The FBI's connivance increases the coinkadink factor.
"REcent national attention focused on the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center ( EMRTC), a part of Tech, when it was awarded a $1.2 million contract from the Federal Aviation Administration to develop a center for counter terrorism research in explosives. According to Van Romero, director of EMRTC, proposal of the creation of this center came just after the Oklahoma City bombing. Bombings such as the one against American military personnel in Saudi Arabia and aircraft crashes like TWA Flight 800 and ValuJet Flight 592, make this research all the more crucial.
Romero says the FAA contract will enable them to build simulated sections of wide bodied aircraft and test explosives to see how aircraft respond. This research, coupled with a similar project with McDonnell Douglas Corp., is aimed at finding ways to make aircraft more explosion resistant.
The center has been involved in studies and tests of explosives for military and industry in the past, and often works with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Department of Transportation. Romero says they are also teaming up with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law and fire departments in the area of forensics training. 3 Posted on 07/20/2001 04:49:07 PDT by rubbertramp rubbertramp(I couldn't post to the thread....but will resurrect it....it is very interesting)
The following is from...www.public-action.com/911/psyopsnews
VAN THE MAN CHANGES HIS TUNE ..by Fintan Dunne
No, not Van Morrisson the singer. But, Van 'the man' Romero. The man in the right place, at the right time.
Van Romero is vice president for research at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMTech). The Socorro university has levered itself into one of the elite sites in the world for the study of explosives and terrorism, attracting nearly $10 million a year in federal money for programs that test explosives for US and foreign agencies. On the morning of the attacks, Romero and Tech's finance vice president Denny Peterson, were near the Pentagon.
They had come to Washington to discuss defense-funded research programs at Tech, leaving them very conveniently located to grab NMTech's slice of the imminent cleanup operation. Because New Mexico Tech offers counter-terrorism training of police and fire first responders to terrorism attacks in the United States!
Within hours Romero was telling the Albuquerque Journal that the collapse of the twin towers could have been caused by a small amount of explosive put in more than two points in each of the towers.
"My opinion is, based on the videotapes, that after the airplanes hit the World Trade Center there were some explosive devices inside the buildings that caused the towers to collapse," Romero said.
And Romero should know. After all Van is a demolition expert and a former director of the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center at Tech, which studies the effects of explosions on buildings.
Nevertheless, ten days later Romero had changed his mind. Not only that, but the Albuquerque Journal changed their story too. They altered the original web page about Romero's views. It now shows his revised views first. Check it here.
GREEN CHILI STEW AT THE PENTAGON
New Mexico Tech's success is due in no small part to the advocacy of local Republican representative Joe Skeen, who has lobbied relentlessly on Tech's behalf to lucrative effect.
Skeen has contacted Israeli representatives about the prospect of having a detachment of fighter aircraft stationed in New Mexico. Israelís request is under review by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Meanwhile, Tech's terrorism first responder training is under the auspices of the public /private National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (i.e. military-industrial complex).
You can find Tech-trained first responders right now at the Pentagon scene. They are busy cleaning-up, in every sense of the word. Skeen has 'hung out with the guys' back at their training camp in the NMTech counter-terrorism facility. So naturally he soon followed Romero to Washington, where he called by the Pentagon crash scene to encourage the NMTech crew.
Skeen asked if there was anything he could do to make their task easier and the crew responded by asking if there was any green chili in the D.C. area. Skeen said yes and had New Mexico green chili stew delivered to the hotel where the crew is staying.
"These are the people who have the toughest duty in cleaning up the devastation left by the barbaric acts of terrorists last week," Skeen said. "We owe the people involved in the clean up... a great deal of thanks and gratitude." Indeed. We owe them a great deal of money also.
Tech will gain substantially from domestic counter-terrorism if Joe Skeen has his way. He wrote to President George Bush and relevant federal government agency officials thus: "Guarding against terrorist attacks must be the centerpiece of our plan and New Mexico, particularly New Mexico Tech University, has excellent technical resources in counter-terrorism."
Skeen proposed that the university triple within 60 days its domestic preparedness first responder training. Skeen said New Mexico Tech is prepared to initiate training for Sky Marshals at Roswell Airpark which has a variety of commercial jet liners ranging from 737 to 747 for hands-on training purposes.
"Dr. Dan Lopez, the President of New Mexico Tech has assured me, that all of these resources and any others identified by the government can be made available immediately to our government and I will do all in my power to help you and our country in managing this crisis,'' Skeen noted in his letter to the president.
Are you getting the picture?
Marife Torres and her sister knew Wali Khan Amin Shah in the Phillipines and introduced Terry Nichols to Wali Khan. Khan later introduced Nichols to Ramzi Yousef(10993 WTC bombing) in the Phillipines. Wali Khan was extemely close personally to Bin Laden and helped set up Abu Sayeff in the Phillipines for Bin Laden.
Khan was one of the men behind (he financed the group and Abu Sayeff))the planning and meetings for the OKC bombing in the Phillipines involving Nichols, Ramzi Yousef, John Lebney,Abdul Murad and Khalid Mohammed. Khan was also involved in the planning to crash hijacked airliners into US scyscrapers and the Pentagon (shades of 9/11)that was on Ramzi yousef's computer and revealed by interrogation of Khan in 1996 by the FBI and by Murad in Feb 1995. Khan was involved in two plots to assasinate Clinton and one plot to kill the Pope.
One of The plots to assassinate CLinton supported by Khan and Bin Laden is beleived to be related to FBI foreknowledge and the linguists the FBI requested to come to OKC from the military right before and after the OKC bombing. Alss Peter Langan, was taken out of jail by the FBI and Secret Service in late 1994 to infiltrate groups and individuals believed associated with MCveigh who were plotting to assassinate CLinton (Bin LAden and domestic teror groups working together in the US). At least that is what the Secret Service and FBI told the authorities in Georgia when Lanagan was taken out of jail.
Khalid was a mastermind behind 1993 WTC, OKC and 9/11 attacks. There are three witnesses in OKC I am told who now say that a well dressed man named Khalid escorted the Iraqi suspect to OKC in Nov 1994 from Boston to work with McVeigh.BlueDogDemo reported on FR last year that Khalid was paid by the Iraqi (Hussaini)suspect's employer, Samir Kahlil, three times in OKC.
MCveigh could have called and spoken to Murad,Khan,Khalid Mohammed or Ramzi Youseff in the Phillipines prior to the bombing.