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Infamy: Pearl Harbor, 911 and the Coming Outrage

Three years after 911, we still have no real clarity about
"whodunit" let
alone "whatdunit" - and if history is any indication, it
could be decades
before the truth is finally revealed.

But the Armageddon dreams of our nation's leaders mandate a
more urgent
timeframe.

Were 19 hijackers armed with box cutters really responsible
for the
WTC/Pentagon carnage? Seems increasingly implausible, as
does the
administration's claim of no prior knowledge. Remember
Bush's comment about
watching the first airplane hit the WTC before the second
airplane even made
impact? What video feed does he have anyway? The rest of us
sure didn't see
that live on our TVs.

As sick as it seems, it wouldn't be the first time a US
administration has
furthered its own political ambitions through attacks on
American citizens.

Take Pearl Harbor. The official story (long ago discredited,
yet still
touted in Hollywood B-movies) was that Japanese forces
caught the US totally
off guard when they brutally attacked on December 7, 1941.

It was probably a lie. Many historians believe that members
of Franklin D.
Roosevelt's administration actually knew about the impending
assault, and
just let the carnage roll in order to get the US public
primed for war with
Japan.

In his 1982 book Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath,
Pulitzer-prize
winner John Toland reveals that almost everything the
Japanese were planning
to do "was known to the United States" on the morning of the
attack, via
intercepted messages never communicated to commanders at
Pearl Harbor. He
cites the case of US counterintelligence translator Dorothy
Edgers who
uncovered critical Japanese messages days before the
assault, including "a
scheme of signals regarding the movement and exact position
of warships and
carriers in Pearl Harbor." But Edgers' boss, Alwin Kramer,
seemed "more
annoyed than electrified" at the discovery and ordered her
to "run along
home." Unbeknownst to Edgers, Kramer was part of the
subterfuge.

We all know what happened next. Japanese bombs rained down
on the US naval
vessels and aircraft poised like sitting ducks at Pearl
Harbor, and the
ensuing bloodbath left over 2,400 US service members and
civilians dead. The
following day, Congress voted overwhelmingly to give FDR all
of the
resources he wanted to wage war with Japan.

The parallels with 911 are stunning.

Today's Edgers is Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator who
was fired in
March 2002 after exposing corruption at a critical FBI
counterintelligence
unit. Among Edmonds' charges: supervisors covered for a
colleague who was
smuggling sensitive documents out of FBI headquarters in
order to protect
contacts in "semi-legit" organizations. When Edmonds started
speaking out
about this stunning breach of national security, Attorney
General John
Ashcroft slapped her with a gag order.

Even worse, Bush's 911 Commission didn't address any of
Edmonds'
accusations, including her closed-door testimony that in
April 2001, a
long-term FBI informant had revealed "Osama Bin Laden was
planning a major
terrorist attack in the United States, targeting 4-5 major
cities," and that
"the attack was going to involve airplanes."

You've got to wonder - if the 911 Commission left out that
crucial tidbit,
then what else did it fail to mention?

But the whole inquiry was a farce from the start. Appointing
Henry Kissinger
(notorious for covering up US involvement with murderous
South American
dictatorships) as chairman was the first clue. Replacing him
with former New
Jersey governor Thomas Kean was the second.

According to Fortune magazine (Jan. 22 2003), "Kean appears
to have a
bizarre link to the very terror network he's investigating -
al Qaeda.
Here's how the dots connect: Kean is a director of petroleum
giant Amerada
Hess, which in 1998 formed a joint venture - known as Delta
Hess - with
Delta Oil, a Saudi Arabian company, to develop oil fields in
Azerbaijan. One
of Delta's backers is Khalid bin Mahfouz, a shadowy Saudi
patriarch married
to one of Osama bin Laden's sisters. Mahfouz, who is
suspected of funding
charities linked to al Qaeda, is even named as a defendant
in a lawsuit
filed by families of Sept. 11 victims."

For the record, bin Mahfouz denies bin Laden is his
brother-in-law and also
denies ever having had ownership interest in Delta Oil
(Fortune later ran a
correction saying it had erred in making the claim that bin
Mahfouz was
married to bin Laden's sister. It also said, "Fortune's
statement in that
story that bin Mahfouz was one of Delta Oil's backers
referred to a joint
venture in Azerbaijan between Delta Oil and Nimir Petroleum,
which is owned
entirely by bin Mahfouz's two sons.")

Interesting coincidence though that Hess severed ties with
Delta just three
weeks before Kean was appointed to the 911 Commission.

Another interesting coincidence: 28 pages of the inquiry's
final report,
covering "specific sources of foreign support for some of
the September 11
hijackers," were blanked out. According to an official
quoted in The New
Republic (Aug. 1 2003), "There's a lot more in the 28 pages
than money;
We're talking about a coordinated network that reaches right
from the
hijackers to multiple places in the Saudi government."

Very murky indeed. And a third interesting coincidence
surrounds the deadly
anthrax-laced letters that hit the nation within weeks of
911. While
"shocked" administration members were quick to blame Osama
bin Laden and/or
Saddam Hussein, they failed to mention one intriguing point:
claims that
Bush's staff had started taking Cipro, an anthrax-treatment
drug, weeks
before the attacks occurred.

According to the public-interest group Judicial Watch: "In
October 2001,
press reports revealed that White House staff had been on a
regimen of the
powerful antibiotic Cipro since the September 11th terrorist
attacks."
Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman notes, "One doesn't
simply start
taking a powerful antibiotic for no good reason. The
American people are
entitled to know what the White House staffers knew."

While the anthrax attacks remain unsolved, there were some
clear outcomes
for the Bush administration: increased justification to
reduce civil
liberties, to rev up biodefense spending and to create more
hysteria around
the need to invade Iraq.

The idea of using civilian casualties for political gain was
codified in
Operation Northwoods, a 1960's plan by top US military brass
to orchestrate
terrorism in American cities and blame it on Castro, thereby
creating public
support for a war with Cuba. More recently, the September
2000 neocon
guidebook, Rebuilding America's Defenses, claims "some
catastrophic and
catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor" would help speed
up the process
of transforming the US into "tomorrow's dominant force."

So it's no surprise that over the past four years, we've
learned to pay
attention when the Bush administration and its minions in
the press start
dropping hints about the next big attack. They've most
recently floated the
idea of a catastrophic October Surprise assault, which they
suggest could
necessitate postponing the election. One official warned, "I
can tell you
one thing, we won't be like Spain," in an apparent reference
to the
conservative ruling party's having lost power days after the
Madrid train
bombings.

But Spain's election was a high-turnout, democratic contest
in which voters
fair and square booted an unpopular, lying, war-mongering
administration.
Why can't US voters have the same chance? (continued....)

Its one of the oldest tricks in the book. Wouldn't surprise me for a second if it were true...