July 1, 2014 Supremes keep Saudis on the hook for potential 9/11 liability
The Supreme Court has kept 9/11 victims' hopes for accountability alive.
Since the attacks, a small group of lawyers representing the victims of the 9/11 attacks (a group of which I was a part from 2005-11) has been seeking to hold accountable the nation's so-called "charities," financial institutions and individuals which knowingly financed and provided logistical support to Al-Qaeda in the years before the attacks. It's a hell of a story, which I can spend days discussing.
But let's jump forward. As part of the litigation, which began in 2003, last December the Second Circuit reinstated claims against the Kingdom itself, which had previously been found immune from suit. The Kingdom sought relief from this order from the Supreme Court, and yesterday, it was denied:
Inside the Saudi 9/11 coverup | New York Post By Paul Sperry December 15, 2013 5:13am ttp://nypost.com/2013/12/15/inside-the-saudi-911-coverup/ ... Some information already has leaked from the classified section, which is based on both CIA and FBI documents, and it points back to Saudi Arabia, a presumed ally.
The Saudis deny any role in 9/11, but the CIA in one memo reportedly found “incontrovertible evidence” that Saudi government officials - not just wealthy Saudi hardliners, but high-level diplomats and intelligence officers employed by the kingdom - helped the hijackers both financially and logistically. The intelligence files cited in the report directly implicate the Saudi embassy in Washington and consulate in Los Angeles in the attacks, making 9/11 not just an act of terrorism, but an act of war. ...
>> [ The Kingdom sought relief from this order from the Supreme Court, and yesterday, it was denied: ]
The U.S. Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Monday to a lawsuit by victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against the government of Saudi Arabia, alleging it indirectly financed al-Qaeda in the years before the hijackings.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you see a replay in what happened in the lead-up to the war with Iraq - the allegations of the weapons of mass destruction, the media leaping onto the bandwagon?
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: Well, in a way. But, you know, history doesn’t repeat itself exactly twice. What I did warn about when I testified in front of Congress in 2002, I said if you want to worry about a state, it shouldn’t be Iraq, it should be Iran. But this government, our administration, wanted to worry about Iraq, not Iran. I knew why, because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, "Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second." I said, "Well, you’re too busy." He said, "No, no." He says, "We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq." This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, "We’re going to war with Iraq? Why?" He said, "I don’t know." He said, "I guess they don’t know what else to do."
>>56 So I said, "Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?" He said, "No, no." He says, "There’s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq." He said, "I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down governments." And he said, "I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail."
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, "Are we still going to war with Iraq?" And he said, "Oh, it’s worse than that." He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, "I just got this down from upstairs" - meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office - "today." And he said, "This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran." I said, "Is it classified?" He said, "Yes, sir." I said, "Well, don’t show it to me." And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, "You remember that?" He said, "Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!"
In 2006 he was assigned to and commanded the Special Troops Battalion, STB, of the 9th Theater Support Command, Ft. Belvoir, VA. He was then, in 2007, selected to serve as the G6/Senior Information Officer, Anti-Terrorism Officer and Public Affairs Officer of the 94th Division, Force Sustainment, Ft Lee, VA--the 94th Division was re- activated in 2008 and was one of Gen George Patton's key divisions that participated in the Battle of the Bulge, Ardennes, in 1944-45. He remained with the 94th Division until he reached his mandatory retirement date, MRD, in July of 2011. >>54
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president
In the fall of 2003, The New Hampshire Gazette published a pair of stories about the long-rumored links between the Bush family and the Nazis. Due to their popularity, we have made them available here.
>>79 After the Russian Revolution it was the Harrimans, staunch Democrats, who secretly bankrolled the Russian minority party (the Bolsheviks) against the Majority Mensheviks. Despite the fact that American troops were in Russia trying to prop up the pro-democracy Mensheviks, the Harrimans began illegal gold shipments to Lenin and his Bolshevik party.[32] The Bolsheviks promised to continue the former Czar's policy of condoning cartels. Russia had raw materials such as magnesium and iron ore, while the Thyssens had access to high-tech steel and chemical processes to turn the raw materials into steel.
A decision was made for the Robber Barons to fund a German-Russian industrial park in eastern Poland. The Russian rail gauges were different from the European, so the park had to be close to the Russian border, but near coal fields. In order to help solve the rail problem, a series of canals were constructed to permit the Russians to barge raw materials to the Vistula River. The Polish province of Silesia was selected as the site of that industrial park because of its access to the Vistula and its proximity to huge coal deposits. The Silesian American Coal Company was managed by the Harrimans, with Prescott Bush on the board. Funding Hitler was a bipartisan event.[33]
(John Lofus: America's Nazi Secret - Introduction page 18.)
> In October 19, 2005, Congressman Curt Weldon said,
... Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer, a Bronze Star 23-year military veteran, simply told the truth and now his life is being ruined. His career is ended. He is no longer in military intelligence. They have taken his security clearance, and they are about to destroy him as a person. They are about to deny him the basic health care and the salary that he has earned, and they are doing it in this way. This is outrageous. It is evil. ...
Video interview ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos 3/5/06: "I think when you look at this country, right now, we need a 2-party system that works. We need Congress to do its job. We need real investigation of some of the abuses of authority that are apparently going on at the Executive branch. ... We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time." ttp://securingamerica.com/node/692
On March 12, 2014, Congressmen Walter Jones, Stephen Lynch, and Thomas Massie hosted a press conference on H. Res. 428, which would make public 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001 that currently remain classified. While former Senator Bob Graham was unable to attend, he stated his support for the resolution in this video.
The FBI informant Randy Glass knew about plans to fly planes into the WTC. He warned Bob Graham in July 2001. Kathleen Walter reports on WPTV (NBC) Florida, October 7, 2002
Melvin GoodmanさんはPhilip Zelikow(the executive director of the 9/11 Commission)という人物の指摘をしているが Lt. Col. Anthony ShafferもPhilip Zelikowという人物の指摘をしてたな@FoxNews
In 2005, Melvin Goodman pointed Philip Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission. Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer also pointed Philip Zelikow at FoxNews in 2010.