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This should have been BREAKING NEWS! ....

But the American Media has been stonewalling the story since at least December 11, 2002. Why?

1 posted on 12/28/2002 12:55:06 PM PST by ex-Texan
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To: ex-Texan
But the American Media has been stonewalling the story since at least December 11, 2002. Why?

Because the American media is involved with taking America down.


2 posted on 12/28/2002 12:59:43 PM PST by philetus
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To: ex-Texan
Big story is right. How about writing letters to Shelby et al and asking for answers? How about letters to the editors of major newspapers pointing this out? I'll start working on mine but we need more than a few voices to make a change.
3 posted on 12/28/2002 1:02:53 PM PST by Peach
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To: ex-Texan
At the risk of sounding conspiratorial, I'll say Iraq for the planning and Saudi Arabia for the money and manpower.
10 posted on 12/28/2002 1:21:45 PM PST by steveegg
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SEN. BOB GRAHAM: Yes, going back to your question about what was the greatest surprise. I agree with what Senator Shelby said the degree to which agencies were not communicating was certainly a surprise but also I was surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the terrorists in the United States.

Well, if this is accurate language, and I'm betting it is, then there are at least TWO foreign govts involved! Why is this information being hidden from us?

14 posted on 12/28/2002 1:26:47 PM PST by texasbluebell
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To: ex-Texan
This will never hit the mainstream news because they support those "mystery" countries. I think we all have a pretty good idea of who they could be anyway.
15 posted on 12/28/2002 1:31:58 PM PST by Republic of Texas
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To: ex-Texan
"why" ...??

Because it lead directly back to x42 and his goons.
23 posted on 12/28/2002 1:52:04 PM PST by CyberAnt
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To: ex-Texan
**But the American Media has been stonewalling the story since at least December 11, 2002. Why?**

And "Who?"
25 posted on 12/28/2002 1:58:17 PM PST by Salvation
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To: ex-Texan
Why is that info classified?? If the American public knew the answer it would act on its own in a retalitory measure. My guess is our current government is trying to protect the interests of the American/British investments in said countries. While keeping this info classified thus protecting the wealthy it yet again proves the powers at be care not about the common American people, but are willing to sacrifice common American lives to protect their worldly
wealth. Treason??
26 posted on 12/28/2002 1:58:40 PM PST by drypowder
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To: ex-Texan
http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/fr/fr010919_1_n.shtml

19 September 2001
Who did it? Foreign Report presents an alternative view

Israel’s military intelligence service, Aman, suspects that Iraq is the state that sponsored the suicide attacks on the New York Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington. Directing the mission, Aman officers believe, were two of the world’s foremost terrorist masterminds: the Lebanese Imad Mughniyeh, head of the special overseas operations for Hizbullah, and the Egyptian Dr Ayman Al Zawahiri, senior member of Al-Qaeda and possible successor of the ailing Osama Bin Laden.

The two men have not been seen for some time. Mughniyeh is probably the world’s most wanted outlaw. Unconfirmed reports in Beirut say he has undergone plastic surgery and is unrecognisable. Zawahiri is thought to be based in Egypt. He could be Bin Laden’s chief representative outside Afghanistan.

The Iraqis, who for several years paid smaller groups to do their dirty work, were quick to discover the advantages of Al-Qaeda. The Israeli sources claim that for the past two years Iraqi intelligence officers were shuttling between Baghdad and Afghanistan, meeting with Ayman Al Zawahiri. According to the sources, one of the Iraqi intelligence officers, Salah Suleiman, was captured last October by the Pakistanis near the border with Afghanistan. The Iraqis are also reported to have established strong ties with Imad Mughniyeh.

"We’ve only got scraps of information, not the full picture," admits one intelligence source, "but it was good enough for us to send a warning six weeks ago to our allies that an unprecedented massive terror attack was expected. One of our indications suggested that Imad Mughniyeh met with some of his dormant agents on secret trips to Germany. We believe that the operational brains behind the New-York attack were Mughniyeh and Zawahiri, who were probably financed and got some logistical support from the Iraqi Intelligence Service (SSO)."

Mughniyeh was the only one believed to have tried it before. On April 12th 1997, he was reported to be only two hours away from achieving the highest goal of any terrorist organisation (until last week): blowing up an Israeli El-Al airliner above Tel Aviv. A man carrying a forged British passport with the name Andrew Jonathan Neumann was in a Jerusalem hotel preparing a bomb he was supposed to take on board an El-Al flight leaving Israel, when it accidentally went off. Andrew Jonathan Neumann was very badly injured but strong enough to reveal later to the Israelis that he was not British but Lebanese, and that his operation was supposed to be a special "gift" to Israel from Imad Mughniyeh.

‘A psychopath’

"Bin Laden is a schoolboy in comparison with Mughniyeh," says an Israeli who knows Mughniyeh . "The guy is a genius, someone who refined the art of terrorism to its utmost level. We studied him and reached the conclusion that he is a clinical psychopath motivated by uncontrollable psychological reasons, which we have given up trying to understand. The killing of his two brothers by the Americans only inflamed his strong motivation."

Experts on Iraq and Saddam Hussein also believe that Iraq was the state behind the two terror masterminds. "In recent months, there was a change, and Iraq decided to get into the terror business. On July 7th, they tried for the first time to send a suicide bomber, trained in Baghdad, to blow up Tel Aviv airport (Foreign Report No. 2651)."

Our sources believe that it will be very difficult to get to the bottom of this unprecedented terror operation. However, they believe the chief of the Iraqi SSO is Qusai Hussein, the dictator’s son, and his organisation is the most likely to have been involved.

Mughniyeh, 48, is a "sick man", says an intelligence officer who was in charge of his file. He is considered by Western intelligence agencies as the most dangerous active terrorist today. He is wanted by several governments and the Americans have put a $2m reward on his head.

[Detailed list of Mughniyeh operations removed for Non-Subscriber Extract]

It was the assassination of one man in March 1984 that is said to have made Mughniyeh the CIA’s most wanted terrorist. Mughniyeh allegedly kidnapped the head of the CIA station in Beirut, William Buckley. The kidnapping triggered what later became known as ‘Irangate’, when the Americans tried to exchange Buckley (and others) with arms for Iran. However, the attempt ended in a fiasco. By one unconfirmed account, Mughniyeh tortured and killed Buckley with his own hands.

A year later, in a combined CIA/Mossad operation, a powerful car bomb went off at the entrance to the house of Hizbullah’s spiritual leader, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah. Seventy-five people were killed. One of them was his brother. Hunted by the CIA and the Mossad, Mughniyeh hid in Iran.

In February 1992, Israeli helicopter gunships attacked the convoy of the then head of Hizbullah, Sheikh Abas Musawi, in South Lebanon. Musawi, his wife and children were killed and the revenge attack followed a month later. According to press reports, Mughniyeh was called back into action and, in a well-planned and devastating attack, his people blew up the Israeli embassy in Argentina. The building was demolished and 92 were killed. Only last year, after a long investigation, did Argentina issue a warrant for Mughniyeh’s arrest.

The reprisal for the attack in Argentina came in December 1994, when a car bomb went off in a southern Shi’ite suburb of Beirut. Four people were killed. One of them was called Mughniyeh, but to the deep disappointment of those Israelis who planted the bomb it was the wrong one. Mughniyeh’s life was saved, but his other brother Fuad was killed. Mughniyeh waited for his opportunity for revenge.

Our Israeli sources claim to see Mughniyeh’s signature on the wreckage in New York and Washington. How to counter this kind of terrorism? "To fight these bastards you don’t need a military attack," said an experienced Israeli commando officer. "You only need to adopt Israel’s assassination policy."

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27 posted on 12/28/2002 2:00:12 PM PST by Bobibutu
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To: ex-Texan
The perfidious foreign country is most likely the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia. Sen. Graham can't divulge this as it would shut off a major DemocRAT source of funding.

Soon, we'll all need a visa to get in and out of Hollyweird, Beverly Hills, L.A. and San Francisco.

Leni

29 posted on 12/28/2002 2:11:30 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: ex-Texan
The American people deserve the truth!!! I bet it's the Saudis.
33 posted on 12/28/2002 2:21:28 PM PST by Eternal_Bear
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To: ex-Texan
You should have hilighted this quote, too:

"I was surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments..."

47 posted on 12/28/2002 5:11:47 PM PST by piasa
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... also I was surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the terrorists in the United States.

Governments. Plural.

50 posted on 12/28/2002 6:25:39 PM PST by Mitchell
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To: ex-Texan
bump ... Saudi and China
56 posted on 12/28/2002 9:19:01 PM PST by Centurion2000
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To: ex-Texan
Because it's probably Saudi money.
58 posted on 12/28/2002 9:25:33 PM PST by Pelham
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To: Allan
bump
59 posted on 12/28/2002 10:51:20 PM PST by Allan
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To: ex-Texan
The enemy.
66 posted on 12/29/2002 12:03:56 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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To: ex-Texan
The Country.
68 posted on 12/29/2002 12:07:29 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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To: ex-Texan; swarthyguy; FairOpinion; piasa; Allan; Mitchell; gaspar; dennisw; seamole; TrebleRebel
"""SEN. BOB GRAHAM: I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing -- although that was part of it -- by a sovereign foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down, make the further case, or find the evidence that would indicate that that is not true and we can look for other reasons why the terrorists were able to function so effectively in the United States.

GWEN IFILL: Do you think that will ever become public, which countries you're talking about?

SEN. BOB GRAHAM: It will become public at some point when it's turned over to the archives, but that's 20 or 30 years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it's relevant to the threat that the people of the United States are facing today. """"


Heads up! only 18 - 28 years to go!

91 posted on 03/29/2004 10:55:47 AM PST by Shermy
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