On Monday 6, August, 2001, at 17:50, [German] Ambassador
Ischinger
personally notified the President of the United States that
information
developed by the Bundesamt fur Verfassungsschutz [German
domestic secret
service] as well as the BND [Bundesnachreichtendienst, German
foreign
secret service] indicated that an attack by a radical Arab group
partially based in Germany was to occur on 10-11 September,
2001. The
President was at that time in residence at his farm in Texas.
Our [the
German's] Ambassador was acting in direct response to
instructions from
Foreign Minister Fischer.
This information was developed from official surveillance of Arab
extremist groups operating in the Federal Republic as well as
from
intercepted communications between the Embassy of Israel and the
Israeli
Foreign Ministry in Tel Aviv concerning this matter.
The information was "gratefully received" by the US PResident
who stated
at the time that he was also aware of the same pending assaults.
Subsequent to these attack, the office of the US President,
through the
US Department of State, made an urgent request to the government
of the
Federal Republic of Germany that no reference whatsoever should
be made
to the official warnings given by Ambassador Ischinger.
In order to clarify the background of this matter, this
Gesamtubersicht
[overall survey] of the events leading to the assault was
prepared,
basing on extracts of reports from our [BND's] foreign stations.
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Overall, it is evident that the American authoritie were aware
of the
pending attacks. Why they did nothing, is explained in the
following.
Background: General Overview
Because of the Bush family's involvement in oil (Zapata Oil
Company),
many important and wealthy individuals and corporations with oil
interests financially supported the Bush political career.
Today, the
Bush administration is therefore strongly influenced by major
American
business groups.
The candidate for American Vice President, Richard "Dick"
Cheney, had
been the Chief Director of the Halliburton Company. This
company, based
in Dallas, Texas, where Bush was GOvernor, is the largest oil
service
company in the world.
Between 1991 and 1997, such important American oil companies as
Texaco,
Unocal, Shell, BP Amoco, Chevron and Exxon-Mobil became involved
with the
former Soviet state of Kazakhstan who holds enormous oil
reserves. The
government of Kazakhstan was eventually paid over $3 millions of
corporate money to allow these companies to secure oil rights.
At the
same time, these companies agreed further to give the sums of 35
billion
US Dollar in investments in plant and
equipment to the Kazakhstan projects. A confidential project
report of
said US firms announced that the gas and oil reserves in
Kazaqkhstan
would amount to 4 trillion US Dollar.
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The United States is not self-sufficient in oil and 50% of their
supply
is imported from various foreign sources. Some 80% of oil
imported to the
US comes from OPEC-Countries, the Arabian oil cartel. Because of
the
unconditional support by American political leaders of the state
of
Israel,
these Arab governments have a very strained relationship with
the USA.
A further small percentage of oil imported to the US comes from
Venezuela. Just recently, the US government has been attempting
to
overthrow the government of Chavez with the help of the CIA and
replace
it with a government "more sympathetic to American oil needs."
A position paper prepared by the office of the later-Vice
President
Cheney states that the Kazakhstan oil reserves would be "more
than
sufficient to supply US needs for at least a decade" and would
further
"reduce American dependence on OPEC."
Unocal Oil Company signed an agreement with the reigning Taliban
forces
as well as their opponents, the Northern Alliance, in order to
permit an
oil pipeline to be built through Afghanistan direct through
Pakistan to
the Indian Ocean. By this, the exorbitant rates charged by the
Russian to
use their pipelines would be avoided. Unocal then opened
official offices
in Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan to
facilitate the
construction of this oil pipeline.
In December of 1997, official Taliban representatives were in
the United
States to attend a conference at Unocal headquarters in Texas to
discuss
the
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Afghanistan pipeline. These talks failed because the Taliban
made what
Unocal felt were excessive financial demands.
In 1998, internal strife in Afghanistan and inherent instability
in
Pakistan reached such levels as to render the pipeline project
impossible
to execute. In the same year, the Houston, Texas based firm of
Enron
suggested instead to build a $3 billion oil pipeline parallel to
the
Russian pipelines, running westwards rather than taking the
shorter but
more problematic route south.
In a secret memorandum by Cheney, it is stated that the Unocal
company
was prepared to finance the southern route. According to this,
this
project would take five years to complete and its annual
revenues from
the successful completion of this pipeline would approximate $2
billions.
However, and this had been the subject of a number of secret
American
reports, the only thing
standing in the way of the construction of the pipeline was the
basic
opposition of the Afghanistan government and its political
supporters.
On May 8, 2001, the US Department of State, in the name of
Secretary of
State Powell, gave 43 million US Dollars to the Taliban in order
to
facilitate their cooperation in the pipeline project.
On June 10, 2001, the BND warned the CIA office in the US
Embassy to the
Federal Republic [of Germany] that certain Arab terrorists were
planning
to seize American commercial aircraft for use as weapons of
destruction
against
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significant American symbols. This was considered a general
warning only.
The Federal Republic's warning of August 6, however, was
specific as to
date, time and places of the attacks.
On July 11, 2001, in Berlin, US officials: Thomas Simmons, a
former
American Ambassador to Pakistan, Lee Coldren, State Department
expert on
Asian matters, and Karl Inderfurth, Assistant Secretary of State
for
Asian matter met with Russian and Pakistani intelligence
officers. At
this meeting, which was under surveillance, it was stated by the
Americans that the United States planned to launch military
strikes
against Afghanistan in October of that year. The purpose of
these strikes
was to toppel the Afghanistan government and the Taliban in
order to
replce it with a government "more sensitive to the needs of
American oil
interest."
In mid-August 2001, President of the Russian Federation Putin
ordered
that the American authorities be warned of pending attacks on
government
buildings inside the United States. This warning was conveyed to
the US
Ambassador in Moscow and via the Russian Ambassadors office
directly to
the US President.
On August 20, the Government of France, through the American
Embassy in
Paris and their Embassy in Washington, issued a more specific
warning.
This warning specified the exact date, time and places of the
attacks.
On September 11, President Bush and top aides flew to the state
of
Florida so that the President could speak with children in
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a kindergarten. Also at that time, Vice President Cheny absented
himself
from Washington and went to the safety of the Presidential
compound in
the mountains of Maryland.
It was noted in Washington that Cheney remained sequestered in
Maryland
for some time and only appeared in public surrounded by heavy
security.
The role of the Israeli Mossad in the terrorist attacks
Note: The following two sections are considered to be extremely
sensitive
due to the special relationship between the Federal Republic [of
Germany]
and its Jewish citizens as well as the State of Israel. This
material is
compiled from German and American sources.
During the term of President George HW Bush, the government of
Israel
made an official, but very secret, request to the American
president.
This request was to permit agents of the Mossad, Israeli Foreign
Intelligence, to enter the United States and conduct surveillance
operations against various Arab groups residing in that country.
The stated purpose of this surveillance was to permit Israeli
early
warning of terrorist plots against their country. Permission for
this
surveillance was granted with the caveat that the Mossad would
have a
liason with the FBI and report any and all finding to that
agency.
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However, these conditions were not observed. The Mossad not only
did not
inform the FBI of any of its findings, it is known to have
engaged in
commerce with several groups of Israeli criminals of Russian
backgrounds.
These groups were engaged in extensive criminal activities
inside the
United States, to include the smuggling of the Ecstasy drug.
Mossad
agents were able to subvert
American criminal investigations through their knowledge of
American
telephone surveillance of such groups.
It is very evident from surveillance conducted against Mossad
agents in
the Federal Republic as well as interceptions of Israeli
diplomatic
communication from the Federal Republic to Tel Aviv, that the
Mosad has
successfully penetrated various extremist Arab groups in both
the Federal
Republic and the United States.
These investigations disclosed in late May of 2001 that an
attack was to
be made against certain specified targets in the American cities
of
Washington and New York. But it was apparent that the Mossad was
not only
fully aware of these attacks well in advance but actually,
though their
own agents inside these Arab groups, assisted in the planning
and the
eventual execution of the
attacks.
That the Israeli government was fully aware of these attack is
absolutely
certain and proven. Diplomatic traffic between the Israeli
Embassy in the
Federal Republic and the Israeli Foreign Office made it very
clear that
Minister President Sharon was fully aware
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of this pending attack and urgently wished that no attempt was
made to
prevent the attacks.
Although the Israeli officials were instructed to warn the
American
intelligence community that some kind of an attack might be
possible, at
no time were the specific dates and targets (known at that time
to
Israeli officials) to be given to the Americans.
The rationale for this attitude was expressed in a conversation
on August
1, 2001, between the Israeli Military Attache in the Federal
Republic to
a member of the Israeli General Staff. There it was stated that
Israel
believed an attack on the continental United States would so
inflame
American public opinion that they would permit Israel
to "cleanse" their
state of "Arab terrorists and those who support such
terrorists". This
"cleansing" was explained as the expulsion of all Arabs, and even
Christian groups, from the Palestine area.
American intelligence officials have repeatedly expressed great
concern
in meeting with our people that the Israeli government, through
a company
called Amdocs, was able to conduct surveillance of all telephone
communications within the United States. It was categorically
stated that
this Israeli-based firm was given the American contract with 25
of the
largest American telephone companies. This contract was granted
over the
objections and concerns of the
American intelligence community.
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The official reason given for this extraordinary arrangement that
permitted Israeli agencies to observe all highly confidential
investigative telephone calls was that the United States has
a "special
relationship" with the State of Israel and they had requested
this.
The Israeli Political Influence in the United State
It should be noted here that the professional Israeli lobby in
America is
huge in size and is considered even by our American colleagues
to be a
very powerful and entirely dominant factor in American politics.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is the largest
foreign lobby
in Washington and fourth most powerful lobby in the country.
Other
Israeli groups also include the Anti-Defamation League (from
whose
national offices, along with the Israel Trade Mission and the
many
Israeli Consulates, many Mossad agents were working,) the Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs and the Committee for
Accuracy in
Middle East Reporting in America.
These groups, in conjunction with Jewish dominated media giants
like the
New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek Magazine, the Los
Angeles
Times, Time-Warner-AOL and their CNN news network, basically
control the
dissemination of news in the United States.
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It is therefore almost impossible for any news that would be
considered
in opposition to Israeli interests to appear before the American
public,
although such stories are readily available in most European
media.
The Role of the Christian Fundamentalists in American Politics
The so-called "Christian Right" consists of Protestant
fundamentalists,
where the so-called Pentecostals play a dominant role. This is a
very
fanatical and aggressively missionary denomination that believes
in the
return of a living Christ to earth and the subsequent elevation
of its
members to heavenly paradise.
In order for this appearance of Christ to occur, several factors
must be
in place according to the views of this denomination. In the
first place,
a number of Jews must convert to Christianity, and, in the
second, there
must be a rebuilding of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. As the
site of
this temple is now occupied by a major Islamic mosque, it will be
necessary to destroy this building.
Starting as an Episcopalian, Bush tried other Protestant
denominations
before joining the Pentecostals. Apart from US President Bush
and his
Attorney General John Ashcroft, other members of his
administration are
members of this denomination, too, which is the second largest
Christian
denomination after the Catholic Church. As a considerable
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part of the American public sentiment is strongly opposed to
religious
fanatics, these facts have been kept very quiet.
Bush and his entourage are very strong supporters of the State
of Israel
because of their belief, that the founding of this nation is
viewed as
another requirement for the return of Christ. For this reason,
Bush
unconditionally supports any program put forward by the Israeli
government and is a devoted follower and supporter of Sharon,
the Israeli
right wing extremist Minister President.
Attorney General Ashcroft has stated in a public sermon (he is a
lay
preacher of the Pentecostal church) that Muslims are "agents of
the
Anti-Christ" and must be destroyed in the so-called "Battle of
Armageddon". According to the beliefs of fundamentalist
Christians, this
battle will be fought over Israel's existence and will lead to
the end of
the world and the return of Christ.
It is generally known in Washington that Bush is entirely guided
by his
religious beliefs and that he has been attempting repeatedly to
force his
views onto the American public by means of various disguised
programs,
such as religious control of charities, unconditional support of
Israel,
and so forth.
Summary and Outlook
The terrorist attacks on American targets were fully known to
many
entities well in advance. The US President was fully informed as
to the
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nature and exact time of these attacks.
The US government in general and the US President in specific
have become
subservient to the wishes and plans of the Israeli government.
As these
plans encompass the removal of the Arab population of Israel and
adjoining territories, i
