom truthnews: A Swedish Member of Parliament has pledged support for a new investigation into the events of 9/11, adding that prominent political figures support the view that elements of the U.S. government were involved in staging the attacks. An article headlined “The U.S. was part of the attack” in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, highlights comments made by MP Egon Frid of the country’s “Left Party”.

“The U.S. administration knew of the terrorist attack before and was a part of it,” Frid said in an interview with Swedish TV network TV4 on it’s “Kalla Facts” (Hard Facts) programme... Frid also revealed that he has joined the “Political Leaders For 9/11 Truth” group, to which other notables have pledged support, such as Andreas von Buelow, former German State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense, Yukihisa Fujita, Japanese Member of Parliament, Michael Meacher, Minister of the British Parliament, Cynthia McKinney, Jesse Ventura, and many other political luminaries from all corners of the globe. The group was founded earlier this year, joining the growing ranks of professionals calling for a new independent investigation into 9/11, including the groups:

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Firefighters for 9/11 Truth
Journalists & Other Media Professionals for 9/11 Truth
Lawyers for 9/11 Truth
Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth
Pilots for 9/11 Truth
Religious Leaders for 9/11 Truth
Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice
Veterans for 9/11 Truth


video: pandora's black box - flight of american 77

11/12 updates:
history commons: successful foia requests & more very partial foia successes*
300 seat airliner crash test will prove official 9/11 story false*

11/13 update: 'ny trial' for key 9/11 suspects
'ny trial' for key 9/11 suspectsfrom bbc: Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will be sent from Guantanamo Bay to New York for trial in a civilian court, reports say. Citing unnamed government officials, the reports said he would be transferred from the US prison camp in Cuba with four other suspects. US Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce the decision later, the officials say.

Mr Mohammed has admitted planning the 9/11 attacks, the US military says. The five men have until now been facing prosecution at US military commissions in Guantanamo. But US President Barack Obama has made closing the detention camp a top priority. His administration says it will try some detainees in US courts and repatriate or resettle others who are not perceived as a threat.

However, questions remain over the fate of those assessed as dangerous but who for legal reasons could not be prosecuted in a US court - prompting suggestions that the 22 January closure deadline will slip. According to the reports, Mr Holder will also announce that a suspect in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen will be tried at a military tribunal.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

9/11 updates: anniversary ailments, plans & beams

media making plans for 9/11 anniversary - and beyond

top 5 worst 9/11 memorials
top 5 worst 9/11 memorialsfrom vigilant citizen: 9/11 has inspired a myriad of memorials who are scattered all across America. Some of them are of questionable taste, others contain strange occult symbolism while others simply piss people off. Here’s the five most offensive... #5 Boston Memorial, #4 Polish Plaque, #3 All-Seeing Eye Memorial, #2 Teardrop Memorial & #1 Crescent of Embrace... 9/11 was a terrible tragedy, no matter who made it happen **cough** Rumsfeld **cough cough ** False flag terror ** cough**. Sorry, I don’t usually cough while typing. Since this event was the most terrible terrorist act committed on US soil, it is simply fitting that many memorials appear in honor of those who unjustly lost their lives. Some of them are very touching, inspiring and heartfelt. Others, not so much. Some even make you wonder if they were actually built for the victims or to serve an agenda. The monuments here are controversial, insensitive and slightly offensive…a little like this article. Enjoy.

schlussel cites 9/11 sites on novak's 'inside job' piece

steel beam from 9/11 attacks returned to new wtc
steel beam from 9/11 attacks returned to new wtcfrom dpa: A massive steel column from the original World Trade Centre destroyed by terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, was returned to its original site on Monday to be a part of the memorial monument for victims. The 58-ton, 12-metre-high beam plunged deep into 'Ground Zero,' the site of the World Trade Centre's twins towers that collapsed, was the most visible remnant of the attacks. It stood erect while debris from the towers smouldered around it for weeks after the attacks. Its return also marked the rebirth of the World Trade Centre. The column was brought back from a depot at John F Kennedy airport to be the centre piece of the planned National September 11 Memorial and Museum. News reports said other large artefacts from 'Ground Zero' will also be returned to the site as construction for the new World Trade Centre is progressing. Joseph Daniels, president of the September 11 Memorial Foundation, was quoted as saying that artefacts like the steel column have "tremendous emblematic meaning... The last column represents all the effort by individuals that made this recovery effort unprecedented in American history," Daniels said. The United States will mark the eight anniversary of the attacks next month in which more than 3,000 people died.


lucky larry, wtc owner, to stop paying developer penalties

lawyers can question 9/11 suspect in writing
from ap: Lawyers for a Guantanamo Bay detainee will be allowed to question — in writing — accused Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a federal judge has ruled. The decision is a setback for government lawyers who had sought to limit the scope of detainee lawyers' challenges to the detention and prosecution of terror suspects. In a written ruling, Judge Ricardo Urbina says lawyers for detainee Abdul Raheem Ghulam Rabbani can submit written questions about their client to Mohammed. Prosecutors say he worked for Mohammed, but Rabbani's lawyers contend he was just a menial servant, not a part of any terror network. The ruling says prosecutors may review the answers before delivering them to Rabbani's lawyers to remove any national security information.

video: 100s of 9/11 1st responders die of cancer

army judge: 9/11 lawyers can't see cia 'black sites'
from miami herald: A military judge says defense lawyers for an alleged Sept. 11 plotter held at Guantánamo don't need to inspect secret CIA overseas prisons to determine whether the accused al Qaeda terrorist is competent to stand trial. Judge Stephen Henley, an Army colonel, ruled Monday that the so-called black sites have likely changed enough since 2006 that an inspection would be of no use to Ramzi Bin al Shibh's Pentagon-appointed defense lawyers.

here's why we went to afghanistan & it wasn't 9/11

update: sibel edmonds' deposition video & transcript released*

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

9/11 updates: defamation, derangement & ksm's stories

...now more than ever, as we see another big attack on 9/11 truth, it's important to remember that obama's war of terror is still based on the previous puppet administration's lies about 9/11...

flashback: 2 days before 9/11, military exercise simulated suicide hijack targeting ny

accused 9/11 mastermind, ksm: 'i make up stories'
accused 9/11 mastermind, ksm: 'i make up stories'from ap: Accused al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed complained that interrogators tortured lies out of him, though he proudly took credit for more than two dozen other terror plots, according to newly released sections of government transcripts. "I make up stories," Mohammed said at one point in his 2007 hearing at Guantánamo Bay. In broken English, he described an interrogation in which he was asked the location of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. "Where is he? I don't know," Mohammed said. "Then he torture me. Then I said, 'Yes, he is in this area or this is al Qaeda which I don't know him.' I said no, they torture me." Yet at the same military tribunal hearing, Mohammed ticked off a list of 29 terror plots in which he took part.

air america brings in ben-veniste to push back against 9/11 truth


9/11 truth activist sues glenn beck & fox news for defamation
from washington's blog: An East Coast 9/11 truth activist is preparing to file a defamation lawsuit against TV / radio personality, Glenn Beck, the producers of the Glenn Beck Program, and the Fox News Channel. Specifically, Greg Hoover will be suing the above-described defendants in Federal Court for Beck’s having repeatedly broadcast statements characterizing those who question the government’s official version of the events of 9/11 as, "anarchists," "terrorists" and as persons denying the Holocaust. The complaint will note that - on October 22, 2007 - Beck suggested that those identifying themselves as associated with the 9/11 truth movement are "dangerous" "anarchists" who deny the Holocaust, and are "the kind of group that Timothy McVeigh would come from." The suit will also note that during Beck’s June 10th broadcast Beck linked the murder of the Washington D.C. holocaust museum guard with "9/11 truthers."

law & order w/ deranged artist who believes 9/11 'conspiracies'


author: fitzgerald libel threat aimed at censoring key 9/11 tale
author: fitzgerald libel threat aimed at censoring key 9/11 talefrom raw story: Peter Lance should be thanking Patrick Fitzgerald right now, even as the attorney’s checks are being signed. If it were not for the U.S. Attorney who famously prosecuted I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former Vice President’s Chief of Staff, the re-release of Lance’s stunning tale of mishandled espionage leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, might be overlooked. The former ABC News investigative reporter’s book Triple Cross hit relatively few shelves in 2006 as a hardcover and left retail quietly, almost completely ignored. Now, with its paperback release looming, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is threatening to sue over material which he calls “defamatory” and “easily proven to be objectively false,” some of which touches on little known information relating to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Because of the threat, the reissue of Triple Cross received attention from The Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, among others. “That’s the lesson of censorship,” chided Lance, speaking to RAW STORY.

41 counter-terror & intel agency vets challenge 9/11 official story

faulty equipment stops deutsche bank work again
from tribeca trib: For the second time in a week, faulty equipment has led to the shutdown of decontamination work on the former Deutsche Bank tower, near the World Trade Center site. Responding to reports of smoke outside the building late Tuesday morning, June 9, firefighters discovered a malfunction in part of the building’s negative air pressure machinery, which produces a hermetic seal on the toxic portions of the tower. Crews were told to quit working on the building, and did not return to work until the following morning. The smoke was the result of a piece of overheated equipment outside the building, according to Mike Murphy, spokesman for the tower’s owners, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. “Right now we’re trying to figure out exactly why that equipment wasn’t working properly,” Murphy said.

classic video: jones smacks down a 9/11 kool-aid drinker


9/11 hero dog cloned for local couple*
dog hailed as 9/11 hero cloned by california company*

9/11 commission & more: additions to 9/11 timeline as of june 16
from history commons: Some of the recently added entries go into more detail about the 9/11 Commission, which discovered the FAA was withholding documents from it in September 2003 and issued its first subpoena for them a month later. Soon after, the commission also subpoenaed the Pentagon, despite a last-ditch bid to avert it by the commission’s Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton, a good friend of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In addition, Commissioner John Lehman repeatedly told the White House of Saudi links to the 9/11 plotters, but the administration was uninterested.

On the day of 9/11, fighters launched from Langley Air Force Base were given the wrong coordinates for Washington at about 9:40 a.m., Otis Air Force Base was ordered to launch all fighters at about 10:20 a.m., and a security officer became trapped in WTC 7 around 10:00 a.m.

The very first entry in the timeline has also changed, and is now for a 1968 advert showing an airliner striking one of the WTC buildings, something that nearly happened in 1981.

Finally, in the late 1990s Yemeni authorities saw Abu Hamza al-Masri, an informer for the British security services, as a terrorist leader in Yemen.


9/11 families meet with ag holder*

Saturday, April 18, 2009

torture tales: ksm, mumbai lone gunman & cia exemptions

khalid sheikh mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11, was waterboarded 183 times in one month... one month!
khalid sheikh mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11, was waterboarded 183 times in one monthfrom thinkprogress: Marcy Wheeler digs through the recently-disclosed Office of Legal Counsel memos authored by the Bush Justice Department and finds these startling statistics: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002. Wheeler concludes, “The CIA wants you to believe waterboarding is effective. Yet somehow, it took them 183 applications of the waterboard in a one month period to get what they claimed was cooperation out of KSM. That doesn’t sound very effective to me.”

zubaydah: cia used me to test brutal torture techniques
from times online: Abu Zubaydah, the alleged al-Qaeda mastermind, is the only known “war on terror” detainee to have gone through the gamut of torture methods adopted by the CIA – months before they were legally endorsed. Accounts he gave to the International Committee of the Red Cross, leaked on the internet last week, reveal he believed he was being used as a guinea pig for a range of new techniques of “coercive interrogation”.

'lone gunman': mumbai confessions under torture
'lone gunman': mumbai confessions under torturefrom presstv: The lone surviving gunman of the Mumbai attacks, Ajmal Amir Qasab, says his confession was a result of torture and thus false. Qasab's defense lawyer, Abbas Kamzi, said Qasab had asked him to take back the confession on his behalf. Kazmi noted that the entire 'confession' was extracted through coercion and torture and as a result was not a voluntary confession and therefore had nothing to do with him. This is while prosecutor Ujwal Nikam had described Qasab's involvement in the Mumbai attack as a plot planned in Pakistan to commit a series of attacks across India. He talked of the gunmen receiving training from Pakistan's 'intelligence professionals' and cooperating with 'a major general' as they prepared for the attacks.

flashbacks: coordinated carnage in mumbai; 145 dead, mumbai attack updates: false flag, uk intel ops & questions & more mumbai updates: foreknowledge, hoax call & double cover

cia torture exemption 'illegal'
cia torture exemption 'illegal'from bbc: US President Barack Obama's decision not to prosecute CIA agents who used torture tactics is a violation of international law, a UN expert says. The UN special rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, says the US is bound under the UN Convention against Torture to prosecute those who engage in it. Mr Obama released four "torture memos" outlining harsh interrogation methods sanctioned by the Bush administration. Mr Nowak has called for an independent review and compensation for victims. "The United States, like all other states that are part of the UN convention against torture, is committed to conducting criminal investigations of torture and to bringing all persons against whom there is sound evidence to court," Mr Nowak told the Austrian daily Der Standard. The memos approved techniques including simulated drowning, week-long sleep deprivation, forced nudity, and the use of painful positions. Mr Obama on Thursday said he would not prosecute under anti-torture laws CIA personnel who relied in good faith on Bush administration legal opinions issued after the 11 September attacks.
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